Re Re Michael Jackson

From: Tom Giles (thomas.giles@st-annes.oxford.ac.uk)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 20:49:41 CEST

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    On 15 May 2002, at 10:10, icehouse@redshift.com wrote:

    Date sent: Wed, 15 May 2002 10:10:30 -0700
    To: olaf@interactivelink.nl
    From: <icehouse@redshift.com>
    Copies to: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
    Subject: Re Re Michael Jackson

    >  I am with you on that! I also use it a lot in my live sets because I
    > usually drop a psuedo-disco set somewhere whenever I do parties and
    > the attendees are older than 22 which they usually are for me! For all
    > his "eccentricities" Michael was certainly at the height of his
    > musical powers during that part of his life and Quincy Jones, who I
    > met a couple of years ago and talked to about this, regards those 2
    > albums as some of his best work as a producer. the musicianship on
    > "Off the wall" is superb and the arrangements are excellent.
    >
    > leslie/The Power of Sound
    >
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    >
    > olaf@interactivelink.nl wrote:
    > > a month doesn't go by and i listen to off the wall..imho it's a
    > > classic album
    > >
    > > Olaf
    > >
    > >
    > > ----- Original Message -----
    > > From: John Book <johnbook9@yahoo.com>
    > > To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
    > > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 12:57 AM
    > > Subject: Re: Michael Jackson
    > >
    > >
    > > >
    > > > --- JSFact@aol.com wrote:
    > > > > << I will probably lose myself some street cred
    > > > > points here by
    > > > > mentioning the next one... Michael Jackson - Don't
    > > > > Stop Till You Get Enough
    > > > > ...isn't this just the perfect disco record? >>
    > > > >
    > > > > I remember when this was basically "underground"!
    > > > > It played fairly unnoticed
    > > > > in clubs for a year before people accepted the fact
    > > > > that little Michael
    > > > > Jackson had grown up, and with the help of Quincy
    > > > > Jones had done something
    > > > > quite remarkable.
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > When I was living in Honolulu, I remember this album
    > > > always being huge. There wasn't a day when I didn't
    > > > hear "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough", "Off The Wall",
    > > > or "Working Day And Night" and "Rock With You" on the
    > > > radio.
    > > >
    > > > p.e.a.c.e.
    > > > -John Book
    > > >
    > > >
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