Awesome, 1:51 gotta love the godlike beat boxing

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Marrk said:

seeingvoices12 said:

he says Eccentric oddities

Possibly.

what the hell Eccentric comedies means ?

maybe for bboy or timmy , i remember a pic of mike and joe walking out of court laughing out loud and mike looked real funny in that pic . but its hard to find , maybe do you guys know wich one(s) im talking about

seeingvoices12 said:

Marrk said:

Possibly.

what the hell Eccentric comedies means ?

You know what a comedy is? you know what eccentric means? put them together. 'Eccentric Comedies'

It fits, i tells ya!

I will always sing that. I don't care what anyone says. I'm right and that is that!

Marrk said:

seeingvoices12 said:

what the hell Eccentric comedies means ?

You know what a comedy is? you know what eccentric means? put them together. 'Eccentric Comedies'

It fits, i tells ya!

I will always sing that. I don't care what anyone says. I'm right and that is that!

motownlover said:

maybe for bboy or timmy , i remember a pic of mike and joe walking out of court laughing out loud and mike looked real funny in that pic . but its hard to find , maybe do you guys know wich one(s) im talking about

Is This Scary - isn't the line Eccentric Comedies?

Blood on the Dance Floor

With the HiStory tour still swirling around the globe, Blood On The Dance Floor seemed like a quick (some might argue) rushed release to quickly follow and keep the momentum going. Perhaps knowing that a short time between albums was a rare thing when it came to Michael, Sony cobbled together this strange mix of remix material and new songs – though just how new was debatable.

Blood On The Dance Floor was initially recorded as part of Dangerous and didn’t see the light of day until 6 years later here. With a beat reminiscent of Remember The Time (and bass groove of Do The Bart Man) Jackson layers his vocals in almost hushed tones in the verses before moving into full voice in the chorus. As if seducing the listener in the same way the song’s temptress does, the song slinks along and teases with the promise of more but doesn’t truly realise its potential. A tad generic in its composition it is a solid track but offers nothing new of fresh to Jacksons catalogue.

Thankfully Morphine did offer something new. Dark, and eerie, Morphine is one of Jackson’s most experimental and perplexing songs. Half seductive hard hitting industrial funk, half dreamscape orchestral, the song has a rough edge to it that sharpens its teeth as Michael bites off the lyrics and spits them out. Almost abrasive the track grabs the listener and doesn’t let go only offering moments of respite as Michael sings “trust in me, just in me” in soothing and seductive tones. Partly confessional, the song gives us a peek into Michael’s darker side retelling (and foretelling) his addiction to pain killers and Demerol and contains samples from Jackson’s favourite film The Elephant Man. It’s as if in each verse Michael layouts out all the factors in his life that are pushing him to the edge; the mistrust, the paranoia, the double crosses, those just after another cut and then when the song drifts off to a sweeping orchestral break the soothing appeal of the drug itself is on display before the come down back to reality kicks back in. Morphine will always be a song that is close to the bone, but like all great art it has a boldness to it and tension.

Whereas Morphine pushed into new territory. Superfly Sister sounded dated from the very first beat. For some reason it feels not quite finished, and more of a demo guide that a finished song. Its funky vocal groove has Michael working his way through the verses without taking a breath before sliding into the chorus. With its tale of lust and sexual manipulation on display the song has a rawer funk edge to it than some of his other work of the time, but ultimately it sounds like a poorer sister to many of the tracks on Dangerous. Not so Superfly after all.

For many fans there will always be a debate between Ghost and Is It Scary? For mine, Ghost offers a richer listening experience. With a hard to resist groove that swings its way through the verses before thumping home in the chorus. The vocal harmonies also feel richer as they ask “who gave you the right to share my family tree”. Lyrically Michael seems to be taking aim at certain members of his family with reference to back stabbing jealousy and selling him out. But of course, in typical Michael style he wraps all this anger and venom into an irresistible song that makes you want to get up and move.

With a soothing introduction Is It Scary soon turns ominous and threatening as wind slowly builds, doors creak and the beat shuffles along. Michael’s lyrics here share similar themes with Ghost, but this time seems to reflect the wacko jacko role the world has created for him. Half asking if this is the role they want him to play, and half taunting that well if that’s the case you ain't seen nothing yet Michael teases “if you want to see eccentric comedies, I’ll be grotesque before your eyes”. The chorus with a harder rockier feel flips the subject matter and lays out the thought that perhaps the strange and curious creature is not Michael but the public that almost demand oddities from him. At times Is It Scary packs a bit of a punch, and stretches Michael musical canon but at the same time seems to dwell a little too much in the same themes of Thriller, and Threatened. Maybe this time round though his anger and feeling of being victimised was warranted.

The rest of the album featuring remixes is a bit hit and miss as most fail to bring a fresh perspective to the tracks of HiStory, although credit must be given to including two non singles in the form of Money and 2Bad which were some of HiStory’s strongest moments.

Not quite a new album, nor a convincing remix project, Blood On The Dance Floor remains an oddity in the Jackson collection that save for Morphine (and perhaps Ghost) doesn’t really add anything new and inventive to his catalogue. Gone was the emotional rawness of HiStory with it’s painfully personal lyrics (again Morphine is the exception) in stead Michael seems content to drift back into a world of visual and lyrical fantasy to convey his message and focuses more to finding his place back on the dance floor,

"Morphine"

He got flack baby

Kick in the back baby

A heart attack baby

I ain’t your rival

A hot kiss honey

He's dug the ditch baby

You make me sick baby

So unreliable

I'm such a swine baby

All down the line daddy

I hate your kind baby

So unreliable

A hot buzz baby

He's want the buzz baby

Another drug baby

You so desire

Trust in me

Trust in me

Put all your trust in me

You're doin' morphine

Hoo!

He’s got the place baby

Kicked in the face baby

He hate your race baby

You're just a liar

Your every lick baby

Your dog's a bitch baby

You make me sick baby

You talk survival

Another cut from me

Another book baby

I got to work baby

You just a rival

A razor blade daddy

Right up your leg daddy

You're throwing shade daddy

So undesirable

Trust in me

Just in me

Put all your trust in me

You're doin' morphine

Go'on babe

Relax

This won't hurt you

Before I put it in

Close your eyes and count to ten

Don't cry

I won't convert you

There's no need to dismay

Close your eyes and drift away

Demerol

Demerol

Oh God he's taking Demerol

Demerol

Demerol

Oh God he's taking Demerol

He's tried

Hard to convince her

To give more of what he had

Today he wants it twice as bad

Don't cry

I won't resent you

Yesterday you had his trust

Today he's taking twice as much

Demerol

Demerol

Oh God he's taking Demerol

Hee-hee-hee

Demerol

Demerol

Oh my His God is Demerol

Hee

Oooh

Oh!

He got hit baby

Your dog's a bitch baby

You make me sick baby

You are a liar

Is truth a game daddy?

To win the fame baby

It's all the same baby

You're so reliable

Trust in me

Trust in me

Put all your trust in me

She's doin' morphine

Hoo!

You just sit around just talkin' nothing

You're takin' morphine

Hoo!

Go'on baby

You just sit around just talking about it

You're takin' morphine

Hoo-hoo!

Just sit around just talking nothing about it

You're takin' morphine

You just sit around just talking about it

You're taking morphine

You just sit around just talkin' nothin'

And takin' morphine

Hoo-hoo

I'm going down baby

You're talkin' Morphine

Go'on baby!

Hoo!

Hoo!

Morphine!

Do it!

Hoo!

He's takin' morphine

Morphine!

Morphine!

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motownlover said:

maybe for bboy or timmy , i remember a pic of mike and joe walking out of court laughing out loud and mike looked real funny in that pic . but its hard to find , maybe do you guys know wich one(s) im talking about

Hmm can't find it lol Google's acting like a bitch lol

suga10 said:

motownlover said:

maybe for bboy or timmy , i remember a pic of mike and joe walking out of court laughing out loud and mike looked real funny in that pic . but its hard to find , maybe do you guys know wich one(s) im talking about

This one? [img:$uid]http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/WN/nm_joe_michael_21_090713_ms.jpg[/img:$uid]

No.

babybugz said:

I know the picture but you ask for Bboy or timmy so I won't post it

Uh girl no one is holding you back!

babybugz said:

I know the picture but you ask for Bboy or timmy so I won't post it

I know which one it is exactly and I can picture it, but I don't know where to find it

Does anyone know of a Bad era picture of him in reading glasses? It's extremely rare and I've never seen it.

greatpink said:

Unholyalliance said:

Question for you guys though:

I saw in another thread here once that questioned whether or not MJ would have made it as big as he did had it not been for the plastic surgeries or vitiligo. My friend seemed to have agreed that while a lot of people criticized MJ's physical transformations, funny enough, it may have contributed to the fact that he was so accessible internationally. So what do you guys think? Do you think that his physical 'transformations' made a huge difference to his career or was it all just coincidence? Do you think that, for example, Jacksons era MJ would have hit it as big with Thriller and so on?

I just wonder, because it seems that when you see images of MJ across the world, they all seem to use various images of him from different time periods. Bad era MJ seems really popular in Asia, trial era MJ seems to be very popular amongst mainstream American media, HIStory era in Europe, Jackson 5 era MJ amongst black Americans, and etc. I'm not trying to generalize anyone or anything, but this it was a curious observation.

Ugh... I wish that were not true. But so it seems to be.

Whenever you look at poll results “Your favourite MJ’s look”, “Your favourite MJ’s era” - in any community, in any language – “Bad” is always a notorious winner, followed by “Dangerous”. Especially ladies are dying over "Bad" .

Don’t want to pick any further on that “universal accessibility”, but so far, it looks like his transformations were very helpful to his international success - at least for a while.

There are no studies about how many fans he lost on the same occasion, though.

I also saw a few rather well argumented speculations that his looks in every era was perfectly adjusted to his sound – and that later it was his looks again that did not allow him to return musically where he originally had come from (“just sit down and sing”)

Which poll was this? When you ask 99 percent of non Michael Jackson fans what was his best look they never choose Dangerous because he looks like a women and with Bad in close up shots you can see surgical scars on his face. He looks good when he's in the perfect lighting or with all that makeup on so its not natural. Also he's to pretty.

Off The Wall when MJ cut his hair shorter for the Rock with you song, and the Triumph tour is clearly michaels most handsome look where he looks natural and handsome. Not pretty like a women. The pics of him and Diana Ross in 1980 thats MJ at his best. Matter fact here's video footage of MJ and Diana Ross from the 1980 Academy awards.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...RPmEg4MYeI

In the year 2010 ladies are not in to black men with pale makeup on with there hair all long. 1980 Mike fits in the 2010 era. Maybe trim the hair a little shorter and he would be a GQ model.

Bad and Dangerous Mike is to womenish. Handsome is always better tha a man trying to be to pretty

funny you say that, cause after the death, I heard some people admit he looked good even with the long curls and pale skin, and before it, no one would be caught dead admitting that, the culture shock of this whole ordeal was just something else

but androgynous men are way more accepted today than 30 years ago, so that makes people more openminded about mj's look as well I think, cause of "guyliner" being popular and such

Of course the natural MJ look was the best.

But really the times he looked worst were between 2001-2003. Otherwise although media made a big deal of his changing appearance, they never ridiculed his looks to such an extreme except between 2001-2003 if you really think about it.

You even had Larry King admitting that he was looking better right before his death.

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suga10 said:

Of course the natural MJ look was the best.

But really the times he looked worst were between 2001-2003. Otherwise although media made a big deal of his changing appearance, they never ridiculed his looks to such an extreme except between 2001-2003 if you really think about it.

You even had Larry King admitting that he was looking better right before his death.

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I'm glad to hear that they weren't making it a big deal cause it seemed like they were

alphastreet said:

suga10 said:

Of course the natural MJ look was the best.

But really the times he looked worst were between 2001-2003. Otherwise although media made a big deal of his changing appearance, they never ridiculed his looks to such an extreme except between 2001-2003 if you really think about it.

You even had Larry King admitting that he was looking better right before his death.

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I'm glad to hear that they weren't making it a big deal cause it seemed like they were

To me they were making way more of a big deal of whether he was the father of his kids- way more than anything. That's what the media went right after immediately after he died.

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I love this version of Ben at the Triumph Tour

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I noticed they didn't make his appearance a big deal after the death, they had good things to say about him all around as well but I do remember the kids thing being hyped up. I was referring to throughout his career, before 2001 too when it came to appearance rumors. That would pop up in tabloids and shows every now and then.

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PurpleColossus said:

Awesome, 1:51 gotta love the godlike beat boxing

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Yeah that was classic!

suga10 said:

TPain and Michael in late 2008

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Mmm... he was looking really good in his later years. Real REAL good!!! Too bad the press don't publish pics of him like this. He looked so good in his casual self. In some of his public apprearances, he wore too much makeup. I liked this look better.

Timmy84 said:

suga10 said:

This one? [img:$uid]http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/WN/nm_joe_michael_21_090713_ms.jpg[/img:$uid]

No.

no its not this one , they really seem to laugh out loud , like chris tucker was cracking tito jokes during court