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(Micky Mouse (left) and Michael Jackson)

Right, the world is still going crazy over Michael Jackson so I'm going to jump on this sinking ship which seems like it's going on floating on forever. I'm going to tell you my dear journal reader all about my Micheal Jackson (what he means just to me, not everyone else). To start with I'm going to say nothing about the circus since his death, but all I'll say is I never brought his music when he was alive because the money would go to support a life style that was just, well... what one word could possibly sum up what his life turned into when he was alive? or what is now referred to as his final years?

I think you know what I'm talking about even if you are a really big fan. There are a lot of “What If's” flying around him but I put this to you dear journal reader: What if he continued making music like other big names from the 80's eg: U2, Madonna, Prince, Depeche Mode, Kylie Minogue, R.E.M., Metallica etc (maybe they're not as big as in their hey day but have continued to make new music). Of course some other big names have just faded away never to comeback. Michael was doing a comeback but if Jackson continued making music and releasing an album every couple of years (even if it was great, good, bad or even just ugly music) it would have been a positive “The Music” to all the negative “The Press”. Some fans didn't really care they just wanted him anyway he was coming, or should I use the word going now.

Micheal Jackson has passed away which I really wish he could “Rest In Peace” but it seems he can't, or wouldn't because of who he was when he was alive. I'm not going to buy his music now because it's really turned into just a monster money making machine for a lot of other people. Where or who is it all going to now? Or do I really want to know anyway. Now it seems “The Record Company” is releasing, or reissuing anything they can get their hands on and it will go to number 1. Which is I guess what happens but you are the customer and don't have to buy it like everyone else seem to be.

I would love to have a copy my favorite album of his which is Off the Wall. Which to me is the Micheal Jackson classic album even if other albums are higher sales, or whatever. The music press has been mixed up. Mojo magazine had a write up about “remember him this way” focus on his early 80's which was nice, I guess. Q magazine had a horror photo cover feature and NME and Rolling Stone and many others had theirs too but I have to say again I didn't buy any of them because you don't have too encourage this as well.

I want to tell a funny story now to lighten things up a bit. Recenlty I got Adam Ant's auto bio book which was full of surprises and a great read but I think you have to be a fan to read it. I would rated the book at 4 and ½ out of 5. He was my first music hero, I paint that white stripe on my face every time he was on Countdown (an Aussie TV show). The first album I bought was Adam and the Ants' Kings of the Wild Frontier even if it was payed for by my Mother and was supposed to be my Father's birthday present. Maybe I should write a journal about him but for now I wanted to tell the story about when Micheal Jackson called up Adam Ant one night in the 80's. It was at 4 am in the morning Adam's phone starts ringing, wakes-up and finds on the receiver an American accent which says,
“Hello? Hello? Is that Adam Ant?”
At that point Adam thinks it's his band member Terry Lee making another prank phone call again and says,
“Stop pissing about, Terry. I'm trying to sleep.”
but the voice said,
“No, it's not Terry, It's Michael. Is that Adam Ant?”
At that point he hangs up after saying,
“Very funny, Terry, now f*** Off!”
The telephone started to ring again and Ant anwers again with the same voice saying,
“Hi, no, really it's me Micheal Jackson and I just want to ask you...”
Adam cutting him off and shouting at Terry to stop this or he'll come over and “F*** hit you” and “Piss off” which I have to say that sounds such an English punk rock thing. He rolled over but again the phone rings he grabbed the receiver and screams
“Terry, That's IT!!!”
but it's a different voice with an American accent, this time it was deeper, slower and calmer,
“Hi, is that Adam Ant?”
“Oh, oh, yes, this is Adam, Who are you?”
“I'm Quincy Jones, calling from L.A. Sorry, we probably woke you up, but I'm here with Micheal Jackson and he'd like to speak with you. Is that OK?”
In the book Adam wrote “F*** me, I thought”, which is lucky he didn't say that too but he just agreed.
“Hi, Adam, it's really Micheal, sorry I woke you.”
After just telling the king of pop to piss and F*** off he apologized
“Oh, no, sorry to have been so rude to you.” Anyway after saying sorry to each other again and bit of small talk, Micheal got to the point.
“I really like your jacket. Can you tell me where you got it?”
“Huh? My jacket?” says Adam, trying to think and saying something about somewhere that supplied costumes for movies. Saying the same jacket was worn by David Hemming in The Charge Of The Brigade film. Then Jackson asked what the suppliers name was and even how to spell it correctly. Then Micheal finshed with,
“Great, thanks. Let's meet up next time you're in America, Bye.”
That was it, the line went dead. If you look at the time line or make one yourself the next Michael Jackson album was Thriller and remember a red jacket he wore, or should I not have to spell that out for you?

Anyway the other funny thing I wanted to share with you is my favorite Jackson cover song by the great and totally mad Crispin Hellion Glover of one of Jackson's greatest songs Ben. Maybe the audio track of Glover doing Ben is fine but to get the full insanity of it all here is the youtube clip too, judge for yourself. This is the video clip to go with his film called "Willard" which I have yet to see but love this and laugh every time I watch it.


I hope you enjoy my little stories and writing about Micheal Jackson. It's not even been six months since his passing away but hopefully one day the world will all calm down and maybe one day I will get Off The Wall album too. What do you think yourself about all of the above or whatever you think about him.

Thank you for reading or just looking, bye-bye.

1 Mika
2 Florence + The Machine
3 Yelle
4 The Kooks
5 Britney Spears
6 The Killers
7 Lady GaGa
8 t.A.T.u.
9 Bat for Lashes
10 Cansei de Ser Sexy
11 Kate Nash
12 Kylie Minogue
13 Aloha From Hell
14 Lily Allen
15 Uffie
16 Katy Perry
17 Nancy Ajram
18 Marjorie Estiano
19 3OH!3
20 Arctic Monkeys
21 ABBA
22 MGMT
23 Pixie Lott
24 50 Cent
25 Franz Ferdinand
26 Ke$ha
27 Corinne Bailey Rae
28 Panic at the Disco
29 Sonohra
30 Emilie Simon

What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Kids

How many albums by 17 do you own?
On my computer, just one.

What is your favourite song by 15?
Actually I don't like her song very much, i don't even know what she's doing in my library, but if i had to choose, Hot Chick would be the chosen one.

What is your favourite song by 5?
Oh my God, that's really difficult! But I guess it's her new single, 3.

Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Somebody Told Me.

What is your favourite song by 10?
Superafim, by the way, this is the only music in Portuguese of them that I really like.

What is a good memory you have involving 30?
She has a cover of French song with my favourite singer ever, Mika, called Comment Te Dire Adieu. So I started listening to her because of it.

Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Don't Trust Me.

How many times have you seen 24 live?
I have never seen 50 Cent live and I don't know if one day I'll want to.

What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
Mama Do, but i didn't like it at first listen, now I love it.

What is your favorite album by 11?
The only one released so far: Made of Bricks.

Who is a favorite member of 1?
Mika, of course.

Have you ever seen 14 live?
No, but i'd love to.

What is a good memory involving 27?
Two or three years ago, I can't remember exactly when, there was a great soap opera on TV which I loved and one of her songs, Put Your Records On, was on the soundtrack.

What is your favorite song by 16?
I Kissed A Girl, but I'm not lesbian xD

What is your favorite album by 18?
Marjorie Estiano, the album is called just like the singer.

What is your favorite song by 25?
Take Me Out.

What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
TiK ToK.

What is your favorite album by 2?
She has released just one album, it's called Lungs and it's great.

What is you favorite song by 3?
Je Veux Te Voir<3

A
The Airborne Toxic Event
Alesha Dixon
Alexandra Burke
Amy Winehouse
Angels & Airwaves
Art Brut
Attack! Attack! (x2)

B
Baddies
Basement Jaxx
BeardyMan
Blur
Bombay Bicycle Club
Bon Iver
Brand New
Bruce Springsteen
Broken Records

C
Calvin Harris
Chairlift
Chipmunk
Coldplay
Craig David
The Cribs

D
Dan Black (x3)
Daniel Evans
Daniel Merriweather
The dead formats
Diana Vickers
Dizzee Rascal
DJ Pdex
Does It Offend You, Yeah?

E
Easy Star All-Stars
Elliot Minor
Emarosa
Enter Shikari
Eoghan Quigg

F
Faithless
Farewell
Florence + The Machine
Franz Ferdinand
Friendly Fires
Frontiers

G
Gareth Gates
Go: Audio
Gossip

H
Hellogoodbye
Houston Calls

I

J
Jamie T (x2)
Jason Mraz
JLS (x2)
Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong

K
Kasabian
Kid British
Kylie Minogue

L
Lady GaGa
Laura White
Lil' Chris
Lily Allen
Lostprophets

M
Madness
McFly (x2)
Metric
The Metros
Metro Station
Mr Hudson (x3)
Mystery Jets

N
N*E*R*D
N-Dubz
Nelly Furtado
The Noisettes

O
Out of Sight

P
Paolo Nutini
Peter Andre
Pete Doherty
Pendulum

Q

R
Rachel Hylton
The Rifles
The Rumble Strips (x2)
Ruth Lorenzo

S
S Club 7
S Club Juniors
The Saturdays
Saving Aimee
Shontelle
The Script
Sherwood
Shontelle
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
The Spill Canvas
Steps
The Subways
Sugababes

T
Taio Cruz
Tinchy Stryder
The Ting Tings (x2)
Tom Jones
Tonight Is Goodbye

U

V
Victoria Beckham

W
Westlife
White Lies
Will Young (x2)
The Wombats (x2)

X

Y
You Me At Six (x5)
Young Guns

Z
Zoe Birkett
The Zutons

#
65daysofstatic

Met
You Me At Six - Josh Franceschi (x3), Matt Barnes (x3), Max Heyler, Dan Flint.
The Blackout
The Wombats
We Are The Ocean - Dan Brown
Tonight Is Goodbye - Anton West

This from the HOTTEST FEMALE SONGS!!! Kind-off like Triple J's Hottest 100 of All-time early in the year but only female artists because there was very few women in Triple J's countdown. It's run by a new beer called Hummingbird and some pay TV channel (I don't know which one because I don't watch it). It's a cool idea and I found it so hard to cut it down just to ten in the end so I just made my own 100 tracks from my favourite female artists.


My Top Ten Votes
1. Portishead - Glory Box
2. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
3. Sarah Blasko - {Explain}
4. Nina Simone - Sinnerman
5. Fiona Apple - Fast as You Can
6. Björk - Army Of Me
7. Cat Power - Cross Bones Style
8. Beth Orton - Stolen Car
9. PJ Harvey - This Is Love
10. Magic Dirt - Dirty Jeans

This was very, very, very, very hard (have I made it clear how hard this was?) But I picked songs which I could listen to on repeat which I have done in the past (not here on last.fm yet). Most tracks are from the 90's too (I grew-up in that decade, if you haven't all ready guessed). It seems like last.fm's journals are made up of long lists of songs so I've joined in again with my very, very long short list of songs that didn't make it into the top ten. These songs can be any thing that I love really It's from A to Z (well it's Y really, then V). It's selected from the list of tracks which are on their website but I've added a few of my own ones at the end. If you have no idea what I'm talking about go here and read all about it (there's only 4 days left to vote so hop too it).
http://www.hummingbird100.com/home

Aimee Mann - Save Me
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
Beth Orton - Galaxy Of Emptiness
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Björk - Pagan Poetry
Björk - Violently Happy
Blondie - Union City Blue
Blondie - X Offender
Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billy Joe
The Breeders - Cannonball
Cat Power - Living Proof
Carpenters - Close to You
Christina Aguilera - The Voice Within
Clare Bowditch - Lips Like Oranges
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Dolly Parton - Jolene
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Duffy - Syrup & Honey
Dusty Springfield - Breakfast In Bed
Eartha Kitt - I Want To Be Evil
Ella Fitzgerald - Black Coffee
Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind
Fiona Apple - Never Is a Promise
Fiona Apple - Red Red Red
Gabriella Cilmi - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper
Janis Joplin - Tell Mama
Jessica Simpson - Angels
Jewel - Morning Song
Joan Baez - Suzanne
Joanna Newsom - The Book of Right-On
Joni Mitchell - Come in From the Cold
Kasey Chambers - Pony
Kate Bush - How to Be Invisible
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Kylie Minogue - Slow
Loretta Lynn - Fist City
M.I.A - Pull Up The People
Madonna - What It Feels Like for a Girl
Marianne Faithfull - Something Better
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Nico - Femme Fatale
Nina Simone - Feeling Good
Patsy Cline - Life's Railway To Heaven
Patti Smith - Because the Night
Peggy Lee - Don't Smoke In Bed
PJ Harvey - C'mon Billy
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
Portishead - Humming
Portishead - The Rip
The Pretenders - I Go to Sleep
The Pussycat Dolls - Stickwitu
Regina Spektor - Samson
Renee Geyer - I Scare Myself
Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music
Rihanna - Unfaithful
Sarah Blasko - No Turning Back
Sarah Blasko - Perfect Now
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
The Seekers - 500 Miles
Tiffany - I Think We Are Alone Now
Tori Amos - A Sorta Fairytale
Tori Amos - Blood Roses
The Veronicas - 4ever
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
Yoko Ono - Walking on Thin Ice
Some tracks I think should be on the list but are not so I've added them here:
Alela Diane - White As Diamonds
The Audreys - Lay Me Down
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Resolve
Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
Divinyls - Boys in Town
The Drones - Work For Me
Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train
Emilíana Torrini - Heartstopper
Emmylou Harris - Every Grain of Sand
Gillian Welch - Everything is Free
Jane Birkin - My Secret
Jen Cloher & The Endless Sea - Better off Dancing
Jolie Holland - Old Fashioned Morphine
Jolie Holland - Mexico City
Karen Dalton - Are You Leaving for the Country
Karen Dalton - Down On The Street (Don't You Follow Me Down)
Lene Lovich - Bird Song
L7 - Shitlist
Martina Topley-Bird - Anything
Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On
The Paradise Motel - Bad Light
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Down by the Riverside
The Triffids - Raining Pleasure
The White Stripes - In the Cold, Cold Night
Vashti Bunyan - Rainbow River

So that is it. It wasn't so hard really (but cutting it down to ten was). I've most likely missed something which I'll remember later and be kicking myself about but I'm pretty happy with this mix. It seems my favorite female singer songwriter is Beth Gibbons with my number 1 track in my top ten. Plus two more Portishead songs and one from Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man project album. If you don't know she wrote My Secret for Jane Birkin a few years ago too. That adds up to five tracks out of one hundred which is not many but more that anyone else.

Anyway what do you think??? I liked writing these journal entries but I do like reading you comments and It's also the only way I can tell if anyone has been reading or looking at them. Thanks and bye for now.

Мой личный рейтинг лучших альбомов 2007 года:

Red Flag – Born Again
De/Vision – Noob
The Birthday Massacre - Walking With Strangers
Technoir - Deliberately Fragile
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Trip the Light Fantastic
Melotron – Propaganda
Alizée – Psychédélices
!DISTAIN - Raise The Level
Backlash - Shape of Things to Come
STandART - Australia
Vitriol - Requiem Of A Tortured Soul
Dave Gahan – Hourglass
Kylie Minogue - X
Air – Pocket Symphony
Manic Street Preachers - Send Away The Tigers
Duran Duran – Red Carpet Massacre
Britney Spears - Blackout
Obscenity Trial - Daydream EP
Michigan - Pulse of Pain

"Post your top fifteen bands/artists, the first song you heard of theirs, the song that made you fall in love, your favorite album and your current favorite song."

I. Britney Spears
1. Baby one more time
2. Oops!...I Did It Again
3. Britney -greatest album ever!
4. Piece Of Me

II. Kylie Minogue
1. Spinning Around
2. Red Blooded Woman
3. Body Language
4. Stars

III. Aly & AJ
1. Do You Believe In Magic
2. Potential Break Up Song
3. Insomniatic
4. Bullseye

IV. Hilary Duff
1. Why Not
2. Come Clean
3. Metamorphosis
4. Little Voice

V. The Veronicas
1. 4ever
2. 4ever
3. Hook Me Up
4. This Love

VI. Delta Goodrem
1. Born To Try
2. Lost Without You
3. Mistaken Identity
4. Possessionless

VII. Jesse McCartney
1. Beautiful Soul
2. Beautiful Soul
3. Beautiful Soul
4. Rock You

VIII. JoJo
1. Leave (Get Out)
2. Baby It's You
3. The High Road
4. Anything

IX. Nickelback
1. Feelin Way too Damn Good
2. Feelin Way too Damn Good
3. All the Right Reasons
4. That Someone That You're With

X. Lindsay Lohan
1. Rumours
2. First
3. A Little More Personal (Raw)
4. I Live for the Day

XI. Avril Lavigne
1. Complicated
2. My Happy Ending
3. The Best Damn Thing
4. Freak Out

XII. Evanescence
1. Bring Me To Life
2. Call Me When Your Sober
3. The Open Door
4. The Only One

XIII. Justin Timberlake
1. Like I Love You
2. Like I Love You
3. FutureSex/LoveSounds
4. My Love

XIV. Ashlee Simpson
1. Pieces Of Me
2. Love Me For Me
3. Bittesweet World
4. In Another Life

XV. Maroon 5
1. This Love
2. This Love
3. Songs About Jane
4. Shiver

Opening Credits
Arctic Monkeys - Dancing Shoes (probably a indie/junkie movie lol)

Waking Up
Sofia Talvik- Will You Call Me When You're Sober

First Day At School
Sixpence None the Richer - Puedo Escribir

Falling In Love
Jenny Lewis - Bad Man's World (very positive)

Losing Virginity
Hooverphonic - Sarangi (HOT)

Fight Song
Girls Aloud- No Regrets

Breaking Up
P!nk - Eventually

Prom
Mika- Blue Eyes

Life
Koordinate of Wonders - One (boring life)

Mental Breakdown
Dannii Minogue & Kylie Minogue - The Winner Takes It All

Driving
Superbus - Ça Mousse

Depression
Bonnie McKee- I Hold Her

Partying
Kylie Minogue - Shocked

Happy dance
Sara Bareilles- City (a funeral happy dance i suppose)

Betrayal
Natalie Bassingthwaighte - Why do I

Regretting
Jack Johnson- Good People

Long night alone
Nickelback– If Today Was Your Last Day

Flashback
Madeleine Peyroux – I'll Look Around

Getting Back Together
Kylie Minogue – Password

Wedding
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - If I Can't Dance

Birth of Child
Rogue Traders- Way To Go!

Final Battle
Leon Jackson- Don't Call This Love (god no!)

Death Scene
Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) LOL

Funeral Song
Carla Bruni - L'amoureuse

End Credits
Malvina Reynolds – Little Boxes (lol i said, a junkie movie)


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Here's how you do it:
1 > Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2 > Put it on shuffle
3 > Press play
4 > For every question, type the song that's playing
5 > When you go to a new question, press the next button
6 > No cheating!

1. How did you get into 29?
Dark Tranquillity I saw them as a supporting act with Nile

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Spiderwebs

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33?
Arckanum The lyrics are all in old Swedish, so I wouldn't know.

4. What is your favorite album by 49?
Covenant

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Nightwish 5

6. What is your favorite song by 50?
Boyz

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad?
Danzig No.

8. What is your favorite song by 15?
Dying Fetus I love this band so much, too many good songs. can't pick just one.

9. What is your favorite song by 5?
Kylie Minogue Again, she is too amazing to narrow it down to one.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
I have a love/hate relationship with Britney Spears, but a lot of "her" songs make me happy.

11. What is your favorite album by 40?
Mandylion

12. What is your favorite song by 10?
Come to the Sabbath


13. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
A good friend of mine and I used to cruise through Hollywood bumping Plasmatics

14. What is your favorite song by 38?
Motivated by Hunger

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Violet


16. How many times have you seen 25 live?
I've never seen Horrorpops{/artist]

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
Pagan Poetry


18. What is your favorite album by 11?
The Graveyard

19. Who is a favorite member of 1?
Macabre Corporate Death

20. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Who would want to see the current Misfits?

21. What is a good memory involving 27?
I had fun seeing Moonspell live.

22. What is your favorite song by 16?
Bloodcraft

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?
I don't remember the first song I heard by [artist]Nile[/artist}


24. What is your favorite album by 18?
Robyn

25. What is your favorite song by 21?
Sin documentos

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
Too Many Puppies

27. What is your favorite album by 3?
Jerk of All Trades

28. What is your favorite song by 2?
Almost everything Therion has ever done is great.
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29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32?
I don't remember the first song I heard by Caifanes

30. What is your favorite song by 8?
I love Fobia too much to only pick one.

31. How many times have you seen 17 live?
I've seen The Chasm one time.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy?
Creo Que Es Tiempo

33. What is you favorite album by 12?
Wishmaster

34. What is the worst song by 45?
Does Garbage have any bad songs?

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34?
I was a teeny tiny child, when I first heard Michael Jackson. no me acuerdo!

36. What is you favorite album by 48?
Conquering the Throne

37. How many times have you seen 42 live?
I saw Gogol Bordello once.

38. What is you favorite song by 36?
Entre Dos Tierras

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
L.E.S. Artistes

40. What is you favorite album by 7?
La Pipa de la Paz

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy?
Baby Girl

42. What is your favorite album by 41?
Chainsaw Dismemberment

43. What is your favorite song by 24?
The Darkness That Embrace Me

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46?
no good memories involving After Forever

45. What is your favorite song by 35?
Un Pato

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
Fuck the Pain Away

47. What is your favorite album by 4?
Tarja only has one album so far.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37?
I don't care about the members of gravy train!!!

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43?
Elegy

50. How many albums do you own by 20?

Janet Jackson 5