best run of 3 or more Hot 100 #1 singles from one album

haha always hated en vogue's 'free yr mind' - just so dorky as rock, comparable to changing 'yr ass' to 'the rest'. 'black cat' i'm just not crazy about in relation to that album, it's like 'ignoreland' on automatic for the people. plus her vocals are too thin to pull it off imo. 'dirty diana' is pretty great (if no 'beat it'), steve steven's solo shreds. love bad enough as is but considering how mj rawks out was great every time out - 'beat it', 'dirty diana', 'give in to me' - i do wonder what it would've been like if mj's followup to thriller is just to go full rawk, give in to the edgar winter fan he was as a kid and simultaneously fuck w/ prince by giving america the purple rain 2 prince wasn't interested in.

i'm old enough to have owned those american beatles lps as a kid and i barely remembered, the extent to which the switch to cd allowed the beatles to finally completely erase the existence of those is kinda amazing.

the confessions singles. they're really diverse!

yeah kind of amazing how much they were able to whitewash the existence of several records that sold millions (xpost)

I love all three of those Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" singles - so that.

George Michael easy

it's so crazy that there were THIRTEEN number ones off of three 1987 albums

That era was the peak of "indie promoter" radio payola wasn't it?

Supremes for me.

my favorites are michael jackson, monica, christina aguilera, justin timberlake, fergie. i'll think a little more before i decide which one gets my vote.

I do wonder how "Black Cat" became the only Janet song to date with a solo writing credit; all hands on deck on the instrumental credits.

a "Black Cat" vs "Dirty Diana" poll would be awesome.

i do wonder what it would've been like if mj's followup to thriller is just to go full rawk, give in to the edgar winter fan he was as a kid and simultaneously fuck w/ prince by giving america the purple rain 2 prince wasn't interested in.

not the immediate followup, of course, but to a degree Dangerous picks up that baton.

Thought about it some more, and I should have voted for the Supremes. Very close. "Eight Days a Week"/"Ticket to Ride"/"Help" would beat just about anything for me, but alas, not the same album (though consecutive).

Good one!

― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, October 29, 2012 11:26 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

is this sarcasm

George Michael easy

― croup the color of mayonnaise (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, October 29, 2012 4:42 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark

my dude

Timberlake v Madonna v George Michael v Saturday Night Fever. Timberlake's run is unusually consistent - very much of a piece.

Close between Saturday Night Fever and George Michael for me.

Supremes

Oooh I could've voted Wham! too but seeing a dud like "Father figure" on this list turned me off

Wham! vs. George Michael for me. All classics except "Monkey".

The 3 #1 singles from Whitney's first album are my 3 favorite singles by her.

I might've considered Fergie had "Fergalicious" made #1 instead of "Glamorous".

Madonna and Janet are obviously very strong except for "Black Cat", which I always found laughable and anoying.

Not that it would make a difference, but Milli Vanilli should have "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" instead of "Girl You Know It's True" (which was #2).

wait -- how is "Father Figure" a dud? Don't you love loud breathy gay man whispering in your ear about being warm and neh-kid by your side?

haha how can anything but "Big Girls Don't Cry" be the weak link in the Fergie trio

"Glamorous" is nothing special imo. And it had the spelling the title thing for the second single in a row.
"Big Girls Don't Cry" has a great chorus, but her voice is awful.

"Father figure" is a dirge, even at age 8 I knew it was a dud. Also I think I was confused by "I want your sex" at the time, I have mixed feelings about that album

wait -- how is "Father Figure" a dud? Don't you love loud breathy gay man whispering in your ear about being warm and neh-kid by your side?

I agree, "Father Figure" is classic.
(x-post)

I was 14 and I knew it was classic.

Sexy breathing sure but then eight George Michaels start screaming they want to be your father and it's the most tedious chorus ever written, you're not my father George

PUT YOUR TINY HAAAAND IN MAHHHNE

George Michael, like Ne-Yo, is attracted to hermit crabs

In "One More Try" he's kind singing from the perspective of the twink instead of being the daddy.

^^^^^ otm

Did Sean Combs ever use Twink Daddy as a pseudonym?

or, the boy from "A Different Corner" grown up.

Love "Father Figure"; "Monkey" kills that run for me.

I approach these multi-song things as a harmonic mean question. If you rate three songs out of 10, a 9/9/9 would be better than a 10/9/8; an 8/8/8 would be much better than a 10/10/4. Forget the exact formula.

yeah, each chain is only as strong as its weakest link

how would Hermann Cain rate them?

which is the line of thinking that makes it hard for me to justify voting for anything but The Supremes (xpost)

I call your Herman Cain, and raise you a "How would Anton LaVey rate them?"

Love "Father Figure"; "Monkey" kills that run for me.

OTM. I saw him live the other week and Father Figure was spellbinding.

How does the weakest link mentality work when it's a run of 4 or 5 (or 6 love you Katy but ugh)

Whoops, Katy's at 5 too.

Lol at Twink Daddy. (x-post)

Yeah it seems I'm alone in seeing the truth about "Father figure" but being exposed to that song when you still think of "father" as "a real life mental image of your dad" and then having it go into "I want your sex" is a fucked up thing

You can stretch the group as far as you want:

http://www.emathzone.com/tutorials/basic-statistics/harmonic-mean.html

but he says "Not everybody does it but everybody should" -- the choice is yours whether to have Dad fuck you.

same deal i guess -- "Bad" is so bad that it cancels out some of the good Bad singles (xpost)

I just wanted to bop around to "Faith"
Interesting, you don't like "Bad"? Really? imo it's "Dirty Diana" weighs down that boat and "I just can't stop loving you" that sinks it

Timberlake's run is unusually consistent - very much of a piece.

― Deafening silence

unusually? every Justified single was perfect imo

whaaaat nobody likes "Bad"

i will take about a dozen Justin/N Sync singles over every FutureSex hit besides "My Love"

I voted for the Premes, probably should have voted for Paula instead.

The anecdote about Michael admitting to Daryl Hall that he based "Billie Jean"'s bassline on "I Can't Go For That" is kind of funny to me cause H&O straight ripped it off from "Tramp". At least MJ switched it up!