Like a Prayer (album) April 27, 1990, and "Blond Ambition World Tour Live", taped in Nice, France, on August 5, 1990. "Like a Prayer" received critical acclaim. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, from AllMusic, said in retrospect that it was Madonna's "most explicit attempt at a major artistic statement", and that though she is trying to be "serious" Madonna delivers a range of well-written pop songs, making the album her "best and most consistent". In "The New Rolling Stone Album Guide", Barry Walters wrote that with its more substantial songs that "covered topics such as spousal abuse and familial neglect", "Like a Prayer" "effectively upped Madonna's
Like Omigod! The 80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) Like Omigod! The 80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) Like Omigod! The 80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) is a seven-disc, 142-track box set of popular music hits of the 1980s. Released by Rhino Records in 2002, the box set was based on the success of "", Rhino's box set covering the 1970s. Original release sets had a 3D rubber cover. Later releases had a flat, printed cover. "Like Omigod!" includes a 90-page booklet of cultural comment, a timeline for the decade, and liner notes for the tracks included in the set. As does "Have a Nice Decade", the tracks tend to