[kj] OT OT - HOUSTON DEAD

[Jari Pakarinen]

"guilty pleasures"  Stéphanies (princess of Monaco) first album. When I
bought a vinyl player after many years of not having one, that was the
first album I put on...

2012/2/13 Ana Madani <madanistan at gmail.com>


> Maybe we should have a "guilty pleasures" thread.

>

> My two cents:  Houston had a great voice, but how she chose to use it left

> a lot to be desired.

>

> Same with Van Halen as instrumentalists.

>

> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Jim Harper <jimharper666 at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

>

>> So could Keith Richards, and he's 20 years older than Whitney. I'm not

>> sure how he made it, mind you, and woe betide anyone on here who utters a

>> syllable against the Great Man when he finally stops!

>>

>> You've been warned ! ;)

>>

>> Jim.

>>

>>    *From:* Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>

>> *To:* 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)' <

>> gathering at misera.net>

>> *Sent:* Monday, 13 February 2012, 9:00

>>

>> *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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