My Michael Jackson/Jacksons/J5 Top 10

**SandraDee** · June 11th, 2005, 04:16 PM

Marky just gave me the idea (so blame him! :lol: ):

1.Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough (79)
2.Everybody (80)
3.Rock With You (79)
4.Show You The Way To Go (77)
5.Skywriter (73)
6.Dancing Machine (75)
7.Billie Jean (82)
8.Get On The Floor (79)
9.Walk Right Now (80)
10.Forever Came Today (75)

I also really love 'Ease On Down The Road' but I didn't know whose top 10 to put it in! :lol:

**markydefad** · June 11th, 2005, 04:38 PM

Oh Sandy...ya just had to go there..dint cha!!!! :D

1) DON'T STOP TIL YOU GET ENOUGH
2) CAN YOU FEEL IT?
3) BILLIE JEAN
4) ROCK WITH YOU
6) BEAT IT
7) I WANT YOU BACK
8. THE LOVE YOU SAVE
9) FOREVER CAME TODAY
10) THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL

**SandraDee** · June 11th, 2005, 04:55 PM

Marky, how can u say that 'Muscles' is naff & then say u like 'Beat It'? :-? Beat It is such a dreadful rock-lite excuse for a record IMO. :( Beat It was the beginning of the end for Michael IMO.

**markydefad** · June 11th, 2005, 05:15 PM

Sandy I loves me some BEAT IT!!!! Love the hooks--I've never tired of it. :D :D :D

IMHO, Miss Jackson's downfall began with the followup LP "BAD" which kinda was...BAD, that is...or maybe just disppointing.... :roll:

**SandraDee** · June 11th, 2005, 05:17 PM

Totally agree that 'Bad' was indeed bad & everything after it pretty dire too; I notice you've included a track from Bad though - did this sneak through? :-?

**markydefad** · June 11th, 2005, 05:22 PM

I always thought The Way You Make Me Feel was the one redeeming track on "Bad."

It was all downhill from there. Jacko started singing in that rapsy snarl (to give him some "street cred"???) and kept tryin' to act "tuff" in his videos which I thought was LAUGHABLE!!!!

James Dean got it right. Die young/Stay pretty. THE LEGEND LIVES 50 years later!!! The aging process is a bitch. :roll:

**SandraDee** · June 11th, 2005, 05:24 PM

Yeah, the best career move for Michael woulda been to die when his hair set fire on that Pepsi commercial. :o

**Videoskooter** · June 11th, 2005, 05:26 PM

This time I'm gonna post without looking at your picks :lol: Otherwise "I gotsa to be influenced"

1.Shake Your Body
2.Don't Stop Till' You Get Enough
3.Wanna be Startin' Something'
4.Rock With You
5.Off The Wall
6.Let Me Show You The Way To Go
7.Thriller (Thx to Mr. Vincent Price, the best horrorvoice ever)
8.Break Of Dawn (great song)
9.You Rock My World
10.Butterflies (even greatertherther song)

(Invincible could have been a milestone, too bad only 50% is great)

**markydefad** · June 11th, 2005, 05:34 PM

Oooo, I forgot about Shake Your Body --shoulda had that in my list. Also, like Blame It On The Boogie & Enjoy Yourself

Don't any of youse guys know Can You Feel It from the "Triumph" LP??? There is a great Disconet remix of this--this is CLASSIC, IMHO.

**SandraDee** · June 11th, 2005, 05:40 PM

I always thought the 'Triumph' LP had far better tracks than 'Can You Feel It' such as 'Everybody', 'Walk Right Now', 'Lovely One' & 'Heartbreak Hotel' (how come this track was renamed 'This Place Hotel' on the CD? :-? )

**markydefad** · June 11th, 2005, 05:46 PM

Oh they probably got sued by the songwriters of the Elvis Presley "Heartbreak Hotel." (didn't Hoyt Atkins's mama write that song?) :-?

But then Whitney did another one with the same title, dint she? :roll:

**markydefad** · June 11th, 2005, 06:15 PM

I think the music in "Can You Feel It" is wonderful--loved the sample of it in The Tamperer's "Feel it"...anyone know what the hell the singer (Maya) sings.."she's gonna like like there's a CHIMNEY on it"??? Is that what she's sayin'? :-? :-? :-?

I could never figure that out--but I guess if ya bopped someone on the head they could have a bump that could look like a chimney on a roof--is that the jist? :-? :o :o

Oh, oh, I derailed another thread. I'm real good at that. :oops: :roll: :oops:

**SandraDee** · June 11th, 2005, 06:19 PM

I s'pose she felt like making a clean sweep. :-?

**olskinflint** · June 11th, 2005, 06:50 PM

"Time Waits for No One" and "Think Happy". "Think Happy" has the classic Gamble/Huff/MFSB sound, and "Time Waits for No One" is a ballad so beautiful it almost makes me cry. And am I the only one curious that, even though Michael is often listed as the writer of the songs he sings, you've NEVER seen or heard him playing a musical instrument?

**paul** · June 12th, 2005, 03:49 AM

Having a sister that was part of a generation of girls that loved Micheal, I had my fill of them. :lol:
I really begrudingly began the like these guys after my sister dragged me out to see em in concert when they had their "Victory" tour. Got say these guys were unsurpassable on stage. What a great band 8)
No particular order here, just off the top of my head.

1 I Wanna Be Where You Are
2 Ben
3 Never Can Say Good Bye
4 Show You The Way To Go
5 Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)
6 Heartbreak Hotel
7 Billie Jean
8 Ready Or Not Here I Come
9 Can You Feel It
10 Blame It On The Boogie

**georgeb** · June 13th, 2005, 02:58 AM

1.State of shock - Jacksons/Jager (always my fovourite)
2.Dont stop till you get enouph
3.She is out of my life
4.Beat it
5.Rock with you
6.Thriller
7.Remember the time
8.Earth song
9.Billie jean
10.In the close it

**dvdjamm** · June 13th, 2005, 03:47 AM

in no order...top 20,all jacksons....

billie jean - mike
p.y.t. - mike
can you feel it - jacksons
forever came today - jackson 5
let me tickle your fancy - jermaine
working day and night - mike
somebody's watching me - rockwell w/mike
together again - janet
the pleasure principle - janet
state of shock - jacksons w/mick jagger
scream - mike and janet
don't stop til you get enough - mike
let's get serious - jermaine
walk right now - jacksons
get on the floor - mike
leave me alone - mike
what have you done for me lately - janet
nasty - janet
diamonds - janet w/herb alpert
can't let her get away - mike

to be real,i could do a top 50 easily.....