Madonna ‎– Hard Candy

I loathe this album. Madonna has always worked with the biggest names in the industry, but this is the point in her career where she dropped the "look what I can do" and started shoving into people's faces the "look who I know," coming across as a desperate attempt to stay relevant with the younger generation (which, in my opinion, also describes her subsequent albums). While I do somewhat enjoy a couple of songs - mainly 'Miles Away' - the rest of this album, to me, sounds like empty, over-produced, vacuous garbage. And this is coming from a lifelong Madonna fan.

Is there any way to find out if you have a mispress without breaking the seal on the cover. Cheers.

my copy of the bonus 12" plays at 33 not 45 as listed.

I have purchased this box from the first day it has been released. When i opened the box the first thing that i found out was that it contains 2 cd, not one. Both of them have the same Matrix / Runout Z69525 M1S4 1 440444-2 TEXT 02 and the same track listing, too. I do not know if the sound has some difference, i doubt! I still have the box, with the 2 cd inside, in my possession.
Does anyone experience the same? I wonder if this was a manufacture mistake or not!

Otherwise, this is a great album! Love it!!!!!

As it was with "Confessions...", Madonna changed her style again, ma non troppo. It still sounds like... Madonna! Recording with mainstream artists such as Justin Timberlake, Timbaland and Kanye West it was not as fantastic as "Confessions..." but it is still a great album. You can easily hum songs like "Candy Shop", remember the 80"s with "Heartbeat", "Beat Goes On" or "Dance 2night" and of, course, dance to the hits "4 Minutes" and "Give It 2 Me". "Devil Wouldn't Recognize You" is a wonderful song, too. And as a bônus disc, two cool "4 Minutes" remixes. I like blue/White and pink/White colors on the discs. It's a hard candy for my vinyl collection. :-)