Comments on: CHART ATTACK!: 11/7/70

By: amy777

amy777 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:00:09 +0000

i like “PYT” the best. stupid michael jackson. if you could've just reeled in the crazy a little bit better…

By: amy777

amy777 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:00:09 +0000

i like “PYT” the best. stupid michael jackson. if you could've just reeled in the crazy a little bit better…

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:19:32 +0000

I'm not sure, but I think “record of the year” is always a song, and albums are a different category. Not that any of us should put any faith in the traditional record industry model…

By: One Fine Morning « The Hits Just Keep On Comin’

One Fine Morning « The Hits Just Keep On Comin’ — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:34:47 +0000

[...] over there. The same thing is true at Popdose, where this past week I contributed an edition of Chart Attack!, covering the week of November 7, 1970. (That’s a week I know a little about.) At Best of the [...]

By: DwDunphy

DwDunphy — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:15:23 +0000

No, it definitely was off Thriller. I believe J.A. means that, in the grand scheme of Michael Jackson's recorded work, those two songs are the two that will stay while the rest get washed up in the gossip of history. I agree. “I'll Be there” really catches him at his best in his youth. “Billie Jean” was the point he became “The biggest pop star in the world” and everything after was a bit of a slide into the abyss.

I still like “Human Nature” best, though.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:57:21 +0000

As the son of parents with "unique" music tastes (I know I'm not alone in this), I've heard most of these songs before, and on 45 rpm vinyl.

I always thought Jackson's Billie Jean was off of the Thriller album, unless I'm mistaken, or was there a separate Billie Jean album? Or, where it said "records" maybe it was intended to read "songs" in which case I've just wasted webspace.

Thanks for the chart attack.

By: Old_Davy

Old_Davy — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:34:40 +0000

What a great chart! I owned 9 out of these 10 songs on 45s or albums. (Sorry, R. Dean Taylor!)

That grammatical sin in “I'll Be There” always bothered me too.

By: DwDunphy

DwDunphy — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:21:02 +0000

Quick notes: Loose Translation is The Man!!

Neil Diamond singing "bitch" makes me strangely sad. Neil Diamond wagging his massive invisible schlong in that image makes me nauseous.

Sugarloaf? Isn't that slang for a diabetic's stool sample?

By: Top 5: Heard It on the X « The Hits Just Keep On Comin’

Top 5: Heard It on the X « The Hits Just Keep On Comin’ — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:07:45 +0000

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By: JonCummings

JonCummings — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:35:07 +0000

I'm just the kind of grammar-obsessed asshole who ALWAYS noticed the problem with “doesn't,” even when I was six years old. I've come to understand it a bit better since having children — my daughter (who's six now) just recently learned the proper declination of “to be.” Before that, she was eternally saying that someone or other “beed mean to me today.” (Of course, I never corrected her because it was too cute. So much for the grammar-obsessed asshole.)

The gunshots at the end of “Indiana Wants Me” really transform the song. I always thought that guy was kind of a pussy, obsessing over his need for someone “to talk to” as the Law closed in. Now it's clear he was ready to go out Butch Cassidy-style.

One more thing: I believe that bank commercial is actually the alternate ending to “The Graduate,” in which Ben never shows up to stop the wedding and swing that cross around.