Whitney Houston singles poll

every time I think of "Love Will Save The Day" I start actually humming "Love Will Lead You Back" and I am much happier

You're disappointing me today.

aww "So Emotional" is a good one: "ain't it shockin what..............love can do!" love that pause

voted "How Will I Know", cuz you know about these things.

Saving All My Love
How Will I Know

so torn!!!

But I need to rep for "All At Once"... my grandma died right around that time & my little sister and I used to bawl over that damn song

I love that whole first album, tbh

her first album is really her best

I'd like to hear a band like the Jesus Lizard fronted by a singer like Whitney Houston.

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imagine Whitney covering "This is Not a Love Song."

Oh god, back to the Bill Laswell thing again.

imagine Whitney singing in Last Exit.

It's easy if I don't try.

so emotional and how will i know really
think i'm picking the latter.

Never liked "I Will Always Love You." The bombastic treatment is so totally wrong for the simple eloquence of the song. Plus that fucking sax solo. And the modulation. "I Have Nothing" so much better as big-ballad numbers go, so basically Greg, Alex and Al OTM way upthread.

Am working on getting acquainted with the post-Bodyguard stuff, which I mostly didn't know except "Exhale" and "It's Not Right But It's Okay." For now, though, "How Will I Know" by a mile.

For someone who only released 7 studio albums, she sure had a lot of singles, tho, huh? 29 top 40 hits, all in a 16-year span.

How Will I Know / I Have Nothing
It's Not Right But It's Okay
I Want To Dance With Somebody
Saving All My Love For You
I'm Your Baby Tonight
Love Will Save The Day
Heartbreak Hotel (Remix)
I'm Every Woman
My Love Is Your Love

The key change in "I Have Nothing" is one of the most spinetingling things ever.

Enough! Y'all have swayed me. I'll listen to "I Have Nothing" again.

I think what distinguishes it from other divastraganzas (e.g. "Without You" or "All By Myself", say) is how dangerous it sounds, both in its obsessive intensity and also in its vertiginousness. Whitney sounds like she takes a run-up to the key change with a flying leap over a bottomless chasm.

Listening to the second album on Spotify and it sounds like an '87-era mastering job! Interesting that a record like that would languish so long without being remastered.

the second Whitney album is a giant pile of festering penises

I asked about the third album on the other thread but got no responses. Hot or not?

"I'm Your Baby Tonight" is the only one of her songs I'll admit to liking IRL so that's my vote.

"How Will I Know" is ok. "All The Man I Need" is her best ballad IMO.

"I Have Nothing" and "I'm Every Woman" sounded the best to me the last couple days.

Well, and always.

million dollar bill gonna top this

I'd totally forgotten about 'Queen Of The Night' until I happened upon an obligatory airing of The Bodyguard yesterday. A pretty fierce jam, a la En Vogue. Just wanna point out that it shouldn't be slept on.

Probably always gonna be 'Love Will Save The Day' for me, though.

it's not right but it's ok

BTW I actually voted for "Saving All My Love For You", stone cold classic ballad, right up there with the greatest of all time.

what is it about "Million Dollar Bill" that ppl find appealing

xpost -- Confession -- I loathed that song when it first hit, to the point where I would turn off the radio when I heard it start. ("You Give Good Love" I happily adored.)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

She had a great voice but all of her songs are borefests imho. Is there any single in here that isn't an over-emotional ballad?

yes

You know, something in the 3 minute mark that doesn't feel like the aural equivalent of a diabetic coma?

I need examples, kevin! pretty please?

if you don't like "how will I know" you should prob give up, yeah

:(

I've just listened to it and I didn't like it :/. It still has all the problems I find in her music; corny synth strings, unnecesary bombast like the sax solo and the filler guitar riffs and the chorus is drilled into your brain 64 times before the song ends.

She had a great, powerful voice... pairing it with excessive gimmicks and maximalist choruses that keep on adding muso rubbish each new bar is overload for me.

Sorry, I tried :(

You are the devil.

^ p much :(

Her first two albums were produced by the same person that brought us Kenny G so I'm not surprised I find no love in my heart for her music. She was typecasted into milquetoast territory since her early days.

Now you are a dog latin devil.

i prefer my Whitney as A+ effervescent dance-pop: How Will I Know vs. I Wanna Dance w/ Somebody vs. So Emotional

Ok, I'm sorry... I'll find my way out of this thread. I just wanted to check if there was something in her entire discography that was different from what I've heard from her and which I might have overlooked.

voted how will i know. nothing else even comes close, such a jam.

I almost forgot to vote! *forehead slap*

"It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be" holds up really well. the vid is shameful tho

i also dig her sprechgesang in "I'm Your Baby Tonight" right after the chorus. she had a thing for fast vocal delivery, too bad she became a melismatic nutso instead

How Will I Know vs. I Wanna Dance w/ Somebody vs. So Emotional

OK, scratch So Emotional. It has some fine payoff moments, but the production is cluttery & i could really do without the constant shredding. the chorus is great, though! (which, I guess, must be why I remember it being a favorite, when in fact it is not)

the other two, though.. The vox on HWIK are untouchable, and IWDWS is just pure aces all around. hmmm

voted "i have nothing"

Good choice.

I keep wavering b/w that and "How Will I Know".

DO-ONT. MAAKE. MEEEE. CLO-OSE!!! ONE MORE DOOOOOOOR.