Let's Our Definitive MJ Album!

[Dan]

There's a great thread about re-sequencing the Invincible album and it got me thinking. Build your definitive MJ studio album.

The album you build won't be a "greatest hits" collection, don't worry about the time it was released, this is all hypothetical, what if imagine these are all "new tracks" on this album.

You can choose ANY song ever released and unreleased (J5 and Jacksons included).
Maximum Number of tracks = 36 (3-disc set)
Least Number of tracks = 8
Maximum number of singles = 4
Least number of singles = 1
B-Sides are allowed and do not have to be on your track list.
Unreleased songs are allowed

Mine would be: the "Man in the Mirror" album

Disc One:

1. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
2. 2Bad
3. Body Language
4. Blame it on the Boogie
5. Streetwalker
6. Monkey Business
7. The Way You Make Me Feel
8. Carousel
9. Scared of the Moon
10. The Lady in My Life
11. Break of Dawn
12. Ain't No Sunshine

Disc 2:

1. Chicago
2. Billie Jean
3. Do You Know Where Your Children Are
4. Dirty Diana
5. Come Together
6. Black or White
7. Dangerous
8. Smooth Criminal
9. Blue Gangsta
10. Childhood
11. Free

Disc 3

1. Love Never Felt So Good
2. Workin' Day and Night
3. Liberian Girl
4. Loving You
5. This Is It
6. Stranger in Moskow
7. Heal the World
8. Earth Song
9. We've Had Enough
10. On The Line
11. Man in the Mirror

Singles:

Billie Jean - B-Side: Hollywood Tonight
This Is It - B-Side: Best of Joy
Blue Gangsta - B-Side: Xscape
The Way You Make Me Feel - B-Side: Touch the One You Love

After writing this, I'm not sure of my choices because they're all so great!

What would yours be?

~Dan~

[Zakk]

This would have been IF - Only 1 LP had been released...

1. Smooth Criminal
2. Human Nature
3. Dirty Diana
4. 2 Bad
5. The Way You Make Me Feel
6. P.Y.T
7. Black Or White
8. I Can't Help It
9. Billie Jean
10. Man In The Mirror
11. Give In To Me
12. Blood On The Dance Floor
13. Just Good Friends w/ Stevie Wonder
14. Workin' Day & Night
15. Keep The Faith
16. Threatened

[Maxym]

I had more or less the same idea, but with only b-sides/rares/leaks/unreleased... (and 2 CDs instead of of 3... and for leaks limited the qualities that are currently available.)

[ChineseNinja]

@Zakk its really good choose
My choose will be
1. Childhood
2. Just Good Friends
3. Black or White
4. Billie Jean
5. Smooth Criminal
6. Threatened
7. This Time Around
8. They Don't Care About Us
9. Scream duet with Janet Jackson
10. Thriller

That's all. Thank you

[king_of_style]

Alright, well since we're allowed to include unreleased I'm gonna have to include a couple of those. My personal list would go like this, with three sides of twelve tracks each and at least to me I feel like this sums up his career and talent pretty well.

Side One:

1. If'n I Was God [Intro]
2. I Want You Back
3. This Place Hotel
4. One Day In Your Life
5. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
6. Rock With You
7. I Can't Help It
8. Billie Jean
9. Beat It
10. Thriller
11. Behind the Mask
12. It Don't Matter To Me [Interlude]

Side Two:

1. Bad
2. Smooth Criminal
3. Man in the Mirror
4. Jam
5. Remember the Time
6. Dangerous
7. Black or White
8. Scream
9. They Don't Care About Us
10. You Are Not Alone
11. Stranger in Moscow
12. Changes [Interlude]

Side Three:

1. Unbreakable
2. Heaven Can Wait
3. You Rock My World
4. Threatened
5. Shout
6. Never Again (Chicago 1945)
7. Hollywood Tonight
8. Chicago
9. Love Never Felt So Good
10. Best of Joy
11. Still the King
12. This Is It [Outro]

[Maxym]

If'n I Was God [Intro]

Which version ? (There is a "1973 version" which is very different from the "classic" version, which was recorded earlier I think.)