[kj] OT OT - HOUSTON DEAD

[Ana Madani]

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

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> *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.

>

>

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>  *  they let in the Light,*

>  *    others all are just a..*

>  *      'nother brick in the Wall"*

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