Does the Top 100 list have to be all solo or can it include J5 and Jacksons songs?

bboy87 said:

It can be anything you want.

Timmy84 said:

Yep, those are the best one. You Can Cry On My Shoulder, Maria, Style of Life.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Ah yeah his cover of Brenda Holloway's joint... A part of me wished he had covered Marvin and Diana's "Dark Side of the World", he could surely had recorded it if Motown gave it to him...then again he might've had to be in Detroit to do it.

These are my rankings by album from MJ, J5 and Jacksons. Only songs originally released ether by Mike solo, The Jackson 5 or the Jacksons (no Christmas or Live recordings on my list also). I'll do a 100 later on today, putting these in order was hard enough.


Can You Remember
Nobody
Chained
Who's Lovin' You
I Want You Back
Stand!
You've Changed
Standing in the Shadows of Love
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
Born to Love You


The Love You Save
(Come 'Round Here) I'm the One You Need
One More Chance
2-4-6-8
Don't Know Why I Love You
La-La (Means I Love You)
ABC
Never Had a Dream Come True
True Love Can Be Beautiful
I'll Bet You
The Young Folks


Can I See You in the Morning
Mama's Pearl
Darling Dear
Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide from Love)
I'll Be There
The Love I Saw In You Was Just a Mirage
How Funky Is Your Chicken
Goin' Back to Indiana
Reach In


Never Can Say Goodbye
Maybe Tomorrow
My Little Baby
Honey Chile
The Wall
It's Great to Be Here
Petals


Sugar Daddy


I Wanna Be Where You Are
Got to Be There
Maria (You Were the Only One)
Love Is Here and Now You're Gone
Ain't No Sunshine
Girl Don't Take Your Love From Me
Rockin' Robin
Wings of My Love
You've Got a Friend
In Our Small Way


Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
Lookin' Through the Windows
Don't Let Your Baby Catch You
Doctor My Eyes
If I Have to Move a Mountain
Don't Want to See Tomorrow
To Know
Love Song
Little Bitty Pretty One
E-Ne-Me-Ne-Mi-Ni-Moe (The Choice is Yours to Pull)
Children of the Light
I Can Only Give You Love


Ben
What Goes Around Comes Around
Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day
The Greatest Show on Earth
You Can Cry on My Shoulder
People Make the World Go Round
Everybody's Somebody's Fool
We've Got a Good Thing Going
My Girl


I Can't Quit Your Love
Uppermost
Skywriter
You Made Me What I Am
Ooh, I'd Love to Be With You
Hallelujah Day
Corner of the Sky
Touch
The Boogie Man


Morning Glow
All the Things You Are
With a Child's Heart
Up Again
Euphoria
Happy" (a theme from Lady Sings the Blues)
Too Young
Music and Me
Doggin' Around
Johnny Raven


Get It Together
Don't Say Goodbye Again
It's Too Late to Change the Time
Reflections
Dancing Machine
You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You)


If I Don't Love You This Way
What You Don't Know
I Am Love
The Life of the Party
The Mirrors of My Mind
Whatever You Got, I Want
It All Begins and Ends With Love
She's a Rhythm Child


We're Almost There
Take Me Back
Just a Little Bit of You
Cinderella Stay Awhile
One Day in Your Life
Dear Michael
I'll Come Home to You
We've Got Forever
Dapper Dan
You Are There


(You Were Made) Especially for Me
Honey Love
Moving Violation
Forever Came Today
Breezy
Body Language (Do the Love Dance)
All I Do Is Think of You
Call of the Wild


Show You the Way to Go
Blues Away
Think Happy
Living Together
Good Times
Strength of One Man
Style of Life
Dreamer
Keep on Dancing
Enjoy Yourself


Do What You Wanna
Even Though You're Gone
Different Kind of Lady
Jump For Joy
Heaven Knows I Love You, Girl
Man Of War
Find Me a Girl
Music's Takin' Over
Goin' Places


You Can't Win


That's What You Get (For Being Polite)
Destiny
Push Me Away
Things I Do For You
Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)
Blame It on the Boogie
Bless His Soul
All Night Dancin'


I Can't Help It
Off the Wall
Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough
Rock with You
Get on the Floor
Workin' Day and Night
She's out of My Life
Burn This Disco Out
It's the Falling in Love
Girlfriend


Everybody
Your Ways
Heartbreak Hotel
Time Waits for No One
Can You Feel It
Walk Right Now
Lovely One
Give It Up


Billie Jean
Human Nature
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
The Lady in My Life
Baby Be Mine
Beat It
Thriller
P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
The Girl Is Mine


Torture
State of Shock (w/Mick Jagger)
Be Not Always


Smooth Criminal
Man in the Mirror
Bad
Just Good Friends (duet with Stevie Wonder)
Dirty Diana
Another Part of Me
I Just Can't Stop Loving You (duet with Siedah Garrett)
The Way You Make Me Feel
Leave Me Alone
Liberian Girl
Speed Demon


Who Is It
In the Closet
Remember the Time
Will You Be There
Gone Too Soon
Dangerous
Jam
Why You Wanna Trip on Me
Black or White
Can't Let Her Get Away
She Drives Me Wild
Give In to Me (feat. Slash on guitar)
Heal the World
Keep the Faith


Stranger in Moscow
Tabloid Junkie
This Time Around
Money
Earth Song
Scream (duet with Janet Jackson)
Come Together
Smile
You Are Not Alone
They Don't Care About Us
2 Bad
Childhood (Theme from "Free Willy 2")
D.S.
Little Susie
HIStory


On The Line


Ghosts
Blood on the Dance Floor
Is It Scary
Superfly Sister
Morphine


Whatever Happens (ft. Carlos Santana)
Heaven Can Wait
Break of Dawn
Butterflies
Don't Walk Away
Invincible
You Are My Life
You Rock My World
Speechless
Unbreakable (Ft. The Notorious B.I.G.; Brandy)
Heartbreaker
Threatened
Privacy
2000 Watts
Cry
The Lost Children


One More Chance

I can't do a Top 100....


Top 175 maybe....

bboy87 said:

F It, just rank every song he has at least one verse on.

Two of my favorites that aren't getting much love:


Those choruses are fantastic!

I finally found it, the first J5 CD I ever owned.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

I'll do a Top 175

can some uber-fan with extensive trivial knowledge of MJ's discography (radio promos, etc.) tell me if there are radio edits of the following songs:

Dirty Diana (3:59)
Give In To Me (4:07)
Butterflies (3:57)


because from the tracklist i posted farther above, I have versions that I got off some Michael/Janet Direct Connect hub years ago. they're on some obscure CD-R somewhere buried in my storage unit, and I haven't seen them anywhere else online or listed in any discography/remixography, so I'm wondering if they were fan-made or if they're real.

anyone know? also... anyone have a link to any online discography with information that getes down to that level of detail?

thanks.

I'm listening to the outtakes, demos and alternates of Thriller right now.

DESTINY
OFF THE WALL
TRIUMPH
JACKSONS - LIVE
THRILLER
VICTORY
BAD
DANGEROUS
HISTORY
BLOOD ON THE DANCEFLOOR
INVINCIBLE
THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION


every song, every track, no fillers.

RONNYRON said:

Probably overstating it just a touch.

Timmy84 said:

I did that last night.


Thriller is a great album.

BUT.

Imagine if the the final versions of PYT, The Girl Is Mine and Baby Be Mine were closer to the demos. It would be even greater! I'd never heard the BBM demo until last night. It was a revelation on par with hearing the PYT demo for the first time.

RONNYRON said:

Ohh lawrd.....

errant said:

I agree...

Timmy84 said:

I don't. As much as I love the PYT demo, I prefer the released version.

AlexdeParis said:

really? because aside from the super-corny, yet endearing sap of The Girl Is Mine, PYT and BBM are almost always skips for me.

errant said:

You must've missed my top 100. I love that song. "PYT" was #13, making it my 3rd favorite on the album behind "Human Nature" and "Billie Jean," just ahead of "Beat It" and "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'."

midnightmover said:

I think its well written enough. Its a fun "story" and Stevies solo is ace! Miles better then "the girl is mine", which is unintentionally funny (the "talk" at the end LOL). But its equally about the hi-tech production aswell.

"baby loves me but she never shows she cares.....".

thesexofit said:

For a long time this song didn't appeal that much to me, but now I really like it. As you said it has a nice bouncy feel. Really cheerful with nice flow.

I love how Stevie sings 'So Even If She's Asking You
To Stay '
That and Michael's part which leads to the baby loves me verses is catchy
And so is the intro with the nananana.

AlexdeParis said:

Yes, for me the final PYT stomps all over the demo. More dynamic vocals, great energy and incredibly catchy.
demo is way too slow and there's nothing memorable.

TyphoonTip said:

Hahaha, yeah... you're right, I could probably leave out Tito's "We Can Change The World" from VICTORY.

RONNYRON said:

...or maybe Invincible in it's entirety?

TyphoonTip said:

Invincible has some very good songs: "Butterflies," "Heaven Can Wait," "You Rock My World," and especially "Whatever Happens." That's more than enough to put it ahead of Victory.

AlexdeParis said:

I agree with you on Whatever Happens, but aside from that track, the rest of that album makes me a bit queezy

I posted it at the MJ RIP thread, but here you go:

thesexofit said:

I'll take the cornball sap of "The Girl Is Mine" over "Just Good Friends" any day. It's just bad. Worst song on the album, I think, and it only made it because it was a duet with Stevie. They always talk about "Streetwalker" being bumped for "Another Part Of Me" when they just could have put both on and left of JGF

errant said:

Am I the only one that likes "Just Good Friends." I listen to it all the time.