THE JACKSONS - Tracks Poll. Deadline Now End Of Friday 17th Feb!

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did you get my ballot, Jamie? I never got a confirmation email, & waiting is torture.

sorry i've been slow processing them and replying to people, yes i got it

god you know making a ballot is hard when you find yourself cutting songs you've loved virtually your entire life

^OTFM

indeed, i wanted to vote for a few more left field choices but just couldn't take out the obvious singles

only 16?? :(

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i'm going to try to vote in this

I voted!

feel like my ballot is going to be v boring and obvious because 20 tracks for jackson 5 + janet is impossible, leaving aside mj solo

here is my janet jackson challop: "rhythm nation" and "if" are essentially the same song, except "rhythm nation" is better.

I ignored the Jackson 5 utterly, which made my task a little easier.

but I selected several songs by The Jacksons. Go figure.

no "i want you back" no cred >:[

xxxp If gives you the Gap Band, Rhythm Nation gives you Sly Stone. you win either way.

I ignored the Jackson 5 utterly

what the... but how... but...

I didn't get a confirmation email, should I have done? If not I can just re-send my ballot.

I ignored the Jackson 5 utterly

Yeah, me too. I just generally don't like any tunes with children singing on them, and young MJ is no exception. Voted for several The Jacksons tunes though.

No i'm just slow in replying. don't worry.

I ignored the Jackson 5 utterly

Yeah, me too. I just generally don't like any tunes with children singing on them, and young MJ is no exception

Hah. My ballot restores the balance a bit. Nothing on it post-'79 I think!

Tuomas, not even Dancing Machine?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQY-uzzm7GA

I wasn't going to vote, since I'm not a fan of much solo Jackson stuff, but I can't deal with the thought of ignoring the J5 altogether. Sending a short ballot.

I adore the Jackson 5 but if I have to include them along with The Jacksons, Janet and Michael on my list it would proved too brain-breaking a task.

LOL, I wonder how many ballots are exclusively pre- or post-puberty.

man only 1 Janet song survived in my top 20. I think she's all right, but she's definitely not my thing as much as the Jackson 5 or pre-Dangerous solo MJ.

janet suffered more in my ballot trimming than i expected, felt bad but i also gave her my #1

In my ballot she's the essential distraction b/w Thriller and Bad, and she just soars after 1990.

Speaking of, I hope one of you voted for "Diamonds."

Pretty sure my ballot was half Janet.

Mine too.

And nothing pre-1977 except for "I Wanna Be Where You Are."

A Janet song also had my biggest fall from grace, I guess. If this poll had been done 10 years ago, "Together Again" might have been my number 2 or 3. Now it wasn't even on my shortlist of 40 or so.

haha please tell me Alfred is the only person here with a Bad-heavy ballot

Sorry I didn't vote during the og run, thought this was just the Jacksons. But I voted for 20 Janet songs and boy was that hard. Already I am thinking of things I missed by her. OMG i love her so much (well 80s and 90s janet - maybe i should give the past couple records another try.)

for your consideration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4R4kWPqM00

okay cool we're on 23 ballots now so enough to make it work

I'm gonna hammer out a ballot at work today, so it will probably arrive really close to the deadline.

yeah i feel like 20 is kinda the invisible line it's most important to cross. i definitely breathed easier when the Timbaland poll got over that number.

I think this'll be the least predictable reveal since these artist polls started.

Nooh.

haha please tell me Alfred is the only person here with a Bad-heavy ballot

Not a one! I thought my distaste for Bad was well known.

"The Way You Make Me Feel" better be on everyone else's ballots.

'You Rock My World', is what he means

He meant "Morphine."

Leave me alone.

haha please tell me Alfred is the only person here with a Bad-heavy ballot

Not a one! I thought my distaste for Bad was well known.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, February 17, 2012 10:18 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know what "In my ballot [Janet]'s the essential distraction b/w Thriller and Bad" means, then, I thought you were saying that the bulk of your ballot was Thriller and Bad songs with Janet songs cutting into that

A Janet song also had my biggest fall from grace, I guess. If this poll had been done 10 years ago, "Together Again" might have been my number 2 or 3. Now it wasn't even on my shortlist of 40 or so.

"Together Again" was my #3, I loved it when it came out and still do - such a positive vibe and hip-shaking beat. Why did it fall from your grace?

I wasn't clear: I meant to say that at the time Janet provided welcome distraction while I wanted for a Thriller followup.

oh ok

*waited. I gotta stop eating sunflower seeds.

Why did it fall from your grace?

The production somehow went from sounding cute and stripped down to cheap and tacky. Sentiment is still nice, tho.