hey y'all, taking a brief hiatus from my hiatus to say you're all legends for getting "go deep" in the top ten
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 7 August 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
"Control" was my #1. The greatest artist statement in music history.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 7 August 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, August 7, 2020
besos
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 August 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
^^^^^^^
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
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10. Luv Me, Luv Me (with Shaggy, 1998; 1,492.5 points; 27 votes)
why does shaggy hate women so much?
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
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― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 7 August 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
tbh I think this should be #10
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 7 August 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
I figured there were too many actual fans of 20 Y.O. itt to go for, say, "So Excited."
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
I also would have accepted "Feel It Boy" in the top 10
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 7 August 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
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10. ALL FOR YOU (from All For You, 2001; 1,496.5 points; 28 votes)
when i was in college i heard a mediocre a cappella group performing the title track and i yelled out the "EDIT 4 3 2 1 chk" part from the audience and everyone else laughed :'(― dyl, Sunday, August 18, 2013 9:58 AM (six years ago)
since they came out around the same time, "all for you" sounds like a lost classic off 'fever'― J0rdan S., Sunday, August 18, 2013 2:06 PM (six years ago)
Just now hearing "All for You" -- pretty great!― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Sunday, October 28, 2012 11:17 PM (seven years ago)
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
(Thanks for that one, Spottie!)
'all for you" into 'can't get you out of my head' = silk
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 7 August 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
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09. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY (from Control, 1986; 1,554 points; 26 votes; 1 first-place vote)
"what have you done for me lately" is a programming wonder and v much an early case of jam/lewis as industrial collage artists― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, July 1, 2020 9:33 AM (one month ago)
only just now realising how structurally weird "what have you done for me lately" is. it really spends over half its runtime (from 2:17 until the end) messing around repeating the chorus― ufo, Wednesday, July 22, 2020 4:06 AM (two weeks ago)
Ha, just noticed that 'What Have You Done For Me Lately?" features twice in my ballot!― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Saturday, February 25, 2012 9:57 AM (eight years ago)
I had forgotten how terrifying "Joyful, Joyful" is. When it gets to the "OPP" part, part of my soul dies, bet then it goes on to quote "What Have You Done For Me Lately?" and the rest of my soul implodes and I am left actively hating everything and everyone and praying for nuclear Armageddon.― juggalo iglesias (HI DERE), Thursday, September 16, 2010 1:42 PM (nine years ago)
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
I was quite young but this thing SLAMMED in 1986.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
Will never forget the spilled milkshake.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
Ah, my #2 pick. Iconic
― erasingclouds, Friday, 7 August 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
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08. THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE (from Control, 1986; 1,561 points; 26 votes; 2 first-place votes)
Gary Numan - the Pleasure Principle, man what a great find.― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Wednesday, October 22, 2003 4:11 AM (sixteen years ago)
so it turns out this is a support slot for Gary Numan performing The Pleasure Principle in full― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Sunday, January 30, 2011 4:29 PM (nine years ago)
"Pleasure Principle" is great. Numan's first three albums are all good listens.― earlnash, Sunday, November 23, 2003 11:21 PM (sixteen years ago)
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
The principle of pleasure!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
lol @ those quotes!
― bunny slopes, Friday, 7 August 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
Sort of sums up my impression of ILM rn.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
I don't think there's another Janet song where my impression has done a fuller 180. I used to loathe this track growing up. Somehow in the last 5-10 years, it's become an unshakable top 3 Janet tune.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
It might be even steelier than "Control" or "Nasty."
The only Control single in which she had no hand in writing.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
It broke her top five streak too.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
I always considered it and "Lets Wait Awhile" to be the minor Control singles. Only came around to really liking either of them when I was putting my ballot together.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
xp Can't really fathom why it stalled out at that point tbh.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link
A&M was also promoting Herb Alpert's "Diamonds," and we know who the A of A&M was.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
Yeah, just looked up the charts and saw the two criss-crossing slots in the summer of '87.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 19:52 (three years ago) link
welp, my #1 has already shown, but my #2 has not. this is gonna be good. . .
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
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07. THAT'S THE WAY LOVE GOES (from janet., 1993; 1,625.5 points; 27 votes; 1 first-place vote)
that's the way love goes sounds like a rumors era vintage fleetwood track w/ slightly more modern production― turkey in the straw (x2) (remy bean), Saturday, October 22, 2011 9:46 AM (eight years ago)
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
solid jam. definitely feels right in the top ten.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
Didn't do anything for me when it was new, and still doesn't.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
whats not to like???
― Spottie, Friday, 7 August 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
Probably more of a personal defect than anything to do with the song: there's nothing wrong with it, I just can't get into it. Listened to it plenty when putting my ballot together, too, so if ever I was going to have a change of heart, it was gonna be now.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
It's fascinating to me that this is the track that's Janet's longest-running #1 hit (right?).
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
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06. GO DEEP (from The Velvet Rope, 1997; 1,625.5 points; 29 votes)
"Go Deep" always struck me as what all the g-funk-influenced r&b jams of the mid-90s would have sounded like if they took their cues from DJ Quik instead of Dr. Dre.― Teddy Riley (The Reverend), Sunday, October 19, 2008 3:33 AM (eleven years ago)
"Go Deep" is an excellently fluffy electro-disco throwback.― Tim F, Sunday, October 19, 2008 12:05 AM (eleven years ago)
The opening bars of "Go Deep" -- the synth farts, the percussion -- are as awesome as "Escapade"'s and "What Have You Done For Me Lately."― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, January 14, 2015 4:08 PM (five years ago)
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:30 (three years ago) link
It's a bit thin sonically, but gawd those sounds and that earworm chorus
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
YESSS
― bunny slopes, Friday, 7 August 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
perfect rev quote
― Spottie, Friday, 7 August 2020 20:33 (three years ago) link
always felt like the sister to 112's 'Only You'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVOqbskGeBs
― Spottie, Friday, 7 August 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
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05. WHEN I THINK OF YOU (from Control, 1986; 1,667.5 points; 31 votes; 1 first-place vote)
oh god that part in When I think of You (which thx to this has been in my head ALLLLLL morning, hittin tennis balls hummin) - the part at the end where it swells and she laughs. mmmm― Surmounter, Sunday, June 24, 2007 12:48 PM (thirteen years ago)
"When I Think of You" -- sometimes I think that was the best song of the decade― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, May 8, 2001 7:00 PM (nineteen years ago)
My favourite Janet song of the 80s, my second favourite overall behind Empty.― kitchen person, Wednesday, May 17, 2017 12:46 PM (three years ago)
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
The best laugh in pop history.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 August 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
love that "Go Deep" thing where the song has basically ended but no one can stop singing
― geoffreyess, Friday, 7 August 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
I have a video of my cat asking for a tummy rub while "When I Think of You" plays in the background. Happy times.
― geoffreyess, Friday, 7 August 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
my most blissed out few minutes of listening for this poll happened with this song on headphones. one of those "why can't I always be this fully present for / surrounded by music" moments.
― geoffreyess, Friday, 7 August 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
when i think of you is all about the bass line and horn stabs.
― Spottie, Friday, 7 August 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
It was the song I thought would be my #1 going into this poll. I found only one Janet song that I could claim to like better.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Friday, 7 August 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link
given what's left for the top 4 I wouldn't think "Escapade" could be surpassed for #1, but my assumptions about the order have so far been wildly wrong
― geoffreyess, Friday, 7 August 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
LET'S GO
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 August 2020 21:45 (three years ago) link
one of those "why can't I always be this fully present for / surrounded by music" moments.
whew, those are the best.
ftr i listened to 'empty' for the first time today. zen buddhist footwork in 1997, cool cool
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 7 August 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
yes, when it's all said and done, this has been a blast of a rollout because i don't know if there's a true consensus here.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 7 August 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link