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Track Listing
1. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
2. Baby Be Mine
3. Girl Is Mine, The
4. Thriller
5. Beat It
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 - (with Vincent Price)
11. Girl Is Mine 2008, The - (featuring Will.I.Am)
12. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) 2008 - (featuring Will.I.Am)
13. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008 - (featuring Akon)
14. Beat It 2008 - (featuring Fergie)
15. Billie Jean 2008 [Kanye West Mix] - (remix)
16. For All Time - (previously unreleased)
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Akon, David Foster, Eddie Van Halen, Fergie, Janet Jackson, Jeff Porcaro, Paul McCartney, Steve Lukather, Vincent Price, Will.I.Am, Will.i.am | | Producer: | Alex Dromgoole, Bernie Grundman, Bruce Swedien, David Paich, Giorgio Tuinfort, Humberto Gatica, Kanye West, Mark Ettel, Matt Forger, Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Steve Bates, Steve Porcaro, Will.I.Am, Will.i.am | | Distributor: | Sony BMG International | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: David Williams, Fergie , Anthony Kilhoffer, Anthony Caruso, Becky Lopez, Martii Garcia, Simone Battle, David Paich, Dean Parks, Greg Phillinganes, Greg Smith, Howard Hewett, James Ingram, Jeff Porcaro, Jerry Hey, Julia Waters, Kanye West, Akon, Larry Williams, Louis Johnson, Maxine Waters, Michael Boddicker, Ndugu Chancler, Oren Waters, Paul Jackson Jr., Paul McCartney, Paulinho Da Costa, Printz Board, Rod Temperton, Steve Lukather, Vincent Price, Keith Harris, Bill Reichenbach, Bill Wolfer, Chuck Prada, Tim Izo, Brian Banks, Bunny Hull, Jeff Bhasker.
Audio Mixers: Mark Goodchild; Anthony Kilhoffer; Mike Guzauski; Akon; Tom Bender; Will.I.Am.
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.
Industry 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)
[A] magnificent helping of pop history, due in no small part to Quincy Jones's immaculate production.
4 stars out of 5 -- [I]t's genius....This is a profoundly quirky and omnivorous R&B mash-up, making room for hard-rock guitar and soft-serve balladry.
[A] masterpiece....THRILLER was a collection of songs that cohered as the statement of a young artist proclaiming his freedom...
5 stars out of 5 -- THRILLER was MJ at his breathiest and most salacious, and his most beautifully fragile....[A] work of genius.
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