Worst track of the album; singlehandely destroys the flow of the album, specially when it's sandwitched between those two masterpieces called Off the Wall and She's Out of My Life. The lyrics are corny at best (Fuc* off Paul) and Jackson, not surprinsingly, sings the song with a clear tongue-in-check attitude, maybe because he didn't give a hoot about the song to begin with...A novelty number. Just compare his singing in Girlfriend and then in Out of my life , and you'll find where his heart was...




This track is the reason which OTW will ALWAYS be one step behind Thriller, an album with all killers-no fillers.

Anyway, The Girl is Mine was a HUGE improvement over Girlfriend...

Lol@The hate for this song

It's sappy and everything but that was typical Mike. He's obviously done his share of cheesy songs, but this was perhaps among his cheesiest.

Still, I like it and MJ sounds great as always. It's cute song, not meant to be taken seriously. It always puts me in a good mood.

I have had mixed feelings about "Girlfriend", I do love the scatting in it.

When I first heard the song, I had it on repeat for quite a while. Now "It's The Falling In Love", I could totally do WITHOUT that track. Sunset Driver should have replaced it

I love everything about off the wall including this corny track .

ViintageJunkiie said:

Yessss

babybugz said:

Whenever I hear the opening lines from ITFIL, I say "UGH!" and change the track

I love this song.

Off The Wall is good from start to finish. I can't say that about the rest of his work

babybugz said:

Great song!

ViintageJunkiie said:

ITFIL is not bad

ViintageJunkiie said:

I LOVE It's The Falling In Love!

Sunset Driver...I'm starting to think the version we heard was a later version that was done after Off The Wall, kinda like how the mix of Streetwalker that we've heard is from AFTER Bad was released (from 1988/89)

ViintageJunkiie said:

ViintageJunkiie said:

Don't know about that, but I do love "Sunset Driver"

Cinnamon234 said:

NOTHING from OTW should be replaced, absolutely nothing!

But greedy ass sony, should've included the outtakes in the so-called remastered album.

Harlepolis said:

They were planning a deluxe edition of the album back in 2009 but it was postponed with the news of Michael's passing

Harlepolis said:

I agree. OTW is a perfect album as it is.

bboy87 said:

Boy, get outta the cloud

They'll NEVER release a compiled collection of outtakes among a remastered release. They might release a SINGLE outtake via-remastered album/compilation(Buttercup) but not a group of them.

Greed has brain.

Harlepolis said:

Speaking of those Stevie/J5 sessions, Motown is considering a deluxe edition of sequel to "I Want You Back!: The Unreleased Masters" this year and more tracks from that particular session may be included. Motown also has 2 live recordings from the Forum in LA from 1970 and 1972

Sony has until 2011 or 2012 to release stuff because if the estate doesn't neogotiate, the masters revert back along with the distribution rights to Michael's concerts and his unreleased songs

Motown has 200 unreleased songs that they can do whatever with, like the J5's cover of Stevie's "If You Really Love Me" that I really want to hear

bboy87 said:

Sunset driver is better , I could live without that song ....

seeingvoices12 said:

I love Sunset Driver but I also love It's The Falling In Love especially the end

bboy87 said:

Patti & MJ's voices are like hot butter & biscuits,,,they mesh so WELL together, at some point you get them mixed up. Its def my fave MJ duet.

Harlepolis said:

They did the Budweiser Superfest back in '82 and for the longest time I thought they had performed It's The Falling In Love, but now I'm hearing they performed "Stuff Like It"



They may have performed both songs (That's what I'm hoping )
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I kepe hearing you guys talk about "Sunset Driver",but none of y'all provided a link to hear it so here goes...

It's a good song....very funky!! But there's nothing on OTW that it should have replaced.OTW is flawless...a perfect album just the way it is.

"Sunset Driver" should have been released though,in some form or another.Perhaps on 'Triumph'?

SoulAlive said:

I keep hearing that the mix we have is from a later date, possibly from 1980 or 1981...or even '82

bboy87 said:

The synth hook is def 1980-ish, so the "Triumph" reference comes as no surprise to me.

I was when I discovered that Cheater was from '87. The fender rhodes playing was a 1980/1981 throwback but MJ's singing and the guitar lick were dead giveaways that the song was in fact an outtake from Bad.

Such a KICK ASS gem,,,,,it doesn't sound dated to me at all. I don't get WHY songs like this one and Monkey Business get shelved they're among the LEAST dated songs from MJ's discography.

Harlepolis said:

AND Cheater was recorded at his house

I've wondered why Monkey Business got shelved. It was supposed to be the lead single for Dangerous but as the album progressed, Black Or White replaced it. Looking back, I can see it being released, but not on Dangerous. It's like every song fits, even Heal The World, which I've hated since I first heard it when I was 5

not to mention, he would work on a song, put it away, and then take it out and work on it again, as was the case for

Little Susie (written in '79 while he was writing Heartbreak Hotel and Lovely One, but not released until '95)

Earth Song (written in '88 for Dangerous)

Dirty Diana (written in '83 for possibly Victory)

Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' was for Off The Wall, Liberian Girl was for Victory, Streetwalker was for either Bad or a Broadway play he was writing

and then I found out that This Is It and Love Never Felt So Good was planned for a MJ/Paul Anka collaboration album AND he had done an album of classical inspired songs after he did Off The Wall.....

Most of the songs mentioned could've fit easily into HIStory, in fact, some of them did.

Michael was always working on an album or two or three. He never stopped. It's just that he wasn't releasing any because, as we know, he was a perfectionist so there could be a lot of works he did over the years that we still haven't heard.

Harlepolis said:

I forgot to add that They Don't Care About Us was originally written and recorded in '89 during the Dangerous sessions

They Don't Care About Us and Earth Song were originally from the Dangerous sessions, Come Together was from 1985 (but remixed), Little Susie was written in 1979.....

Damn, I really have done my research!