god you know making a ballot is hard when you find yourself cutting songs you've loved virtually your entire life
― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
^OTFM
― wolf cola, everyone (thewufs), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
indeed, i wanted to vote for a few more left field choices but just couldn't take out the obvious singles
― Jamie_ATP, Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
only 16?? :(
― billstevejim, Thursday, 16 February 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxHbIoo3_xUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psZhQ8okI4E
― prolego, Thursday, 16 February 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
i'm going to try to vote in this
― horseshoe, Friday, 17 February 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
I voted!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 February 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
feel like my ballot is going to be v boring and obvious because 20 tracks for jackson 5 + janet is impossible, leaving aside mj solo
― horseshoe, Friday, 17 February 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
here is my janet jackson challop: "rhythm nation" and "if" are essentially the same song, except "rhythm nation" is better.
― horseshoe, Friday, 17 February 2012 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
I ignored the Jackson 5 utterly, which made my task a little easier.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 February 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
but I selected several songs by The Jacksons. Go figure.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 February 2012 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
no "i want you back" no cred >:[
― horseshoe, Friday, 17 February 2012 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
xxxp If gives you the Gap Band, Rhythm Nation gives you Sly Stone. you win either way.
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 17 February 2012 10:24 (twelve years ago) link
I ignored the Jackson 5 utterly
what the... but how... but...
― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Friday, 17 February 2012 10:26 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't get a confirmation email, should I have done? If not I can just re-send my ballot.
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 17 February 2012 12:04 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, me too. I just generally don't like any tunes with children singing on them, and young MJ is no exception. Voted for several The Jacksons tunes though.
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 February 2012 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
No i'm just slow in replying. don't worry.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 17 February 2012 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, me too. I just generally don't like any tunes with children singing on them, and young MJ is no exception
Hah. My ballot restores the balance a bit. Nothing on it post-'79 I think!
― Jeff W, Friday, 17 February 2012 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
Tuomas, not even Dancing Machine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQY-uzzm7GA
― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Friday, 17 February 2012 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
I wasn't going to vote, since I'm not a fan of much solo Jackson stuff, but I can't deal with the thought of ignoring the J5 altogether. Sending a short ballot.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
I adore the Jackson 5 but if I have to include them along with The Jacksons, Janet and Michael on my list it would proved too brain-breaking a task.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
LOL, I wonder how many ballots are exclusively pre- or post-puberty.
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
man only 1 Janet song survived in my top 20. I think she's all right, but she's definitely not my thing as much as the Jackson 5 or pre-Dangerous solo MJ.
― plee help i am lookin for (crüt), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
janet suffered more in my ballot trimming than i expected, felt bad but i also gave her my #1
― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
In my ballot she's the essential distraction b/w Thriller and Bad, and she just soars after 1990.
Speaking of, I hope one of you voted for "Diamonds."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty sure my ballot was half Janet.
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
Mine too.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
And nothing pre-1977 except for "I Wanna Be Where You Are."
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
A Janet song also had my biggest fall from grace, I guess. If this poll had been done 10 years ago, "Together Again" might have been my number 2 or 3. Now it wasn't even on my shortlist of 40 or so.
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
haha please tell me Alfred is the only person here with a Bad-heavy ballot
― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Friday, 17 February 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry I didn't vote during the og run, thought this was just the Jacksons. But I voted for 20 Janet songs and boy was that hard. Already I am thinking of things I missed by her. OMG i love her so much (well 80s and 90s janet - maybe i should give the past couple records another try.)
for your consideration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4R4kWPqM00
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
okay cool we're on 23 ballots now so enough to make it work
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
I'm gonna hammer out a ballot at work today, so it will probably arrive really close to the deadline.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 17 February 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i feel like 20 is kinda the invisible line it's most important to cross. i definitely breathed easier when the Timbaland poll got over that number.
― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Friday, 17 February 2012 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
I think this'll be the least predictable reveal since these artist polls started.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Friday, 17 February 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
Nooh.
― Mark G, Friday, 17 February 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
Not a one! I thought my distaste for Bad was well known.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 February 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
"The Way You Make Me Feel" better be on everyone else's ballots.
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Friday, 17 February 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
'You Rock My World', is what he means
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 17 February 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
He meant "Morphine."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 February 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
Leave me alone.
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Friday, 17 February 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, February 17, 2012 10:18 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't know what "In my ballot [Janet]'s the essential distraction b/w Thriller and Bad" means, then, I thought you were saying that the bulk of your ballot was Thriller and Bad songs with Janet songs cutting into that
― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Friday, 17 February 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
"Together Again" was my #3, I loved it when it came out and still do - such a positive vibe and hip-shaking beat. Why did it fall from your grace?
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 February 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
I wasn't clear: I meant to say that at the time Janet provided welcome distraction while I wanted for a Thriller followup.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
oh ok
― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
*waited. I gotta stop eating sunflower seeds.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
Why did it fall from your grace?
The production somehow went from sounding cute and stripped down to cheap and tacky. Sentiment is still nice, tho.
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
maybe i'll do just a janet ballot
― horseshoe, Friday, 17 February 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
it worked for me :D
ps make sure it has 'when i think of you' on it. if it doesnt place then the world is a cruel and horrible place.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 17 February 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
that. is. my. jam.
― CANDY aka JUNK (some dude), Friday, 17 February 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link