1)When Prince sings about making love to a woman it's believable
2)When Michael grabs his crotch, it's to check if there is anything there

3) When Prince sings about "sincerely wanting to fuck the taste out of your mouth" it is sung to a girl, not a little boy

4) Michael has been sued twice by the parents of his "little friends"....Prince..never

thedoveoflove said:

Are you kidding? That's the most cheesy, annoying song he ever made. I even like some of Michael's earlier stuff, but "Heal the World"??? Nooo.

The moment Prince records such an embarrassment, I'll stop bying his records.

I've always considered Michael Jackson to be a true genius.

I've also since 1996 liked Prince. i would say now hes my second favorite artist.

To be honest I consider Prince to be a poor mans Michael Jackson, but he puts out albums on a regular basis and i find most of them enjoyable, but never to the level of MJ's. Prince helps fill the time between Michael's albums.

I would say Michael is a far better singer, Dancer and songwriter. I also Think his live shows are the best ever. As far as musicainship goes prince can play more but I think Michael is maybe better on piano.

Prince is good but he at his best for me when doing pop type music and whenhe does I always hear Michaels influence in that music.

For me Michael is a 10/10

Prince a 8/10

I love this thread.


Next, we should discuss:

Who is better - The Beatles or Frankie Avalon!!!!!

or, Led Zeppelin vs. WINGER!!!!

or perhaps, Madonna vs. Stacey Q!!


I like Stacey Q, personally. Two of Hearts.... Two hearts that beat as one.


I NEED YOU, I NEED YOU!! I-I-I-I need, I need you.....

I love this thread.


Next, we should discuss:

Who is better - The Beatles or Frankie Avalon!!!!!

or, Led Zeppelin vs. WINGER!!!!

or perhaps, Madonna vs. Stacey Q!!


I like Stacey Q, personally. Two of Hearts.... Two hearts that beat as one.


I NEED YOU, I NEED YOU!! I-I-I-I need, I need you.....

songs written by MJ for others

diana ross muscles #10us 1982
This Had To be (Brothers Johnson)
Night time Lover (Latoya Jackson)
Alright Now (Ralph Tresvant)

Top 40 Hits written by prince for others

Stevie Nicks "Stand Back" (1983) #5 US
Chaka Khan "I Feel For You" (1984)#3 US #1 UK
Sheila E. "The Glamorous life" (1984) #7 US
The Time "The Bird" (1984) #36US
The Time "Jungle love" (1985) #20 US
Sheena Easton "Sugar walls" (1985) #9 US
Sheila E. "The Belle Of St Mark" (1985) #34 US #18 UK
Bangles "Manic Monday" (1986) #2 US (behind "Kiss, at #1), #2 UK
Sheila E. "A Love Bizarre" (1986) #11 US
Art Of Noise featuring Tom Jones "Kiss" (1988) #5 UK
Sinead O'Connor "Nothing Compares 2 U" (1990) #1 US #1 UK
Kid Creole & The Coconuts "The Sex Of It" (1990) #29 UK
MC Hammer "Pray" (1990) #2 US #8 UK (sampled)
The Time "Jerk Out" (1991) #9 US
Tevin Campbell "Round and Round" (1991) #11 US
Martika "Love... Thy Will Be Done" (1991) #10 US #9 UK
Martika "Martika's Kitchen " (1991) #17 UK
Monie Love "Born 2 B.R.E.E.D." (1993) #18 UK
Monie Love "In A Word Or 2 / The Power" (1993) #33 UK
New Power Generation "Get Wild" (1995) #19 UK
MoKenStef "He's Mine" (1995) #7 US (sampled "Do Me Baby")
New Power Generation "The Good " (1995) #29 UK
New Power Generation "Get Wild" (1997) #15 UK (reissue)
Ginuwine "When Doves Cry " (1997) #10 UK
Alicia Keys "How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore" (2002) #26 UK
Jay-Z featuring Beyonce Knowles "03 Bonnie & Clyde" (2003) #4 US #2 UK (sampled)
Inaya Day "Nasty Girl" (2005) #9 UK

Top 40 R&B Hits only written by prince

"Apollonia 6 "Sex Shooter" #19
"Sheila E "Sister Fate" #36
"Sheila E "Koo Koo" #35
"The Family "The Screams Of Passion" #9
"The Family "High Fashion" #34
"Patti Labelle "Yo Mister" #6
"Madhouse "6" #5
"Mazarati "100 MPH" #19
"Mavis Staples "Melody Cool" #36
"The Time "Get It Up" #6
"The Time "Cool" #7
"The Time "777-9311" #2
"The Time "The Walk" #24
"The Time "Ice Cream Castles" #11
"Vanity 6 "Nasty Girl" #7
[Edited 3/27/06 13:44pm]

songs written by MJ for others( i listed the onces which werent even hits)

diana ross muscles #10us 1982
This Had To be (Brothers Johnson)
Night time Lover (Latoya Jackson)
Alright Now (Ralph Tresvant)

Top 40 Hits written by prince for others

Stevie Nicks "Stand Back" (1983) #5 US
Chaka Khan "I Feel For You" (1984)#3 US #1 UK
Sheila E. "The Glamorous life" (1984) #7 US
The Time "The Bird" (1984) #36US
The Time "Jungle love" (1985) #20 US
Sheena Easton "Sugar walls" (1985) #9 US
Sheila E. "The Belle Of St Mark" (1985) #34 US #18 UK
Bangles "Manic Monday" (1986) #2 US (behind "Kiss, at #1), #2 UK
Sheila E. "A Love Bizarre" (1986) #11 US
Art Of Noise featuring Tom Jones "Kiss" (1988) #5 UK
Sinead O'Connor "Nothing Compares 2 U" (1990) #1 US #1 UK
Kid Creole & The Coconuts "The Sex Of It" (1990) #29 UK
MC Hammer "Pray" (1990) #2 US #8 UK (sampled)
The Time "Jerk Out" (1991) #9 US
Tevin Campbell "Round and Round" (1991) #11 US
Martika "Love... Thy Will Be Done" (1991) #10 US #9 UK
Martika "Martika's Kitchen " (1991) #17 UK
Monie Love "Born 2 B.R.E.E.D." (1993) #18 UK
Monie Love "In A Word Or 2 / The Power" (1993) #33 UK
New Power Generation "Get Wild" (1995) #19 UK
MoKenStef "He's Mine" (1995) #7 US (sampled "Do Me Baby")
New Power Generation "The Good " (1995) #29 UK
New Power Generation "Get Wild" (1997) #15 UK (reissue)
Ginuwine "When Doves Cry " (1997) #10 UK
Alicia Keys "How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore" (2002) #26 UK
Jay-Z featuring Beyonce Knowles "03 Bonnie & Clyde" (2003) #4 US #2 UK (sampled)
Inaya Day "Nasty Girl" (2005) #9 UK

Top 40 R&B Hits only written by prince

"Apollonia 6 "Sex Shooter" #19
"Sheila E "Sister Fate" #36
"Sheila E "Koo Koo" #35
"The Family "The Screams Of Passion" #9
"The Family "High Fashion" #34
"Patti Labelle "Yo Mister" #6
"Madhouse "6" #5
"Mazarati "100 MPH" #19
"Mavis Staples "Melody Cool" #36
"The Time "Get It Up" #6
"The Time "Cool" #7
"The Time "777-9311" #2
"The Time "The Walk" #24
"The Time "Ice Cream Castles" #11
"Vanity 6 "Nasty Girl" #7
[Edited 3/27/06 13:45pm]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, will one MJ fan PLEASE post a video of MJ playing ANY instrument. PLEASE!! Because I want to see it. I want to see this guy play something...ANYTHING...so that I don't have to think y'all are full of shit every time I read someone saying that MJ playz on teh instrumentz.

He play the piano quite well? After 40 years in the biz, you would think there would be footage of some kind of homenut playing the piano, wouldn't you?

And, oh yeah, Prince wins.

TheBigBang said:

If you can locate it, there is a Pepsi Commercial (i think its called 'Dreams'), where MJ is playing piano and singing "Ill Be There".

I've always considered Michael Jackson to be a true genius.

I've also since 1996 liked Prince. i would say now hes my second favorite artist.

To be honest I consider Prince to be a poor mans Michael Jackson, but he puts out albums on a regular basis and i find most of them enjoyable, but never to the level of MJ's. Prince helps fill the time between Michael's albums.

I would say Michael is a far better singer, Dancer and songwriter. I also Think his live shows are the best ever. As far as musicainship goes prince can play more but I think Michael is maybe better on piano.

Prince is good but he at his best for me when doing pop type music and whenhe does I always hear Michaels influence in that music.

For me Michael is a 10/10

Prince a 8/10

I've said it before and I'll say it again, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, will one MJ fan PLEASE post a video of MJ playing ANY instrument. PLEASE!! Because I want to see it. I want to see this guy play something...ANYTHING...so that I don't have to think y'all are full of shit every time I read someone saying that MJ playz on teh instrumentz.

He play the piano quite well? After 40 years in the biz, you would think there would be footage of some kind of homenut playing the piano, wouldn't you?

And, oh yeah, Prince wins.

prince himslef makes comments about this debate

http://www.youtube.com/wa...=prince%20

superfreak said:

http://www.youtube.com/wa...on%20pepsi

this is dreams but who is it i dont see it there

asg said:

oops. i guess it wasnt called dreams. In the commercial MJ's playing piano and singing "Ill Be There", then he is joined in singing by a sillouette of the child Michael.
But neway, there's some footage of MJ playing piano.

songs written by MJ for others( i listed the onces which werent even hits)

diana ross muscles #10us 1982
This Had To be (Brothers Johnson)
Night time Lover (Latoya Jackson)
Alright Now (Ralph Tresvant)

asg said:

Centipede (Rebbie Jackson)
[Edited 3/27/06 19:13pm]

I love Prince. I think Prince is a fabulous musician. However, if you ask the average person who would they consider to be a better music artist they will undeniably tell you Michael Jackson. Try it..
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The average person thinks Jessica Simpson is changing the musical landscape...if sales were a good guage of musical merit Silly Vanilly would be going to the rock and roll hall of fame...that said.
It’s amazing to me how this topic keeps resurfacing each year. On one hand I do understand…They’re both black, both operate in the same musical space- dance/R&B, both had their hey-days in the mid 80s, and both were considered legendary performers.
But that’s where the comparison basically ends. MJ changed the way we interpret and digest music through his use of video. He had a signature dance style that etched itself into the fabric of American dance history…though he did little to extend that from the mid 80s on. Prince certainly could dance and had a unique dancing style but he was not the accomplished dancer that Jackson was. Prince’s video’s were more of a side piece, a lesser companion to the art. His dancing was part of an overall performer that far exceeded just being able to dance and sing. And this is where they really split…Prince’s greatness is in his ability to not just sing and dance- but as U2 said- he’s much more than that. It’s his overall ability to put on a stage show that showcased singing, dancing (where Michael can certainly hang) but also, at the same time, his dazzling array of musical chops playing guitar, synth, drums, piano. Furthermore his stunning range from deep blues, to hard rock, to jazz to R&B to funk to to pop rock- he was and is a master of many styles. When I say that Prince is a far better performer than Michael Jackson it’s because be brings the full weight of all of this to his better concerts- playing, performing, singing, rearranging songs, going effortlessly from genre to genre. MJ can’t compete because he doesn’t do all these things and really was never driven to expand artistically.
Musically- prince’s heyday is comparable only to some of the most prolific artists in rock history. I believe only the Beatles had a period of higher quality output than Prince. If you study Prince’s watershed years from 1980 to 1988 his landmark albums advanced the musical landscape with a breadth rarely seen in pop music. For example, 1999’s influence can be heard from NIN to Stevie Nicks to Justin Timberlake to Outkast. And I don’t just mean they dug the album. There are musical ideas that ring throughout music today. In many ways that album legitimized the use of drum machines and synthesizers in rocks music. Up until that point if a synth cropped up in a rock song it always was regarded as cheesy and in most cases it was. A great article, I believe in Music magazine in the mid 80s once said that Prince proved that drum machines can have a heart provided the person doing the programming has a heart.
I’ve seen some people actually try and compare MJ and Prince’s history lyrically. If you want to compare the 90s output that’s fine but MJ’s lyrics- the ones he wrote- don’t come anywhere near Prince 80s genius. From the stark imagery of WDC to the stripped down funk of Kiss there’s a reason Prince can’t compete with Prince anymore. Go back to that landmark 1999 album and culled away on the B side you’ll find a depth and intelligence of lyric often and easily overlooked. Prince, at his best, produced lyrics that reflected the music and often music that reflected the lyrics. Automatic tells the tale of a person in an obsessive love affair- the whole song trudges along on a hypnotic synth line beautifully reflecting the transfixed state of the singer and then delves into sadomasochism to metaphor the dangers of fixated love. The following song Something in the water does not Compute finds our protagonist hurt time and time again only to emerge as the spiteful player on Lady Cab Driver where he gets down and dirty dedicating each pelvic thrust to some item of his lover or hate. That sequence alone can be analyzed for weeks. It’s brilliant stuff- deep, layered, knowingly smart and whimsical. There’s nothing in jackson’s catalog that even approximates this stuff. And I haven’t even touched LRC widely considered one of Rocks’ great metaphor songs. Or take the one offs- the gender bending role reversal of If I was your girlfriend, the simplicity of the lovers request in Kiss beautifully reflected in the minimalist arrangement and stripped down sound.
For what it’s worth Prince also blew the doors open on taboo subjects- after Sister everything rappers would do would just be in Prince’s footsteps. I remember reading an article that declared prince the Uncle of Rap because he gave them the young, cocksure black male exuding his sexuality attitude. Let’s not forget the Prince of dirty mind was ballsy and challenging in a way MJ never approximated. You’ll either get this next sentence or you won’t…Prince was once rock; MJ was never rock.
Hmm- we haven’t even discussed his chameleon changes, forays into Jazz, his brilliant side projects, his legendary post concert, concerts- for christ’s sake the guy created a side group- the time- that was enormous and spawned two of the music industries great producers.
Need we also forget Performed, arranged, composed and written by…
Someone also said MJ records thousands of songs but wants quality control. That’s a poor way to dismiss Prince’s prolificacy. The bodies of work are what they are and prince’s is a manifesto of brilliance during his heyday. The warts are there now as he approaches his late 40s but during his great period there was a quantity and quality in abundance.
Look – I respect Michael Jackson and he deserves his place as one the more influential performers with respect to dance and videos. But to compare him to Prince when all things are considered is disrespectful to Princes prodigious gifts.

Michael Jackson Vs Prince

an oldie but a goodie:
What's the difference between Michael Jackson and a pimple??
A pimple doesn't cum on your face until you're at least 13 years old...

"shamone!"