Released: 07/1983
Remastered: 05/21/2001

Personnel: Madonna (vocals, cowbell); Reggie Lucas (guitar, programming); Ira Siegel, Curtis Hudson, Paul Pesco (guitar); Bobby Malach (tenor saxophone); Fred Zarr (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Moog synthesizer, drums); Dean Gant (piano, electric piano, synthesizer); Ed Walsh (synthesizer); Raymond Hudson (bass); Anthony Jackson (electric bass); Bashiri Johnson (percussion); Leslie Ming (programming); Gwen Guthrie, Norma Jean Wright, Brenda White, Chrissy Faith, Tina B. (background vocals).

Producers include: Reggie Lucas, John "Jellybean" Benitez, Mark Kamins.

Engineers include: Jim Dougherty, Michael Hutchinson, Jay Mark.

Recorded at Sigma Sound Studios, New York, New York.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Art Director: Carin Goldberg

Photography: Gary Heery

Tracks:
Remastered
	01. Lucky Star
	02. Borderline
	03. Burning Up
	04. I Know It
	05. LHoliday
	06. Think Of Me
	07. Physical Attraction
	08. Everybody
	09. Burning Up (12" Version)
	10. Lucky Star (New Mix)
Original
	01. Lucky Star
	02. Borderline
	03. Burning Up
	04. I Know It
	05. Holiday
	06. Think Of Me
	07. Physical Attraction
	08. Everybody

Album Info:

Includes rare 12" dance remixes previously unavailable on CD.

Punk and disco were the major musical innovations of the '70s. No one utilized these sources as shrewdly as Madonna, whose 1983 self-titled debut still sounds sharp 15 years later. A CBGB-era band waif who also loved the N.Y. dance club scene, Madonna Ciccone brought the brash, self-determining ethos of punk rock to the ecstastic melodic lift of Chic-style dance music.

That other N.Y. sex symbol, Debbie Harry of Blondie, also had her biggest hits ("Heart Of Glass," "Rapture") when she flirted with disco and rap, but a winking flirtation is all it remained. Her reputation as a master of imagemaking notwithstanding, Madonna never had much use for irony. Songs like the soulful "Borderline" and the celebratory "Holiday" were heartfelt stabs at commercial pop success in which the singer never condescends to the listener. Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers produced her next album, and the rest is history.

Source: MTV.com

Review:

Madonna, who crashed onto the dance charts last year with 'Everybody', has a voice that takes some time getting used to. At first, it doesn't sound like much at all. Then you notice its one distinguishing feature, a girlish hiccup that the singer uses over and over until it's irritating as hell. Finally, you got hooked, and you start looking forward to that silly little catch in her voice. It helps that she writes good tunes - catchy and bare to the bone. It even helps more that her album is prestinely produced by Reggie Lucas. Electric keyboards have the clarity of finger chimes. The bass slaps the backbeat like shoes on pavement. Mind you, it's simple stuff: "I'm burnin' up / Burnin' up for your love", or "Holiday / Celebrate". But it's clever at times, too. 'Phyical Attraction' is practically a capsule history of high-school proms, with its sly references to the Associations 'Cherish' and Olivia Newton John's 'Physical'.

There are lots of blue-eyed soul belters with more generous voices and more intricate songs - Teena Marie comes quickly to mind. Still, without overstepping the modest ambitions of minimal funk, Madonna issues an irresistible invitation to the dance.

Source: Rolling Stone, Don Shewey, September, 1983