Off the Wall

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Okay, allow me to introduce you formally, as you heard one or two of them already, to our purveyors of sporting eejitry for this Friday evening.

First up, he's fresh off a Leinster Rugby Roadshow where there was so much South Dublin in the room, it's even affected his usual Munster drawl.

You know, Stop Crackle and Pop need some questions written on them pretty quickly.

Just whack a stamp on it and an address on it and it'll find its way to us.

Quizmaster, Off The Wall Towers, Marconi House, Diggs Lane, Dublin 2.

Round one is the call your shot round.

That was during my developmental years, those albums.

And then, of course, I got hip to Off the Wall when I was in high school.

I got really hip to that as I started to listen to more older music.

and everything.

Mm

... for the likes of Frank Sinatra and produced, of course, the hit Michael Jackson albums Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad.

He also discovered Will Smith while producing The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

He won 28 Grammys, an Emmy, and an honorary Academy Award.

I always-

Yeah?

I always thought Thriller was one of the greatest produced albums in the history of music.

It's fanta- uh, he, but he produced Lena Horne.

in that game.

So Willis, Sean Taylor, Steven Morris, and I got an off the wall one for you, but I, and I've talked to coaches about this who kind of agree with what I'm saying here.

Cam Ward in the first half of the Pop-Tart Bowl.

It's only a half, but I've never seen anything more dominant in the sport of football than that.

But I'm going to go with one from the Bad album.

Bad is underrated.

I know people always talk about Off the Wall and Thriller.

Did you know Bad's first five singles, Danny, went number one? and i'm going to go with another part of me because it's catchy it it just holds you right off the bat and it was used in captain eo which i thoroughly enjoyed in disneyland way back when so another one now you want to get the crowd in unison you want to get a song that is recognizable one that is clean and wholesome in its own way hip-hop parade naughty by nature i think the crowd could get going not a lot of lyrics to go to but everyone understands the song and by the way Pernell Whitaker came out to that against Julio Cesar Chavez in 1993.

I mean, so his...

So Off the Wall was extremely powerful because Quincy was all over it.

Quincy Jones was all over it.

And then when Thriller came out, I mean, this is all in the context of the history of music.

Because there were just things where it was – someone was like, oh, I remember it from high school and could put it within one year or – It was just something where they were like, oh, no, I know this is definitely solo artist by themselves, not solo artist with known group.

Because we had one that was, I think it was Dancing Machine or Blame It on the Boogie by the Jackson 5, which is a very tough pick because it was produced at exactly the same time Michael was making Off the Wall.

So it sounds like everything from Off the Wall.

And if you know his career, you're like, no, it's like the last good Jackson 5 song.

But that's a really good.