Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
2. Baby Be Mine
3. Girl Is Mine, The - (featuring Paul McCartney)
4. Thriller
5. Beat It - (featuring Eddie Van Halen)
6. Billie Jean
7. Human Nature
8. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
9. Lady in My Life, The
10. Vincent Price Excerpt - (from "Thriller" voice-over session)
11. Girl Is Mine, The - (previously unreleased, 2008, featuring Will.I.Am)
12. P.Y.T. - (previously unreleased, 2008, featuring Will.I.Am)
13. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' - (previously unreleased, 2008, featuring Akon)
14. Beat It - (2008, featuring Fergie)
15. Billie Jean - (Kanye West mix)
16. For All Time - (previously unreleased)
| | Details | | Contributing artists: | Akon, David Foster, Eddie Van Halen, Fergie, James Ingram, Janet Jackson, Jeff Porcaro, Paul McCartney, Steve Lukather, Vincent Price, Will.I.Am, Will.i.am | | Producer: | Quincy Jones | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Personnel includes: Michael Jackson (vocals, percussion); Paul McCartney (vocals); Vincent Price (spoken vocals); Steve Lukather (guitar, bass); Eddie Van Halen, Dean Parks, Paul Jackson (guitar); Larry Williams (flute, saxophone); Jerry Hey (trumpet, flugelhorn); Bill Reichenbach (trombone); David Paich (piano, synthesizer); Greg Phillinganes (Fender Rhodes piano, synthesizer, programming); Steve Porcaro (synthesizer, programming); David Foster, Rod Temperton (synthesizer); Tom Bahler (Synclavier); Louis Johnson (bass); Ndugu Chancler, Jeff Porcaro (drums); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion); Brian Banks (programming); LaToya Jackson, Julia Waters, Maxine Waters, Oren Waters, Becky Lopez, Janet Jackson (background vocals).
Principally recorded at Westlake Audio, Los Angeles, California.
Few albums in pop music history have the legacy of Michael Jackson's THRILLER. Not only was the 1983 landmark one of the biggest-selling albums ever, its influence touched R&B, quiet storm, rock, hip-hop, and practically every other genre in the decades that followed. The 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION gives the world the chance to re-evaluate this classic.
For starters, the original tracks hold up marvelously. The luster hasn't worn from the pure pop gems "Billie Jean" and "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," from the taut energy of "Beat It" and "Thriller," or the soft, intimate pulse of "Human Nature." Quincy Jones's crisp, multi-layered production seems even more masterly in hindsight. The set includes seven bonus tracks, including the previously unreleased ballad "For All Time" from the original sessions, while remixes from will i. am, Akon, Fergie, and Kanye West underscore THRILLER's influence on contemporary pop. The package also comes with a bonus DVD featuring digitally restored versions of the album's classic videos, and a 48-page color booklet complete with lyrics, rare photos and a personal greeting from Michael. The album and its colossal legacy come out no worse in the bargain.
The finest example of perfect disco pop, and a record that should be prescribed to musical snobs and manic depressives. The album is a true ambassador of what pop music can be. Jackson whoops and dances through a suite of unforgettable melodies that should be danced to with a smile on your face. Each track offers at least one musical hook, whether it is the beauty of 'Human Nature' (who can resist the 'dada dada da da da') or the 'whoo whoo' of 'Billie Jean'. It's all too good.
| | Editorial reviews | Ranked #7 in Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums Of The 80s survey.
Rolling Stone (11/01/1989)
Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Vibe (12/01/1999)
5 stars out of 5 - ...The music stands undimmed by time....delivers some of the greatest ever pop-soul-dance-whatever...hardly a weak moment, and still no one goes 'aow' quite like Michael Jackson.
Q (01/01/2000)
Included in Q Magazine's 100 Greatest Albums Ever
Q (01/01/2003)
Ranked #20 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time - ...There was a time when he was truly the King of Pop. This is it...
Rolling Stone (12/11/2003)
3 stars out of 5 -- [T]racks like 'Wanna Be Starting Something' remain slabs of total pop, whose genius should never by obscured by a blizzard of sales stats.
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