THRILLER POLL

I like the Stanley Jordan version of "lady in my life". I know it's muzak-y, but still.

i wanted to vote for "Baby Be Mine" but i wanted "Startin'" to beat "Billie Jean" more

off the wall > thriller > dangerous > bad

This changes daily for me.. i'm not sure how anyone can definitely say "this is the best, this is the least" out of these 4.. they all have something great and different about them.

I hear you, mostly, but for me at least Bad is easily the worst of them. Don't know if I would have said that even five years ago, but time has not been kind to that record.

I still like it tho, just not a patch on the others

god i don't know why people think that, "dirty diana" running right into "smooth criminal" makes me all breathless and shit, still

funny (and geeky) thing : now, "baby be mine" (which is an amazing track and I can't understand those who see it as a minor track) reminds me of cruising in "miami" in GTA vice city at sunset (I know. I said it was geeky).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3oiDmaCL9c&NR=1

once you get back to the initial groove of it, even "the girl is mine" is kinda cool, actually !

Did Thriller really sell a hundred million copies?

Wyman was decidedly more cynical about Jackson's purported sales figures in the days after Michael's death (on Wyman's now-defunct Hitsville blog):

[Thriller was the best-selling album ever in the U.S.] until Their Greatest Hits by the Eagles supplanted it. Now, you’ll, note, everyone talks about how Thriller is the largest selling album worldwide. It probably is, but it’s a conveniently uncheckable factoid; in some twelve days of almost constant coverage, I’ve yet to hear someone say that Thriller is the second best-selling album in U.S. history.

Nice to know it only took him three and a half years to check the "conveniently uncheckable."

pyt

TLC

Don't get all the hate for Bad; to me, it's his best album.

Wow, this is maybe the most OTM poll result spread ever, except for "Baby Be Mine" beating "The Girl Is Mine" and "bracket slash i bracket" beating "Beat It."

lol

Nah, swap "The Girl Is Mine" with "The Lady in My Life."

^

weird that thriller itself scored so low imo; i mean human nature's nice but fuckin thriller y'all

just read Nelson George's Thriller book on the plane ride from Chicago.

tracer otm. also the girl is mine shouldn't have gotten any votes

now Hungry4Ass we're really not gonna fight about this, ok?

Really wasn't sure whether I wanted to write about this, but in the end I decided better done than not done: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/michael-jackson-thriller.html

Aha awesome! I'm glad you did, MC.

(Saves link to Pocket, brews another PG Tips).

guys i just uploaded this for you cause its so dope yw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTBQilmQhjI

this is wayyyyyy better than the released version!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFWmSULkvXU

you're right; that version is much better.

Are the drums on Billie Jean played by a human or a machine?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_%22Ndugu%22_Chancler

thanks. the beat is so solid, I thought it was a machine.
And the sound of that snare is great - instantly recognizable. so crisp.

Yes, for many years I also assumed that the drums were sequenced samples. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that a human being could play with such extraordinary precision.
As to the sound of Chancler's kit, it's apparently down to a special wooden platform constructed in the studio by the engineer on the Thriller sessions, Bruce Swedien.

No, those are definitely acoustic drums, just very well engineered, as you'd expect!