| | American Pie, Pt. 1 |  | Artist: Madonna
Label: Musicrama/Koch
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 735923
Format: Import, Single
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
UPC: 632427563785
EAN: 0632427563785
ASIN: B0000DENBF
Release Date: March 28, 2000
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Album Description
German edition of the Don Mclean cover from the soundtrack to her film 'The Next Best Thing'. Tracks 'American Pie (Album Version, Richard 'Humpty' Vission Radio Mix, Victor Calderone Filter Dub Mix, Richard 'Humpty' Vission visits Madonna). 2000 release. Slimline jewel case.
Album Details
One of Madonna's Two Musical Contributions to the 'Next Best Thing' Ost. This Don Mclean Classic Remake Was Produced by William Orbit. Features a Victor Calderone Filter Dub Mix.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
 Good Call, Madonna! March 15, 2000
22 out of 24 found this review helpful
Is this even legal? Madonna covering American Pie. Yes I like the Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls and harp on people who say music of the past is better than today's music, but I do have respect for a legend. When I first heard on the radio that Don Mclean liked Madonna's version I thought that this is scientiffically impossible. This song is to Rock & Roll history what the Titanic disaster is to maritime history. Then, I listened to it and wow! It actually works. Perhaps, Madonna, aware of this song's legendary acclaim concluded that she--in all her splender--could never succesfully cover this song convincingly, and to try to reproduce it may spell the doom of her career. Was this legend the thing that would bring Mrs. Material Girl herself to her knees? Wisely, Madonna chooses to reinvent the song, to make it hers as if it were hers alone brought about for the first time in history by her and in a way only she could provide. Like it or hate it, you have got to give her credit for her bravity--bravity counter-balanced by alot of wisdom. Madonna knows a basic fundamental in music: "Don't ever try to recreate a legend. It will surely break you". Perhaps, this is Madonna's "rite of passage"--the challenge that could crush her is the very one that will take her to new heights in her career. And what do you know? She has Mclean's blessing!
good job madonna March 18, 2000
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
madonna has taken a classic rock song and reinvented it as her own. having removed the verses about buddy holly and early rock, she has recorded a song that is at once brilliant and poignant. madonna's vocals have never been better and i applaud her bravado for even attempting to "remake" this song. American Pie has become a classic in both incarnations.
 This is truly the day the music died. March 31, 2000
6 out of 20 found this review helpful
Hello all. I listened to the Madonna cover of American Pie but twice. Don Mclean, I'm sorry. Buddy Holly, I'm sorry. Madonna turned this beautiful song into a pop atrocity. Every time one of those notes is played, I scream in pain. Now, listen up for all of you who notice why this song has such high ratings here. Traditionally, the only people who rate songs are those who loved it so much, they want to share their love with the rest of the world. You can prove my example by searching for almost anything. Now, i also want to show you something else. Ignoring the two latest one star reviews, take a good look at which reviews were chosen most useful. With the two one-star reviews, one of them was found useful by one out of fifteen people and the other was found useful by only three out of eighteen people. Don't believe everything you read. LED ZEPPLIN RULES. By the way, Britney SPears is doing a cover of Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones. Beware.
Artistically bereft and morally reprehensible... March 17, 2000
6 out of 22 found this review helpful
To turn an all-time rock standard into a piece of disco-style fluff is just like Madonna. Even though I was never a big fan of the song (yes I know the significance of the song and its reference to Buddy Holly's plane crash) I still consider it a rock classic (along with Stairway to Heaven and Free Bird, neither of which are favorites of mine). At least Don McLean put some feeling and heart into the song - Madonna sings it in the mechanical style which has been her norm in recent years. I listened to it on the radio once - now, my finger moves to the preset buttons on my car radio at just short of the speed of sound the second it comes on.
It seems that the wrath of the gods got a punch in the nose March 18, 2000
5 out of 22 found this review helpful
I'm in a state of shock. That kind of song is just not the kind you can cover! Don McLean put emotion into it...When someone writes their own songs and sings them, you can tell. The emotion just overflows. Madonna puts no emotion whatsoever into the song. THAT is why music of the past is better than today's music! Because even the bad groups back then WROTE THEIR OWN MUSIC! People say, 'Well, Brit/Madonna/Christina/Mandy has a good voice..." A good voice isn't that rare, honeys. I know about 10 people that are my friends and have just amazing voices. Now, if any of the afforementioned parties wrote their own songs and they were good~ THEN they would have talent! Don't listen to this song, ever. It's horrible. It can die! I can't believe Don McLean gave her the permission to do that! Want some good music? try Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Bob Dylan. If you insist on today's music, try Widespread Panic or Sublime. Both excellent choices. I'm ashamed of Madonna. SHE KILLED IT
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