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10 Reasons Why "The King Of Pop" Can Kiss My Ass

Recently there's been a big hubbub about the death of Michael Jackson. I'm 3 weeks behind the facts here, as we're mourning the death of the coverage of the death of Michael Jackson. The thing that struck me though is that as soon as he bought the farm, the whole world all of a sudden seemed to love him, and hailed him as the Biggest Thing Since Sliced Bread (TM). I've seen people cry over that dude that must not have listened to a single song of his in the last 24 years.

Now I don't have issues with Michael Jackson. His life was kinda tragic, and his death is not what I wished upon him. However, in the 70's he did some fairly generic but high quality Motown stuff and in the 80's he released two very good albums (Off the Wall and Thriller), mainly thanks to Quincy Jones' involvement. After that he slipped into a dreary kind of mediocrity that seemed to be fueled by eccentricity, and in the last 15 years he hadn't released a single thing worth listening to.

It's in light of that I find the fact that he proclaimed himself "The King of Pop" a little bit offensive, because I can come up with many contemporaries of his that are decidedly more talented. This is why I'm presenting you with 10 reasons why "The King of Pop" can indeed kiss my ass:

01 - We Can Work It Out
02 - You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover
03 - Sugar
04 - Maybe Your Baby
05 - Superstition
06 - Big Brother
07 - Boogie On Reggae Woman
08 - You Haven't Done Nothing
09 - Have A Talk With God
10 - I Wish

And mind you, I haven't even started talking about Prince yet.

Posted by Chris at July 22, 2009 11:55 AM