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List Price: $17.98 | | Label: Sanctuary Trojan Us
Salesrank: 75769
Released: October 9, 2001 |
| Our Price: $5.99 |
| Used Price: $0.84 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Early Years: Give It to Me Track Listing:
1. Give It To Me
2. Shake
3. Get Down
4. Time to Dance
5. Wild Dancing
6. Let's Go Dancing
7. We Are the Gods
8. Cosmic Climb
9. On the Street
10. Oh My!
The Early Years: Give It to Me Reviews:
Oh grow up and get a sense of humour ...... 
2007-10-13 - Oh grow up and get a sense of humour everyone! Yes these tracks are awful, but they are an amusing & enlightening glimpse at what was happening in the murky depths of the euro-disco underground in the wee-early 80s ... and an insightful glimpse into how bloody awful Madonna's singing voice was back then (I love her but, c'mon..!)
Somewhere in Europe in 1980, Madonna recorded background vocals on 3 "songs" for the (now infamous) "experimental" sorta-disco "artist" Otto Von Wernherr: Wild Dancing, Cosmic Climb & We Are The Gods.
Wild Dancing is essentially Otto delivering a bizarre sexual monologue (in his thick deep German accent) before Madonna breaks into a hyper high-pitched chorus about .. you guessed it, dancing! Cosmic Climb tries to be a bit more serious and out-there, but it only kinda hits the mark. Madonna's voice is shrill and off key, and Otto's mutterings are again peculiar. And then we come to We Are The Gods ... THE funniest song of all time. Just hearing Madonna's young throaty unconvincing scream: "Oh hear come the gods!" while Otto rambles on .... truly amusing.
The remaining 7 tracks were an after-thought: samples of Madonna's voice have been mixed into a mess of bleep blop bloops and beats .. and more German drivel.
Call me strange, but I actually find the chorus of "Wild Dancing" really infectious. The remix (which isn't on this CD) is better though: Otto's voice is mostly absent, allowing Madonna's enthusiastic chorus to repeat unobstructed by his odd musings.
All up, this disc is a collection of laughably crappy electronic 80's euro-pop, which, if nothing else shines an historic spotlight on one of the biggest stars of the last 25 years.
If you choose to venture forth, I suggest you also check out one of the "Early Years" compilations for the extended remix of Wild Dancing. It's worth the buck & a half. But keep your sense of humour with you at all times .... you'll need it! :-)
Bleargh. 
2006-03-09 - I downloaded this album and.. it's bad. But it's not truly as horrible as some of the previous reviews say it is. Yes.. it's.. definately odd.. but there are a couple catchy songs on it (mostly Wild Dancing) and some of the songs (We Are The Gods) are truly awful.
if you just have to have her every cd...
2005-12-08 - First off, Otto's voice is terribly annoying most of the time and the only tracls I like are "Give It To Me", "On the Street", and "Let's Go Dancing" because of it's 80s groove. This Cd is either for people who have been with her from the very beginning or people who just must have ALL her CDs. Her vocals haven't changed much at all, sh ecan still sing. I'm glad I only paid $4.47 for mine, but if you want an "early years" CD by her that you will love, get "MADONNA: In the Beginning".
Stay Away From This Mess!!!!!!!!!! Trust ME!!! 
2003-07-22 - This is hands down the worst cd I have EVER heard. Even if you are a Madonna fan, you will not want this cd. I thought I was buying some groovy music by Madonna before she became famous. Instead, I got this HORRIBLE cd by a man named Otto, who uses Madonna's background vocals as lead. He then mixed her vocals with tracks (I refuse to call this mess music) that is so bad that my dog actually cried for me to stop playing it. I am serious. And it gets worst because Madonna only sings about 2 lines in every track. This is not a Madonna release, so how is he able to release it as such? I can't answer that, but please trust me when I say...you don't want this mess!!!
For die-hard Madonna fans only!
2003-04-16 - I'll start right off by saying I love Madonna's work. That being said, this I do not love, mainly because Madonna is not a large part of it at all. Her appearence is merely incidental to the songs themselves. The only song I really liked was "Wild Dancing," and that was mostly for its quirky, 80's-ness. A great marketing ploy splashing her early photos all over the cover, but don't be mislead as to what's actually on the CD (like I was).
