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GAF What's your favorite Michael Jackson song?
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Marky Mark
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Seconded.
TheAbsolution
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Wanna be Startin Something
Or
Billie Jean.
I can't choose.
Or
Billie Jean.
I can't choose.
N7Slayer24
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Human Nature, History Remix, Stranger In Moscow, They Don't Really Care About Us, Scream. Just to name a few.
The Culture Vulture
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I know it's awful but I always like PYT
No I'm not a member of creepy GAF
Billie Jean, obvs.
Been warming up to Don't stop until you get enough in the last few years.
I've read the Dark Tower series and feel that when Roland dances in book five, he is doing it to Wanna be starting something, and of course dancing like michael, so that is also a favorite.
I've also been starting to not like the "feel good" songs like Man in the mirror, even though they were my favorites when I was a kid.
Been warming up to Don't stop until you get enough in the last few years.
I've read the Dark Tower series and feel that when Roland dances in book five, he is doing it to Wanna be starting something, and of course dancing like michael, so that is also a favorite.
I've also been starting to not like the "feel good" songs like Man in the mirror, even though they were my favorites when I was a kid.
condompickle
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dont stop till you get enough.
N7Slayer24
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People keep mentioning Smooth Criminal. I thought that was an Alien Ant Farm song, not sure why it keeps getting brought up.
Winterfang
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Listen to that for the first time. Is really catchy.
My favorites:
Man in the Mirror
Stranger in Moscow
Rock with You
Earth Song
Billie Jean
Don't Stop Til You Get Enough
Beat It
Off the Wall
You Are Not Alone
Also his cover of Gone Too Soon. ;_;
Man in the Mirror
Stranger in Moscow
Rock with You
Earth Song
Billie Jean
Don't Stop Til You Get Enough
Beat It
Off the Wall
You Are Not Alone
Also his cover of Gone Too Soon. ;_;
Purple Haze
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Thriller.
Just kidding, Billie Jean
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
Yep, what a song
Winterfang
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Man PYT is a great song, thanks for introducing it to me GAF.
Soodanim
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Not a single mention of The Way You Make Me Feel?
NipplesAndToes23
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Metalingus5150
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Beat it
To Far Away Times
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Tough to chose a favorite but my top three would be:
Beat it
Smooth Criminal
Thriller
Beat it
Smooth Criminal
Thriller
ratcliffja
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That's probably my second or third favorite. My first is definitely Man in the Mirror, though. Bad was such an amazing album.
My wife's choice would be Heaven Can Wait.
My words exactly!
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So many amazing songs have already been mentioned. God, what a phenomenon MJ was...
A couple of personal favorites:
Liberian Girl
Whatever Happens
A couple of personal favorites:
Liberian Girl
Whatever Happens
Rapscallion
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Stranger in Moscow has to be one of the most beautiful songs ever made. His voice had its peak there.
Billie Jean is pretty much perfection though. Immortal.
Rock with you has to be one of the best debuts ever, if not THE. Amazing.
Smooth Criminal is hypnotic.
Of the post-death ones, Behind the Mask and Loving you are kind of perfect.
Man, Michael, what a monster.
Billie Jean is pretty much perfection though. Immortal.
Rock with you has to be one of the best debuts ever, if not THE. Amazing.
Smooth Criminal is hypnotic.
Of the post-death ones, Behind the Mask and Loving you are kind of perfect.
Man, Michael, what a monster.
SonofdonCD
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"The Lady in My Life" from Thriller, so romantic.
Rock with you is fucking music perfection. There is no song that is as good as it.
also that suit is goat/
You can see what I like.
It can really go either way for me. I think Rock With You is his best composed song. Each section of the song has a slightly different feel rhythmically (Chorus has 16th notes on the Hi-Hat, Verse 8th notes, Pre-Chorus on the up-beats, Bridge 16th's again but with accents on the up-beats again; this adds so much depth to the feel). Harmonically it's interesting. The lyric is very disco, but good nonetheless. His vocal is killer. And the overall arrangement, again while being very disco, is very full and varied. Such a funky, grooving song.
But his best overall Pop tune is definitely Billie Jean. Just how that song came together is pure perfection. I can't think of one thing I would change. That opening is just a standard rock beat. No frills, no riffs. Yet 9 times out of 10 if you hear a drummer play it, you're gonna think of this song. Then you hear the bass line and all doubt is erased. One of the best Pop bass lines of all time. This song just grooves too damn hard. That guitar part, especially during the Bridge/Instrumental is iconic. If you're gonna cover that song, you HAVE to play that guitar riff verbatim. All of his vocal ticks add to this song. Without them, his bravado wouldn't work. It's that attitude that makes the lyrics and the vocal line work. Just such a great, great song.
I cover both of these songs in my cover band. They are two of my favorite to perform, but also two of the hardest. I try my hardest to do it note-for-note, which can be extremely difficult, as he was a true tenor and I'm at best a baritone/tenor. But I make due.
LOL!!!!
Emperor Bohe
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favourite black/white song? what the fuck?
and I can't choose a favourite song, although Rock with You tends to hand out at the top on most of my days. Dangerous is my favourite album though.
and I can't choose a favourite song, although Rock with You tends to hand out at the top on most of my days. Dangerous is my favourite album though.
figadapaura
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Can't decided between Beat It and Smooth Criminal.
Best 80s song: Smooth Criminal
Runner Up: Billie Jean
Best 90s song: Heal The World
Runner Up: Will you be there
Just to go a little bit further
Best 00's song: None for me. Hated them all
Best "10's" song: Slave to the Rhythm
Runner Up: Love Never Felt So Good
Best 70's song: Don't stop till you get enough
Runner Up: Rock With You
Runner Up: Billie Jean
Best 90s song: Heal The World
Runner Up: Will you be there
Just to go a little bit further
Best 00's song: None for me. Hated them all
Best "10's" song: Slave to the Rhythm
Runner Up: Love Never Felt So Good
Best 70's song: Don't stop till you get enough
Runner Up: Rock With You
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