JANFAN4L said:

I love how she was pacing back and forth at the beginning mouthing the intro and sizing up the crowd. She looks so bossy, almost sinister like, "I'm about to hit yo' a** over the head with this..." LMAO!! Then the music starts and everybody is just straight jammin'. I love watching people jam (that's what I *missed* about that show in particular).

And who the hell was that dude towards the end in the white polyester/cotton blend trenchcoat? Looks like he was Joe Popular in high school and carried that over into the real world? Dude hopped onstage with Janet like he's meant to be there. I know some dancers were stars on Soul Train, but you dealin' with a legend! HAHA! I wonder if that dude knew the impact of what this woman was putting out that year and how long lasting it would later be. I know he told everyone he knew years later that he "...ON STAGE WITH JANET!"

And now, can we get some ST Scramble board please!

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JANFAN4L said:

The description at the bottom says, "This is another rare performance from Janet Jackson on Soul Train, and the guy's name whose up there with the kicks and spins is none other than Mr. Soul Train himself, Reggie Thornton."

DynamicSavior said:

I was wondering if anyone else saw that comment.

"omg, i LOOOOVED this janet. chubby, head to toe black, no titty falling out, good music, and a dried out jheri curl don king mullet, but she was STILl tha s**t! Go'on girl, miss janet!"

Rude, but funny.

RipHer2Shreds said:

Gotcha. Well, he needs to re-activate or something.

I need to leave that poor man alone.

JANFAN4L said:

Yeah, he's doing some serious mugging. I don't care how good a dancer you are, you are not the star of the show! And he was straight up vogue-ing. Maybe we could call this the original video for Vogue?

JANFAN4L said:

ME TOO!

CinisterCee said:

JANFAN4L said:

Correction...

RipHer2Shreds said:

CinisterCee said:

RipHer2Shreds said:

I know, right! This dude looks like he hopped out Paris Is Burning. Throwin' shade... Looks like some New York house father/mother.

Hey, can anyone tell me if MTV used to show the long version of this video with they aired it? You know, with Janet leaving her house and not wanting to take a limo, getting mad at her dad, taking her car and then Flyte Tyme show up?

Or was the video shortened?

JANFAN4L said:

not sure , but do you know when Control ( the album) was released. lol I plan on making a control Ablum cover T-shirt and I was going to put the release date on there.
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JANFAN4L said:

I know when it was on MuchMusic (), they usually showed the long version. Sometimes to shorten it, they started it at the chair lowering after her acapella intro speech.

shortstuff45220 said:

Cool! The release date varies (even according to Janet's own retrospective material), but most conclude it was February 4, 1986.

P.S. When you make that shirt, PLEASE let me know!! I'd love to see it! I've been trying to make a Control 20th anniv. shirt myself and that's something I'm really passionate about completing before Janet's new album kick off.
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CinisterCee said:

Thanks! So you do remember the scene with Flyte Tyme driving in the vintage car eating Golden Bird Fried Chicken

JANFAN4L said:

oh yeah, the whole thing. They always played the whole "ticket lineup" scene for Nasty as well.

I never payed attention 2 it until 1996 when I heard it on the Greatest Hits album



Ok video
I love the drum programming, its FIRE

CinisterCee said:

mtv would do the same thing..depending on whatever mood the programmer was in i guess.

JANFAN - There's something I want to tell you....there's something I think that you should know...how long until the next installment?

amit1234 said:

Hehe! Well, it'll be here rather shortly. I say by the end of this weekend with some certainty. Stay tuned...

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These are comments from a blog on Entertainment Weekly concerning Jimmy Jam's recent comments on Janet's upcoming CD. It's funny reading people's reactions to the fact that it's been 20 yrs since "Control". Damn! 20 years?!!!


March 03, 2006
Janet Jackson: 'Control' is 20!

"Glaaaaadiator!" No, I'm not writing my second blog item of the week about Elizabeth Taylor. Rather, it's just the sound of me, realizing I'm thoroughly, undeniably old. What's got me feeling so geezer-ific this morning? Why, it's a quote from Janet Jackson's frequent collaborator Jimmy Jam, telling MTV.com about the singer's upcoming CD: ''We're celebrating 20 years since the Control album, so it would be crazy not to at least acknowledge that a little bit. So we're digging out all the old sounds that we haven't used in years and she sounds fantastic. It's a record for the hardcore Janet fans: It's very danceable, very upbeat, very happy."

What's that? Control came out 20 years ago? Really? Okay, then, gimme a beat! And a bottle of Geritol.


Posted by Michael Slezak | 03. 3.06, 12:03 PM


Comments
I remember my best friend from high school and I trying to figure out how we could step on the chair and tilt it down to the floor without busting our ass, and do the whap like how Janet Jackson did in the Pleasure Priciple. I think my knees are bad right now at 34 from trying to drag them on the ground like she did in that video. Hey, we are getting older kids. It's a part of life. We are kids of the baby boomers!

Bunni | Mar 4, 2006 9:21:01 AM

Um.. I was 13... Dude, where's my geritol?!?!

Mario | Mar 4, 2006 6:00:46 AM

OI... I can't believe it.. I'm old!... LOL LOL.. I remember buying the cassette for this album and I think that I still have it somewhere in my stack!

Daphne | Mar 3, 2006 10:20:51 PM

I was -3 when Control came out! lol

joey | Mar 3, 2006 6:38:23 PM

I was 16 when Control was released and remember some of the senior girls doing moves from "Nasty" as part of their senior assembly. They had to take some of the moves out as they were deemed "too racy" by our principal.
To make some of us feel even OLDER (including myself), I saw the "Fresh Festival" in 1985. It featured a little known LL Cool J. Curtis Blow and Whodini were the major acts and headlining was Run-DMC!! I still have my souvenir "headband" from the show.

Mary | Mar 3, 2006 6:36:11 PM

Ep Sato -

I do remember the CoverGirls - but I hadn't thought of them in SO LONG. I actually went to a concert where Lisa Lisa was the headliner, Expose was on right before her and the first act was the unknown Ice-T - so scary!!! I had the original Expose album - the one before they put the new version of "Point of No Return" on it - how I wish I had kept it. I downloaded Lisa Lisa's "I Wonder If I Take You Home" from iTunes after BEP's used the chorus in their song and quite frankly it didn't hold up for me, but back then I thought she was it!

djm | Mar 3, 2006 5:30:19 PM

I was 12 when Control came out and i can't remember how many times i danced to those songs, fucking up the VCR playing her videos that i had recorded from TV shows back and forth and pausing and rewinding trying to learn every single move. I actually had my Control revival last year when i picked up the cd for the first time in a decade and got blown away by the sheer quality
of the album and the memories it conjured up. Control is a pop classic. It will never get old!!!!!


Delon | Mar 3, 2006 4:36:08 PM

Oh My GOD!!!! I'm Old.

Catherine | Mar 3, 2006 3:47:18 PM

Jeez, that makes me feel like an ancient geezer. For the love of Pete, this album came out when I was old enough to have my own mind and make my own decisions, one of which being to get an ear pierced so I could hang my house keys in a hoop! How cool was it to be Nasty while vowing to wait a while. Back in those days, I would party to her music, but now it seems my dancing feet are always on my couch. And, with that comes the thought that Paula went from "what's up girl? He stood you up again?" to sputtering babble such as "That's not the best song selection for you, and you had pitch problems here and there, but you look great tonight and you have such a light that shines through when you sing that America is already falling in love with you. You're a star."

Terry Cromwell | Mar 3, 2006 2:01:43 PM

"Control" was great...when she still had her baby fat. Janet, what have you done for me lately?

Paul U. | Mar 3, 2006 1:59:23 PM

loved old school janet much more than her recent years, with the exception of the velvet rope. happy to see a return. i do feel old now, thanks! how time flies by.

love the shout outs to the cover girls and expose..."Exposure" was the first cassette i ever bought. I had Janet's on record. aww yea.

miv | Mar 3, 2006 1:49:41 PM

DJM-
You rock for that awesome "Freestyle" friendly flashback. I too look back on the days of "Freestyle" with a big grin. Remember the Cover Girls? They were like the New York version of Miami's Expose.

And Lisa Lisa has demonstrated her staying power now that the Black Eyed Pea's use her chorus "I wonder if I'll take you home".

One last thing. Anyone else wierded out when they hear kids refer to Tupac, Tribe and the Pharcyde as "Old school rap"? That makes me cringe every time...

Ep Sato | Mar 3, 2006 1:38:15 PM

thanks for making me feel like a fossil Michael. I worked in a "record" store when that album was hot and I remember doing a display using her ALBUMS (not cd's). Scary. Janet, Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam and Expose - what a SUMMER!!!

djm | Mar 3, 2006 1:24:01 PM

I'm with ya, Michael; we're the same age. I still remember the first time I heard the term 'oldies from the 80's' on the radio...NOOOOO!!!!!

Joe | Mar 3, 2006 1:03:17 PM

Looking forward to Janet's album. Let's put the ridiculous SuperBowl thing behind us. She was treated unfairly. She's done a lot of good things and she's made some fine music.

Tom | Mar 3, 2006 12:39:37 PM

Yes, it freaks me out too. Dude, I wasn't even 10 when that album came out! What will wierd me out though, is when people talk about the 20th anniversary of the release of Snoop's first album (only 7 years away). Anyone else remember when hip hop music was so new that most "record stores" didn't even have a "rap" section? Yo, that was 20 years ago!

Ep Sato | Mar 3, 2006 12:21:27 PM






http://popwatch.ew.com/po...tor_n.html

Something to read on your Sunday.

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i see nothing..

sosgemini said:

Janfan meant the thread...

ABeautifulOne said:

You really should publish this as a set.

Moonbeam said:

I'm definitely archiving everything.

sosgemini said:

The woman who played Janet's mother in the video was her childhood mom on the show Good Times Ja'net DuBois.

The father, anyone?