Random Music Talk LIX: (but doesn't suck)

[iron yuppie]

Wow, I never noticed that before (the MJ thing).

 

[corianderstem]

I like the bit in Remember the Time when he goes

Brrrrrrrop bop bop! Brrrrrrrrrrop bop bop!

 

[LemonMelon]

The Jack Nicholson Party did a cover of Modern Religion by Ken. My brother in law is on backing vocals and he does the whole MJ thing for some reason. It's the best MP3 ever. I'm trying to find it.

Modern ReHEEHEEligion feat_ Ben.mp3 - DivShare

Good freaking Lord, this is perfect.

 

[LemonMelon]

Wow, I never noticed that before (the MJ thing).

Ashley never noticed MJ saying HEE HEE!! until I cranked Billie Jean one day and the outro was just MJ saying HEE HEE!! over and over again for a full minute.

Honestly, it was South Park that pointed it out to me.

 

[Jive Turkey]

I like the bit in Remember the Time when he goes

Brrrrrrrop bop bop! Brrrrrrrrrrop bop bop!

hahaha me too

 

[corianderstem]

YOU AND ME!
ON THE PHONE!
TIL DAWN!
TlL THREE!

 

[Jive Turkey]

Wow, I never noticed that before (the MJ thing).

Ashley never noticed MJ saying HEE HEE!!

Honestly, it was South Park that pointed it out to me.

This blows my mind

 

[LemonMelon]

Remember The Time was my favorite song in the world when I was like two years old.

Children liking Michael Jackson is a thing now, but shit was only starting to go down in 1993. He wasn't a meme or anything. Still crushing tunes every day and all that. People start to notice how much of a creep you are when the hits dry up.

 

[PhilsFan]

Someone once tried to claim he invented that vocal hiccup thing he did, which is idiotic.

 

[LemonMelon]

That's as bad as claiming he invented the moonwalk. MJ didn't invent shit, he just recorded great pop songs.

I can't wait for Laz to see what happened to his thread. Hee hee

 

[Jive Turkey]

YOU AND ME!
ON THE PHONE!
TIL DAWN!
TlL THREE!

Remember the video? I can't recall the plot, but they were all dressed like Egyptians. Magic Johnson was in it. I think he was chasing them around, trying to give them his aids

 

[Jive Turkey]

Remember The Time was my favorite song in the world when I was like two years old.

I was in Grade 7

 

[iron yuppie]

This blows my mind

Almost all of my listening to MJ came and still comes from Off the Wall and Thriller. I don't really recall the "shamon" thing on those albums. I think I just kind of tune out the rest of his catalogue, to be honest.

 

[iron yuppie]

Remember the video? I can't recall the plot, but they were all dressed like Egyptians. Magic Johnson was in it. I think he was chasing them around, trying to give them his aids

Doesn't Eddie Murphy star in it? Funny I just mentioned him in another thread as well.

 

[corianderstem]

Yep, it was star-studded.

 

[LemonMelon]

Doesn't Eddie Murphy star in it?

Yeah, it was his acting peak

Off The Wall is so fucking dope, except for that lame-ass McCartney song (why did he try to destroy MJ's career??). I don't dance much, but Don't Stop Til You Get Enough is what I always request. Probably my favorite song of his, barring Billie Jean and Human Nature. It's close. Rock With You and Remember The Time would round out a top 5.

 

[corianderstem]

Wait, there's a McCartney song on Off the Wall? I know there's the one on Thriller, and Say Say Say is on a McCartney album ... is there a third?

(Yes, I never owned Off the Wall. I had Thriller on vinyl and then nothing until that History collection came out .... and I threw away the disc with the new songs.)

 

[LemonMelon]

Paul McCartney + Michael Jackson - Girlfriend - YouTube

Not a great effort from either of them

 

[Jive Turkey]

I've always preferred Rock with You over Dont Stop Til You Get Enough (being the two still played semi regularly).
Say Say Say was a good MJ/Macca collab

 

[corianderstem]

I am appalled that I didn't know they'd done a third.

Thanks ... not sure if I dare listen or not.

 

[LemonMelon]

As much as I love the guy, this is one of my favorite things associated with MJ:

The Weeknd - DD / Dirty Diana (Echoes Of Silence) - YouTube

Blows the original out of the water.

 

[Jive Turkey]

This one has to be in my top 5 MJ tunes

The Jakson 5 - I Wanna Be Where You Are - YouTube

 

[joyfulgirl]

Am I the only one who thinks Moment of Surrender didn't work all that well live?

Yes.

I thought I knew my Michael Jackson pretty well. I mean, we have the same initials and various friends throughout my life have called me "MJ" and you'd think that this alone would be enough to grant me special insight into the man in the mirror. But this shamone/jamone/cha'mone business is news to me.

 

[Jive Turkey]

But this shamone/jamone/cha'mone business is news to me.

What. The fuck.

 

[joyfulgirl]

Should I have put that in Zoo Confessionals?

 

[Jive Turkey]

Yes ma'am

 

[joyfulgirl]

I don't know what to say. I guess I used to wonder what he was saying but I didn't know it was a "thing" that people talked about. There was no Internet back then to explain these things to me so I didn't know I was supposed to care.

 

[lazarus]

I guess this thread does suck after all.

That "shamon"/"hee hee" shit is a large part of why I despise Michael Jackson. So awful. Thankfully Off The Wall (still his best) is free of that for the most part.

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Because I'm too lazy to go back and quote, I've been on record with my disappointment re: Moment of Service as a closer. Had they the balls to actually release it as a single (even if not the lead single) the crowd may have got into it more, because they certainly didn't respond that ecstatically the four times I saw the show.

 

[u2popmofo]

This blows my mind

Mine too. Must be an age thing, I remember people joking about all those things all the time when I was younger.

 

[joyfulgirl]

I personally thought it was stunning live. But I had some personal losses both legs of the tour so it was going to knock me out no matter what.

As a closer? I liked it but I get why others didn't.