愛惠旗艦店

四月號Q雜誌評選出他們心目中的50大靈魂金曲和十大靈魂專輯，惠妮的It's Not Right But It's OK榜上有名！

這讓我想到前幾天走在路上，突然聽到一句拔尖的歌聲 "You were making a foooo~oool of me ohhhhh"!!

「是誰??是誰在唱???」 我本能地迅速掃瞄整條街，發現是我後面一個白人女生！

「好樣的，妳連 foooo~ool的轉音和結尾ohhhhhh都不放過！」我心想，她應該正在聽iPod吧？美國人人手一台iPod...you know，接著我又掃瞄一下她的裝備，不~她只是邊走邊唱歌！這是繼上次我在地鐵站目賭一位Patti LaBelle級男黑人唱You Give Good Love荼毒疲憊的通勤族後，再次於公眾場合聽到有人唱惠妮的歌，這次還是一個白人女子！害我好想跟她合唱！呵呵~

那時候突然明白一首經典的歌是如何影響著人類，它不會常常出現，但一找到你，它會自己repeat一天！有時候真讓人又愛又怕！ 

我想很多首惠妮的歌都已經有這樣的能耐，從You Give Good Love到My Love Is Your Love (Just Whitney裡的歌好像只讓人想趕快忘掉)，總是會有一些旋律不經意地浮現，或是像我一樣被路人置入性行銷！Q雜誌的這份名單有不少就是這樣的狠角色，雖然看得出來他們努力地融合新舊，但榜上的歌確實都實至名歸，以下是完整名單：


Albums

o Brown, James – Live at the Apollo (1963)
o D'Angelo – Brown Sugar
o Franklin, Aretha – I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You)
o Gaye, Marvin – What’s Going On*
o Hill, Lauryn – Miseducation of…
o Kelly, R – Happy People/You Saved Me
o Mayfield, Curtis – Superfly [Soundtrack]
o Parliament – Mothership Connection
o Redding, Otis – Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
o Sly & the Family Stone – There’s a Riot Goin' On
o Wonder, Stevie – Innervisions

Tracks

o A Change is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
o Across 110th Street – Bobby Womack
o Ain't No Mountain High Enough – Diana Ross
o Ain't No Sunshine – Bill Withers
o At the Dark End of the Street – James Carr
o Back to Life – Soul II Soul
o Band of Gold – Freda Payne
o Boy is Mine – Brandy & Monica
o Cissy Strut – Meters
o Criticize – Alexander O’Neal
o Fallin' – Alicia Keys
o Family Affair – Mary J Blige
o Green Onions – Booker T & the MGs
o Heat Wave – Martha & the Vandellas
o I Can't Stand the Rain – Ann Peebles
o I Heard It Through the Grapevine – Marvin Gaye
o I Say a Little Prayer – Aretha Franklin
o I Want You Back – Jackson 5
 o It's Not Right But It's OK – Whitney Houston
o La La Means I Love You – Delfonics
o Let's Stay Together – Al Green
o Love TKO – Teddy Pendergrass
o Love Train – O'Jays
o Lovin' You – Minnie Riperton
o Make Me Believe in You – Patti Jo
o My Baby Just Cares for Me – Nina Simone
o No Diggity – Blackstreet
o No Scrubs – TLC
o On & On – Erykah Badu
o Only the Strong Survive – Jerry Butler
o Papa was a Rolling Stone – Temptations
o Quiet Storm – Smokey Robinson
o Reach Out (I'll Be There) – Four Tops
o Revolution Will Not Be Televised – Gil Scott-Heron
o Right Here – SWV
o (Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding
o Smiling Faces Sometimes – Undisputed Truth
o Soul Man – Sam & Dave
o Stand by Me – Ben E King
o Strawberry Letter 23 – Shuggie Otis
o Summer Breeze – Isley Brothers
o Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
o Try Again – Aaliyah
o Uptight (Everything's Alright) – Stevie Wonder
o Walk On By – Dionne Warwick
o War – Edwin Starr
o What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? – Jimmy Ruffin
o Working in a Coal Mine – Lee Dorsey
o You're the First, the Last, My Everything – Barry White