best run of 3 or more Hot 100 #1 singles from one album

likewise, have never consciously heard "One More Try" before now, but it's not doing much for me

She faffs around for five minutes about going SO EMOTIONAL and it's a Xerox copy of emotion, Plus, EMOTIONAL is such a weird generic word to use. It's as if she said I FEEL SO-SO BABY EVERY TIME I THINK OF YOU.

"Everything She Wants" is an awesome karaoke song.

reminds me of how angry i used to get about Beyonce saying "your sexiness is so appealing" (xpost)

"One More Try" suffers a lot by being up next to "Father Figure"

I knew "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" for years before I ever heard "How Will I Know" and still prefer it. Anyone who feels differently can get deeeeez nuuuuuuuts.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/02/12/article-0-11B3C155000005DC-980_468x286.jpg

"Everything She Wants" is an awesome karaoke song.

George Micheal's voice is too high for me to do at karaoke, which is really frustrating. I can do "I Want Your Sex" because it doesn't have as much range.

"One More Try" suffers a lot by being up next to "Father Figure"

I think they're both equally great. Couldn't say which one I prefer really.

Janet over George

actually wait no other way around

Faith vs Miss You Much: Miss You Much easy
Father Figure vs Escapade: Escapade but it's close
One More Try vs: Black Cat: One More Try easy
Monkey vs Love Will Never Do (Without You): Monkey but it's close

ARGH

gonna give it to george for being more responsible for the decent wham run than janet was for the decent paula run

responsible like providing choreography paychecks that paid for studio time?

don't think too hard about my lighthearted comment

#1 hits here that i can't even begin to remember melody of

"The Long And Winding Road" (i know i've heard this but never remember anything over than something shouting the title and the bombast - oddly enough have the same experience with "beth")
"If I Can't Have You" (this is Yvonne Elliman, right? I'd at least get that at a trivia night but I wouldn't remember it was a #1)
"Love You Inside Out" (I may even have the mp3 of this and I still don't remember anything off the top of my head)
"Didn't We Almost Have It All" (Title just makes me hear "didn't I blow your mind" so yeah)
"Love Takes Time" (I tended to change the channel during Mariah ballads in my youth)
"let it flow" (did this not have a hit video? I noticed on wikipedia this was a double A single)
"The First Night" (I am guessing this was a ballad with a less prominent titular hook than "Angel Of Mine")
"Come On Over Baby" (never been able to remember this song even when the video was on tv)
"Big Girls Don't Cry" (avoided this)
"Imma Be" (managed to miss this)
"Set Fire To The Rain" (I don't even know if I've risked hearing this)

i think i avoided hearing "glamorous" more than once too

From those, search: "If I Can't Have You", "Imma Be", and "Set Fire To The Rain".

ha no real talk i had to check the Forever Your Girl wiki to see if some of the hits were Janet castoffs or something

oh man you're right Toni totally snuck in here on a double A side technicality

oh man you're right Toni totally snuck in here on a double A side technicality

"The First Night" (I am guessing this was a ballad with a less prominent titular hook than "Angel Of Mine")

no it is slinky and uptempo and awesome!

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

Are the supremes too old to get votes or something cuz I'm legitimately baffled why wham & whitney houston seem to be rating over those supremes singles

"Love Hangover" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "The First Night"

speaking of the Supremes

voted help!, should've voted usher

"Where Did Our Love Go" was an after-the-fact collection of singles etc. too, like most 60s Motown albums (and most 60s pop albums generally).

― mobs of burly teen christgaus (thewufs), Tuesday, October 30, 2012 1:27 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is wrong btw -- Where Did Our Love Go was released in late August '64 just as the title track was topping the charts and the other two were released as singled and topped the charts later in the year while the album was in stores

so yeah no reason not to vote for Supremes

like i am inclined to vote for george michael or janet or usher but then i look at the top of the list and those are basically three perfect songs right there

Hats off to "Careless whisper" for re-inventing the saxophone
Hats off to the man playing the solo in the park outside my house for the last hour

Didn't vote Supremes mainly on the grounds that I prefer other singles by them, but yeah, the idea if Whitney and especially Wham being > Supremes is lunacy.

*of

was it this guy? xxp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaoLU6zKaws

trying to find anything whatsoever wrong with the True Blue string, can't, voted

tbrr I have time for most of these songs; the only runs I really dislike are Whitney II, Mariah II and Usher (there are others where there's a song that's odd man out like "Come On Over" and "Firework" but I generally approve of the artist)

surprised to see anyone give Katy Perry daps itt, especially DJP!

I have always had at least one foot on the Katy Perry bandwagon!

I mean, she's basically a tacky Lana Del Rey who understands how her voice works and is more interested in dancing than David Lynch

"interested" in dancing sounds about right

mild undertones of

Yeah, well, I'm married to a curvy Colombian woman, so the flowers of indie rock womanhood look decidedly dingy and drab to me, and always have. The indie world's concept of sexy is very closely related to its concept of "rock": limp, non-threatening, far more interested in talking than fucking.
-- unperson, Monday, January 7, 2008 7:51 PM

David Lynch is way more interested in dancing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36_vlZha7bg

i don't even know if that qualifies as undertones but this bottle of '08 unperson you've uncorked is so good (and new to me) that i'm not complaining xpost

"The Long And Winding Road" (i know i've heard this but never remember anything over than something shouting the title

???

"helter skelter" kinda sounds like "the long and winding road"

typos galore there, sorry. i just mean i only remember "the long and winding rooooooad *fanfare*" and nothing else, despite having put the song on and saying "ok today's the day where i try to listen to The Long And Winding Road"

surprised to see anyone give Katy Perry daps itt, especially DJP!

Yeah, me too!

I would def argue that she's got one of the stronger runs of the last 20 years, stronger than Christina even

to be fair i have actively enjoyed 3/5ths of the Katy run but in more of a Dr. Luke stan/anybody could have sung this way

mariah tops from past twenty years for me - 'one sweet day' is a weak link but considering boyzIImen and mariah had already recorded two or three worse versions of that song by that point it's a small miracle it's bearable; the other two are strong contenders for best mariah single ever. after that i guess i'd half heartedly go timberlake (if the big 3 from justified were up there i might've voted that overall).

Katy Perry doesn't have the prettiest voice but she understands pretty well how it works; reading a description of her as a contralto really made a lot of the braying click into place for me.

That Mariah run just made me hate Mariah for years, ESPECIALLY "One Sweet Day"

Aguilera and Adele are the only ones of the last 20 years that don't contain any outright duds imo but don't have the heights of some of the others

yeah i really really hated 'one sweet day' at the time but i think alot of that was more it coming on the heels of so many attempts from both parties at rewriting 'the greatest love of all'; i'm in no hurry to hear it again but i'd rather hear it than say 'hero'. 'fantasy' was the first mariah i loved, 'always be my baby' is the kind of low intensity uptempo pop i wished more of her hits were, a pop song as opposed to an 'event'.

actually I do love "Always Be My Baby", I shouldn't front