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

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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":

This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
Sorry about that.

;_;

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

Still, I can only think of one song that's going to place in the top 6 that's going to make me wish it was lower than "If."

Beat It was my no.1. Perfect record (like that distinguishes it in this poll).

they'll kick you and they beat you and they'll tell you it's fair, btw ;_;

so pissed i have no idea how to search for a gif of the guy who does the crazy head wobble dance move in the "beat it" vid

so many gifs needed from the "beat it" vid

http://boardreader.com/thread/You_know_that_guy_in_the_Beat_It_video_w_gkezX2cuc7v.html

6. Michael Jackson - Rock With You (370 points, 15 votes, 1 1st Place Vote) from Off The Wall, 1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X-Mrc2l1d0

5. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (384 points, 15 votes, 1 1st Place Vote) from Thriller, 1982

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

seems ridic to complain about "rock with you" placing too low and yet