Thriller
by Michael Jackson

From telefunker 03/25/2009 03:08 | #3295 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

you know, i've realised how utterly pointless it is arguing the toss over what has value and what doesn't with regard to music.. nothing is intrinsically worthless. before stumbling upon this site i knew of otherwise respectable people who would be genuinely moved by listening to happy-hardcore trance (kanye west on speed essentially). now i'm beginning to accept that others can be equally enthralled by the most existential, formless discord. the point is, 56 million people are right, if they believe they are. similarly, you are too. but being in a minority is certainly not tantamount to some kind of cultural supremacy, conversley isn't being anti-popular part of the same innate human desire to establish yourself individually within a collective? ..of anti-popularist/elitist types that is? and the fact is, in 1983 and everyday since, people have been hitting the studio desparate to make an album this big and none have succeeded. with success on this scale, simply turning up and going head first into the marketing machine is not sufficient. the quality of the songs is undeniable, even if you can only appreciate that from a technical perspective, and that, along with the distinctive stylings of the man himself, is why 56 million people got it.

Track by track, this doesn't appear to be anything extraordinary, but taken as a whole this was an atomic bomb dropped on the world of pop music. Similar to Nevermind in that respect.

Man I'm no MJ fan nor is this what I usually listen to, but I still enjoyed it.. And this album apparently sold more than twice as many copies than the second most selling album of all time, and while I know this doesn't measure quality, it still has to mean something right? Overrated? Probably, but calling an album like that "trash" or "crap" is a bit... pretentious

Favourite Michael Jackson album
Ever. It’s a game changer. Thriller really did a lot for music and the black community. That album showed he couldn’t be ignored by white stations or radios. With a song like Billie Jean or Beat It, the album showed that he’s MJ and that you can’t eras the man no matter how much you try.

Wanna Be Startin Somethin is a very black catchy song. This should show his songwriting skills and it’s a banger. Timeless tune. 10/10

Baby Be Mine another banger. Very R&B/Soul kinda song, relaxing and catchy same time. 9/10

The Girl Is Mine a classic one. It needs more love I don’t get the backlash against this song. It has a nice sound into it. 8/10

Thriller hands down one of the best songs. A Disco/Funk kinda song which has everyone grooving, the video is iconic and changed the game for music videos. The song to this day is timeless and didn’t age at all 10/10

Beat It is a classic tune, it’s one of the 5 songs for me that made Thriller What people don’t get is that black rock and white rock arent the same. Beat It counts as a black rock song cause you could feel the black vibes into it. The video is iconic, from the leather jacket to the choreography which is the second best after Thriller. 10/10

Billie Jean is iconic. From the song to the video to the Motown 25 performance, it’s another song that showed MJ can’t be ignored. Billie Jean is iconic in every way. The Beat has people grooving and even singing it in their head. The song really made him MJ. The video is iconic. The tip toe, walking on the floor til everything lights up, the freeze frame the video is hands down the second best video only behind Thriller , and was seen as a breakthrough for blacks including black artists on MTV and of course the Motown 25 anniversary performance which had the world dropping their jaws. The Moonwalk had everyone go crazy. It will be recognised as one of the most iconic thing ever. 10/10

Human Nature is a relaxing Soul/Soft Rock kinda song. The sound is amazing and it never aged, it needs more love and recognition cause it’s timeless. 9/10

PYT another banger. The catchy vibe in it is amazing, the black sound is defining and never aged to this day it sounds fresh. 10/10

The Lady In My Life is the best way to end the album. A nice slow R&B/Soul kinda song. To this day I don’t get tired of it and it’s worth to listen to even slow dance to.
9/10

The album overall is a 10/10 for me. Timeless, very black, groovy and funky. Never gets old to this day I still listen to it, this is how I became a Michael Jackson fan. An influential album for everybody of all races, genders, ages, and music genres, this is a must listened to album indeed.

From paladisiac TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/09/2011 16:44 | #32454 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

1982 was the year of michael jackson's thriller. As i stated in a post following his death last year, EVERYONE in my class was listening to him, even the tough guys / metal-heads. This guy was everywhere because he was THE BEST music star. Now that radio is so fragmented and video channels and the internet and video games have dissected the music listening habits of a new generation, there will NEVER be another michael jackson. Basically once P2P (you'd know it as napster) appeared, that was the final nail. But back in the day when cable just started giving the world MTV and radio playlists were a bit more diverse than they are today, this guy DOMINATED. This album probably is the #1 album that most people born in the late-60s/early-70s identify with their youth.

As far as the album itself, Thriller plays like a greatest hits package. Every single song was released in one way or another The "thriller", "beat it" and "billie jean" trilogy are the most famous, but "i wanna be starting something" introduces the album with an off the wall funkiness, "p.y.t." shows off jacko's playful/romantic side as does "human nature", albeit with a more seductive approach. There's even a good duet with paul mccartney (although i prefer "say, say, say"). And of course, that "thriller" video was pretty hot in its time and a must-see event. Eddie Van Halen shredded (for a pop/r&b song). His verbal tics were starting to surface more but had yet to pepper his music to the point of self-parody.