After Three Days of Ubiquity, I Concur
No, go on then: if you think his music is that great, try humming me Thriller. You can’t. The melody goes nowhere. It’s a dirge. The only thing that propels it along is the jerky backbeat, which you could only dance to comfortably if you spent every waking hour with a choreographer. Most of Jacko’s stuff is like that: dance music that only he could ever actually dance to.
A couple months ago I was looking at Wiki’s list of top selling pop albums internationally. I was curious how many of them were American, and was surprised how far down you had to go to get to one (that is, a solo artist) who was British or Japanese*. But I didn’t pay much attention to the copies sold. Yesterday I looked it up again, curious about the whole BEST SELLING ALBUM OF ALL TIME talk about Thriller. It sold 109 million copies. The next best-selling one, AC/DC’s Back in Black (never ‘eard o’ it) sold 45 million. So that stupid Thriller album sold two and a half times more copies than the next best-selling album. I mean for heaven’s sake.
* Friggin Alanis Morissette, Shania Twain, and Celine Dion are up there though. And #2 is AC/DC which just now I’ve discovered to be an Australian band?!
June 27th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Aw. And I requested that all the radio stations play all Jacko all the time just for you.
June 27th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
They’ve been around forever, AC/DC. The schoolboy’s about 50, now.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Who are AC?DC. I can honestly state that I never willingly listened to a single Jackson record after the very first, “I want you back”. And that’s only any good for the first eight bars. Quite an achievement to build a career on just eight bars.
How vulgar are Jackson jokes allowed to get on this blog?
June 29th, 2009 at 3:35 am
Just keep the monkey out of it.
June 29th, 2009 at 3:51 am
Oh, and here is a good one, at – ahem – The Nose on Your Face.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:07 am
So the song sung by West Ham United fans is off limits, then, Brett?
O/T, Brett: Bet you Shane Warne’s just about to declare himself available.
June 29th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Would our hostess know that song, I wonder?
I think I may declare myself available. You never know.
June 30th, 2009 at 12:49 am
Well the way Hauritz is going they might well be glad to have you. Having said which, this is one the Punter is determined to win – no-one wants to be the first Aussie skipper to lose the urn twice.