The problem with having new and old side by side, new numbers pale when seated beside some of the "best of" songs. On the new tracks, Jackson does mix it up: "Scream" is a...
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Motown's 1995 anthology of young Michael Jackson's musical output prior to his groundbreaking era that began with Off the Wall is nothing short of definitive, collecting all...
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"They Don't Really Care About Us" was the most controversial song on Michael Jackson's 1996 HIStory album. Since all but the initial pressing of the double album had excised...
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"Blood on the Dance Floor" was easy to criticize when it was released in 1997. Michael Jackson was in the midst of his first backlash because of the militaristic imagery of...
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The decline of Michael Jackson as a commercial force seemed confirmed by the disappointing response to his 1997 remix album, Blood on the Dance Floor/HIStory in the Mix,...
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As the title suggests, these are tunes for the dance floor--except perhaps "Superfly Sister," the song that questions today's concept of love, and "Ghosts," which sounds...
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Off The Wall 1/1/1979, Yahoo! Music, Jennifer Clay
Michael as a man, Michael out of the shadow of his family, Michael with Quincy Jones. Michael, one step away from being the biggest pop star in the world, became the...
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Michael Jackson had recorded solo prior to the release of Off the Wall in 1979, but this was his breakthrough, the album that established him as an artist of astonishing...
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When a teenage Michael Jackson was known primarily for his membership in the Jackson 5, rock critics tended to dismiss him as bubblegum. But even at his most waifish, the...
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Once again with Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson got down and dirty with his now signature formula. The bad-boy, bad-ass image was a little hard to swallow, but musically it...
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The downside to a success like Thriller is that it's nearly impossible to follow, but Michael Jackson approached Bad much the same way he approached Thriller -- take the...
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Cranking 'em out, Ben is another in the same vein as Got To Be There, pretty little pop ditties sung with a sweet voice. Of note are "We've Got A Good Thing Going" and "My...
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Michael Jackson stunned everyone by scoring a huge hit with a song about a rat on this 1972 release. He was just beginning to make his way outside the family unit, and the...
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For Jackson in the '90s, life and music wasn't so black and white. Without Jones, his blissful pop sounds lost a bit of their light-hearted edge; as if all the success...
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For Jackson in the '90s, life and music wasn't so black and white. Without Jones, his blissful pop sounds lost a bit of their light-hearted edge; as if all the success...
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Despite the success of Bad, it was hard not to view it as a bit of a letdown, since it presented a cleaner, colder, calculated version of Thriller -- something that...
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A nice two-in-one CD that contains a pair of Jackson's better Motown albums. He scored an amazing hit with the title track from Ben, while the single "Got To Be There"...
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Already a star as the leader of the Jackson 5, it came as no surprise that his first solo outing would be a commercial success. Although the music is definite bubblegum,...
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If you didn't get The Jackson 5 anthology (now out on CD), then this has some merit. Michael Jackson's solo career really took off when he signed with Epic, so it's...
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He's certainly a superstar, although he attained that as a solo act on another label. But Motown will always find a way to keep cashing in on their artists, so here's the...
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One of the best Michael Jackson Motown hits packages available besides The Jackson 5 anthology, this intelligently collects the best Michael Jackson tracks onto a single...
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Produced by Quincy Jones, Thriller is the ultimate hit album, with track after track (nine total including "Billie Jean" and "Beat It") of be-bopping, finger-snapping pop...
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Off the Wall was a massive success, spawning four Top Ten hits (two of them number ones), but nothing could have prepared Michael Jackson for Thriller. Nobody could have...
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Although Michael Jackson had long since moved on to Epic, Motown got a quick cash boost in the early '80s by issuing some tracks cut in 1975. The title song even came close...
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Michael Jackson's edition of 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium Collection concentrates entirely on his solo recordings from the early '70s, including such blockbusters...
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The extraordinary talents of Michael Jackson are evident on this compilation set featuring his first-ever charted single "Got to Be There." Though he was a juvenile at the...
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Michael Jackson's greatest hits, 1971-1975, emphasize his waiflike charm and youth (he was 13 when the first of these songs appeared) in ballads such as "Got to Be There,"...
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Despite the success of Bad, it was hard not to view it as a bit of a letdown, since it presented a cleaner, colder, calculated version of Thriller -- something that...
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Michael Jackson had recorded solo prior to the release of Off the Wall in 1979, but this was his breakthrough, the album that established him as an artist of astonishing...
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In the '80s, Michael Jackson became one of the first artists who utilized MTV to its full potential in order to keep his name and face on the minds of record buyers. This...
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The downside to a success like Thriller is that it's nearly impossible to follow, but Michael Jackson approached Bad much the same way he approached Thriller -- take the...
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Off the Wall was a massive success, spawning four Top Ten hits (two of them number ones), but nothing could have prepared Michael Jackson for Thriller. Nobody could have...
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Since Michael Jackson botched his first hits collection by pairing it with a new album of material in a double-disc set, making it considerably less attractive for those...
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Released in January of 2002, Motown's Love Songs contains 14 love songs and ballads Michael Jackson recorded, either by himself or with the Jackson 5, during his time on...
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A year -- nearly to the day -- after Epic released the single-disc Number Ones compilation in November 2003, the long-awaited Michael Jackson box set finally saw the light...
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