prediction time!
Locks?:I Want You BackIfBeat ItWanna Be Starting SomethingBillie JeanMiss You MuchDon't Stop Till You Get Enough
Guesswork:NastyHuman NatureTogether Again
???
At a point there I just started clutching at straws. The Jackson fam are so great that lol there could be a totally different 10 from them.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 24 February 2012 13:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think "Miss You Much" might have missed the poll at this point. "Rock With You" is a lock.
― prolego, Friday, 24 February 2012 13:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Can You Feel It" hasn't appeared yet, that one must be in the top 10.
I'm hoping "Together Again" will place (it was the top Janet tune in my ballot), but I kinda fear it's too positive a song for ILM to love it.
― Tuomas, Friday, 24 February 2012 13:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think it'll place, actually. I didn't vote for it, but "Together Again" is an ILX kinda tune.
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Friday, 24 February 2012 13:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think Together Again was another song from TVR I dropped :( I just thought it was the other big Janet single for people to get behind other than like Black Cat or oh shit Twenty Fourplay why didn't I vote for that, I love 24P! I guess All For You maybe has a chance too?
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 24 February 2012 13:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
I dunno, ILM usually doesn't love that kind of unabashedly sunny and cheerful tunes. I'll be happy to be proven wrong, though.
― Tuomas, Friday, 24 February 2012 13:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
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"Together Again" def won't be in the top 10, but it's not because of whatever dumbass theory you have about ILM being too negative to appreciate it, you dope
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 13:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Together Again is about the death of a friend, not exactly unabashedly sunny and cheerful
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 24 February 2012 13:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
I meant sonically, not lyrically.
― Tuomas, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
4 from Thriller2 from Off The Wall3 by Janet1 by Jackson 5
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'd love You Rock My World, but no way is it outpointing Smooth Criminal. Black or White has maybe a slightly better chance, but ditto really.
I thought Darling Dear would show, but maybe that's just me.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
1 by The Jacksons, no way "Can You Feel It" isn't in the top 50.
― Tuomas, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
so I agree with hoy hoy, just replace Nasty (which placed already) with Rock With You.
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
gospodin otm
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh my bad on Nasty
did a 50-11 get posted?
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Can You Feel It VS Together Again?
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
i've never even heard of "can you feel it," it's not gonna be in the top 10. "centipede" was the last curveball.
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
pffft this poll is made for a curveball or four. like i wonder how many of you also voted for ilx-favourite busta ft. janet
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol as if
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Human Nature" is the one you had down as a maybe that's a lock btw
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Er, what? Is this a joke? "Can You Feel It" is like the best-known The Jacksons tune there is (alongside "Blame It on the Boogie") + the classic video will probably help it get high points + Madonna stole the bassline for "Material Girl" + The Tamperer sampled it for "Feel It".
― Tuomas, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
the only video i've ever seen from '80s Jacksons is "Torture"
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
it looks like it did WAY better on european charts than in the u.s., though, so that's probably where our disconnect is stemming from. still don't think it'll place.
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
The best known Jacksons song in the states is "Shake Your Body...," Tuomas.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Okay... But "Can You Feel It" really played a lot on MTV. My family didn't get MTV until 1990, and I still saw it there several times.
(xx-post)
― Tuomas, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
you realize you didn't grow up with the same MTV as most of the rest of us, though, right
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hmm, okay, maybe there really is some kind of Europe/US disconnect here? MTV Europe certainly loved that tune.
"Can You Feel It" is like the best-known The Jacksons tune there is
Chart (1981) Peak positionDutch Singles Chart 2UK Singles Chart 6US Billboard Hot 100 77US Billboard R&B 30
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
(xpost)
― Tuomas, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ummm Tuomas fyi Europe in itself has many seperate MTVs.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think it's a draw between "Can You Feel It" and "Shake Your Body."
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's weird... I wonder why it was so much more popular in here than over there?
― Tuomas, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
xpost I knew the former well before being exposed to the latter.
Not until the late 90s, IIRC. Certainly not when I started watching it.
― Tuomas, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
hell I hadn't heard "Lovely One" until two years ago.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
In late seventies America the Jacksons weren't a major pop force; the success of Off The Wall eclipsed his bros' records.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh shit yeah 1997... which is when i started paying attention to music and videos and whatever. Did they just show everything in English then or were there shows in Finnish shown in Greece etc. etc.?
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Did they just show everything in English then or were there shows in Finnish shown in Greece etc. etc.?
It was just one English language MTV for the whole Europe. It was produced in Britain, though many of the hosts were from other countries.
― Tuomas, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
I guess it was just vids+beavus and butthead/real word repeats at the time
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
10. Janet Jackson - Miss You Much (248 points, 10 votes) from Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814, 1989
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
9. The Jacksons - Can You Feel It (249 points, 11 votes, 1 1st Place Vote) from Triumph, 1980
hahahaha
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
also "Miss You Much" is SUCH A FUCKING JAM
lol I had typoed "HAM", I might start saying that now ("ooh watch out, that's my HAM")
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
I nearly made this my number one, just awesome in so many ways.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
after Michael died i started hearing "This Place Hotel" a lot but never "Can You Feel It," weird
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
'Can You Feel It', that is.
re: "Can You Feel It":
This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.Sorry about that.
;_;
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
so Together Again didn't make it and If is the highest placing Janet song, right?
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:45 (1 year ago) Permalink