The Jacksons Tracks - Smooth CrimiPOLL results1!!1!!!!

I mean, I got over it in like 5 seconds but at first I was all "well I guess we're done with waiting!"

― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:56 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha rich juzwiak had a good summary at some point of the evolution of janet's thematic concerns, album-by-album. i tried to find it to link on the nominations thread. even when it becomes and sort of stays the sex chronicles with janet there's a lot of variation of focus in the later albums.

last two for today

22. Janet Jackson - What Have You Done for Me Lately? (161 points, 8 votes) Tied with 21
from Control, 1986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9uizdKZAGE

21. Janet Jackson - Got ‘til It’s Gone (161 points, 8 votes, 1 1st Place Vote) Tied with 22 from The Velvet Rope, 1997

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uznTHSEgx4U

"I'll Be There" was my #1; would've expected a Top 10 finish.

yay "what have you done for me lately"!!! that has aged better for me than "nasty." is also a much better song than "got 'til it's gone" imo, though i love velvet rope.

yay "what have you done for me lately"!!! that has aged better for me than "nasty."

Agreed

"empty" should be higher than "got til it's gone," y'all

Awesome songs today on the whole.

Really not hearing "Rhythm Nation, Part 2" in "If." If there's a zero-effort "Rhythm Nation, Part 2," it's the two songs that follow it on the RN1814 album.

The main thing "If" has going for it is that psycho-intense filtering on the Supremes sample that turns it into some sort of android killing machine.

Uh-oh. Woulda figured at least one of those two Janet songs in the top 10 - and I wouldn't have even been surprised at "What Have You Done" going top 5. Guess I really should've voted for more Janet tracks.

So are any Janet songs gonna place top 10?

Aside from maybe "That's the Way Love Goes," I mean?

Right now, it's looking like "If" is it for the top 10. Maybe "Pleasure Principal."

omg, new (old?) pron title

Would love "Throb" or "What About" to place, but I think it's probably too late for that now.

Is this going to turn into the Stevie Wonder poll all over again, with Innervisions (or, in this case, Thriller) taking up over half the top 10?

I can see "Don't Stop Till Tou Get Enough" winning though.

The way these results have been going, it's too soon to make calls, but I'm starting to feel an "I Want You Back" triumph over "Billie Jean."

"Billie Jean" didn't even win the Thriller poll: THRILLER POLL

i really think "Don't Stop" is gonna take it all, since it's kind of THE Off The Wall hit where most of the other big Michael/Janet albums will kind of have votes split between a bunch of different songs

when "PYT" wins I'm going to give you all such a look

My dentist had 'Black or White' on earlier, I think that was a sign.

Plenty more from Off the Wall to come, I think (hope). Maybe more than from Thriller?

i went to an office birthday party today and "PYT" was playing on the stereo, goddamn i love that song

there are at least 4 songs from Thriller guaranteed to show up later, i seriously doubt that many from Off The Wall will place this high

I dunno how anyone could listen to PYT and not be creeped out by it

Yeah, unless you are receptive to an awesome song full of great hooks.

haha i was actually gonna say it's amazing that "PYT" hasn't been tainted at all by MJ's later life, at least not for me

"Don't Stop" and "Rock With You" are shoo-ins at least.

no doubt. but so are "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" and "Human Nature" and "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'."

wait so "Miss You Much" isn't going to place?

i honestly have no idea, seems like a 50/50 shot at this point

"Miss You Much" is totally a top 20 song, come on

yeah I mean you'd think it's a given

bold prediction: I think "Beat It" won't make this poll

you're probably right, but i'd be more confident if i hadn't cut it from my ballot at the last minute (xpost)

euler you crazy

"Miss You Much" is my least favorite RN single :(

I love "Beat It" but it's a lot harder for me to separate from the hype when it was new than any other MJ song. plus the video while classic is also hilariously lame: Michael as killer is such a bad look.

that is a very weird image to take away from the "Beat It" video

were the knifes just for cutting salad?

(avoiding a circumcision joke)

Michael didn't have a knife!

he looked so lame in that vdeo that every teenager in america tried to copy his outfit for years

like the entire story of the video was "Michael wanders around town singing to himself before showing up at a rumble to stop it with choreographed dance", I am not quite sure how that translates to "Michael as killer"

imo the bigger question is "which Paul duet cracked the top 20?"

I thought he had a knife! it's been years. & it is true that the look was popular. but I dunno: I'll retreat to the view that "Michael wanders around town singing to himself before showing up at a rumble to stop it with choreographed dance" is hilariously lame

btw I voted for "Ben"

Here's the video for reference: http://youtu.be/meT2eqgDjiM

some really rong things being said about "beat it" itt. the choreography in that video is my favorite MJ choreography ever. on those turns, he looks like he's about to take flight. also one of the songs that took on new resonance for me after his death; i had never noticed how sad the lyrics are before. it was my top-placing Thriller song.

Here's my challop: I only started being able to listen to "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" without turning it off in disgust last year. It is easily my least favorite of Janet's classic period and good bit worse than some of her later not-so-classic-period singles (particularly "Feedback" and "All Nite (Don't Stop)")