Top 5 Michael Jackson HITS

**Com King** · February 12th, 2003, 10:09 AM

I hope this subject will fit with this forum even if I know that 95% of the songs of Michael are not disco, I really didn't know where to place it ...

Michael Jackson is for me the biggest artist of the second half of the 20th century, after Candi Staton ;) ( maybe some of you are going to think I'm crazy) and I'd like to know if he's well percieved by you old men :) ....

My top 5 is:

1-Billie Jean
2-Don't stop till you get enough
3-Rockwell feat. Michael Jackson : Somebody's watchin me
4-Thriller
5-Smooth Criminal

**K-Bee** · February 12th, 2003, 12:10 PM

I'd say:
1. Baby Be Mine (one of Rod Tempertons best songs ever!)
2. Rock With You
3. Thriller
4. Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
5. Blame It On The Boogie (with The Jacksons)

**NickNack** · February 12th, 2003, 01:52 PM

1. Thriller
2. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
3. Shake Your Body Down to the Ground (with The Jacksons)
4. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
5. I Want You Back (with The Jackson 5ive)

Too bad he's dysfunctional (thanks mostly to Dad :evil: ). He has or had the talent and could still be viable in the music industry.

**QUINNY** · February 12th, 2003, 04:30 PM

One thing about Jacko, you won't find much of his stuff on compilations (relatively speaking).

1). Thriller possibly the most perfect piece of dance music ever made. 122 bpm, great intro with the most dramatic horn entry to really kick it off, strong melody, no break, cold end, playable in its entirety.
2). Billie Jean What an hypnotic bassline.
3). Don't stop 'til you get enough when released, exactly the right record for the moment.
4). Blame it on the boogie such a happy, infectious record.
5). Skywriter When released this was such a departure for the Jackson 5 and for me it more or less changed everything. Before it they were bubblegum, after.........

**markydefad** · February 12th, 2003, 04:54 PM

Well I'll disagree about Thriller. When I first heard Jacko was recording a song with that title...I got soooo excited (visions of another "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough"-type masterpiece danced in my head)--BUT when I finally heard it, I was disappointed. It's OK...but all that "creature-feature" stuff never really grooved me. Ditto the video.

Now my MJ solo-career faves would be:

1) "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" (BRILLIANT!!!--how could you NOT wanna dance to it?)
2) "Billie Jean" - another absolute CLASSIC & HISTORIC--the song/video that broke the MTV color barrier!!!
3) "Beat It" --Dance Rock of the highest echelon.
4) "The Way You Make Me Feel" - My fave of the post-"Thriller" output.
5) "Rock With You" - soooo cool and soooo smooth and sooo sexy--Just Perfect.

With the Jacksons:

1) "Can You Feel It"
2) "Shake Your Body Down (To The Ground)"
3) "Blame It On The Boogie"
4) "Walk Right Now"
5) "State Of Shock" w/ Mick Jagger (yeah, I LIKED it!!!!) :P

With The Jackson 5:
1) "I Want You Back"
2) "The Love You Save"
3) "Forever Came Today"
4) "Dancing Machine"
5) "Hum Along And Dance"

Those are best dancers, IMHO.

**QUINNY** · February 12th, 2003, 06:41 PM

Marky: Shame he didn't do 'I'm a greedy man', you could have voted for that too! :lol:

**markydefad** · February 12th, 2003, 07:13 PM

Originally Written by QUINNY

Marky: Shame he didn't do 'I'm a greedy man', you could have voted for that too! :lol:

Duh. I don't understand. Maybe I only understand sleaze. I was born that way I guess. :roll:

Or maybe I have a sense of humor??? Eh?????

**bobbchap** · February 12th, 2003, 09:37 PM

Michael Jackson may be a little bit .......odd. :-? - but he is a very talented person, and one of my favorites. With that kind of money he can afford to be a little odd. :D

"Thriller"
"The way you make me feel"
"Billie Jean"
"Don't stop till you get enough"

but my number one is when he was with the Jacksons...
"Walk right now"
super song..good music. 8)

**SandraDee** · February 13th, 2003, 03:09 PM

Well, my favourite tracks By MJ & his brothers are all the tracks from 'Off The Wall' & 'Triumph' LPs (both classic, complete & totally brilliant LPs IMO). The 'Thriller' LP was always an inferior 'Off The Wall mark 2' to my ears. I also loved 'Ease on down The Road' from '78 which was from 'The Wiz' (the only good thing to come from this musical I feel!)

**NickNack** · February 13th, 2003, 04:44 PM

Originally Written by markydefad

Well I'll disagree about Thriller. When I first heard Jacko was recording a song with that title...I got soooo excited (visions of another "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough"-type masterpiece danced in my head)--BUT when I finally heard it, I was disappointed. It's OK...but all that "creature-feature" stuff never really grooved me. Ditto the video.

I never compare these two songs. To me, they're both masterpieces. That bassline in Thriller is a killer.

With The Jackson 5:
3) "Forever Came Today"

How could I forget this :oops: . Replace I Want You Back and insert...

**jim** · February 13th, 2003, 08:11 PM

I think the Bad CD is even BETTER then THriller with Leave Me Alone the best track off that disc.

Beat It is IMO the nbest track on THriller.

As for Jackson stuff the REMIX version of shake your body is the best but I do notmlike the idea of having tho spend $30 + to get an import CD when they could easily have had it as an added track on Destiny (or imo replace the orginal album track with the 12")

**Com King** · February 14th, 2003, 03:21 AM

I think that two great remix of thriller could be in this top 5 too :

The Ben Liebrand mix, which sounds really disco to me, uses the laugh of the end during 2 or 3 minutes and ....

the Saturday Nite Live - Thriller, which is a house song, released on the french label Colorz (20000st) in 2000.

If you never listened to these two tracks, it's nime to do it

**tdaram** · February 14th, 2003, 03:39 AM

my top five is:

1 - billie jean
2 - off the wall
3 - don t stop till you get enough
4 - thriller
5 - smooth criminal

:evil:

**jazz_pilgrim** · February 14th, 2003, 08:14 AM

My top 5 were:

1 Let me Show You - a #1 smash from that magic summer of '77 - a wonderful record!
2 Heartbreak Hotel - glorious midtempo number - the Jacksons at their most mature
3 Off The Wall
4 Blame It On The Boogie (disco remix)
5 Billie Jean - ditto Quinny - a killer bass line!

Regarding the debate on the 2 Lps Thriller vs Off The Wall I would pick Off The Wall anytime. I agree with Steely.

I remember when Thriller was released in the US - it was available in the UK on US import for around 6 weeks before it got a UK release. The soul magazines gave an honest view saying that it was not as good as Thriller. It did not sell very well on import. It only took off when it got a UK release and Billie Jean was released as the single and the popular press went hysterical about it - I remember The Sun saying what a fantastic LP it was....

No, Off The Wall was a much better all-round album, IMHO!

**Cybermoukette** · February 14th, 2003, 08:19 PM

My top 5 :D :

1 Bad
2 Billie Jean
3 Thriller
4 Shake your body (with the Jacksons)
5 Can you feel it (with the Jacksons)

**Nano** · February 15th, 2003, 12:14 AM

Hi CyberMoukette... nice figure, honey

Hope you stay for a while, because there are few dames in the forum right now...

Well people, I agree with Marky about the "Thriller" song... for me it was just another song. The killer tracks in the LP were "Beat it" (with that guitar!) and "Billie Jean". I would add to my top 5 "Off the wall", "Don't stop til you get enough" (even as I'm really tired of it) and "Shake your body (down to the ground)" from the Jacksons era.

As good as "Billie Jean" was, it was a sad song... That for me was the start of the problems with Jacko. Until then, he was so joyful... pure joie de vivre. Then, he got cool... and started to look too much at himself, instead of just having fun with the music.

**HustleBaby** · February 15th, 2003, 12:35 AM

ROCK WITH YOU :P
OFF THE WALL
WANNA BE STARTIN' SOMETHING
SHOW YOU THE WAY TO GO :P
BUTTERFLIES

*DISCO DELIGHT*

**bobbchap** · February 15th, 2003, 12:54 AM

HEY.....Cybermoukette...
Nice dress.. :P

**RMartelJr** · February 16th, 2003, 12:30 AM

I'd say:

Michael Jackson

Don't Stop Until You Get Enough
Billie Jean
Smooth Criminal
Another Part of Me
Off The Wall

Jacksons

This Place Hotel (only when played up-tempo in concert!)
Give It Up
Walk Right Now
Blame It On the Boogie
Shake Your Body

RMartelJr

**Com King** · February 18th, 2003, 02:32 AM

How did u do this cybermoukette ?

**QUINNY** · February 18th, 2003, 03:03 AM

Re: Thriller - Are we talking about the same song? Yeah, maybe the ghost and ghoul aspect was a tad overworked. I can understand that you may be fed up with it and therefore not like it now, but how anyone can say that it was "ordinary" or "didn't have a dance groove" is totally beyond me. Speaking purely as an ex DJ, it probably had the longest shelf life of any track that I ever spun. It was purely and simply a true phenomenom. The fact that it didn't sell well in its early weeks can be discounted, as it was true punter power that propelled the disc to its dizzying heights of popularity and Thriller was the killer cut. How many other dance albums have ever shown quite so many different directions to go and succeeded so effectively?
Even 'Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough' and especially the album 'Off The Wall' sounded pretty dated less than 18 months after release.
I loved 'em both.

**NickNack** · February 18th, 2003, 03:17 PM

OMG! Have Quinny and I found something to agree on, TOTALLY? Now I know why I'm stuck in two feet of snow. :lol:

**markydefad** · February 18th, 2003, 03:32 PM

OK, I've given some thought to my lack of enthusiam for the actual song "Thriller". The Oxford dictionary defines "thriller" as "an exciting story or play or film, especially one involving a crime". Alfred Hitchcock made "thrillers": i.e. "Vertigo" or "Rear Window". Horror /monster movies are NOT technically "thrillers".

Upon hearing Michael Jackson's forthcoming LP was titled "Thriller"--I had visions of "Vertigo"--swirling strings, falling from high, dangerous places--a sense of excitement.

When I finally heard the actual song--I heard an homage to creature features with a campy Vincent Price narration that made it seem like a Halloween-only song. That's how I think of it. Halloween party only dance music.

Sorry, to offend all you "Thriller" lovers. But the song doesn't give me a "sense of excitement". It's OK, no more, no less. And the video images make it less interesting. Michael was in the process of "jumping the shark"--never to return to earth. This was where it all started to unravel for him, IMHO.

**efunk_adelic** · July 24th, 2007, 02:06 AM

haven't been in a MJ mood in a long time... I'll just list my favorites whether he was with jackson 5 or solo.

1. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough ('79)
2. Get It Together ('73) #2 rank inspired by a soul train line from "youtube"
video
3. I Want You Back ('70)
4. Shake Your Body Down To The Ground ('79)
5. Just A Little Bit Of You ('75)

**The Boogie Doctor** · July 24th, 2007, 05:58 AM

you gotta get serious!!!

1. billie jean - about as close to pop-dance perfection as you're ever likely to get. n.b. one of (if not the) only track on thriller written solely by the man himself.
2. baby be mine
3. off the wall
4. rock with you
5. the way you make me feel