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Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston (1985) [1st Japan Press] Re-uploaD

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Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston (1985) [1st Japan Press] Re-uploaD

Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston (1985) [1st Japan Press]
EAC Rip | FLAC+CUE+LOG - 316 MB | Complete PNG Scans - 211 MB
R&B | 47:23 minutes | Label: Nippon Phonogram Ltd., Japan | Cat. # 32RD-31

Whitney Houston is the self-titled debut album of American R&B and pop singer Whitney Houston, released February 14, 1985 on Arista Records. The album initially had a slow commercial response but began getting more popular in the summer of 1985. This First Japanese pressing was released in Japan on April 1, 1985 and was pressed on CD with pre-emphasis flags.

Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston (1985) [1st Japan Press] Re-uploaD

As big a hit as it was – and it was a multi-platinum blockbuster, spinning off several chart-toppers – it’s not easy to think of Whitney Houston’s 1985 debut as the dawning of a new era, but it was. Arriving in the thick of MTV, when the slick sounds of yacht-soul were fading, Whitney Houston is the foundation of diva-pop, straddling clean, cheery R&B and big ballads designed with the adult contemporary audience in mind. Houston’s background lay in the former – actually, it was even riskier, encompassing a stint with the experimental Bill Laswell outfit Material – and her benefactor Clive Davis knew all about selling records to the masses. Appealing as this album is, Davis may never have imagined how Whitney Houston would shift tastes, pushing toward skyscraping ballads where the singer’s affectations, not the songs, were paramount – a move that later led to hollow records, but on Whitney Houston the songs were as important as the immaculate productions. Certainly, the showstopping “Greatest Love of All” provided the blueprint for decades of divas, but it’s the only overblown moment here, with the rest of the ballads – notably “Saving All My Love for You” and “You Give Good Love” – burning slowly and seductively, but what really impresses some 20-plus years on are the lighter tracks, particularly the breakthrough single “How Will I Know” and the unheralded “Thinking About You,” a dance/R&B hit co-written by Kashif that remains one of Whitney’s purest pop pleasures. These joyful, rhythmic moments faded away from Houston’s later work – and also rarely surfaced on the records of those who followed her – but their presence on this debut turns this into a fully rounded record, the rare debut that manages to telegraph every aspect of an artist's career in a mere ten songs.

– Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com

Tracklist

01. How Will I Know
02. All At Once
03. Take Good Care Of My Heart (Duet With Jermaine Jackson)
04. Greatest Love Of All
05. Hold Me (Duet With Teddy Pendergrass)
06. You Give Good Love
07. Thinking About You
08. Someone For Me
09. Saving All My Love For You
10. Nobody Loves Me Like You Do

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 12. May 2012, 17:58

Whitney Houston / Whitney Houston

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