Chart music nowadays is nowhere near as good as it once was. Am I right or am I right? Or what?
Recently I’ve been asked to DJ in a wedding (my sis, don’t go thinking that I am a high profile DJ…) and while trying to compile songs I remembered that I HAVE to play I want You Back by the Jackson 5. I went to wikipedia (yes I research the shit I write about) and read:
“I Want You Back” is a 1969 number-one single recorded by The Jackson 5 for the Motown label. It held the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week, from January 24 to January 31, 1970, replacing “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” by B.J. Thomas, and then replaced by “Venus” by The Shocking Blue.
So we got I Want You Back in all its awesomeness (that riff, that bassline) but the lucky bastards living in 1969 had already enjoyed the genuinely beautiful classic ‘Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head’ and were about to discover the absurdly brilliant ‘Venus’… I mean… it really is a different league than the latest crappy Madonna attempt to be modern and the Florida ft. T-Pain nightmare of Low…
So for once I’m including a 60’s single in the blog… magic times, Michel Jackson was black, imagine that!
Thumbs up. Yes
.whigamore
1 response so far ↓
Bobby Bonzai // May 10, 2008 at 11:09 am |
Ah yes, it most certainly is a classic if I ever heard one. I found a cover-version, by Cal Tjader, which is amazing, I have to say, all instrumental, and features no black Michael Jackson.
Still magic though (: