It’s Michael Jackson’s birthday, and we ‘d like to wish him a happy birthday and peaceful rest, and most of all, a great deal of thanks for introducing so many Funky sounds, from Soul to Disco to House to Pop and beyond.
Dig the BBoy Classic “Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough”:
This 1979 nugget off the “Off the Wall” album is one of the reasons that LP shines so brightly, along with joints like “Rock With You”, “Off the Wall”, and “Workin’ Day and Night”.
I picked up “Off the Wall” on vinyl early in my DJ days and more recently framed the double-wide album cover for the Breakroom.
“Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough” always brought the cipher to the next level, and the track also supplied samples to a large number of Hip-Hop tracks down the line.
Some interesting background on the track from Wikipedia:
William Ruhlmann, author of The All-Music Guide to Rock, praised “Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough” as an “irresistible dance track”.[29] John Lewis, author of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, noted that the “jittery, frenetic opening track” is the centerpiece of Off the Wall.[29] He concluded that “Jackson’s falsetto hollers and frisky yelps serve as an obbligato to the lead line, punctuating Ben Wright’s thrilling string arrangement and Jerry Hey‘s tight horn charts”.[29] Jason Elias, a writer for Allmusic, noted that “Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough” presents a “new Michael Jackson” that was “sexual, [an] adult, and aggressive.[3] Elias commented that “Like the best of Jones’ late-’70s, early-’80s work, this [song] wasn’t quite disco, couldn’t be hardcore funk – it was an amalgam of styles with the all-important pop accessibility.”[3]
And of course, we have a tribute mix from Orlando, Florida’s OurShow (@ourshow) and legendary Orlando DJ BMF (featured on RadioBboy.com) (@djbmf), so major shoutout to Conshus and BMF!
