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Music by Michael Jackson added to historic registry

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Datsymay said:
It is also significant to note that MJ has an entire ALBUM preseved, and not just 'a song'.
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Yeah that is absolutely incredible. I won't be surprised if in the future Off The Wall is preserved too.
 
Re: Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ Among Cultural Treasures

mo_rizwan said:
14 May 2008
Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ Among Cultural Treasures

By Kevin S. Vineys

The best-selling pop album on planet Earth and a disc sent hurtling into deep space are among recordings the Library of Congress will preserve for their cultural significance.

Source: Associated Press
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Ut seems that they are funally acknowledging that Thriller is the biggest seller, instead of that greatest hits.
 
"Thriller" is the only contemporary or mainstream album on the list which I think speaks volumes as to what an influential artist MJ is. A Big Congrats Mike! He is THE ultimate icon.
 
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I was channel surfing and got to FAUX News just as they annonced something like, "The Feds are after Michael Jackson... in a BIG way," then went to break.
My heart literally stopped!

After the break they showed a bit of the Thriller video and spoke about the album being added to Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.

Now that my heart has calmed down, Congrats Michael. So happy.
 
This is so Amazing!!! I'm so happy for Mike yayaya!! and^^^Faux "News" can go to h*ll and eat crow,like they are doing with that headline,"The Feds are after Michael Jackson...blah blah" pff, F'em

What an honor for Michael...Thriller will be Forever and ever and ever...:wub:
 
i think this thread should be a sticky for a little while - this is quite a big thing.

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^^Ya know what I like about that Google screencap.....they are using his NAME...

...finally they have to respect him, to respect themselves.
 
This is awesome news! Congrats to MJ.

Today's "hot" artists cannot do what MJ can do or have a album on the National Treasure List.

After the break they showed a bit of the Thriller video and spoke about the album being added to Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.
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Funny how they started off with the story about Thriller being a National treasure. That is News Corp for you, full of ish.
 
:clapping:This is a wonderful Honor.
I'm so HAPPY, AND PROUD, for Michael Jackson. :clapping:
You so Deserve this Wonderful Honor, Michael Jackson, because
the cultural heritage of the U.S. is so much richer because of you. GOD BLESS, MICHAEL JACKSON!!!!

Jackson's Thriller a National Treasure :cheers:

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http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b136833_jacksons_thriller_national_treasure.html
HIStory, indeed.
Michael Jackson's Thriller, the 1982 album that turned the Gloved One into a pop superstar and went on to become the biggest-selling record of all time, is among 25 musical works selected today by the Library of Congress to be preserved in perpetuity.
Thriller and the two dozen other recordings added the National Recording Registry were deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" to America's aural history.

Thriller spent a year in the Top 10 of the Billboard album charts, spawned seven Top 10 singles and sold upwards of 100 million copies worldwide. A 25th anniversary edition was released last year.
Other notable inductees: the 1956 original cast recording of My Fair Lady; Roy Orbison's 1964 signature hit, "Oh, Pretty Woman"; Smokey Robinson & the Miracles' 1965 gem "Tracks of My Tears"; Joni Mitchell's 1972 album For the Roses; and Herbie Hancock's 1973 jazz fusion smash, Headhunters.
The latest batch brings to 250 the number of recordings contained in the registry. The full list of new additions after the jump.




  1. The first trans-Atlantic broadcast (March 14, 1925) "Allons a Lafayette," Joseph Falcon (1928) "Casta Diva," from Bellini's "Norma"; Rosa Ponselle, accompanied by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Giulio Setti. (recorded Dec. 31, 1928, and Jan. 30, 1929) "If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again," Thomas A. Dorsey (1934) "Sweet Lorraine," Art Tatum (Feb. 22, 1940) "Fibber's Closet Opens for the First Time," Fibber McGee and Molly radio program (March 4, 1940) Wings Over Jordan, Wings Over Jordan (1941) Fiorello LaGuardia reading the comics (1945) "Call It Stormy Monday, but Tuesday Is Just As Bad," T-Bone Walker (1947) Harry S. Truman speech at the 1948 Democratic National Convention (July 15, 1948) The Jazz Scene, various artists (1949) "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels," Kitty Wells (May 30, 1952) My Fair Lady, original cast recording (1956) Navajo Shootingway Ceremony Field Recordings, recorded by David McAllester (1957-1958) Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes, Elizabeth Cotten (1959) Marine Band Concert Album to Help Benefit the National Cultural Center (1963) "Oh, Pretty Woman," Roy Orbison (1964) "Tracks of My Tears," Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (1965) "You'll Sing a Song, and I'll Sing a Song," Ella Jenkins (1966) Music from the Morning of the World, various artists; recorded by David Lewiston (1966) For the Roses, Joni Mitchell (1972) Headhunters, Herbie Hancock (1973) Ronald Reagan Radio Broadcasts (1976-1979)
  2. "The Sounds of Earth," disc prepared for the Voyager spacecraft (1977)
  3. Thriller, Michael Jackson (1982)
 
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daphnieas said:
What's with the 'Sent hurtling into deep space' ?
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the "sounds of earth" was a collection of sounds from earth that were sent as part of a phonograph record along wiht pictures of earth on the voyage spacecraft, a few decades ago. read bout it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record. Its only related to mj, cuz that like Thriller, has just been added to the registry aswell
 
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The hell is a Nirvana album doing there before Thriller?

Ah well, that's not important.
 
amazing...*runs in my older brother's face laughing because pince isnt there* lol
 
GenieBottle said:
^^Ya know what I like about that Google screencap.....they are using his NAME...

...finally they have to respect him, to respect themselves.
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I am so glad you said that. Michael worked with some of the most famous and most respected people in the industry.Most of them were catapulted to exceptional fame along with MJ. THEY cannot be respected, unless MJ is respected. it goes both ways. When John Landis speaks of thriller, you can tell that he is very proud of his work and he wants the world to know he did that, so does Quincy and all the others. But if the media deride MJ and his work, they lose too. I think that is realised now.
 
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Hess said:
If anything needs to be saved, Thriller is the ting!

Just try to imagine a world without it!!! I would prefer loosing cars and microwaves!
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Agreed!!!! When this time, his time, is chronicled in the history books, he shall be written as hero:)!
 
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