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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.

Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.01a: 200 to 181
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.01b: 180 to 161
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.02a: 160 to 141
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.02b: 140 to 121
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.03a: 120 to 101
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.03b: 100 to 81

80
Consolidated
You Suck
You Suck / Crackhouse (The Tim Simenon Remixes)
1993

Rude, crude, and something of a dancefloor smash, Consolidated's ultra-political output took a neat turn into sexual politics with this track, when they got The Yeastie Girls in to provide a rap detailing the delights of cunnilingus. Aside from it's headline-grabbing vocals, it's not hard to see why it became a dancefloor favourite - it's thumping beat is somewhat infectious...

79
Marilyn Manson
Angel With The Scabbed Wings
Antichrist Superstar
1996

Back in the 90s, Brian Warner's alter-ego was actually something thrilling to listen to: particularly on this staggering concept album, the album that made him an arena-level rockstar and offended an awful lot of people along the way, too (both religious types and sneering alternative types - he must have been doing something right to get them both on the same side...). This track was initially, perhaps, lost in the torrent of fury and hate that this album brought forward, but once a few listens passed, it finally revealed itself as one of the highlights of the album - with much of the electronic effects stripped away, this was a raw, feral four-minutes that gets better and better with every listen.

78
Beastie Boys
Sabotage
Ill Communication
1994

Just in case you needed reminding, the Beastie Boys weren't always about hip-hop - they could rock too, as this awesome funk-rock pastiche (and soundtrack to imaginary cop show) showed in spades. Obviously best appreciated in conjunction with the legendary video...

77
Kill II This
Crucified
Deviate
1998

Amid the stampede of nu-metal bands in the late 90s, some more interesting bands did appear. Kill II This were one of those, owing more to the industrial metal of earlier in the decade than anything else. Not all of their material was great, it has to be said - the band all-but-disowned the first album other than the title track, and the last album wasn't up to much either - but the two in between were certainly of interest. The standout on second album Deviate was this monster - opening with scratching and heavy-duty techno, before a thunderous industrial metal juggernaut storms through it all. A rather unusual touch were the quasi-gospel backing vocals, which while they didn't always work on other tracks, sure as hell did here. Random fact: main man Mark Mynett nowadays is a senior lecturer in the music technology department at the University of Huddersfield...!

76
The Mad Capsule Markets
Tribe
OSC-DIS(OSCILLATOR IN DISTORTION)
1999

No, I had no idea what the hell this lot were on about, either. They had apparently been around for some years in Japan before they first broke through in Europe with this fantastic, techno-metal beast, with impenetrable lyrics but one hell of a groove. They subsequently gained quite a fanbase over here, too, even if they were never quite as impressive as this again.

75
Mansun
She Makes My Nose Bleed
Attack of the Grey Lantern
1997

Is this where I admit to being something of a Mansun fanboy back in the day? At one point, I had everything - including the white label CD release of Egg-Shaped Fred - released up to the third album, although a large proportion of my CD collection being stolen a long time ago meant I don't have it any more. I still listen to the band with some fondness, though, particularly the lofty aims of the first album. One of the later singles from that album is my choice here, one of the more straight-up indie rock tracks here but still with some glorious harmonies and those quite odd lyrics about a dominant lover...

74
Sonic Youth
100%
Dirty
1992

I've no shame in admitting that my interest in Sonic Youth's output ceased in 1994 or thereabouts, having found just about everything they've done since profoundly boring. The reason is tracks like this - a searing, thundering tribute to a roadie of theirs who was murdered, and the storming opener to their most commercial album by far.

73
Pantera
Mouth For War
Vulgar Display of Power
1992

One album where the cover summed up exactly what was going on - this was thrash/groove metal that was like repeated punches to the face, such was the aggression contained within. And this was the first of those - seemingly a challenge by Phil Anselmo to whoever was talking shit about him to come and say it to his face. Good luck, folks...

72
The Afghan Whigs
Fountain and Fairfax
Gentlemen
1993

Greg Dulli's band were never quite like other "alt-rock" bands. With a clear love of soul/R&B music from decades past, their sound stood out to say the least. None more so than on their finest album, Gentlemen, where Greg Dulli's frank honesty about his and male failings in general made for some brilliantly observed songs. This one - about trying to give up the booze, apparently - was one of many highlights on the album, and Dulli's vocals on this track are simply awesome - the wracked emotion in his voice clearly from personal experience of what he was singing about...

71
Suede
Killing of a Flash Boy
Sci-Fi Lullabies
1997

One of few bands able to release a B-sides compilation that was easily the equal of the "A-sides", hearing them all together on Sci-Fi Lullabies perhaps made a convincing case that the first CD at least was the best album they ever released. And one of the centrepieces of that first CD was this track, a snarling, spiky glam-rock stomp with all of the sexual ambiguity and darkness that Suede did so well in the early years. It was also an astoundingly good live track, too.

70
Liberty 37
Pig
When We Say EP
1999

One of a handful of Tool-esque bands that appeared around this time, Liberty37 played it less deliberately obtuse, hard-rocking in sound at times but with clear, intelligent lyrics for the most part (and frequently referencing Bill Hicks and Tool in their lyrics and themes, too). Their second album sank without trace, but the first album was a joy to listen to. Better still was this B-side, a slow-burning missive of anger that had vocalist Ishmael Lewis calming enunciating every single syllable clearly of lyrics that screamed revenge. By some considerable distance their most powerful live track, too...

69
Idlewild
Captain
Captain
1998

And yes, I know this sits above the track that it is more than a little bit of a nod to (Slint's Good Morning Captain, if you needed to ask). Back in the days when Idlewild were still a small band from somewhere in Scotland, they were also still interesting, a spiky, rough'n'ready post-rock-influenced punk band who were yet to turn into a dull R.E.M. clone. This EP - all 19 minutes of it, of which six minutes were the last track of six - flew by in a flurry of youthful energy, but it was the title track that was king here. A bit slower, but all angular rhythms and Roddy Womble's rasping, partly-screamed vocals adding to the excitement. The biggest shame is that Idlewild seemed to be trying to erase this from their history: quite why it wasn't on their best-of a few years ago I have no idea.

68
Therapy?
Knives
Troublegum
1994

The finest one minute and fifty-six seconds Therapy? ever recorded, this is a short, pounding metal track of tongue-in-cheek hatred and self-loathing (it's tempting to suggest this was a pisstake of the grunge scene) that opened their most successful - and best - album by miles.

67
The Beta Band
Dry The Rain
Champion Versions
1997

The Beta Band's first single, a marvellous, shambling electronic-folk track that quite rightly caused something of an indie sensation (and initially was an absolute bitch to get hold of until The Three EPs compilation followed eighteen months or so later). I'm not exactly sure what it is that made me love this track so much - maybe it's the pure simplicity of it, maybe it's just that it's a brilliant song, plain and simple.

66
My Bloody Valentine
Only Shallow
Loveless
1991

The glorious, in-turns-screeching-then-dreamy opener to one of the critic's favourite albums of the 90s, this track took the whole idea of quiet-LOUD to insane extremes - opening with a cacophony of squalling guitars (multitracked and through god only knows what effects pedals), before settling into a mellow feather bed for Bilinda Butcher's vocals to float on - and the two sections trade places for the rest of the song. It's bloody marvellous, and really, it lives up to the hype. Honestly.

65
Fear Factory
Demanufacture
Demanufacture
1995

It really is hard to overstate just how revolutionary this sounded when it first dropped. The first really seamless attempt at bringing together extreme metal and industrial electronics, the whole album is a masterpiece, but more than anything it's the opening (title) track that left jaws on the floor. The machine-like riffing, the tool-like precision of the drumming...this really was cybermetal, and the band have spent fifteen years unsuccessfully trying to better it.

64
One Minute Silence
Brainspiller
Available In All Colours
1998

Presumably a comment on the salivating mass media when it comes to another serial killer on the loose, this was a marvellously tongue-in-cheek track that even went to the lengths of creating fake news reports and station idents to back up the subject matter. Musically, of course, it's what OMS always did so well - chunky, riff-tastic funk-rap-metal...

63
Rammstein
Bück Dich
Sehnsucht
1997

Long-since removed from R+ live sets, this track (it translates as Bend Over, by the way) was at one point the climax, so to speak, of the live set, where Till would lead out a be-gimped Flake onto the stage, unveil a dildo from his trousers, and I'm sure you can guess the rest. The track itself is great on record - rampaging industrial metal that R+ do so well - but live it really is something else (and is about ten times heavier, too). Need I remind you that this (live) video is not especially worksafe?

62
dEUS
Hotellounge (Be The Death Of Me)
Worst Case Scenario
1994

One of dEUS' most majestic songs, a musing on getting old, and reflecting on the past with a rueful smile, it's also one of their most tender songs, too. Much of the first dEUS album was reflective, but never quite like this. It's weird, bluesy-rock feel is gradually chipped away and replaced by fuzzy, surging rock, before returning to the original calm to close. Older live versions used to add an additional verse at the end, and I was never sure why this wasn't kept in for the recorded version...

61
Add N to (X)
Metal Fingers in My Body
Avant Hard
1999

This band's endearingly retro take on electro - only using analogue synths, not to mention their image - certainly made them stand out among the legions of other electro bands at the turn of the century. It also helped that they wrote a number of spectacularly odd tracks, too, of which this was certainly the wierdest. The robot-fetishism only hinted at in the repeated (robotic voiced) title refrain of this otherwise (kinda) straightforward electro-rock track was made really bloody obvious by the ultra-not-worksafe video...of a girl ordering a robot, umm, escort, and then being, er, pleasured. A lot.

Shortly: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.04b: 60 to 41

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R.E.M. - Sweetness Follows

Abonnent. Sport-LP-Vorbereitung. Robert Enke.
Es ist soviel passiert diese Woche und es lag alles so nah beisammen.

Lieblingszeile im Song:
Listen here my sister and my brother - What would you care if you lost the other?

In der engeren Auswahl waren auch:
Deacon Blue - Your Swaying Arms
Curve - Perish

1966 The Beatles: Revolver
1968 The Beatles: The Beatles
1969 The Beatles: Abbey Road
1973 The Beatles: 1967-1970
1974 Harmonium: Harmonium
1974 Supertramp: Crime of the Century
1975 Harmonium: Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième Saison
1979 The Police: Reggatta De Blanc
1980 The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta
1980 Talking Heads: Remain in Light
1981 The Cure: Faith
1981 Echo and the Bunnymen: Heaven up here
1981 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Architecture And Morality
1981 Simple Minds: Sons and Fascination
1981 Ultravox: Rage in Eden
1982 Duran Duran: Rio
1982 Joe Jackson: Night and Day
1982 Midnight Oil: 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
1982 The Psychedelic Furs: Forever Now
1982 Simple Minds: New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
1982 Soft Cell: Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing
1982 Ultravox: Quartet
1983 The Chameleons: Script of the Bridge
1983 China Crisis: Working With Fire And Steel
1983 Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
1983 A Flock of Seagulls: Listen
1983 Kissing the Pink: Naked
1983 New Order: Power, Corruption And Lies
1983 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Dazzle Ships
1983 Talking Heads: Speaking in Tongues
1983 Tears for Fears: The Hurting
1983 The The: Soul Mining
1983 U2: War
1984 The Church: Remote Luxury
1984 Cocteau Twins: Treasure
1984 Echo and the Bunnymen: Ocean Rain
1984 Everything but the Girl: Eden
1984 The Icicle Works: The Icicle Works
1984 Kissing the Pink: What Noise
1984 The Pale Fountains: Pacific Street
1984 Tones on Tail: Pop
1984 U2: The Unforgettable Fire
1985 The Colourfield: Virgins And Philistines
1985 The Cure: The Head On The Door
1985 Dead Can Dance: Spleen and Ideal
1985 Everything but the Girl: Love Not Money
1985 It's Immaterial: Life's Hard And Then You Die
1985 New Order: Low-Life
1985 Prefab Sprout: Two Wheels Good
1985 The Smiths: Meat Is Murder
1986 Depeche Mode: Black Celebration
1986 R.E.M.: Life's Rich Pageant
1986 This Mortal Coil: Filigree and Shadow
1986 The Woodentops: Giant
1987 Bel Canto: White-Out Conditions
1987 Dead Can Dance: Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
1987 The Housemartins: The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death
1987 The Lilac Time: The Lilac Time
1987 The Smiths: Louder Than Bombs
1988 The Church: Starfish
1989 Bel Canto: Birds of Passage
1989 The Cure: Disintegration
1990 Depeche Mode: Violator
1990 The House of Love: The House of Love II
1990 Prefab Sprout: Jordan: The Comeback
1990 The Waterboys: Room To Roam
1991 Joe Jackson: Laughter And Lust
1991 James: Seven
1991 U2: Achtung Baby
1992 Bel Canto: Shimmering, warm and bright
1993 Dead Can Dance: Into the Labyrinth
1993 James: Laid
1993 Midnight Oil: Earth and Sun and Moon
1994 Portishead: Dummy
1997 Catherine Wheel: Adam and Eve
1997 Marcy Playground: Marcy Playground
1997 Portishead: Portishead
1997 Radiohead: OK Computer
1998 Deep Forest: Comparsa
1998 Garbage: Version 2.0
1998 Lenny Kravitz: 5
1999 Echo and the Bunnymen: What Are You Going To Do With Your Life
1999 Travis: The Man Who
2000 Catherine Wheel: Wishville
2002 Coldplay: A Rush Of Blood To The Head
2003 Muse: Absolution
2004 Interpol: Antics
2004 Keane: Hopes And Fears
2005 Coldplay: X&Y
2005 Doves: Some Cities
2006 The Killers: Sam's Town
2006 Muse: Black Holes and Revelations
2007 Arctic Monkeys: Favourite Worst Nightmare
2007 Band of Horses: Cease to Begin
2007 Klaxons: Myths Of The Near Future
2007 The Shins: Wincing the Night Away
2008 Death Cab for Cutie: Narrow Stairs
2008 Elbow: The Seldom Seen Kid
2008 Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
2008 The Stills: Oceans Will Rise
2008 Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
2009 Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz!

Katy Perry? LOL

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