Dissect DJs - Michael Jackson - Off The Wall | FULL ALBUM REVIEW

Episode Date: April 30, 2026

Full Video Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExEn1hJ2Hp0Episode 172 dissects a full-length album for just the seconds time ever, as the Dissect DJs break down every single track from Michael Jackson's legendary 1979 LP - Off the Wall!It was the album that let the world know Michael has arrived as a bonafide superstar, but does it live up to the hype? Join us as we go through it all - from "Don't Stop til You Get Enough", to "Rock with You", to "Workin' Day and Night", to the title track itself "Off the Wall", we run through all of em and give our thoughts, notes, and takes on each track to find out if the album really slaps.We're comin for the King of Pop NEXT!Listeners of this episode might also enjoy: Music podcasts, 80s music, 70s music, pop, RnB, hip hop, lyrics, Remix, Get on the Floor, She's Out of My Life, Girlfriend, It's the Falling in Love, I Can't Help It, Burn this Disco Out, Disco music, throwback, music review, reaction, Dissect DJs, Ryan Castle, DJ JAG, Fabulous - Baby, De La Soul - Breakadawn, Michael Biopic, Movie review, podcasters of Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, music video, video podcast, Best of Michael Jackson.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

You know, I was wondering, you know, if you could keep on, because the forest has got a lot of power. It makes me feel like... It's time for the dissect D. You've all seen the new movie. So we had to bring the Michael Jackson episode. What's going on, everybody? It's your boy DJ MC. Jiggin'a, jig with your boy, Steve.

What up, Steve? It's just that MJ time, y'all, because we... We are the DJs that liked us. It makes it throw it back. And I suck it. DJ Castle, DJ Jag. And yes, the most popular film in all theaters right now is biopic labeled Michael. And that, of course, documents the life of possibly the most famous person in the history of the world.

Michael Jackson. And, yeah, I haven't seen it. Have you seen it? I have not. All right, but that's not going to stop us from doing a little Michael Dysect, which is exactly what we're here to do today. In order to do that, what we want to do is our second ever full album review. Do you remember what the first album review we did? If I'm not mistaken, it was folklore.

Yes, by the Swift. Taylor Swift, yes. And then, of course, we also did a discography review of Destiny's Child way back in the day. Remember that? Yes. I brought a soundboard of Michael Sounds for Justin to work with today. And I just said, make sure you don't overuse it. I'm messing up at the beginning.

It's so fun. It is really fun of Chris Brown. I'll calm down. I just wanted to. I wanted to use that as a ranking system for the songs that we go through, which we will do. Yes. Because what we want to do today is go through each song from Michael's legendary album off the wall. The first album, the original.

So here's the thing. Go. Did you know that this was actually not Michael's first solo album? I did not. Okay, so I did a little research on this. Now, it was his first most prominent one, but here's a little backstory for those real quickly. Are you talking about Jackson 5?

All right, so Michael obviously came in with a Jackson 5, which was him and his brothers, and they all had a band where they made legendary music here at the 70s. Everybody knows that he started literally when he was five years old in that group, But immediately it was like, that's the talent right there. This whole group, this whole family is very talented, but there's one, the little one in there. He's the one that's going to bring home the bread. Sure.

So his very actual first debut album came out in 1972 when Mike was probably like 13 years old. And that was called Got to Be There. Wow. You're enlightening me. You are letting me know some information that I did not know. And you know what? That's what dissect DJs too. So was what track?

Does there any tracks that we know that have been played that, are you going to play one? Because I got to make sure your sound is up, but that's the case. No, I'm not going to play one. Okay. But I'll tell you that the main ones that came off that.

Got to be there was the title track of it. That was obviously very popular from it. But I think most known from it was actually probably his version of Rock and Robin, which I'm sure you've heard. Got to be there. It's Jackson 5, though. Well, I think it was only my book. And Rock and Robin was Jackson.

So this is what I'm going to get to. Off the wall was his first, like, Michael is here arrived and he is officially a solo artist. I think these were money grabs maybe as like people could immediately see that like Michael was a talent. Michael's going to be a superstar. While the Jackson Five are making some stuff, let's make some albums that are exclusively Michael. Okay. But I'm sure the Jackson Five played Rock and Robin and got to be there and all that. The same year, 1972, he also realized.

released Ben, which... So that was his own album. I thought this was all Jackson 5, but you're right. It is just him singing. Before you continue, let's do this real quick. Look at Young Michael. See, the five are there, but he's the only one singing. He's the show.

Wow, okay. Isn't it crazy to imagine? He started in this life at age 5, and clearly Mike was meant to do this from birth, and they figured that out real quick. But, like, you imagine, like, when you were doing... one when you were five. Can you imagine like being like I was like I could barely like hit a baseball off a T. You know this school is starting my baseball.

Yeah, that's just five. This fool is like literally like rocking like stadiums. I used to ride those little, those little metal, uh, bicycles. Do you remember those that were like metal, which they shouldn't have been metal, probably plastic. But I used to ride. I had a little bicycle and I'd be. That's what I was doing. So yeah, we all were doing about that I was doing.

All right. So continuing on, then he released that same year. Ben, which... Which is about his rat, right? I don't know what that is. It's about his pet rat who his dad, like, killed. Okay.

You didn't know that? No, I didn't. But it was actually just a single. It was just a single, so it wasn't like actually a whole album. But back in the 70s, a single could be a whole album because, like, people just wanted to buy the record.

They wanted to, like, listen to it. That was the only way to listen to it, and you could release a single. And that was just, yeah, it's just this one song. All right, that's all you need from that. That's it. You get the point. Yeah, it doesn't sound like one of that.

But yeah, if you look up the stats. It did actually peak at number five, which is crazy. We just shows how much everybody, the world was ready for Michael. They were like, this kid is the future. And even if he does a song called Ben about his pet rat, apparently, like, we're in. Yeah, his dad killed it. His dad was ruthless. He was a ruthless.

So then. That takes us to the album? No, no, no. So then there's still two more. There's two more. more. He had a music and me in 1973 and then Forever Michael in 1975. And each of those albums that I just named were either singles or they had like four

or five songs because like I said back then, that's all records is really needed to be. You could like release a single and it would sell well because where else are people, they're not downloading music. They're going to like get the music where they can. And if they have a chance to listen to like an isolated Michael track, they're going to do it. Yeah, yeah. But then comes 1979 when Michael is officially, now he's just about, like, what, 20 years old now, he's ready to be like, all right, I've been doing this Jackson 5 thing.

You all know that I've become a superstar. I'm clearly the star. You know I'm the future of music. You guys see that I am the center of what pop music can be. Okay. Let's go ahead and put out an album that's going to like focus just Michael. No other Jackson's, just me. It was produced by Epic Records and peaked at number three on the Billboard top LPs,

a tape chart with two number one singles. So immediately it was like, here we go, Michael has arrived, and that's why we want to cover this specific album, because this was the album that let everybody know, The Future of Music is Here, and he goes by the name of Michael Jackson. And as you just heard that first track that we just opened with, what was it? Let me get the main part, go. Let me get the main part.

That's not the main part. I got the video too, but I messed it up. But it's all good. It's all right. By the way, this, for video visuals of each of these tracks, you want to check out the YouTube. Dysack DJ's YouTube at Ride Castle. Check it out. We got it going now, though.

Get on YouTube. Oh, wait, there. Hey. Oh, yeah, this is a legendary video. Classic use of green screen. Just that you could feel the, let it play a little bit in the background while you're playing it. Just a little bit, just a little bit. What you see here is the very early ages of green screen, especially music videos also.

Because music videos at this time didn't really exist. MTV wasn't a thing yet. So any actual example of somebody making a video just for their song is something that didn't really exist much. Most of these were just like people performing on stage if you saw a performance, like a music video. That was all was. Michael was one of the first people to be like, I want to get in front of a green screen, and you're going to have honeycombs behind me. And now there's space.

I'm in space. And now I'm going to be in the middle of a city. And I'm walking. I'm doing my steps. This move right here. Yeah. Whoa. All right.

I was literally just about to say, what sound? How do you rank that song? And then you immediately like went overdrive. Is that your ranking for that song? For that song, it gets a... All right. It's a top song. It's one of the top songs, if not the best song on the album.

Starts the album off. What a way to kick it up. What a lead off man. Got to give it to it. Quick story. I told Castle this, but I'm going to tell it to everybody. So apparently my parents were partying back in the days. And somebody forgot to bring music to a party.

The only album they had was this album front to back. And apparently... That's the way he used to be back then. All the whole night, they just had this album on repeat. So about seven, eight times throughout the night, all you heard was, and the song started. And by the end of the night, everybody looked forward to that. And the entire crowd of all 50 or 20 or however many people were there, I don't know.

But definitely my mom and dad were there. And everybody would be like, whoo! Where is it? There it is. But the actual version, you get it. Took over a party in late 1970s. I'm sure not just that one, but for sure there's record of it with my parents getting down to this entire album. and this song each time started off.

Let's go to the beginning real quick. One of the things that we actually take for granted now is just how easy we have it with playing music and DJing parties. All you need is like somebody who got a knock. Everybody's got an ox. Everybody's got like a speaker. Hey, just let me connect to your speaker real quick. Yeah.

And anybody could just play their playlist that's like already sucking on their phone. In the 70s, you all had to have a record ready, a record player, and somebody had to like bring the music and the vibes. We had to actually appreciate those who actually had a good record collection at home. Those are the houses you wanted to party at. You had to party or just had an album that was this good. Listen to the beginning of this. The party's getting started, people.

She could keep on because the forest has got a lot of power, hang. I don't know what Michael's talking about, by the way. I don't know, but it gets a... All party was... I mean, this part right here is the whole thing to me. Does that beat right there not... Just say like, it's Friday night. We're about to start party.

It's about time for the dance words to light up. It's time. It's time. That's what that intro to that song is always reminded me of. Like, I still remember one time in high school when like a DJ, I was like driving out somewhere. And he just kept like playing that part on a loop. And he was getting everybody high. Like, it's Friday night, everybody.

Who's going out there to party right now? And I just remember hearing that song and just being like, does this song not make you want to go out? It does. I want a band's right now. We should go out. right now. Fuck this show. Let's get the fuck out of here, dude.

We got a lot of songs to cover. So that's just one. By the way, the way I rank that song, I'm going to give it a... Yes. So that's just track for you. Are any of these bad? No, I gave you a lot, though. So that's just the first set.

All right. I'll give you some more. And you've really spammed the fuck out of them. Right off the second round. I'm going to do a different challenge. And on that note, let's get to the second track. And again, with the videos. Green screen in the

My goodness Are you kidding me? What are you giving that? That's what I'm giving it That's what I'm giving it You know what actually I'm gonna throw on top of that I'm gonna give it one of these

I'm gonna take that one But I don't What was that? Was that Mike fucking What the hell was that last? Yeah that That's what I was like that No no no

But play the last one The first one All right Unfortunately this is where I got Add address something Michael's kind of a weird dude Okay He asked to be

Momets of awkwardness He had these sound bites that he does like he sometimes i hear some of these sounds that he would make it i was like i feel like michael didn't have enough people in his circle that were like telling him like i don't i don't think you need to go do all that right now how about this one i'm pretty sure we just heard mike fucking right there that's what that pretty much or a pretty much with the microphone why he was begging a simulation of what fucking would mike would sound like hit it again hit it again yeah i hate to all right i do feel like we almost had to address the problematic nature of mike

Okay, there's a lot of, just, hit it. There's a lot of, there's a lot of, we're doing a lot of positivity about Mike. We're going to have a lot of positivity about it. It's okay to throw some negative. With the thing with the, it always just comes down to like, okay, separating the artist from the person sometimes. And here's where I always landed with that. Okay. From all of our like whole lives, like Mike has been a big star.

For me, it was like, Mike always existed in this specific place where it's like, that's an awesome performer. Look at them on stage. going to moonwalk. Absolutely. What an incredible performer. His songs are awesome. That dude is weird.

From my earliest ages, the youngest I can remember, anytime I saw Mike, I was always like, he's kind of weird, though. Like, that was always how- He's awesome, but weird. I love watching him dance. I love watching him perform, but I was always like, as far back as I guess I remember, I was like, it's a weird guy, though. Anytime you saw, like, media appearances of his, Pete Davidson actually has this, like,

really funny bit he did on the Weekend Update when he's on SNL. where they're talking about Michael and R. Kelly and separating art from the things that they've done. And he's like, can we all just... Allegedly. He says something to the effect of. Can we all just be honest? The more difficult it is to, like, separate the art from the artist

is just based on, like, how good they were at, like, creating incredible music. If I found out that McElmore did a bunch of crazy weird stuff, I'd have no problem clearing the space on my iPhone. Look, I'm not saying it's an easy decision. Like, I'm just saying you don't know how good someone's music really is until you find out they're a pedophile. And the reason everybody's so upset is because R. Kelly and Michael Jackson made great music. You know, if I found out McElmore did some weird stuff, I'd be happy to free up the space on my iPhone.

It just, like, depends who did it, you know? And I understand people who say, like, how could you listen to that music after what he did? Headphones? I don't know. But that's always kind of been the thing with the mic. It's like, I don't think it's hard to, like, enjoy. like his music and like watching them perform but like he was a weird dude from the beginning

and we talked about how he started this when he was five literally like playing for full sold out arenas he's gonna fuck a kid up dude and never got out of that world like it only just got more and more that exactly but one more time let's here

yeah but crazy dude but that go back to rock with you rock with you was like my first like favorite Michael song and we did by the way go back to episode number of whatever it was with human nature where they mix it? No, it's human nature. Fucked it up.

Go back to rock with you, man. Rock with you. You get down. Now, first of all, when I started DJing, I realized really quickly, this is a great mid-dinner song. I know that's a little weird for non-DJs, but people groove to this.

It's like, you can't really get down and buggy and like dance your ass off with it, but you are going to sit at your seat and you're going to go, rock, and you're going to sit and enjoy. You're going to look at your lady or look at your dude and be like, we're grooving right.

It's just such a good vibe song It's a vibe as fuck song And I remember this one being specifically The first time when I heard this Like I was aware of a lot of Michael Jackson and stuff For some reason like I didn't come across us Until like a little bit later Like maybe like 10 years old or something

And this was the first one that I was like dude That is a fucking song Listen to that fucking like yeah And out the gate It's like the beginning The horns come in It's just And then from there, obviously the song grews, but the beginning of that song is so groovy.

It's an excellent blend of like kind of disco and pop and just like what dance music wanted to be at that time. Like we said, like 1979, you know, disco had had a fucking turn in the music industry for like two years there where it was just like everything. It's starting to hit. Everybody wants it. Well, it had been hitting. And like it's almost like getting ready to like hit a downfall. But like he takes that disco sound to it. works with it the most Michael Jackson way possible has an awesome like pop beat to it and everything

front to back that song is perfection that's why once again I'm giving it a yeah all right let's get or are you giving it a no we've heard that then done with this one yeah fucking that one really trips me out man all right let's get to track three track three he's two for two right now now he's basically a baseball player who's bad in leadoff and he knocked it out of the park on his first on the first pitch of the game and then the next time he comes up got one more pitch knocked it out of the park that's michael on this off-the-wall album right now so far and then track number three one of my favorites i know we've already played two of our favorites one of my favorites track number three give it hold up did we just find out where that sound came from i think that was it i think that was it he made it sound good though when you produce it like that it sounds a little better Isolated. It's a little weird. Yeah.

Yeah, work and day. Keep the song going. Go listen to it if you want to listen to it because I want to play the whole thing. But we cannot because we got to move through this. Trying to get their whole up. Working day and night. It's not the same time. Anyway, you get what I'm saying.

That track gets you wanting to work. Whenever I'm about to work, I'm always like, what can I do? Can I put on men with hats? No. Because, you know, you think of it. No, I'm putting working day and night. Yeah, because they're men with hats. Yeah, because they work.

Men with Hats work and stuff Oh, okay You know what about with them? I just know men with Hads is like the safety dance guys Yeah, yeah, those guys So I think I'm gonna put that on, no I'm gonna put it on working day and night Okay, and then coming in with this

So good, so good So are you still keeping it with the way He's hitting it out of the park with this album? I'm gonna say he hit a, I'll say he hit a triple with that one Front to back so far this guy is But that's three for three jams for sure Like I would still put

For three jams I would say out of the first three songs, that one's the worst of them, but that's like being like, okay, because the first two were all-time generational songs. Yes. That song still really good. Just under. I got you.

But it's just under, yeah, which is going to happen when you go through an album. Now, this next song, because we're going to move through, guys. I'm sorry. We want to talk about it, but we ever talk about. Anyway, the next song is actually my favorite song on the album. Now, it's not an all-time classic, so we can't rate it with the other two, but this is my all-time favorite song on this album. Let's get it.

Listen to that beat. Isolate it. Oh, fuck it. your ass on the floor and dance. What? Oh my God. I want to play the whole thing. I can't.

I can't. I know I want. No, we got to move. You got to get out of it. Is that what you rank it? Is that your ranking for that song? What the fuck?

Was that Michael getting thrown on a well? I think so. I think so. That's my all time. Top Michael Jackson song. Are you serious? I have all of them. That's your number one time.

That's my number one. What a shocking upset? I know it's not. It's not one of the tops. What's it called? Get on the floor. Okay. Track number four on the all.

the wall album. Yeah. Okay. And I just, it's a mix of funky, groovy, and he's telling you what to do.

Get your ass on the floor. Why don't you just dance across the floor? You sound just like Michael. Yeah. Oh, God, I love that song. I want to keep listening to it,

but we can't. We cannot because we have other tracks we must get to. That's the beauty of actually when you go through a full discography. It's like we're going to hear the hits. You're going to hear the rock with you.

You're going to hear the ones that are like national treasures that everybody, loves. But then you're also like come across a few of these where you're like, this one slipped through the cracks. A lot of people don't even know about that one. But we're here to bring it to you because we're the...

Track five. Track number five is another absolute jam, Steve. He's hit one, two, three, four. Fire. If I'm listening to his album, my first bought it, I'm like, I'm loving it. He can't do any better than this. I'm sorry

ladies and gentlemen, he can. Let's keep it going. Shut up. Oh, don't do it to me. Stop. What I'm talking about, Jack. Come on, man. That is where it is at.

I have such a soft spot in my life for that song. This album, dude, I know Thriller is supposed to be the top album, but it's a good one. Don't get me wrong. Thrillers a good one. This is just so groovy and funky, like, from top to bottom so far. That's the thing, is it actually all has, like, a sound to it. All of these songs have, like, a little bit of, like, a distance. You know what it's fun about watching these early Michael, like, performances?

It's like you could see him like really starting to put it together. Yeah. Like you see some of the moves that he's like starting to really like flesh out and be like, oh, this is like how you perform. Plus he's so comfortable out there. He just knows what he's been doing it in his whole damn life, dude. He's all grown up now and shit. Yeah.

Can you imagine if you were alive in 1979 and you were like, you'd obviously seeing this guy grow up in this family of like music. and you always knew he was going to be a star. And at this point, now he's like 20, and he released this album. I'm going to need you to chill on the sounds while I'm talking. Sorry. Not while I'm talking.

Trying to make a point. It's the opposite of that. I'm done. This was like something that people must have been so excited for. Like, where is this going? He dropped this album. We always knew this kid was talented. He's been the centerpiece of this great Jackson 5 group for years as a child.

Now he's 20. Now he's an adult. now he's like really going to like start like making his own stuff and this is what we're getting five tracks in this entire album is all five you know what I mean he's going five for five he doesn't do any more good one for the cycle plus a triple right now that's where he's at with his album if the rest of album sucks it's okay like he's literally like the rest of the album still works the rest the album still like I don't like five through 10 six through 10 I like the I'm playing one through five over and over on repeat on repeat bet MGM is an official sports betting partner of the

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So you know what memory that song always gives me? First of all, I always really like the part when it goes, hits that like third verse when he's like, do, that's always been my favorite. It ain't no road to do. Try to try to find that? Yeah, yeah, you got to just play that. That's just because that's like my favorite stretch of the album, I'd say. I would argue that might be like my favorite, like 30 seconds of the whole album.

I got you. We'll see. We'll see. But you know what that song always reminds me of? I have a very specific memory of it. Hit it. It's actually an extended memory over like, I'd say like a month and a half. First of all, back when me and Greg host at our own show on Titan Radio at Cal State Fullerton.

And we used to play his song. We used to have a jam of the day. And we and him had just gotten back from Vegas. And we were enchanted by this Michael lookalike who was like doing the moves and everything. And he's like, well, can you move like this? And he was like this. And we had already been listening to this song a lot. Because that was like the time when I really kind of just really discovered, like how good that song is.

I'm sure I'd heard it, but I was like, this is my jam now. So we were listening to Wilder in Vegas. We played it on the radio station. And then guess what happened, like right after that? What happened? Michael died. No shit. Yeah.

And do you remember the night Michael died? 2009, correct? Yeah. Do you remember what we did? No. What did? It was either the night he died or. I'm worried to see what we did.

You'll love it. You'll love this member. You're right there for me. I was there? Yes. Oh shit. So if it wasn't the night, if it wasn't the night he died, it was the night after. Soon after, okay.

Remember how that, they used to have Cal State Fullerton Wednesdays. They'd have the two spots to go to. It'd be Brian's dollar beer, right? And then after that, we'd go to that Rembrandt's place that I'd carry-up. Randomly Rembrandts, yes. Also, dollar beer, did we sing? We say, everybody was like, we got to do a Michael's song because we were all just like shot. We did this song.

So we actually had a, no, this is actually a funny store. We, me and you were having a discussion. Like we got to do a Michael's song as we're like standing there like putting our song in and we talked it out and we're like what about PYT? PYT is a song that we could probably do. It feels like in our range. Thriller album. Yeah, yeah. And we're like, oh yeah, let's do PYT.

At that exact second, our boy Keith on stage starts singing PYT. Oh, he was like, oh, fuck, he took it. He took it. What about off the wall? You're like, all right, let's do off the wall. So we get up there and we start doing off the wall. Hard song to karaoke. Let me tell you.

Damn there impossible. It's a really hard song. Any Michael really is. We gave it. Yeah. Michael's not easy to, but like some of them, like there might be a little bit of cover for like how the music goes. Like how you can like it. It could be more choracy or whatever.

We picked off the wall. We tried off the wall because that was my favorite Michael song at that time. And I don't think we totally nailed it. I remember like there was like a guy who was right up in front. It was just like, boom! He was like doing that. And we were like, hey, like literally mid performance were like. Like, are they blowing us?

No, that's fine. We're good. We're killing it. And we kept going. But it was like, no, it's just that guy. But I also could kind of feel like we're not bringing like, we're not doing Michael like total justice. I got it. I got you.

That's a hard song to do in karaoke. If you doubt me, try it. I dare you. I dare you. Stop it. I really wish you'd stop playing that one. Track six, let's hit it. Where do we go from there?

Track six. A little slow walk now A mellow R&B track That's all you're getting from that one That's all you get It's good You know what Now after he hit five tracks already

This one was He had like five home runs out the park And like you're gonna need to have the slow one Where Michael wants to like show his pipes off a little bit Like give you a little breather I don't want to say he struck out But you know he hit and didn't get on base on that one It was like a pop flight of center

Yeah you know what I mean It still was a good contact I'm gonna rank that one with this Yeah, that works What is that from? That feels like Makes me want to scream That's what Janet, man

It's in early 90s I can tell it's early 90s Mike Yeah That's where they broke it down Like the glass broken shit Yeah that was a good one All right What was that song called?

That was girlfriend That was girlfriend That was six track on that one And let's get into it All right keep it going Track number Seven Seven

And I took a Granted, I was so care. Now the way that it stands. Now it's actually called She's Out of My Life. I just picked the wrong part of the song. Let's go to the way of May part. Wait a minute. She's an indecision and curse it pride.

It's the end right here. Listen to them right here. Listen to them right here. Jesus. He sounded like it was crying right there, right? He sounded like he was really... He sounded like he was really talking about it. Those were studio tears, though.

Those wasn't... That was like Quincy Jones or whoever the fuck the record. He was like, Michael, let me look really... Like really sell it. Really like... Want to hear you sound like you're crying. Skip the like really, you know, yeah. Yeah, those were real tears.

So this is obviously with Michael's going to like the... We're going to slow it down. He's a soft old part of the album. He slowed it down. He was going, going, going, going, go and slow it down. Relax. Got to do it at some point, I guess. In all, honestly, the middle of this album kind of does this, to be honest.

He kind of went five strong, slowed it down for four, and then brings it back with the final song, which was only a 10-song album. Ten song album, which was something back then. I don't think that you got, like, nowadays, even in, like, the 90s, we were used to, like, at least, like, 15 tracks on an album. I feel like at that time, like, 10 was a solid album. It's front and back of the vinyl. Money's worth right there. So, all right. So that's, what do you?

It's good. I agree with that ranking. This one's groovy. I can't help it. Okay, hang on. What is this? There's a hip-hop song that uses this exact beat. Did we figure it out?

I'm looking it up on who's up. Look it up as you do. What's it called? I can't help it. Michael Jackson. Track number eight. Did you figure it out? I did.

I for sure know which one it is. I knew you knew This is definitely on one of Castle's epic CDs Castle took his time what CD makes So I was actually thinking that when we got to a part where Like, okay, he's like Now I'm the part of the album where it's gonna slow it down This is the kind of decisions I made when I burn CDs

It's like we start off with some fire bangers The first three songs on this CD is gonna make you jump out of your chair And be like, oh, what? I'm into this CD and then from there And then right around like track seven or eight You can be like all right now this is where you could like maybe hit where it slows down. I actually kind of like to slow it down a little bit more

a little later, like more maybe towards the end of it, it depended how I wanted to end the album. But yeah, I do subscribe to putting those type of songs together. Okay. That one. Who let Michael do that into a microphone? And we're like, yeah, he crushed that. No, that's ignorant.

That was going to be my ranking for that last song, actually. By the way, that's from South Park, correct? That's South Park, Michael Jackson episode. That is from the South Park episode of We've featured Michael Jackson Fabulous Fabulous I remember this dude

F-A-B-A-B-A-B-A-B-W Can you be on B-A-B-A-B-W? I never called the eye When I seen a lady tonight With my good eye I knew it I knew you had that I could tell we heard that sound

And we were like, wait, what is that? And we really didn't know And I was like, I know we played that on one of your CDs. I've heard that somewhere, and that was it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's actually another song that used that same one. If I'm not mistaken, that was Castle 2020, 2007. Right around there, yeah, yeah.

I think it was epic mix or something like that. That was a good album. I feel like that was like probably like track like 12. Again, the part of the album that slows down, right? I think so. All right, then here's another one. Hey. No, that's ignorant.

That is De La Sol. They would, they were epic for their takebacks of like... I actually think that song was probably even more famous than the fabulous one because that was a big song in the 90s right there. That song came out in 1990. Just shows the influence that Mike had all around the world. Like all these songs, if we went to Who Sample with all the songs were playing, like there's going to be memorable jam associated with every single one.

I feel confident in saying that. That being said, let's get back to the album. Track number nine. I'm going to bring this down. This goes out to all the guys. If you're following a love and crying about it, guys, you... You might be Michael. Don't do that, man.

It's not good look. He's not a good door. You know that reminds me of you ever seen... Don't do it in front of your boys. Bedazzled. You ever seen bedazzled? Yeah, Brennan Frazier and Elizabeth Early... When he's the one where he's at the beach...

Yeah, yeah, where he's at the beach, and he's, like, he's, like, singing his love songs, and he starts crying to her, because the sunset is so beautiful. I don't think I actually ever watched it. One of my favorites. I just remember the commercials, really. I never saw it.

It's just one of those things. And then the guys come in there like, hey, I got a, the seed is epic. The dolphin scene. You can tell by how you described it. Because what it shows is the guy being too sentimental, and then the girl going, you're just too sentimental for me. And then the guys come in that are like, Ruth is. They're like, hey, I got beers in the back of my truck.

She's like, let's go. And she rolls out. It's what you wanted. Don't cry when you're in love. Try to hold that back. I don't know what you need to do. So as far as the meaning of the beginning of the song? Seemed that for like your wedding day on the dress reveal or something like that.

And even that, calm it down a little bit. But yeah, I mean, just, I don't know. Yeah. People don't want that around. Like, okay? Nobody wants that. It's not a fun thing to be around and hang, you know? Like, it's not a fun hang.

So what is the name of that song? It's the falling in love. Yeah. Was he like doing a crying thing when this one too? It's like it was and she's out of my life. Yes. Stop that, Michael. Michael, Michael started.

This is her. He was kid. First of all, he got her with the first five, like you're locked in. Then he tried to get all sentimental and start reading poetry and lost it. You know what? This was what I was afraid of.

Okay, so the first five songs I was already aware of and I was like, what, how could this album possibly not be like top shit fire? And these are the songs that I'm not that aware of. I think he struck out with that one. What does it sound like when he struck out with that one? No,

that's ignorant. Right? Yeah, that's my rating of that song. It's fine. Again, there's no bad songs on this album, but I will say, if we're using the baseball reference, he came up, he hit for the cycle in his first five at bats. He had, like, clock two home runs. MVP race. And then he got, like, a walk, and then he grounded out, and now he's, like, hit into, like, a double play.

He might have struck out on that one. He might have. And it's like, okay, suddenly we're, like, five for eight and, like, we're an extras. Hit us with a banger, Mike. groovy song. All right, here's how I feel about, what's that song called? Burn this disco down. Oh, see, look it.

We were, like, getting done with, like, disco was coming to the end of its era at this point. And here's how I would describe that song. It's kind of like when somebody draws, like, a masterpiece from memory, and it just doesn't, like, look right. You know, it's like when somebody says something like, bam out of bio, looks like Dwight Howard drawn from memory, that one was, like, it had, like, multiple, moments where I was just like, oh wait, here we go.

And then like the way he finished the note or the chorus or the next line, just didn't hit it for you. It just kind of felt like, oh, that wasn't where I hope you were gone with that. It kept happening in that song, like three or four every time. Or I was like, here, you kind of took it in this weird direction. Yeah, I don't want to rank it that. That's your ranking? Yeah, I'll rank it this.

That's my, because it was like, it wasn't a bad song. Again, it wasn't a bad one. But I just kept feeling like you're getting close. to like this could be epic and then he just never really like that's a reason why we never really hear it burn this disco down and you always heard rock with you yes it was a much better song so let's say this

first five songs of this album cracking just absolutely knocked it out of the part notch wow he could have possibly to stop that five and be like that's my album that's a perfect game right there and do be like you guys enjoy that and see what my masterpiece and then you put that on repeat for a party

and then the party would that would yeah I can only imagine the party my parents were at with those last four songs where it slowed down and everybody was like this is getting kind of boring. You said that everybody would get super hyped when it got back to the beginning and it was woo! Yeah because you would have to go through those five songs. Because you realize we're back to the good part now.

We're back to the top five in the lineup. And we're going to dance for the next 25 minutes. Yeah, the next 30 minutes is going to be awesome now. That's why. So that's the end of that album, huh? That's the end. Burn the sister down ends and he burns disco down basically with that. Like it's the end of disco and he's like.

And here come the 80s. And here comes the 80s. Fortunately, Mike, the 80s would bring a whole lot more because what's awesome when you consider this is that he made this whole album that then of course, like I said,

like hit number three in the Billboard charts made him officially a bona fide single superstar. Absolutely. And then only two years later he was going to drop a little thing called Thriller. I think it was four years later. 1984, I believe.

Check that out. But only arguably the greatest album ever. For you 1982 thriller I'm looking at right Okay so it's three years through Three years

So yeah you're right Do you think if he stopped at five And just made it a five song album It would have went to number one I think people were gonna buy it for that Those songs anyways So yeah to stop there Yeah

But I mean Everybody Maybe one slow song of it Yeah people like Pick his best of those four She's out of my life Is a song that a lot of people really like I know that song

I mean that's my favorite version of Michael And the one that was the The remix one that uh... break it down yeah that beat those two those two should have been in there

and then burn that disco down I think he made it an eight track so we're basically just eliminating like what one song one or two okay one or maybe probably two of those slower ones I think he's epic so

yeah epic album I think number three on the charts was actually exactly what it should have been it's definitely lasted every one of those first five for sure I'm on the floor and not leaving it

all right I still to this day we'll play some of these And when it's time to party. I'm jeezing everywhere. Yes, it's on. I can't believe the DJ played it. We karaokeed one of these, which I don't even remember that.

Oh, is an epic memory. Y'all remember, I mean, it's just a classic, like, do you remember when Michael died, which actually wasn't my experience when Michael did? You remember the moment that you found out how he died? It wasn't. Clearly, I was with you, so. Well, no, that was, like, that night when we were out. I don't remember.

I don't really pay attention to people. I was working as an intern at Fox Sports, and we used to get, like, news, like, cross the wires, like, before they were really. So you just saw Michael. All of the news that would come were almost exclusively sports, but when it was a big story, it would come with this big breaking headline. And it was like the way that the text would come on the screen

was very old school, like computer. Okay. Like green stuff. Suddenly it had this breaking one. And I remember my co-workers like, she just got this thing came across the wires. I said, Michael Jackson died. I was like, what?

And I remember there was this lady that was just randomly walking through the office right then. And she stopped me. He was like, hold up. What did you just say? He's like, this thing said Michael Jackson died. And we're like, what? And she was like, loss of words. She was just completely

like dumbfounded. And then crazy. And then it became, that was the day that I realized TMZ is news now. We for so long didn't want to have them as credible sources because of like their means of how they got their news. They got these people hiding out in bushes and in trash cans and like jumping out.

They have the world covered. And I remember for the next like couple hours, all the main news sources were like, Michael's in critical condition. We don't know. And TMZ was the only one that was out there. Like, no, he's dead, y'all. It's official.

And they were the only ones for hours that were like, no. And because they probably had somebody, like, in the hospital room. They had people everywhere. They were like, no, it's official. Trust us. Take our word for it. Michael Jackson was straight up like, yeah. To leap, the bounce up at the end of that.

All right, man. So it's going to be a while before we do another Michael. thing. Okay. And the reason why I brought up Michael was one because of the movie, but also I was working, and I had just got done playing working day and night while I was digging a hole for my plumbing. Anyway, working day and night. We're playing working day

and night. Yeah. Good combo. And then, want to be starting something that came on. You guys know the beat. You guys know it, right? Great beat. This is on the Thriller album, which we may want to probably dissect one of these years. But right now we're not going to. But there was something I wanted to bring up because I was completely confused. ladies and gentlemen can you look up the lyrics on this real quick for me as I'm doing this

does he is he calling her a vegetable in this is very confusing let me let me find this listen to it with me call her a vegetable is he calling her a cucumber like I got the answer a zucchini of you know I can't tell you why but I do know that the answer is yes because I specifically remember do you remember that documentary this is it that was actually the tour he was getting ready to take on when he died okay they which like fucked over so many people because like this was supposed to be the biggest tour of all time all the dancers the graphic artists the people involved the promoters all those people ended up with nothing because like it was all building towards us but they did make an epic documentary showing them getting ready for

it and i do remember at one point he's like in rehearsal and he's like teaching the dancers he's like do like this you're a vegetable he was like i'll say it slow like that and i was like so he is always i was wondering was he saying you're a vegetable i don't know why he's calling whoever the fuck he's talking to a vegetable, but that's what he said. I got the lyrics. Too high to get over. Yeah, yeah.

Too low to get under. Yeah, yeah. So they hate you. You're a vegetable. You're a buffet. He says you're a buffet. Who are you talking to, Michael? Michael Anthony Jackson.

So according to Mr. Chat, GPT. I don't know if that's it actually is no. What vegetable means here? He's not literally calling her a vegetable. It's slang, figurative. In context, it means someone who's mentally checked out or not thinking clearly. Acting irrational, dramatic, or out of control.

Basically, you're not making sense. You've lost it. That checks out, actually. And then he says, what a random thing to call somebody over and over in a song. They eat off of you. That's how he calls it. A vegetable. All right.

So he does call her a vegetable. So, yeah. So, yes, he is saying calling her a vegetable, ladies and gentlemen. Had to solve a mystery with our Michael Jack. discography review dissect today I'm doing a little extra at the end there

A little extra bonus tidbit for you Mike does say vegetable when he's referring to you and I want to be starting something because that's what he wants to be starting All right Should we get to slaps and snaps As the entire album

As a whole Where do you rank Out of five slaps Off the wall That's my clap Care to explain a little bit? So I got four slaps, one snap, and of course, the epic.

Stop that. It's an epic album. Even the last tracks that slow down, I like them all. I just feel like he could have cut one or two, maybe threw in one more banger. Well, here's where I come in with that. Go ahead. I was almost certain that this had baby mine on it.

Where was that? That's Thriller. That is on Thriller. I thought that song happened in like the late 70s, though. Well, I gotta be honest, that was a little disappointing because I was waiting to hear that one, and that was going to take it to the max. But in the meantime, what is it? All right, so I got my hat on for this one. That is four slaps and a Michael falling down the well sound clip.

And that said it all. Never!