The Lady in My Life ranks 20th on Rolling Stone's "50 Terrible Songs on Great Albums"

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Huh? lol

 

[Sbp]

It's the best song on the fukkin album

 

[TEH]

Young male cacs hate slow Jams. That’s actually a good way to see who’s a cac among us, ask them an R&B or Soul question they can’t google.

 

[TEH]

It's the best song on the fukkin album

Exactly

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Lady In My Life is some straight up player kickin game type shyt. Maybe cause I heard a lot as a kid but Beat It is an automatic skip. Every. Single. Time. PYT is cold af in itself but the demo might be harder than it. The sequencing discussions for that album had to have felt like negotiations to end the war in the pacific theater

 

[Nabs]

fukk em. Classic track all the way around.

And since we're sharing:

 

[murksiderock]

First of all, Lady In My Life is an amazing, timeless track and is the perfect close to an album. I seriously don't know if I'm ever heard a better closing track on any album, ever...

Second of all, and I'll die on this hill, I know it's been said before many times but thru time it became "cool" to contest and debate against it----->but Thriller is the greatest album in history. Every single track is an A-level song. Even if there are ones you like less than others, there ain't a song on that album even remotely resembling a bad song. Not even close...

They went 9-for-9 in their composition, and it's gigantic and cinematic. I'm not entertaining anybody who claims there's a weak song on it---->there isn't...

The absolute greatest musical work of art, from the greatest musician and greatest musical performer, to ever walk the earth. Period!

 

[parallax]

A white planet. The funny thing is if you give that track to Michael McDonald or another (admittedly good) white singer they'd love it. But because it's just straight up black slow jam/quiet storm shyt they despise it.

michael mcdonald would probably perform it the same way which would be the funny part(like his cover of once in my like was the stevie wonder version, not the frank sinatra version)

 

[InGodWeTrust]

This track is a classic

The fukk is wrong with these people

 

[FBGPlank]

 

[Turbulent]

When i was younger, reading this would have actually made me upset.

As i get older, i honestly care less and less about other peoples opinions, awards, reviews, etc. i know what i like and now i know that if rolling stone shyts on something, it's probably a good song

As dar as the song, i don't even care that much for the lyrics one way or the other. But the music and performance alone makes this one of my favorites on the album. The music is just gorgeous...

 

[Taadow]

Also, "Who Do You Know," not making it was insane. It's my favorite MJ track alongside Stranger in Moscow & Human Nature. Coincidentally, iirc, Quincy passed on it because he felt he already had "Human Nature" and TLIML. Shows gow great MJ was. One of his 10 greatest tracks never saw the light of day until 40 years after the release of his most acclaimed album.

Agree. When I found out it existed it made perfect sense because Mike always made a bunch of tracks of what was hot, and early 80s was when Country got hot again. “Who Do You Know” sounds like something Kenny Rogers would’ve cut, but smoother.
I woulda added this to Thriller just to release it as a single to the Country charts - just to have a chokehold on everything at the time.

 

[Yinny]

The Girl is Mine easy woat

 

[shopthatwrecks]

On what planet is lady in my life a terrible song?

peckerwoodopia

 

[daemonova]

Tripping