One thing I will say about Michael Jackson.....
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For 5 minutes in 1983 he put on one of the greatest musical performances known to man....
I remember watching this(with a gazillion other people around the planet)
It could very well be the greatest 5 minute musical performance ............PERIOD!!!!
and the song KICKS ASS!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VASYhabHkM
I remember watching this(with a gazillion other people around the planet)
It could very well be the greatest 5 minute musical performance ............PERIOD!!!!
and the song KICKS ASS!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VASYhabHkM
Take me piece by piece.....
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
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Anyway, each to their own.
I do wonder what happened to him over the years though. Was it a case of too much money and fame? Looks to me like he became a basket-case a long time ago. And what was the deal with him turning white? I know it's been said that he had a rare skin condition. Is that true though? Or was that just another part of his apparent mental breakdown? Has anyone else suffered the same kind of condition?
Seems to me that as far as MJ is concerned, too many people kept too many secrets about him over the years.
and this song also KICKS ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bc2RuUK ... re=related
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DYgf_Cl ... re=related
you say young mj was badass.....and i agree....
YOUNGER MJ was one a kind.............
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
agreed 100%
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYVT3Gg_rek
Yesterday was a sad day......
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
except for the whole lip syncing part
Ah jaysus you cant take away from his ability as an innovative, leading song writer...he changed the world of popular music and his influence can be heard on most of the best albums in the world (maybe a slight exageration
The question I have is, MJ was an african-american, now he has 3 kids with not an apparent single ounce of african-american dna in them....wtf???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5KAJw4y8wE
And I see that little boy hoppin-and-a-boppin around that stage having so much fun with his brothers.....
It makes me sad to look at what is life became
Yesterday was a sad day....................
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
ok
definitely one of but yet not the greatest .
He was lyp singing, but god that guy can dance.
i would throw this one out there since everyone else is chiming in
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHJRMsdcC40
Michaels been doing that Dancing Machine Thing for some time now .
check out those duds and those afros .
:eek:
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It is sad what he became. Seemed to have so much but seemed to have such a lonely life. Looking for something he couldn't find. Always trying to recapture the fame etc from 'Thriller'. Thriller was such a HUGE album. I remember a few years ago...one of my friends and I got high and danced around her living room to that album. It was probably the first time I had listened to it since I was actually a little kid. I hope someday in another life or whatever is beyond this one that he finds the peace and happiness that seemed to elude him in this life.
absolutely.
loved the jackson 5.
was never really a fan of mj solo, tho i absolutely appreciate his major contribution to the pop genre and how he changed so much, most especially with his music videos. i too grew up in the 80s, and i listened to a very similar catalog as another poster listed above - "new wave" music as it was called around here then, along with the "classics".....led zep, the stones, the beatles, etc. real pop music never had that much appeal for me, but there is no denying mj's talent and influence. it is unbelievably sad that a man with so much talent and promise seemingly also had so much self-loathing, so many problems as an adult....all that fame and $$$, and he did not seem happy. tragic. to die at 50? unbelievably tragic.
amazing really....when ed mcmahon died, 86...totally understandable. was also thinking, who will be the next 2? as it's always said death comes in 3s. to see farrah fawcett and michael jackson follow is such quick succession, amazingly sad.
Let's just breathe...
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just wanted to add my thoughts from the other thread
regardless of all of his eccentricities
the man is an Amercian icon and legend .
Few could perform or have people in the palm of his hands by his mere prescence like Michael.
50 years old is too young for anyone. Seeing all the clips and coverage lately , my heart hurts the most when i see the clips of the little boys winning the amateur contest at the Apollo Theatre when Michael was only 9 , or the other clips from The Ed Sullivan Theatre , performing as The Jackson 5.
Im also grieving for his family and all of his friends.
I am so glad I got to witness them perform live at MSG and the first of many " Reunion " concerts, at least this is what will stick in my mind and memories , not all that other garbage
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very sad indeed.
and we will never see the likes of anything remotely like the Jackson 5 again...ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpMm3NeL ... 4D&index=1
But I think I'd rather remember him that way, as a songwriter and performer at his best.
I’m with the people who say his whole life was a tragedy. Rather it be his parents, the media or some other factor, the kid had no sense of normalcy in his life. It breaks my heart to see pics of him as a young kid, and think of how he turned out. It reminds me of what has happened to Brittany Spears sort of. People use these young kids. Use them, and spit them out. It’s disgusting. Nobody's there to protect them, and some of them end up becoming freaks like MJ.
I’m glad he can be at rest now. he never was 'of this world'.
I consider myself a music lover. The first song I remember going gaga for was Beat It. I couldn’t have been more than 7. I'm not a fan, but i'll never forget who sang my first favorite song.
When I was like 8, I tried to teach my 5 year old brother how to moonwalk. It ended in his first set of stitches!
When you’re famous, you definitely need to have something that grounds you. He had nothing/nobody to do that for him. (Makes me glad Depp has his island! ....and Ed has surfing, his family etc.)
Are you joking or something? "one of the greatest musical performances known to man"?!?!?! 5 minutes of lip-syncing badly isn't a great musical performance. The Motown 25 performance was great because it was pretty much the first time the public saw MJ's new dancing direction, also I think it was the debut for the moonwalk. I think I remember reading that MJ was annoyed with the performance because he didn't hold the tip-toe move long enough. But anyway, a pre-recorded backing track to a dance routine isn't a "great musical performance" now, is it? Let's not blow things out of all perspective...
who could sing and dance like very few, and who did it pretty well for a long time
and he brought joy to millions if not billions of people
sad to hear that his downward spiral ended so tragically
(I will save my personal thoughts on his eccentric personality for another day)
i'm not a fan but i agree, i'll try to remember him like that too.
80's MJ and older MJ aren't even the same people to me. it's the looks, i can't seem to connect the two. the older MJ was so alien.
We did, 25 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umEbhFKV6mc