Artist: Michael Jackson

mj no1, 2009-11-25
What a class act this c.d is everyone in the family is getting enjoyment from this

Artist: Michael Jackson

A great album, 2009-12-25
If you are a Michael Jackson fan this is a must its got all the early stuff with the Jackson 5 and all his hits a crackin deal.

Artist: Michael Jackson

HIStory's two CDs (one hits, the other new) were Jackson's attempt to connect his glorious past to a dodgy present and--given it's commercial and artistic performance--cast a shadow on his future. Conceived as his formal coronation as the "King of Pop", HIStory's second disc instead presents Jackson as an epauletted, single-gloved Richard III. By turns paranoid, angry, bitter, sentimental, and, in one instance, possibly anti-Semitic, HIStory was less a collection of songs than a case history. A few tracks--mostly those produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis--are sleek, modern pop/soul, but too much of HIStory has the overblown vacuousness of a musician who knows his time is past, but is unsure as to how to react to the situation. --Steven Mirkin
history past, present, and future book 1, 2010-02-17
well what can i say, any mj fan, would love this mix of hits, its my best cd from all of his, you also get a little book with some song words, drawings, ect, 5 star, its a must, best album to date i would say.

Artist: Michael Jackson

"We wanted a tough album," producer Quincy Jones recalls in a bonus interview on this special edition of Bad. Though the 1987 blockbuster would appear to be Michael Jackson's most personal statement to date--nine of its 11 cuts were written solely by him--its appeal also rested more on craft than the idiosyncratic art of Thriller and Off the Wall. At the same time, most of Bad has aged well in spite of its digital brittleness and MIDI treatments of gems such as Jimmy Smith's organ solo on the title track. While the third best of his first three Epic solo discs, Bad carries a lot of what people love about Jackson's music. This disc also benefits from two fine outtakes, the exciting, up-tempo "Streetwalker" and the Carpenters homage "Fly Away". Either could easily have extended the record's run of hit singles. --Rickey Wright
Bad is good!, 2010-02-24
My eight year old son wanted this album but the whole house is strutting their funky stuff! I'd forgotten how good he was and my four young sons are newly discovering him. Fantastic!!!

Artist: Michael Jackson

good music, 2010-01-20
I ordered this for my nephew, to start another generation of jacko fans... working well so far!

Artist: Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson was still going for pop hits with 1991's Dangerous, but he also front-loaded the album with six straight Teddy Riley-assisted cuts. This half-hour swoop of tense, aggressive, often angular funk was Jackson's most interesting music since Thriller, and still sounds, well, invincible on this remastered edition. After that, the record's uneven, but there's nothing embarrassing about it, either. "Gone Too Soon", a non-Jackson composition about teen AIDS casualty Ryan White, is a quiet statement (particularly played next to the choir-laden "Heal the World", "Keep the Faith", and "Will You Be There") showing that the star doesn't always have to get showy. The sprightly "Black or White" is explicitly pro-interracial romance, an angle its video didn't go near, and the urgent "Give In to Me" is almost scary. Scary good, that is. --Rickey Wright
Basically, 2009-12-02
Basically i love will you be there i love give into me! Those were 2 very good reasons to buy this!

Artist: Michael Jackson, Jackson 5, The Jackson Five

Classic, 2010-02-20
This CD is classic Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5, thoroughly enjoyable and a great reminder of just how fabulous they were.

Artist: Michael Jackson

Given the pace of Michael Jackson's post-Thriller release schedule, it's striking that Off the Wall appeared between two albums--Destiny (1978) and Triumph (1980)--which the twentysomething phenomenon made with his brothers. Aided by richly detailed but not overdone production, Off the Wall defined how much Michael might do. Tracks such as "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough", "Rock with You", "Burn this Disco Out" and the title track not only consolidated his dancefloor power, but showed just how soulful and varied his vocals could get on up-tempo material. Artistic role models such as James Brown and Jackie Wilson echo through the mixes, but these were Jackson's leaps forward. The addition of pure pop confection--Paul McCartney's "Girlfriend", Stevie Wonder's "I Can't Help It"--further fleshed out the star's young-adult persona and helped make Off the Wall among the most fondly remembered of all his solo work. This "special edition" features two magic home demos and entertaining, insightful interviews with producer Quincy Jones and "Rock with You" composer Rod Temperton. --Rickey Wright
Off The Wall, 2010-01-20
Simply Love Michael Jackson. I am rediscovering him now since his untimely death and as I, too, am older, can really appreciate what talent we have lost. I still think this was one of his best albums, but Micahel Jackson cannot, in my opinion, be beaten for his imaginative, emotionally-charged, lyrics and productions.

Artist: Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson's Thriller is the bestselling album of all time, with 45 million worldwide sales powered by eight Grammy Awards. The 1982 album was also a success from which the pop superstar never really recovered--subsequent albums seemed to have no other goal than to beat the records set by Thriller. The highly- polished sound of Quincy Jones's production sounds almost organic compared to Jackson's more recent work, and in the same regard, Thriller was significantly slicker than its predecessor, Off the Wall. Both albums established a Jackson style that aimed for the dance floor with songs built on a state-of-the-art bed of percussion and keyboards. Elements of milestone Thriller tracks like "Billie Jean" (arguably Jackson's best-ever performance) and "Beat It" (with its hard- rock solo by guitarist Eddie Van Halen) influenced not just Jackson's records, but those of the entire dance-pop world. On the song "Thriller", Jackson indulged his taste for the juvenile and invited Vincent Price to rap in a really scary voice. With Thriller the album, Jackson created a different kind of monster--a hit album of such magnitu...
Just really stunning - everybody should own this., 2010-02-14
Jackson is just stunning on this record. The versatility and beauty of his voice is outstanding, particularly on 'Lady of my Life' and 'Human Nature'. When people describe records as "classic" they are mostly wrong. But THRILLER really is a true classic.

What a tragically early death for MJ.

Artist: Michael Jackson

For such a boldly titled and apparently driven attempt to reinstate Michael Jackson at the centre of the pop world, Invincible is a listless thing. Split between scratchy funk workouts and mid-tempo ballads that might have appeared as Bad B-sides, the album plays on and on while never seriously promoting dancing or romancing. Its handful of weird moments--the resurrection-by-tape of Biggie Smalls on the bridge of the title track, for instance--are hardly large-scale bizarre like the first disc of HIStory. The title track turns out to be hardly the rampant ego-fest you'd imagine; instead, its subject is a female whom Jackson cheers on. Likewise, the most ear-catching moments of the "comeback" single "You Rock My World" come with Chris Tucker's jivey introduction. Despite a debt to "Payback"-era James Brown, "Rock" floats away like steam midway through. It's almost a relief when the old self-regard turns up: on the growling "Privacy", Jackson rants about muckrakers "stalking" him in search of "the stories you need to bury me", all this long after foundering divas and troubled boy-group members have replaced him on tabloid covers. The man may occasionally break aw...
Great love songs on here, 2010-01-24
I bought the cd and copied it into my hard drive. I took many of these songs and some of his other songs from earlier albums particularly "Lady in my Life" from Thriller and made an MJ love songs cd. My husband and I love it! The songs are beautiful, particularly, "Break of Dawn", "Rock My World", "Speechless", "Butterflies" all of the ballads on this cd are great for making love. They are perfect background music played low. Seriously, MJ had one of the sexiest voices ever to get you in the mood for love. I'm surprised his record label never came out with an MJ love songs cd. Since he died I have fallen in love with his voice. He had one of the greatest singing voices ever imo.