MJ

What up. Sorry I'm jumping in late in the game on the MJ retrospective posts. I've been on vacation with no computer or even cell service for a week.

Yeah, it's a drag. Classic superstar. Like, Elvis in 50's, Beatlemania... Thriller-era MJ in 1984 was that huge.

However, in Pete's defense, just because the guy died you are going to ignore the fact that he destroyed himself with plastic surgery and became a weird deformed monster over the last 20 years? It is what it is. But, having said that, my reaction when i heard he died was sadness, but that is pretty much how i felt every time i heard any news story on him or saw a picture of him for last 10 years... sadness. I mean, you don't have to be Dr. Phil to figure out that the reason that he loved to spend his time around young kids (and allegedly molest them) is because his own youth was lost to being a star in the Jackson 5 under a shitty manager/father. Then he got mega super rich and it fucked him up.

Anywho, Off the Wall and Thriller are def all time top ten, desert island, uber influential super albums that people in every corner of the globe still know today (25 years later), so much respect to Michael Jackson, rest in peace. Billie Jean is my #1 jam, but i'm bumping this Say Say Say 12" in memorandum right now. Remixed by John "Jellybean" Benitiez. Paul McCartney added song to the flip called "Ode to a Koala Bear". hahaha.

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p.s. I don't listen to esoteric shit to be cooler than thou. I'm constantly on the search for some new shit that really speaks to me, I always have been, but if there is a good top 40 shit i can dig it. Being in the midwest listening to the radio with my brother-in-law, I realize how much "Three Doors Down" and "Nickleback" and shit like that there is, not to mention bad country. Generic vanilla rock, ugh. I hate that shit. Sorry.