Madonna

Greatest Hits Volume 2

(Maverick/Warner Bros.) What you see is what you get with the cheeky Madonna, the woman of 1,000 faces. GHV2 follows the Blonde One’s past decade or so of singles, most of them strong and memorable single edits (“Secret,” “Bedtime Story”) with a few radio edits (“Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina,” “Erotica”) thrown in. The recent “Music” pumps up the volume, but William Orbit’s edits of “Beautiful Stranger” and the glorious “Ray of Light” are transcendent.

This article appears in December 28 • 2001.

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