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

"Human Nature" is the one you had down as a maybe that's a lock btw

i've never even heard of "can you feel it," it's not gonna be in the top 10. "centipede" was the last curveball.

Er, what? Is this a joke? "Can You Feel It" is like the best-known The Jacksons tune there is (alongside "Blame It on the Boogie") + the classic video will probably help it get high points + Madonna stole the bassline for "Material Girl" + The Tamperer sampled it for "Feel It".

the only video i've ever seen from '80s Jacksons is "Torture"

it looks like it did WAY better on european charts than in the u.s., though, so that's probably where our disconnect is stemming from. still don't think it'll place.

The best known Jacksons song in the states is "Shake Your Body...," Tuomas.

Okay... But "Can You Feel It" really played a lot on MTV. My family didn't get MTV until 1990, and I still saw it there several times.

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you realize you didn't grow up with the same MTV as most of the rest of us, though, right

Hmm, okay, maybe there really is some kind of Europe/US disconnect here? MTV Europe certainly loved that tune.

"Can You Feel It" is like the best-known The Jacksons tune there is

Chart (1981) 	Peak position
Dutch Singles Chart 	2
UK Singles Chart 	6
US Billboard Hot 100 	77
US Billboard R&B 	30

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Ummm Tuomas fyi Europe in itself has many seperate MTVs.

I think it's a draw between "Can You Feel It" and "Shake Your Body."

That's weird... I wonder why it was so much more popular in here than over there?

xpost I knew the former well before being exposed to the latter.

Ummm Tuomas fyi Europe in itself has many seperate MTVs.

Not until the late 90s, IIRC. Certainly not when I started watching it.

hell I hadn't heard "Lovely One" until two years ago.

In late seventies America the Jacksons weren't a major pop force; the success of Off The Wall eclipsed his bros' records.

oh shit yeah 1997... which is when i started paying attention to music and videos and whatever. Did they just show everything in English then or were there shows in Finnish shown in Greece etc. etc.?

Did they just show everything in English then or were there shows in Finnish shown in Greece etc. etc.?

It was just one English language MTV for the whole Europe. It was produced in Britain, though many of the hosts were from other countries.

I guess it was just vids+beavus and butthead/real word repeats at the time

10. Janet Jackson - Miss You Much (248 points, 10 votes) from Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814, 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVF0zcqr9Dg

9. The Jacksons - Can You Feel It (249 points, 11 votes, 1 1st Place Vote) from Triumph, 1980

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW1fXL3s7bk

hahahaha

also "Miss You Much" is SUCH A FUCKING JAM

lol I had typoed "HAM", I might start saying that now ("ooh watch out, that's my HAM")

lol

I nearly made this my number one, just awesome in so many ways.

after Michael died i started hearing "This Place Hotel" a lot but never "Can You Feel It," weird

'Can You Feel It', that is.

re: "Can You Feel It":

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;_;

so Together Again didn't make it and If is the highest placing Janet song, right?

RIP "Runaway", you continue to be underrated ;_;

Watch out for 'Janet in Super Bowl Boob Mishap' straight in at #3.

CYFI is dope and as a Europeaner it does seem odd people would know it. Seems like such a ubiquitus (sp?) song. Also I now need to go find a dictionary after finding out I'm not sure how to spell ubiquitus (sp?).

Also Tuomas the happy-sounding thing discouraging votes in this poll is crazy considering how many of these songs are just downright =) type jams.

would NOT know it, xpost to myself.

"ubiquitous"

Took me a few tries before I learned to spell that one right.

ty

Yeah, despite chart rankings, obv CYFI's stock in the Jackson canon has risen considerably.

Because it's killer, mostly.

i'm listening to it right now and...eh. might be more into it w/o the backing vocals singing the title over and over.

8. Janet Jackson - If (274 points, 10 votes, 2 1st Place Votes) from janet., 1993

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyciLWAv9BA

7. Michael Jackson - Beat It (337 points, 15 votes, 2 1st Place Votes) from Thriller, 1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym0hZG-zNOk

pleased with this placement for "beat it," whatever to the placement for "if"

lol remember when someone predicted "beat it" would miss the top 50

wow @ 50+ point differential between #8 and #7

"If" is just the motherfucking greatest. My #1.

michael looks so sad when he sings "no one wants to be defeated" sitting on his bed in the beginning

i am obsessed with the "beat it" video

Damn, Janet's highest ranking is #8?!

(I was the other 1st place vote for "If," obv.)

not surprised tbh