Michael Jackson dead at 50

[The Chaver]

I go to give you props for DM..they are definitely a favorite of mine, so many good songs.

Yeah, they're one of my all time favorite bands from the 80s and NOW even! I identified with their music sooo much back then. Almost every song on every album they put out (except for a couple of their recent one's) were good songs; "Enjoy The Silience" "Clean" "Blue Dress" "Strange Love "Little 15" So many more, I could go on and on...


P.S. I just hit 4,000 posts!!!!

 

[karamazov80]

I was 15 when Thriller came out. Could've cared less.
I was listening to Black Flag, Fear and Discharge.
So... like you, I can see the talent and I also like a few of his songs but just SO not my thing.

I was born in 1980, so I was a huge MJ fan as a very small child. I even had a t-shirt with him on it. My brother was in high school, and was so disgusted that I was into Jackson that he traded me one of his favorite RATT t-shirts for it and tossed it in the garbage. I gladly traded, and wore that RATT t-shirt out, even though it was way too big for me.

I cut little triangles in the very bottom of the shirt to make it look cooler, sort of like Sideshow Freddy's sweater.

The 80s!!

 

[The Chaver]

Damn straight.

And I'll show you a pic of me at 16 if you send me a video...

I didn't get into punk until I was in my early 20s.

"Naked Raygun" "Blue Meanies" "Jesus Lizard" "Pennywise"

 

[Valfar]

Anyone remember these on In Living Colour? lol!.
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[The Mike]

I liked a few of Michael Jackson's songs but I'd be lying if I said that I personally considered him a Musical God. Then again I don't understand all of hullabaloo about The Beatles or Elvis Presley either. "Smells like Teen Spirit" came out when I was 10, so the Seattle "Grunge" scene took me through Junior High and High School....Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Moneyhoney, Babes in Toyland, L7. I bought MJ's Dangerous album months before Nevermind it was the last real piece of MJ music I owned. What is interesting is seeing everyone pouring out as if their mentors died when a lot of people probably turned their back on him a while back.

Its sad, he was extremely talented as well as controversial but its shocking how some celebrities are really milking it for airtime.

 

[The Chaver]

I liked a few of Michael Jackson's songs but I'd be lying if I said that I personally considered him a Musical God. Then again I don't understand all of hullabaloo about The Beatles or Elvis Presley either. "Smells like Teen Spirit" came out when I was 10, so the Seattle "Grunge" scene took me through Junior High and High School....Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Moneyhoney, Babes in Toyland, L7. I bought MJ's Dangerous album months before Nevermind it was the last real piece of MJ music I owned. What is interesting is seeing everyone pouring out as if their mentors died when a lot of people probably turned their back on him a while back.

Its sad, he was extremely talented as well as controversial but its shocking how some celebrities are really milking it for airtime.

Ahh yes, the Grunge years.. Loved all those bands except for the last two.

 

[The Mike]

Babes in Toyland and L7 were definitely on the lower end of the totem pole but I'd be lying if I said there weren't one or two songs I liked from them.

 

[pixletwin]

fact....argue if you wish but........

Hilarious. He put out out 2 really good albums and 1 ok and a bunch of filler albums.

The Beatles put out 16 albums full of songs just about everyone knows... Michael.... well I think most people know 5 or 6 songs. Total.

And he doesn't own the entire Beatles catalog. SONY owns part of it as well and even if he did I am not sure how that reflects on who has a more enduring legacy. I like Michael too, but lets not get carried away with hyperbole over his legacy just because he is dead.

 

[brewt1mer]

Hilarious. He put out out 2 really good albums and 1 ok and a bunch of filler albums.

The Beatles put out 16 albums full of songs just about everyone knows... Michael.... well I think most people know 5 or 6 songs. Total.

And he doesn't own the entire Beatles catalog. SONY owns part of it as well and even if he did I am not sure how that reflects on who has a more enduring legacy. I like Michael too, but lets not get carried away with hyperbole over his legacy just because he is dead.

check your stats man you are wrong BIG TIME

 

[pixletwin]

check your stats man you are wrong BIG TIME

Hmmmmm... What stats would those be? Thriller was the biggest selling album of all time. and................?

 

[Entropy]

Not to marginalize his huge contribution to pop music, dance and especially music videos, to say MJ was bigger or more influential or had more hits than The Beatles is ridiculous hyperbole.

 

[pixletwin]

Some of you guys are such hero worshipers you prolly think MJ made the best peanut butter and jelly sandwich too.

 

[MANGLORD]

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[pixletwin]

Yeah.....

 

[Entropy]

Some of you guys are such hero worshipers you prolly think MJ made the best peanut butter and jelly sandwich too.

Everyone knows Brett Michaels makes the best PB&Js.

 

[DinoLast]

If we are going to post parodies the best one's were done by Weird Al
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[die]

Man, I love The Beatles! I also loved Nirvana and tons of good punk music but I also loved Michael Jackson. Good music is good music, period. If it comes from your heart and makes people feel something, that's what it's all about.

Thriller came out when I was a kid & it totally blew me away, it was the first album I owned. My dad sold/rented jukeboxes and there were tons of 45's in my dad's shop. After we heard Thriller, me & my sister would search through the 45's and find old Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson 45's and listen to them for hours. I got the Thriller doll for Christmas, I had the glove, the Beat It jacket, everything.

I can't make any excuses for Jackson's personal life, he was a very strange dude (and I agree that the last years of his life have been mostly wasted) but I don't see how people can discredit the impact he made on the world with his music. The thing that makes Michael Jackson unique from greats like Elvis, Nirvana, The Beatles, etc. is that he was able to incorporate all types of music all his life...disco...blues...hard rock...pop...love songs. He did them convincingly, naturally and he was accepted by people all over the world. Not very many black people out there today know anything about The Beatles but people of all ages & colors know Jackson & relate his songs to moments in their lives. My 9-year old daughter is devastated that MJ is gone, she remembers us listening to Thriller & Billie Jean when she was a baby....The same way I remember Me & my mom listening to Hey Jude or Imagine when I was a baby riding with her in her Volkswagon Bug.

People are gonna get angry when people relate MJ to John Lennon or Elvis, just like people got mad when people related Kurt Cobain to John Lennon but there's no way to dictate what people should relate to or what they should get out of something. Imagine was a great song, but so was Man in the Mirror.

 

[Nerdy Black Guy]

At least Sideshow Freaks is being more respectful towards Michael Jackson's death. Unfortunately the people at Statue Forum are not so respectful.

 

[Shai]

At least Sideshow Freaks is being more respectful towards Michael Jackson's death. Unfortunately the people at Statue Forum are not so respectful.

Normally its the opposite....

 

[Nerdy Black Guy]

Normally its the opposite....

I know some guy named oddball got banned for talking too much crap.