The king is dead, long live the king.....

thrasherbill · Post by **thrasherbill** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 4:58 pm

guitargeek wrote:
thrasherbill wrote:Yes I already know I'm going to hell.
If there is a hell,

My statement was based entirely on the possibility of there being a hell. I have no idea either way. I'll let you all know when I get there!

JustNate · Post by **JustNate** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:01 pm

Oh yeah....

What do Michael Jackson and caviar have in common?

They both come on little white crackers.

Pancake · Post by **Pancake** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:01 pm

You know GG, MJ challenged the perception that it's wrong for an adult male to sleep with children and look what it did for him! Hell.. he challenged the law! What a rebel!

Seriously though.. Fuck MJ.. who cares. I will never understand why people get so broken up when a celebrity dies.

JustNate · Post by **JustNate** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:08 pm

I totally agree, I'm not defending the guy, I just posed a simple question that I thought would make people think.

Anybody over 35 that says they weren't standing in their living room trying to figure out to Moonwalk back in 85 is LYING!

What does MJ like best about twenty eight year olds?
Theres twenty of them.

motorpsycho67 · Post by **motorpsycho67** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:20 pm

MotorCityN8 wrote: Anybody over 35 that says they weren't standing in their living room trying to figure out to Moonwalk back in 85 is LYING!

Not everyone was suckered in by pop culture.

JustNate · Post by **JustNate** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:33 pm

motorpsycho67 wrote:
MotorCityN8 wrote: Anybody over 35 that says they weren't standing in their living room trying to figure out to Moonwalk back in 85 is LYING!

Not everyone was suckered in by pop culture.

Okay, so you are a generation older, we've established that.

It's easy to sit back here and say, "Yeah, I never played with GI Joes, my first toy was an M-16."
"I never listened to MJ, my first listening experience was DRI's Violent Pacification 7inch"

then as you drive down the road you're belting out Billy Jean like you're Corky Fucking Romano.

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:34 pm

MotorCityN8 wrote:Anybody over 35 that says they weren't standing in their living room trying to figure out to Moonwalk back in 85 is LYING!

Not true. I'm 41 and I never liked MJ, never wanted to dance like him, couldn't stand to listen to his insipid music.

The 80s was a shitty time for commercial music, for the most part. My choices were Michael Jackson, Madonna, Wham, or Cyndi Lauper on the pop station or knuckle-dragging shitty metal bands like The Scorpions, Quiet Riot, or the watered-down 80s Van Halen and ZZ Top (with that fucking Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer all over it) on the rock station. It was about this time that I stopped listening to the radio altogether and stuck with my Beatles, Pink Floyd, and Led Zeppelin records until I finally discovered punk rock a few months later.

I also never owned parachute pants or a Members Only jacket. No plastic clothing for me in the 80s.

Davros · Post by **Davros** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:40 pm

motorpsycho67 wrote:
MotorCityN8 wrote: Anybody over 35 that says they weren't standing in their living room trying to figure out to Moonwalk back in 85 is LYING!

Not everyone was suckered in by pop culture.

1985 was Black Flag, Minor Threat et al, for me. A different kind of pop culture, I guess it could be said. Certainly no Michael Jackson. But my younger brother, yeah, he was a sucker for that crap.
I came home once, and he had Michael Jackson blasting in the apartment,(Mom wasn't home from work yet) and was standing on the sink in the bathroom, bent over, head between knees inspecting his ass in the mirror. I don't know why.
So every time there is something to do with Michael Jackson, that's what pops into my head. Seriously.

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:47 pm

motorpsycho67 · Post by **motorpsycho67** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:48 pm

MotorCityN8 wrote:
motorpsycho67 wrote:
MotorCityN8 wrote: Anybody over 35 that says they weren't standing in their living room trying to figure out to Moonwalk back in 85 is LYING!

Not everyone was suckered in by pop culture.
Okay, so you are a generation older, we've established that.

It's easy to sit back here and say, "Yeah, I never played with GI Joes, my first toy was an M-16."
"I never listened to MJ, my first listening experience was DRI's Violent Pacification 7inch"

then as you drive down the road you're belting out Billy Jean like you're Corky Fucking Romano.

I never said I didn't like MJ.

I thought Off the Wall was a good record. Even back then.

I'm a lot more open minded these days than I was 25 years ago.

JustNate · Post by **JustNate** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:51 pm

I wouldn't call myself a fan either, I just recognize his contribution to music.

I agree, Off the Wall was a solid record.

piccini9 · Post by **piccini9** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 7:21 pm

standing on the sink in the bathroom, bent over, head between knees inspecting his ass in the mirror. I don't know why.

Why the Hell NOT?

Ames · Post by **Ames** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:17 pm

Fuck all the eulogies. Do you think the world will morn the loss of O.J. Simpson? Charles Manson? Bernie Madoff? Yeah, he made some catchy music, but does that buy him forgiveness for the atrocities he committed?
Nope. No sadness here. The train has been off the tracks for a long fucking time, I was tired of watching it skid along the side of the rails.

Bo_9 · Post by **Bo_9** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:50 pm

Never met him. Couldn't care less.
But now here in the plains you can't get away from the bastard on the radio...
Grew up with the radio locked on old A.M. country...
Finally got away from it in the 90's.

Moto_Myotis · Post by **Moto_Myotis** » Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:36 pm

I was a little kid. I think Thriller came out in 1982, and I was born in '74. I *loved* that album, and I love Off the Wall and his earlier Motown stuff. Yeah, sure, I grew up to dislike him and the corporate music industry, I grew to disassociate my musical tastes from MTV and the like. However, I do think that MJ influenced me a lot when I was 8.

The funny thing is that, just today, I remembered that somewhere I have an MJ doll. The last time I saw it--maybe 5 years ago in my mom's garage--it was totally naked except for the silver glove and the red zipper jacket. How fucking appropriate.

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:41 am

Ames wrote:Fuck all the eulogies. Do you think the world will morn the loss of O.J. Simpson? Charles Manson? Bernie Madoff? Yeah, he made some catchy music, but does that buy him forgiveness for the atrocities he committed?
Nope. No sadness here. The train has been off the tracks for a long fucking time, I was tired of watching it skid along the side of the rails.

Thank you.

tucko · Post by **tucko** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:48 am

Neither contributed much to my life. Feeling old here, but confident and proud that Thriller was never in my music collection. I scored with my first album purchase.... London Calling.

Ditto to that. My favorite Angel was Cheryl Ladd anyhow. Can't remember my first album purchase...was it Iggy Pop?

SSCAM · Post by **SSCAM** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:40 am

Never liked that guy. Don't care that he's dead. My first CD was "Bulletboys". I can't remember what my first tape was although it is possible that it was Run DMC.

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:49 am

Hahahaha, my first album purchase was the Star Wars soundtrack when I was about 10 years old. My second album purchase was Pink Floyd's The Wall. Before either of those, though, I got records handed down to me, so my first LP was Cosmo's Factory... and my first record was a Beatles 45, "Please Please Me".

My first CD purchase was... Pink Floyd's The Wall. My second was Black Sabbath's Master of Reality.

Sorry, threadjack down memory lane...

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:07 pm

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