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

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."

Like three well-selected cheeses in a grilled sandwich.

Like a nylon lemon peel.

i voted for the cj mackintosh and dave dorrell house mix of 'alright' so i guess that counted towards the total, in which case that's my first to place. that mix is so gorgeous.

34. Janet Jackson - Nasty (111 points, 4 votes, 1 1st Place Vote) from Control, 1986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvh47EQnmu0

33. Janet Jackson - Escapade (112 points, 6 votes) from Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814, 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFX3gQHIroU

Nasty @ 34. :(

(the #1 vote was mine, btw)

Janet is doing a lot better in this poll than I thought she would. Hoping When I Think Of You will place later on, the highest of hers in my list.

i think what's gonna happen is michael-heavy top half, janet-heavy bottom half

Not only is Janet doing better than I expected, "cute Janet" (i.e. "Someone to Call My Lover," "Escapade") is doing waaaaay better. I expect "When I Think Of You" and "Together Again" to place in the top 20.

Escapade! The most recent track on my ballot iirc.

okay gotta go out so will do the last 2 for today now...

32. Michael Jackson - Get On The Floor (114 points, 4 votes, 2 1st Place Votes) from Off The Wall, 1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ierY2nOVX64

31. Janet Jackson - Empty (115 points, 5 votes) from The Velvet Rope, 1997

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxHbIoo3_xU

"Get On the Floor" just missed my ballot. Really, 30 different songs, easy, could have been my #11-20.

oh god EMPTY is just one of the GREATEST SONGS

Wow, 2 1st place votes for "Get on the Floor"? (It was on my ballot, in slot #20 iirc.)

greatest poll ever

No wait, "Empty" was the most recent track on my ballot.

(Not that anyone cares, just don't want to have a falsehood associated with my username for posterity)

Just listened to Velvet Rope for the first time this afternoon, Empty was the higlight by a long way.

Not one thing on my ballot has shown up so far, which is rather disconcerting. Am also slightly baffled at the love for "Get On the Floor". I voted for most of OTW in the end but didn't feel too sad at cutting that one.

Oh well, still 30 to go...

Am also slightly baffled at the love for "Get On the Floor".

Two (or maybe one) words: Bass. Line.

fuck yesssssss at those two. really pleasant surprise to see them place.

really hope those Bad (as in the album "Bad") singles won't make much of an impact on this list. only Smooth Criminal deserves to be in this company imo

Yay for the Jacksons!! "Let's dance, let's shout..."

What? That is crazy; "The Way You Make Me Feel", "Dirty Diana" and "Liberian Girl" are all fantastic songs, not to mention "Another Part of Me", and "Man in the Mirror" was the original MJ aspirational song before it became a ridiculous cliche.

oh also "I Just Can't Stop Loving You"! I mean, Bad is a fucking great album, in many ways superior to Dangerous

I like more songs on Bad than I dislike, but it's the least of the 4 big ones, I think.

Still, I'm positive "The Way You Make Me Feel" was my highest-ranking post-Thriller track.

I mean, I do agree that "The Way You Make Me Feel" and "Smooth Criminal" are the two clear standout tracks on the album, but the rest of the songs on the album are in the "good" to "amazing" spectrum.

Even "Bad" sounded pretty not bad the last time I heard it.

i dunno, i always considered "the way you make me feel" to be super-corny and not especially badass

which is strange because i'm pretty sure "man in the mirror" is my favorite song from "Bad" right now pretty much entirely due to the vocal performance and the structure... like you think the song is almost over about 2 minutes from the end, but it turns out he's just getting started...