With a tape this expensive of course no one would take it. Maybe next time they should halve the price so it'd be more affordable.There were no takers for this auction or for the album Thriller and mittens from Bad. Extended by 14 days..
Damn those gloves, I would wear them myselfI loved Michael's stylish ones
The box with Bad era tapes for 30K was a real bargain.
I found them over on another forum, leaked.cx! It’s where a TON of music leaks take place. MJ posts are excruciatingly rare, and the user who posted these has no other chat history, so it’s admittedly a toss up. But in my experience, 95% of what’s posted there is authentic with the occasional fake-outs.
In my view, both "Crack Kills" and "Tonight" sound fake. To me, they don’t resemble Michael Jackson’s style at all. Of course, this is just my personal opinion, but I find it hard to believe these snippets are genuinely his work.
Yeah, I'm not sure about that one. But the last part of that snippet gives me Captain Eo vibes. The production going from slow to fast just doesn't feel like something MJ would record. And we have nothing on the title "Tonight" so I'm kinda leaning towards AI.
Not surpising at all. That's a ridiculous price to start with for a fangirl's glorified mixtape.There were no takers for this auction or for the album Thriller and mittens from Bad. Extended by 14 days..
Damn those gloves, I would wear them myself
The feeling (that I would have if I were never going to release the material) would probably be cool, because I have things that only a few people in the entire world can hear. But, tbh, I'd probably only listen to the material once a month. It's like collecting limited edition action figures and being so happy when you first get them, but after a month, they just sit on a shelf for the majority of the time that I own them. So if I had unreleased tapes. They're sitting in a box in my closet, all the way in the back until I feel like listening to them. But that's just if I had them. I don't know what other people would do.
I never owned a full unreleased song but I did receive snippets of some unheard tracks weeks before they'd surface online and what you said is spot on—at first, you feel euphoric because you're now in possession of something very few people in the world have. You feel as if you're now part of some secret inner circle. But right afterwards there's that feeling of loneliness, you desperately want to tell people about it, you want to share your excitement and give out info so it can benefit the community but at the same time you're not allowed to say anything and if you don't wanna burn any bridges you just comply.
I was one of the few holding on to the Victory tour. Someone who worked with Michael years before became cool with and sent us copies of the show. We didn't tell anyone because we didn't want to spoil what could've been deemed as a potential release from the Estate but one person started talking about how they had a copy and when no one believed him he uploaded a clip as proof and eventually the entire show. We were upset because it felt like he ruined any future files we would've received.
This is great info. So on the Temperton demos, were there MJ vocals? Obviously, Groove of Midnight is one of them. If MJ did record vocals on these Temperton demos, they are probably all gems. Groove of Midnight was good enough to be on the album, I just think MJ wanted to distance himself from Temperton on BAD because he didn't want him to get anymore credit. MJ wanted to do this album mostly on his own. But we need to hear these Temperton tracks meant for BAD. Will we ever get to hear them?? At the very least, I'd like to get some song titles.
This is very interesting, thanks for sharing.
We know Temperton used to recycle songs. So I wonder if any of these that didn't make BAD found their way on other albums. The Siedah Garrett album had Groove of Midnight and Got The Hots (Baby's Got it Bad).
As far as I know, no version of "Groove Of Midnight" with Michael's vocals was found in the vault... As in a proper studio version rather than the rehearsal snippets we have. Matt Forger said so in one BAD 25 reissue interview.
Is there any evidence that MJ recorded "Crack Kills"? I've come across many conflicting reports about this. Additionally, it seems that Run-DMC reused their verses from this track in their song "Crack." If that's true, then the verses don't seem to fit this snippet at all.
There is also the song Spice Of Life. For Mystery, I have never found any evidence of MJ singing. I don't even know if it was actually offered to MJ.
It could be a demo offered to MJ yes. But Siedah Garett would have already spoken about it I think...
Joe Vogel confirmed this. He was even surprised that the song was not on Bad 25.
Look up Bottrell's session calendar notes, song's called "Rap song".
I checked against the handwritten lyrics, and you have the "such a loser" part in the snippet audible... suggests its somewhat legit to me, but I'll reserve proper judgement for when more complete snippets surface
Sort of on-topic: I wonder if 'Smooth Criminal' was inspired by 'Yah -Mo Be There'..
It would be nice to hear his version but I agree that it doesn’t sound strong enough if we’re basing it off both his vocals and Siedahs revamped version