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Michael Jackson: Jacko’s ‘Thriller’ voted ‘Greatest Album of all Time'
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Posted on 04/16/2009 12:24:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ has topped a new poll of ‘The Greatest Albums of all Time’.
The 1982 hit notched up almost one in three of all votes cast by more than 40,000 fans, and 20 percent more than its nearest rival.
Paying tribute to the king of pop, DJ Trevor Nelson said there would probably never be another album like it. “Thriller was innovative, groundbreaking and is timeless. I don’t think there will be another album like it - ever,” the Daily Star quoted him, as saying.
In the poll, conducted by music channel MTV, Craig David’s ‘Born To Do It’ came second.
Craig, now 27, admitted that he was ‘amazed’ at his album’s position.
“I am incredibly proud - it’s an amazing achievement when you look at the other albums,” he said.
Rockers Guns N’ Roses landed the third spot with 1987’s ‘Appetite for Destruction’, which sold 28m copies. Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ came fourth and Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ rounded off the top five.
The MTV poll included albums dating back to 1981, the year it launched.
The Greatest Albums of all Time (since 1981): 1. Michael Jackson - Thriller 2. Craig David - Born To Do It 3. Guns’n'Roses - Appetite for Destruction 4. Radiohead - OK Computer 5. Nirvana - Nevermind 6. Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? 7. Oasis - Definitely Maybe 8. U2 - The Joshua Tree 9. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not 10. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (ANI)
TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: genx; michaeljackson
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To: Tanniker Smith; Revolting cat!
It's definitely the Greatest Album Ever Recorded with Vincent Price On It. ... unless Price read a collection of horror stories for kids or something ...
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posted on
04/16/2009 1:28:17 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(IRONY - we know more about the First Dog's historical papers than we do of President Barack.)
To: nickcarraway
Who needs Amy Winehouse when you can get the same band on other Desco/Daptone records from the Ninties and Double-Noughts?
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posted on
04/16/2009 1:30:22 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(IRONY - we know more about the First Dog's historical papers than we do of President Barack.)
To: qam1
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
Oh, dear...
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posted on
04/16/2009 1:30:35 PM PDT
by
rdb3
(The mouth is the exhaust pipe of the heart.)
To: qam1
Sorry, I still like Van Halen and Def Leppard best.
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posted on
04/16/2009 1:47:04 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: nickcarraway
Cecilia Bartoli....24 Italian Arias
Unbelievable.
To: nickcarraway
Fleetwood Mac — “Rumours”.
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posted on
04/16/2009 1:59:22 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: nickcarraway
Thriller isn’t even Jackson’s best album.
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posted on
04/16/2009 2:01:21 PM PDT
by
TankerKC
(Revenge and Envy--the new Principles of Freerepublic?)
To: Lizavetta
Back when he was black, not “white” and outta sight?
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posted on
04/16/2009 2:05:37 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: robert561
Wow, most people are idiots.
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posted on
04/16/2009 2:11:41 PM PDT
by
bdeaner
(The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? (1 Cor. 10:16))
To: Tanniker Smith
Vincent Price was on Alice Cooper’s best album Welcome to my Nightmare.
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posted on
04/16/2009 2:13:49 PM PDT
by
razorboy
To: rdl6989
How the hell is Pyromania or Hysteria not on this list. Didn’t Def Leppard basically own MTV airtime with these albums?
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posted on
04/16/2009 2:17:15 PM PDT
by
Chipper
(You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
To: Chipper
This list is bogus for that very reason.
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posted on
04/16/2009 2:20:40 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: a fool in paradise
One word (five actually):
FREDDY!
To: nickcarraway
Don't forget Dee Dee!
To: Remole
Asia’s first album.
Styx” Paradise Theatre.
But if we are going back, then Jimmy Hendrix” Electric ladyland” Or Emerson Lake and Palmer, any of which would do.
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posted on
04/16/2009 2:45:37 PM PDT
by
Yorlik803
( If this be treason, then lets make the best of it.)
To: nickcarraway
Greatest live album ever!
To: nickcarraway
Jacko’s ‘Thriller’ voted ‘Greatest Album of all Time'My response:
Imagine the largest fart sound you've ever heard.
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
04/16/2009 3:26:07 PM PDT
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: nickcarraway
Who the hell is Craig David? (Never mind several of those acts in there.)
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posted on
04/16/2009 3:57:52 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: Lizavetta
But he’d already started the process - he was real black on “Off the Wall”.
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posted on
04/16/2009 3:58:47 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: nickcarraway
BTW, I still have the cassette tape for Thriller and play it regularly.
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posted on
04/16/2009 4:01:25 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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