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Including the Steeltown, Motown, Jackson 5 and Jacksons stuff?
Honestly, I've hardly bothered with anything before the Jacksons' Destiny album beyond the big hits. The music MJ and the Jackson 5 released with Motown is too bubblegum for my tastes, although I like some of the later songs like "Dancing Machine", "Get It Together" and "Dancing Machine". Their music got better when they left Motown and renamed themselves the Jacksons, but it took me quite a while to delve deeply into their albums under that name, too, save for maybe Triumph (although it did take some time for me to listen to that album in full. I first became an MJ fan in 2007 and I didn't listen to that album from start to finish until 2014).
I knew and liked a few songs such as "Enjoy Yourself", "Show You the Way to Go", "Blues Away", "Blame It On the Boogie" and "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)" but pre-Off the Wall MJ didn't really interest me. I still haven't listened to the self-titled Jacksons album or Goin' Places in full as of typing this; they seemed like generic disco albums and I assumed the same of Destiny, which is why I didn't listen to that album in full until about 3 years ago. In regards to Goin' Places, I kinda assumed that was a bad album because of how badly it flopped commercially and I didn't listen to any songs from it until just a few years ago. Didn't care much for the title track or "Find Me a Girl", but I listened to "Do What You Wanna" and "Different Kind of Lady" just last year and I really liked them. Especially "Differnet Kind of Lady"; one of the most underrated songs MJ ever wrote and sang.
Honestly, I've hardly bothered with anything before the Jacksons' Destiny album beyond the big hits. The music MJ and the Jackson 5 released with Motown is too bubblegum for my tastes, although I like some of the later songs like "Dancing Machine", "Get It Together" and "Dancing Machine". Their music got better when they left Motown and renamed themselves the Jacksons, but it took me quite a while to delve deeply into their albums under that name, too, save for maybe Triumph (although it did take some time for me to listen to that album in full. I first became an MJ fan in 2007 and I didn't listen to that album from start to finish until 2014).
I knew and liked a few songs such as "Enjoy Yourself", "Show You the Way to Go", "Blues Away", "Blame It On the Boogie" and "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)" but pre-Off the Wall MJ didn't really interest me. I still haven't listened to the self-titled Jacksons album or Goin' Places in full as of typing this; they seemed like generic disco albums and I assumed the same of Destiny, which is why I didn't listen to that album in full until about 3 years ago. In regards to Goin' Places, I kinda assumed that was a bad album because of how badly it flopped commercially and I didn't listen to any songs from it until just a few years ago. Didn't care much for the title track or "Find Me a Girl", but I listened to "Do What You Wanna" and "Different Kind of Lady" just last year and I really liked them. Especially "Differnet Kind of Lady"; one of the most underrated songs MJ ever wrote and sang.
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