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

I am assuming no one felt they needed to rewatch the video

lol what is that?

maybe "lame" is too strong but yeah West Side Story is hilarious! gangs! dancing!

I love "Beat It" btw even though I didn't vote for it here

u r my sworn enemy

let's dance it out

Can't believe you're hating on Beat It, when Bad exists

http://i.imgur.com/8z4o9.png

so cool

Billie Jean's gonna win anyway so I only voted for Beat It

instead of both

Can't believe you're hating on Beat It, when Bad exists

lol after much deliberation I gave "Bad" the slot above "Beat It" on my ballot

and by deliberation I mean vodka

just rewatched the actual beat it video to double-check; the choreography at the end once mj has broken up the fight: still breathtaking

oh crut

ismael otm, anything hollow or ridic about the tough guy poses of "beat it" was totally eclipsed by "bad"

although really one thing i love about the '80s is that whole quaint pre-gangsta rap run dmc era when you could just wear a leather jacket and frown and instantly be the toughest dude on MTV

horseshoe: that was the Pomplemoose cover of "Beat It"

gross

some people think it's gross but it's pretty good on toast

Got Til Its Gone was my #1. It is p much everything I love in music wrapped up in one awesome pop song. Plus I think the video factored in although I bet we all kinda voted on videos as well as the songs themselves. This must be the most obvious artist poll yet for that to happen?

I don't dislike a song yet! And this poll is making me think I should revisit Bad, even though I already know I dislike half of it.

Feel like I honestly can't make an obvious guess at what the top 2 will be either, which is refreshing for an ilx poll. Gonna guess at 6 Janet, 4 J5/TJ, 1 Other Jackson solo and 9 Michael.

"got til it's gone" is a great video, but it doesn't cohere as a song for me.

I'm not taken with "Love Will Never Do" either, and, interestingly, like "Miss You Much" it's the only RN single for which Janet gets no songwriting credit.

oh see I think "Miss You Much" is the biznizz

basically all of the stompy non-"Rhythm Nation"esque songs on Rhythm Nation suffer in my eyes because they aren't "Miss You Much" (although there was a remix of "Escapade" that helped me fall in love with it, also "onn annn escapaade, BEHBEH")

have you heard the album version on LWND -- with the Herb Alpert solo? I prefer it!

on = of

I have heard the album version. Like I said, I don't detest it anymore but it's not my fave.

Miss results much.

I'm going to die of old age before I get to do my depeche mode ballot poll

Dude, you're at #18, and #14 is next! Pity the poor schmoe in the 40s. Maybe Chap will trade his Bowie spot with you.

crut, as one of the youngest ilxors, if you die of old age, all your potential voters will have already shuffled off this mortal coil.

busy busy busy today, will post these tonight when i get home

20. Michael Jackson - Stranger in Moscow (164 points, 9 votes) from HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, 1996

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEEMi2j6lYE

dang, just leaving work now, but look forward to coming back to see more results tonight

19. The Jackson 5 - ABC (166 points, 7 votes) from ABC, 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho7796-au8U

Didn't vote for 'ABC' - I always see it as 'I Want You Back II', only inferior in every way.

Stranger in Moscow is an okay song (I probably haven't even thought about it since the 90s). How the hell did it end up so high?

because it's a great song

There's nothing obviously "Michael Jackson" about it, though. meh.

I had never even heard "Stranger In Moscow" until MJ died

This feels like the first real challop in this poll (or maybe I'm the one being challopy).

nah, "Stranger in Moscow" is terrific, made my ballot

It's kind of boring

There's nothing obviously "Michael Jackson" about it, though. meh.

eh, dude, the rhythm of the song is pretty michael jackson, and the way the rest of the song seems to phase in out of nowhere? way exquisite

18. Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror (170 points, 8 votes) from Bad, 1987

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps

17. Janet Jackson - The Pleasure Principle (176 points, 7 votes) from Control, 1986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gu1KETjVY

I only learned to love "The Pleasure Principle" in the last five years, particularly the remix.

"pleasure principle" is my favorite janet song that is not "if"

every time i hear it is like hearing it for the first time

"pleasure principle" is my favorite janet song that is not "if"

^^^

wow, "stranger in moscow" was on my ballot at #20 but i can't believe it placed so high!

<3 the video for "pleasure principle"

"pleasure principle" was my #4