to think that Michael Jackson's music was a bit shit?

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Nasty voice, whiny, weak and high pitched.

mediocre pop shite at best.

and just whiny and bizarre when he decided he was he messiah.

Bollocks and crap.

He was the male equivalent of Beyonce - some talent hidden amongst shit loads of fucking tripe.

YANBU.

I've always thought his music was mediocre. I could never understand why people called him the King of Pop.

Mind you I grew up thinking Weird Al Yankovich's Eat It was an actual Micheal Jackson song.

Yy, except Man in the Mirror, I like that. I far prefer Alien Ant Farm's version of Smooth Criminal.

Hindsight ismarvellous. His stuff with the Jacksons/Jackson 5 is superb - 'I want you back' is a classic.The Off The Wall/Thriller era was about the production as well as the artist. A lot of groundreaking techniques came through those albums via Quincy Jones,Rod Temperton (Boogie Nights) and a host of musicians and new recording eqpt. BillieJean,Thriller etc were of the time.

Everything from The Jackson 5 to Thriller was brilliant.

Afterwards he was dreadful but most artists don't even get to the boil, let alone get a chance to go off it.

Yup, plus he had ONE dance routine which was slightly rejigged for every naffing song. Pantaloons!

Early music/dancing/performing - brilliant. Later stuff - rancid shite.

YABU if you're talking about his earlier work. Not so much the more recent stuff.

Thank fuck someone agrees with me on the dancing.

It was just all grab crotch, point hand, grab hat and spin in various combos wasn't it?

YABU.

I did think it was shit when he was alive.

Since his death it's grown on me. Maybe I now have a greater understanding of music, which is enabling this appreciation.

I wonder if I will start to like Cliff Richard songs when he's dead?

Going by that thinking, Elvis is alive and well

You're talking rubbish if you think MJ couldn't dance - I can't believe what I'm reading - I'd like to see you on the dance floor!

Cliff? Man is a legend. His services to knitwear alone demanded the knighthood.

I can't dance for shit but my mum taught me better than to twiddle my privates in public

I really used to like Off the Wall - brilliant album.

I watched the Thriller video a couple of days ago for the first time in years - I forgot how good it was.

But Billie Jean, Bad, all the rest of it - nah. And he was such a creepy fucker it put me right off him anyway.

Hmm. I think his music possibly isn't a bit shit.

Human Nature is s-ue-perb.

But I agree, I think Quincy Jones had a lot to do with his good sounding stuff.

So yeah, on balance I think YABU.

Also, he might only have had one dance routine, but it was a very good one. (And bloody difficult if you are trying to follow da moves on the MJ Wii game. ahem)

YANBU
I really don't get why he is so popular. He was a very freaky freakiod.

Oh agree!

That crotch grabby thing - < shudder >

And for that gulpy sort of gasp he used to do - made him sound like Frank Spencer.

I'd put Man in the Mirror on my list as one of the best pop songs ever.

I can't help doing Jackson 5 dancing when they come on the radio, but never liked any of his solo stuff. ('the way you make me feel' is jacksons, isn't it?)

I thought the whole thriller malarky was pants.

Oww, yes and the crotch grabbing. Yuk

YABU... He was the soundtrack to the eighties. Not everyone's cup of tea but I only have to hear the first high-pitched 'OW!' from 'Don't Stop Til You Get Enough' and I'm right back there!!!...

He wasn't the soundtrack to my eighties, thank god.

When I see old footage when he was that beautiful little boy singing with the Jackson Five, he was undeniably talented.
It is just so tragic what he turned into when he died.