Without doubt the most exciting and well produced concert documentary ever. Deserves a theatrical exhibition outing on the big screens of the world. Madonna's performances the best of her career, and the excitement of the passionate latin American crowds is palpable. The doco gives a taste of how amazing these shows would have been live.
shareI loved this show. I saw it 3 times live
shareI'd put S&S Tour in my list of top Five Madonna tours, but not #1.
I've seen Who's That Girl Tour, Drowned World Tour, Reinvention Tour, Confessions Tour & Sticky & Sweet Tour, all live (Reinvention twice). Virgin Tour, Blond Ambition Tour & Girlie Show, I didn't see live but saw recorded shows (both authorized & fan shot).
So for me, here is my list of Best Madonna Tours:
1-Blond Ambition Tour (this tour was the It-Shay when it rolled out nearly 20 years ago. Shows constantly made the news & entertainment shows for the duration of the tour, Rome Controversy, Toronto Controversy, Like A Virgin performance Controversy.......plus she was still pretty young, raw & in-your-face. The costumes & sets, the set list, Express Yourself opener, Like A Prayer's first performance, Vogue.............she was at the height of her career during this span & Truth or Dare/In Bed With Madonna only further cemented this tour in pop culture lore.)
2-Reinvention Tour (for me, mainly because it was hits & I got to finally see her do Vogue & Like A Prayer live).
3-Confessions Tour (Just a dynamic show. Really saw the wide spectrum of fans that go to Madonna shows---young, old & in between, men, women, gays & straights, etc.)
4-Who's That Girl Tour (I know a lot of people aren't fond of WTGT, but it was a huge tour and she sang live throughout the entire show & it was really the first time she started using screen images to illustrate the songs and Open Your Heart & Into The Groove were show stoppers in my opinion)
5-Sticky & Sweet Tour (Had a good time, enjoyed most of the set list.....could have done w/out some of the interludes between songs though).
6-Girlie Show (Like most of the show, especially The Beast Within number w/just the dancers, the re-working of Vogue & Express Yourself & Holiday. For me, any tour that followed Blond Ambition would be a slight letdown.)
7-Drowned World Tour (Really liked seeing this since at the time it was the first time I'd seen Madonna in 14 years and the show I saw in Philadelphia was her first US show so it got a lot of press coverage over here, but looking back on it, it was too dark & brooding. That said, I loved Impressive Instant, Beautiful Stranger, Candy Perfume Girl, Holiday & Music and the first concert performances of Frozen & Ray of Light)
8-Virgin Tour (Love this tour, truly I do. Great reminder of the 'original' Madonna who shot to stardom in 1984/1985. All live singing again. Set list of great early hits, Dress You Up & Holiday to me were the best numbers, Into The Groove the worst. But it's not a world tour (though it was lavishly covered in the major US markets on network, local & entertainment news shows & in print media as well--and it's not up to the standards of the tours that followed, and the most major strike, the commercial release cut three numbers out)