Favorite Whitney Houston album

My Love is Your Love.

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Ditto TheVoiceoftheNight. It's her best studio album. It's Not Right, But It's Okay If I Told You That, Heartbreak Hotel, the title track, Oh Yes, I Was Made to Love Him (remake of Stevie Wonder's classic I Was Made to Love Her).

It's her only album that didn't have a lot of fillers.

The sad part is that it's such a good album, but that got overshadowed because that was around the time that her drug problems really started becoming obvious.

She hated the studio and it showed in her discography. Outside of the singles, most of her album cuts were filler handed to her by Clive Davis to sing.

The quality of her albums like her career in general- she was not particularly good on concert- in my opinion is why, despite the amazing pipes and some great pop singles, she cannot be included with Judy, Ella, Barbra or Aretha.

R5, she was AMAZING live. No one performs like her on stage. P

Her voice on the first two albums was a gift from God that will never be replicated. Her songs from them live forever. ‘How Will I Know’, ‘Greatest Love of All’, ‘All at Once”, ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody’, ‘Saving All My Love For You’, ‘So Emotional’, ‘You Give Good Love’.

The one where she fucked the corpse of Denzel Washington in her dead father’s church.

R6, she was amazing for one or two songs. She never was particularly good in concerts. She could not modulate her singing, nor did she gave vocal stamina. I suppose it was the substances. And her catalogue was very thin.

I enjoyed the biopic: "Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody". Not a great film, but brought back a lot of nostalgic memories and the lead actress was very good (can't believe she's British).

Honorable mention to her 3 songs on The Waiting to Exhale soundtrack.

R9, she had incredible control over her voice when onstage in the early part of her career, up to ‘The Bodyguard’.

I’m contrast, Barbara Streisand was NOT a live performer. She’s a studio performer.

I don’t know what happened but it seemed she had no interest in making music after “I’m Your Baby Tonight”. Maybe it was that Soul Train Award backlash that did her in but she never recovered.

“The Bodyguard” soundtrack was 5 songs, “Waiting To Exhale” was 3 songs, and then she did a gospel album for “The Preacher’s Wife”.

“My Love Is Your Love” was actually supposed to be a greatest hits album that turned into an album.

The within the next 10 years she had 2 albums + a Christmas album.

Very shit catalog for someone who was so popular.

The lack of responses to this thread is proof that most of the gay men have been scared off from this site.

Whitney Houston (1985) is the winner for me. I played the absolute shit out of that record in the eighties.

You make an excellent point R14. A lot of us are only just hanging in here now because it's gotten so bad at DL now.

R13: two words: Bobby Brown. I think she was happy recording still around the time of the Bodyguard. Bobby had such an inferiority complex after the success of that thought that she stepped back to protect his ego. Obviously the drugs in later years too meant she wasn’t fit to record even if she’d wanted to.

Also, the I’m Your Baby Tonight album was her response to the Soul Train Awards booing. So I don’t think that put her off making music, it just made her want to move away from pop and have a more urban sound.

I wish she’d been more prolific in the late 80s to mid 90s. An early/mid 90s r&b record from her would have been great I think.

R17 no. It wouldn’t have been timeless like The Bodyguard songs were, that early 90s Paula Abdul sound has aged like milk left out. She did R&B at the right time on MLIYL and WTE, after the keyboard funk sound calmed down.

Also I’m Your Baby Tonight has that sound and when’s the last time you heard any songs from that album?

I'm Your Baby Tonight hasn't aged that well. The only song people still listen to from that album is All The Man I Need. She fucking tore that song up!

R20 no one except deep cut kweens listen to that song now. That album doesn’t exist in the zeitgeist anymore.

Her 2003 Christmas album One Wish could have been epic if made earlier, but her voice was already shot and the funky R&B arrangements on every single track ruined what was salvageable.

Agree on the datedness of the sound but I was/am an 90s R&B kid and Whitney fan so I’m Your Baby Tonight gets played a lot still. Personally I’d love an additional album of hers that had more of the Something In Common (her duet with Bobby from 1994) and My Heart Is Calling (1996 Preacher’s Wife album track) sound. I appreciate I’d likely be the only Spotify account playing that album in 2024 though.

Back to the album poll, whoever chose Just Whitney, care to share why vs the others?? Each to their own of course but even as a massive fan, I barely play anything of it.

R3: not sure how things were in the US but in Europe the My Love Is Your Love period was huge and all positive image-wise and chart/tour success for her. It was only after she got arrested for pot possession in about 2000 that anyone really took notice of the drugs.

Lover for Life is a great deep cut on I’m Your Baby Tonight. Surprised it wasn’t a single.

Whitney

Her performance at the 1994 American music awards was partially a vocal audition for dreamgirls

R15- same! I was 10 years old the album broke big. I would put on these giant headphones, plug them into our giant stereo and blast my poor little eardrums. I loved some of the less popular songs like All At Once and Hold Me. If I play a Whitney album, it’s that one to this day. What a voice.

Saving all my love is one of the most gorgeous ballads ever executed.

R23 This underrated song from Just Whitney has such a great vibe. Is there any singer around today who can do ad-libs and runs with such amazing control? This song always puts me in a good mood.

Whitney Houston is perhaps one of the greatest singers of all time and I adore her. It has never occurred to me to listen to an entire album of hers. One song and I’m exhausted.

Love I’m your baby tonight. It’s a great album through and through and u can tell Whitney really wanted to prove the naysayers wrong.

R24 My Love is Your Love was the beginning of the end in the US. She got that awful butch hairstyle and she was showing up to interviews sweaty and high as a kite. I remember her MTV interview joking about Wyclef having diarrhea. Just a mess. She did casino shows to promote and they were a disaster. The remixes saved that album which was flopping.

The first two albums are full of classic hits and her voice was untouchable. Both are superior to ‘The Bodyguard’.

Her cover of The Isley Brothers LIVING FOR THE LOVE OF YOU was on point.

R20 The rest of the album has some really bad moments.

‘I’m Your Baby Tonight’ didn’t have pop dance classics like her previous two albums, but her voice on ‘the ballads ‘All the Man that I Need’, ‘Lover for Life’, and ‘After We Make Love’ - just heavenly and never stronger. Narada Michael Walden and Michael Masser brought out Whitney’s magic waaay better than Babyface and LA Reid.

[quote] It's her only album that didn't have a lot of fillers.

The first two albums had no filler. I listened to them front-to-back.

You actually own...a Whitney Houston album?

More than one?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

/falls off couch

[quote] I'm Your Baby Tonight hasn't aged that well. The only song people still listen to from that album is All The Man I Need. She fucking tore that song up!

Clive really fucked her musical output. He was insistent that she no sound "too black" so some of her recordings were come vaulted or relegated to b-sides - like "Feel So Good" and "Dancing On The Smooth Edge", both had fantastic vocals.

I've never listened to one of her albums but heard songs here and there.

[quote] The first two albums had no filler. I listened to them front-to-back.

She was always a singles artist. Most people never cared for the other songs on her albums that weren't released as singles. No one is playing "Someone For Me" or "Love Is A Contact Sport" on repeat.

Did you know that Whitney Houston's first album, titled simply "Whitney Houston," had four number one hit singles?

[quote] Did you know that Whitney Houston's first album, titled simply "Whitney Houston," had four number one hit singles?

Actually, it was three number one hit singles. "You Give Good Love" stalled at number three on the Hot 100.

Her follow up, ‘Whitney’, was the first album by a female to debut at #1 and had four number 1 singles. 7 consecutive number 1 singles from ‘Saving All My Love For You’ to ‘Where Do Broken Hearts Go’.

God, if I gave to hear teenagers in the carpool singing devil music like "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" one more time during the carpool....

“One Moment in Time” was her peak vocals

[quote] She was always a singles artist. Most people never cared for the other songs on her albums that weren't released as singles. No one is playing "Someone For Me" or "Love Is A Contact Sport" on repeat.

R41 is DJT -- "many people are saying..."

Yes, we did listen to all of those first two albums. Before CDs were a thing, we listened to cassette tapes front to back. I still listen to "Someone For Me."

[quote] Actually, it was three number one hit singles. "You Give Good Love" stalled at number three on the Hot 100.

"All At Once" garnered considerable airplay and was primed to be her fourth No. 1 single from "Whitney Houston" but Clive nixed the release fearing it would over-saturate the market.

I don’t like the way that Clive ran her career. She was black but he didn’t want her to sing black. And no one blamed him, they took it out on Whitney.

I dunno, she’s always sounded black to me. And she always was a mix of ballads and dance songs since the beginning. Let’s not forget she’s had 12 #1 club play singles