Discarded 'Thriller 2001' artwork

[The MJJ Library]

I'll upload if I can find them. I know I have saved them somewhere.

^ this picture was printed on the booklets front cover; replacing the original while keeping the iconic "Michael Jackson" & "Thriller" font.

Ooooooooh HE SHOULD HAVE KEPT THAT COVER

 

[Spaceship]

Changing any album's artwork for a special edition release is unnecessary. Shame that they changed Off the Wall's cover to MJ's feet; glad the 35th anniversary edition changed it back.

 

[Hot_Street]

I'll upload if I can find them. I know I have saved them somewhere.

^ this picture was printed on the booklets front cover; replacing the original while keeping the iconic "Michael Jackson" & "Thriller" font.

 

[NeoGardiV8]

Changing any album's artwork for a special edition release is unnecessary. Shame that they changed Off the Wall's cover to MJ's feet; glad the 35th anniversary edition changed it back.

To be fair the "feet" cover was already a thing back with the original 80s and 90s CD releases for the album, it was an alternate cover

 

[Mister_Jay_Tee]

To be fair the "feet" cover was already a thing back with the original 80s and 90s CD releases for the album, it was an alternate cover

And it was an awesome cover. I didn't even know what MJ looked like before he died, but I knew his white socks and loafers, thanks to this cover, and HIStory Begins.

 

[Spaceship]

I'm pretty the feet was only the back cover of the original CD release lol

 

[Mister_Jay_Tee]

I'm pretty the feet was only the back cover of the original CD release lol

It was but it's kinda obvious MJ was self conscious facially

 

[Spaceship]

It was but it's kinda obvious MJ was self conscious facially

not like he changed thriller or bad's covers to not show his face

 

[Mister_Jay_Tee]

not like he changed thriller or bad's covers to not show his face

He liked his looks then.

 

[NeoGardiV8]

It was but it's kinda obvious MJ was self conscious facially

No, it wasn't just the back cover, don't spread mis info, either of you.

https://www.discogs.com/es/release/4548354-Michael-Jackson-Off-The-Wall
That's my own copy for example, but there are quite a few more.
By the way, if you try to pull the "yeah but i said original CD release duh" there's a reason of why i said "80s AND 90s" og CD releases, as a way to say "all CDs that came before Special Edition."

Don't try to outnerd me lmao

 

[Mister_Jay_Tee]

No, it wasn't just the back cover, don't spread mis info, either of you.

https://www.discogs.com/es/release/4548354-Michael-Jackson-Off-The-Wall
That's my own copy for example, but there are quite a few more.
By the way, if you try to pull the "yeah but i said original CD release duh" there's a reason of why i said "80s AND 90s" og CD releases, as a way to say "all CDs that came before Special Edition."

Don't try to outnerd me lmao

Bro don't question me in front of Spaceship. I will fight all of you. I hate it here.

 

[NeoGardiV8]

Bro don't question me in front of Spaceship. I will fight all of you. I hate it here.

bro i'm questioning you BOTH
him for being wrong and you for agreeing

 

[Mister_Jay_Tee]

bro i'm questioning you BOTH
him for being wrong and you for agreeing

I don't know what the 70s back cover for Off The Wall was and I don't care.

But I was under the assumption that it was what became the alternative cover picture.

 

[Loneman1]

Can someone reupload these photos

By some miracle I just happened to find the folder on an old hard drive that I had saved them on after a two second search!

 

[Prince Of Pop]

The original re-masters were so much better than what we ended up with. The Dangerous 2 disc re-master would've been so cool.

**** Sony.

The cancellation of Dangerous disc 2 was Michael's idea. He didn't want the fans to have to spend the extra money to buy a double.

 

[Moromete]

The cancellation of Dangerous disc 2 was Michael's idea. He didn't want the fans to have to spend the extra money to buy a double.

LOL, but he did want that for HIStory.

 

[Mister_Jay_Tee]

LOL, but he did want that for HIStory.

Yes that is how things work when you go backwards, effect and then cause.

 

[8701girl]

**** Sony.

You got that right

 

[Fuzball]

The cancellation of Dangerous disc 2 was Michael's idea. He didn't want the fans to have to spend the extra money to buy a double.

Not really. The first scheduled tracklists of the entire four SEs were withdrawn.

 

[Mister_Jay_Tee]

Not really. The first scheduled tracklists of the entire four SEs were withdrawn.

Seems they were all Michaels ideas.

 

[mj_frenzy]

The cancellation of Dangerous disc 2 was Michael's idea. He didn't want the fans to have to spend the extra money to buy a double.

That cancellation was Sony's idea, not Michael Jackson's idea.

The record company thought that a 2 disc-set of the 'Dangerous' (Special Edition) album would not be commercially successful, as confirmed by Matt Forger:

"When the ['Dangerous'] album came out [in 1991], I think it was 74 minutes which was maximum capacity for a CD. It wasn't physically possible to include bonuses without a second CD and I believe it was a commercial decision taken by the record company not to go down the route of a second disc. But we had reviewed material in case we were given the go ahead" (Matt Forger)

 

[BlackAnon]

Cool booklet but almost all of the pictures were shot after Thriller. Would've been cool to just use an alternate shot from the original photoshoot

 

[wendijane]

The cancellation of Dangerous disc 2 was Michael's idea. He didn't want the fans to have to spend the extra money to buy a double.

Because he loved us. He loved us and i miss him terribly. This thread is lovely

 

[The MJJ Library]

By some miracle I just happened to find the folder on an old hard drive that I had saved them on after a two second search!

THIS LOOKS AWESOME

 

[Loneman1]

THIS LOOKS AWESOME

Yeah, looking at it again after so many years I still wonder why they ditched this idea, or at least pivot to a variation of it? The presentation was really nice!