crybaby, anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsfpHwrLOKw(rainbow album)
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 20 July 2009 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link
i have a soft spot for her i cant live with you cover (apart from the ending).
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 20 July 2009 14:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Mimi is my favorite but I'm gonna vote for Butterfly, because it's amazing and deserves a vote... also Emotions is very underrated (has one of my favorite Mariah songs "Make It Happen", plus some great balladry overall, and a cool retro feel)... Daydream is also vote worthy ("Underneath the Stars" !!)
the only ones I don't own are Charmbracelet and the Christmas Album
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 20 July 2009 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Make it Happen is my bf's favorite.
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 20 July 2009 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
"Make It Happen" is good, yes. So is "Someday," off the debut.
― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 July 2009 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link
it's just so funny how different the 2 eras of mariah are. my friend Laura always said "i like Emotions mariah, not new mariah" then she heard Shake It Off. nuf said.
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 20 July 2009 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link
old mariah could sing better though.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 20 July 2009 14:38 (fifteen years ago) link
old mariah had less stupid/silly lyrics too.
i don't think even fans of nu-mariah would dispute that
xp or that!
― lex pretend, Monday, 20 July 2009 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
but i mean a HUGE part of nu-mariah's appeal is her sense of humour and the fun she has with her lyrics, whether she's playing w/her beloved hip-hop slang or just being decadently verbose
― lex pretend, Monday, 20 July 2009 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
i tend to prefer post-mottola mariah, but yeah, all the hip hop slang bugs me. the occasional lack of lyrical editing too. i know thats hardly unique to her in R&B (and prob pointless complaining about it in 2009) but its not my favourite thing in the world.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 20 July 2009 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
mottola mariah had a better chest voice, but i love the breathy, layered hip hop vocals like no other. they're like a mixer's fantasy. no one does that like mariah.
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 20 July 2009 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
like honestly sometimes i can't believe how airy/scratchy/whatever her voice is on later records, and how good it sounds.
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 20 July 2009 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Butterfly would've been my alternate choice. After that? Probably Rainbow. Never will get the fascination for Mimi.
― sir-mounter (Eric H.), Monday, 20 July 2009 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
the cover of Rainbow makes me want to eat babies.
― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 July 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Rainbow is like her worst album....
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 20 July 2009 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
wrong
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 20 July 2009 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
search: heartbreaker, BLISS, after tonight, x-girlfriend, against all odds (awesome cover), crybaby, did i do that. and of course, mariah's theme. all ace.
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 20 July 2009 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
i pity the man who's never listened to Bliss.
tho speaking of covers, mariah's best cover is prolly "bringin on the heartbreak"
I didn't say there weren't any good songs on it lol
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 20 July 2009 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
and Mariah's best cover is "Without You"! DURR! Though "Bringin On Teh Heartbreak" is indeed awesome
her worst cover is "the beautiful ones" >_< only bad song on Butterfly
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 20 July 2009 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
btw how awesome is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHTQe_9S9t0
her worst cover is "the beautiful ones"
old big voiced mariah could have killed that track ;) (i cant remember mariahs version though, apart from that it seemed quite tepid - she had the wrong producer for that)
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 20 July 2009 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
there are rumors that she's covering "I Want To Know What Love Is" for Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel... lol what is with her and these cheesy 80s covers.
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 20 July 2009 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
she's also covering "The Message."
― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 July 2009 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
My friend just suggested a cover: YYY's "Heads Will Roll"
― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 July 2009 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
― The Brainwasher, Monday, July 20, 2009 4:17 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i would love this.
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 20 July 2009 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Voting for Glitter cos it's so underrated/underappreciated. Butterfly is my favourite though and it contains the greatest song she ever recorded (Breakdown). And yes, i own every album.
― Christyles, Monday, 20 July 2009 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link
"Music Box". After that she has gotten really horrible though.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 20 July 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
if it's over, let me go
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link
man, her version of 'without you' ruins the song. she oversings it....
― Elvin Wayburn Phillips, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I voted Rainbow - JUST LIKE THE COOKIES. ;-P
― generalmills, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
:) i was just telling ryan that rainbow is practically my favorite album like, in the world, at the moment, considering the amount i play it. prolly shoulda voted for it!
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link
it's weird how simultaneously understated and big Make It Happen is
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Saturday, 1 August 2009 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
that's how I feel about "Someday."
― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 August 2009 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
yes
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
btw um, i would just like for you to know that i found out that the mariah carey + whitney duet "When You Believe" was filmed in the theater at which i work
...
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
the video, that is. i'm still a little in shock from this news.
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Saturday, 1 August 2009 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
the vocal layers on The Roof are ridiculous
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Sunday, 2 August 2009 02:44 (fifteen years ago) link
"...to relive the splendour of you and I..."
― Christyles, Sunday, 2 August 2009 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
can always count on you
how bout them giggles on "cruise control," where she's doing the rasta accent. the mariah cackle is ace.
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 04:05 (fifteen years ago) link
been singing Heartbreaker all weekend
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Sunday, 9 August 2009 17:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Never got any better (or less bad) than her debut.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 10 August 2009 06:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Or, OK, "Music Box", which I also went for in the poll, is a bit better :)
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 13 August 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 14 August 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
somebody be fuckin with the results
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Friday, 14 August 2009 23:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i want to know who did this
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Friday, 14 August 2009 23:35 (fifteen years ago) link
alex?
Yeah, clear tampering. And I say that as one of Glitter's 7 voters.
― sir-mounter (Eric H.), Friday, 14 August 2009 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
interesting.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 15 August 2009 10:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't even remember what I voted for. I know it wasn't Charmbracelet or Glitter, though.
― !Alicia!, Saturday, 15 August 2009 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
some bullshit
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 17 August 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't even know how you would game a thread like this or why. i'm almost inclined to believe it's all actual votes for lack of any better explanation.
― some dude, Monday, 17 August 2009 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Wish she released an album done in the gloriously 70s style of songs like “Bliss.” Isn’t that wordless shit she does throughout that song Debussy-level gorgeous?
― Turangalila, Thursday, 3 September 2009 06:38 (fifteen years ago) link
for all the talk on the p4k poll thread about how The Emancipation of Mimi should have been in the top 20 , it couldn't even beat 2 of the other albums of the decade in a poll of ILM's Mariah Carey fans?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 8 October 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
dude, it was rigged.
― surm, Thursday, 8 October 2009 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
it was?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 8 October 2009 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
wow 1st album in 1990. I had no idea she had been around that long.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 8 October 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
yea, it was. no one's even heard charmbracelet.
― surm, Thursday, 8 October 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
xcept for maybe me and christyles.
― surm, Thursday, 8 October 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
im sure the lex will have(is it bad or is it just an album that bombed?)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 8 October 2009 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not even sure lex has (iirc, he hasn't heard butterfly in its entirety).
i haven't listened to it enough but from what i can tell, it's not too bad. just didn't have any smashes, and bombed.
― surm, Thursday, 8 October 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
somebody needs to listen to "My All" now and confirm that no one else could do that like that - those vocals in the 1st chorus where she goes up high
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Thursday, 19 November 2009 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
she was better than i thought she would be on the alan carr show last night but she does struggle to cover all her range now doesnt she?
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 20 November 2009 10:46 (fourteen years ago) link
― surm, Thursday, October 8, 2009 11:49 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Quite possibly, yes. Charmbracelet isn't one of her strongest albums (it might possibly be her weakest, vocally) but it certainly contains some of her best songwriting."Yours", "Clown", "Lullaby", "Subtle Invitation" and the Def Leppard cover make up the album's few highlights.
― Christyles, Friday, 20 November 2009 12:09 (fourteen years ago) link
damn the glitter album is good (all my life ! ! !)
― yeahhh (surm), Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
has anyone listened to this album?
― yeahhh (surm), Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
No, I've never heard a whole album. One time I almost bought 'Daydream' for like $4 but then I didn't. Wasn't it supposed to be godawful, or was that just the film?
― This object perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay. (Stevie D), Thursday, 11 March 2010 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i really don't think anyone's listened to it. the film is supposed to be awful.
the album is like... lush, bubbly, buzz-y club music from the 70s, with hooks and synths as tipsy as champagne
― yeahhh (surm), Thursday, 11 March 2010 03:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Doesn't Eric H. like Glitter (the album)?? I've never listened to the whole thing but I enjoy "Didn't Mean to Turn You On" and "All My Life" well enough. I watched most of the movie on Youtube once, which seemed appropriate.
― lou, Thursday, 11 March 2010 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
omg you're right
― yeahhh (surm), Thursday, 11 March 2010 03:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Eric!
so wth happened here? cornballs upset with the idea of weighing up mariah?
― zvookster, Thursday, 11 March 2010 04:00 (fourteen years ago) link
soo Charmbracelet had "i know what u want" on it ??! how random
― big (surm), Monday, 29 March 2010 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
loverboy (on Glitter) is such a great song. took me a while to figure that out
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
― Christyles, Friday, November 20, 2009 12:09 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
her vocals on the def leppard cover are outrageous
― surm, Saturday, 9 May 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
out. rageous.
― surm, Saturday, 9 May 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link
What the fuck?
― Greer, Saturday, 9 May 2015 19:44 (nine years ago) link
haha
― surm, Saturday, 9 May 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
i should never have revived this
There should be a new poll, in time for the new compilation.
― Nourry, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 22:48 (nine years ago) link
i need to do a mariah remix poll at some point.
― prolego, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 23:12 (nine years ago) link
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 20 July 2009 14:21 (6 years ago) Permalink
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 20 July 2009 14:24 (6 years ago) Permalink
― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 July 2009 14:26 (6 years ago) Permalink
I fell down a Mariah wormhole tonight and OMG "Make It Happen".
MC + C+C must be one of the most underrated (in the sense of just not being talked about) great collaborative partnerships in pop. I suppose they probably did less than two handfuls of songs together though.
― Tim F, Sunday, 1 May 2016 12:23 (eight years ago) link