What is the greatest Michael Jackson song?

[Lucifer Alpha]

 

[minute bull]

This is it:

Correct choice. Although the soul:

I Want You Back.

 

[Stevanchez]

To all my homies out there.



Friends rule. Honestly my favorite MJ song, but it's not like I don't love multiple other songs of his.

The song that made people cry for a dying murder rat.

 

[Makani]

Beat It is the most hype Jackson song. That intro gets me air-humping every time.

 

[minute bull]

The song? You're referring to the song or....?

 

[Plissken]

Rock with You is my favorite from what I recall. It's a damn smooth song.

 

[Conor_Is_Overrated]

Don’t Stop 'Til You Get Enough

 

[Lint]

Smooth Criminal to me, that song is pretty much what Michael Jackson is all about.

Still, it's hard to pick one and ditch all others, ah the unfairness.....

 

[Urban Youth]

Billie Jean is his overall greatest work, it fired on all cylinders and basically defined Jackson as a singer/songwriter and performer/dancer.

But my personnel favorite will always be the underrated JAM

The production on this one is a straight up masterpiece. Every musical embellishment and flourish, all the sounds (those horn stabs, the turntable, that Moog bass!) Just incredibly mixed. It's more rhythmically inclined than the tracks from his 80s heyday, the melody and groove are secondary here. By today's standards, he's rapping.

Dig this:

The entire song is constructed of samples from cars, he beat-boxed the rhythm and recorded vehicle sounds, re-configuring and mixing them to his liking. It's a trip to hear Jackson boasting of any kind of sexual dynamism with a woman, but he swears in the opening verse:

"And you know damn well
She gives it to me"​

 

[OneManOrgy]

Thriller is his best song, there is no doubt about it. The music video, the song, theme of Halloween. It's one of the greatest songs ever recorded. I don't give a shit what anyone says, they haven't created a song and music video like that since then.