Never strongly disliked MJ, just never got into that kind of pop music. It was briefly cool when he had a Van Halen guitar solo, and got Vincent Price's voice, but it was just bubblegum pop pablum for the mindless teenyboppers, as far as I was concerned. There was so much better music made in the 1980's that never made it to radio. Commercial radio was such a whore then. I remember calling WDMG (Worst Damn Music in Georgia) and requesting an REM song in the early 80's. The DJ was hip to them and had their records, but refused to play even one song- 2 years later and they had REM on "heavy rotation". College stations were the only place on the dial back then. Even then, you had station managers who tried to dictate what got played and what didn't. Most of us volunteer DJ's just ignored them and played whatever we wanted. I had the Midnight to 6AM Sunday slot at WVGS "the voice of Georgia Southern (Statesboro) in '85- I would play anything that got requested, if we had it. No requests? Okay, brace yourself for a lot of obscure Blue Oyster Cult songs, Motorhead, Hawkwind, Crack the Sky, King Crimson. Actually got a lot of requests in that time slot- people winding down from the Saturday Night Parties wanted stuff to either keep 'em awake or mellow them out. I remember one chick called up at 4 or 5 in the morning and wanted to hear Frank Sinatra, I can't stand that junk, but played it for her, then played "Yo Cats" by Frank Zappa next. She loved it, came by the station at 6 and took me to breakfast at The Waffle House. We got to be really good, um, friends...