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The Discussion of MJ's Unreleased Tracks

Eventidescape1 said:
He would have a slave reel to record vocals on to sub-mixes of the instrumental backing track… Layering and stacking the vocals was done for the chorus on “Monster”, and that would have been all the backing vocals. Michael usually did BV’s before recording any scratch lead vocals or final lead vocal.

As it seems Michael had the idea for the chorus vocal part - “you created a monster” etc. - yet never got around to doing a scratch vocal for the melody & rough lyrics… He often ad-libbed on the scratch vocal part, more so than the BV’s as these are obviously multitracked.

Whatever it is, the vocals on the multitrack tape with any real substance would be the existing chorus vocals… who knows if Michael ever did a scratch lead vocal for “Monster”.
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Damn, based on the leaked snippets and your description, Monster sounds epic... To think they could have put this song with Michael, and instead they put another one with Jason Malachi
 
I've always assumed it was many vocal layers for the chorus MJ had recorded on the tape. I think that was already discussed a long time ago from an interview with someone.
 
Not sure if this was mentioned here just found it fascinating cus i love this song

Chicago 1945 had 9 vocal tracks MJ did all back to back to back without stopping.

The first version is just a synth jam by Steve that he gave to Michael for inspiration for a song idea.

Shame this song along with Dream Away prolly won't drop anytime soon if ever.
 
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Clay7 said:
Not sure if this was mentioned here just found it fascinating cus i love this song

Chicago 1945 has 10 thriller/victory era versions

The first version is just a synth jam by Steve

The other 9 are different takes by MJ one of which we have. Kind of a slave to the rhythm thing where he recorded the song several times back to back.

Shame this song along with Dream Away prolly won't drop anytime soon if ever.
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Uh? Is your man even a reliable source? I recall Steve saying that MJ just recorded a full vocal take for C1945 in one session, that impressed him, and then he left the studio and didn't put any more work on it.
 
Clay7 said:
Not sure if this was mentioned here just found it fascinating cus i love this song

Chicago 1945 has 10 thriller/victory era versions

The first version is just a synth jam by Steve

The other 9 are different takes by MJ one of which we have. Kind of a slave to the rhythm thing where he recorded the song several times back to back.

Shame this song along with Dream Away prolly won't drop anytime soon if ever.
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I'd love to have Dream Away but those last few lines of the chorus go on a bit too long and it gets clunky. Still a gorgeous song, mind.
 
Idk why, but i'm halfway convinced that songs like Deep In The Night and Monster are just daymixes that were abandoned before there was a mix with hypothetical lead vocals
 
Saka21 said:
Uh? Is your man even a reliable source? I recall Steve saying that MJ just recorded a full vocal take for C1945 in one session, that impressed him, and then he left the studio and didn't put any more work on it.
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Sorry I misremembered that detail, he did 9 vocal passes, not 9 different lead takes lol. Everything else is accurate, and there were adlibs and hiccups that were cut by Steve so I'd love to hear that.
 
JamesCMJJ said:
Idk why, but i'm halfway convinced that songs like Deep In The Night and Monster are just daymixes that were abandoned before there was a mix with hypothetical lead vocals
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Monster very well could be the case, not sure if you saw my previous post I mentioned that there are various mixes of Monster with stripped down elements given to MJ to listen to/sing to privately as well as one for his headphones. Very well could be the case, not sure about DITN since we know very little about that song
 
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