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

I have heard the album version. Like I said, I don't detest it anymore but it's not my fave.

Miss results much.

I'm going to die of old age before I get to do my depeche mode ballot poll

Dude, you're at #18, and #14 is next! Pity the poor schmoe in the 40s. Maybe Chap will trade his Bowie spot with you.

crut, as one of the youngest ilxors, if you die of old age, all your potential voters will have already shuffled off this mortal coil.

busy busy busy today, will post these tonight when i get home

20. Michael Jackson - Stranger in Moscow (164 points, 9 votes) from HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, 1996

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEEMi2j6lYE

dang, just leaving work now, but look forward to coming back to see more results tonight

19. The Jackson 5 - ABC (166 points, 7 votes) from ABC, 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho7796-au8U

Didn't vote for 'ABC' - I always see it as 'I Want You Back II', only inferior in every way.

Stranger in Moscow is an okay song (I probably haven't even thought about it since the 90s). How the hell did it end up so high?

because it's a great song

There's nothing obviously "Michael Jackson" about it, though. meh.

I had never even heard "Stranger In Moscow" until MJ died

This feels like the first real challop in this poll (or maybe I'm the one being challopy).

nah, "Stranger in Moscow" is terrific, made my ballot

It's kind of boring

There's nothing obviously "Michael Jackson" about it, though. meh.

eh, dude, the rhythm of the song is pretty michael jackson, and the way the rest of the song seems to phase in out of nowhere? way exquisite

18. Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror (170 points, 8 votes) from Bad, 1987

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps

17. Janet Jackson - The Pleasure Principle (176 points, 7 votes) from Control, 1986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gu1KETjVY

I only learned to love "The Pleasure Principle" in the last five years, particularly the remix.

"pleasure principle" is my favorite janet song that is not "if"

every time i hear it is like hearing it for the first time

"pleasure principle" is my favorite janet song that is not "if"

^^^

wow, "stranger in moscow" was on my ballot at #20 but i can't believe it placed so high!

<3 the video for "pleasure principle"

"pleasure principle" was my #4

16. Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal (180 points, 8 votes) from Bad, 1987

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWucYbAp8Lk

15. Rebbie Jackson - Centipede (206 points, 8 votes, 1 1st Place Vote) from Centipede, 1984

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8SdzwoIcwo

Hold on, 'Smooth Criminal' way down here?! Only eight votes out of 27?!

these polls always throw up at least one incredible song that i'm amazed i've never heard; 'centipede' was it this time.

what the

didn't even know there WAS a Rebbie Jackson

NICE

My reaction to this pair:

Smooth Criminal TOO LOW
Centipede THIS SONG RULES HOW CAN PEOPLE NOT KNOW ABOUT IT

I'd never heard of "Centipede" before people started talking about it on the prepoll thread.

Rebbie Jackson is actually Condoleeza Rice rite

14. Janet Jackson - When I Think Of You (214 points, 8 votes, 1 1st Place Vote) from Control, 1986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaleKN9GQ54

13. Michael Jackson - Off The Wall (235 points, 10 votes, 1 1st Place Vote) from Off The Wall, 1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S11eGmzM-4E

best michael track.

man. i voted "off the wall" but i should have voted it higher.

wow Stranger In Moscow.. always been a fave of mine.

12. Janet Jackson - That's The Way Love Goes (240 points, 9 votes) from janet., 1993

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S11eGmzM-4E

11. Michael Jackson - PYT (Pretty Young Thing) (240 points, 10 votes, 1 1st Place Vote) from Thriller, 1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rebkOM8RQDo

damn it, janet. sorry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUOkg4jFNus

oh shit.. its gettin heated

i really hoped #11 and #12 would have made it to the top 10

pyt really is just about the best thing EVER.

ok if PYT made it, Beat It obv is also gonna

expected more J5, not that my ballot helped with that

Awesomeness all around yet again today. Really shocked "Smooth Criminal" landed outside the top 10.

I guess this means I can stop holding out hope for the as-awesome-as-"Centipede"-in-my-opinion "Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming."

Is it heretical to claim Robert Palmer's cover of "Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming" is superior?

Nope.