Madonna turned the big 5-0 this past Saturday and while EAR FARM did nothing “official” to mark the occasion, you better believe much of the weekend was dedicated to an appreciation of her music, video, and fashion skills. The main focus: her entire catalog.

While perusing Rolling Stone’s Top 50 Albums of All Time and listening to her fifth studio album, Erotica, something occurred to me. Namely, that many of the albums from that list - and a few other great albums not on their list - had massively (unintentional) Erotica-esque titles. Remember, this was Madonna’s overtly über-sexual phase and nearly everything she was doing was fueled with heavy innuendo and/or titillating in a very blunt manner. She’d already raised a few eyebrows with her too-hot-for-MTV video “Justify My Love”, released her first book, Sex, and was giving the tracks on Erotica obviously coital names such as “Bad Girl”, “Why’s It So Hard”, “Fever”, “Did You Do It?”, and “Where Life Begins”.

See if a few of the fifty classic album titles below don’t sound as though they might fit really well next to the aforementioned songs on Erotica. Some of these you may have to bend your imagination a bit for; but then others, such as “Please Please Me” or “Dirty Mind” or a good portion of the rest of this list, could very easily be bonus tracks that were recorded but never included on the final version of the album. “Fever isn’t such a new thing, fever started long ago…”

50. Rubber Soul, The Beatles
49. Are You Experienced?, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
48. Touch, Eurythmics
47. The Score, Fugees
46. Music From Big Pink, The Band
45. Is This It?, The Strokes
44. Here’s Little Richard, Little Richard
43. Electric Ladyland, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
42. Third/Sister Lovers, Big Star
41. Fresh Cream, Cream
40. Closer, Joy Division
39. Imperial Bedroom, Elvis Costello
38. Red Headed Stranger, Willie Nelson
37. Dirty Mind, Prince
36. Some Girls, The Rolling Stones
35. Can’t Get Enough, Barry White
34. Call Me, Al Green
33. Songs for Swingin’ Lovers, Frank Sinatra
32. Nothing’s Shocking, Jane’s Addiction
31. BloodSugarSexMagik, Red Hot Chili Peppers
30. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Lauryn Hill
29. Damn the Torpedoes, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
28. The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground
27. Pink Moon, Nick Drake
26. Feels, Animal Collective
25. Exile in Guyville, Liz Phair
24. In the Jungle Groove, James Brown
23. Tonight’s the Night, Neil Young
22. Cheap Thrills, Big Brother and the Holding Company
21. Violator, Depeche Mode
20. Singles Going Steady, Buzzcocks
19. Siamese Dream, The Smashing Pumpkins
18. Love and Theft, Bob Dylan
17. The End of the Innocence, Don Henley
16. For Your Pleasure, Roxy Music
15. Boy, U2
14. To Bring You My Love, PJ Harvey
13. Boys Don’t Cry, The Cure
12. Slowhand, Eric Clapton
11. The Rising, Bruce Springsteen
10. Love It to Death, Alice Cooper
9. A Hard Day’s Night, The Beatles
8. Please Please Me, The Beatles
7. Rum Sodomy and the Lash, The Pogues
6. Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones
5. Who’s Next, The Who
4. Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones
3. All the Young Dudes, Mott the Hoople
2. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
1. Tunnel of Love, Bruce Springsteen

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*above photo from HERE, front thumbnail from HERE.