There's been a fair amount of Destiny's Child nostalgia in the air lately, whether from Beyonce's recent 40th birthday, or from the rumors of some kind of new group activity that swirled when the header changed on the Destiny's Child social media accounts. And I've been revisiting that era a bit myself lately working on my top 100 R&B singles of the 1990s, which had a couple of Destiny's Child tracks. And even if DC is sometimes now sort of looked at as a precursor to B's solo career, they were one of the biggest girl groups of all time and had a hell of a run in their own right.
Destiny's Child deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):
1. Hey Ladies
2. Fancy
3. T-Shirt
4. Confessions featuring Missy Elliott
5. Second Nature
6. Dot
7. Feel The Same Way I Do
8. Bad Habit
9. No More Rainy Days
10. Apple Pie A La Mode
11. Illusion featuring Wyclef Jean and Pras
12. Temptation
13. Dance With Me
14. If
15. So Good (Maurice's Soul Remix Edit)
16. Winter Paradise
17. Killing Time
18. Where'd You Go
19. Through With Love
Tracks 5, 11 and 17 from Destiny's Child (1998)
Track 9 from The PJs: Music From & Inspired by the Hit Television Series (1999)
Tracks 1, 4, 12 and 18 from The Writing's On The Wall (1999)
Track 6 from the Charlie's Angels soundtrack (2000)
Tracks 2, 10 and 13 from Survivor (2001)
Track 16 from 8 Days of Christmas (2001)
Track 15 from This is the Remix (2002)
Tracks 3, 8, 14 and 19 from Destiny Fulfilled (2004)
Track 7 from #1's (2005)
One of the things that I think of as separating Destiny's Child from most other big R&B groups of their era is that they didn't have a lot of hit ballads. "Emotion" is pretty much the only downtempo song out of all their big hits (and the only one of those that was a cover), a trend that has more or less continued in Beyonce's solo career. But they were good at ballads and had plenty of them on their albums. Their 2013 compilation Love Songs, which featured the only new DC song of the past decade, "Nuclear," was sort of an official deep cuts collection that featured mostly album tracks including "Second Nature," "Killing Time," "If" (where Beyonce so elegantly sings "raggedy heifers") and "T-Shirt" (which wasn't a single but got a ton of Baltimore and D.C. radio play in 2005).
The group had great harmonies from the beginning, and I'll forever be in love with Kelly Rowland's voice, I love when she takes the lead. And I've noticed that Michelle Williams gets more and more respect now for her work in the group, especially her bridges on Destiny Fulfilled. They put in a lot of work on soundtracks when they were on the way up, so I wanted to include some of that material, especially "Dot," I really like that song more than the bit hit from Charlie's Angels, "Independent Women."
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