Whitney
Artist: Whitney Houston
Community Score: 9.86

Whitney Houston became an international star with this album. It sold more than ten million copies around the world, yielded a string of number one hit singles across the board like "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)," "Didn't We Almost Have It All," and "Love Will Save the Day," and established Houston as the era's top female star. She... Read More

All Saints
Artist: All Saints
Community Score: 7.00

As the first group of consequence to be saddled with the "new Spice Girls" tag, it would be reasonable to expect that All Saints would be cut-rate dance-pop without the weirdly magical charisma that made the Spices international phenomena. It is true that All Saints lack the personality of the Spices, but they make up for that with musical... Read More

Impossible Princess
Artist: Kylie Minogue
Community Score: 6.17

By 1997, much of the pop music landscape had changed. The music papers were declaring the "Techno Revolution" was on, Oasis and Manic Street Preachers were ruling the charts, and simple dance-pop seemed to be the domain of teenage girls. So what does the dance-pop diva of the '90s do? She recruits Manic Street Preachers' James Dean Bradfield,... Read More

Lovergirl: The Teena Marie Story
Artist: Teena Marie

Lovergirl: The Teena Marie Story collects all of Marie's mid-'80s hits for Epic, including "Lovergirl," "Work It," "If I Were a Bell," "Just Us Two," "Jammin'," and "Ooo La La La." While some casual listeners will find the inclusion of 12" extended mixes somewhat redundant, those mixes actually give a better idea of how Marie's music was... Read More

Sweet and Slow
Artist: Maria Muldaur

Instead of veering all over the musical map as she did on earlier albums, Muldaur picks a style, sticks to it and comes up with a winner. Heavy on jazz and blues standards by the likes of Duke Ellington, Andy Razaf and Sippie Wallace, including "Gee, Baby Ain't I Good to You" and the Billie Holiday hit "Lover Man," the album includes one modern... Read More

Robbery
Artist: Teena Marie
Community Score: 10.00

A protracted absence from the studio (a one-year release gap in the '80s was equal to a five-year gap in the early 2000s) caused by a notorious legal dispute with Motown did little to stall Teena Marie's momentum. Robbery, Marie's fifth album and first for Epic, didn't perform nearly as well on the pop chart as 1981's It Must Be Magic, but the... Read More

Naked to the World
Artist: Teena Marie
Community Score: 10.00

Teena Marie's popularity had decreased by 1988, when she found herself competing with considerably less talented Prince clones, Madonna wannabes, and Paula Abdul sound-alikes. But she managed to have both a hit album and an artistic triumph in Naked to the World, which found her taking a more high-tech, contemporary-sounding (by 1988 standards)... Read More

Madonna
Artist: Madonna
Community Score: 7.65

Although she never left it behind, it's been easy to overlook that Madonna began her career as a disco diva in an era that didn't have disco divas. It was an era where disco was anathema to the mainstream pop, and she had a huge role in popularizing dance music as a popular music again, crashing through the door Michael Jackson opened with... Read More

Greatest Hits
Artist: Kylie Minogue
Community Score: 5.00