god i don't know why people think that, "dirty diana" running right into "smooth criminal" makes me all breathless and shit, still
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Monday, 12 September 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 12 September 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
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 !
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
Did Thriller really sell a hundred million copies?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 January 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
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."
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
pyt
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
TLC
― Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link
Don't get all the hate for Bad; to me, it's his best album.
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 18:31 (ten years ago) link
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."
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 23 July 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
lol
― it itches like a porky pine sitting on your dick (Phil D.), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
Nah, swap "The Girl Is Mine" with "The Lady in My Life."
― Boven is het stil (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
^
― suggest bando (The Reverend), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
weird that thriller itself scored so low imo; i mean human nature's nice but fuckin thriller y'all
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
just read Nelson George's Thriller book on the plane ride from Chicago.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
tracer otm. also the girl is mine shouldn't have gotten any votes
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
now Hungry4Ass we're really not gonna fight about this, ok?
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 July 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
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
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Sunday, 15 December 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
Aha awesome! I'm glad you did, MC.
(Saves link to Pocket, brews another PG Tips).
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 15 December 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
guys i just uploaded this for you cause its so dope yw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTBQilmQhjI
― lag∞n, Sunday, 15 December 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
this is wayyyyyy better than the released version!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFWmSULkvXU
― steendriver dysphoria hoos (The Reverend), Sunday, 11 May 2014 11:10 (ten years ago) link
you're right; that version is much better.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 11 May 2014 11:19 (ten years ago) link
Are the drums on Billie Jean played by a human or a machine?
― calstars, Thursday, 1 October 2015 16:20 (eight years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_%22Ndugu%22_Chancler
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 October 2015 10:09 (eight years ago) link
thanks. the beat is so solid, I thought it was a machine. And the sound of that snare is great - instantly recognizable. so crisp.
― calstars, Friday, 2 October 2015 12:53 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Vast Halo, Friday, 2 October 2015 20:22 (eight years ago) link
No, those are definitely acoustic drums, just very well engineered, as you'd expect!
― Turrican, Friday, 2 October 2015 23:20 (eight years ago) link