Anybody pick this up? It was quietly released earlier this month.

I like the fact that some of the lesser known Jacksons track are on there.

Shame that "That's What You Get For Being Polite" and "Bless His Soul" aren't on it.



1 Music's Taking Over 4:24
2 Goin' Places 4:30
3 Enjoy Yourself 3:41
4 Blame It on the Boogie 3:34
5 Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) 7:59
6 All Night Dancin' 6:11
7 Things I Do for You 4:07
8 Lovely One 4:53
9 State of Shock / Mick Jagger 4:30
10 Torture 4:54
11 Medley: I Want You/ABC/The Love You Save Live 2:57
12 This Place Hotel (Aka Heartbreak Hotel) 5:44
13 2300 Jackson Street 5:07
14 Man of War 5:43

There is a ton of stuff missing off that.

SonyBMG really needs to contact me to do the tracklisting for every Jackson release


I like the cover, but the tracklisting is terrible

They shoulda put Wait on there, that's one of my fave tracks from Victory.

The Hurt is missing?

No "Show You the Way to Go"

I already have 'The Essential Jacksons' and I'm satisfied with it.

Show You The Way To Go
Enjoy Yourself
Keep On Dancin
Blues Away
Do What You Wanna
Musics Takin Over
Find Me A Girl
Different Kinda Lady
Shake Your Body
Blame It On The Boogie
That's What You Get
Bless His Soul
Can You Feel It
Your Ways
Heartbreak Hotel
Everbody
Time Waits for No One
J5 Medley (from 'Live')

That'd be my 18.
[Edited 1/24/09 10:41am]

Where's Walk Right Now? That song still holds up excellently.

I guess it's worth it for the cover but I already have these songs, including the ones they didn't add to this compilation.

amit1234 said:

Those are quietly released for a reason....they are garbage collections. Would it be shocking at this point if even they manage to get one out of Micheal ("Essential MJ" wasn't exactly high profile although it did sell and got some hype due to his name) Maybe it works if you've had one hit, but they often suck if you're an act that has multiple hits (even worse if you were on multiple labels). And considering they are often released by artists that have a ton of these sets out already...It's got to stop!

I wouldn't even give a second look to a Jacksons set without "Can You Feel It?".
[Edited 1/24/09 10:19am]

VinnyM27 said:

you wouldn't like mine then!

I, um, embarrasingly forgot to put that on mine.

Mine would've had:
Disc 1
Enjoy Yourself(Extended Version)
Blues Away
Show You The Way To Go
Music's Takin' Over
Goin' Places (Mono Version)
Different Kind Of Lady (Alternate Version)
Find Me A Girl
Even Though You're Gone
Blame It On The Boogie
Shake Your Body Down To The Ground
That's What You Get For Being Polite(Edit)

Disc 2
Can You Feel It
Lovely One
Heartbreak Hotel
Walk Right Now(Dance Mix)
Time Waits For No One
State Of Shock (Dance Mix)
Torture(Long Version)
Body (Single Remix)
Wait
Nothin' (That Compares To You)
Art Of Madness
Please Come Back To Me (B Side to 2300 Jackson Street)
2300 Jackson Street

Wanna cop this one day too



1 - Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) - 8:37
2 - Blame It on the Boogie - 6:59
3 - Heartbreak Hotel - 5:43
4 - Lovely One - 4:52
5 - Can You Feel It - 6:00
6 - Torture - 4:52

bboy87 said:

That would be a great compilation I swear,the record labels should ask for advice from the fans when they put these compilations together.

Heaps is missing. What a shame.

There hasn't been a compilation on the Jacksons that has never gotten it right.

Timmy84 said:

It would be great if they release some TV performances on CD like this one:

SoulAlive said:

I disagree (no offence bboy87), too much crap, mainly anything post-Triumph on disc2.

I have the 'very special disco version' of enjoy Yourself on UK 12". It's not special at all. it's just the song restarting again at the end, same thing twice!

Marrk said:

smacks Marrk for disagreeing




I was trying to cover the entire 1976-1989 period and give people like us who already have the albums, a slight reason to buy it

Marrk, I got into a debate with someone because they were complaining about SonyBMG releasing the deluxe editions of Destiny and Triumph


now get this....

THEY NEVER OWNED THE ALBUMS, JUST HEARD THEM THROUGH SOME FANS SENDING THEM SONGS

matter of fact, I'll just post the various comments for you all to read:

oh for god sake, this is so stupid.
I HOPE NO ONE BUYS THIS!!!!

his is ridiculous.. they have to stop doing this.. Everyone i know has at least one of michael jackson/ jackson 5's albums.
They cant expect people to keep rebuying their music.
I have all of those songs.. We want new material..

I don't have either of those albums, but I'm sort of mad at Sony for re-releasing all of Michael's music. I don't think it's right to take advantage of the fans like that.


i thought "not another re-release.. surely?!" I won't be buying it either, i hope many people don't so that Sony finally realise they can't keep taking advantage of the fans like this.

didnt have any j5 albums before but now have a 3 CD hits collection
and thats enough i guess

^^^Idiots.

Don't folks care about better sound quality? Destiny especially sounds fantastic.

As for re-releases? i'm happy to replace music that got lost damaged or stolen. I've had Destiny 3x on vinyl, once on casette and twice now on CD over the years.

Between OTW and Thriller i'm probably into the high teens how many times i've replaced them on various formats, can't wait for OTW30 (if it has something unreleased on it, i'm there!

bboy87 said:

Up to this point... It's missing Destiny, tho'. Great track.

bboy87 said:

Bruh, you left out "Time Out for The Burglar"

LittleBLUECorvette said:

I did that on purpose

bboy87 said:

"Somedays you gotta think fast"

what the hell is "Time Out For The Burglar"?

SoulAlive said:

A jam from the Whoopie movies "Burglar", was a singles. It's the Jacksons when they consisted of the two eldest and the youngest brother (the middle three were solo at the time.)

LittleBLUECorvette said:

I think I still have that 12" somewhere

Nikademus said:

I had the 45.

JackieBlue said:

yeah...you stay in that box