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

24. The Jackson 5 - Never Can Say Goodbye (138 points, 6 votes) from Maybe Tomorrow, 1971

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snihdG1rE0Y

23. The Jackson 5 - I'll Be There (143 points, 6 votes, 1 1st Place Vote) from Third Album, 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6pAxF2br_U&feature=related

how is "I'll Be There" so low

just started listening to the Spotify playlist, 50 may have been too much...huge improvement starting in the high 30s. great countdown so far though!

how is "I'll Be There" so low

because either "Centipede" or "Diamonds" will be #1 with a bullet

i would've been surprised if "I'll Be There" placed higher tbh

because either "Centipede" or "Diamonds" will be #1 with a bullet

Not if my ballot box stuffing on behalf of "Hot Potato" has anything to say about it.

Might as well get this challops out of the way now. If "ABC" and "I Want You Back" place above "If" and "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough," I'll be pissed.

― dead-trius (Eric H.), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:49 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

listen, "i want you back" has to be reckoned with

also, regarding "if":

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

― horseshoe, Thursday, February 16, 2012 10:45 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in conclusion:

IT'S TIME TO GIVE A DAMN LET'S WORK TOGETHER

that's not a challop, that's true

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

It's not a challop!

I like "If" fine though, especially her feral tone on the verses.

"thriller" didn't even make my ballot but it seems too low. everything on this poll is too low.

i thought it was a challop because "If" is such an ilx fave

ha I was just about to post that the main thing "If" has going for it is Janet singing in a low tenor register for most of the verse and the rising scale out of it that leads into the pre-chorus

her outfit in the "if" video is the cutest thing she's ever worn, maybe

it actually shocked college-aged me that I was taken aback at Janet Jackson cooing "your silky smooth/It feels so good against my lips, sugar" at me

I mean, I got over it in like 5 seconds but at first I was all "well I guess we're done with waiting!"

"Got To Be There," "Never Can Say Goodbye," and "I'll Be There" are pretty much the alpha & omega of music

I mean, I got over it in like 5 seconds but at first I was all "well I guess we're done with waiting!"

― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:56 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha rich juzwiak had a good summary at some point of the evolution of janet's thematic concerns, album-by-album. i tried to find it to link on the nominations thread. even when it becomes and sort of stays the sex chronicles with janet there's a lot of variation of focus in the later albums.

last two for today

22. Janet Jackson - What Have You Done for Me Lately? (161 points, 8 votes) Tied with 21
from Control, 1986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9uizdKZAGE

21. Janet Jackson - Got ‘til It’s Gone (161 points, 8 votes, 1 1st Place Vote) Tied with 22 from The Velvet Rope, 1997

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uznTHSEgx4U

"I'll Be There" was my #1; would've expected a Top 10 finish.

yay "what have you done for me lately"!!! that has aged better for me than "nasty." is also a much better song than "got 'til it's gone" imo, though i love velvet rope.

yay "what have you done for me lately"!!! that has aged better for me than "nasty."

Agreed

"empty" should be higher than "got til it's gone," y'all

Awesome songs today on the whole.

Really not hearing "Rhythm Nation, Part 2" in "If." If there's a zero-effort "Rhythm Nation, Part 2," it's the two songs that follow it on the RN1814 album.

The main thing "If" has going for it is that psycho-intense filtering on the Supremes sample that turns it into some sort of android killing machine.

Uh-oh. Woulda figured at least one of those two Janet songs in the top 10 - and I wouldn't have even been surprised at "What Have You Done" going top 5. Guess I really should've voted for more Janet tracks.

So are any Janet songs gonna place top 10?

Aside from maybe "That's the Way Love Goes," I mean?

Right now, it's looking like "If" is it for the top 10. Maybe "Pleasure Principal."

omg, new (old?) pron title

Would love "Throb" or "What About" to place, but I think it's probably too late for that now.

Is this going to turn into the Stevie Wonder poll all over again, with Innervisions (or, in this case, Thriller) taking up over half the top 10?

I can see "Don't Stop Till Tou Get Enough" winning though.

The way these results have been going, it's too soon to make calls, but I'm starting to feel an "I Want You Back" triumph over "Billie Jean."

"Billie Jean" didn't even win the Thriller poll: THRILLER POLL

i really think "Don't Stop" is gonna take it all, since it's kind of THE Off The Wall hit where most of the other big Michael/Janet albums will kind of have votes split between a bunch of different songs

when "PYT" wins I'm going to give you all such a look

My dentist had 'Black or White' on earlier, I think that was a sign.

Plenty more from Off the Wall to come, I think (hope). Maybe more than from Thriller?

i went to an office birthday party today and "PYT" was playing on the stereo, goddamn i love that song

there are at least 4 songs from Thriller guaranteed to show up later, i seriously doubt that many from Off The Wall will place this high

I dunno how anyone could listen to PYT and not be creeped out by it

Yeah, unless you are receptive to an awesome song full of great hooks.

haha i was actually gonna say it's amazing that "PYT" hasn't been tainted at all by MJ's later life, at least not for me

"Don't Stop" and "Rock With You" are shoo-ins at least.

no doubt. but so are "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" and "Human Nature" and "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'."

wait so "Miss You Much" isn't going to place?