Best Mariah Carey Album

Mimi will take this in a landslide, I suspect. Does anyone besides surmounter actually own every album?

i was just discussing this last night - unbelievably i only own her greatest hits and the last two (plus an assortment of remixes and random tracks from over the years), and my mariah faves are equally spread over her various eras. i'm most interested in getting butterfly, i guess - her move towards hip-hop and r&b.

are charmbracelet and glitter really as bad as critical consensus says? i rarely trust critical consensus, especially on mariah. i thought her cover of 'didn't mean to turn you on' was amazing.

daydream was kinda the bridge between butterfly and power ballad mariah, what with that (brill) mix of fantasy with puffy. never heard charmbracelet or glitter outside of the singles.

i voted mimi though.

are charmbracelet and glitter really as bad as critical consensus says?

No, at least not the latter, which is easily getting my vote.

glitter is a fantastic album, and sustains the power of "i didn't mean to turn you on" throughout. i will vote mimi, but i have a soft spot for rainbow, butterfly and perhaps most of all, music box. with the exception of hero, which is pocahontas-level corny, it's a perfect album.

lex, you would like butterfly. the slink of honey isn't lost on the rest of the tracks. it's fun to hear her morph.

crybaby, anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsfpHwrLOKw
(rainbow album)

i have a soft spot for her i cant live with you cover (apart from the ending).

Mimi is my favorite but I'm gonna vote for Butterfly, because it's amazing and deserves a vote... also Emotions is very underrated (has one of my favorite Mariah songs "Make It Happen", plus some great balladry overall, and a cool retro feel)... Daydream is also vote worthy ("Underneath the Stars" !!)

the only ones I don't own are Charmbracelet and the Christmas Album

Make it Happen is my bf's favorite.

"Make It Happen" is good, yes. So is "Someday," off the debut.

it's just so funny how different the 2 eras of mariah are. my friend Laura always said "i like Emotions mariah, not new mariah" then she heard Shake It Off. nuf said.

old mariah could sing better though.

old mariah had less stupid/silly lyrics too.

i don't think even fans of nu-mariah would dispute that

xp or that!

but i mean a HUGE part of nu-mariah's appeal is her sense of humour and the fun she has with her lyrics, whether she's playing w/her beloved hip-hop slang or just being decadently verbose

i tend to prefer post-mottola mariah, but yeah, all the hip hop slang bugs me. the occasional lack of lyrical editing too. i know thats hardly unique to her in R&B (and prob pointless complaining about it in 2009) but its not my favourite thing in the world.

mottola mariah had a better chest voice, but i love the breathy, layered hip hop vocals like no other. they're like a mixer's fantasy. no one does that like mariah.

like honestly sometimes i can't believe how airy/scratchy/whatever her voice is on later records, and how good it sounds.

Butterfly would've been my alternate choice. After that? Probably Rainbow. Never will get the fascination for Mimi.

the cover of Rainbow makes me want to eat babies.

Rainbow is like her worst album....

wrong

search: heartbreaker, BLISS, after tonight, x-girlfriend, against all odds (awesome cover), crybaby, did i do that. and of course, mariah's theme. all ace.

i pity the man who's never listened to Bliss.

tho speaking of covers, mariah's best cover is prolly "bringin on the heartbreak"

I didn't say there weren't any good songs on it lol

and Mariah's best cover is "Without You"! DURR! Though "Bringin On Teh Heartbreak" is indeed awesome

her worst cover is "the beautiful ones" >_< only bad song on Butterfly

btw how awesome is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHTQe_9S9t0

her worst cover is "the beautiful ones"

old big voiced mariah could have killed that track ;) (i cant remember mariahs version though, apart from that it seemed quite tepid - she had the wrong producer for that)

there are rumors that she's covering "I Want To Know What Love Is" for Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel... lol what is with her and these cheesy 80s covers.

she's also covering "The Message."

My friend just suggested a cover: YYY's "Heads Will Roll"

there are rumors that she's covering "I Want To Know What Love Is" for Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel... lol what is with her and these cheesy 80s covers.

― The Brainwasher, Monday, July 20, 2009 4:17 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i would love this.

Voting for Glitter cos it's so underrated/underappreciated. Butterfly is my favourite though and it contains the greatest song she ever recorded (Breakdown). And yes, i own every album.

"Music Box". After that she has gotten really horrible though.

if it's over, let me go

man, her version of 'without you' ruins the song. she oversings it....

I voted Rainbow - JUST LIKE THE COOKIES. ;-P

:) i was just telling ryan that rainbow is practically my favorite album like, in the world, at the moment, considering the amount i play it. prolly shoulda voted for it!

it's weird how simultaneously understated and big Make It Happen is

that's how I feel about "Someday."

yes

btw um, i would just like for you to know that i found out that the mariah carey + whitney duet "When You Believe" was filmed in the theater at which i work

...

the video, that is. i'm still a little in shock from this news.

the vocal layers on The Roof are ridiculous

"...to relive the splendour of you and I..."

can always count on you

how bout them giggles on "cruise control," where she's doing the rasta accent. the mariah cackle is ace.

been singing Heartbreaker all weekend

Never got any better (or less bad) than her debut.

Or, OK, "Music Box", which I also went for in the poll, is a bit better :)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

somebody be fuckin with the results

i want to know who did this

alex?

Yeah, clear tampering. And I say that as one of Glitter's 7 voters.

interesting.

I don't even remember what I voted for. I know it wasn't Charmbracelet or Glitter, though.

some bullshit

i don't even know how you would game a thread like this or why. i'm almost inclined to believe it's all actual votes for lack of any better explanation.

Wish she released an album done in the gloriously 70s style of songs like “Bliss.” Isn’t that wordless shit she does throughout that song Debussy-level gorgeous?

for all the talk on the p4k poll thread about how The Emancipation of Mimi should have been in the top 20 , it couldn't even beat 2 of the other albums of the decade in a poll of ILM's Mariah Carey fans?

dude, it was rigged.

it was?

wow 1st album in 1990. I had no idea she had been around that long.

yea, it was. no one's even heard charmbracelet.

xcept for maybe me and christyles.

im sure the lex will have(is it bad or is it just an album that bombed?)

i'm not even sure lex has (iirc, he hasn't heard butterfly in its entirety).

i haven't listened to it enough but from what i can tell, it's not too bad. just didn't have any smashes, and bombed.

somebody needs to listen to "My All" now and confirm that no one else could do that like that - those vocals in the 1st chorus where she goes up high

she was better than i thought she would be on the alan carr show last night but she does struggle to cover all her range now doesnt she?

xcept for maybe me and christyles.

― surm, Thursday, October 8, 2009 11:49 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Quite possibly, yes. Charmbracelet isn't one of her strongest albums (it might possibly be her weakest, vocally) but it certainly contains some of her best songwriting."Yours", "Clown", "Lullaby", "Subtle Invitation" and the Def Leppard cover make up the album's few highlights.

damn the glitter album is good (all my life ! ! !)

has anyone listened to this album?

No, I've never heard a whole album. One time I almost bought 'Daydream' for like $4 but then I didn't. Wasn't it supposed to be godawful, or was that just the film?

i really don't think anyone's listened to it. the film is supposed to be awful.

the album is like... lush, bubbly, buzz-y club music from the 70s, with hooks and synths as tipsy as champagne

Doesn't Eric H. like Glitter (the album)?? I've never listened to the whole thing but I enjoy "Didn't Mean to Turn You On" and "All My Life" well enough. I watched most of the movie on Youtube once, which seemed appropriate.

omg you're right

Eric!

so wth happened here? cornballs upset with the idea of weighing up mariah?

soo Charmbracelet had "i know what u want" on it ??! how random

loverboy (on Glitter) is such a great song. took me a while to figure that out

Quite possibly, yes. Charmbracelet isn't one of her strongest albums (it might possibly be her weakest, vocally) but it certainly contains some of her best songwriting."Yours", "Clown", "Lullaby", "Subtle Invitation" and the Def Leppard cover make up the album's few highlights.

― Christyles, Friday, November 20, 2009 12:09 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

her vocals on the def leppard cover are outrageous

out. rageous.

What the fuck?

haha

i should never have revived this

There should be a new poll, in time for the new compilation.

i need to do a mariah remix poll at some point.

Mimi is my favorite but I'm gonna vote for Butterfly, because it's amazing and deserves a vote... also Emotions is very underrated (has one of my favorite Mariah songs "Make It Happen", plus some great balladry overall, and a cool retro feel)... Daydream is also vote worthy ("Underneath the Stars" !!)

the only ones I don't own are Charmbracelet and the Christmas Album

― The Brainwasher, Monday, 20 July 2009 14:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

Make it Happen is my bf's favorite.

― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 20 July 2009 14:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Make It Happen" is good, yes. So is "Someday," off the debut.

― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 July 2009 14:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

I fell down a Mariah wormhole tonight and OMG "Make It Happen".

MC + C+C must be one of the most underrated (in the sense of just not being talked about) great collaborative partnerships in pop. I suppose they probably did less than two handfuls of songs together though.