Mariah Carey – The Rarities - 1990 - 2020 R+B Pop - Black Vinyl - Sealed 4LP Box Set

H4 All I Want For Christmas Is You (Live At The Tokyo Dome)

 

 

 

 

”What can be said about The Rarities is that, much like everything Mariah does, it’s intelligently designed: the actual format, roughly structured as a one-per-era type of deal, tells its own tale about Mariah’s trajectory, providing just a taste of what could have been – and, in many cases, should have been. Many of the songs play like long-lost classics – or at least blueprints for the classics, including the Jackson 5 and Whitney Houston-esque funky energy of 1990’s “Here We Go Around Again,” recorded for her debut studio album with “Vision of Love” collaborator Ben Marguiles, which feels like the precursor to “Emotions.”

 

Other tracks offer tastes of decades-old collaborations that have never seen light of day until now, as with 1991’s “Can You Hear Me” circa Emotions, a massive belter of a ballad with Barry Mann, one half of the songwriting duo Mann-Weil – and it was penned with another vocal legend in mind.

 

To close out the collection, Mariah ends with a message of hope in hard times, meeting the moment with “Save the Day,” the album’s all-too-timely lead single penned many years before the present moment, featuring the legendary Ms. Lauryn Hill, incorporating her classic Fugees smash, “Killing Me Softly (With His Song).”

We’re lucky enough to have her discography as it exists today. But Mariah had the good sense to go all the way around again, dig into the vaults, and emancipate some of her hidden moments for us, too. They deserve their time to shine, after all. (And that’s not even taking into consideration the incredible, long-awaited release of the 1996 performance of the Daydream World Tour Live at the Tokyo Dome on LP2.)” (Muumuse)