Track Listing
1. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
2. Baby Be Mine
3. Girl is Mine, The - (featuring Paul McCartney)
4. Thriller
5. Beat It
6. Billie Jean
7. Human Nature
8. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
9. Lady In My Life, The
10. Voice-Over Intro -Quincy Jones Interview #1
11. Someone In the Dark
12. Voice-Over Intro-Quincy Jones Interview #2
13. Billie Jean [Home Demo From 1981]
14. Quincy Jones Interview #3
15. Voice-Over Intro- Rod Tempteron Interview #1
16. Quincy Jones Interview #4
17. Voice-Over Intro- Rod Temperton Interview #2
18. Voice-Over Intro- Rod Temperton Interview #2
19. Quincy Jones Interview #5
20. Carousel
21. Voice-Over Intro- Quincy Jones Interview #6
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | David Foster, Eddie Van Halen, Janet Jackson, Jeff Porcaro, Paul McCartney, Steve Lukather, Vincent Price | | Producer: | Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones | | Distributor: | n/a | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Audio Mixer: Bruce Swedien.
Recording information: Ocean Way Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Westlake Audio, Los Angeles, CA.
The finest example of perfect disco pop, and a record that should be prescribed to musical snobs and manic depressives. The album is a true ambassador of what pop music can be. Jackson whoops and dances through a suite of unforgettable melodies that should be danced to with a smile on your face. Each track offers at least one musical hook, whether it is the beauty of 'Human Nature' (who can resist the 'dada dada da da da') or the 'whoo whoo' of 'Billie Jean'. It's all too good.
Editorial Reviews
Ranked #7 in Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums Of The 80s survey.
Rolling Stone (11/01/1989)
Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Vibe (12/01/1999)
5 stars out of 5 - ...The music stands undimmed by time....delivers some of the greatest ever pop-soul-dance-whatever...hardly a weak moment, and still no one goes 'aow' quite like Michael Jackson.
Q (01/01/2000)
Included in Q Magazine's 100 Greatest Albums Ever
Q (01/01/2003)
Ranked #20 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time - ...There was a time when he was truly the King of Pop. This is it...
Rolling Stone (12/11/2003)
[A] magnificent helping of pop history, due in no small part to Quincy Jones's immaculate production.
The Word
4 stars out of 5 -- [I]t's genius....This is a profoundly quirky and omnivorous R&B mash-up, making room for hard-rock guitar and soft-serve balladry.
Blender
[A] masterpiece....THRILLER was a collection of songs that cohered as the statement of a young artist proclaiming his freedom...
Entertainment Weekly
5 stars out of 5 -- THRILLER was MJ at his breathiest and most salacious, and his most beautifully fragile....[A] work of genius.
Rolling Stone
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