thetimefan said:

I like both equally. Destiny has a country vibe on the title track and is more Pop/Soul. Triumph is more soulful and MJs vocal performances are among his best on this album. I'd say Destiny has more hits so to speak. Triumph is more of a cohesive album type project. The piano outro of Heartbreak Hotel into Time waits for No One is a brilliant seque. They should have found lyrics and expanded that piano piece as it was something special.

Triumph more soulful than Destiny? isn't the other way around?

Goddess4Real said:

Interesting observations by Questlove about those albums https://www.instagram.com...=questlove

[Edited 12/3/17 20:05pm]

What does he say please, instagram is not available.

214 said:

thetimefan said:

MotownSubdivision said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

But the album had 2 top 30 pop hits with Heartbreak Hotel hitting #22 pop. As compared to Blame It On Boogie missing the pop top 50. So 2 top 25 pop hits not to mention Walk Right Now and Can You Feel It also top 80 pop singles.

The singles from Triumph might not got a lot of Top 40 airplay because this was not that long after the Disco Demolition, when a lot of pop stations decreased or stopped altogether of songs that were considered disco and really a lot of was was called disco was really R&B and funk. On Top 40, this was the era of soft rock (Air Supply, Christopher Cross), arena rock (Journey, Styx), new wave (The Cars, Blondie), and country crossover (Urban Cowboy soundtrack, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton). Remember even Kool & The Gang released the country flavored Celebration, which was a big pop hit, and probably their most known song. Millie Jackson released a country style album around this time too.

purple05 said:

Did y'all see Questloves post on instagram about some of the destinys songs? I don't know how to post that stuff here

Could you tell us what did he say'?

214 said:

Goddess4Real said:

Interesting observations by Questlove about those albums https://www.instagram.com...=questlove

[Edited 12/3/17 20:05pm]

What does he say please, instagram is not available.

Goddess4Real said:

214 said:

What does he say please, instagram is not available.

• questloveMJ’s albums as diary/social media starts in 1978. There is a dark intense level of loneliness being expressed in these songs. Like SO intense I longed to know what his fam thought of his confessional outpouring. “Live to dream, don’t it seem. The tears....the pain: Reality”
  -Push Me Away
  
  A song later he asks “Am I being used.....I just need a clue”
  -Things I Do For You
  
  and more pain gets spilled “Sometimes I cry cause I’m confused...is this the fact of being used?” “And then i try to please them so, but how far can this pleasing go”
  -Bless His Soul
  
  Slowly i realized the independence MJ longs for is slightly different than what was scripted. The Jackson 5 leaving the Motown nest was a need to control their own fate (well, that’s what we were told) But it’s not until the final song that my eyebrows were raised “Jack still cries day and night, Jack’s not happy with his life. He wants to do this, he wants to do that....he tries so hard to give a lot, he wants to be what he is not....All the time getting in things that he can’t get out. Something deep inside of him, eating up the pride in him”..... The ruse and saving grace for this song (as well as all the other songs MJ wrote on this album) is he throws off the stench with the next line... “That makes him buy things for the girls” -That’s What You Get (For Being Polite)
  
  basically no good icon in the making goes unpunished.
  
  which lowers the suspicion that he might be singing about the very people to whom he has always been associated with. I was 7 years old and clearly I knew MJ wasn’t fooling not a damn soul.
  
  He wanted out.
  
  The independence HE wanted was COMPLETE freedom. From categories. genres. obstacles only given to non A listers. & painfully enough: family.
  
  the darkness that was as cloudy as Destiny’s album cover followed MJ over to his biggest selling album.
  
  HOW!!!!!??? How did an album so full of mistrust and depression unite us so
  
  #Thriller35
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7 days ago

Thank you, great comments from Quest and his followers. To me one his very best albums in his carreer.

Destiny has some real deep shit for sure, traces of it are evident in the jacksons and good times albums as well in some of the subject matter.

As I was reading the post, I don't know how it didn't hit me that "Jack" is a metaphor for himself, or possibly bits and pieces of what his brothers, jermaine in particular, had faced with the transition to epic and trying to make his own path too. Remember, MJ looked up to him most musically from the time he was a baby.

I hadn't read this anywhere, but if there is any truth to that...I guess mj wrote a song about jermaine first?!

[Edited 12/10/17 16:33pm]

Bless His Soul is the most prophetic song he ever wrote.

214 said:

alphastreet said:

214 said:

Bless His Soul is the most prophetic song he ever wrote.

I felt something similar too...but now I view it like young Michael having a conversation with grown up Michael

Beautiful way to describe it.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

None of the songs from Destiny were written by Mike solo. A few with him and Randy and the others from all five. Who was writing most of the lyrics?

I know Blame It On The Boogie was written by none of them because it was a remake

purple05 said:

214 said:

junk

alphastreet said:

214 said:

Beautiful way to describe it.

Thank you 😊

You're welcome, either way is such a wonderful, beautiful and touching masterpiece of a song. Love that song wholeheartedly.

2freaky4church1 said:

junk

junk? what?