It's POLL For You -- ILM artist poll #103 -- JANET JACKSON (voting open until July 24, 2020)

BTW, I am not accepting ballots with fewer than 10 songs, and regard ballots with only two songs to be trolling.

what if the two songs are "Empty" and "Miss You Much"

They were both from All For You.

The first Jackson album has several Rene & Angela jams, one of which smokes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RLwRsTwV64

"Say You Do" is on the shortlist to make my ballot.

I would still accept "When We Oooo" and "Would You Mind"

I really do love that All For You takes Janet's traditional block of four album-closing ballads and moves them right up to the first half.

And then is all "now that you're comfortable, here's a goofy thing with Carly Simon"

Doesn't Really Matter and Someone To Call My Lover are probably both going to be in my top 10.

"Doesn't Really Matter" was such a perfect summer jam. I don't think anyone thought that confident mid tempo thing would be her first post-VR single.

lmao just thinking about being the kind of artist who has a run like control -> velvet rope

peerless

I'd say Madonna ---> Erotica is the only competition.

jam

woo oo

rebel

that's right

show me a more perfect drum track than the one on "nasty"

"Doesn't Really Matter" was such a perfect summer jam. I don't think anyone thought that confident mid tempo thing would be her first post-VR single.

She was the only person in Nutty Professor 2 with a song on the soundtrack; it would have been weird for it not to have been a single.

"what have you done for me lately" is a programming wonder and v much an early case of jam/lewis as industrial collage artists

Y'all need Control: The Remixes in your life.

omigod I've forgotten "When We Ooo" and "Trust a Try."

I honestly didn't remember how many non-album tracks and B-sides she has that I'm now giving serious consideration.

that ballad section of all for you is a career highlight, it's like you've fallen into a universe of pillows

"what have you done for me lately" is a programming wonder and v much an early case of jam/lewis as industrial collage artists

half of the beats on Rhythm Nation could be lifted wholesale by KMFDM and people wouldn't blink

Love love love this remix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcjXxEA6lMI

half of the beats on Rhythm Nation could be lifted wholesale by KMFDM and people wouldn't blink

― shout-out to his family (DJP

otm. I've said often that Rhythm Nation's beats compete with Meat Beat Manifesto's easily.

show me a more perfect drum track than the one on "nasty"

I listened to "Nasty" for the first time in a long time recently, and that syncopated percussion still sounds like the future to me. Plus some cool change-ups in between those sections. I'd put it in the running for GOAT

Control's title track has become my favorite -- it's steel. And "The Pleasure Principle"! My god.

"this time" is kinda the template for the epics on futuresex/lovesounds right? it rules

I love it too

Gonna be pretty hard for me not to include pretty much every song from the first two thirds of janet.

putting together a ballot already seems impossible and i've only just gotten to rhythm nation

Don't know who well regarded/remembered this ebullient soundtrack duet is these days, but here's a friendly reminder not to sleep on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79SNvZi3ltE

I listened to All For You on my way to and back from work today and it sounded so good in the sun. The ballads are all so gorgeous. When We Ooo, China Love and Love Scene will all be on my list. I always forget how great Better Days is too. Probably my favourite closer of hers (not including the nine second outro obviously).

(xpost) Very high on my ballot.

Seems I put "When We Oooo" between "The Greatest" and "Hairless Toys" on a mixtape once, guess I was feeling super ILMy back then

Currently in "Discipline is 10x better than I realized" mode, wow @ "Luv" -> "Rock with U"

You know what single rarely gets much love? "Because of Love."

Oh wow, is that house mix the actual definitive version? I've had the new jack version on my playlists this whole time not knowing about the other version!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbuiKmTh8Mk

Probably my favourite closer of hers (not including the nine second outro obviously).

For me I think that's still the slept-on "Someday is Tonight."

"Because of Love" is perfectly sequenced on the album, after the previous five or six songs' worth of genre zigging and zagging, nailing the landing with another "Escapade."

otoh "Again" is still a damp Kleenex.

the way she sings it elevates it

"Again" > "Anytime, Anyplace"

Received 3 ballots so far. I hope people don't sleep on the sidebar polls: albums, remixes, music videos (and interludes).

"love will never do without you": a near-six minute swirl of the best melodies ever written

plus a perfect herb ritts video

otm

(i am definitely participating in the music videos side poll)

“Love Will Never Do” is currently one of three songs in contention for my #1 slot.

this poll is weird, my top three will all have legitimate claim to being my favorite song of all time

(not that i've really settled on what my top three looks like, but "escapade" and "if" are in there)

lmao i just cried while listening to "escapade"

lol I am so bad at this

sorry Eric, I did intend to vote but somehow couldn't get my shit together

Based on some of what you've been stunting for upthread, I think you'll be more or less cool with the results as they are.

Mostly more tho.

currently jammin "when i think of you" in stater bros, it's a sign!

Control: The Remixes always reminds me of this snippet in the Faith-era Rolling Stone interview with George Micheal;

"How do they get that sound?” He is driving down London’s Piccadilly, turning heads in nearby cars as he marvels at the thunderous bass on the Janet Jackson remix album that’s playing on the CD player in his black Mercedes sedan.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/george-michael-seriously-80896/

Control: The Remixes

oh hey there's an album of peak era janet that i've never heard.

(looks up details)

it was never released in america ò_ó

and oh hey, the "cool summer mix" absolutely fucking slays.

i could have been jammin this heat for the last twenty three years if i didn't live in merckah, but whatever, this is fine. i guess.

ò_ó

iirc it's on American spotify now tho, along with a ton of other Janet remixes

lmao it's almost twice the length of the album itself

Holy shit, y'all, Spotify has remix "singles" for Rhythm Nation, Miss You Much, Escapade, Alright, Come BAck To Me, Black Cat, Love Will Never Do, and State Of The World that are ALL album-length as well (like 45-75 min)

can't wait for this

It's The Pleasure Princi-POLL -- ILM Artist Poll #103 -- JANET JACKSON Results Thread