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The Discussion of MJ's Unreleased Tracks

That afternoon, Tito’s acoustic guitar and our free-styling lyrics captured an angry inspiration for a song we called ‘What’s Your Life?’. That was how Michael liked to work. When a true experience inspired a song, he liked to get it down on his tape recorder or in the nearest studio. We recorded that song within an hour at Tito’s studio, also in Encino. It went like this:

FIRST VERSE
All my life I’ve been asked such questions
As who I am and what I do
When I tell them, they are happy
’Cause I am rich, it gets me through
If I were a poor boy, would they accept me
Am I rich? What’s it to you?
And what’s your reason for asking?
Is my life one big interview?”

THE HOOK
What’s your life? What you do?
I do this, how ‘bout you?”
What’s your goal in life ’cause
I want tips, to get through
Are you rich? Are you poor?
Are you bold? Are you sure?
Will you bend, do you break?
Are you strong, to endure?
What’s your life? …


Another one I hope to hear. Jermaine and Michael on vocals with Tito on guitar. Recorded between 1982 and 1983
 
AlwaysThere said:
Off-hand, the only lines I recall clearly are: “Rainbow skies and crystal streams / Butterflies and [something] dreams.” Seems like he was just describing this idyllic scenery.

The snippet was only about 15-20 seconds.

Not sure if it’ll leak truthfully, but given that it was meant for such a niche project and probably doesn’t have much use in any other project, I’d certainly love it to!

It seems to be vocally complete, yes. His voice was double-tracked and there was no mumbling nor humming (at least in what I heard).
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Thanks for the info, man!
 
ChanceToDance said:
@AlwaysThere do you happen to know of other snippets that we don't know of that's circulating? I never would've thought that people out there owned Neverland Landing lol.
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That I don’t. I was also shocked, though ever since Joe Vogel revealed that he somehow was able to obtain a personal copy of it, I figured that anything’s possible haha!
 
Inthestudiowithmj said:
My best guess is all of the tracks registered at the copyright office in 2009/10 by Brad Buxer would be in high level trading. Michael Prince said “we handed everything over to the estate” and of course, leaks like “Hollywood tonight demo” “DIG” and “IAAL” all came from there. I assume traders have the following “Boy No”, “Just Remember”, “Innocent Man” “Rocker” & “Dark Lady”. “Neverland Landing” was also registered along with those tracks.
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Didn't HT, DIG, IAAL, etc. come from the Sony server leak? It's still weird to me how those are supposedly the only songs that were stored in the servers, and they're not even the most up-to-date versions on top of that. I refuse to believe that there isn't more that were taken from the servers.
AlwaysThere said:
I figured that anything’s possible haha!
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Yeah after GYWOOM and some of the most random songs no one would ever have expected to hear got leaked last year, I say anything can be leaked lol.
 
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ChanceToDance said:
Didn't HT, DIG, IAAL, etc. come from the Sony server leak? It's still weird to me how those are supposedly the only songs that were stored in the servers, and they're not even the most up-to-date versions on top of that. I refuse to believe that there isn't more that were taken from the servers.

Yeah after GYWOOM and some of the most random songs no one would ever have expected to hear got leaked last year, I say anything can be leaked lol.
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Exactly i believe they must have taken the copyrighted tracks from the Sony server.
 
BlackAnon said:
That afternoon, Tito’s acoustic guitar and our free-styling lyrics captured an angry inspiration for a song we called ‘What’s Your Life?’. That was how Michael liked to work. When a true experience inspired a song, he liked to get it down on his tape recorder or in the nearest studio. We recorded that song within an hour at Tito’s studio, also in Encino. It went like this:

FIRST VERSE
All my life I’ve been asked such questions
As who I am and what I do
When I tell them, they are happy
’Cause I am rich, it gets me through
If I were a poor boy, would they accept me
Am I rich? What’s it to you?
And what’s your reason for asking?
Is my life one big interview?”

THE HOOK
What’s your life? What you do?
I do this, how ‘bout you?”
What’s your goal in life ’cause
I want tips, to get through
Are you rich? Are you poor?
Are you bold? Are you sure?
Will you bend, do you break?
Are you strong, to endure?
What’s your life? …


Another one I hope to hear. Jermaine and Michael on vocals with Tito on guitar. Recorded between 1982 and 1983
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Source?
 
AlwaysThere said:
Off-hand, the only lines I recall clearly are: “Rainbow skies and crystal streams / Butterflies and [something] dreams.” Seems like he was just describing this idyllic scenery.

The snippet was only about 15-20 seconds.

Not sure if it’ll leak truthfully, but given that it was meant for such a niche project and probably doesn’t have much use in any other project, I’d certainly love it to!

It seems to be vocally complete, yes. His voice was double-tracked and there was no mumbling nor humming (at least in what I heard).
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@AlwaysThere Are there any other songs you heard?
 
AlwaysThere said:
Off-hand, the only lines I recall clearly are: “Rainbow skies and crystal streams / Butterflies and [something] dreams.” Seems like he was just describing this idyllic scenery.

The snippet was only about 15-20 seconds.

Not sure if it’ll leak truthfully, but given that it was meant for such a niche project and probably doesn’t have much use in any other project, I’d certainly love it to!

It seems to be vocally complete, yes. His voice was double-tracked and there was no mumbling nor humming (at least in what I heard).
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I would love them to use “Neverland Landing” and “Make a Wish” for the Neverland scenes in the biopic. Do you feel that would be a good use for them? Honestly they are some of my most wanted tracks
 
Inthestudiowithmj said:
I would love them to use “Neverland Landing” and “Make a Wish” for the Neverland scenes in the biopic. Do you feel that would be a good use for them? Honestly they are some of my most wanted tracks
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1. I totally agree
2. yes, but knowing this estate, that ain't happening
3. Agreed
 
JustinC2002 said:
@AlwaysThere Are there any other songs you heard?
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Not yet—but I’m trying! I’d like to actually put together a resource for fans like I’ve been trying to and talking about for the last decade haha.
Inthestudiowithmj said:
I would love them to use “Neverland Landing” and “Make a Wish” for the Neverland scenes in the biopic. Do you feel that would be a good use for them? Honestly they are some of my most wanted tracks
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I think that would be nice! Not sure how “Make a Wish” sounds but I think the movie is probably the only other use for them I can think of in terms of theme.
 
Bad1978 said:
Love eaten alive. If releasesable, would have been perfect on a horror themed album similar to Scream
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Or even better Sony/Estate could release it on an album of songs that were previously released by others - similar to what the Prince Estate did few years ago with "Originals".


Michael Jackson: ORIGINALS

The estate doesn't like any comparison to Prince' estates releases (I know and I'm sorry that I'm not sorry about this dear John & John) - nevertheless what if ... Michael Jackson: ORIGINALS Eaten Alive Fly Away You're The One We Are The World Centipede Alright Now What More Can I Give Muscles...
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Fuzball said:
Or even better Sony/Estate could release it on an album of songs that were previously released by others - similar to what the Prince Estate did few years ago with "Originals".


Michael Jackson: ORIGINALS

The estate doesn't like any comparison to Prince' estates releases (I know and I'm sorry that I'm not sorry about this dear John & John) - nevertheless what if ... Michael Jackson: ORIGINALS Eaten Alive Fly Away You're The One We Are The World Centipede Alright Now What More Can I Give Muscles...
www.mjjcommunity.com www.mjjcommunity.com
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I've thought the same thing. But I can imagine them responding to the idea with, "But other artists have released them. Nothing you haven't heard. It's just Michael instead."
 
BlackAnon said:
That afternoon, Tito’s acoustic guitar and our free-styling lyrics captured an angry inspiration for a song we called ‘What’s Your Life?’. That was how Michael liked to work. When a true experience inspired a song, he liked to get it down on his tape recorder or in the nearest studio. We recorded that song within an hour at Tito’s studio, also in Encino. It went like this:

FIRST VERSE
All my life I’ve been asked such questions
As who I am and what I do
When I tell them, they are happy
’Cause I am rich, it gets me through
If I were a poor boy, would they accept me
Am I rich? What’s it to you?
And what’s your reason for asking?
Is my life one big interview?”

THE HOOK
What’s your life? What you do?
I do this, how ‘bout you?”
What’s your goal in life ’cause
I want tips, to get through
Are you rich? Are you poor?
Are you bold? Are you sure?
Will you bend, do you break?
Are you strong, to endure?
What’s your life? …


Another one I hope to hear. Jermaine and Michael on vocals with Tito on guitar. Recorded between 1982 and 1983
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If this song was recorded in 1983 then it's safe to say that it's a Victory outtake, right?

Kinda baffles me how the Jackson brothers have all this unheard material (and that's not including the Michael stuff) to work with but their idea of bonus content for the expanded versions of their albums was to include instrumentals and longer mixes only. Alright that an outtake from one of the Jackson brothers won't have the same appeal as an MJ outtake but they still would be additions that are infinitely more interesting than just new mixes and instrumentals lol.
 
ChanceToDance said:
If this song was recorded in 1983 then it's safe to say that it's a Victory outtake, right?

Kinda baffles me how the Jackson brothers have all this unheard material (and that's not including the Michael stuff) to work with but their idea of bonus content for the expanded versions of their albums was to include instrumentals and longer mixes only. Alright that an outtake from one of the Jackson brothers won't have the same appeal as an MJ outtake but they still would be additions that are infinitely more interesting than just new mixes and instrumentals lol.
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As far as it being an outtake, it would depend if it was submitted for inclusion. We know it exists since Jermaine confirmed it’s on tape.

We can have so much material but it comes down to all participants agreeing to the release. Estate doesn’t wanna release anything that involves other contributors
 
BlackAnon said:
As far as it being an outtake, it would depend if it was submitted for inclusion. We know it exists since Jermaine confirmed it’s on tape.

We can have so much material but it comes down to all participants agreeing to the release. Estate doesn’t wanna release anything that involves other contributors
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This is why I'm mainly referring to songs that we know aren't sung by Michael, like Bad Company and Power for example. They're not going to need the estate's permission to release a song that Michael had nothing to do with it's creation.

It's not highly unlikely that they wouldn't allow the brothers to release duets either, seeing how they allowed Drake and Barry Gibb to release duets of their own. But I bet that if there's any outtake that fully features MJ's vocals they'd most likely want to use it for their own releases, yeah.
 
ChanceToDance said:
This is why I'm mainly referring to songs that we know aren't sung by Michael, like Bad Company and Power for example. They're not going to need the estate's permission to release a song that Michael had nothing to do with it's creation.

It's not highly unlikely that they wouldn't allow the brothers to release duets either, seeing how they allowed Drake and Barry Gibb to release duets of their own. But I bet that if there's any outtake that fully features MJ's vocals they'd most likely want to use it for their own releases, yeah.
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I spoke to Jackie a few years ago and he said Epic would have to be on board for releasing the music. They’d also have to get with the Estate for approval as well if the song contains any vocals or credits to Michael
 
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BlackAnon said:
I spoke to Jackie a few years ago and he said Epic would have to be on board for releasing the music. They’d also have to get with the Estate for approval as well if the song contains any vocals or credits to Michael
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So as I mentioned, if MJ had nothing to do with the creation of said music they won't have to worry about the estate.

Did Jackie elaborate how difficult it would be to get Epic to approve those types of releases? And also, was there anything else he might have revealed in that conversation? I presume you met him in the backstage of one of those The Jacksons shows or did you manage to meet him in some other way?
 
ChanceToDance said:
So as I mentioned, if MJ had nothing to do with the creation of said music they won't have to worry about the estate.

Did Jackie elaborate how difficult it would be to get Epic to approve those types of releases? And also, was there anything else he might have revealed in that conversation? I presume you met him in the backstage of one of those The Jacksons shows or did you manage to meet him in some other way?
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If they want to release the unreleased records that didn’t involve Michael, they can but it still has to go through Sony/Epic but if we’re talking about a release of a Jacksons album, still have to get approval from the Estate.

He never mentioned anything else. I said to him how I’d love to hear unreleased Victory songs and I named a few and he smiled and said he’d love for the fans to hear them as well but it’s ultimately up to Sony/Epic but he’d have no problem with a remaster of whatever album
 
AlwaysThere said:
Off-hand, the only lines I recall clearly are: “Rainbow skies and crystal streams / Butterflies and [something] dreams.” Seems like he was just describing this idyllic scenery.

The snippet was only about 15-20 seconds.

Not sure if it’ll leak truthfully, but given that it was meant for such a niche project and probably doesn’t have much use in any other project, I’d certainly love it to!

It seems to be vocally complete, yes. His voice was double-tracked and there was no mumbling nor humming (at least in what I heard).
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Any info on John Barnes playing keys/synth on NL, too?
 
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