Desire2006 said:

hmmmm did he produce, write, perform????? mmmmm

I don't think we can call MJ just a pop performer. Just the attention to his death alone absolutely negates that statement.

He was a strange man, and I believe the more we find about disclosures after his death, we will find more oddities.

No matter what, the world loved and adored him, no matter the wrongs he was accused, and that in itself is quite a feat.

"Don't abuse children. Or else they'll turn out like me."

MJJ was the eye of a perfect storm of circumstances that led him to the precipice of fame. Please remember that Idolatry can lead us to so many ends. all of them dead. I will always admire and respect MJJ, the artist and the performer. He will always be part of my life, as PRN is, as well. The competition that we created and enjoyed between these two rare performers is incomparable to any in the current music stream. And we are the eternal beneficiaries.

Please love your children and love like a child. Wish his children and family well. Wish that our leaders look at our world through the eyes of a child. And when reality has you down and is trying to count you out, "let the madness in the music get to you. Life ain't so bad at all..."
(shouda been purple)

Over the weekend I seen and heard so much music that it is hard to say what my favorite is but something crossed my mine as I cried over the passing of MJ how we will never see him perform again and I am so proud of the reaction and affection shown to him to celebrate his music I look at Prince .org and how the Prince Family came together to talk about MJ and I am so proud of us as a whole and more than anything thing this is time for us as fans to do something for the man this site is mainly about because the tides could have been diffrent and it could be Prince that we are talking about how sad we would be if he passed away I am saying that on reflection to FANS UNTIE and all that has been done over the years lets show so suopport and LOVE while we have him here with us I am a fan since 1979 years in the making and I have loved every song and video I have seen over the years I learned about this web site back in 93 after a concert in Atlanta some flyers being passed around I am proud of the owner and it hurt me to see the Fans Unite thing take shape I don't know the Litagaion behind it all but I see it must have worked out but all I am saying is I am proud to be a long time fan and I am proud of the fan base at this web site for the LOVE shown to Micheal Jackson may he rest in peace and his music live on so if any song is on my play list for MJ I would say everything he gave the world his all in his music and his actions of helping feed the hungry and the least of these . Love God and Peace

I've been listening to a lot of rare and extended MJ tracks these past few days. "Sunset Driver" is a darn good MJ jam! I'm also enjoying the extended version of "Bad". I wonder if in the years to come if we'll ever hear those 30 tracks that were recored during the "Bad" sessions ("Bad" is my favorite MJ album and era) That would be cool!

listening to man in the mirror

Desire2006 said:

In death, we're still getting this instrument nonsense. A few days ago, Teddy Riley was on CNN and Mike took him to a studio and told him"making a record starts at the piano." That's all I gotta say.

Peace.

LondonStyle said:

One day, back in ‘86/’87, I tripped out my brother Norris, by telling him (with a straight face) that I was hooked on drugs; two drugs actually... And then, after a long pause, I told him the two drugs were called Michael Jackson and Prince. I wasn’t obsessed or possessed as much as I was moved and inspired anytime I heard, viewed, or read about these two amazing cats. And even though I had many other interests, I was still determined not to miss a thing as it all motivated me to strive for excellence in my essence and creativity. Of course I had my brother goin’ at first and we laugh about it to this day. But we also realized a commonality that brought us closer as friends, and would set the stage for many great performances of our own; even as recent as last week. So, folks, not all drugs are bad… BTW, on the 25th anniversary of the classic album “Purple Rain”, the world said goodbye to the one-and-only “Thriller.”
Yes, so many stories to share…

What do you all think of these MJ songs "Money" & "Morphine"

Any you all ever heard these songs from "HIStory - Past, Present And Future - Book 1" and "Blood On The Dance Floor - HIStory In The Mix"???

Astasheiks said:

I bought Blood on the Dancefloor the week it came out

Timmy84 said:

I got it the week it came out and it was still hella expensive.
It is expensive to manufacture because THE BOOKLET IS THICK! And he was using those gold discs like Thriller 25.

Michael Jackson radio play rises an astounding 1,735 percent

Radio play for Michael Jackson's music catalog increased 1,735 percent in the three days following his death, according to Nielsen BDS numbers reported by Billboard. For the week ending June 28, 143 Jackson recordings have been played more than 67,000 times on over 1,600 terrestrial and satellite radio stations, and 22 of those tracks surpassed 1,000 plays. Leading the pack was "Billie Jean" with 4,540 plays (compared with 318 the week before), followed by "Thriller" with 3,570 plays, "Rock With You" with 3,546 plays, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" with 3,135 plays, and "P.Y.T." with 2,986 plays. Rounding out the top 10: "Beat It," "Man in the Mirror," "Wanna Be Startin' Something," "The Way You Make Me Feel," and "Human Nature."

http://news-briefs.ew.com...rcent.html

bboy87 said:

I didn't. Back in 97 I was more of a J5/Jacksons younger era buff. I didn't even know BOTDF was released when it was released. I saw it last week and didn't get it. Went back today and wasn't there.

Anyways, I watched this performance at least 1000 times when I was a youngin' Only thing missing is the Richard Pryor opening.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

I knew it was out but I didn't have no need to get it then and I still don't. The J5 M25 reunion was great. I won't watch it for two years but I can remember watching it with a smile on my face.
[Edited 6/29/09 21:50pm]

Timmy84 said:

For years, this was the only segment I would watch (and the clip of them dancing the G Knight & The Pips Friend Train)

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Back in 1997, anything with "Michael Jackson" on the title had to be mine

Let's see by then, I had

ABC, Third Album, Got To Be There, Joyful Jukebox Music, Farewell My Summer Love, The jacksons, Goin' Places, Destiny, Triumph, Thriller, and Bad on cassette and Live, Off The Wall, HIStory, Ben, and Dangerous on CD

VA had this store called "DJ's Music and Video" and that place was always stacked with Mike's stuff!

bboy87 said:

That's just like me. By 97 I had ...

Diana/ABC/3rd/X-Mas/Maybe/Greatest Hits (my first J5 cassette ever)/Got to be There/Ben/Jacksons/Destiny/Off the Wall/Triumph/Live/Thriller/Victory/Lookin Back to Yesterday/Original Soul of MJ/Bad/Dangerous and a tone of compilations
(also some Jermaine Records and Marlons Don't Go, Janet video and Moonwalker and Legend Continues and American Dream.)

There was this shop called Top Hits that had everything MJ ... memories.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

I'm wondering why didn't buy Skywriter and Maybe Tomorrow on cassette

I couldn't find Diana Ross Presents and the post '73 albums until a couple of years ago....or I didn't pay too much attention

Off The Wall all the way through, and some of Thriller.

bboy87 said:

i got the impression you guys were long time fans, at least going back to thriller when the fanatisism started. when i got thriller i thought it was the best album ever made, although i only had a couple of adam and the ants albums to compare it to, as those were the only actual albums i had at the time. i think that's partly why MJ has such a big following, as people who don't follow music much, such as kids in third world countries, will have heard of him, so whilst many people will say he is the best, they haven't really heard enough music to give a true unbiased opinion. i mean probably 90% or more of his fans would never have heard petsounds, revolver, what's going on or the dark side of the moon for example. there's probably a high percentage of fans who listen/buy little but MJ

it took me a long time to be able to buy a home due to all the money i spent on a certain short dude. i hate to think how much i spent on him, music, bootlegs, and concerts (not to mention travel and accomodation). i suppose getting in early on makes it easier as you just have bits and bobs to pick up as they get released, and maybe look back for a few bits you missed along the way, but getting in late on when you have 20 or 30 years to catch up is daunting. no wonder the internet is so popular with illegal downloading. obviously when i got into prince there was no internet, and when i bought purple rain it wasn't hard to buy the other albums and snap up the singles, then get into the related artists and just pick everything up as i went along

speaking of fans, they had the 2 fans on GMTV today (uk breakfast tv) that were on the channel 4 documentary a few years ago, in which they flew all the way from england to LA based on a rumour that MJ was going to appear at an awards ceremony to hand out or receive an award, even though he wasn't listed as appearing, and they didn't have tickets to the ceremony, so they both spent about £4000 (which is probably about 10 million US dollars or 250 million australian dollars) to fly there short notice, get hotel rooms and hire a car, to go to LA on a wild goosechase to try and see MJ. of course he didn't turn up as he wasn't supposed to, so they then took a trip to neverland and of course they never saw him, and went home without coming within farting distance of anyone named jackson. during the documentary the fans were talking about themselves, and the guy, who was really young and spotty, worked for pizza hut and saved up all his wages and blew it all on this crazy trup. the girl, who was, and still is, really pretty, was training to be a lawyer, and i was thinking who on earth would want her as a lawyer after seeing her on tv acting so irrational and crazy. they also had other footage of fan parties and one guy who i think was german and was spending thousands on plastic surgery to look like MJ, oblivious to the fact that MJ was spending more thousands on plastic surgery not to look like MJ. they also had the MJ lookalike from the uk who was on GMTV last week (nijab or something was his name), who was in another interview in the press this weekend saying he wished he was MJ. hopefully they rebroadcast this, as it was the funniest thing i'd seen in years, a real spinal tap type laugh out loud show. presumably it had been edited like the bashir show to make them look like complete loonatics. i've met some crazy prince fans in my life, but none that compare to the MJ fans

one thing that i thought strange was that the pizza hut guy had tickets for only 17 shows out of 50 and the girl had tickets for only 6 nights. i would have thought if they were real hardcore fans living in england they would have got tickets to all the shows, at £70 a pop thats £3500, which is a lot of money, but they blew more than that on a trip to LA. obviously all the shows would have been pretty much the same, but they were spread out over 6 months, instead of the 8 weeks that prince did his shows in. it got me wondering as to how many fans bought tickets for all the nights, or out of the biggest fans on the MJ sites, how many people bought 30-40+ tickets. of course it was hard to get tickets originally, but it was dead easy to get good tickets for any night during last weeks sale, so armed with a credit card and a £4k limit you could have snapped up tickets to every night. personally i bought tickets to all 21 main shows and 21 aftershows for prince at the o2, so 42 tickets cost approximately £1500 for 2 months (i spent £700 on train tickets alone going back and forth to scotland between shows, as i had to work!), and had he done more shows i would have bought tickets for every night, but then prince changed his show every night, and i was really going for the aftershows, as whilst i had a ticket for every night i didn't know if/when he would show up, the main show was just a bonus to seeing the aftershow, and i was front row at the aftershow every nite in my regular sweet spot in front of the guitar pedals. seeing MJ do an aftershow at the indigo2, stripped down without the dancers and just singing with a live band would have been something else. i'm surprised they didn't plan MJ afterparties with DJ at the indigo2 as they could have coined it in, especially with the suggestion that the gloved one might make a fleeting appearance

so i wonder how many nights did people have tickets for? i didn't get any as i knew it wasn't sold out, and i had my serious doubts that he would appear, which unfortunately came true. it's really strange that i discussed all the same issues that are being pulled up by the press now, and it's unravelling before my eyes as being true, like some self fulfilling prophecy, and i only just made that tracklist, which i'm listening through at the moment and will do all day today and maybe tomorrow (as it's 10+ hours long), which is really weird as it's as if i was making the final MJ playlist to catalogue his career, and it's just as if i had somehow known he would never record again, and the playlist would never be amended with new tracks. the whole thing is very spooky. i spent the last few months watching and listening to a ton of live shows and videos, discussed it all, made the "ultimate" solo playlist and when i finished it, he finished himself

bboy87 said:

Skywriter was the only one of the later albums on disc until the 2001 twofers set came along (I saw it one day at Top Hits and begged m dad to get it, this was around the mid 90's, I never knw it existed)

curioso said:

Bravo to Desire2006
MJ is just a singer and performer nothing more or less.
Show me MJ sitting at a piano and play?!
Show me MJ just holding a gitarr?!
He wrote beat it? come on...

Peace to the human MJ. But no idolatry.
MJ was pupet from the industries, that's very sad. And more sad is that so much people not even now recognized!
Peace and respect to MJ.
[Edited 6/30/09 5:11am]

Desire2006 said:

No offense to those other artists that you listed,but I would take 'Off The Wall' over anything that they have released.I'm sick of people trying to downplay a great artist just because he is a "pop" performer,as if pop music is a bad thing Michael's music was embraced by millions and millions of people around the globe.His performances are legendary.I don't really care whether he played any instruments or not and judging from his worldwide record sales,no one else cares either.Good music is good music.Who the hell listens to 'Off The Wall' and 'Thriller' and the Jackson Five stuff,and say "Well,he's not playing the instruments,so therefore he's crap"??!! This type of 'musical snob' mindset is really ridiculous.

Anxiety said:

I made an iMix on iTunes called the Soul of Michael Jackson, which I will post a link to on www.neosoul.com

SoulAlive said:

I am by u, good music is good music, but i try 2 give credits 4 the right people. I try 2 look behind the curtain. That's all.
I like the music, sure.
It's not about downplay a great artist, it's about 2 say what it is and nothing else.
A lot of people do exactly the opposite, they "upplay" MJ.
And not becuz of the music, but becuz of the hipe done by the marketing and industries.
MJ had not the oppertunity 2 escape from that (with this father, i think no one could).
All the glitter and gold you starring at, is exactly that what finaly killed him.
[Edited 6/30/09 6:24am]

After listening to a lot of MJ on Sirius's tribute channel I'm definately thinking that the "Dangerous" album might be my favorite of his. All such great pop songs with memorable hooks and strong singing. I know "Heal the World" is a sappier version of "Man In the Mirror", but it just gets to me. Once I get my replacement MP3 player, I will definately be adding quite a lot of MJ (likely the whole "Dangerous" album plus a lot of the hits that I like).

Dolphinking23 said:

Dolphinking23 that's the beauty of any art or artist. Famous or not. Their work remains. Now you have "new eyes" for MJ's work. That's a good thing.

Michael has a lot of Great songs.But the Coldest Jam he ever wrote was Remember the Time.That song every body can relate 2 it,s Beautiful.So let,s all celebrate his Life and Music.By having a M.J.Party.With Family and Freinds.Play all the Jackson 5 greatest hits.And sing and Dance,Dance,Dance!!!.We will miss u dearly.Our Hearts r with the whole entire Jackson Family.

I was just playing,"Butterflies" by MJ this morning, I forgot how great of a singer he actually was. He shows some skill. By the way, I did not know MJ and Prince were both represented by Londell Mcmillan.Interesting,I just saw him giving interviews concerning MJ's current legal happenings recently.RIP MJ

Michael Jackson - Brian May


Hard to know what to say – what to feel. I find myself wondering what might have happened on his tour … the number of dates in the UK that he had committed to was insane … I did have a feeling it was impossible … but I was so shocked to hear that he went so suddenly. Very sad. Of course I still think of him as a boy … he used to come and see us (Queen) play when we were on tour in the States, and he and Freddie became close friends … close enough to record a couple of tracks together at Michael’s house … tracks which have never seen the light of day. Michael was the boy star of the Jackson Five, and always the most screamed at. I remember in their show, they tried very hard to make all the brothers equal in the presentation, but it was abundantly obvious that all most of the girl fans really wanted to see was little Michael. It was Michael who heard our track “Another One Bites the Dust” when he came to see us on “The Game” tour … and told us we were mad if we didn’t release it as a single. Of course this was way before Michael’s monster solo career began … but he was already in search of that fusion between Funk and Rock, Black and White, and the Thriller album was the consummation of that quest. There are many similarities between it and our “Hot Space” album … but our timing was out, really. Michael got it right in every respect … including timing … the world was just ready for it … and of course he was in a sense seeking the same ground, but coming from the opposite direction. Amusingly, after Freddie and Michael has spent some time together recording, Freddie came back and played us the work in progress, and he remarked that Michael had come up with a great album title … BAD. A little later, Freddie smiled his wicked little conspiratorial smile, and said … “I have a perfect idea for our album title – you may love it or hate it … but think about it …. we can call it ….. wait for it …. GOOD”!!!

I think the world is a more colourful place thanks to Michael’s work … he was a truly wonderful performer at his peak – and had a great team around him, including, of course, genius Quincy Jones. I think he qualifies as a great artist; he devoted his whole body and soul to his art. It’s as if, with all the changes he introduced to his body, his art actually became his body and his persona. Yes, I only hope he passed away in happiness, in great hopes and anticipation of his glorious comeback tour. RIP Michael.

Bri.