I know a lot of people saw him as a bit of a freak. But no one can denies what an absolute legend he
was. Winner of 13Grammy Awards 13 number one singles, and selling more than 750 million albums worldwide. What more can you say
So as a part of this Tribute i ask people to post there fave MJ songs.

Ill start i have a few but my fave would have to be from the biggest selling album of all time Thriller.

Thriller Quote

"Billy Jean"

and

"Blood on the dancefloor"

and of course "Thriller" clip

ps. I have no opinion of Michael Jackson - I didnt know him in person. But music will last forever... Quote

just a friendly heads up.... there was a tribute to mj in the model forums and brad killed it bc people started fighting about their opinions lol
ppl need to chillax! lol! Quote

Sooo many faves. A few:

Dirty Diana

Dangerous

Smooth Criminal

Remember the Time

In the Closet

Who Is It

Little Suzie Quote

Whatever song it is that goes "Mamasay, Mamasah-mahmahkoosah" (LOL)

Man In The Mirror

Will You Be There

Keep It In The Closet

Black or White Quote

Other songs i played to death

Beat it

Bad

Billy Jean

Black or White

Smooth Criminal

Dangereous

There is just to many to name the list could go on and on. lol Quote

Whatever song it is that goes "Mamasay, Mamasah-mahmahkoosah" (LOL)


AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *claps* Best thing is, I know exactly which one you mean and I still can't name it! You rock babe! Quote

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *claps* Best thing is, I know exactly which one you mean and I still can't name it! You rock babe!


Wanna be Starting Something

Lyrics Wanna Be Starting Something Michael Jackson

I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
You got to be startin' somethin'
I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
You got to be startin' somethin'
It's too high to get over (yeah, yeah)
Too low to get under (yeah, yeah)
You're stuck in the middle (yeah, yeah)
And the pain is thunder (yeah, yeah)
It's too high to get over (yeah, yeah)
Too low to get under (yeah, yeah)
You're stuck in the middle (yeah, yeah)
And the pain is thunder (yeah, yeah)

I took my baby to the doctor
With a fever, but nothing he found
By the time this hit the street
They said she had a breakdown
Someone's always tryin' to start my baby cryin'
Talkin', squealin', lyin'
Sayin' you just wanna be startin' somethin'

I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
You got to be startin' somethin'
I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
You got to be startin' somethin'
It's too high to get over (yeah, yeah)
Too low to get under (yeah, yeah)
You're stuck in the middle (yeah, yeah)
And the pain is thunder (yeah, yeah)
It's too high to get over (yeah, yeah)
Too low to get under (yeah, yeah)
You're stuck in the middle (yeah, yeah)
And the pain is thunder (yeah, yeah)

You love to pretend that you're good
When you're always up to no good
You really can't make him hate her
So your tongue became a razor
Someone's always tryin' to keep my baby cryin'
Treacherous, cunnin', declinin'
You got my baby cryin'

I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
You got to be startin' somethin'
I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
You got to be startin' somethin'
It's too high to get over (yeah, yeah)
Too low to get under (yeah, yeah)
You're stuck in the middle (yeah, yeah)
And the pain is thunder (yeah, yeah)
It's too high to get over (yeah, yeah)
Too low to get under (yeah, yeah)
You're stuck in the middle (yeah, yeah)
And the pain is thunder (yeah, yeah)
You're a vegetable, you're a vegetable
Still they hate you, you're a vegetable
You're just a buffet, you're a vegetable
They eat off of you, you're a vegetable

Billie Jean is always talkin'
When nobody else is talkin'
Tellin' lies and rubbin' shoulders
So they called her mouth a motor
Someone's always tryin' to start my baby cryin'
Talkin', squealin', spyin'
Sayin' you just wanna be startin' somethin'

I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
You got to be startin' somethin'
I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
You got to be startin' somethin'
It's too high to get over (yeah, yeah)
Too low to get under (yeah, yeah)
You're stuck in the middle (yeah, yeah)
And the pain is thunder (yeah, yeah)
It's too high to get over (yeah, yeah)
Too low to get under (yeah, yeah)
You're stuck in the middle (yeah, yeah)
And the pain is thunder (yeah, yeah)
You're a vegetable, you're a vegetable
Still they hate you, you're a vegetable
You're just a buffet, you're a vegetable
They eat off of you, you're a vegetable

If you can't feed your baby (yeah, yeah)
Then don't have a baby (yeah, yeah)
And don't think maybe (yeah, yeah)
If you can't feed your baby (yeah, yeah)
You'll be always tryin'
To stop that child from cryin'
Hustlin', stealin', lyin'
Now baby's slowly dyin'

I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
You got to be startin' somethin'
I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
You got to be startin' somethin'
It's too high to get over (yeah, yeah)
Too low to get under (yeah, yeah)
You're stuck in the middle (yeah, yeah)
And the pain is thunder (yeah, yeah)
It's too high to get over (yeah, yeah)
Too low to get under (yeah, yeah)
You're stuck in the middle (yeah, yeah)
And the pain is thunder (yeah, yeah)

Lift your head up high
And scream out to the world
I know I am someone
And let the truth unfurl
No one can hurt you now
Because you know what's true
Yes, I believe in me
So you believe in you
Help me sing it, ma ma se,
Ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa
Ma ma se, ma ma sa,
Ma ma coo sa



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Great and talented Artist - Icon

Questionable ethics and morals - History may sort it out.

In someones death - custom to celebrate the Positive aspects of thier life Quote

Beat It for sure
by far the best (and worst!) song


not a fan of the dude, but you can't deny he had a lot of impact on a lot of people. Quote

I TOTALLY agree w/you, Lick...

He was a very tormented soul, thrust into the spotlight at a very young age.

When I was in dance school, we used many, many of his songs to dance to...some of which were used for "solos" in our recitals. He was a very talented and gifted man!

He will suffer no more, but his music will live on!!!! Quote

"You Are Not Alone"

Another day has gone
I'm still all alone
How could this be
You're not here with me
You never said goodbye
Someone tell me why
Did you have to go
And leave my world so cold

Everyday I sit and ask myself
How did love slip away
Something whispers in my ear and says
That you are not alone
For I am here with you
Though you're far away
I am here to stay

But you are not alone
For I am here with you
Though we're far apart
You're always in my heart
But you are not alone

'Lone, 'lone
Why, 'lone

Just the other night
I thought I heard you cry
Asking me to come
And hold you in my arms
I can hear your prayers
Your burdens I will bear
But first I need your hand
Then forever can begin

Everyday I sit and ask myself
How did love slip away
Something whispers in my ear and says
That you are not alone
For I am here with you
Though you're far away
I am here to stay

For you are not alone
For I am here with you
Though we're far apart
You're always in my heart
For you are not alone

Whisper three words and I'll come runnin'
And girl you know that I'll be there
I'll be there

You are not alone
For I am here with you
Though you're far away
I am here to stay
For you are not alone
For I am here with you
Though we're far apart
You're always in my heart

For you are not alone
For I am here with you
Though you're far away
I am here to stay

For you are not alone
For I am here with you
Though we're far apart
You're always in my heart

For you are not alone... Quote

Just to name a few...

I'll Be There
Off The Wall
Working Day And Night
Black or White
Beat It
The Way You Make Me Feel

Link to some Michael Jackson Videos http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D09151B9A8DF8304
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *claps* Best thing is, I know exactly which one you mean and I still can't name it! You rock babe!


LOL.... I have certain songs I sing for certain things, and for some wierd reason, I only sing that when I'm scrubbing the tub!! I'll be on my knees, butt in the air, scrubbing furiously away and singing "Mama SAY Mama SAH Mah Mah KOOSAH" in time to my arm movement....LMAO- I'm special!!!

And you rock, too!! And so does Suggs for posting the lyrics- NOW I can sing the whole dang thang instead of repeating myself a bajillion times!
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Some of my "favs"...been on Youtube all day...lol

Bad
PYT (Pretty Young Thing)
Dirty Diana
Dangerous
Working Day and Night
Get on the Floor
You Rock My World
Rock with You
The Way You Make Me Feel
Off the Wall
Break of Dawn

Damn, that man could thrust his hips and dance like nobody's business...think he's got Elvis beat!!!!! Quote

The Icon - The Artist

Michale Jackson was UNIQUE like Elvis
He brought to many in the World a new sound and even a way of Performing these songs
He danced with his feelings and heart as he sang his songs

I was amazed looking at simple song "ABC - 123" when they were The Jackson5
Amazing the talent of the Musical Family

Every generation has a Great Artist who produces a New Genre to a country or World - I wonder who will be the next Icon to deliver
Might be an artist not known well yet - or someone yet to perform

Sad , but true - Michael will now be Immortalize with all the Interest and Sells of his records , videos and anything else
In my Entertainment room - I have old vinal records. Most are albums and 1 wall I actually have a few framed
I loved that era where Art work that was on the covers
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Yes, Lick, I agree...once again, with you. It's a shame that we actually learn more about these famous "icons" once they are gone. I heard the other night, from one of the few interviews that Michael Jackson did, that his inspiration was classical music (from an interview w/Ebony Magazine)...who would've thunk it??? I also learned that he was always on the look out for unique talent and tried his best to bring them into the face of the public eye.

I envy you for having those vinyl records. I dream of one day having one of those vintage jukeboxes w/the old 45s...something a lot of "youngins" don't have a clue about...lol...but, gotta love technology. Afterall, if it were not for technology, we would not be able to chat on these forums and have the luxury of viewing and enjoying these lovely, hard-working ppl on this site!!!

Cheers! Quote

Lauren Vail - easy to still buy "Vinyl"
Old Flea markets , Craigs List and garage sells almost give them away

I purchased them often for $1 or less
Some were never opened

My mother LOVES Elvis
I have 3 walls of a room in her house with frames 45s and Albums
It is her favorite room now

Framing for $20 - 100 plus frame at Hobby Stores

I got a Gold record for only $50 one time - She thought I paid over $1000

Once bought a suitcase of records in an auction and found many treasures
Paid $10 and have 8 records framed in that purchase

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In the brief, electric prime of Michael Jackson, millions danced to "Billie Jean,""Beat It" and other songs so propulsive it almost didn't matter what they actually said.

But the lyrics - whether Jackson's or others' - could be as disturbing as the music was liberating. Sealed in the grooves were tales of deceit, paranoia, violence and victimization. Even before his life broke apart and the tabloids bore down, Jackson sang like a boy-man under attack.

"You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it," he warns on "Thriller," the title track to his all-time selling album and written by Rod Temperton. "You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes/You're paralyzed."

Jackson was almost 21 when his first "adult" record, "Off the Wall," came out in 1979. He had survived the childhood beatings and insults by his father and had already lived at least one life in show business, as the smiling, spinning prodigy fronting his brothers in the Jackson Five.


"Off the Wall" sold millions and shed the catchy, but impersonal persona of his child star youth. The title track, written by Temperton, was a lighthearted introduction to what would become Jackson's truest subjects: his strange life and the stolen innocence he wanted back. "The world is on your shoulder," the song advises, but "life ain't so bad it all/If you live it off the wall."

He would soon fire his father as his manager and vow that his next record, "Thriller," would make him the biggest star in the business - a promise met like few others. "Thriller" sold more than 20 million copies initially and sales now top 50 million. It earned him the title he bestowed on himself, "The King of Pop," and offered the first full take from the throne.

"Michael Jackson wrote songs for one great artist - which was himself," says Diane Warren, the Grammy-winning songwriter who has written for Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Kelly Clarkson and Mary J. Blige.

Warren says Jackson also picked great songs by other writers - see "Thriller" - and "was an amazing interpreter" of them. Among his songbook, she spots a theme of defiance and toughness that perhaps acted as protective armor.

Music producer Glen Ballard was in the studio with Jackson and Quincy Jones for the making of "Thriller," and worked on the later "Bad" and "Dangerous" albums, co-writing the songs "Man in the Mirror" and "Keep the Faith."

"As he grew up and matured as an artist, his lyric writing had this sort of air of mystery about it," Ballard says. "He still knew how to write hooks - he just knew how to communicate that way - but he sort of created this vocabulary" that was darker, surreal and futuristic.

The bouncy duet with Paul McCartney, "The Girl Is Mine," is an interracial love triangle. The hard rock "Beat It," set to the switchblade guitar runs of Eddie Van Halen, is an anthem of pacifism, or passivity, with Jackson pleading to stop a gang war - and perhaps all wars - because "It doesn't matter who's wrong or right."

The singer in "Billie Jean" has been taken by a girl he meets on the dance floor and later claims has borne him a child. "Billie Jean is not my lover," he chants, teeth clenched. "She's just a girl who claims that I am the one/But the kid is not my son."

Jackson's "Billie Jean" lyrics are paranoid, defiant and "cool," Warren says.

"Maybe in a way he wanted to be left alone," she suggests, noting the trauma of his missing childhood.

If so, Jackson did not give that impression in the recording studio, according to Ballard. He remembers Jackson as "very shy" around people he'd just met, but when he felt comfortable, he was funny and fun to be around. He was collaborative yet focused on his larger musical vision. He moved and grooved, feeling the music. When Ballard and others hosed him with water guns on his birthday, Jackson grabbed a water gun and joined in.

Ballard had no idea about Jackson's life outside the studio. As for "Billie Jean," he can't point to any real-life experience or demons within the pop legend's psyche.

"It's just this incomplete portrait that you can fill in however you want and you can see it as this huge, mysterious, sort of tragic story or something," he says of the 1983 chart topper.

The same woman, or at least another named "Billie Jean," turns up in the equally besieged "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," in which Billie Jean is another exploiter "always talkin'/when nobody else is talkin'/tellin' lies and rubbin' shoulders." Again, there's a child and Jackson, the alleged Peter Pan of popular music, doesn't want to know:

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If you can't feed your baby

Then don't have a baby

And don't think maybe

If you can't feed your baby

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Jackson was a cultural radical who broke the color line on MTV and shattered the old rock clique of white men with guitars. But his politics were more personal than collective, avoiding confrontation as surely as the guy in "Beat It." In "Man in the Mirror," from the 1987 "Bad" album, he worries about "the kids in the street/with not enough to eat," and concludes that the answer is to "take a look at yourself and then make a change." He would later call to "Heal the World," although doesn't say how beyond making sure that "you care enough."

Scandal and chaos only made him look harder, at himself, and at others: The boasts of "Invincible" and "Untouchable," the rage of "Tabloid Junkie" and the taunts of "Threatened." In the self-evident "Privacy," the world is a trespasser peeking through his window: "Ain't the pictures enough, why do you go through so much," he asks. "To get the story you need, so you can bury me."

Ballard, who has written for Alanis Morissette and George Strait, among others, says the passionate performer was a "remarkable songwriter" who "absolutely" felt his songs' lyrics.

"I don't think there's any question that that was just falling out of his creative, unpremeditated self. ... He tapped into his 'whatever' and he was using it like an artist should and sort of creating these characters - maybe they're him, maybe they're not," he says. "You get distance from it. (The lyrics) just really have this kind of compelling, mysterious, very cool air about them, in addition to being really hot at the center with these grooves."

You could heat a country on all the energy spent wondering what happened to Jackson in the second half of his life and what eventually killed him. But he explained himself well in the trembling "Childhood," set to Hollywood strings and to a melody lost and forlorn as an orphaned boy.

That song "was probably the most autobiographical of all his amazing lyrics," says Grammy-winning songwriter Carole Bayer Sager, who co-wrote "That's What Friends Are For" with Burt Bacharach.

"Have you seen my Childhood?" Jackson wonders, his voice light and high. "Before you judge me, try hard to love me/The painful youth I've had."


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LOL.... I have certain songs I sing for certain things, and for some wierd reason, I only sing that when I'm scrubbing the tub!! I'll be on my knees, butt in the air, scrubbing furiously away and singing "Mama SAY Mama SAH Mah Mah KOOSAH" in time to my arm movement....LMAO- I'm special!!!
And you rock, too!! And so does Suggs for posting the lyrics- NOW I can sing the whole dang thang instead of repeating myself a bajillion times!



Too funny!!! I just got the visual,,,lol!!
Favorite:
Annie are you ok
ABC
I'll Be There
Thriller
Rock With You
Remember the Time

and of course PYT Quote