Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I was called upon by the muses for greatness.

Originally Posted by Frownland

I'm bald, ja.

Originally Posted by Anteater

The thing about Jackson is that, unlike a lot of pop stars today, he didn't need 12 or 13 other people to write and produce his songs. There were only two or three songwriters max on Thriller, and all of those songs kick ass. Not to mention you had an all star cast on the various instruments (including all the members of Toto, who were probably the tightest band on the planet next to the lineups Steely Dan or Miles Davis would assemble).

That being said, I'd probably be sick of him too if I was a kid in '82-'83, considering how much his music saturated the radio back in the early 80's. Phil Collins and Genesis had the same problem a few years later in the second half of the decade.

Originally Posted by Janszoon

Thriller was Jackson's sixth album though, and he was about a decade and half into his career when he made it. When he was at the stage of his career that Bieber is at now, he did have a lot of help.

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I was called upon by the muses for greatness.

Originally Posted by Frownland

I'm bald, ja.

Originally Posted by Sansa Stark

The Ramones are the worst punk band ever

The Ramones are worse than the Casualties even

Originally Posted by WhateverDude

Laser beams, psychedelic hats, and for some reason kittens. Surrel reminds me of kittens.

Originally Posted by Wpnfire

I talked with my brother-in-law today about music, and I learned something very strange things about his music tastes. He's more than 10 years-older than I am, and while we share a lot of the same music, like AC/DC, he listened to a lot of bands I've never heard of or never listened to before.

Anyway, he said that he hated Michael Jackson, and that just made no sense to me, so I asked him why and he said that when he was a kid he was like hugely into the Clash and velvet underground, and he said, "It would be like if 50 years from now and Jistin Bieber was really popular, and people would be wondering why you (me) are not a Jistin Bieber fan."

I told him that was an absurd analogy because there is a huge difference in talent between the two, but maybe I don't understand because I wasn't born in the 70s. He said Michael Jackson was too pop-y for him among the sounds of the Ramones and the Clash, and the fact that people played Michael Jackson all the time didn't help him out either.

Originally Posted by mord

Actually, I like you a lot, Nea. That's why I treat you like ****. It's the MB way.

Originally Posted by Rjinn

Since we are talking about Jackson again and I just gave Off The Wall a listen, I will just say Off The Wall >>>>>>>>>>> anything else he's done.

Unpopular?

Originally Posted by Surell

go die.

Originally Posted by Wpnfire

Anyway, he said that he hated Michael Jackson, and that just made no sense to me, so I asked him why and he said that when he was a kid he was like hugely into the Clash and velvet underground, and he said, "It would be like if 50 years from now and Jistin Bieber was really popular, and people would be wondering why you (me) are not a Jistin Bieber fan."

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.