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

it's sooooooo the best single from Dangerous. total summer jam aceness.

I don't much like Remember the Time...too new jack swingy.

much as i love torture it probably shouldn't be ahead of remember the time

good thing i didn't end up voting for it

"State of the World" would have been the eighth single had the record company reneged on a physical single.

Its seven commercial singles all peaked within the top five on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the first and only album to achieve that feat.

Hah - I didn't even think "Torture" was gonna place. And over "Remember the Time"? Wow. Both were in my top 10, but damn - if I'd known it was gonna come out like this I would've switched their places. I love "Torture", but RTT is the better song, no doubt.

Also Jamie OTM.

it's sooooooo the best single from Dangerous.

would agree with this were "who is it" not a single from dangerous

that's enough for today - 10 more coming tomorrow

"Who Is It" is my favorite.

too new jack swingy.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, February 20, 2012 12:55 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

does not compute

i cut dangerous from my ballot entirely, but it was excruciating. love "remember the time" and "in the closet"

Somehow, "She Drives Me Wild" is my most played Dangerous track as per iTunes, by a whole lot. (Not a single, I know.)

(Also, not that it was on my ballot.)

lol xp

There's something about the swing in the new jack swing (and the snare sounds) that are like kryptonite for my ears.

I wish "Give In To Me" had been a single – his best use of metal hysterics.

everything should be new jack swingier

I wish "Give In To Me" had been a single – his best use of metal hysterics.

Wow, I don't think I've listened to this since 92 or so, but it's great.

did "state of shock" place because of mick jagger's creepy ad-libs at the end

kind of a worthless song imo especially when compared to its immediate surroundings in this list

"Shock"s placement feels sort of like classic ILX lurker results, but, again, I think the animosity it inspires is way overstated.

"Looka me...looka me...lookame...lookame....look...at...me..lookame...(unhh!)"

hey, old-timers: how was "State of Shock" received in '84? I read an issue of Billboard published that July which noted how the single apparently stalled for a few weeks before peaking in the top five.

damn! so glad I helped LWNDWY, In The Closet and Remember the Time place

Looks like Control will have more songs place than Rhythm Nation. weird

I love "State of Shock" unreservedly.

Looks like Control will have more songs place than Rhythm Nation. weird

― gospodin simmel, Monday, February 20, 2012 1:37 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

don't get how you can know this? i voted for a bunch of rythm nation singles; none of them was love will never do, though i like it.

but also, if that does happen, it won't be that weird; control is awesome

It's a little too soon to suggest the poll's going to give Janet the short end. But I have the fear.

xxp I always think of RN as the biggest Janet album, nothing against Control (which must have three more songs on this thing, right?)

lot of love on ilx for velvet rope iirc. for example, i love velvet rope. it's more vibe-y and less singles-y, i guess.

40. The Jacksons - Blame It on the Boogie (100 points, 5 votes) from Destiny, 1978

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amN8UynV5pA

39. Janet Jackson - Someone To Call My Lover (103 points, 4 votes) from All for You, 2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGjKASt6hmw

Blame It on the Boogie! It still would've placed w/o my vote, but I'm glad I could give it a bump.

This Janet track is nice. I've not spent any time with the All For You album and missed it as a single, but I like it.

God, I love me some disco-era Jacksons.

alright "Someone To Call My Lover"! thought "Scream" would be higher though

38. The Jacksons - This Place Hotel / Heartbreak Hotel (104 points, 6 votes) from Triumph, 1980

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDqO4nxk3xI

37. The Jacksons - Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) (109 points, 5 votes) Tied with 36 from Destiny, 1979

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

this is the only poll were every song is guaranteed to be amazing; I didn't even vote because how could I? too much awesome

Pretty much OTM, even if I'm not the biggest fan of "Let's Wait Awhile."

So glad to see This Place Hotel make it, it ended up being one of three tracks from that album that made my list.

I really don't remember Someone To Call My Lover, think I only know the title track from that album. It's never occured to me to check out any of her albums past Janet which I wasn't a big fan of. I Love Control and Rhythm Nation of course.

Janet's albums don't start becoming suspect until they start getting Dupri-ified, and even then there will be at least one face-melting song of greatness on there.

You should really check out The Velvet Rope and All For You

Blame it on the Boogie way too friggin' low but at least

i didn't even realize until i looked it up for my ballot that the Jacksons' "Heartbreak Hotel" technically was released under a different title; Whitney wasn't as scared of the Elvis estate when she released hers in the '90s

A weird suspicion on their part: titles aren't subject to copyright violations.

maybe it was more of act of deference/respect

36. Michael Jackson - Who Is It (109 points, 5 votes) Tied with 37 from Dangerous, 1992

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0M4EKhJHmI

35. Janet Jackson - Alright (109 points, 6 votes) from Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814, 1989

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

Excellent twosome.

this poll has been amazing so far.

All For You was the first Janet album I bought. I was on holiday with my mum in America to visit fam and I'd hang out w/ similar aged cousins watching lol TRL (lol America) when the vid came out and my cousins were crazy over it and I got hooked in. When I came home my brother told me about how great Velvet Rope and Janet were and my sis with the two before that and it was kinda this weird family-based love.

(don't think I voted for All For You the song though I gave points to Someone To Call My Lover, China Love and Doesn't Really Matter. Maybe the Carly Simon song too, which is :D)

"Alright" is so warm and inviting.

Alright was my #16 vote. Warm and inviting otm. Its like a hug at the end of a party.

I voted for "Alright." What an odd chorus! All these breathy couplets, then the resolution is "You're alright with me"? Awesome.

Chorus and verse and bridge (at least in the album version) melt together in "Alright."

How could I have not voted for "Forever Came Today"?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqOzPDB_L2g

that's one of my favorite J5 tracks, though it's a Supremes cover isn't it?

Yeah, but a most ebullient one.

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."

Thought about this comment today.