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It's another Invincible thread. But this one's different

What songs to dump?

  • Heartbreaker

  • Invincible

  • Break of Dawn

  • Heaven Can Wait

  • 2000 Watts

  • You Are My Life

  • Privacy

  • Don't Walk Away

  • Cry

  • The Lost Children

Results are only viewable after voting.
I would rename the album UNBREAKABLE & have that song close the album instead.
I would also dump INVINCIBLE; 2000 WATTS; YOU ARE MY LIFE; PRIVACY; DON'T WALK AWAY; CRY and THE LOST CHILDREN and replace them with other songs already recorded at the time.

XSCAPE (original)
HEARTBREAKER
YOU ROCK MY WORD (without spoken intro)
THE WAY YOU LOVE ME
BUTTERFLIES
BREAK OF DAWN
SPEECHLESS
THREATENED
HOLLYWOOD TONIGHT
WHATEVER HAPPENS
(CHICAGO) SHE WAS LOVIN' ME (original)
A PLACE WITH NO NAME (original)
HEAVEN CAN WAIT
ONE MORE CHANCE
WE'VE HAD ENOUGH
UNBREAKABLE
 
I don’t do „MJ song dumping“ !
There is not one MJ song I would dump.
There are ones on different levels of greatness & there are a FEW which are not so great, BUT I wouldn’t wanna miss ANY of them.

Especially since we know the number of MJ songs is not infinite..
 
Per the voting for the KOP album, the order is as follows:

16 You Rock My World
5 Speechless
4 Whatever Happens
3 Butterflies
2 Break of Dawn
2 Invincible
1 Cry
1 Unbreakable
1 You Are My Life

In other words, the songs where there weren't any countries that wanted them were:

0 Heartbreaker
0 Heaven Can Wait
0 2000 Watts
0 Privacy
0 Don't Walk Away
0 The Lost Children
0 Threatened
 
At the end of the day Invincible was MJ’s last official album that he approved and agreed to, so for that reason alone I wouldn’t change a thing apart from it being mixed and mastered to a much better dynamic range.

That’s it! Everything else, all of the other wonderful tracks he didn’t include should be put on their own disc and mixed and mastered to the same standards as a new Invincible mix/master and it should all be presented together as a new version of Invincible and it should be given a second chance for re-evaluation, and they should also release the new mix/master as a single disc as the new standard.
 
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If you begin to tamper with the track sequence and dump this track here and add that track there, then you begin to move farther away from MJ’s involvement and it looses value. For good or bad Invincible is a Michael Jackson album, and for that alone it has an intrinsic value that you simply can’t get without his involvement.
 
When i hear all the Writer Demos then i can say there is no 0,00% of Michaels Own Artisticaly Power and love inside, its Just an album where he was singing the writer demos 1:1 (like a Karaoke Album) without Soul example:




 
R1chard said:
So, I was reading some reviews of the album, and the very first one on RYM says "The Best Pop Album of The 2000s. This album is mad underated the only problem I i essentially found with this album is Its Length. If it would of took 3 tracks off Preferably 2000 Watts, The Lost Children, You Are My Life which are the lows of the album this album would have been as very good."

The second one says "This should have been less than an hour long, but it passes the 75 minute mark and is just dragging by the time you hit the pretentious 'Cry'."

The third one says "The only problem of this album is that it's way too long. It clocks at nearly 80 minutes! It means, that songs like "Privacy", "You Are My Life" and especially "The Lost Children"
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What? TLC is one of the best tracks on Invincible!

Obviously we can dump 2 songs - 2W and Privacy. But I would also get rid of DWA. This song is just too sad and too mediocre. It's also similar to You Are My Life, which I prefer.

So 13 tracks would be fine
 
That song isn't really about kids, just MJ's own childhood. And it was polarizing, because critics saw it as self-pity. Song is kinda hysterical, actually.
 
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