There's a problem when Michael Jackson looks more manly than you...

Rush Limbaugh, age 70
February 17, 2021

So the left gets to spend a few days showing off its hatred of others and the joy they get when people die.  Then they'll go back to claiming how compassionate they are and how they want unity.  Better obey them or else.

I've noticed a rumor that the aircraft Biden uses is not given "Air Force One" as a callsign when he's onboard.  If true, that makes sense, they only do that for the elected POTUS which certainly isn't him.  It also keeps being reported that the number of views on videos he sends out is far below views Trump gets now or before the stolen election.  I would like to think there's still something going on but I'm not hopeful.  Prove me wrong, I beg you.

I have a lot more headlines but I'm not sure of what else to write, so as you probably expected, I'll look at the last couple decades of Michael Jackson's output.  What?  Didn't you see this coming?

Not remotely a Jackson fan, I do like a few of his songs and recognize his talent in a few others.  That's about it.  He was obviously a major part of the changes in the music industry since the 70s but there's really no clue about how much he came up with and how much came from above.  His last record, Invincible, reportedly cost $30 million and has got to be the most expensive album ever.  There's no way that could remotely make a profit and my understanding is that it just put him deeper in the hole which already had his gigantic mansion and ridiculously-expensive lifestyle.

On the other hand, he definitely had a lot of income and I don't recall offhand details about them, but just owning most of the Beatles catalogue would be enough to bring in trainloads of money.  [George had ownership of the songs he wrote starting with the White Album, obviously the Beatles didn't own the songs they did covers of like "Twist and Shout" or "Rock'n'Roll Music" and I think one song, "Penny Lane," was given by the catalogue's then-owner to his daughter as a present.  The rest went to Jackson.]  It's obviously living on a much-higher financial level than the rest of us do.

So he may not be on Axl Rose's level, but that's not a bad thing.  Or a good thing, depending on how you look at it.  He obviously had to deal with far more problems than the rest of us do and as many as Axl always complained about.  He had his brothers but they didn't remotely have any success without him but they're still his brothers.  I've actually started wondering how much of any of this success was real, how much did Janet Jackson have in her career?  I'm iffy on it, they obviously had hits, I'm just not sure we can believe how big of a success they were, or anybody else for that matter.

Anyway, a month and ten days after Appetite For Destruction came out, Jackson released Bad which had 11 songs and 2 non-album B-sides.  G'n'R:  12     Jackson:  13

I'm not enough of a Jackson fan to really dig deeply into every song he did anywhere, so "Do The Bartman" is really the only one I'm counting.  At some point he did "Come Together" on stage, I know I've heard it but don't remember a thing, but it's unclear where or how it came out so I'm just giving up on it.  So I'm only counting one song regardless of any other work.  Meanwhile, G'n'R released Lies.

G'n'R:  20     Jackson:  14

In 1991, two months after G'n'R *finally* got an album out, Use Your Illusions I and II, Jackson released Dangerous.  He was releasing large numbers of singles, nine on this album, but there were no non-album B-sides.  Hell, there were rarely any other songs for the rest of his life, just remixes and different productions of the A-side.  I can't figure out why anybody would do that but that's what happened.

G'n'R:  50     Jackson:  28

In 1993, G'n'R released the Spaghetti Incident cover album.  In 1995, Jackson released HIStory, a greatest hits album attached to an album of new material, yammering about the media going after him for his treatment of children which by now everybody seems to admit that, yeah, he did that.

G'n'R:  63     Jackson:  43

G'n'R released two songs before Chinese Democracy, that's all.  In 1997, Jackson released the Blood on the Dance Floor remix album.  I'm still not willing to go into it enough to confirm, but apparently there were at least three new songs, including "Ghosts" which was the most expensive music video ever.  I know I've seen the video, written by Stephen King, and did not like it.  The song is meaningless and the only interesting thing about the video is how much makeup Jackson put on to play totally different people.  It was just a remake of "Thriller."

G'n'R:  65     Jackson:  46

G'n'R released Chinese Democracy in 2008, that's all.  In 2001, Jackson released Invincible, the mind-boggling $30 million disaster.  It had sixteen songs.  In 2003, he added a new song to a new greatest hits album.

G'n'R:  79     Jackson:  63

Jackson died several months after Chinese Democracy came out.  My understanding is that his family is basically impossible to get through so there has only been two albums released since, Michael and Xscape.  Neither of them had a lot of songs but to the best of our knowledge, two were recorded during the Bad sessions, two were recorded during the Thriller sessions and one was recorded in 1980.  The rest were fairly recent, the Invincible sessions or later.  For convenience sake, I'll just count them all.  Axl released old songs too, certainly Michael Jackson deserves that much credit.

G'n'R:  79     Jackson:  81

So Michael Jackson released more albums than Axl after Chinese Democracy came out despite being dead.  He released more albums before dying than Axl that took less time and also sold more copies, released more singles and videos despite costing more money and it's not like Jackson didn't have other things to worry about.  He had brothers he couldn't fire the way Axl got rid of his band members.  He had serious problems with his record company which, one would think, Axl could have learned from.  He had drug problems which Axl didn't.  He didn't make an album that he hoped a little boy would understand like Axl did for Stephanie Seymour's son, that would be so creepy.  Not like "My Michelle" which was about the one junior-high schooler who ever hung out with drug-addicted sex addicts.

And he did all this AFTER making an album bigger than anyone had ever seen before or since, all in less time than Guns'n'Roses entire existence.  And Thriller hadn't been his first album, Off The Wall was a gigantic hit too.  And he'd made solo albums before that.  And the Jackson Five have great hits that still get played to this day.

I don't know which one of them qualifies as a winner in this, hell, I don't even know which one qualifies as a bigger loser, but at least one of them was able to produce more music while living... that way.  The other one hasn't even come close.

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