“Workin’ Day And Night” by Michael Jackson
By Marvin Marks on May 9, 2010 in Song Reviews
“Workin’ Day and Night” is the 3rd track from Michael Jackson’s 1979 classic album Off the Wall. It’s one of three songs on the album that MJ wrote or co-wrote (along with “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” and “Get On the Floor”) and it’s one of my favorite songs on the album.
It’s pretty simple and quite repetitive but it just has a killer groove that makes me want to get down do a little dance which is really the shorthand review for most of the songs on the album. So why am I singling it out for this review? Mostly because I’m listening to it on repeat right now and it’s kicking my ass.
I love the beat boxing stuff in the intro. Fantastic. It really sets the mood. Man, I don’t have much to say about this song actually. You dance to this music, you don’t write about it. At least I don’t. Because I suck at writing about music. Good thing I have a blog where I get to do it eh? Yes, I’m looking for new contributers. Join the Music By Day team (there’s a link down there…)
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have you basically called it quits on the Beatles stuff you were doing?
Anthony Scianna | May 9, 2010 | Reply
oh no Anthony – definitely not – but the song review thing I’m doing is a very long term project. It may take me 10 years to finish it at this rate… But I do plan on finishing it. I’m not sure I’m going to do anymore of the mono vs. stereo posts though… I’ll have to see where I was on that.
Marvin Marks | May 10, 2010 | Reply
this series “Beatles Songs” is what I’m referring to:
http://www.musicbyday.com/tag/beatles-songs/
Marvin Marks | May 10, 2010 | Reply
this is another Beatles series I’d like to complete: “Beatles in their own words”
http://www.musicbyday.com/tag/beatles-in-their-own-words/
Marvin Marks | May 10, 2010 | Reply
I only did two albums of the mono vs. stereo series…. I thought I had done more of that.
http://www.musicbyday.com/tag/beatles-mono-albums/
Damn that was a long time ago…
Marvin Marks | May 10, 2010 | Reply
Just in case anyone thinks I never finish anything I start… well you’re right… but my fellow MusicByDay.com Beatles fanatic “BrainFace” did complete the “most valuable Beatle” series (aka Lennon vs. McCartney)
http://www.musicbyday.com/tag/most-valuable-beatle/
Marvin Marks | May 10, 2010 | Reply
He was also working on a series on Beatles songs that are “better in mono” http://www.musicbyday.com/tag/beatles-better-in-mono/
but it doesn’t look like he got far on that… ol’ BrainFace hasn’t been around recently so I don’t know if he’ll pick up with that.
Marvin Marks | May 10, 2010 | Reply
Anyway, thanks for the reminder Anthony – it was good to sort all of this stuff out and see what needs to be done… it would be nice to complete all of these series eventually.
Marvin Marks | May 10, 2010 | Reply