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Brian wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 11:31 pm

ManPerson wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 12:47 pm

Brian wrote: Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:33 pm My lists aren't all genres. The part of each list that overlaps with the decade list is intended to be entirely rock. Below that point, I go a little bit broader, including such things as The Bodyguard Soundtrack and Shania Twain's Come on Over, but with the intention of only including things that are close, and leaving off things that definitely aren't rock.

Work on lists comes at me faster than I'm able to get it done. Awhile ago, I think it was you that made a suggestion on the '90s songs list that got me looking at a big chunk of that list, but then other projects took me away from that and I still haven't gotten back to it. So I would ask that you just pick out a few changes that you think are especially needed, so that I can fit that into everything else that I'm doing. I think that usually the most important thing for lists is what's on the list and what isn't, and that except for the upper part of lists, exact positioning is of secondary importance, but you can pick out what you think is especially important as you wish.

I'm curious why you don't consider it rock. It has some adult contemporary influences, but its sound isn't all that different from her earlier ballad work, and (while neither of these places are gospel) Wiki and RYM both list it as an r&b album.

My sense is that early in Whitney's career, she sometimes did R&B and sometime AC, in kind of the same way Elton John and Billy Joel mixed rock and AC, but that later in her career he was closer to a more purely AC artist.