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I can't decide if I was more upset when Michael Jackson died or when Prince died. I remember being really bummed when Michael Jackson died, but I've had Prince on random shuffle in the car for a few days and while not all his songs were gold... man, there was some good stuff in there. I think most people who grew up in the 80s liked both artists. I'm pretty sure both Thriller and Let's Go Crazy got played at my wedding reception.

I only was sad when Ronnie James Dio died. I never cared for any Pop musician :-P

I think they were somewhat similar. Michael Jackson was accused of doing some unspeakable things, while prince changed his name to something unspeakable!

Joke:
Guy 1: Hey, did you hear this joke, it's said that Michael Jackson was going to a store where boys pants are discounted 50%!
Guy 2: You stupid moron, the joke is that Michal Jackson was visiting a store where boys pants are half off!

Ha ha ha

Garry Shandling.

Where do we rank the #1 hits of Prince, Michael Jackson and Garry Shandling? Surely the theme to It's Garry Shandling's Show is better than a lot of post-2000 MJ.

This isn't quite apples to oranges, but it's pretty close:

Michael Jackson's #1 Hits:

Ben
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Rock with You
Billie Jean
Beat It
Say Say Say" (with Paul McCartney
I Just Can't Stop Loving You
Bad
The Way You Make Me Feel
Man in the Mirror
Dirty Diana
Black or White
You Are Not Alone

Michael Jackson's non-#1 hits:

The Girl is Mine (#2), Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' (#5), Human Nature (#7, PYT (#10), Thriller (#4), Smooth Criminal (#7), Jam (#26!?), Scream (#5).

Prince's #1 Hits:

I Wanna Be Your Lover (*2)
Controversy (*3)
Let's Work (*3)
1999 (*3)
When Doves Cry (*1)
Let's Go Crazy (*1)
Erotic City (*3)
Kiss (*1)
Sign o' the Times (*2)
Batdance (*1)
Thieves in the Temple (*2)
Gett Off (*3)
Cream (*1)
Diamonds and Pearls (*2)

(*1: US chart)
(*2: US R&B chart)
(*3: US Dance chart)

Prince's non-#1 hits:

Little Red Corvette (#6), Delirious (#8), Purple f'n Rain (#2), I Would Die 4 U (#8), Take Me With U (#25), Raspberry Beret (#2), Pop Life (#7), U Got the Look (#2), My Name is Prince (#36), 7 (#7), The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (#3).

There's so much to discuss I don't even know where to begin.

Overall, I'd say Michael Jackson's music is some of the first music that made me want to dance. Before discovering rap, it was the songs on Thriller that made me want to moonwalk, pop and lock, and do all that crazy stuff. I was 11 years old and I wore one gardening glove around my bedroom while I practiced moonwalking across my mother's cardboard ironing board in white socks.

Prince's music was the first music that gave me the same pit in my stomach that I got when I saw beautiful girls on the bus that I knew would never talk to me. Purple Rain was my soundtrack for those late summer nights when my stomach hurt so bad from grade school crushes. There was a time when I didn't think there was anything deeper in the world than Purple Rain.

Both of them turned crazy, but there was a time... man, there was a time. When pop music ruled my life, these guys ruled pop music.

I feel it would be amiss to not also give Michael Jackson credit for writing the World's Best Song And A Person Would Be A Prick For Saying Otherwise, "We Are the World."

Prince, to his credit, wrote "Nothing Compares 2 U."

ADVANTAGE: Pr-- it has to be Michael Jackson, you unfeeling monsters.

Prince was one of the greatest guitarists in history, which he doesn't get credit for because he was a bigger "pop sensation".

The fact that he was a pop sensation, AND a brilliant guitarist, AND the funkiest man alive, well, you know where I stand on the issue.

As a child I had the thriller poster on the wall beside my bed. Pre-school age. This explains a lot doesn't it?

loafergirl wrote:As a child I had the thriller poster on the wall beside my bed. Pre-school age. This explains a lot doesn't it?

He signed a lot of those for kids your age. In person.

With his "magic" marker.

P.Y.T.

It's not advertised much, but Rockwell's "Everybody's watching me," has Michael Jackson on backing vocals.

How do I vote for "when I thought Tdarcos was dead?"

Tdarcos wrote:It's not advertised much, but Rockwell's "Everybody's watching me," has Michael Jackson on backing vocals.

It's literally the only thing most people know about that song. Define "not advertised much."

Doesn't this generation only know that fact and song from "Remember the 80s" and pop-up music videos as well?