Themidwestcowboy
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This is a thread I have been wanting to start for some time now. As we all know Michael was a prolific and productive artist, recording hundreds of songs for his projects. Songs were omitted because they didn't possess the star potential to compete for a place on his albums, but many, many songs were undoubtedly amazing but were left off because they didn't correlate with a certain theme or concept, and then there were songs that got left off for whatever reason despite being stronger than a lot of the material that did end up on his LP's.
Now I was listening to some of the outtakes from Thriller and it completely dawned upon me that there were some really weak songs being recorded, and even considered, during those sessions (no disrespect!) I'm thinking about that quote from quincy where he said something along the lines that he "sorted through hundreds of songs and picked the songs that he thought would suit Michael". Do you think it has something to do with Michael not being the writer, or co-writer, for some of those songs?
Let's take a chronological trip from his last official album all the way down to Thriller and look at some outtakes
Invincible
A Place With No Name
Hollywood Tonight
The Way You Love Me
We've Had Enough
Another Day
Chicago
Fall Again
Beautiful Girl
Xscape
History
Morphine
Is It Scary
Ghosts
In The Back
Much Too Soon
On The Line
Why?
Dangerous
Someone Put Your Hand Out
Earth Song
They Don't Care About Us
Blood On The Dancefloor
Superfly Sister
Serious Effect
Monkey Bussiness
Joy
If You Don't Love Me
Work That Body
Satisfy You
Bad
Cheater
Do You Know Where Your Children Are
Price Of Fame
I'm So Blue
Al Capone
Abortion Papers
Streetwalker
Fly Away
Leave Me Alone(Unreleased until it got released as a bonus track)
Scared Of The Moon
We Are Here To Change The World
Someone Put Your Hand Down
Thriller
Niteline
Carousel
Hot Street
Slapstick
Trouble
Behind The Mask
The Girl Is Mine Demo
From Bad up to Invicible he could have released double albums that would have been as good as the official ones. I'm dead serious. Amazing top notch material. Thriller on the other hand is a different story. Now we haven't heard all the outtakes from thriller and I imagine some hidden gems there but I am not impressed by the songs that we have heard so far..
The Girl is mine Demo and Behind The Mask are the only songs that I would consider album worthy tracks. These were written or co-written by Michael and they are great. But songs like, niteline or trouble or even carousel doesn't sit quite right with me. I was shocked to hear that Carousel competed with Human Nature for a spot on the album. In what universe is Carousel better or better fitted than Human Nature?
Another question I have is why do we have so few unreleased songs from the Thriller sessions? I am really interested in the demos he wrote and worked on at home in hayvenhurst. We need more thriller tracks!
Now I was listening to some of the outtakes from Thriller and it completely dawned upon me that there were some really weak songs being recorded, and even considered, during those sessions (no disrespect!) I'm thinking about that quote from quincy where he said something along the lines that he "sorted through hundreds of songs and picked the songs that he thought would suit Michael". Do you think it has something to do with Michael not being the writer, or co-writer, for some of those songs?
Let's take a chronological trip from his last official album all the way down to Thriller and look at some outtakes
Invincible
A Place With No Name
Hollywood Tonight
The Way You Love Me
We've Had Enough
Another Day
Chicago
Fall Again
Beautiful Girl
Xscape
History
Morphine
Is It Scary
Ghosts
In The Back
Much Too Soon
On The Line
Why?
Dangerous
Someone Put Your Hand Out
Earth Song
They Don't Care About Us
Blood On The Dancefloor
Superfly Sister
Serious Effect
Monkey Bussiness
Joy
If You Don't Love Me
Work That Body
Satisfy You
Bad
Cheater
Do You Know Where Your Children Are
Price Of Fame
I'm So Blue
Al Capone
Abortion Papers
Streetwalker
Fly Away
Leave Me Alone(Unreleased until it got released as a bonus track)
Scared Of The Moon
We Are Here To Change The World
Someone Put Your Hand Down
Thriller
Niteline
Carousel
Hot Street
Slapstick
Trouble
Behind The Mask
The Girl Is Mine Demo
From Bad up to Invicible he could have released double albums that would have been as good as the official ones. I'm dead serious. Amazing top notch material. Thriller on the other hand is a different story. Now we haven't heard all the outtakes from thriller and I imagine some hidden gems there but I am not impressed by the songs that we have heard so far..
The Girl is mine Demo and Behind The Mask are the only songs that I would consider album worthy tracks. These were written or co-written by Michael and they are great. But songs like, niteline or trouble or even carousel doesn't sit quite right with me. I was shocked to hear that Carousel competed with Human Nature for a spot on the album. In what universe is Carousel better or better fitted than Human Nature?
Another question I have is why do we have so few unreleased songs from the Thriller sessions? I am really interested in the demos he wrote and worked on at home in hayvenhurst. We need more thriller tracks!
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