When I Think Of YouControlNastyLove Will Never Do Without YouEscapadeThat's the Way Love GoesTogether AgainRunawayAll For YouSomeone to Call My Lover
I probably couldn't even name 10 more Janet songs, but I like basically every song of hers I've heard.
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 22 May 2003 22:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 May 2003 23:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
1) Nasty - got Paul aAbdul and the whole jump out of screen moment2) When I think of you - Nicolas Bros, Cab Calloway, Cyd Charisse and zoot suits3) That's the way love goes - lounging during the day and a much plumper J.Lo4) Pleasure Principle - JJ dances with a chair
most everything else will vary
― H (Heruy), Thursday, 22 May 2003 23:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 23 May 2003 01:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
Shit, I need more Janet albums.
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 December 2004 05:10 (nineteen years ago) link
AlrightIfWhat Have You Done For Me LatelyGot Til It's GoneThe Pleasure PrincipleEmptyRhythm NationFunky Big BandAnd On and OnSomeday is Tonight
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 7 October 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Saturday, 7 October 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 7 October 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link
She should never have gotten rid of Jam/Lewis, but I guess she is too head over heels in love to realise.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 7 October 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 7 October 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 7 October 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Head over heels.
Got Control & Rhythm Nation now and wanted to own them even when they came out and still, somehow insanely failed to buy them. I don't know why. I really can't explain it. Talk about guilty pleasures.
I'll have a top ten ready by the end of the week, I promise.
― Bimble, Saturday, 9 June 2007 06:42 (sixteen years ago) link
So what do you say, does she beat the shit out of even early Madonna or what?
― Bimble, Saturday, 9 June 2007 06:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Oooh, someone doesn't like Janet much -- look at the caption on the picture at the bottom of the Escapade wikipedia entry.
― Phil D., Saturday, 9 June 2007 11:27 (sixteen years ago) link
What!? Yeah, that's kinda stupid. She's got a big mouth, so what? Not her fault.
― Bimble, Saturday, 9 June 2007 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
1. When I Think Of You 2. Come Back To Me 3. Control 4. Love Will Never Do Without You 5. Nasty 6. Alright 7. Someone To Call My Lover 8. Black Cat 9. Runaway 10. Let's Wait Awhile
― Fitzcarraldo, Sunday, 10 June 2007 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i saved up birthday money to buy control and rhythm nation on cassette when they came out! still have those tapes, i must've played them hundreds of times. "get the point? good. let's dance!"
what have you done for me lately pleasure principle alright nasty miss you much control if rhythm nation i get lonely when i think of you
― daria-g, Sunday, 10 June 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Say You Do Young Love Come Give Your Love To Me Love And My Best Friend Don't Mess Up This Good Thing Two To The Power of Love Fast Girls Don't Stand Another Chance Rock 'N' Roll French Blue
― bobby bedelia, Sunday, 10 June 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
haha awesome Janet Jackson If Breakdown by 13 year olds
i used to practice that dance, could never get it right..!
― daria-g, Sunday, 10 June 2007 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i just saw the video for 'black cat'
it's got quite a driving riff behind it!
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 11 June 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, that song is the only one that ruins the Rhythm Nation album for me. I tried to like it, but it's just...so bad and overdone.
― Bimble, Monday, 11 June 2007 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
"Nasty (Cool Summer Mix)" "Control" "Escapade" "Anytime, Anyplace" "That's The Way Love Goes" "Runaway" "Alright" "The Pleasure Principle" "Throb" "When I Think of You"
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 11 June 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I admit it. I forgot about the Cab Calloway video. Did you know she had more Top 5 singles on one album than her brother??
― Bimble, Monday, 11 June 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Although even the Pleasure Principle sounds good to me now, and I'd considered than an inferior single until now.
― Bimble, Monday, 11 June 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I hope we've all established and agreed that the Miss You Much video is to die for.
― Bimble, Monday, 11 June 2007 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Y'all need to get your hands on the Control -- The Remixes, which just about trumps the album.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 11 June 2007 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I know, but much as I love you Alfred, I can't handle these things right now.
― Bimble, Monday, 11 June 2007 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
nasty what have you done for me lately? best things in life are free the pleasure principle black cat that's the way love goes rhythm nation all nite (don't stop) when i think of you if
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 23:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Janet songs come and Janet songs may go, but "Alright" will always be real I know.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 13 June 2007 01:29 (sixteen years ago) link
That's a song I dismissed at the time as boilerplate, but now absolutely love -- it's Janet Jam-Lewis at their most automatic and irresistable.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 01:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I am playing my Janet Jackson DVD and when I played "Nasty" again I realized that I have Janet Fever. I need my Janet every day.
― Bimble, Sunday, 16 September 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
"When I Think of You" video - is she NOT cute?!
― Bimble, Sunday, 16 September 2007 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah she's got Control, and "lots of it" but she's also got lots (too much) hair!
― Bimble, Sunday, 16 September 2007 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
When have you ever seen a better butt on a woman than The Pleasure Principle video? And she gave it all up didn't she? To look like a skinny waif. Fucking tragedy.
― Bimble, Sunday, 16 September 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember that by the time Escapade came along she was an absolute superstar.
― Bimble, Sunday, 16 September 2007 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
She beats the shit out of her brother, you know it's true.
― Bimble, Sunday, 16 September 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm starting to think "Feedback" is the best thing she's done since Velvet Rope. Am I wrong?
― Eric H., Thursday, 10 January 2008 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, since "Someone to Call My Lover" and "All Nite (Don't Stop)" exist.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
"Feedback" is avg Janet at best. "Rock With U" is what's up, tho.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 28 February 2008 06:09 (sixteen years ago) link
control = best album. RN = 2nd best. the rest needs a lot of s/d.
― Yellow Carded (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 23 February 2009 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link
how jaw-dropping is the velvet rope, seriously? still blows my brain.
also, THIS:
― lex pretend, Thursday, 5 March 2009 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll give you the latter, but the former is basically unlistenable to me now.
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 March 2009 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Together AgainLet's Wait AwhileThe Body That Loves YouRock With UI Want YouEscapadeThat's The Way Love GoesGot Til It's GoneWhat Have You Done For Me Lately?I Get Lonely
so hard to pick just 10 >_<
― Monday Nite Tranny Party (The Brainwasher), Monday, 6 July 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
why did i not put 'this time' in my original 10
― lex pretend, Monday, 6 July 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
^
― amphetamine enhanced scholar (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i couldn't do this. i don't know enough janet to have ten. its maybe a project i'm working on though. i've been listening to janet and Velvet Rope a lot. On repeat. they feel like mature work. That's the way love goes in particular feels like this song i've never heard before. or at least properly. like a moth to a flame. those liquid samples, every surface overwritten by a warm sensuality. the slowness of the vocal lines pushing against the beat; slow down there's plenty of time. it could all feel so corny, light a few candles, you know what i mean. my love is blind can't you see my desire. but there's a subtlety to her approach that surprises me. i want to put this next to justify my love, i could be wrong but i feel like chronologically this makes sense, with janet though there's no heavy breathing. the signifiers are dissolved into the viscosity of the beat. i think the video is pretty good at explaining it actually, how the sex is absorbed into a particular sociality. its the same here; nothing overt just the intensification of mood over time. it builds by simply continuing. cumulative and accumulative. how the production just wants you to sink into it and how she holds back. she tends to demur stridency i think. i mean this almost bothers me in how its become a means of recuperating a certain style of RnB vocal in the aftermath of Aaliyah's definitive canonisation but it doesn't really matter to me in the end. ,maybe just because the vocals are so good. always hinting, so sly. that austere code of tricks. on Together again she is so fn good. soft on soft. draped around that, really pretty basic, house beat. the sweetness of it, in heaven we will be together. in the context of a particular, historically defined, AIDS discourse, it seems especially touching. the gentle expansiveness of her phrasing, all distant horizons but still so measured. its a contradiction that's hard to unbundle. sticking with the tempo but gesturing beyond it. i don't like the earlier stuff i've heard as much. we are a part of a rhythm nation. such a boring metaphor, i prefer when she's slipping against herself. layered against herself. she's a good house diva though. a firm touch that insists on a kind of physicality without losing sight of its more ethereal dimensions. i mean i guess she can "command a beat" or w/e but i like her more when she's layered but perpetually displaced. soft on soft. that austere code of tricks.
― judith, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 01:56 (eleven years ago) link
is there a finer way to spend eighteen minutes and fourteen seconds than 'nasty' (cool summer mix) parts 1 and 2 cos i'm saying no tbh
― r|t|c, Monday, 20 May 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
Spending thirty minutes in Herb Alpert's sun room, watching him play his "Nasty" licks.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 May 2013 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
man, "what'll i do" is TERRIBLE.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link
Such a roadblock in the middle of that album's forward momentum.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
'What'll I Do' is fine in isolation. It's not really a "Janet track", though. It sounds like one of the many not-very-alternative hits on alternative radio ca. 1995.
― Sitting In The Ape Chair (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/article/nasty-women-and-men-give-janet-jackson-post-debate-244579
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Saturday, 22 October 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link