That pic of Mike doesn't capture the mood of the record at all, he looks too soft in that photo. Perhaps that's the lighting thoughAccording to Dick Zimmerman, this was the alternate cover to Thriller. I can look at this and picture Hot Street or Carousel on the track list
Amazing! Love his smile and the futuristic vibe it's giving.According to Dick Zimmerman, this was the alternate cover to Thriller. I can look at this and picture Hot Street or Carousel on the track list
MJ didn't really shelf whole albums like Prince did, outside of Farewell My Summer Love. Maybe the early Invincible tracklisting counts.
true, but to say "this was the ORIGINAL thriller before it was reworked" would have been really interesting to the public eye, what the biggest selling album COULD'VE sounded like.
FWMSL's Motown
The fact that Starlight is the most streamed demo of T40 brings some truth to this tbh.
I don't really count it but I do
she's trouble was done dirty.
That's a fair point. But idk how you communicate that any more effectively. Than saying Thriller 40. Thriller sells. Starlight... Wouldn't. It's just schematics, you know what I'm saying?
if that was the case, the prince estate would have called Welcome 2 America 20Ten 10 or something like that hahah.
I think Prince fans, even casual ones, are just more discerning about that than MJ ones lol. I was already hoping for another album of shelved Prince music anyway. Naming Thriller 40 Starlight would make some kids say "They're making a new album of duets with the Weeknd and calling it Starlight?!!" Or something. Idek. Maybe you're right lol.
(its ironic that i said 20ten 10 because it turns out there was a scrapped deluxe release for the album back in 2010 hahah. https://princevault.com/index.php?title=Album:_20Ten_Deluxe)
Got The Hots? Really?
-WBSS also has a scratch lead vocal track.
I mean, it’s hard to say because I feel like Thriller is particularly tight due to it not really having any filler material on it. Hot Street is, to me, a song which screams “hit”, though it may not be as adventurous musically or emotionally filled as some of the other material. Carousel is another beautiful track. But Got The Hots is one of the weakest songs in Michael’s discography, to my ears.
I meant like unreleased songs and demos. And I know TGIM multitrack was circulating a few years ago
I keep forgetting that Questlove had nearly all the Thriller album minus Baby Be Mine. So The Girl Is Mine could be circulating in a super-tight circle, while the same might be said for Lady In My Life (unless Questlove sealed up all his cracks before it could circulate).
I remember when it was rumored that the tapes for Baby Be Mine and LIML were destroyed in a fire until they got remastered last year
That's strange. The story I got before the truth came out was that only Baby Be Mine's tape was damaged, and that was why Questlove didn't get it. Now, it could've very well been a precautionary measure by Sony to prevent the entire Thriller album from hitting the black market like Off the Wall and the Jacksons' Triumph.
The tapes could still very much be damaged / destroyed, it doesn't mean the estate doesn't have a digitalization of them.
This makes more sense tbh
Starlight had a fairly recent resurgence though, in part to people like The Weeknd playing it on his radio show.
What was on the early invincible tracklisting?
Shout instead of 2000 Watts.
