I Swear this along with Human Nature are my all time Favorite MJ Tracks. it's just so good, everytime i hear it i can't help but wonder how people could not see the pure genius of the man. who else agrees??

I hate it with a passion. Probably the only Off the Wall track i can't listen to.

It's a Paul McCartney and Wings song.

jayaredee said:

minneapolisgenius said:

who did it first? cause McCartney said he wrote the song for Michael....



of course that's before Paul McCartney showed us the ass he really was.... but i'm not getting into that. just saying it.

P2daP said:

I'm not sure actually.

Calling Sdldawn! He'll know....

and I'm not sure which version I like better though.
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minneapolisgenius said:

Really?? i didnt know that, but I'm sure Michael's version is 1000% better than Paul & wings version

Wait, it's on London Town.

Which came out in '78.

London Town certainly won’t floor you on the first listen, but after you’ve heard “Girlfriend,” “Backwards Traveller” and “I’m Carrying” a few times, their charms may win you over (in fact, Michael Jackson liked “Girlfriend” enough to cover it himself). The album’s sedate (some might say “sad”) songs are hardly arena friendly, but the band’s pop craftsmanship is clearly still intact. If you’re looking for Wings’ most underrated album, this is it.

"It's The Falling In Love" is the best slept-on gem on Off The Wall.

I think it's the weakest song on the album. It just drags.

Girlfriiiiiend
I'm gonna tell your boooooyfriend
YEAH!

The best part of the song is

Doo doo doot dootdoo doot doot doot doo doo fade

P2daP said:

Macca had it on his album a year before. Mary was a big Jackson 5 fan, Paul and MJ met at a party in 76 and Paul told MJ he wrote a song for him.

and Paul is no ass, btw.

Xavier23 said:

They are actually very similar. Except MJ's is a bit "funkier". Well funk-lite I'll say. REALLY funk-lite.
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JackieBlue said:

like whatevr, "get on the floor" is the weakest song on the album

I disagree. Especially when you have songs like "Rock With You" and "get On The Floor", which I think are sonically better.

JackieBlue said:

I sung that part. U got all the doo doot's in there

When I hear this song now, I just laugh. "Girlfriend" - yeah right, Michael.

I love the H out of this album.

Everything's solid on it. No complaints. No song I favor over the other, every gem is a standout.

It's perfect.

JANFAN4L said:

Off te Wall, huh?

I love this album too.

this album is amazing! tho girlfriend is easily the weakest song on it, but its a really nice track, very easy to digest!

I prefer "Get on the Floor".

The song and Michael's singing has so much energy on it!

Moonbeam said:

Not the BEST song on Off The Wall (that's "I Can't Help It"), but I certainly don't skip "Girlfriend".

Girlfriend is the best song on this album

minneapolisgenius said:

So thats why it sucks


I may actually play that album for "its the falling in love", i think i agree with stonecrib on that one.

jayaredee said:

I agree with u with a passion. I don't care if Paul did write it, his version AND MJ's both blows as far as I'm concerned. Mike never even would have considered doing this cut if Sir Paul hadn't wrote it. That song is sorry.

"It's the Falling in Love" is better in my opinion.

Xavier23 said:

I used to think Get On the Floor was the weakest but more and more I would hear things in it that I didn't pick up on previous listens. The groove and percussion are great and I like his low vocals and OMG, the break is too hot!

I love the song. It actually the song that made me want to listen to the entire album when i was 13.

Off The Wall is my fave with Working Day & Night coming in at second.

StoneCrib said:

I agree! That song is excellent and could have easily been a single in 1979.

no matter how it starts it ends the same
someone's always doing someone wrong