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The Discussion of MJ's Unreleased Tracks

. I write so many songs. I write hundreds of songs, and it’s so hard for me to choose the ones that are good enough for you to hear.”
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So unfortunate that many of those songs were "finished" only inside his head.

I wish he had pushed himself more throughout the years and finished the half baked stuff, rather than jumping from song to song.

At least (thanks to Michael's obsession to release a follow up to Thrillerq as a triple LP) there's a sheer amount of more or less finished songs from the 1980s.
 
Fuzball said:
So unfortunate that many of those songs were "finished" only inside his head.

I wish he had pushed himself more throughout the years and finished the half baked stuff, rather than jumping from song to song.

At least (thanks to Michael's obsession to release a follow up to Thrillerq as a triple LP) there's a sheer amount of more or less finished songs from the 1980s.
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That’s the limitation of not being an instrumentalist. If Prince had a song idea, he had it done within a day.

I had a song appear to me in a dream the other day but I am not an instrumentalist so i have forgotten it and it’s gone forever prolly. That or it was just a song I heard while I was dreaming. Anyway.
 
Does anyone know why the updated version of Blue Gangsta sounds slightly worse than the one released on the Xscape album? Is it because the lossless CD source file still hasn't leaked?
 
Fuzball said:
So unfortunate that many of those songs were "finished" only inside his head.

I wish he had pushed himself more throughout the years and finished the half baked stuff, rather than jumping from song to song.

At least (thanks to Michael's obsession to release a follow up to Thrillerq as a triple LP) there's a sheer amount of more or less finished songs from the 1980s.
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If there's one thing the past couple of months has shown me, it's really pulled the curtain back on MJ's method of working in the latter part of his career. I'm hoping there's more stuff out there that in some way show's he still had the spark to create amazing music and tunes, melodies rather than just laying down vocals over submitted songs or beats. The demos for Billie Jean, WBSS, Al Capone, Streetwalker - those demos show how he had everything worked out, and this was at at time when he didn't even have his own mansion.

I hope that the next few leaks arent from the late 90s or 00s, they aren't half as interesting to me as the times before (the recent ones, at least).
 
Fuzball said:
So unfortunate that many of those songs were "finished" only inside his head.

I wish he had pushed himself more throughout the years and finished the half baked stuff, rather than jumping from song to song.

At least (thanks to Michael's obsession to release a follow up to Thrillerq as a triple LP) there's a sheer amount of more or less finished songs from the 1980s.
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We all know MJ was a perfectionist about his music. He’d tweak a song for years to get it perfect. But unfortunately, by the late 90s, it felt like his sense of perfectionism had fractured. He couldn't really tell anymore if a track was truly ready or not. He spent years on The Way You Love Me and Hollywood Tonight. He wasn't satisfied with how Blue Gangsta and Xscape turned out (even though, to me, they seemed nearly finished). Yet, he apparently was completely happy with Privacy... a track that, in my opinion, needed massive amounts of work, both musically and vocally. It’s obvious the song was important to him, though. He was determined to have a song about Princess Diana, and since it made the final cut, he must have been genuinely proud of it.

It’s just so weird how his strongest stuff never seemed to satisfy him, yet he was totally fine with songs that were clearly just mediocre
 
Paul MCC said:
We all know MJ was a perfectionist about his music. He’d tweak a song for years to get it perfect. But unfortunately, by the late 90s, it felt like his sense of perfectionism had fractured. He couldn't really tell anymore if a track was truly ready or not. He spent years on The Way You Love Me and Hollywood Tonight. He wasn't satisfied with how Blue Gangsta and Xscape turned out (even though, to me, they seemed nearly finished). Yet, he apparently was completely happy with Privacy... a track that, in my opinion, needed massive amounts of work, both musically and vocally. It’s obvious the song was important to him, though. He was determined to have a song about Princess Diana, and since it made the final cut, he must have been genuinely proud of it.

It’s just so weird how his strongest stuff never seemed to satisfy him, yet he was totally fine with songs that were clearly just mediocre
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Starting at 08:35 Teddy talks about Michael's perfectionism

"... he always has this briefcase full of all the demos ..."


 
Don't Be Messin' 'Round has an interesting journey throughout the years.

Written & demoed for Thriller; brought back for Bad, Dangerous & History. Probably Invincible too (no confirmation yet; Buxer or MP would know?). And finally brought back again for Thriller 25, for which allegedly a final mix was made.
 
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ChanceToDance said:
And "Remember What I Told You" with the "this little planet" line. Holy hell it's all clicking now lol
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I would love to hear all of the stuff from 2008-9. I want to get a sense of what the NEW stuff HE was creating was. Not songs written for him (hold my hand) and not old songs brought back from the vault (best of Joy). Unfortunately it seems that 99% of that is instrumental, but I’d love to hear it all.
 
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