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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. I Want You Back
2. ABC
3. I'll Be There
4. Got to Be There
5. I Wanna Be Where You Are
6. Ben
7. Dancing Machine
8. Enjoy Yourself
9. Ease on Down the Road
10. You Can't Win - (from The Wiz)
11. Shake a Body - (previously unreleased, early demo)
12. Shake Your Body
13. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
14. Rock With You
15. Off the Wall
16. She's Out of My Life
17. Sunset Driver - (previously unreleased)
18. Lovely One
19. This Place Hotel
DISC 2:
1. Wanna Be Startin' Something
2. Girl Is Mine, The - (featuring Paul McCartney)
3. Thriller
4. Beat It
5. Billie Jean
6. Pyt (Pretty Young Thing) - (previously unreleased, demo)
7. Someone in the Dark
8. State of Shock - (featuring Mick Jagger)
9. Scared of the Moon - (previously unreleased)
10. We Are the World - (previously unreleased, demo)
11. We Are Here to Change the World - (previously unreleased, from Captain EO)
DISC 3:
1. Bad
2. Way You Make Me Feel, The
3. Man in the Mirror
4. I Just Can't Stop Loving You
5. Dirty Diana
6. Smooth Criminal
7. Cheater - (previously unreleased, demo)
8. Dangerous - (previously unreleased, early version)
9. Monkey Business - (previously unreleased)
10. Jam
11. Remember the Time
12. Black or White
13. Who Is It - (IHS mix)
14. Someone Put Your Hand Out
DISC 4:
1. You Are Not Alone
2. Stranger in Moscow
3. Childhood - (Theme from Free Willy 2)
4. On the Line
5. Blood on the Dance Floor
6. Fall Again - (previously unreleased, demo)
7. In the Back - (previously unreleased)
8. Unbreakable
9. You Rock My World
10. Butterflies
11. Beautiful Girl - (previously unreleased, demo)
12. Way You Love Me, The - (previously unreleased)
13. We've Had Enough
Album Notes
Personnel include: Michael Jackson (vocals, percussion); Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Seidah Garrett, Diana Ross (vocals); The Notorious B.I.G., Vincent Price (rap vocals); Chris Tucker (spoken vocals); Larry Carlton, Mike Sembello, Tito Jackson, David Williams , Marlo Henderson (guitar); Jim Horn (saxophone); David "Hawk" Wolinski (electric piano); Michael Boddicker (synthesizer); John Robinson , Nathan Watts, Bobby Watson (bass instrument); Ollie Brown, Bill Bottrell (drums); Paulinho Da Costa, Randy Jackson, Richard Heath (percussion); Jim Gilstrap, Augie Johnson (background vocals); The Seawind Horns.
Recording information: 1969 - 2004.
By 2004, Michael Jackson's bizarre image almost completely obscured the talent that had made him an international superstar. However, he became a musical icon by simply being the best at creating and performing pop songs. The opening moments alone of hits like "Rock with You" and "Billie Jean" would make them classic, but every aspect of these songs adds up to perfect radio pop. Jackson's THRILLER, after all, didn't simply luck into being the biggest-selling record of its time; each of its seven Top 10 hits had unique charms and drew from different elements of the pop universe.
While there have been many previous Jackson hits collections, the four-CD/one-DVD ULTIMATE COLLECTION is just that--it represents Jackson's whole career, from his youthful days with the Jackson 5 to the early years of the 21st century. (The rare omissions--"Human Nature," "Heal the World"--show up live on the DVD.) Mixed in with his numerous hits are previously unreleased songs, demo versions of hits, album tracks, and odds and ends, most remarkably, one of the earliest versions of "We Are the World" with almost completely different lyrics. THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION expertly chronicles the career of one of the most important, if unusual, pop artists of all time.
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