Michael Jackson's THRILLER turns 25
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Hey! I'm 31. I remember when I was in kindergarten - kids were skipping school to watch the premier of this video on something called the MTV. I wasn't rich, so I caught the making of it later on tape - Beta Max, sucka!http://youtube.com/watch?v=AtyJbIOZjS8
NOT GUILTY, y'all gotsta feel me!
NOT GUILTY, y'all gotsta feel me!
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"He's just down to earth, and thats the way I want him to be, down to earth."
Wow, that's gotta be a killer memory. Don't relate to my dad at all on that level...
"Thriller" is really just a super slick boogie track. Quincy was/is the man.
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of MJ's record-breaking release, Epic/Legacy Recordings will drop Michael Jackson 25th Anniversary of Thriller on Feb. 12. In addition to remixes by Kanye, Akon and will.i.am the set will also include rare and unreleased material from the time period.
For the new edition, Jackson personally mixed and mastered "For All Time," a previously unreleased song recorded during the making of Thriller which was left off the original set. Jackson's original "Billie Jean" demo is also included, along with rare cuts "Carousel" and "Someone in the Dark."
Among the remixes is a new version of "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" featuring Akon and will.i.am, the Kanye West remix of "Billie Jean" and will.i.am's remixes of "The Girl Is Mine" and "P.Y.T."
Jackson's alliance with the Black Eyed Peas frontman comes as no surprise, MJ previously told reporters he was enlisting will.i.am to work on his still-untitled comeback project.
Thriller's 25th Anniversary Edition also includes a bonus DVD with the videos for "Beat It," "Billie Jean," and "Thriller" as well as performance footage of Jackson singing "Billie Jean" for NBC's 1983 special "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever."
News of a new edition follows on the heels of a rash of new activity within the Jackson camp. As SOHH previously reported, Thriller's 25th anniversary also inspired Ebony Magazine to put Jackson on this month's cover. Jermaine Jackson also recently told BBC News reporters that the Jackson 5, including Michael, are planning to launch a reunion tour in 2008.
The track list for Michael Jackson 25th Anniversary of Thriller is listed below:
"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
"Baby Be Mine"
"The Girl Is Mine"
"Thriller"
"Beat It"
"Billie Jean"
"Human Nature"
"P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)"
"The Lady in My Life"
"Carousel"
"Someone in the Dark"
"Billie Jean" (demo)
"The Girl Is Mine 2008" with will.i.am
"P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) 2008" with Michael Jackson and will.i.am
"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008" with Michael Jackson, Akon and will.i.am
"Billie Jean 2008" with Kanye West
"For All Time"
"Rainbow '65" and "Rainbow '80" by Gene Chandler.
And both of those are BETTER than the original 1963 "Rainbow."
who's even questioning this? there is no question!!!
I was thinking about this earlier today.
Don't Stop..., Rock with You, Get on the Floor, Off the Wall, I Can't Help It are great. Girlfriend is cheese -- just horrible.
The only bad songs on Thriller are The Girl Is Mine and The Lady in My Life.
Can't agree with you.
young, white & disconnected
and Lady in my life is classic anyways.....
This was another thread a minute ago. So really dont want take away from the monster that Thriller is.
Michael Jackson is white.
We could never be friends.
Girlfriend is fresh to def!
Good god yes.
Anyway
But this takes nothing away from the monumental achievements of Thriller itself.
I remember seeing the debut of this video X-Mas nite on MTV in 82.... U telling me it dropped b4 that?
Probably the crowning achievement in big budget mass culture pop music, i cant even think of a record that could come out today and have a quarter of the impact that thriller did.
Im definitely not old enough to remember it coming out with any accuracy, but i do remember seeing at least one copy in every record collection. Doesnt matter what other music people were even into, you had thriller. And still today, if theres anybody on here today that doesnt own it and calls themselves a record collector or a dj or anything, theres really just no excuse.
When you are getting down to a list of really truly immortal records that will still kill it with a crowd of any age in say 50 years time, theres just not much thats Frickin' with thriller.
Yes, u got his rock guitars on for Thriller and got some MTV play for the Caucasoids that overlooked him for the Grammys that he felt he deserved for the masterpiece that Off The Wall was.
Y'all took the bait.
this may be the most unintelligible sentence ive ever read here!