4. Michael Jackson - Human Nature (443 points, 16 votes, 3 1st Place Votes) from Thriller, 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BlKDXmdiUQ
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 24 February 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
3. Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough (449 points, 16 votes, 3 1st Place Votes) from Off The Wall, 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yURRmWtbTbo
oh shit i need to leave for work in ten minutes plz hurry! or dont, and i'll have a nice surprise in the morning.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 24 February 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
1. Rockwell feat Michael Jackson - Somebody's Watching Me (5000 points, 48 votes 20 1st Place Votes)
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
wtf these results are crazy!
i mean that in a good way.
except Thats the way love goes >> If
― billstevejim, Friday, 24 February 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't vote for "don't stop til you get enough," which i can't really defend. it's definitely the mj song that most immediately and consistently makes me want to dance. one time i was at a bakery and it came on and i had to suppress dancey vibes. then a dude came in and immediately started to dance up and down the narrow space in front of the counter. that dude otm.
― horseshoe, Friday, 24 February 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
"human nature" was my #2 and is very beautiful.
― horseshoe, Friday, 24 February 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
I can't believe "The Girl Is Mine" got #2, well done everyone
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
wtf how did that not make #1
2 = Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'1 = I Want You Back
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
Now, Dan, we're not going to fight about this, ok?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
#2 Do The Bartman
― billstevejim, Friday, 24 February 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
you know what song I really, really like in spite of myself, is "They Don't Care About Us"
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
okay had a long day so without further ado...
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 24 February 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
1 & 2. Hold My Hand - Michael Jackson feat. Akon from some terrible fucking album except for that Yellow Magic Orchestra track which sort of rules actually, 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oCCnxBos10
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 24 February 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, February 24, 2012 4:42 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i almost voted for it, heard the non-"kick me kike me" edit a lot after MJ died and it grew on me
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
no lie, "They Don't Care About Us" was one of the most thrilling parts of "This Is It" (the other being "Earth Song")
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
i still need to see that!
― horseshoe, Friday, 24 February 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
seriously though i know this cover is actually hella old but this is great and also the video is wonderful - watch it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx2ZmhYHxH4
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 24 February 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
This is killing me.
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
C'mon mama say, mama saw, et al.
2. Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ (455 points, 16 votes) from Thriller, 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VaveOTQEZg
1. The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back (521 points, 17 votes, 3 1st Place Votes) from Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5, 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfJu_Bom2sA
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 24 February 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
SMH
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
the only predictable part of this poll
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks to everyone that voted!
I want you back wins any ts ever.
― horseshoe, Sunday, September 9, 2007 1:56 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i want you back wins all polls
― horseshoe, Tuesday, March 16, 2010 8:07 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i want you back is the greatest song of all time so
― horseshoe, Monday, June 13, 2011 2:24 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― horseshoe, Friday, 24 February 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
Best debut single by anyone, ever, in the history of everything.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
thank you, Jamie_ATP!
ZERO #1 votes???????????????
― robbery by sudden snatching (DJP), Friday, 24 February 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
My blind spot is the rest of y'alls deaf spot.
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Friday, 24 February 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
your deaf spot is my def spot
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
horseshoe otm, even though "Don't Stop" was my #1 and I Want You Back wasn't my top J5 song
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Friday, 24 February 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
I'm going to glass-half-full today's results and thank voters for recognizing Janet's best single.
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Friday, 24 February 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
thanks, Jamie! My favorite poll in months.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
Awesome Jamie, thanks (except that Say Say Say didn't make it)
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 24 February 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
cool poll, deserved winner
― J0rdan S., Friday, 24 February 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
thanks Jamie!xp also bummed about no Say Say Say even though I forgot to vote for it
― billstevejim, Friday, 24 February 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
actually it's now striking me as amazing that "State of shock" placed but not "say say say" which is a better and more popular song
― billstevejim, Friday, 24 February 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
Perfect 1-2. Good job.
― clemenza, Friday, 24 February 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
Make that perfect 1-2-3.
― clemenza, Friday, 24 February 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
SMH― dead-trius (Eric H.), Friday, February 24, 2012 9:58 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Friday, February 24, 2012 9:58 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
SMH AT U
horseshoe otm up there.
― seandalai, Friday, 24 February 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
I can't really argue with the #1 - I mean it is one of the most perfect pop singles ever, but still, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" shoulda won this. It's perfecter.
"Don't Stop" wasn't even my #1 though - I picked "Beat It", which was probably my favorite song in the world from age 8 to 10.
― wolf cola, everyone (thewufs), Friday, 24 February 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
I prefer Don't Stop to Wanna Be but come on, I Want You Back is basically the perfect pop song.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Friday, 24 February 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
I asked my coworker what the real appeal of Wanna Be... is, and she said "that's one of those songs where the singer catches the holy ghost in a way that can't be faked." I still don't get that from it, but I think I can see why people like it so much now.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 February 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
Yr coworker is OTM
― wolf cola, everyone (thewufs), Friday, 24 February 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
amazing, you know oddly i didn't think people thought THAT much of Wanna Be Startin.. so glad that they do. what a TUNE.
― piscesx, Saturday, 25 February 2012 04:35 (twelve years ago) link
"Wanna Be Startin' Something" was my #2, and it's definitely my favourite MJ single of all time. Everything about is just perfect: the way it starts full-force (thus mirroring the chorus lyric), no intro or anything, with that ridiculously catchy bassline; the way the verses just repeat the same things over and over again, but the way Michael emotes them manages to give each line poignancy; the way the production and arranging on the tune is so impeccable, so aurally pleasing it practically shines; the oddball lyrical injections only MJ could pull of so convincingly ("you're a vegetable", wtf?); the mama-se mama-sa mama mako-ssa coda that (controversy ahoy!) he pulls off with more soul than Manu Dibango ever did in the original. I just love every second of this tune!
― Tuomas, Saturday, 25 February 2012 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
the mama-se mama-sa mama mako-ssa coda that (controversy ahoy!) he pulls off with more soul than Manu Dibango ever did in the original.
tbf, I don't feel like that part of the Manu Dibango song was supposed to be "soulful" in the first place aside from appearing in a song called "Soul Makossa," unless for some reason you think afropop + African folk chants are supposed to resemble U.S. soul music
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Saturday, 25 February 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't mean to say it should sound like American soul, but I'm always surprised how flat the mama-se chant sounds in the original, especially compared to Dibango's very funky saxophone playing. I guess that may have been intentional, but I still prefer Michael's version of it.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 25 February 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago) link