This is the version I prefer also. Paul's voice isn't exactly one of my favorite sounds, so I can totally do w/o him on the song, altho when it comes up in the ipod I usually listen anyway for nostalgia's sake.
This version of TGIM and that lush slow jam-y version of PYT are my fav alt versions/demos from Thriller. I get what folks are saying about replacing certain songs, but when I hear songs like Carousel and Nightline I KNOW why they didn't put those on the album, they are just not stellar songs. Carousel? I know that was Mike's schtick back then but he's a grown ass man singing about popcorn and cotton candy? Pony rides and circus girls? I mean I get the meaning behind the song and all, but... I just can't.
Baby Be Mine is my ish, I just absolutely adore his voice on that song. It's almost screechy in some places, but it's controlled screechy if that makes any sense. Just divine. That has to stay on the album! Prince esta muerto...
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That's why I always wonder if there was footage that was left out. When John Landis had that script in "Making of Thriller", I wondered why because there was like 8 lines total in the film "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." | |
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The script would have been more than just the 8 lines - most likely it was a shooting script depicting each scene and shot.
Thriller's genius was that it did cut to the chase. It gave you the movie in a movie set up, made you go wow, then got into the song. "I'm not human I'm a dove, I'm ur conscience. I am love" | |
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When I first heard a snippet of this during the Mexico trial I was like - wow this jazzy feel is fresher than the MOR pop it ended up being. I still prefer the this to the final version, though I would have liked to see how it would have sounded with Paul and MJ.
I agree with jaybendy on why tracks weren't included. The first time I heard songs like Trouble, Nightline and Carousel I was like "phew" good thing they didn't make it on the album. Hearing them had me worried for a while thinking the tracks on Thriller were maybe more fluke that craft.
With the exception of Behind the Mask - I haven't heard a Thriller outtake that I think deserved to be on the album above another track. It's easy now in reflection to think it's calculated and the impact at the ease at which it cross genres has greatly diminished over time. I can still remember buying it back in 83 and just being blown away with the way the album played out - you didn't know what was going to come next. "I'm not human I'm a dove, I'm ur conscience. I am love" | |
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I think I have to disagree with a lot of you here about Baby Be Mine. That is, still, my least favorite track on Thriller. While it may be a nice track it still feels a lot weaker & underwhelming to the rest of the songs in comparison. Not only that, but it sounds super dated too.
I do agree that the album version of The Girl Is Mine isn't as good as the demo, but I understand why it was done and its significance to the market at the time of release though. As with PYT, I really, really like both MJ's demo and the final version that ended up being there. They are both amazing, but I am of the impression that if Behind the Mask would have been included, he would have covered electronica too which would have been awesome. | |
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NEW YORK - A long-rumored memoir by Michael Jackson's brother Jermaine is finally coming out. Touchstone announced Wednesday that Jermaine Jackson's "You are Not Alone: Michael: Through a Brother's Eye" will be released this fall. Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, promises a "faithful and loving portrait," but one with "no subject off limits." Jackson spoke in 2003 of wanting to write a memoir and reports surfaced again after Michael's death, in 2009. Sisters Janet Jackson and La Toya Jackson also have books out this year.
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Finally talk about the MUSIC.
I think Thriller as an album is perfection. Baby Be Mine does sound the most dated on the album but that doesn't bother me the least. It's still a great, quality song I happen to play A LOT. In fact, it's my ringtone
Now for the demo's and unreleased: Behind The Mask wouldn't seem to me to fit on the album. Perhaps it's because it uses a sample, but I think Thriller had just the right amount of dance songs on it. Now several tracks the intrigue me; You Told Me Your Lovin'... Who Do You Know... Rolling The Dice... Remember This Night... Those all seem like they could potentially be REALLY good songs. Of course that depends on how much they were finished. IMO, if they were really that good, they would've been included on Victory.
I like Hot Street and Got The Hots. But it's obvious why they didn't make the cut - too weak compared to the other material.
I think the story about how Thriller sounded like crap when it was finished and how it had to be shortened re-mixed and how MJ almost didn't want to release the project at all is a fascinating story in itself. Thriller is the biggest selling album of all time and deservedly so. | |
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I think we've heard enough from Jermaine's stupid ass about his dearest darling brother in Word 2 The Bad. | |
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I really think they should have added more to the "movie" scene. Again, adding a storyline before running out of gas would have did wonders! When I was a kid, I used to just watch the short film, but even then, I used to ask where were they coming from OR going | |
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I am gonna wait and see how "loving" it is since he got a book deal and "no subjects are off limits". [Edited 3/16/11 12:05pm] "When Michael Jackson is just singing and dancing, you just think this is an astonishing talent. And he has had this astounding talent all his life, but we want him to be floored as well. We really don´t like the idea that he could have it all." | |
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I never look at this thread, so I don't know if this has been posted before or not, but it's an interesting video. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Oh, thanks for posting. The episode has just aired here one of the local channels here this week. Love it. "When Michael Jackson is just singing and dancing, you just think this is an astonishing talent. And he has had this astounding talent all his life, but we want him to be floored as well. We really don´t like the idea that he could have it all." | |
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Does anyone have this picture? "When Michael Jackson is just singing and dancing, you just think this is an astonishing talent. And he has had this astounding talent all his life, but we want him to be floored as well. We really don´t like the idea that he could have it all." | |
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This aging idiot will never get it would he? Greasy motherfucker. | |
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The demo always sounded like a FULL song to me. | |
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He'll never get it cuz all that hair grease done leaked inside his head and clogged up his brain MJ L.O.V.E: https://www.facebook.com/...689&type=2 / YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/us...nderSilent | |
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It has clogged up his brain since '84. | |
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Ah, that explains it--why he's been stuck on stupid the past 2 1/2 decades lol MJ L.O.V.E: https://www.facebook.com/...689&type=2 / YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/us...nderSilent | |
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I personally love "Baby Be Mine" and think it's better than "The Girl Is Mine". "Baby Be Mine" and "Lady In My Life" are the two songs on the "Thriller" that haven't been overplayed, so I guess that's another reason why I like "Baby Be Mine". It's a little gem of a song that hasn't gotten much attention, but it's one of my fave MJ songs. His vocals are great in it. I love everything about that song. It's a fun song and always puts me in a good mood. "And When The Groove Is Dead And Gone, You Know That Love Survives, So We Can Rock Forever" RIP MJ
"Baby, that was much too fast"...Goodnight dear sweet Prince. I'll love you always | |
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Michael...
Just, thank you.
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What ol' Jermy Spice wrote on twitter..
@jermjackson5 Jermaine Jackson
why does the good faith of a brother's tribute have to be besmirched by a few who find the negative in a positive endeavor rooted in love?
Bitch please...it means money...maybe now you can finally pay Alejandra.
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Someone remind this fool why no one trusts him. | |
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Good to see the discussion on music again - and as everyone is talking about Thriller - here's my recollection on the album.
Share yours.
THRILLER
It’s hard to write about Thriller and not talk about how many records it broke, how many awards it garnered or how it truly revolutionised how music was produced, packaged and visualised. For the record industry, and for Michael himself, there will always be a pre-Thriller and post Thriller period. A time when he went from star, to superstar to supernova. Some even listen to the music now and might question why it is touted as being such a genre-breaking album when these days mixing rock with funk with pop with soul with middle of the road seems run of the norm, but 25 years ago this album truly was unlike anything else on the market. And 25 years later, it continues to influence. But for a brief period of time in 1982 it was just a new release from an artist who had a huge hit with Off The Wall, and many at the time were doubting if this album would match that in terms of artistic endeavours and sales.
Like many people at the time our first introduction to Thriller was the Paul McCartney duet “The Girl Is Mine”. Based on this being the lead single things didn’t bode so well for what was to follow – after all Michael kicked off Off The Wall with the superfunk jam of Don’t Stop To You Get Enough as lead single. So did this mean that Michael at the ripe old age of 24, and having been a professional recording artist for 13 years already, was mellowing? What did it mean for this new release? In the 28 years since Thriller there hasn’t been an album that has come close to mixing so many different styles so effortlessly that it feels like a given. Nor has there been an album that influenced so many different artists that followed. It’s perhaps easy now to wonder what made it so amazing, when a lot of albums since have used it as a blueprint to try and replicate that kind of success, but to really appreciate it you have to listen to it like you did back in the day when radio was segregated, when genres were well defined and not often crossed.
Thriller was everything Michael had hoped for. It cemented him as a global star, and while it rocketed him into the stratosphere of musical icon, it would also be the benchmark to which everything that came after had to surpass or measure up to. A feat no one, not even Michael would be able to pull off, and one that perhaps distracted him at times from moving forwards as an artist and taking risks.
But there are few albums that decades after their release still manage to sound relevant and fresh, and for the most part Thriller does this. "I'm not human I'm a dove, I'm ur conscience. I am love" | |
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damn som of yall are so hostile, you'd thik jermaine came in and stole ya dinner if he wants to write a book about his brother, who cares everyone else is no one is obligated to buy it. "we make our heroes in America only to destroy them" | |
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Hello children...can you all say CONSPIRACY???
http://www.tmz.com/2011/03/15/michael-jackson-surveillance-video-erased-lapd-dr-conrad-murray-tape-death-died/
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"we make our heroes in America only to destroy them" | |
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gggggrrrrrrrrrrrrr... | |
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man, that story is one of the most compelling of all times, when it comes to the industry.
i'm actually more interested in the process of the album than the album itself. having listened to the audiophile/half-speed edition of thriller i think it's phenomenal in terms of an engineering standpoint (yaaay swedien!) but i think on the surface it is his weakest album, and far from perfection.
i'm not really into 'hot street' at all, so i'm glad that's not on the album; but i think there are songs that got on the album that are MUCH weaker than 'got the hots'. i think 'behind the mask' would have fared better than 'thriller', if the phillinganes arrangement was used.
i don't think 'baby be mine' is dated though... i think it's one of the songs on the albums that holds up the most, in terms of time. the ballads on that album stand the test of time. the only dance track that survives is 'wanna be startin' somethin''. 'beat it' does, in a way as well, if you're looking at it as a classic rock song.
you mentioned victory... i think some of those songs on victory would do better than some of those cuts on thriller. 'heartbreak hotel' would have set it off perfectly, say, on the first song on side 2 (not unlike victory). [Edited 3/16/11 21:06pm] | |
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i'm not sure what this link is referring to... why do you think it was erased? if i had more information i could have something to say about it. | |
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Idk why it was erased. All I know is that there could've been vital information on that surveillance tape about who got into the house that day...but now we'll never know.
Thank you very much, LAPD. Just when I thought y'all couln't get anymore square | |
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