Thiller is a 30x plantium but rhythm nation is better than all of Michael Jackson discography.
Man I gotta get some fresh air.
This is my last post about this cuz I don't wanna make this the music forum but this person summed it up better than me..
"Michael Jackson was making albums full of singles on a quest to clearly body the game. ****,
Thriller was
supposed to be exactly what it was, the biggest album of all time. But it wasn’t a concept album, or a theme album. The entire purpose of
Thriller was largesse. Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton, and MJ set out to create the greatest collection of singles ever created. Bobby Brown’s
Don’t Be Cruel followed the same format to a scaled back version of the
Thriller success; make the biggest records possible and do it like you’re doing it for TV. Well,
Off The Wallis similar, and while not selling as much as
Thriller, it sold a gazillion copies. Same with
Bad and
Dangerous, which each spawned HUGE chart hits
. All great albums in their own right, but mostly single driven works.
Janet on the other hand clearly sat down with her producers, mostly Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and decided to craft themes that could also create some similarly huge sounding records. Which she did tremendously, except they weren’t all
justpop singles, there are mood records and transition records and down-tempo records. She created full albums. And most importantly, they actually SOUND better than Michael’s. There’s more feeling and mood to them.
To be clear, I realize Michael had different tempo songs on each of his albums, especially on post-
Bad albums that are less poppy and more “artsy”, but even those albums aren’t as good as Janet’s four albums following
Dream Street.
While Janet can’t touch Michael in terms of popularity and sales-amazing considering how huge of an artists she was in her own right-the quality of her albums, if you give them objective listens, is better than Michael’s. On any given day I’d rather listen to
The Velvet Rope instead of
Thriller.
Off The Wall is my favorite MJ album, but I think that
Janet is better, and I’ve often been at odds whether I think
Rhythm Nationor
Janet is better."
I agree 100% with that
