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About Bill from the UK: I love Mariah more than you do. London Daydream Tour Attendee.

St John the Divine (91,207) by Bill from the UK I can't believe we will hear this tomorrow. (Thursday 31 October 2019; 17:01)

Re: Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting (91,192) (91,195) by Bill from the UK Thank you. I do find some people on here take things a little too seriously. In other news, can you believe we're days away from St John the Divine? I think I might pass out. Because I'm never satisfied, here's my dream for Merry Christmas - 30th Anniversary Pearl Edition: Disc 1: Re-mastered album *however* we are now extending out all the tracks with the new vocals that have surfaced from the stems. Full versions of AIWFCIY, O Holy Night, Christmas BPCH, and that demo of Jesus Born On This Day that surfaced then got removed by Sony (thanks for that lol). Also both versions of God Rest Ye Merry Gents. DVD Blu-Ray: St John the Divine and all the videos. Disc 3: Mariah's original rendition of Where Are You Christmas and, for the hell of it, MCIIY, for completeness, with Star and Lil Snowman, even though they are dreadful lol. Disc 4: JTTW and AIWFCIY remixes. Disc 5: Track by track commentary from MC about why she chose each song and the stories behind them. (Monday 28 October 2019; 17:27)

Re: Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting (91,187) (91,193) by Bill from the UK Haha, thank you Jade you dear thing. Hope you are well. (Monday 28 October 2019; 15:08)

Re: Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting (91,189) (91,191) by Bill from the UK Wait a minute, am I one of the three? If so, yikes. And if so, can I be Karen please? Lol. I've said plenty of positive things about Mariah, and I've never ganged up on anyone here. I do however call our delusional fans, as that's not healthy. (Monday 28 October 2019; 12:32)

Re: Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting (91,160) (91,168) by Bill from the UK Thank you. (Friday 25 October 2019; 20:53)

Re: Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting (91,156) (91,167) by Bill from the UK Thanks for the clarification Edward, I thought as much and that was how I read it. You're a good soul, thank you for the message. (Friday 25 October 2019; 20:53)

Re: Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting (91,159) (91,166) by Bill from the UK Here here. Licia you are a lovely, funny, warm and kind person and I know this only through interacting with you on this message board, so you must be even better in real life. I love that you hate every song Mariah ever did yet are still one of her biggest fans haha. Much love and respect to you. (Friday 25 October 2019; 20:52)

Re: Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting (91,147) (91,148) by Bill from the UK Jokes aren't allowed on here guys. (Thursday 24 October 2019; 13:00)

Re: Can't Let Go anniversary (91,139) (91,142) by Bill from the UK Agree. The bridge is something else too. One of the best she ever did. (Wednesday 23 October 2019; 17:24)

Re: Vision of love (91,138) (91,141) by Bill from the UK You never find anything funny though. (Wednesday 23 October 2019; 17:23)

Re: Miss You Most question (91,136) (91,140) by Bill from the UK The US promotional single included this version on it. It was the "radio version", though not stated as such. (Wednesday 23 October 2019; 17:23)

Re: Jesus born on this day (91,130) (91,134) by Bill from the UK This sounds like it could have been the demo, don't you think? Love the extra "a shining star" line towards the end. As happy as I am with the 2CD anniversary edition of Merry Christmas, including jewels like this would have been ultra amazing. Thank God for YouTube. (Wednesday 23 October 2019; 10:01)

Re: Vision of love (91,126) (91,128) by Bill from the UK I'll do it for you sweetheart: jest, noun "a thing said or done for amusement; a joke" (Tuesday 22 October 2019; 20:06)

Re: Delusional fans (91,121) (91,125) by Bill from the UK Grab yourself a dictionary and look up the word "jest". (Tuesday 22 October 2019; 16:54)

Re: Legends Ball (91,105) (91,114) by Bill from the UK Ha, you know this reminds me of that list we compiled a while back. I've tried to remember as many excuses as possible, let me know if there's anything I forgot. I've got 25, to commemorate the anniversary of Merry Christmas lol. This is all in jest by the way peeps. 1. Ear monitor malfunction 2. No humidifiers 3. Too cold 4. Too hot 5. Stage fright 6. Corset too tight 7. Michael Jackson's casket put her off 8. Didn't want to upstage the Queen of Soul 9. Wanted to respect her peers 10. Bronchitis 11. Stressful divorce 12. Arm in a sling 13. Pregnant 14. Not pregnant 15. Nodules 16. Too many splashes 17. Medicated 18. Backing singers missed their cue 19. Sabotaged by Dick Clarke Productions 20. Late for the sound check 21. Not enough sleep 22. Bipolar 23. Food poisoning 24. Mic wasn't turned up 25. Shit happens (Monday 21 October 2019; 03:56)

Miss You Most acapella (91,108) by Bill from the UK Beautiful. (Sunday 20 October 2019; 21:39)

Re: Memoirs vinyl box set (91,087) (91,092) by Bill from the UK Not sure what your budget is, but it is available on Discogs - though not cheap. At all. (Saturday 19 October 2019; 14:05)

Re: Memoirs vinyl box set (91,075) (91,080) by Bill from the UK I had it but sold it on eBay when times got rough. I got quite a lot of money for it actually. I miss it. (Friday 18 October 2019; 16:17)

Re: Something personal (91,065) (91,068) by Bill from the UK All the best Will, you will be fine I have no doubt. Hero does it for me when I need some self belief. There's something about being your own champion that is really quite inspiring and Mariah captured that perfectly in the song. (Wednesday 16 October 2019; 13:23)

Re: Variety in print vs. video interview (91,052) (91,056) by Bill from the UK Yes, an audio book would be great, as Mariah has such a great delivery at times, especially when joking around. Plus I love it when she's talking and then goes into an acapella moment. (Monday 14 October 2019; 13:48)

Re: Happy 24th anniversary Daydream (90,996) (91,001) by Bill from the UK Hahaha, she didn't mind lol. And by the second day I had written all the words out as she read them out over the phone so we were all good lol. (Monday 7 October 2019; 12:24)

Re: Happy 24th anniversary Daydream (90,993) (90,995) by Bill from the UK Bless you, thank you. It is one of my happiest Mariah related memories. Another thing she did that has stayed in my memory is I was staying at my aunt's house with my nan to "cat sit", and I had asked my mum to buy me the debut album on tape as I was building my collection (it was Summer 1994 so I had Music Box, Unplugged, and Emotions on tape). I had those albums with me and was playing them non stop. My mum called to check in on me and said she'd picked the tape up from HMV (big record store chain in the UK), and I made her read out the tracklisting and describe the inlay to me lol. She said things like "the back is gold with black lettering, there is a picture of her holding a microphone in the inside" and then I made her read out the lyrics every day I was there down the phone to me lol. I love her so much. (Sunday 6 October 2019; 16:06)

Re: Happy 24th anniversary Daydream (90,972) (90,980) by Bill from the UK I will never forget that period. Fantasy was ruling the airwaves all summer, and I remember waiting so eagerly for the album to release. I came home from school on the day, pretty dejected that I wouldn't get to hear it until the weekend, only to find my lovely mum had gone out and got the CD for me, and taped it to the inside window of the front porch, so I saw it as I walked (and than sprinted lol) up the front path. I played the album all night and recorded it onto a blank tape for my Walkman for my trips to and from school. I remember sitting on the stairs in the hall with my mum and I got to the lyric sheet. All summer I could not decipher what she sang after "feels like I'm dreaming" on the Tom Tom Club sample. Every member of the family heard something different. When I read "feels like I'm dreaming but I'm not sleeping" out loud, my family chorused an "ahhhh of course" together. I really hope Mariah does commemorate the anniversary with something special, though it was unfortunate to see her other albums hit the milestone with nothing special. The deluxe should unearth that infamous Underneath the Stars video, shrouded in mystery. I was playing the Daydream singles recently, can anyone help me out. Fantasy was released on two CD singles in the UK. The "blue sleeve" version had the "Bad Boy with ODB" mix that appeared on many compilations later, and the "white sleeve" version had "Puffy's Mix". The only audible difference I can hear is there is no echo on the "jump jump" line in the rap on the second mix. Am I missing anything or was that really the only difference? (Friday 4 October 2019; 10:46)

Re: One Child 90,964) (90,970) by Bill from the UK Agree, though I suspect MC would have done a demo or something at the time in 1994, so that would be even better to hear Prime Mariah sing the hell out of that song. (Wednesday 2 October 2019; 10:39)

Re: One Child (90,950) (90,954) by Bill from the UK You're right, the last thing I should do is complain given that my prayer was answered. (Tuesday 1 October 2019; 17:31)

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