best run of 3 or more Hot 100 #1 singles from one album

Tempted to vote Monica.

yeah that's definitely one of my favorites

lotta these there's one song i haven't heard or can't remember so it's tough to call w/o further listening

Supremes or Saturday Night Fever, pretty sure checking the few other songs i don't remember wdn't change my mind much

Abdul and Aguilera come off surprisingly good here

I surprised myself, but my favourite run was Mariah so I had to go for it!

Voted Madonna. Three of my favorites from her whole catalogue came like a triple punch.

Yeah, it's between Madonna and Janet for me.

*sigh* again.

really? "Open Your Heart" is the only one i'm into at all and even that is 2nd tier imo (xpost)

it's so crazy that there were THIRTEEN number ones off of three 1987 albums

Whitney Houston (1987) Whitney
Michael Jackson (1987) Bad
George Michael (1987) Faith

Toss in The Joshua Tree, and you basically had the state of radio in 1987.

Janet easily for me.

"Open Your Heart" these days is my favorite Madonna uptempo number, "Live to Tell" my favorite ballad. I have more time for "Papa Don't Preach" these days but meh.

My finalists:

George Michael
Toni Braxton
Janet

In my universe Bad and Whitney occupy the same popular space: massive hits that with a couple of exceptions no one cares about, especially in light of what the artists did before and after.

"Black Cat" is the biggest wrench in my auto-voting Janet.

too bad Wilson Phillips' "Impulsive" didn't hit #1. I considered polling their singles the other day.

In my universe Bad and Whitney occupy the same popular space: massive hits that with a couple of exceptions no one cares about, especially in light of what the artists did before and after.

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, October 29, 2012 11:04 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heh well let's not start the 'new jersey' convo again but yeah

Naw man Live to Tell is amazing (xp to sd)

I was this close to alluding to the New Jersey thread.

(see what I just did)

Anyways, for me this is Paula, with Janet second, then George, Justin, and Madonna

Cartoon cat ftw

The Whitney self-titled is damn tempting.

Should be the Whitney Houston self-titled; kinda hate the Whitney followup.

Replace "What goes around" with "Rock your body" and I'd vote Justin Timberlake

Can't decide between Janet or Supremes otherwise

Cool poll btw

not that it would change the results at all, but i just realized the site i pulled this list off of missed an album:

Rihanna (2010) Loud
What's My Name?, Only Girl (In The World), S&M

Good Girl Gone Bad also had three #1s but two were off the deluxe edition so not gonna sweat that

I have a soft spot for Wham! too.

Oh yeah you know what? That three song run from Help! is p decent.

yeah that's def in my top 5

although the handful from the pre-MTV era feel like such a different deal that i almost excluded them from the poll

I never listen to "Yesterday" willingly :(

George michael

voted Black Eyed Peas

The "Help!" or "Magical Mystery Tour" trios are great, but, I mean . . .

Various Artists (1977) Saturday Night Fever
How Deep is Your Love, Stayin' Alive, Night Fever, If I Can't Have You

I was surprised Thriller wasn't on here, but then I checked and "The Girl Is Mine" peaked at #2. Anyone know what song cock-blocked it at #1?

voted Black Eyed Peas

Good one!

I was surprised Thriller wasn't on here, but then I checked and "The Girl Is Mine" peaked at #2. Anyone know what song cock-blocked it at #1?

"Mickey" or "Maneater" (Hall admits that MJ based the rhythm of "Billie Jean" on "I Can Go For That").

how do you "admit" what someone else did

Okay, I'd take both those songs over "The Girl Is Mine". Still a bit surprising.

On reflection I'm voting Supremes.

how do you "admit" what someone else did

by typing too quickly?

haha ok

"The First Night" is so damn good

I never listen to "Yesterday" willingly :(

I best appreciate it when sung by a strolling restaurant guitarist.

By the way, "Yesterday" wasn't on Help! at the time.

I'll take the sublime run from Fever.

"Bad" has a string of three #1's and "Thriller" didn't? Surprising.

has had

Tempted to go with SNF but there are a lot of good choices here.

Voted for Saturday Night Fever between SNF, Madonna, JT.

usher, janet & toni

my initial thought, before deciding to do this poll as is, was to ask which was the best LAST #1 out of these runs? "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" feels like one of the only super memorable ones, most of the others seemed to benefit from momentum

Yeah, tho fwiw "Everything She Wants" is my favorite of that Wham run.

'everything she wants' is all-time, so good. but this is madonna for me, definitely 3 of her best songs, maybe 3 of her top 5.

Supremes over Michael over Beatles '65

Open Your Heart is real solid, and I have always had a soft spot for What Goes Around

Papa Don't Preach weighs down the True Blue triptych for me. Swap that one out for, say, Express Yourself or Cherish (did that even make #1) and suddenly I'm voting Madonna easy

"Everything She Wants" is my favourite Wham single, period.

The best last #1 is a tough choice too, for me it's either "What Goes Around....Comes Around", "If I Can't Have You", "Everything She Wants", or "Dirty Diana" (one of his more underrated singles, IMO).

possibly either Faith or Rhythm Nation.

"Cherish" was held off at #2 by "Miss You Much," and "Express Yourself" was held off at #2 by, uh, Simply Red

Help! is a good choice also but i typically would rather listen to the Faith or Rhythm Nation singles than "yesterday"

Yeah otm

Swap that one out for, say, Express Yourself or Cherish (did that even make #1)

no but "Who's That Girl" and "Like a Prayer" did.

the selection between george and janet was tough but i had to go with faith, because that run was so ufw that i owned both the album and each of those cassingles

the Jam & Lewis extended remix of "Monkey" is what I imagine heaven sounds like

love this stat about "One More Try":

It was a triple-chart #1, also topping the R&B and Adult Contemporary charts and becoming the last number-one single on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart by a white male artist until Robin Thicke's "Lost Without U" (2007).

Voted Madonna over Supremes.

voted whitney

Not a single one where I love all three songs.

Madonna comes pretty close, so I'll cast a vote for her.

"love all three" is a pretty tall order, but there's plenty of "love two and like the other(s)" for me

Saturday Night Fever

voted true blue (which surprised me as i think that's her weakest album pre-american life), if 'black cat' was replaced by literally any other single from rhythm nation this would've been janet easy for me. runners up to snf, george michael. change 'baby don't forget my number' to 'girl i'm gonna miss you' and i might've voted milli vanilli.

the ones I considered:

Supremes - rock solid
Saturday Night Fever - not big on HDIYL, the other three are godlike
Janet - Black Cat ruined it for me
Madonna - even without La Isla Bonita this gets my vote

i don't love "Black Cat" but i can't see it as a weak link, especially next to "Escapade"

I love Black Cat because it's basically The Time with Janet instead of Morris. I'd rather Morris, but you know.

ha never thought of it that way but yeah totally

two of these my fave single is the one that didn't go to #1 - whitney's 'love will save the day', adele's 'rumour has it',

i just kinda dig those 'pop acts start headbanging for a sec' type hits like "Dirty Diana" and En Vogue's "Free Your Mind" (xpost)

It's a bit crazy - "Black Cat" has Jellybean on drums, Jimmy & Terry as usual, and Jesse plays a solo used for a bunch of the remixes. I'm not sure Monte's on it, but he did work with Janet in those years.

xposts

pedant alert: the beatles 'help!' did not have 3 #1's as 'yesterday' was not released as a single in the uk and in america 'yesterday' was of course on this album -
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/gallery/2004/05/20/butcher.jpg

my bad

haha always hated en vogue's 'free yr mind' - just so dorky as rock, comparable to changing 'yr ass' to 'the rest'. 'black cat' i'm just not crazy about in relation to that album, it's like 'ignoreland' on automatic for the people. plus her vocals are too thin to pull it off imo. 'dirty diana' is pretty great (if no 'beat it'), steve steven's solo shreds. love bad enough as is but considering how mj rawks out was great every time out - 'beat it', 'dirty diana', 'give in to me' - i do wonder what it would've been like if mj's followup to thriller is just to go full rawk, give in to the edgar winter fan he was as a kid and simultaneously fuck w/ prince by giving america the purple rain 2 prince wasn't interested in.

i'm old enough to have owned those american beatles lps as a kid and i barely remembered, the extent to which the switch to cd allowed the beatles to finally completely erase the existence of those is kinda amazing.

the confessions singles. they're really diverse!

yeah kind of amazing how much they were able to whitewash the existence of several records that sold millions (xpost)

I love all three of those Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" singles - so that.

George Michael easy

it's so crazy that there were THIRTEEN number ones off of three 1987 albums

That era was the peak of "indie promoter" radio payola wasn't it?

Supremes for me.

my favorites are michael jackson, monica, christina aguilera, justin timberlake, fergie. i'll think a little more before i decide which one gets my vote.

I do wonder how "Black Cat" became the only Janet song to date with a solo writing credit; all hands on deck on the instrumental credits.

a "Black Cat" vs "Dirty Diana" poll would be awesome.

i do wonder what it would've been like if mj's followup to thriller is just to go full rawk, give in to the edgar winter fan he was as a kid and simultaneously fuck w/ prince by giving america the purple rain 2 prince wasn't interested in.

not the immediate followup, of course, but to a degree Dangerous picks up that baton.

Thought about it some more, and I should have voted for the Supremes. Very close. "Eight Days a Week"/"Ticket to Ride"/"Help" would beat just about anything for me, but alas, not the same album (though consecutive).

Good one!

― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, October 29, 2012 11:26 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

is this sarcasm

George Michael easy

― croup the color of mayonnaise (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, October 29, 2012 4:42 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark

my dude

Timberlake v Madonna v George Michael v Saturday Night Fever. Timberlake's run is unusually consistent - very much of a piece.

Close between Saturday Night Fever and George Michael for me.

Supremes

Oooh I could've voted Wham! too but seeing a dud like "Father figure" on this list turned me off

Wham! vs. George Michael for me. All classics except "Monkey".

The 3 #1 singles from Whitney's first album are my 3 favorite singles by her.

I might've considered Fergie had "Fergalicious" made #1 instead of "Glamorous".

Madonna and Janet are obviously very strong except for "Black Cat", which I always found laughable and anoying.

Not that it would make a difference, but Milli Vanilli should have "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" instead of "Girl You Know It's True" (which was #2).

wait -- how is "Father Figure" a dud? Don't you love loud breathy gay man whispering in your ear about being warm and neh-kid by your side?

haha how can anything but "Big Girls Don't Cry" be the weak link in the Fergie trio

"Glamorous" is nothing special imo. And it had the spelling the title thing for the second single in a row.
"Big Girls Don't Cry" has a great chorus, but her voice is awful.

"Father figure" is a dirge, even at age 8 I knew it was a dud. Also I think I was confused by "I want your sex" at the time, I have mixed feelings about that album

wait -- how is "Father Figure" a dud? Don't you love loud breathy gay man whispering in your ear about being warm and neh-kid by your side?

I agree, "Father Figure" is classic.
(x-post)

I was 14 and I knew it was classic.

Sexy breathing sure but then eight George Michaels start screaming they want to be your father and it's the most tedious chorus ever written, you're not my father George

PUT YOUR TINY HAAAAND IN MAHHHNE

George Michael, like Ne-Yo, is attracted to hermit crabs

In "One More Try" he's kind singing from the perspective of the twink instead of being the daddy.

^^^^^ otm

Did Sean Combs ever use Twink Daddy as a pseudonym?

or, the boy from "A Different Corner" grown up.

Love "Father Figure"; "Monkey" kills that run for me.

I approach these multi-song things as a harmonic mean question. If you rate three songs out of 10, a 9/9/9 would be better than a 10/9/8; an 8/8/8 would be much better than a 10/10/4. Forget the exact formula.

yeah, each chain is only as strong as its weakest link

how would Hermann Cain rate them?

which is the line of thinking that makes it hard for me to justify voting for anything but The Supremes (xpost)

I call your Herman Cain, and raise you a "How would Anton LaVey rate them?"

Love "Father Figure"; "Monkey" kills that run for me.

OTM. I saw him live the other week and Father Figure was spellbinding.

How does the weakest link mentality work when it's a run of 4 or 5 (or 6 love you Katy but ugh)

Whoops, Katy's at 5 too.

Lol at Twink Daddy. (x-post)

Yeah it seems I'm alone in seeing the truth about "Father figure" but being exposed to that song when you still think of "father" as "a real life mental image of your dad" and then having it go into "I want your sex" is a fucked up thing

You can stretch the group as far as you want:

http://www.emathzone.com/tutorials/basic-statistics/harmonic-mean.html

but he says "Not everybody does it but everybody should" -- the choice is yours whether to have Dad fuck you.

same deal i guess -- "Bad" is so bad that it cancels out some of the good Bad singles (xpost)

I just wanted to bop around to "Faith"
Interesting, you don't like "Bad"? Really? imo it's "Dirty Diana" weighs down that boat and "I just can't stop loving you" that sinks it

Timberlake's run is unusually consistent - very much of a piece.

― Deafening silence

unusually? every Justified single was perfect imo

whaaaat nobody likes "Bad"

i will take about a dozen Justin/N Sync singles over every FutureSex hit besides "My Love"

I voted for the Premes, probably should have voted for Paula instead.

The anecdote about Michael admitting to Daryl Hall that he based "Billie Jean"'s bassline on "I Can't Go For That" is kind of funny to me cause H&O straight ripped it off from "Tramp". At least MJ switched it up!

haha how can anything but "Big Girls Don't Cry" be the weak link in the Fergie trio

― Victory Goon (some dude), Monday, October 29, 2012 2:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

All three Fergie songs are the weak link in the Fergie trio.

Father Figure, like Spandau Ballet's "True," is best in PM Dawn sampled form.

I think the millions of people who bought Fergie songs are the true weak link.

the last scene of my unfilmed screenplay Citizen Michael features Jackson, on his death bed, confessing to stealing the "Beat It" drums from the Dazz Band's "Let It Whip"

xxxpost

thanks Rev for getting there first. Kept wanting to sat to Fergie voters, "wtf?!"

*say

"I Want Your Sex" is great and is a more deserving #1 than "Monkey".

"Fergalicious" was the only halfway bearable single off that album and even that wasn't an eighth as good as "My Humps"

not one person has pledged their vote to Fergie here iirc

I am not a Fergie fan at all but I always had a soft spot for London Bridge, mainly for that Polow beat though.

"I Want Your Sex" is great and is a more deserving #1 than "Monkey".

― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, October 29, 2012 6:42 PM (1 minute ago)

This is manifestly wrong because "I Want Your Sex" lacks sampled monkey shrieks.

My mistake. But ppl are still talking about her songs as if they're good or something, so the wtf?! remains.

and because when we were 13 my friends and I had no clue what the song was about and hence loved WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SHARE OUR BED WITH A MONKEY

I remember in elementary school one girl doing her speech assignment on George Michael and being forced to change a reference to "I Want Your Sex" to "Hand To Mouth" instead.

when i was a kid "Monkey" and "Shock The Monkey" were two of only probably a couple dozen pop songs i knew well and i probably just thought everybody wrote songs about monkeys

Lol

Also remember "Monkey" being vaguely unsettling to me due to being on the radio around the same time that the horror film Monkey Shines was in theatres, and whose trailer and poster freaked me out.

xp I don't mean unusual for Timberlake - I mean unusual for anyone. It's not just that they're all good singles but that they're of a piece.

More unsettling: George's suspenders, hat, and dancing

http://media.mtvi.com/_!/intlod/MTVInternational/sony_int/gb1101/000264/GB1101000264_640x480_1.jpg

oh man Monkey Shines was SO CREEPY

jam/lewis remix of 'monkey', which was what was played on radio/mtv, is fantastic, haven't heard the album version in over twenty years. fergie singles are easy to overrate cuz they're so much better than what one might've dreaded from a fergie album. some holy shit details on the ridiculously hot model from father figure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tania_Harcourt-Cooze

Oooh I could've voted Wham! too but seeing a dud like "Father figure" on this list turned me off

― zwanz (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, October 29, 2012 5:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

what the fuck

im being trolled without mercy

and without prejudice.

the last scene of my unfilmed screenplay Citizen Michael features Jackson, on his death bed, confessing to stealing the "Beat It" drums from the Dazz Band's "Let It Whip"

― Victory Goon (some dude), Monday, October 29, 2012 6:40 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

nice

Dude we already worked it out. I alone don't like "Father figure" bc it's got a boring chorus and also I don't think of my dad that way

More unsettling: George's suspenders, hat, and dancing

Haha yeah his dancing has always been creepy. See also: "Wake Me Up Before You Gogo" and "Outside".

you dont get it man... you can be the father figure, grabbing tiny hands and shit

alt lyrics right there

"Wake Me Up" is a perfect song, video

yeah, George in the "Wake Me Up" video is classic, fuiud

http://www.feelnumb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/tumblr_m01h1kNBqx1qjgw3wo1_500.gif

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li4a35dtQu1qhjikro1_500.gif

The shorts, the gloves, the hair, I was ten and I knew he was gay before he did (I also pretty much found out about myself watching his videos and Duran Duran's).

Still don't think he was gayer than Simon Le Bon Bon.

any gayer, that is

i thought simon le bon was just a straight guy who sucked a lot of lemons

Is this a Gerhard Richter?

http://media.mtvi.com/_!/intlod/MTVInternational/sony_int/gb1101/000264/GB1101000264_640x480_1.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mINh8ZOWSLw

Maybe his look wasn't (though I'd argue about that too), but his voice and dancing definitely. (x-post)

Leaning toward Janet Jackson, btw.

Monkey is the only Faith single I LOVE

Father Figure pwns

I'd argue the Paula and George singles (last ones excepted) are p much of a piece as well

Also: Spottie if ur reading this you really have to tell me what's the dealw your dn

the second most important poll on that day.

went for the Supremes, it's probably very safe, but I never got tired of those songs and they have followed me since childhood.

would've voted for Supremes had they been three different Supremes songs (not that I dislike those, i just like other ones better).

This list is so weird and arbitrary though. These aren't the best songs of most of these artists, except for a few where these are their only good songs.

I mean looking at actual sales of these albums pretty much says it all.

The Supremes, Beatles 65, maybe Wham or Madonna. But damn those SNF songs!
Yeah, going Brothers Gibb SNF.

I'm thinking of voting for Adele! Those are three really solid songs. Beatles '65 would take this but a pretty strong case has been made that they shouldn't count. "Come See About Me" is a lesser track imo, compared to the first two Supremes #1s from that album. Janet Jackson provides the strongest competition right now.

That Madonna run does contain two of the handful of Madonna songs I actually enjoy so that probably counts for something.

Bee Gees...

never ever heard of my boo before

"father figure" is absolutely amazing. best song ever actually.

i also love "big girls don't cry" though i am not surprised that people don't hold it in high regard.

Xp Duet w/Alicia Keys. Not good.

Magical Mystery Tour is the only one where I adore every song, though Wham and the Supremes come pretty close. "All You Need Is Love" is nowhere near as facile as ILM seems to think. Never been a big fan of "Father Figure" myself, or "Love Will Never Do Without You." Couldn't really tell you why in either case.

I kind of feel like MMF doesn't count bcz its just the previous three singles packaged with some other stuff to make up the soundtrack for a movie instead of an actual germane album, but tbh I'm wondering if a similar sketchiness pervades all the Beatles options here

"Help" was recorded back-to-front as one album even though it's a soundtrack. The fact that "Yesterday" didn't appear on the American version (and it wasn't a single in the UK, where it actually did appear on Help) sorta complicates matters, though.

"Where Did Our Love Go" was an after-the-fact collection of singles etc. too, like most 60s Motown albums (and most 60s pop albums generally).

Tania Rosamund Harcourt-Cooze

!!!

Whitney Houston (1987) Whitney
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me), Didn't We Almost Have it All, So Emotional, Where Do Broken Hearts Go

this is the fucking nadir of everything

Where Do Broken Hearts Go When I Get So Emotional that I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)

wish i lived in a universe where "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" was the nadir of anything

supremes

"Help" was recorded back-to-front as one album even though it's a soundtrack. The fact that "Yesterday" didn't appear on the American version (and it wasn't a single in the UK, where it actually did appear on Help) sorta complicates matters, though.

US tracklisting (compiled by Capitol "producer" Dave Dexter, Jr., in an all-nighter):

Side one

"Help!" (preceded by an uncredited instrumental intro) – 2:39
"The Night Before" – 2:36
"From Me to You Fantasy" (instrumental) (Lennon–McCartney; arranged by Thorne) – 2:08
"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" – 2:12
"I Need You" (Harrison) – 2:31
"In the Tyrol" (instrumental) (Ken Thorne) – 2:26

Side two

"Another Girl" – 2:08
"Another Hard Day's Night" (instrumental) (Lennon–McCartney; arranged by Thorne) – 2:31
"Ticket to Ride" – 3:07
Medley: "The Bitter End" (Ken Thorne)/"You Can't Do That" (instrumental) (Lennon–McCartney; arranged by Thorne) – 2:26
"You're Going to Lose That Girl" – 2:19
"The Chase" (instrumental) (Ken Thorne) – 2:31

So yeah, only 7 out of 12 songs are actual Beatles recordings. The rest of the UK version dribbled out onto the aforementioned Yesterday and Today, the US Rubber Soul, and Beatles VI.

"My Boo" is actually one of my favorites from the Usher run but there's an argument to be made about it not counting w/ the initial trio of hits, since it was a bonus track on the later deluxe edition (and deluxe editions were decisively nixed as counting in runs of #1s when Katy Perry started gunning for MJ's record)

huh, interesting. i was gonna say that is just deck rigging. but on second thought, if anyone would agree to take the hit on those terms it would be usher

well i don't think he specifically was releasing the song that way or rooting for it to be counted that way -- that was a pretty early instance of the 'victory lap' deluxe editions that became standard in the following years

probably Wham! for me. Lots of these aren't good complete runs and tbh I agree on whitney, that whole album just sounds stiff to me.

Whitney Houston (1987) Whitney
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me), Didn't We Almost Have it All, So Emotional, Where Do Broken Hearts Go

― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), mardi 30 octobre 2012 17:59 (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM

I only started tolerate "I Wanna Dance..." after she died tbh.

oh god I forgot David Byrne covered it.

i just vastly prefer "Dance With Somebody" and "So Emotional" to anything from the self-titled run. i don't know why i like it, i just do!

"I Wanna Dance" is such a blatant attempt at redoing "How Will I Know", but it sounds so forced.

Britney Spears did it right when "Oops I did it again" was the same song as "Baby One More Time" but somehow just as good.

I don't understand why anyone likes "So Emotional"

had never heard "Everything She Wants" before, might have to vote for Wham

The least awful of the 4 though. I mean, "Where Do Broken Hearts Go"...

had never heard "Everything She Wants" before, might have to vote for Wham

that song is INCREDIBLE, I'm somewhat surprised you hadn't heard it before!

The least awful of the 4 though. I mean, "Where Do Broken Hearts Go"...

I honestly can't pick a "least worst" here, I hate all four of these so much

i probably have heard it, just didn't register who it was by or what it was called

Lol me too. Totally turned me off Whitney untill My Love Is Your Love.

likewise, have never consciously heard "One More Try" before now, but it's not doing much for me

She faffs around for five minutes about going SO EMOTIONAL and it's a Xerox copy of emotion, Plus, EMOTIONAL is such a weird generic word to use. It's as if she said I FEEL SO-SO BABY EVERY TIME I THINK OF YOU.

"Everything She Wants" is an awesome karaoke song.

reminds me of how angry i used to get about Beyonce saying "your sexiness is so appealing" (xpost)

"One More Try" suffers a lot by being up next to "Father Figure"

I knew "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" for years before I ever heard "How Will I Know" and still prefer it. Anyone who feels differently can get deeeeez nuuuuuuuts.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/02/12/article-0-11B3C155000005DC-980_468x286.jpg

"Everything She Wants" is an awesome karaoke song.

George Micheal's voice is too high for me to do at karaoke, which is really frustrating. I can do "I Want Your Sex" because it doesn't have as much range.

"One More Try" suffers a lot by being up next to "Father Figure"

I think they're both equally great. Couldn't say which one I prefer really.

Janet over George

actually wait no other way around

Faith vs Miss You Much: Miss You Much easy
Father Figure vs Escapade: Escapade but it's close
One More Try vs: Black Cat: One More Try easy
Monkey vs Love Will Never Do (Without You): Monkey but it's close

ARGH

gonna give it to george for being more responsible for the decent wham run than janet was for the decent paula run

responsible like providing choreography paychecks that paid for studio time?

don't think too hard about my lighthearted comment

#1 hits here that i can't even begin to remember melody of

"The Long And Winding Road" (i know i've heard this but never remember anything over than something shouting the title and the bombast - oddly enough have the same experience with "beth")
"If I Can't Have You" (this is Yvonne Elliman, right? I'd at least get that at a trivia night but I wouldn't remember it was a #1)
"Love You Inside Out" (I may even have the mp3 of this and I still don't remember anything off the top of my head)
"Didn't We Almost Have It All" (Title just makes me hear "didn't I blow your mind" so yeah)
"Love Takes Time" (I tended to change the channel during Mariah ballads in my youth)
"let it flow" (did this not have a hit video? I noticed on wikipedia this was a double A single)
"The First Night" (I am guessing this was a ballad with a less prominent titular hook than "Angel Of Mine")
"Come On Over Baby" (never been able to remember this song even when the video was on tv)
"Big Girls Don't Cry" (avoided this)
"Imma Be" (managed to miss this)
"Set Fire To The Rain" (I don't even know if I've risked hearing this)

i think i avoided hearing "glamorous" more than once too

From those, search: "If I Can't Have You", "Imma Be", and "Set Fire To The Rain".

ha no real talk i had to check the Forever Your Girl wiki to see if some of the hits were Janet castoffs or something

oh man you're right Toni totally snuck in here on a double A side technicality

oh man you're right Toni totally snuck in here on a double A side technicality

"The First Night" (I am guessing this was a ballad with a less prominent titular hook than "Angel Of Mine")

no it is slinky and uptempo and awesome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImynIRpbQLE

Are the supremes too old to get votes or something cuz I'm legitimately baffled why wham & whitney houston seem to be rating over those supremes singles

"Love Hangover" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "The First Night"

speaking of the Supremes

voted help!, should've voted usher

"Where Did Our Love Go" was an after-the-fact collection of singles etc. too, like most 60s Motown albums (and most 60s pop albums generally).

― mobs of burly teen christgaus (thewufs), Tuesday, October 30, 2012 1:27 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is wrong btw -- Where Did Our Love Go was released in late August '64 just as the title track was topping the charts and the other two were released as singled and topped the charts later in the year while the album was in stores

so yeah no reason not to vote for Supremes

like i am inclined to vote for george michael or janet or usher but then i look at the top of the list and those are basically three perfect songs right there

Hats off to "Careless whisper" for re-inventing the saxophone
Hats off to the man playing the solo in the park outside my house for the last hour

Didn't vote Supremes mainly on the grounds that I prefer other singles by them, but yeah, the idea if Whitney and especially Wham being > Supremes is lunacy.

*of

was it this guy? xxp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaoLU6zKaws

trying to find anything whatsoever wrong with the True Blue string, can't, voted

tbrr I have time for most of these songs; the only runs I really dislike are Whitney II, Mariah II and Usher (there are others where there's a song that's odd man out like "Come On Over" and "Firework" but I generally approve of the artist)

surprised to see anyone give Katy Perry daps itt, especially DJP!

I have always had at least one foot on the Katy Perry bandwagon!

I mean, she's basically a tacky Lana Del Rey who understands how her voice works and is more interested in dancing than David Lynch

"interested" in dancing sounds about right

mild undertones of

Yeah, well, I'm married to a curvy Colombian woman, so the flowers of indie rock womanhood look decidedly dingy and drab to me, and always have. The indie world's concept of sexy is very closely related to its concept of "rock": limp, non-threatening, far more interested in talking than fucking.
-- unperson, Monday, January 7, 2008 7:51 PM

David Lynch is way more interested in dancing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36_vlZha7bg

i don't even know if that qualifies as undertones but this bottle of '08 unperson you've uncorked is so good (and new to me) that i'm not complaining xpost

"The Long And Winding Road" (i know i've heard this but never remember anything over than something shouting the title

???

"helter skelter" kinda sounds like "the long and winding road"

typos galore there, sorry. i just mean i only remember "the long and winding rooooooad *fanfare*" and nothing else, despite having put the song on and saying "ok today's the day where i try to listen to The Long And Winding Road"

surprised to see anyone give Katy Perry daps itt, especially DJP!

Yeah, me too!

I would def argue that she's got one of the stronger runs of the last 20 years, stronger than Christina even

to be fair i have actively enjoyed 3/5ths of the Katy run but in more of a Dr. Luke stan/anybody could have sung this way

mariah tops from past twenty years for me - 'one sweet day' is a weak link but considering boyzIImen and mariah had already recorded two or three worse versions of that song by that point it's a small miracle it's bearable; the other two are strong contenders for best mariah single ever. after that i guess i'd half heartedly go timberlake (if the big 3 from justified were up there i might've voted that overall).

Katy Perry doesn't have the prettiest voice but she understands pretty well how it works; reading a description of her as a contralto really made a lot of the braying click into place for me.

That Mariah run just made me hate Mariah for years, ESPECIALLY "One Sweet Day"

Aguilera and Adele are the only ones of the last 20 years that don't contain any outright duds imo but don't have the heights of some of the others

yeah i really really hated 'one sweet day' at the time but i think alot of that was more it coming on the heels of so many attempts from both parties at rewriting 'the greatest love of all'; i'm in no hurry to hear it again but i'd rather hear it than say 'hero'. 'fantasy' was the first mariah i loved, 'always be my baby' is the kind of low intensity uptempo pop i wished more of her hits were, a pop song as opposed to an 'event'.

actually I do love "Always Be My Baby", I shouldn't front

Aguilera has so many terrible singles, guys; the three in the poll are the exceptions (there's a couple others). She doesn't horrify me like Katy Perry; I'm more saddened by her ineptness and...uneven ear for picking songs.

at this moment i'd probably rather hear 'one sweet day' than 'someone like you' and 'someone like you' isn't even the weak link there arguably

really wish "Rumour Has It" was in that run, it's my favorite of the singles

The reevaluation of Carey (SFJ in The New Yorker!) in 2005 was the only time one of those delirious "think pieces" did its job on me. I took her for granted for most of the nineties because I thought her ballads ("Vision of Love" and "My All" excepted) were straight garbage. Whenever she did anything with a faster tempo she improved measurably.

Aguilera has so many terrible singles, guys; the three in the poll are the exceptions (there's a couple others). She doesn't horrify me like Katy Perry; I'm more saddened by her ineptness and...uneven ear for picking songs.

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, November 1, 2012 12:28 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

oh i would definitely say that outside those 3 singles and a couple others she's pretty worthless, but we're not talking about whole careers here

otm on "Rumour Has It."

re: Xtina, Stripped-era was the peak and pretty much every single from then is amazing

signed, the one-man "Dirrty" street team

lol as if "The Voice Within" isn't as bad as any bloated ballad in this poll (xpost)

that is the weak link but it's a much, much better song than "One Sweet Day"

haha i am also a huge 'rumour has it' fan. tempted to do a poll of best single from these albums to not make it to #1.

xp: or any of the horrific Whitney II singles

"Rumour Has It" is like a cheesy remnant from her Winehouse understudy days, all of Adele's #1s are much better imo

Katy Perry doesn't have the prettiest voice

yeah... Yeah.

I didn't mind her voice as much on her peppy early singles, but something like "Fireworks" makes me make a sour face like I just opened a package of rotting meat.

haha i am also a huge 'rumour has it' fan. tempted to do a poll of best single from these albums to not make it to #1.

as long as "I Still Believe" isn't on this list.

okay lol

'best single from these albums to not make it to #1' is an excellent idea, balls, if you don't feel like bothering lemme know and i'll throw it together

I wonder if Brenda K Starr plays Mariah's cover on repeat while chopping at a mirror with a meat cleaver

I can imagine this brilliant run of Janet options ("Any Time, Any Place," "Because of Love," "Alright") and too many ones to count for Madonna.

yeah i'm not gonna bother (i don't want to research what black eyed peas single didn't make it). 'any time any place' is from janet which i'm a little amazed isn't here. early campaigning for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEQ4yAFiJkY

pre-emptive 'don't count b-sides of penny lane or hello goodbye' motion

yah good call

There's a great Morales/Jellybean remix of "Love Will Save The Day."

albums i'm most surprised to not see on this list: thriller (though i think i knew this tbh), like a virgin, janet, some other early beatles (hard days night, second album, beatles 65, whatever), one of the first few monkees albums, my way, an innocent man, she's so unusual, any hip-hop except bep.

sports, fore!, no jacket required, ...but seriously, jagged little pill, cracked rear view

I don't know if Katy Perry's voice is really even a problem on "Firework" because it's such a horribly written song to begin with

yeah Get Rich Or Die Tryin' and Paper Trail and probably a few rap albums just barely fell short

The last two are part of the mid nineties airplay interzone.

i.e. JLP and CRV

it says something that virtually all of these besides the Beatles are either R&B or whatever its era's flavor of 'rhythmic pop' was

o right, i think i was getting my chart infom from hearing rick dees piped thru the pa at the base exchange at the time so my memory is skewed, should've remembered since i did remember that in keeping tragic kingdom off that list

combine that era's idea of r&b plus that era's idea of ac = the model for #1 hits.

or it was, until some numbnuts at billboard felt he needed to unskew the charts

I don't know if Katy Perry's voice is really even a problem on "Firework" because it's such a horribly written song to begin with

― a slow tempo, and existential lyrics with YOLO imagery. (crüt), Thursday, November 1, 2012 1:02 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

I don't know if I've ever heard the whole thing. I just have to hear a few seconds of it blaring before I make the gasface

before your colors burst

i really have no idea how "Firework" became an 'it gets better' gay pride thing when the lyrics much more clearly evoke acts of terrorism or a school shooting

the singing is like the cries of children after an Obamadrone vaporized their parents.

the only two of those katy perry songs i know well are 'california girls' and 'teenage dream' (first is ok, love the second), i know i've heard 'firework' and 'e.t.' at least once but i've blocked any memory of how they go. i think one of them rips off tatu iirc.

"E.T." is the t.A.T.u-esque one

Katy Perry's voice is more like:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__iHzedtY3VA/TJqbg7FW-5I/AAAAAAAAB9E/4qfUIXLoPAM/s1600/fantasy-island.jpg-

I really love "California Gurls" tbh

I like Hot & Cold and Kissed A Girl and I get off the KP train after those.

never forget how atrocious her ballad and only single to miss the top 10 was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyYEMXHIVAU

yeah that song is just stunningly terrible

is that Shia The Beef?

no that's katy perry

signed, the one-man "Dirrty" street team

― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), jeudi 1 novembre 2012 16:35 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm on that team too!

Lotta single men at that team meet.

Great!

I don't know if Katy Perry's voice is really even a problem on "Firework" because it's such a horribly written song to begin with

For me the problem is really her voice. In general, but especially on that track. The song itself just sounds like a regular P!nk/Kelly Clarkson song.

i generally stan for most of what both Pink and Kelly put out but i would like to think i'd dislike that song no matter who sang it

voting The Supremes.

Jaysus, Aguilera used to be class. Cad a tharla?

Latin for "she sucks ass."

she really hasn't done anything good since "Ain't No Other Man", has she?

"Ain't No Other Man" is the only Xtina I like. Kinda hoped it'd point her career in a more tolerable direction at the time, but only mutant attempts to be Lady Gaga and duets with Adam Levine were to follow.

Katy Perry...jeez guys, wtf? Her singing is dreadful, her music is chintzy garbage, her attempts at cuteness are vulgar, her attempts at seriousness are offensive. She s why so many people otherwise unjustly hate pop.

naw, most of the singles from the first two xtina albums were good

Can't really get on board with this, unfortunately. Her ballads are generally Dianne Warren-style schmaltz tht she has the tendency to violently oversing. "Genie in a Bottle" is typically gross Lolita tease. "What a Girl Wants" is a bland little nothing of a song. "Dirty" is garish as hell. I totally get how she was mostly in the shadow of Britney or so long, and I don't even like Britney.

For the sake of not sounding like a total crank, though, let me reiterate how awesome "Ain't No Ther Man" is.

i'm with j0rdan on "Ain't No Other Man", big corny piece of shit imo.

i like the scene in the new Christina video where she bashes a guys head with a baseball bat and glitter confetti flies out, but it's sad how she's still chasing the wacky irreverent pop art murder! thing gaga was going 2-3 years ago in the "Paparazzi" and "Telephone" videos.

Teenage Dream is a beautiful song, fuck the haters

Yeah, that's my favorite straight up pop song in the last handful of years.

Tho, yeah, anyone probably could've sung it and it would've been just as good.

anybody probably could've sung it and it would've been even better

There might be cell phone video of me during a karaoke session that would disprove that.

tbh I can't differentiate between superproduced female pop vocals, like, at all
My only distinction between this girl and that girl is the subject matter and production

"ain't no other man" is a good song but i'm not sure why people think it's awesome or whatever. i do really love her singles from her debut, though -- everything really clicked at that time with the songs and her image (though of course she probably hated the way she was presented). of all the great teen pop singles that came out that year, "genie in a bottle" seems to me the quintessential representation of what the genre was at that time: conflicting desire and hesitation, sexuality as a mysterious and magical thing. "what a girl wants" was definitely a more conventional song, but it too struck me as a breath of fresh air and actually a bit euphoric. i still remember being at some family gathering and seeing the video play for the first time on their tv, thinking "oh wow, this girl is still around and i think i'm happy about that."

and "teenage dream" is a great song

tbh I can't differentiate between superproduced female pop vocals, like, at all
My only distinction between this girl and that girl is the subject matter and production

― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, November 2, 2012 9:30 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah doesn't really take a microscope to figure out the difference between Katy and Pink (which is huge, vocally, despite often interchangeable subject matter and production)

teledyldonix otm about early xtina, those songs are so good, with that fidget-y post-Timbaland late '90s thing that didn't really creep into any of her contemporaries hits at the time

'genie' and esp 'what a girl wants' are the only two xina i love really, i like some others ('ain't no other man' probably most) well enough and enjoy others on sheer principle (hello 'beautiful') but she's never been anywhere near as big a fave as britney for me even during the time when it seems xina was gonna be the one to actually have a career. do feel somewhat bad about biodome or whatever flopping, it was a genuine if hamfisted attempt to be ahead of the curve and do something new that unfortunately took so long that by the time it came out it looked like desperate attempt at copping gaga style; do appreciate at least one of madonna's heirs attempting to also bring some club subculture onto radio, even if by that point electroclash needed to stay dead and buried.

lol biodome

My damn boss still defends Aguilera -- "at least she can sing; Britney can't."

yeah that's true enough but` irrelevant, it's not like her ability to sing has really raised a single to another level like w/ beyonce or george michael or michael jackson etc

Still my favorite xtina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RQDIJ2CvbA

yeah doesn't really take a microscope to figure out the difference between Katy and Pink

Not reallly my point-- though ten years on I still couldn't tell you which lead is which on "Lady Marmelade" aside from Christina. More that the "Katy's voice is annoying" thing is foreign to me unless someone is offering a more general crit regarding a common style of vocal production.

Hmm I'm just listening to that "Thinking of you" song and her voice is pretty amazingly annoying, forget it

you really can't tell lil kim and mya apart??? hmm

Ha no! When they do their comps over the outro, Missy could switch round the introductions and I wouldn't notice.

Lil Kim is the one that doesn't sing btw

Uh I didn't mean Lil Kim, I meant Mya and Pink

not being able to tell Mya and Pink apart is pretty crazy

Uhhh well I can't tell if you're just baiting me now. I'm talking about the timbre of voice and consistency of vocal performance in 00s pop production. I'm not saying I can't tell the diff between a Mya song and a Pink song or couldn't Pepsi Challenge them-- anybody could. But the standards of pop performance are so uniform at this point that unless you were to tell me "this is Katy Perry" I'd just be guessing who the singer was. And when somebody says "Katy's voice is annoying" I think, sure, I saw a taped live show and she weren't good, but-- aside from an R&B powerhouse with not a lot of digital processing (Adele, Alicia, Amy W)-- I have no facility at differentiation and/or the formation of a critical opinion re: singers A B and C, compared to say, 1999, Aaliyah and Brandy and Monica and so on. I brought up Lady Marmalade b/c it was the first single where I couldn't tell the difference, and later I would confuse Ciara and Kelis, and then I started to wonder if I had a tin ear for female pop vox. I don't think I do? Maybe I do?

More likely I don't listen to pop except at the gym or dancing.

Kelis always sounds like she needs a lozenge and Ciara always sounds like she isn't quite sure how the song goes when it changes notes, which may happen in the chorus

I'd pay money for a complete guidebook

I do remember wondering, circa S Club 7's "Never Had a Dream Come True," why all of the women on pop radio had the exact same voice.

Uhhh well I can't tell if you're just baiting me now. I'm talking about the timbre of voice and consistency of vocal performance in 00s pop production. I'm not saying I can't tell the diff between a Mya song and a Pink song or couldn't Pepsi Challenge them-- anybody could. But the standards of pop performance are so uniform at this point that unless you were to tell me "this is Katy Perry" I'd just be guessing who the singer was. And when somebody says "Katy's voice is annoying" I think, sure, I saw a taped live show and she weren't good, but-- aside from an R&B powerhouse with not a lot of digital processing (Adele, Alicia, Amy W)-- I have no facility at differentiation and/or the formation of a critical opinion re: singers A B and C, compared to say, 1999, Aaliyah and Brandy and Monica and so on. I brought up Lady Marmalade b/c it was the first single where I couldn't tell the difference, and later I would confuse Ciara and Kelis, and then I started to wonder if I had a tin ear for female pop vox. I don't think I do? Maybe I do?

― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, November 2, 2012 8:27 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fwiw i meant not being able to tell Mya from Pink on "Lady Marmalade" was crazy

mya's voice is really really distinctive

i know!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I'll give a vote to Spirits Having Flown, mostly because I'm so surprised at how high it places on my list here (fighting it out with Supremes and Saturday Night Fever, accepting that Help! is DQ'd on the technicality), and because I want to make sure it gets at least one vote.

Tragedy, man.

I have absolutely no memory of Wilson Phillips' "You're In Love". I had no idea they had a 3rd hit, let alone a number one. It's pretty awfull too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7gYii2unkg

That's my favorite of their #1's but it's no "Impulsive."

'final' top 10 that i will completely change my mind about as soon as i post: Supremes > Janet > Wham > Monica > Xtina > Paula Abdul > Bee Gees > Michael > Adele > George Michael

this poll has convinced me that I really should pick up a copy of Forever Your Girl

voting Janet here with confidence

kinda surprised at the paula support i'm seeing here tbh - 'straight up' is a straight up classic obv and 'forever yr girl' is solid but 'opposite attract' was always garbage and 'cold hearted' is really really thin, i think ppl might be letting the great video (fincher) sway them there (actually 'the way that you love me' was pretty great also, great second tier fake jam-lewis plus she looked pretty cute in yet another fincher video)(actually now that i think of it 'knocked out', another single that didn't go #1, was also pretty great, total pebbles knockoff). kinda amazing the extent to which spellbound has been forgotten - it was a huge hit: 2 #1's, another single made it to #6, and two others made the top 20. 'rush rush' i adore and though it doesn't sound as great to me now i remember really liking 'vibeology' at the time, the vma performance of which kinda cruelly killed her career -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8dgayf2f2M
and which, combine w/ rumours about the promise of the new day video, led to this nail in the coffin on in living color -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIQ-XDKKRcA

occurs to me that spellbound is similar to too legit too legit to quit in that both were followups to mega successful bush era albums by jackson proxies that were big hits, they'd both qualify as 'new jersey's or whatever, but that ended up regarded as flops in the long run due to diminished returns and the relative ends to both careers.

I think I'm the only Paula vote here, so if youre surprised by the perversity of my opinions well then hi, my name is Drugs ("and thx for taking the bait")

anyways, video to "cold hearted" hit me probably at the beginning of my awareness of pop music, so yeah that was personally crucial to my fondness, but listening to it again the thinness works kind of in its favor, it kind of gives it a bit of rawness that becomes the stacatto arrangments, and obv it makes no bones about being all about the chorus hook--which I think works really well--so the twists and turns in the breakdown don't really come across as bloated or clunky but more like clever and playful ways to defer payoff. of course perhaps that just comes across as cheap and calculated padding to some, in my case there ARE extramusical elements affecting my preferences...

but yeah rmde at Opposites Attract but I def felt at least at first blush that I would take the first three songs over any of the other three song groupings

and yeah Vibeology sounds better than I remember it, and I've always been down with Rush Rush and Promise of a New Day

yeah haha at first i was like 'man forever yr girl isn't even as good as the xina nevermind janet and madonna' but by the time i finished remembering the non-#1s i'd ended up selling myself on it. that in living color thing is really crazy mean, the sort of piling on that makes me think there is something behind the scenes, like maybe she jilted a wayans or something. by the time this came out (only 3 years later!) she felt like ancient history, there was this implied 'is PAULA ABDUL really gonna make a comeback?' in the air -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jfmB5kR84

i'll take it over 'pumps and a bump'. probably the closest anyone associated w/ american idol has come to making a massive attack track.

I think Spellbound made the New Jersey list.

I'm sure I've splattered my love for Spellbound over Forever Your Girl on a few threads already. If it had been on the New Jersey poll, I would've voted for it.

I had dumbfounded that Wilson Phillips had 3 #1s, I guess history has boiled their career down to "Hold On". I did recognize "You're in Love", but not "Release Me".

otm on "Knocked Out" sounding like Pebbles.

I'm surprised the third Wilson Phillips #1 is "You're In Love" and not "Impulsive"

not that I like either song mind you

Alfred otm about Impulsive being their best single

that is super OffTM

that is their drippiest song with the worst singer in the group on lead

The guitars and chorus bring it.

I admit to being irrationally angry with this song because I always thought Wendy was the most attractive member and it really pissed me off that she was the worst singer

I also thought that Wendy was the most attractive until I saw Chyna in the Invisible Kid and then promptly changed my mind

The one who sounds and looks like Graham Nash was the cutest.

wendy was totally the hottest one. i remember some dude in english class doing this thing on how 'release me' was about a woman whose boyfriend was trying to pressure her into having an abortion, some real 'actually evangelicals are the REAL feminists' stuff, to which my rebuttal was 'you are an idiot'.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Milli Vanilli (1989) Girl You Know It's True 4

Nobody had anything to say about this album itt, surprised to see 4 votes for it.

Bad should have been higher.

tbh the Milli Vanilli trio is pretty strong, at least in the sense that they're all pretty equally catchy and if you like one you prob like them all

Not saying they weren't, though like I mentioned upthread "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" was actually #1 and not "Girl You Know It's True" and that's a weak link IMO. I wonder if they would've had the same votes, but nobody talked about them.

ahhh wow yeah you're right! my fault for not doublechecking the info before i posted it i guess. pretty weird that some song i've never heard hit #1 and not arguably their most famous song.

'girl you know it's true' is obv the best milli vanilli single but i actually love 'girl i'm gonna miss you', total end of summer camp 'I PROMISE I'LL WRITE' melodrama (um, i would guess). never cared for by-buh-by-by by-buh-by-by baby don't forget my number.

all the girls I knew then loved "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You." I can't separate it and Madonna's "Cherish."

madonna apparently hates 'cherish' now, regards it as stupid and corny. explains alot.

dag

Madonna in inaccurate quality control shocker

she also hates "Material Girl"

i could never tell how much that was about her hating the song or if it was mainly that she hated being called 'the material girl'

Madonna reasonably OTM in both cases. I wonder how she feels about Erotica these days.

I love "Cherish" I don't care what she says. "Baby Don't Forget My Number" is a pretty forgettable (no pun!) carbon copy of "Girl You Know It's True".

KATY PERRY SHUTOUT

I love "Material Girl"!

KATY PERRY SHUTOUT

― cruel silver of hope (Eazy), Tuesday, November 6, 2012 1:49 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

she was just in over her head, I always knew she'd sink right to the bottom

justice

xp Nah, I bet she's a great swimmer

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/285/margaretnolanwithwilfre.jpg

I love "Material Girl"!

― crüt, Monday, November 5, 2012 10:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ditto. the bling bling sounds!

Madonna OTM re: "Cherish", I have despised that song since the day it was released

are you evil DJP?

there's a good DJP?

haha I was gonna say

i like cherish a lot. it's easier when i ignore the lyrics.

'cherish' + 'dear jessie' into 'oh father' is some sublime shit. fuck it i'm putting like a prayer on right now.

wish "Love Song" got more affection

man i'm listening to the whole thing again for the first time in a very long time and 'love song' really is MUCH better than i remembered. always thought it was fine but a throwaway, but it sounded great this time. 'til death do us part' such a great deep cut, elvis costello tried to write this song three or four times on imperial bedroom. plus that dinky steel guitar solo!

She's really at the top of her vocal and lyrical game on "Til Death..." -- those switches from spoken word to sung lyrics.

Vanilli got 4 and Katy got 0 lololol

oh man I'd forgotten how much I love the original "Express Yourself"

WTF apparently I have never listened to this album before because I had NO IDEA about "Love Song"!!!!!!!!!!

I'm with you on the original "Express Yourself". "Love Song" OTOH sounds like a Prince song on a Madonna album.

My favorite moment on the album is on "Love Song":

"Embrasse-moi"
"What?"

hahahaha Madonna's old foghorn voice on "Oh Father", man I missed that braying instrument

which version of "Keep It Together" do you prefer, dan – the single remix or album version?

single mix, because I always want to sing "however do you want me/however do you need me" over it

jfc what is she doing to her throat on "Pray For Spanish Eyes"

hahahahahahahahahahahaha "Act of Contrition"

hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha

coke was involved in this, y/n

and Prince.

Like a Prayer is an awesome album mainly for the songs mentioned itt.