I like GM but come on !I suppose the results are not based on music/performance considerations only...
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 17 May 2019 09:54 (four years ago) link
why wouldn't they?
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 May 2019 10:25 (four years ago) link
Well, it's possible of course but I have a hard time thinking 60% of people like GM more than MJ if you strictly consider musical aspects.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 17 May 2019 10:30 (four years ago) link
95% of MJs music is garbage
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 May 2019 14:01 (four years ago) link
ahah ok then !
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 17 May 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
No challops itt, I see.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Friday, 17 May 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
80% garbage is fair and generous for Jackson's solo material - even the Quincy albums have a lot of highly competent dross, and there's little of worth outside them
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Friday, 17 May 2019 14:26 (four years ago) link
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I was trying to refrain from saying "only on ILM" for the 100th time the moment the poll results came in, but yeah, this is one of those "only on ILM" things.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 17 May 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
You mean it's only on ILM that Michael Jackson is judged on more than just the music?
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Friday, 17 May 2019 14:58 (four years ago) link
We need a poll on who had the better post-death acts of kindness discoveries
― PaulTMA, Friday, 17 May 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
MJ could never, would never, write a song like "Outside" GM forever.
― ABSOLUTELY NO SCRUBS WHATSOEVER, Thursday, 23 May 2019 04:02 (four years ago) link
yes!
― the late great, Thursday, 23 May 2019 04:22 (four years ago) link
its kind of obvious of course, but it’s interesting to see how GM/Wham had hits but was not really taken seriously at all in the 80s but has now firmly been rehabilitated, while MJ had the opposite arc.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 23 May 2019 06:31 (four years ago) link
Challops time: MJ was only good in the '70s (with his '79 solo album Off the Wall being his only good solo album). Not weighing in on George Michael, though, whose music I'm not as familiar with (though I did admire his singing talent).
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Saturday, 25 May 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
I hadn't listened to Ladies & Gentlemen until now - I wanted to put on his uptempo/dance material, so I streamed disc two, and it's pretty awesome. The split (which pushes all the ballads on to disc one) doesn't feel like a utilitarian gimmick, at least for disc two, which really flows like a cohesive work in its own right. Even with the omission of "I Want Your Sex Pt. 1," I'd put it up there with Off the Wall as one of the great dance albums (and IMHO that was the only truly great album Jackson ever recorded - nothing else he did ever came close in terms of consistency).
― birdistheword, Saturday, 13 January 2024 18:53 (three months ago) link
as front-to-back great as the three Quincy produced Michael Jackson records
I think the only one of those three that actually meets that description is Off the Wall. The other two are about half great and half not so great.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 13 January 2024 19:06 (three months ago) link