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Hot topic What unreleased demos and remixes do you think will be on Thriller 40 Disc 2?

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Petarkco said:
Why not also include the 80s version of Little Susie then?
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Because there is no 80s version of Little Susie and because it was not considered for Thriller. Little Susie was written and first recorded in 1978.
 
dethorro said:
Because there is no 80s version of Little Susie and because it was not considered for Thriller. Little Susie was written and first recorded in 1978.
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I still would love to hear off the wall vocals on little susie!! & the composition. I wonder if that exists (recorded)
 
wonderouzmj said:
I still would love to hear off the wall vocals on little susie!! & the composition. I wonder if that exists (recorded)
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It does exist, supposedly it sounds very similar to what we hear on HIStory. Though it was re recorded, it was pretty much the same - according to those who recorded with MJ on HIStory and heard the original demo from 78.
 
wonderouzmj said:
Does he have a description?
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From memory:
- on both songs lyrics & composition are identical
- 1978 version is not synthesized
- on the 1978 version some words are pronounced differently than on History.
 
Mariah Carey's Estate remastering his 90's videos in 4K, which I suppose were originally edited on tape just like everyone else's music vids. This goes to those saying it is impossible to remaster videos edited on tape.


Meanwhile our Estate: best I can give you is another boring reissue
 
Hulkamaniac said:
Mariah Carey's Estate remastering his 90's videos in 4K, which I suppose were originally edited on tape just like everyone else's music vids. This goes to those saying it is impossible to remaster videos edited on tape.


Meanwhile our Estate: best I can give you is another boring reissue
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Be paitent, they've promised us some 4k videos as part of the T40 celebration. They might come next year and not in November, but they'll eventually be released.
 
Hulkamaniac said:
Mariah Carey's Estate remastering his 90's videos in 4K, which I suppose were originally edited on tape just like everyone else's music vids. This goes to those saying it is impossible to remaster videos edited on tape.


Meanwhile our Estate: best I can give you is another boring reissue
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Not really her Estate since she's not dead. It's her management/record label.
 
Hulkamaniac said:
Mariah Carey's Estate remastering his 90's videos in 4K, which I suppose were originally edited on tape just like everyone else's music vids. This goes to those saying it is impossible to remaster videos edited on tape.


Meanwhile our Estate: best I can give you is another boring reissue
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These are artificial upscales.
 
Hulkamaniac said:
Mariah Carey's Estate remastering his 90's videos in 4K, which I suppose were originally edited on tape just like everyone else's music vids. This goes to those saying it is impossible to remaster videos edited on tape.


Meanwhile our Estate: best I can give you is another boring reissue
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This looks pretty mediocre in my opinion. Very clearly an artificial upscale. Not saying it shouldn’t/couldn’t be done with MJ’s videos, but we should probably aim for a higher result than this.
 
AlwaysThere said:
This looks pretty mediocre in my opinion. Very clearly an artificial upscale. Not saying it shouldn’t/couldn’t be done with MJ’s videos, but we should probably aim for a higher result than this.
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Not artificial. I did a quick research and before this 4K video they had the artificial upscale, clearly SD sourced. This is a different true HD source. Stop defending the Estate.
 
Hulkamaniac said:
Not artificial. I did a quick research and before this 4K video they had the artificial upscale, clearly SD sourced. This is a different true HD source. Stop defending the Estate.
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Where did I do that? lol I’m saying that I’d hope the estate would do a better job than this for Michael’s videos, because this doesn’t look very good imo.
 
Looks pretty decent for what it is (clear enough), but don't think it's an actual HD source.
 
Hulkamaniac said:
Not artificial. I did a quick research and before this 4K video they had the artificial upscale, clearly SD sourced. This is a different true HD source. Stop defending the Estate.
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no clue what everyone is saying with "clearly upscaled", that was 100 percent a HD source before they edited it.
 
Hulkamaniac said:
Mariah Carey's Estate remastering his 90's videos in 4K, which I suppose were originally edited on tape just like everyone else's music vids. This goes to those saying it is impossible to remaster videos edited on tape.


Meanwhile our Estate: best I can give you is another boring reissue
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This is AI though
 
Now a real remaster that looks amazing is:
or a "normal" remaster would at least look like this:
 
are the billie jean 16mm film tapes lost? the reason to why i ask is because in Moonwalker, Michael uses a copy of the vhs tape in the montage instead of rescanning the film, which he did for every other clip apart from the videos for the off the wall songs (because they were recorded on tape).

(moonwalker billie jean for reference)
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Beano Wild said:
(720p or a soft 1080p i mean, from the looks of it.)
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Wrong. Use YouTube page directly. They NEVER go for 4K using AI. When they do those crappy artificial upscales they make em 1080p. This is 4K. Do some research.
 
Lord Szechenyi said:
Now a real remaster that looks amazing is:
or a "normal" remaster would at least look like this:
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THESE look outstanding. This is the baseline the Estate should give us for any 4K remasters. Anything less in shameful.

The few clips of Thriller 4K that were released look remarkable, so hopefully that’s what the standard is!
 
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