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I'm Going to Tell You a Secret | 
| Artist: Madonna
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $29.98
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Rating:  103 reviews
Sales Rank: 42826
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: D49990CXD
UPC: 093624999027
EAN: 0093624999027
ASIN: B000FA57RG
Release Date: June 20, 2006
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | The Beast Within | | • | Vogue | | • | Nobody Knows Me | | • | American Life | | • | Hollywood (Remix) | | • | Die Another Day | | • | Lament | | • | Like A Prayer | | • | Imagine | | • | Mother And Father | | • | Susan MacLeod/Into The Groove | | • | Music | | • | Holiday | | • | I Love New York |
Disc 2
| • | I'm Going To Tell You A Secret Documentary [DVD] |
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Product Description
Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 06/20/2006
Amazon.com
Madonna has been parading around in hot pants for swarms of breathless fans for the better part of 25 years, but still she captivates completely: do a mental sweep of the genres and you won't come up with many performers as mesmerizing. Which is why no pop enthusiast worth her weight in concert tickets should be without I'm Going to Tell You a Secret, a CD/DVD package that'll endure the test of time way better than Lotsa de Casha, the dance-floor queen's 2005 kids' book, and probably just as well as her still buzzed-over 1990 Blonde Ambition-era cone bra. Ever the innovator, La M steps into the audio portion of this package with a vaguely religious, vaguely scary spoken-word rant, "The Beast Within." Once she's slayed that number, she comes out swinging: "Vogue" gets the fans in gear, but its "American Life" that sends out the strongest shockwaves--who knew Madonna could spit a serious rhyme, not to mention follow it up with a metal growl? With "Holiday" and "Like a Prayer" on the set list, the rest of Secret is hardly whispered, but there is a quiet moment: "Imagine," delivered with deserved reverence, would have done John Lennon proud. --Tammy La Gorce
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Madonna Is Going To Tell You A Secret and it just might make u a better person June 22, 2006
Porfie Medina (Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA)
70 out of 80 found this review helpful
I'm Going To tell You A Secret is another documentary from the most successful female recording artist in history the one and only MADONNA. For anyone who has seen Madonna Truth or Dare (Blonde Ambition Tour 1990) you know how entertaining Madonna can be. If you are looking for a Truth or Dare part 2 you are going to be disappointed. This is Madonna 14 years later (Reinvention Tour 2004) and she is not pushing the boundaries of sexuality as she did in the early 90's. What Madonna is doing is what we all at one point in our lives or another do, and that is question the purpose of our lives and that we try to be better people. At times I do miss the early sexual in your face Madonna, but like Madonna me and many other fans have grown up and are older and we have different interests. There comes a point in your life when you start to look beyond the surface and want to know more about the big picture. I will be forever grateful that I was one of those kids that got to see and grow up with Madonna and watch her push all those boundaries and define the music and MTV era like no one before or since. Now days it is hard to find someone who is as daring, truthful, outspoken or original as she was and still is. What will separate Madonna from other stars is that she keeps going. She may be drug down in the dirt for releasing what some call a bad album or bad movie, yet she will bounce back and amaze the hell out of you with a record breaking album (Confessions on A Dance Floor hit #1 in over 40 countries) and release a tour that goes beyond what a tour is supposed to be by stimulating your mind and senses. She is human and like all of us she will have her ups and downs. What makes her a true artist is that she does what she wants and creates the art she wants, and you can either join her along for one amazing emotional journey or you can stay behind and watch. I'm Going To Tell You A Secret is a great documentary and it shows no matter how rich and famous you get there is more to life than just that. I will not ramble any more but encourage anyone who has an open mind and who is looking to be touched by the human spirit and be inspired to be a better person and less judgmental to check this movie out!
The DVD will contain the documentary movie IM GOING TO TELL YOU A SECRET and it includes live and stage performances of the songs below:
Vogue
American Life
Mother and Father
Nobody Knows Me
Music
Hollywood (Remix)
Lament
Like A Prayer
Holiday
Imagine
Below are the songs included on the CD
The Beast Within
Vogue
Nobody Knows Me
American Life
Hollywood (Remix)
Die Another Day
Lament
Like A Prayer
Imagine
Mother and Father
Susan MacLeod/Into The Groove
Music
Holiday
I Love New York (Demo version)
For some strange reason Madonna or her people choose to not include the Directors Cut of the AMERICAN LIFE video and the DVD does not include the full versions of the songs only the edited versions. I for one am upset as are many other Madonna fans. The press release gave us fans false information on this DVD/CD set. Also save yourself a ton of money and buy this at Walmart Super Center (not online just in store) I only payed $16.97 compared to the $23.99 retail price. Thank God I did not pay full price or I would be really upset. I love Madonna but because of this misinformation I give this set 4 stars instead of the 5.
 FINALLY...a live Madonna album (and a great DVD)! December 26, 2006
Melissa Niksic (Chicago, IL United States)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
I don't understand why this CD is generating so many bad reviews. I agree that people who aren't big Madonna fans probably won't enjoy the documentary...however, why would a non-Madonna fan buy her film anyway?! That makes no sense to me! Anyway, anyone who loves the Material Girl will surely enjoy watching her latest documentary. However, the CD is the best part of this compilation. I've seen Madonna in concert several times, and the Re-Invention World Tour was by far my favorite experience. Live Madonna recordings are few and far between, and the fourteen songs on this CD are of incredible quality and make me want to get up and dance every time I listen to them! In addition to many of Madonna's greatest hits ("Vogue," "Like a Prayer," "Die Another Day"), the CD includes a great version of John Lennon's "Imagine," which was one of my favorite aspects of the Re-Invention Tour.
My only real complaint is that there aren't enough songs on this CD. I am especially disappointed that the version of "Material Girl" Madonna performed on tour isn't included on the CD, but oh well.
The bottom line is that this album is a must for all Madonna fans! I can't wait for the Confessions Tour album to come out in 2007.
 Confessions of a Cabala Infomercial July 30, 2006
J. Abercrombi (Honolulu)
27 out of 32 found this review helpful
"I'm Going To Tell You A Secret" is really an overpriced Cabala infomercial slickly hidden as a pop documentary.
Madonna had tremendous difficulty getting her mucumentary distributed (probably because no one is interested in watching a nearly 50 y/o grown-woman parading around like a teenager preaching the Cabala.) ...So what does the queen of commercialism do? She convinces Warners to release her DVD as a set with a CD of "live material" and (as usual) the masses go crazy.
In 1990 Madonna made a film that was a huge phenomenon (like herself at the time), called "Truth Or Dare" that is a modern-day classic. In 2004, she gave little effort, and even less talent to produce another video tour memoir called, "I'm Going To Tell You a Secret."
Madonna sounds, and appears very sterile in the entire picture. She enjoys telling people about "the new Madonna" and how their lives will be better if they conform to her beliefs. Like another huge legend once said, Joan Crawford, "you take care of your evil, and I'll take care of mine..." These are words to live by as far as I'm concerned.
The film doesn't give any insight into "who Madonna really is." Perhaps, Madonna's 2003 hit (from the commercial bomb "American Llife") "Nobody Knows Me" really does describe the 80's white-blonde airhead. Moreover, the songs on this collection sound choppy, and totally second-rate.
Queen-Madonna is hungry for money (and attention), this I know. But no other revelations are learned from this dreadful amalgamation.
Missed opportunity!!!! June 22, 2006
jph (Los Angeles)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I agree with another reviewer that this was a missed opportunity. Madonna has never released a live recording and if ever there was a concert of her's to release a live cd of, it is Reinvention. I actually thought so as I was leaving the show two years ago. This was essentially a greatest hits tour that spanned her entire career and she sounded AMAZING!!! It seems that it would have been an inexpensive and easy way to feed a hungry audience. And put more cash in Madonna's pockets! They already put the effort into creating this cd, why not a double cd of the entire concert?! There wasn't a bad song in the show but to include the interludes over songs like Burning Up was a mistake. Plus, The Beast Within is already on the Justify My Love cd single from years ago. It's essentially the same recording. BTW- she is totally lip synching Vogue and Nobody Knows Me. She re-recorded the vocals for the tour, which sounded great, but that is so not her live voice on those songs. She never sounded better live, though, as she did singing Lament. Incredible!!! Anyway, love her, have loved all her shows, but very disappointed that we didn't see a release of this enitre show on DVD and CD. She should have done what Coldplay did a couple years ago with their tour.
3.5 Stars... Interesting DVD but baffling live album August 11, 2006
Paul Allaer (Cincinnati)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The CD: 3 Stars; the DVD: 4 Stars
Upon righting her career after the underwhelming "American Life" album with the very enjoyable "Confessions on the Dance Floor", Madonna now issues her first live album in her 20+ year career, released just in time to coincide with the start of the "Confessions" tour in the US.
"I'm Going To Tell You a Secret" is a CD-DVD combo. The CD (14 tracks, 66 min.) is a baffling choice for Madonna's first live album. The problems are many: almost half the tracks are from the mediocre "American Life" album, and they're just not great; of the other "greatest hits" tracks, too many are reworked quite substantially from their original form, taking away from the enjoyment, such as in "Like a Prayer" and "Holiday" (notable exception: a terrific "Vogue"); and then there is the horrible cover of John Lennon's "Imagine". "I Love New York" is a studio "bonus" track, and quite good.
The DVD (140 Min.) is a different story altogether. It's not a concert film, but rather an account of the 2004 "Re-Invention" tour. I was amazed that Madonna gave so much access to private moments with her family, in particular her 2 kids, who appear frequently in the documentary. Other interesting aspects include the comments from Madonna's dad, and her frequent reflections on religion, which really shape his documentary. Not so good is the actual concert footage, with a non-stop barrage of different camera angles (literally about once every second or two, just dizzying, and greatly talking away from the enjoyment of watching it). But overall, I found the documentary quite interesting.
I saw Madonna in concert when she did her infamous 30 min. set at Coachella this year. What fun that was. It's unfortunate that the live CD of "I'm Going to Tell You a Secret" doesn't reflect the live Madonna experience in a better way...
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