RIP Whitney Houston

Time magazine put George Harrison on the cover when he died.

 

I honestly don't remember how the deaths of James Brown and Johnny Cash were played.

 

That's what I appreciate about Black Francis and Stipe. That level of genius and still kept it together.

We worship those that die young. Greats who live on get forgotten.

 

To that point, Phil Collins is out of the public eye because he chooses to be. Literally he went home to play with his toy trains. There's something refreshing about an artist deciding he has nothing left to say and bowing out gracefully.

 

The problem with Phil Collins was he'd write one legitimately bad-ass song per album but the rest were so saccharine that you couldn't admit you liked 1980s Genesis.

Land of Confusion, Jesus He Knows Me and In the Air Tonight are fantastic songs, but there were so many 'let's sing a Supremes song!' or Sussudio! moments that I threw the wheat out with the chaff.

Actually, that's the problem I had with the music of the entire decade. Even Bob Dylan got sucked into synth backgrounds. It sucked in a good many artists. It's a lost decade.

 

And that's all I was saying, too. Autotune or not, the final product is quite listenable. And, last I looked, that was the bottom line.

 

Yeah, but he was a Beatle. Huge, huge - gulf - of a difference.

 

Way late on replying to this, but....

If you count USA for Africa, Michael Jackson had 10.

Counting Wham!, which you should because it was just him performing under a band name, George Michael had eight.

 

And recorded two far better renditions, both of which went to No. 1 on the country chart eight years apart.

 

You're both right. It's actually called "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)."

 

Three, if you count her duet with Vince Gill.

 

His version of "You Can't Hurry Love" is far more listenable than the original.