i put the boom box in the bathroom yesterday & while having a shower (which became extended while just grooving 2 the music) . . . . .& had this album playing...

ppl hardly recognise this LP,& due 2 the fact that it is mainly a remix album,i can understand this.
However...i wish MJ had just kept those 5 new trax & put them 2wards a new album full of new songs.

as those 5 trax: Blood...,Morphine,Superfly Sister,Ghost & Is It Scary?. .. . . ..r just 2 damn funky & musically excellent.

Superfly Sister always gets me dancing & just breaking in2 moves...Morphine is the big rock trak every Mj album has,& with that breakdown & then coming back up...just wild!(...Mike also playing a few instruments like drums & guitar on this track,very cool 2 hear...)
Ghost is cool,lyrics i can relate 2... & Is It Scary? with the big sound i just love.

personally i LOVE damn near all of HIStory ... & i feel that there r 3-4 trax on Invincible that aren't killer MJ... but the rest is very funky,most with a great beat,& the ballads beautiful.

4get the remixes on *Blood On The Dancefloor*,a couple r cool... but let's talk about the new material.
SO... lemme hav it!

would have worked better had it come out in 93 like it was suppose to have IMHO.the title track Sounded Dated in 97 but the Video&Wycleff Re-Mix was tight.Ghost was a cool New Jack Swing cut about 4 Years to late though.Is it Scary? had that older Jam&Lewis Sound a few years to late.Morphine:dug the middle section the best.SuperFly Sister:MJ's very late Attempt at Cameo Meets Fine Young Cannoballs.

were those trax old???
i thought they were brand new.
but then again,i wasnt as deep with
my music back in '97 as i am now...
the title cut actually sounded ahead of its time
2 me...not dated anyway.
but i was 12 & loved michaeljackson,what did i care?
jus gimme cool songs mikey!

Joshy84au said:

those songs were suppose to drop back in 93.MJ cut "is this Scary" for the "Adams Family" Soundtrack but pulled it in 93."Ghost" is a very Early 90's New Jack Swing Sounding Cut."Morphine" Sounds like He recorded it around late 93.

the title Cut was like a Re-Thread of "Remember The Time".the Groove.

thanx maxxx

surprisingly i am not as big up on Mj musical facts as i am with prince... thanx 4 the lesson

mmm...slight correction, you are right most of these tracks were originally for Dangerous or HIStory, but they were def. re-recorded/arranged/produced 4 the BOTF-album. It's not uncommon 4 MJ (or 4 prince) to pick up on older vault track, rework it and release it. Anyweez, i liked the sound he was going for on Blood and i wish Sony would have let him release the bunch as an EP, without the remixes, bcause that was his intention, and it would've rocked.

MJ haters at Prince.org can relax now, the topics are running out, even Blood On The Dancefloor gets a thread.

Essence said:

Well look at the doofus who started this one lol.He saw a few new ones and just HAD to lol."leave Michael alone!" lol.

Superfly sistah is my jam,,,the synth arrangments kinda reminds me of 1+1+1=3 I love that LP.

BTW Ghost the mini movie is the shit and the most underrated one. I just realized that Mos Def is in that movie(the goofy brutha with the glasses) WTF Mos Def??

It's funny, but to me, those first 5 BOTDF tracks are better than any of the uptempo tracks on Invincible. Conversely however, the slow songs on Invincible are some of his strongest. I think he's run out of ideas for decent uptempo songs, IMO. But he's done so much you know. If he just sang ballads for the rest of his career, I probably wouldn't mind at all.

Harlepolis said:

Superfly was done with Instrumentalist Bryan Loren who also did "Sting's 'Set Them Free".A Tight Musician who was on MJ's ATV Staff as a Songwriter&Whatnot.Superfly just reminded me of Cameo's "Word Up".Mos Def did alot of side projects He was in a Bill Cosby Project as well.ain't no Fresh Meat in Hollywood chances are they have been in something but under a different Appearence you know.

mistermaxxx said:

I believe Mr.Loren was a producer 4 Shanice right?? Yeah, I've seen Mos Def a couple of times in Cospy and the brutha RAVED the critics last year when he did a broadway(4got the title).

Harlepolis said:

for Shanice back in 1987.I can't think of the Boradway Show right now either.but I remember.

As soon as I heard the beat from "Remember The Time", I recognised it as being almost identical to one of the Stevie Wonder songs on the Jungle Fever soundtrack.
And while I'm at it, the verse of "Black And White" is a rip off of the verse of an old Duran Duran song, I think it was "Hungry Like The Wolf"

Ghosts is the only one of the "new" tracks that never grew on me. The others are cool. Especially Morphine. A little different and a little odd.

Cloudbuster said:

"Morphine" makes me think of Trent Rezinor.

mistermaxxx said

Sure. But for Michael it was different.

i'm not a michael jackson fan, but i like "blood on the dancefloor"... it's one of only 2 michael jackson songs that i ever find myself wanting to listen to...

EllisDee said:

What's the other?

Cloudbuster said:

"smooth criminal"... i know, i know... i'm weak... i just don't get into michael for some reason...

thanx 4 posting everyone

I had all of MJs "normal" albums, but after reading this, I bought Blood on the dancefloor yesterday. Track 1-5 are fucking fantastic!

I don't rate the mixes, except maybe History, but Morphine blew me away.

As for Ghosts, I can't get it out of my head.

Thanks guys and girls! This is my CD of the month!

Cloudbuster said:

I was given MJ Props for doing a Industral type of Song.it was Cool&I dug the Middle Section the best of that Song.

that's funny, I just listened to this track about 20 minutes ago! I have to say, in my opinion, if there were no bogus rumours going around at that time this would have been a smash!