Heartbreak Hotel

[Blues_Away2023]

Anyone a fan of the live performances?

It's my favourite song at the moment since hearing it in that Rich and Tone rehearsal Biopic snippet.

Michael has massive amounts of energy performing this live, so bloody good.

 

[zinniabooklover]

Yeah, sure. Awesome song.

Triumph tour, LA is good. Victory tour, Toronto, I love it. My fave is always BWT 1987. Tokyo (black shirt) is the one I listen to / watch the most.

 

[Blues_Away2023]

Yeah, sure. Awesome song.

Triumph tour, LA is good. Victory tour, Toronto, I love it. My fave is always BWT 1987. Tokyo (black shirt) is the one I listen to / watch the most.

Great choice!! vocally, I do think he's a bit sloppy singing it on the BAD tour but I don't care, the energy is too infectious!

 

[zinniabooklover]

Great choice!! vocally, I do think he's a bit sloppy singing it on the BAD tour but I don't care, the energy is too infectious!

That's exactly what I love about it. BWT 1987 energy is awesome. All the versions have their own special 'something'. Vocals are strong on Victory. Actually, his vocals are good on Triumph as well but overall the performance is slightly ... don't wanna say flat but it does not have the energy of later live versions. Musically, it lacks the 'bite' that the song needs, imo. But I still love it to bits.

 

[flight85]

LOVE IT, love the performance from Kansas 24, will we ever get the full concert?

 

[SmoothCriminal1995]

I love the album version of Heartbreak Hotel, but the live version on the Bad Tour is whole other level. It has so much energy and life, perfect for the first few songs of the show.
Those aggressive vocals are incredible

 

[Victorious]

I like the album version but love the live version! It's funny that he chose this Jacksons song though, instead of all the hits.. The same goes for 'Lovely One'; I guess he really loved them!

 

[Michaels Lover]

There's already several threads about Heatbreak Hotel, did you really have to make a new one?

 

[Blues_Away2023]

There's already several threads about Heatbreak Hotel, did you really have to make a new one?

This was a positive thread about a song and performance I'm really enjoying at the moment. I wanted to see if others shared the same view.

Your negative contribution is not welcome here so please go away.

 

[zinniabooklover]

I like the album version but love the live version! It's funny that he chose this Jacksons song though, instead of all the hits..

I love the fact that he didn't go for the obvious hits. It makes the setlist way more interesting, imo. Especially TPH / HH bc it has quite a hard edge to it - or sometimes it does!

The same goes for 'Lovely One'; I guess he really loved them!

I hope he had a blast performing them.

 

[Galactus123]

I wish they had used the piano ending on Bad Tour. Its great:

4:40

 

[Beano Wild]

There's already several threads about Heatbreak Hotel, did you really have to make a new one?

not being rude, but i dont understand the issue with making new threads on topics such as this. why do people get so pressed that new fans arent adding onto threads made a decade ago?

 

[filmandmusic]

I wish they had used the piano ending on Bad Tour. Its great:

4:40

Yeah but the movements M is making aren’t filmed properly, looks like it is something like he did at the end of Human Nature?

 

[Niteline]

Always wished he'd kept Heartbreak Hotel for the Thriller album.

 

[MKTCREATE]

There's already several threads about Heatbreak Hotel, did you really have to make a new one?

You comment this on every thread. Pipe down.

 

[R1chard]

I like the song. Good choice to do live, even years later. I guess Michael liked that the most because he wrote it.

 

[MKTCREATE]

I like the song. Good choice to do live, even years later. I guess Michael liked that the most because he wrote it.

I always felt that song was in the same vein as Billie Jean and Who Is It. A little darker, I love it. Should have kept it for a solo album, would have fit beautifully on Bad or Thriller. Heartbreak Hotel instead of Just Good Friends would be great.

 

[analogue]

A big pet peeve of mine is when people call it This Place Hotel.

 

[knigofpop]

A big pet peeve of mine is when people call it This Place Hotel.

Isn't the song actually called "This Place Hotel" on the Album and every compilation since? Even up to the Scream album?

 

[Blues_Away2023]

A big pet peeve of mine is when people call it This Place Hotel.

Tbf many years ago before I had even heard the song and in my early days of being an MJ fan I assumed this was a cover of the Elvis hit.

I do understand the reason behind the name change but still prefer HH

 

[filmandmusic]

I’m not really a fan of the song to be honest, I love the piano outro though and live it is definitely more exciting

 

[83magic]

I see the song as a prototype for ‘billie jean’ & ‘thriller’, with with the latter two songs being improved replacements. it has great dramatic vocal performance, and an interesting composition with a steady beat. whilst the lyrics are descriptive in certain places, I don’t think the story is as fleshed out as it could have been. still, it’s a crucial part of michael’s growth as a writer. I can see why he continued to perform it live. it didn’t do too well on the charts for some reason.. I actually think it fit in with the theme of the album it was taken from, despite being essentially a solo song on a group album. if it had to appear on a solo album, I think it would have made a great closer for ‘off the wall’, to then transition into the darker edges of ‘thriller’.