Off The Wall vs Thriller (Song Battle)

[MJInTheMirror]

Which one is your favorite?
I personally prefer Thriller but I love both. They are not in my Top 10 though.

 

[analogue]

Off The Wall

 

[Garden]

Off The Wall.

 

[barbee0715]

Which one is your favorite?
I personally prefer Thriller but I love both. They are not in my Top 10 though.

Song battle? Do you mean the actual songs or the actual albums?

 

[Themidwestcowboy]

Off The Wall

 

[MJInTheMirror]

Song battle? Do you mean the actual songs or the actual albums?

I mean the actual songs ?

 

[barbee0715]

I mean the actual songs ?

OK-thanks. Then, Off the Wall.


(although, I admit there's barely a hair between the two of them-I really love Thriller too-I have my homemade cassette of it that I play on Halloween night when I give out candy-and all the little kids dance like mad up to the porch while it plays on my old boom box).

 

[Snow White luvs Peter Pan]

Thriller. That's the record that made me discover Michael and to be his fan; it also has more of my favorite songs.

 

[Spaceship]

"Off The Wall", definitely. That's MJ's best song after "Rock With You", IMO. "Thriller" is also great, but I think it's relatively too corny.

 

[MAQ]

Off the Wall. It's so damn funky and my heart kinda leaps with joy when I hear that song!

 

[HIStoric]

Definitely Thriller. I've never really been too big on the song Off The Wall admittedly.

 

[Psychoniff]

"Off The Wall" - Probably his most convincing of all the Temperton/boogie era songs and his best carefree vocal performance. It's that unique quality he had of combining playfulness with raw unadulterated power.

"Thriller" - The way he emotes the energy behind the meaning and theme of the lyrics and song, is second to none. Except for maybe Stevie Wonder...YES! I said Stevie Wonder, I don't know any other artist past or present that could convincingly pulled off one of pop music's most bizarre songs to ever land on top #40 radio.

I stopped trying to decide which song was his best, because I realised that each song that he recorded has it's strengths (and possible weaknesses). So while I can't decide what his BEST is (that's subjective), I can certainly say what MY favorite is......"Off The Wall"....of course!

 

[analogue]

I think Off The Wall is the best song Rod Temperton wrote for Michael

 

[Themidwestcowboy]

Although I think Thriller has one of the bridges I have every heard in popular music, which does not get enough credit on it's own, Off The Wall is just so fun, groovy and brilliant at the same time.

 

[HIStory]

Off The Wall

 

[Daryll748]

it's impossible for me to choose cause I love them both really for different reasons.

Like Off the wall is a real Party song. it's Funky and gets you wiggling on your chair even

I love Thriller cause it has a COOL Baseline and I love the 'creepy' verses by Vincent Price.
I also love the dance routine of Thriller :clapping:

 

[mjprince1976]

Off the wall, the power dancey energy, whereas Thriller is a bit larded down by overdubs, although the video and dance sequence blow me away. A draw for me, Off the Wall as a song but Thriller for the video.