http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=4wsCdxdRIL4
― geeta, Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
dammit let's try that again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wsCdxdRIL4
― geeta, Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:51 (twelve years ago) link
that thunderpuss remix was the stone cold shit for real
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
I remember Elvis Costello doing a Guest VJ hour on MTV when Blood & Chocolate came out. He played one of her videos, "How Will I Know" I think, and came on afterwards saying "please please please please Whitney, please can I write some songs for you? omg what a voice"
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
i have the first album on and was just reminded of a great album track called "someone for me":
http://open.spotify.com/track/57gkU8WvqF62FTRDIIHqjH
― textile in thighville (get bent), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:53 (twelve years ago) link
When she was on, she was ON
she is a great example of taalent elevating horrible source material, because so many of her singles were schlocky nonsense that she imbued with so much depth and feeling
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that Thunderpuss remix is 10/10 classic.
"you give good love" will always be my favorite song of hers, though. this performance is absolutely perfect:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3rM1DTJ9Ythe last minute or so in particular... just staggering. what a voice, for real.
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
I remember the EC MTV thing. I thought he had said, "Please. Let me write you some good songs."
xp
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
i remember reading an interview with her where she said she hated a lot of the material she was given, and that was a big reason for her going over to more hip/young r&b stuff later on.
― textile in thighville (get bent), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP)
100% OTM. I've always had reservations about her recorded output - a little too schlocky, middle-of-the-road, AC - but there was no denying her voice.
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
"You Give Good Love" is still the shit. She sounded so sweet and ready for non-Clive-Davis-validated experience.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 February 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, I think you're right.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_yiCIow6fI
― scott seward, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
Elvis Costello would be, like, the last person I'd ask to write Whitney Houston songs.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
for better or worse she was stuck with these ridiculous, histrionic, hysterical songs; the little things like "Memories" were just that.
he'd probably write her bacharachy stuff. i have mixed feelings about that.
― textile in thighville (get bent), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
iirc there was a lot of criticism of whitney in the 80s for the sound of those first two records.. 'in living color' did a really mean sketch on her for singing pop songs and not being much of a dancer.
i wonder about that. then we got new jack whitney (those songs was great) but if you look up the shows on youtube they have her during the faster songs with all this choreography (it is kind of awkward) and not singing live. like it wasn't enough at the time that she had the most amazing voice in the world
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
she couldn't be anything other than WHITNEY HOUSTON singing songs that made Clive Davis wet. It's up to us to separate the crap.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
I mean -- imagine Tennant-Lowe giving her a Dusty Springfield number. As awesome as this looks on paper I don't think it would've worked.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
this is depressing me so much in this way where i feel like i could just as easily have started a joke thread about it. i think i've mentioned before that the first single i ever owned was her version of i will always love you, which still feels about perfect. i listened to it last maybe about a week ago. it was a gift from my aunt who i guess passed the black sheep mantle to me sometime during the course of my teenage years. i still own that cassette but i've lost the cover. it still feels like we were making some sort of pact. i guess i have this thing with whitney where i've kindof loved her music in this weirdly personal way, thinking about it almost feels autobiographical. but her voice was so clean, and her singing so efficient and capable. and i feel like a big part of her later narrative was how the messiness of her life gradually encroached on that voice. i find it hard to draw the line with her, where one thing starts and another ends. that career comeback with wyclef. her being the absolute opposite of lauren hill. the clean lines of her voice, dancing in a blackout. and all the things people will say about her being "troubled". and bobby brown. and the absurdity of it. and bittersweet memories, that is all i'm taking with me. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxZD0VQvfqU
― judith, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
the clean lines of her voice,
otm
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://youtu.be/3JWTaaS7LdU
― judith, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it was either then or another occasion when Costello wondered why she was doing "The Greatest Love": "That's for when you're 37 and living in Vegas", approximately. So maybe getting disgusted, then apathetic with the biz so young made her more likely to compensate (yes, I'm auditioning for Nancy Grace)
― dow, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
xpost - oops, can't type - those songs *were* great
the really sad thing to me was that single 'million dollar bill' from a few years back, song ok i guess but you could just hear that voice was gone
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
vocal track of how will i know:
http://jakefogelnest.com/post/17460767716
― scott seward, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i like that song, but you can tell her voice has suffered on it
xp about million dollar bill
― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
isolated vocal tracks from "How Will I Know" - smart as a whip.
xp scooped in the xpost
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
Rest in peace.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
the reverb on so many of her vocal tracks sounds so dated which is a shame
― judith, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
― scott seward, Saturday, February 11, 2012 10:11 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh jesus christ
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
no -- whitney houston
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
i love million dollar bill but it's absolutely a referendum on her state. in many ways an oddly appropriate exit note though there's an inevitable flood of material on the way that will outchart it
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
I am really sad. She was one of my favorites as a kid and just . . . not surprising but fuck. How will I know was one of my first favorite songs as a kid. :(
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
do you remember the video? i was so obsessed with it + thought she was the prettiest ever.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
"How Will I Know" redeems that zippy Narada Michael Walden sound.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i loved her as a kid, i wonder if my cassette of 'whitney' that i got in 1987 is still around here!
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
certainly she does more with him than Aretha did in that period.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
― horseshoe, Saturday, February 11, 2012 10:15 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hell yeah I do! I did too. Aw, it's just so sad. Listening to those isolated vocals now. Man. RIP.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3-hY-hlhBg
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
We also did a dance to "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" in a dance class I took the year it came out and I swear I still remember at least 1/2 of the moves. Loved that one too.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
First one to post the David Byrne cover gets four SB's.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
omg me too! i got a perm and tried to do my hair like that. it didn't work out so well but i kept trying
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
she really pulls off that purple eyeshadow magenta lipstick gigantic metallic minnie mouse bow look
― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
i think "i wanna dance with somebody" might still be my favorite whitney song, real talk. or "it's not right, but it's ok."
― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
she sparked some early heterosexual identification for me on friday night videos
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
^^^she lived a worthwhile life then
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
one more notch on her bedpost
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu)
this is hilarious to me bc i feel like i had a completely different experience of whitney as i hinted above.
― judith, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, "How Will I Know" sounds so much better without the music tracks.
A damn shame. Also I'm going to throw up if I see another Facebook post that starts out "I didn't like her music much, but..."
― thirdalternative, Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't seen much of that sentiment yet!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link