My favourite single from the original era (ok, after How Will I know), but agreed deserved a better video.
Whitney Houston
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RainOnFire
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I'm not familiar with her best live moments outside of a select few, so I'm listening to Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances for the first time - does anyone think any major ones were excluded or did the album get the tracklist right?
They included the essential live performance of Greatest Love Of All but I’m not sure the rest were her best?
I wish they had included this
I wish they had included this
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The inclusion of Home on The Merv Griffin Show and I Didn't Know My Own Strength on Oprah definitely made me happy.
Perhaps the greatest Top Of The Pops performance of all time. What an moment.
Never seen this before. Always nice to see a live version faithful to the studio recording:
Still the defining song of the 80s for me.
Does anyone have this yet?
Looking forward for some of the more obscure videos on DVD like I Belong To You.
Looking forward for some of the more obscure videos on DVD like I Belong To You.
I was going to get this, but oddly seems not on Amazon yet like the other releases were. May have to succumb to it from ebay.
I've got it. The audio remaster is great. Haven't gotten round to the videos yet.
RainOnFire
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Despite considering myself a big fan of Whitney's, I'm only just getting familiar with all of her albums and there's actually some nice stuff to be found. The singles really tower over a lot of the material, but I'm happy to have found a few gems here and there.
I think My Love Is Your Love is her most accomplished album, and "In My Business" would've been a perfect single. It's easily her most consistent across the board. I also wish "If I Told You That" had been handled as well as the other singles because it should've been huge.
Whitney was surprising in the fact that, while the singles are indeed behemoths, some of the album tracks actually hold their own (namely "For the Love of You", "Just the Lonely Talking Again" and "Love Is a Contact Sport"). "Moment of Truth" should've replaced one of the ballads though, no question.
I don't have a ton of opinions on the rest of the albums, aside from I'm Your Baby Tonight which is an interesting case study because it seems like they had a lot of material but weren't able to streamline it into the final product. "Dancin' On the Smooth Edge" in particular is maybe the best-kept secret in her discography. "Feels So Good", "Takin' a Chance", and "Higher Love" make up some of the better material from that era and they were all b-sides (and the latter is frustratingly the only one not available online anywhere outside of YouTube, and I worry it's going to stay that way now that the Kygo version is definitive).
I think My Love Is Your Love is her most accomplished album, and "In My Business" would've been a perfect single. It's easily her most consistent across the board. I also wish "If I Told You That" had been handled as well as the other singles because it should've been huge.
Whitney was surprising in the fact that, while the singles are indeed behemoths, some of the album tracks actually hold their own (namely "For the Love of You", "Just the Lonely Talking Again" and "Love Is a Contact Sport"). "Moment of Truth" should've replaced one of the ballads though, no question.
I don't have a ton of opinions on the rest of the albums, aside from I'm Your Baby Tonight which is an interesting case study because it seems like they had a lot of material but weren't able to streamline it into the final product. "Dancin' On the Smooth Edge" in particular is maybe the best-kept secret in her discography. "Feels So Good", "Takin' a Chance", and "Higher Love" make up some of the better material from that era and they were all b-sides (and the latter is frustratingly the only one not available online anywhere outside of YouTube, and I worry it's going to stay that way now that the Kygo version is definitive).
Whitney's discography may be short, but it also more than holds it's weight in quality vs quantity.
@RainOnFire you picked the two additional songs from Whitney they considered as singles!
There is evidence that some pressings of Whitney had a hype sticker with Just The Lonely Talking Again noted as a future single and there is a promo CD/12” with a similar cover as Love Will Save The Day. For The Love Of You was released as a 12” in the US with a similar cover to Didn’t We Almost Have It All - I haven’t been able to find a reason for this whether it was a promo only thing or was initially considered as a second single? Some 12” even have a pink sticker over the title changing it to Didn’t We Almost Have It All.
http://www.top40musiconcd.com/forum/printer_friendly_posts.asp?TID=557
There is evidence that some pressings of Whitney had a hype sticker with Just The Lonely Talking Again noted as a future single and there is a promo CD/12” with a similar cover as Love Will Save The Day. For The Love Of You was released as a 12” in the US with a similar cover to Didn’t We Almost Have It All - I haven’t been able to find a reason for this whether it was a promo only thing or was initially considered as a second single? Some 12” even have a pink sticker over the title changing it to Didn’t We Almost Have It All.
http://www.top40musiconcd.com/forum/printer_friendly_posts.asp?TID=557
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I believe that Just The Lonely Talking Again, was considered for single #2 of Whitney, but in the end they felt due it being another cover, an original track would be an better option.
They were spoilt for choice over singles but I think they got the choices right!
They certainly did. The Whitney singles run, is up there are one of the greatest singles runs of all time.
For The Love Of You and Dancing On The Smooth Edge are lost classics - they defined the quiet storm sound of the era and should’ve been singles. Some of the album tracks on I’m Your Baby Tonight should’ve been replaced.
