[78-L] Jackson death

[fnarf at comcast.net]

Oh, man. Dig out the 12-inch disco version of "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough". I know I'm in the wrong group for this, but once upon a time Jackson was hotter than the sun. "Shake Your Body Down To The Ground", his last big hit with The Jacksons, was pretty tight too. "Thriller" is one of the greatest pop albums ever made. After that, well, there's "Bad", which was, indeed, bad, and the rest, which was worse. So it's been a quarter-century since he mattered. But, you know, Elvis '77 wasn't exactly scintillating, nor was Lennon '80....



----- Original Message -----
From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 6:16:46 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [78-L] Jackson death

Well,  his adult appeal baffled me.  I liked some of the early stuff with 
the Jackson 5,  but the material  which made him rich and famous was really 
the first of the "wretched excess" over-produced vocals of the 80s...and 
today with American Idol etc. we're still suffering the consequences.

Long ago he stopped being a singer and completely morphed into a symbol or 
an icon...the same thing happened to Valentino,  Jean Harlow,  Elvis, James 
Dean,   Marilyn Monroe,  etc.  Whatever  merit these artists possessed just 
got buried in waves of idolatry,  sentimentality and nostalgia...and general 
commercialism.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Jackson death


> fnarf at comcast.net wrote:
> > $511 for a copy of Thriller with a bent cover?
> >
> >
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Michael-Jackson-Thriller-LP-Vinyl-Original-EX-1982-EPIC_W0QQitemZ270411333797QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item3ef5c580a5&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A3|66%3A2|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A0|293%3A2|294%3A50
> >
>
> Rather appropriate, no?
>
> At the risk of using a word that's very politically incorrect, especially 
> this
> week (not to mention any other time), I was standing in a variety store 
> about
> 20 years ago and two young girls (11-12 or so) were looking at the teen
> magazines and one of them said "Michael Jackson..what a faggot."
>
> Never understood for one second what there was to this guy. Other than 
> total
> weirdness, and once having been part of a family act. His "I Saw Mommy 
> Kissing
> Santy Claus" is STILL torture to my ears.
>
> Poor Farrah can't even have this day to herself.
>
> dl
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: soundthink at aol.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 3:39:09 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
>> Subject: [78-L] Jackson death
>>
>> If you want to see morbid frenzy, check out the Michael Jackson auction 
>> items on eBay. It's like 1977 all over again, when Elvis died.
>> Everything with his name on it is selling. Crazy, nutty, insane prices.
>>
>> Cary Ginell
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