JANET JACKSON - RHYTHM NATION 1814 ALBUM POLL HERE

I could listen to "Alright" anytime anyplace.

yeah I voted for that too! just over the title track. the whole album is fantastic

I had to go with Love Will Never Do, just for the video. *drool*

Yeah that video is yummy indeed. But I'm going for the title track. Great, great record overall.

Voted for "Someday is Tonight" and its great Herb Alpert solo.

My favourite video (and song) of her ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_qn9mKQ96Q

It kills me too that you always see her with that key in her ear back then. Video after video she STILL has that key in her ear. I love it.

Listen to the subtle wah-wah guitar at the end of "Miss You Much".

Got to be the title track for me. "The Knowledge" being the best of the non-singles.

LOVE WILL NEVER DO in a heartbeat. transcendental

Escapade makes me nostalgic enough to vote for it, although it's probably not the best song on this.

At the time, I would've voted "Escapade" without a second thought.

i mean, it's obvious the top 3 are:

love will never do
miss you much
escapade

No love for Black Cat? Fine, I'll vote for it.

(Is this the best Janet Jackson album? I think I need to go and download a couple more, but I know this is the best Janet Jackson album I own.)

I would say this is her best. "Control" gets props for creativity, but with its use of all those bad samples and DX7 sounds sounds very dated today, while "Rhythm Nation 1814" still sounds fresh.

Btw. Does anyone know what the 1814 in the title stands for?
1814 is a very important year in Norwegian history, but I doubt the Norwegian constitution is what she had in mind when she decided the album title....

Good lord, Geir, it's the aproximate age of the Rhythm Nation--right there in the bloody title, ya know!

18 = "R"
14 = "N"

Count yr alphabet letters.

I see. Still a very symbolic bunch of numbers for us Norwegians. :)

haha--I never noticed that.

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"Alright" for me.

so much good, but went with "Alright"

I'll go for the title track and regret it in the morning.

'Miss You Much' Janet.

i'm flabbergasted at all the love for the title track and alright, which are both ALRIGHT WITH ME but definitely not first billing

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that is some big bullshit

Heheheh. I don't know. It doesn't really bother me that the title track won, and it's certainly deserving in the pure sonic sense (as opposed to tune or anything else), but I wouldn't have expected that kind of margin.

"ain't no acid in this house"

Ah yes, "Black Cat." The JJ song for people who don't like JJ.

Just a couple weeks ago, I listened to "Lonely" in full for the first time and was all "whoa, where did this sexy thing come from?"

Yeah, the last two songs are what janet tries to sustain for 60 minutes.

Yeah, that album is about 3 hours long isn't it?

Alfred, thank god for your sanity. I tried "Janet"...in fact I tried "If" the video and I just thought "oh the shame...popular music culture hasn't even changed since 1993!"

"Black Cat" is a terrible blight upon this album, and the RN video I rented last weekend said that JANET HERSELF WROTE THAT AWFUL GUITAR RIFF in Black Cat and I was like "OOPS!!!" How awful for her, the poor girl.

But Alfred, I thought you said "Someday Is Tonight" was your fave?? Which "last two songs" are you referring to? Or are you drunk like me?

I didn't say it was my favorite -- I just liked "Come Back To Me" and "Someday is Tonight" (and "Lonely") as great makeout parlor room ballads.

I wasn't saying janet. is bad. In fact, it's probably her best, her Erotica.

Yes, "Janet" is her "Erotica", a complete waste that was released at a time when one would have expected way better.

Geir, you're a big All For You fan, if I'm not mistaken? (or maybe just the single is what I'm thinking of)

The single, yes. The album, no.

black cat is the worst track, innit

All For You is amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing

Rather amazing that Janet Jackson topped the Album Rock Radio chart with "Black Cat." Whitney Pastorek otm (although I don't think the song's much more than a tolerable "Dirty Diana")

"Dirty Diana" isn't tolerable?!?!?!?!?! I love to tolerate it! Though "Black Cat" is probably better.

naw, bro. Paranoid Jacko's best represented by "Jam," "Billie Jean," and "Morphine."

She'll be the freak you can taunt!

She said "I have to go home, cuz I'm real tired, you see. But I hate sleepin' alone. Why don't you come with me?" I said "my baby's at home! She's probably worried tonight; I didn't call on the phone to say that I'm alright."

Diana walked up to me. She said, "I'm all yours tonight!" At that, I ran to the phone, saying "Baby, I'm alright." I said "but unlock the door, because I forgot the key." She said, "he's not coming back, because he's sleeping with me!" Dirty Diana! Oh!

Good lyrics, bad tune.

Actually, not even bad tune, really, just atrocious production.

Geir, your hatred for both janet. and Erotica warms my heart.

after voting for Rhythm Nation, I instantly regretted not picking Interlude: Pledge

lol ridiculous

Hahaha! I was hoping for a post like that all along, gabbneb! Just one person who might stick up for one of the silly Interludes! I thought about it later and was like "why did I put them in there? Oh yeah, I was drunk and just copied and pasted and couldn't be bothered to take them out!"

Paranoid Jacko's best represented by "Jam," "Billie Jean," and "Morphine."

That'd be "Tabloid Junkie", "D.S." and "Leave Me Alone".

Gosh, I just played Love Will Never Do (Without You) really loud on my stereo and no one called the cops. I am in awe. I played Michael's "Off The Wall" before that. But I'm just trying to say that Love Will Never Do (Without You) is the absolute shit. I've never really seen it before in all its grandeur until now.

um i tried telling you. it's absolute euphoria

and yes i'm alwways surprised i don't get yelled at by anyobdy for pumping it all hours of the day and night

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/arts/music/national-recording-registry-janet-jackson.html

Velvet Rope is a greater album, but this is her most consistent collection.

somewhat weird poll results i think

Weird. I dont think I like the title track that much. Hard to pick though, I think it's all great except black cat. Her second best album after control.

“Escapade” (justly) won the overall Janet tracks ballot poll, so yeah, these results are weird.

Yeah, I would've voted for "Escapade."

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hey guys

you know it's Friday too!

I hadn't heard this album yet in 2007, but "Escapade" would also get my vote now

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