How Michael Jackson Out Sings, Outsells, Outperforms, and Outlasts The Beatles

MJ4Ever wrote:

The Beatles sold one billion units in '85 AFTER seeing their music on vinyl records, tapes, and then cds meaning re-selling their music as formats changed. This was also AFTER John Lennon's death (not only death BUT assassination) and we all know how the deaths of artists can boost sales. MJ had mostly cds to work with and he was already a force before his death. MJ is right up there with the Fab Four and Elvis.

No comparison floon,The King and the Fab four have revolutioned the Rock and Roll and have already sold hundred million before Elvis' death and Lennon's assassination

Jacko was just a disco dancer and singer and no one has mourned him,a few just a few floons were around the hospital where he was agonising

Lennon's death was a Tragedy

zepforever wrote:

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No comparison floon,The King and the Fab four have revolutioned the Rock and Roll and have already sold hundred million before Elvis' death and Lennon's assassination
Jacko was just a disco dancer and singer and no one has mourned him,a few just a few floons were around the hospital where he was agonising
Lennon's death was a Tragedy

Yes but so did MJ. He sold hundreds of millions before his death. Thriller is considered the biggest selling album of all time. And you're wrong, many have mourned him around the world and many are his fans. His movie has already grossed $100,000,000 according to boxofficemojo. He stands as one of the giants of the music industry.

MJ4Ever wrote:

<quoted text>Yes but so did MJ. He sold hundreds of millions before his death. Thriller is considered the biggest selling album of all time. And you're wrong, many have mourned him around the world and many are his fans. His movie has already grossed $100,000,000 according to boxofficemojo. He stands as one of the giants of the music industry.

Because there is no competition in noadays and this is why Your freak seems a big artist
fans have no choice

InDaHouse wrote:

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Did you know Cecil Rhodes was gay?

Yo Yo Yo nuff respect ta all ma HOMEEZ - this is Cecil Rhodes, founder of Zimbabwe, talkin to y'all...gots ta give it UP yo, I'm rollin wit MA KREW yo cause we moves like we grooves, gnome sain?
We roll fat yo, be livin high yo, we be EVERYWHERE you wants 2B playa hater...

Now - about Michael J - the GREATEST PERFORMER to ever bust a move and walk around in public with little blonde kids wearing veils over their faces...Let it be said that I, Cecil Rhodes [founder of Zimbabwe] am APPALLED at the lack of respect being shown on this thread towards the recently-departed CULTURAL ICON, and foremost philosopher of our age, Michael "Sweaty Greasy Forelock Shriek a Vulgar Grunt" Jackson.

How DARE you philistines think for even a moment that the Beatles[those sad irrelevant pasty-faced ghosts of a bygone Anglo-Saxon empire]could even hold a CANDLE to the unrivalled MICHAEL.
Oh woe is me - even as I think of his princely and pristine dance moves, my Zimbabwean heart fills with such sorrow -
...alas, alack, my brethren - the King of Pop has fallen and [oh Niniveh - Oh Tyre - Oh vanished splendors of Xanadu]nevermore shall rise.
The hot tears now run in lachrymal torrents, like the rivers, to their source...oh heart of unappeasable darkness, oh ye bands of spinning ghosts in matching vests and bell-bottoms with afros and funky hats...Michael is no more.
Oh flow ye torrent of tears back, back in time to Gary Indiana - yes ye floods of sorrows past and future- wail and sob oh merciless night, oh pain, oh top-40 hits of Michael, the anointed cherub of bubblegum soul...for we knew not that you would cross the Stygian tide so soon and we are bereft. File forth ye virgin mourners unto the sacrificial pyre - oh flames, rise up and cleanse the night sky of all lesser stars for the Angel of Music and the God of all platinum Muses and the Mighty Lord of all robotic jerky dance moves has left this earthly plane.
May a thousand celestial potentates rise from their thrones and bid him welcome amidst crescendoes and hosannas of empyrean splendor...

Yo Yo YO that about wraps it up HOMEEZ - gots to give props and shout outs ta all my peeps yo' Aint no frontin wit MY posse so don't be hatin' no playas yo! I- the great and mighty Cecil Rhodes, gangsta kingpin puttin da WEST back in da EASTside has spoken. Chill y'all. It aint nuthin but a verbal flow.

Yo mofo Cecil homeboy Zimbabweiner thinks he's meaner than any gangsta wanker.Has a saddened heart because geasy jive boy is gone amongst the cresendoes mofo's and hosannas bananas emptyrean slendorks peeps with the jive ass verbal flow mofo time to go the Homeez need some cheese.
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Yo this is Fender Rhodes founder of Zimbabwegetdown.We shake and shuck and do the hurky jerky and we get down with our bad selfs.Chillin and still willin kingpinheads of Stygian tides and Lord of shuck and jive.Yo let down your fro and be a good mofo.

zepforever wrote:

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Because there is no competition in noadays and this is why Your freak seems a big artist
fans have no choice

There is still competition today. The acts of the past are the competition. BTW, I'm no real Jackson fan. I enjoy his music but I'm really a Pink Floyd fan.-/\= Just giving the man his props though.

PF4Ever wrote:

<quoted text>There is still competition today. The acts of the past are the competition. BTW, I'm no real Jackson fan. I enjoy his music but I'm really a Pink Floyd fan.-/\= Just giving the man his props though.

I also like Pink Floyd.

I especially like their old stuff like "I want you back" and "I'll be there" - but "Billie Jean" also ROCKS.

They can't hold a candle to Michael J. however.

He is the eternal King of Pop!

PF4Ever wrote:

<quoted text>There is still competition today. The acts of the past are the competition. BTW, I'm no real Jackson fan. I enjoy his music but I'm really a Pink Floyd fan.-/\= Just giving the man his props though.

I'm a Pink Floyd fan too!!but i can't understand how could you enjoy the freak's music?It has nothing to do with Pink floyds sound!!!

Cecil Rhodes wrote:

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I also like Pink Floyd.
I especially like their old stuff like "I want you back" and "I'll be there" - but "Billie Jean" also ROCKS.
They can't hold a candle to Michael J. however.
He is the eternal King of Pop!

He is just a Disco dancer
the king of pop title has never been given to him officially

the only official title he has is:

A CHILD MOLESTER

zepforever wrote:

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He is just a Disco dancer
the king of pop title has never been given to him officially
the only official title he has is:
A CHILD MOLESTER

How is that an official title when he was cleared of those charges?

You are the dumbest dude on the planet.

He was cleared. So by law its not an official title.

But King Of Pop is a title that was given to him at the 1989 Soul Train awards.

And its a title that EVERYONE agrees on.

KB50MJ wrote:

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How is that an official title when he was cleared of those charges?
You are the dumbest dude on the planet.
He was cleared. So by law its not an official title.
But King Of Pop is a title that was given to him at the 1989 Soul Train awards.
And its a title that EVERYONE agrees on.

Speak for yourself.
Not everyone agrees that Michael J is so great.
There's a lot out there that puts Mikey in his place fast...

Cecil Rhodes wrote:

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I also like Pink Floyd.
I especially like their old stuff like "I want you back" and "I'll be there" - but "Billie Jean" also ROCKS.
They can't hold a candle to Michael J. however.
He is the eternal King of Pop!

Oh please tell them not to hold a candle next to me.Last time that happened my jive hair caught fire and I was singing Heeeee Oooooowwwwwch Bilie jean set me on fire she said that I'm a liar -I said my mammy told me be careful what I do but the candle was held by a fool as I go smoldering Billie Jean I got burned Heee heeeee oooooowwww girl

KB50MJ wrote:

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How is that an official title when he was cleared of those charges?
You are the dumbest dude on the planet.
He was cleared. So by law its not an official title.
But King Of Pop is a title that was given to him at the 1989 Soul Train awards.
And its a title that EVERYONE agrees on.

It's now official I am the KING Fuzz Buddy Pop tart.I earned that title after running behind the soul train in 1989 I fought the law and my money won I wrote that song but it got stold from me.I was the most dynamic glittery one gloved dancing machine with my expensive relaxed black hair and my restructured lips and schnozz.I am telling you I was a hopping dancing lil fuzz buddy The Mackson Five With Guido Mando Rando Germaino and me lil Jichael.

2nd dumbest on planet wrote:

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Speak for yourself.
Not everyone agrees that Michael J is so great.
There's a lot out there that puts Mikey in his place fast...

Oh no I didn't need to hear that.I hate that when someone puts Jichey in his place real fast.I always get more dizzy Heee Heeeeee

zepforever wrote:

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I'm a Pink Floyd fan too!!but i can't understand how could you enjoy the freak's music?It has nothing to do with Pink floyds sound!!!

It has a great beat! That's why. Yes, it's unlike Pink Floyd but I enjoy various styles/genres. Metal, progressive, soundtrack, pop among my favorite but I'm open to listening to new stuff... "Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air" *Tripping out* "'Cause this is thrillaaaa! Thrillaaa niiight!" *Dancing!... When no one's looking of course*:D

Jichael Mackson wrote:

<quoted text>Oh no I didn't need to hear that.I hate that when someone puts Jichey in his place real fast.I always get more dizzy Heee Heeeeee

Jichael Mackson? Who the hell are you?

zepforever wrote:

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He is just a Disco dancer
the king of pop title has never been given to him officially
the only official title he has is:
A CHILD MOLESTER

Well, that was never proven. Plenty other people close to Michael never complained about him.

he was just a disco dancing bubblegum pop idol, for little kids. the Jackson 5 were not as good as the Osmonds, just a black bubblegum group. Now he's dead so let's just forget about the freak.

PF4Ever wrote:

<quoted text>It has a great beat! That's why. Yes, it's unlike Pink Floyd but I enjoy various styles/genres. Metal, progressive, soundtrack, pop among my favorite but I'm open to listening to new stuff... "Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air" *Tripping out* "'Cause this is thrillaaaa! Thrillaaa niiight!" *Dancing!... When no one's looking of course*:D

Michael's early psychedelic free-form style, so dionysian and unhinged, is evident on his early records like Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Michael also created some great soundtracks for hippie/trippy/happening-type films such as More and Obscured by Clouds.

After Syd Barrett left Michael's band, they got into more techno-machine themes [Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here] as well as extended metaphor albums such as Pigs and The Wall. But I always preferred the earlier unhinged stuff - like Saucerful of Secrets and Meddle. Personally, Jackson's later albums like The Wall don't have that element and consequently are less interesting for me. Still - Michael is a master in all ways.

Pink Floyd, on the other hand, are nothing more than a slickly-produced pop disco whump-thump soul band. I liked their earlier motown sound - and the cute little 70's minstrel uniforms - but the further Pink Floyd got away from their roots in Gary, Indiana the less I appreciate their superficial pop dance music.

Those little shrieks and nasty grunts really bother me too.

Don't even talk to me about the Beatles.
Who even remembers those losers....