What a disappointment on the mixing front. At this point, I'm just convinced the estate's executors are utterly incompetent buffoons, from the rollout to how bad certain tracks sound. The leaks from earlier this week unironically sound much better. Though it'd be too much for me to expect the Estate to act like a proper estate.
(Also the song selection kind of sucks. Everyone else and their dog has already brought it up, but was there really a need for Outta The Rain to be on the second disc rather than the third? Hot Street and Nite Line could easily take the two slots CGOOTR and Sunset Driver have, and nothing substantial would be lost.)
P.S: Something tells me that Quincy's repsonsible for holding up the remaining 10-15 songs in the vault out of the thirty recorded for the album. We've barely gotten anything from the actual sessions on Thriller 40, and we were lucky to have the songs cut from Thriller 25 leak onto the Internet a year or two after its release. The Estate really needs to patch things up with him and Rod's estate, and fast.
