[kj] OT OT - HOUSTON DEAD

[Peter Moltesen]

She was a bit like GG Allin, in that respect, then :o)

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of Brendan Quinn
Sent: 13 February 2012 09:00
To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'
Subject: Re: [kj] OT OT - HOUSTON DEAD

 

Amusing to think that despite her musical shitness, from all accounts
Whitney could quite possibly have drunk, smoked and snorted all of us under
the table, before breakfast.

 

From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of Countessghoulita at aol.com
Sent: Monday, 13 February 2012 7:22 p.m.
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] OT OT - HOUSTON DEAD

 

My sentiments exactly, Alex. When Whitney Houston was releasing her music, I
already had my Siouxsie and the Banshees, my Dead Can Dance, my Xmal
Deutschland, my Cocteau Twins on heavy rotation, and no one could change my
music preferences and my love of different female vocalists in the mid 80's
already. 

  

I only feel very bad for the teenage daughter Whitney Houston is leaving
behind. All the rest the media is going to stream will be the crocodile
tears and this tragedy will yield big business, as it is usually the case
when a mainstream star dies.

 

CG

 

 

In a message dated 2/12/2012 6:50:48 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
vassifer at earthlink.net writes:

 

Our own Todd "Fluw" Wulfmeyer wrote a nice little anecdote on his his
Facebook page about once witnessing Houston perform from a rare backstage
vantage point and it made me consider her talent in a different way.

 

I mean, personally speaking, I COMPLETELY DESPISED Whitney Houston's music.
When her first album debuted back in the 198whatever, I was working as a
luckless dishwasher at posh Long Island eatery, and that tape went into
maddeningly regular rotation in the in-house stereo system. "Saving All My
Love For You" and "The Greatest Love of All" were really enough to send me
into fits of apoplectic rage after a while that a friend of mine and I
actually scaled up the fridges to disconnect the speakers the fed the back
kitchen.  I fucking HATED that overblown, syrupply hoary, needlessly
melismatic bullshit. See also Mariah Carey and all the rest of that crap.

 

As was completely the same case with Michael Jackson, the music I sought out
at the time (and, for that matter, still) served as the ANTIDOTE to the
inescapable Whitney Houston. Did she have a powerful voice? Certainly, but
that doesn't mean I have to like what she did with it. On other fronts, she
also seemed to embody everything negative about the "DIVA" stereotype
(although, our Jaz is kinda guilty of that as well, sometimes).

 

So yeah, I hated Whitney Houston's music. But Fluw's account underscored how
very much joy Whitney's music DID bring to people. I'm usually of the
mindset that people need to raise their standards and listen to what I'd
consider to be better music, but really -- that's all ridiculous,
fight-picking bluster (who ME?)

 

Whitney Houston's music -- as much as I may not have enjoyed it -- did mean
a great deal to a lot of people, For that alone, it's a loss (to say nothing
of the bizarre farce that her marriage to Bobby Brown evidently was). I
can't imagine how her daughter has remained sane.

 

Alex in NYC

 

 

On Feb 12, 2012, at 6:18 AM, Jim Harper wrote:

 

Quality Songstress? Not sure I can easily agree with that one.

 

Jim.

 

 

 From: sade1 <saulomar1 at yahoo.com>
To: real gathering <gathering at misera.net> 
Sent: Sunday, 12 February 2012, 1:29
Subject: [kj] OT OT - HOUSTON DEAD

 

Whitney Houston was found dead, but cause and 

where are not being said, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvg2Dcr7AFk 

 

She was from a long line of quality songstresses.

 

 

 

Blessed are the Cracked for 

  they let in the Light,

    others all are just a..

      'nother brick in the Wall"


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