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This is an idea I've had in my head for a long time.

I made a list of the 100 biggest selling music acts of all time (removing anyone who wasn't active by 1999, so it removes Drake, Nicki Minaj, Justin Beiber and all that junk we don't give a shit about).

First: what is the first song you remember hearing from this artist?
Best: what do you think their best song is?
Worst: what do you think their worst song is?
Last: what is the last (most recent) song you've heard from this artist?


#1 The Beatles

First: "Get Back"
I may have heard them before hearing this one, but this is the earliest concrete memory I have of hearing them

Best: "Here Comes The Sun"
The only Beatles song that made my 333 favorite songs of all time list I posted here about six years ago

Worst: "Come Together"
The music is adventurous and unique but just doesn't appeal to me, and I really really dislike the lyrics

Last: "Let It Be"
I heard it a few weeks ago
 
First Beatles song I heard: From Me To You on Pasadena top-40 station KRLA in 1963
Best – my favorite Beatles song: Nowhere Man (but there are probably 20 Beatles songs that are tied for my second-favorite)
Worst: You Know My Name, Look Up The Number
Last: I'll Follow The Sun, played on SiriusXM 17, The Coffee HHouse
 
First: When I was a kid, we were all driving in the family car, and Fool On the Hill just came out. My father thought it was crap, my brother thought it was brilliant. Of course, they had a big argument.

Best: I'll cheat and say the Abbey Road medley, which is the string of connected songs on the 2nd side.

Worst: A lot of the old simplistic stuff I don't care for.

Last: Just heard Taxman on the John Mayer channel today.
 
This is a good one

#1 The Beatles
First: "Something" Heard on WLS heading to Aunts. Dad drove his 64 Impala which I just saw one being displayed at National Night Out on Thursday. The tune reminded me of the "Family Affair" TV theme. Shortly after seen the cartoons and a movie at the drive in and started following the rest of the songs.

Best: "Paperback Writer"

Worst: Number 9

Last: "Lovely Rita"
 
First: I Want to Hold Your Hand. My parents listened to a lot of oldies radio when I was a kid so I probably knew a bunch of their songs, but this is probably the first one I associated with the phenomenon that was the Beatles.

Best: A Day in the Life (or also Abbey Road side 2 medley)

Worst: Revolution 9

Last: Nowhere Man
 
Aaron said:
Worst: Revolution 9
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This is indeed a disastrous collection of sounds, but I have a soft spot for it. My Beatles collector friend had just bought the white album, and I got to listen with him, when he played it the one time to record to tape. We listened straight through the whole thing. I was 12 or 13 at the time.
 
#2 Michael Jackson

First: probably "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough"
But I clearly remember when "Billie Jean" conquered the world

Best: "Human Nature"
Not sure why but I have a real soft spot for this one. Ask me tomorrow though and I might say "Billie Jean" or "Beat It".

Worst: Either "Scream" or "They Don't Care About Us"
I haven't heard either of them in years, I just remember disliking both a lot.

Last: "Black Or White"
I remember the parody "Am I Black Or White?"
 
Michael Jackson (as a solo artist)

First: Got To Be There. From 1965 to 1980 I listened every Wednesday night to the countdown of the KHJ Thirty. (From April 1965 through May 1971, it was the Boss 30). Got To Be There was added as a "hitbound" on October 13 1971 and wound up reaching #4 on the December 7 1971 KHJ Thirty.

Best: Black Or White. The video is one of my favorites – except for the scene where a director walks on the set and yells "Cut! That was great!" before the song has finished. In real life, that would never happen.

Worst: Doggin' Around from the 1973 Music & Me album. Jackie Wilson had a number-one R&B hit with the song in May 1960. Fourteen-year-old Michael ruined it!

Last: Billie Jean on SiriusXM's '80s channel – and it still sounds like he's singing "The chair is not my son."
 
I saw the premiere of the Black Or White video. It aired at 5 PM Pacific time November 14 1991 on MTV, VH1, BET and FOX. It was 11:01 in length. There was immediate backlash. It seems a majority of viewers didn't like seeing Michael grab his crotch, simulate masturbation and use a crowbar to smash car windows, a trash can and a hotel sign. The final four minutes were cut. The edited version ends with the face-morphing sequence – and the dummy director saying "Cut! That was great! How did you do that?" before the song had ended. One of the 14 people in the morphing sequence was a then-unknown Tyra Banks.
 
First: Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
(I don't consider his 1971 album a legitimate solo album, since he was still with Jackson 5).

Best: Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
(Yes, that's how it's spelled)

Worst: The Girl is Mine

Last: None of the channels I regularly listen to play him. Some of Mrs. Scotch's car presets would play him, but I can't remember coming across any. The last song in the movie Michael (which we saw) was Bad.
 
In 1971, Michael Jackson recorded all the songs for his Got To Be There album, released January 24, 1972. It was billed as a solo album – but among the background singers are Jackie Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Marlon Jackson and Tito Jackson. No further questions, your honor.
 
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