it's just...so...EPIC tho
― The Reverend, Saturday, 18 February 2012 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
it's terrible
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
it's amazing
― The Reverend, Saturday, 18 February 2012 00:59 (twelve years ago) link
i have to say, i wasn't gonna like actively hate on on campaign against IWALY getting votes itt, but i really feel it is an appropriate tribute to her body of work to see it tied for 10th place here
― some dude, Saturday, 18 February 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
"Impulsive" is my favorite Wilson Phillips single.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 February 2012 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
My Love Is Your Love 7I'm Your Baby Tonight 4Love Will Save The Day 3
^^^ this is amazing. I'm genuinely shocked at these results -- in a good way.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 February 2012 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
i like "my love is your love" but it seems like a really odd song to hold up as whitney's best
― The Reverend, Saturday, 18 February 2012 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
I suppose it's one of her most understated vocal performances, so if you don't like vocal overstatement it might be a default choice.
― Tim F, Saturday, 18 February 2012 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
Wasn't "The Star Spangled Banner" from 1991 Super Bowl intro released as a single (and a minor hit)? May be her best vocal performance; certainly it's the best I've ever heard it sung.
Two degrees of separation: my college roommate's girlfriend's brother was the guitarist in Whitney's touring band at the time (roomie's gf also a friend of mine) so got lots of insider scoops and stories. She was also a musician, and I remember going to some music-industry convention with her, and considered taking advantage of that connection to have her pass on some of my songs to Whitney in hopes she would cover one of them for an album track, but I wasn't particularly into WH and our styles don't exactly mesh, so I didn't bother.
― Lee626, Saturday, 18 February 2012 04:55 (twelve years ago) link
xp that's exactly it, it's a good song, but it misses her whole essence.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 18 February 2012 06:07 (twelve years ago) link
yeah "my love is your love" has long been the whitney song of choice for people who don't actually like what whitney houston was all about.
i mean, it's still a great song, but still.
― if u leave imma crank wu-tang in my black matte truck (lex pretend), Saturday, 18 February 2012 11:16 (twelve years ago) link
it was, and it charted again after 9/11. but she had 51 singles and it seemed like the odd one out that would make sense to cut from the poll options.
― some dude, Saturday, 18 February 2012 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
Fuse is running Whitney videos all day today, just heard "If I Told You That" for the first time and it was pretty good!
― some dude, Saturday, 18 February 2012 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
I kind of hate this actually! The national anthem is the national anthem and is kind of destroyed by soft-rock backing.
Missed this but would have voted "How Will I Know" like everybody else.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 18 February 2012 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
what about a dubstep backing
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 February 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
I actually thought the instrumental arrangement was impressive - lots of interesting and unusual chord changes and such to go with the vocal flourishes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHmdu_I_0zI&feature=fvst
― Lee626, Saturday, 18 February 2012 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
Rob Sheffield's twelve favorite Whitney songs.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
"Million Dollar Bill" (2009)Whitney’s last shot was a return to the original Eighties game plan, except at this point, her vocals were too ravaged for either pop or soul.
Whitney’s last shot was a return to the original Eighties game plan, except at this point, her vocals were too ravaged for either pop or soul.
― Lee626, Saturday, 18 February 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
For anyone not aware of this, her funeral service is all over the television right now.
― clemenza, Saturday, 18 February 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
When I was in...probably sixth grade and listening to pop radio incessantly, I awoke to "Love Will Save The Day". The sun was just coming up and the light was slightly violet through the window and everything felt very calm and peaceful as the vibraphone came in and it really did feel like love might save the day. It's still one of my more idyllic childhood memories.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
I wish my radio station had played "Love Will Save the Day."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 February 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
I actually do like what Whitney was all about, and it's still my favorite of her singles. That song just puts me in a good place.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 18 February 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
whitney....this was incredible... much (very very much) as i have always loved Whitney, 'I will always love you' is the one song of hers that I never really loved, certainly never felt, didn't appreciate - and also about the very single song i haven't listened to after she died.to suddenly hearing it now, after all those thousands? of times i heard it, and now feeling every little part of it. it was me, not Whitney, that hadn't gotten it. the most beautiful thing she's ever sung. beautiful.
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 18 February 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
guess this belongs in the Whitney Houston R.I.P. thread
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 18 February 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
I just heard My Love Is Your Love again for the first time in I don't know how long. Catchy as hell, that one!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 September 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
wow for some reason i had no idea that "i have nothing" was titled "i have nothing," it was easily my favorite whitney hair salon jam when i was a kid
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 August 2015 23:40 (eight years ago) link
I heard her Jermaine duet on quiet storm a few weeks ago.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 August 2015 23:53 (eight years ago) link
I Have Nothing has been on my Spotify playlist for the last five years or so.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 21 August 2015 00:08 (eight years ago) link
"I Have Nothing" is the squarest, greatest song of all time.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Friday, 21 August 2015 00:19 (eight years ago) link
Good thing Brad heard it at the beauty parlor, for the women would need hair implants after Whitney blasts the chorus.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 August 2015 00:33 (eight years ago) link
"I Have Nothing" is tres pretty and one of the two Whitney songs, along with "Exhale," that I continued to groove to even during those ill advised years of indie snobbery where I was obligated to regard Whitney as The Enemy.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Friday, 21 August 2015 00:58 (eight years ago) link
My top fifteen. Thanks for help, some dude.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link
I don't really need to look very much furtherI don't want to have to go where you don't followI will hold it back again this passion insideI can't run from myself THERES NOWHERE TO HIIIIIIIIIIIDE YOUR LOVE! I'll RE MEM BER! FOR EV ER
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 03:50 (six years ago) link
we should do a legit ballot poll on Whitney so we can show Alfred all the ways he is misguided
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 03:52 (six years ago) link
This is a refrain he often hears.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 04:03 (six years ago) link
Alfred: Wrong on Whitney, Wrong for America
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 04:06 (six years ago) link
giving me ALL THE RONG THAT I'LL EVER NEEEEEED
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 10:26 (six years ago) link
YOUR LOVE! I'll RE MEM BER! FOR EV ER
Don't make me clooooose--
*does shoo hand gesture*
--one more door!
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link
Greatest Love of All 0
Admittedly, Toni Erdmann wasn't out yet when this poll was done but ... damn.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 13:11 (six years ago) link
I'd have voted for her version.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 13:11 (six years ago) link
Sandra Hüller's?
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 13:13 (six years ago) link
wtf alfred, no "i have nothing"?
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 13:14 (six years ago) link
*reads last few posts before the thread bump* ah
i guess i don't understand what more you could even want from whitney if "i have nothing" isnt yr pinnacle or at least top 5
there are other value judgements at play that i guess i dont fully understand?
or yr heart is a lump of coal, either or :)
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
now imagine Glenn Frey singing "I Have Nothing"
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 18:33 (six years ago) link
'It's Not Right But It's Okay' still rules.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
The album version, yes.
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
Alfred revise your opinions4u on "I Have Nothing".
Or must I emerge in you there.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 7 June 2017 21:45 (six years ago) link
DONT WALK AWAY FROM MEEEEEEE
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
How's this for a poll: Cinematic covers of "The Greatest Love Of All"--Loren Dean in SAY ANYTHING VS. Sandra Hüller in TONI ERDMANN?
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 7 June 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link