Love!

I love you Madonna!!!

This album is classified as Madge’s best amongst fan groups but for me it’s overrated. It’s only good because of the hits.

No filler here. Not a single bad track. Magic times. The days when she looked seriously hot and everything, musically she touched turned to gold. The sound and artwork are still extremely contemporary. Perhaps the only thing that dates this album is the 80's top tapping hook and melody that never lets go. Since then we have settled for style over substance. Here it's all substance. Looking to start an earlier Madonna catalogue, then start here. Featuring her classic ballad Live To Tell, which still resonates and is powerful and haunting today as well as many other number ones such as Open Your Heart- a career highlight and Papa Don't Preach- a defining moment of classical and pop music mix. Also featuring the start of her Spanish influenced tracks, the U.K. Number 1 La Isla Bonita and the underrated title track- also a UK number one. This album is a real lightening in a bottle catching era of madonnas career that will stand up to thousands of listens.

Full to the brim of some of her best hits ever, this is the Madonna everybody loves! My favourites are Papa Don't Preach, True Blue and Live To Tell. I'd definitely recommend this to any 80s fan

Definitely the best madonna album, by far.

Amazing she's deserves to be called 'the queen of pop'

This is the album that in my opinion made Madonna the Queen.

1986 she shot straight to number one around the world with her hit album (true blue) that set records including most weeks at no1 on the European albums chart- 34 weeks!!

the singles:

-Live to tell

-Papa dont preach

-Open Your Heart

- True blue

-La isla Bonita

most reached no1 around the world while others reached top 5

Everyone should have a copy of this piece of history

Classic 80's album. 5 out of 5 !

What can i say. this album sold over 24 million copies around the world was the biggest album of the 80's by a female singer and of all time at the time. the album produced five united world chart number one hits, a first for any singer and is filled with classic polished pop/mor songs. this album defined madonna as the biggest star in the world. Not the best of her career but definately the most iconic.

100% perfect pop from beginning to end!!

Great classic. Love this album....

She became a superstar with this record. It is a brilliant album and by looking at the her download chart True Blue and Like a Virgin were her popularity era.

Madonna's debut was essentially a dance album, the closest thing to a ballad being 'Borderline' which was catchy pop. She followed this up by attempting a pop album but it wasn't until the release of 'True Blue' that the Queen of Pop got the formula right.

Whilst 'Like A Virgin' had two stand-out tracks and a plethora of filler, 'True Blue' has prospective singles in abundance. No wonder she released 5 of the 9 tracks! In the USA and the UK, all of the singles topped the charts and that's testament enough to the quality of this album. From the moment the opening track 'Papa Don't Preach' starts with its instantly recognisable strings you know that Ms Ciccone has learnt from her mistakes and has put her all into this release. Elsewhere, US chart topper 'Open Your Heart' and the UK chart topping title track present oppposing examples of the pop spectrum, the former rock-infused and hard edged, the latter all bubblegum cuteness. 'Where's The Party' and 'Love Makes The World Go Round' are catchy if castaway pop songs which merely celebrate pop for pop's sake whilst 'Jimmy Jimmy' treads similar territory as the title tracks and 'La Isla Bonita' ventures into Latino pop which Madonna would return to regularly on later albums. 'White Heat' samples film soundtracks and amazingly manages to avoid being cheesey but the stand-out track here is lead single 'Live To Tell'.

Not having recorded many ballads ('Crazy For You', 'Love Don't Live Here Anymore', 'Shoo-Bee-Doo', er...that'd be it, then) it was possibly a brave move to release a ballad as the first track from the new album, especially since catchier, poppier tracks like 'Papa Don't Preach' were sitting in the wings, but with 'Live To Tell' Madonna states emphatically that she's here and she's not just a one trick pony. Serious, sombre and heartfelt, 'Live To Tell' proved that if she set her mind to it, Madonna was capable of producing popular music of any genre.

Unlike 'Like A Virgin' none of the tracks on 'True Blue' are easy to dismiss as filler. Like 'Madonna' each track is individually catchy but in contrast the styles are wide ranging whilst retaining an overall cohesion. Ms Ciccone would refine this approach further with 'Like A Prayer', but this is where she began to evolve and spread her wings.

at her peak this and like a virgin will never be equalled in terms of what shw did for music of her generation.

and why why why does true blue a uk no.1 never ever appear on a best of madonna album??

This is definitely one of her greatest albums.

'Where's The Party' is the best song by far, followed by 'White Heat'. I'd happily pay the price of the whole album for these 2 songs.

Of all the material she has written this was madonna at her best, from here she has joined the ranks of mainstream, before this she was setting the pace at which others were struggling.

Every single song has great memories for me, a classic album

By far her greatest album, they just don't do albums this like anymore :-( Everything from the title track to Where's The Party every song is a classic. It's sad to hear the new rubbish from Madonna when she has done something so amazing as this.... CLASSIC 5/5

The first album by a female performer to rocket straight to the British number one slot, True Blue is the album that heralded Madonna as a pop force the equal of Michael Jackson and Prince. 'Papa Don't Preach' broke away from the often mocked 'Minnie Mouse on helium' vocal of her earlier works, hosting a mature, toned down approach, especially emotive on 'Live To Tell', a portentous beauty and one of the eighties' stone cold classic power ballads. The driving 'Open Your Heart' came with a Jean-Baptiste Mondino video that showcased the lady's daring underwear-as-outerwear wardrobe, brassy crop and toned body, and Madonna's endless cycle of reinventions began here. 'La Isla Bonita' is a beautiful, haunting slow burner that exposes the romantic Latin heart under all those hard stares and kinetic dance moves. Between the fantastic variations in voice, theme and style, impeccability of production and sheer artistry of the accompanying videos, True Blue is more than a masterful pop album. This is where Madonna shed the disco tart persona and laid her cunning intelligence and genius for self promotion bare. This is where the icon was born.