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Will there be a Bad 25?

benscarr said:
Your jumping the gun a bit. No matter if Michael had a new album out or not, it's only logical that Thriller25 would be released considering how much of effect it's had on popular culture. I've been expecting a 25th Anniversary Edition of Thriller for quite a few years. I'm also expecting a 30th Anniversary Edition of Off The Wall. It's not the point of it been a good idea, it's a point of celebrating brilliant and innovative music that changed the scope of pop music.
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I dont think im jumping the gun. I agree, as i said before, that Thriller 25 is an amazing idea. Its the biggest selling album of all time. It really is what put MJ at the top. Nothing else has ever been as popular before, at the time, or since.. even to this day. The celebration HAD to happen and i would have been disappointed if it didnt. Its MJs iconic album. But i think that should be the only one where they dedicate an entire 12 month period to promoting and pimping out an old album. I will support ANY anniversary, and buy the special edition CD, but the whole PROMO side of things only fits for Thriller..

And as Ne-Yo said, its a good idea to bring out T25 before he goes with the album of new material.
 
HEY MODS! HEY! I already started a thread like this called, "What if: Bad 25" This thread needs to be merged with that.
 
damien shields said:
Might have Thriller tour live from O2 arena london;) haha if only!
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Do you mean "Victory Tour"? There was no tour for Thriller, although the Victory Tour did provide Michael with a chance to to perform hit songs from "Thriller," just as the Destiny Tour allowed him to perform "Off The Wall" songs with his brothers.
 
damien shields said:
I dont think im jumping the gun. I agree, as i said before, that Thriller 25 is an amazing idea. Its the biggest selling album of all time. It really is what put MJ at the top. Nothing else has ever been as popular before, at the time, or since.. even to this day. The celebration HAD to happen and i would have been disappointed if it didnt. Its MJs iconic album. But i think that should be the only one where they dedicate an entire 12 month period to promoting and pimping out an old album. I will support ANY anniversary, and buy the special edition CD, but the whole PROMO side of things only fits for Thriller..

And as Ne-Yo said, its a good idea to bring out T25 before he goes with the album of new material.
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I think your missing the point. It's was always inevitable that Michael would release a 25th Anniversary Edition of Thriller for reasons that I mentioned in my last post.

I don't see any huge 12 month promotion and pimping of Thriller25 by Michael or Sony, which is why I feel your jumping the gun. All Michael has done to promote Thriller is his Ebony interview, and all Sony have done is put together a new web site and promotion of YouTube and Facebook etc. One minor television advert that hardly appears in television.

There no posters etc in the streets advertising Thriller25, as you would expect for a new Michael Jackson album. Thriller25 is being promoted well, but it's not the huge 12 month promotion. The promotion for Thriller25 will be over by next month. I would liked to have seen a MJJ Productions or Sony made Thriller album documentary, but there wasn't one so I don't think Thriller25 is being promoted in as big a way as it could be because it would over expose any promotion for a new Michael Jackson album, which it hasn't. When Michael releases his new album it will get a lot of promotion from Michael himself (and I presume from Sony) through, singles, music video and hopefully a tour. And the promotion for Thriller25 will be small compared to Michael's new album.

I agree with a number of fans that it's kind of boring buying a new re-released album that's 25yrs old. But despite the fact I hate the remixes on Thriller25, it's a great re-package of Thriller with even better sound quality. And unlike some artists us Michael Jackson fans get very few collectors editions and box sets etc in between new albums.
 
I highly, highly doubt there will be a Bad 25. Bad didn't have the impact that Thriller had on the world. If they ever did come out with something to celebrate it, Michael would not have to do any remixes like with Thriller. He could simply make a disc 2, which has been said that he wanted to do anyways, give us that unreleased material and then maybe make a dvd with footage from the bad tour or maybe even a dvd of the movie Moonwalker. He wouldn't have to go back in the studio for any of this, and I think it would make for a great release. With that being said, Bad just won't have a 25th like Thriller. It just didn't have the impact like Thriller had.
 
Derek1984 said:
I highly, highly doubt there will be a Bad 25. Bad didn't have the impact that Thriller had on the world. If they ever did come out with something to celebrate it, Michael would not have to do any remixes like with Thriller. He could simply make a disc 2, which has been said that he wanted to do anyways, give us that unreleased material and then maybe make a dvd with footage from the bad tour or maybe even a dvd of the movie Moonwalker. He wouldn't have to go back in the studio for any of this, and I think it would make for a great release. With that being said, Bad just won't have a 25th like Thriller. It just didn't have the impact like Thriller had.
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Exactly. Thriller is Michael's Born on the Run, his What's Going On, his The Wall. It's one of those albums on terms not of social appeal or artistic appeal but the fact these albums were commercially successful and played a pivotal role in their genres. Bad is a classic too but when you compare it to Thriller, it's a no-go. Plus I doubt no one impacted his genre the way MJ did first with Off the Wall and Thriller. I can see why they would re-release Thriller looking back at it. Re-releasing other albums in other anniversaries just wouldn't make sense.
 
tdude418 said:
Do you mean "Victory Tour"? There was no tour for Thriller, although the Victory Tour did provide Michael with a chance to to perform hit songs from "Thriller," just as the Destiny Tour allowed him to perform "Off The Wall" songs with his brothers.
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lol. im talking about the rumoured shows at O2 arena london for later on this year. supposibly to celebrate thriller. twas just a joke really.
 
Wasn't a 20th anniversary edition of BAD supposed to be released too?
 
"Thriller" on its own didn't create the impact it eventually had. Everything Michael did following its release, along with the actual album, is what created the phenom.

Anyway, in my personal opinion, "Bad" is a better album and I would like to see it recieve some form of recognition some day. It was hugely successful and even achieved something "Thriller" did not, and that was spawning 6 # 1 singles. Something no other album in history has ever done. And it also held the record for a while of the 2nd largest selling album of all time and still is in the top 10 I believe.
 
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That's cool. But they didn't have the impact "Bad" did, right?! lol. How's that for throwing arguments back atcha? lol.
 
haha well im a Bad fan, there will be no bad 25 because obviously its not the thriller, but they still could add songs to it..
back when i got the cassette tape it didnt have 'leave me alone' on it, they added it later. from what i remember. so maybe they should add more songs on it like streetwalker... or something.
 
They most likely won't do a Bad 25. It would be nice, but probably won't happen.

Personally, I'd rather see a new album with all new material, or another boxset, only this time filled with rarities and unreleased material instead of hits mixed in with demos and rarities/unreleased stuff.
 
troubleman84 said:
Exactly. Thriller is Michael's Born on the Run, his What's Going On, his The Wall. It's one of those albums on terms not of social appeal or artistic appeal but the fact these albums were commercially successful and played a pivotal role in their genres. Bad is a classic too but when you compare it to Thriller, it's a no-go. Plus I doubt no one impacted his genre the way MJ did first with Off the Wall and Thriller. I can see why they would re-release Thriller looking back at it. Re-releasing other albums in other anniversaries just wouldn't make sense.
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I agree 100%. Well said.
 
MJ should leave all the classic songs alone. I think he ruined T-25 with William, Fergie, Akon. I just bought T-25 for a friend and he said he was very disappointed. He said it sounds like Fergie was sitting on a toilet trying to take a s#!T. ~LMDO~
 
Yeah Fergie sounded VERY constipated. She could not even sing the whole song ~LMDO~
 
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I don't think it would be good for his image. People will start to think who does he think he is. Thriller is the biggest selling album of all time now that's a good reason to release a 25th anniversary cd. I don't see why we should celebrate (apart from the appreciation from us fans) the after albums. It would just look bad and I think we should keep anniversary's a special thing. Who would take it seriously anymore if every artist would release a celebration album. I think the Thriller album should stay special and unique forever in everyone's opinion.
 
wannabestartinsomthin21 said:
That's cool. But they didn't have the impact "Bad" did, right?! lol. How's that for throwing arguments back atcha? lol.
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Faith had six number-one singles all over the world (four in the U.S.), Whitney also had four No. 1s off one album, Janet had seven TOP FIVE hits off one album. Sure MJ has the most #1's off one album but Thriller casted a very BIG shadow on Bad.
 
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Yeah, but Michael broke all kinds of records with Bad, the second biggest selling album ever, the most number one singles off of one album, a record breaking world tour, record breaking music videos, the biggest selling album in europe, etc... If we're going to use the argument that "Bad" didn't have the impact that "Thriller" did, then neither did "Faith" or "Sign O The Times" have the impact that "Bad" did, commercially speaking, since that's what we're basing this on. "Bad" would have been considered huge, the biggest actually, by any standards if it hadn't been for "Thriller", so its just unfair, in my book, because "Bad" has some of the most creative and original sounding music I've ever heard.
 
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Bad was the 2nd biggest seller until Dangerous came out and outsold it. Then eventually both Bad and Dangerous got outsold by other artists world wide.
 
Yeah, but I'm talking about at the time. "Bad" had a massive impact and stayed at the top for a long time. Both albums are still in the top 10. In fact, every album Michael has ever released has set some sort of record. The ultimate point should be that, forgetting about how "Bad" failed only in comparison to an unreachable mark, it was a great, great album, musically speaking.
 
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fanofthethriller said:
MJ should leave all the classic songs alone. I think he ruined T-25 with William, Fergie, Akon. I just bought T-25 for a friend and he said he was very disappointed. He said it sounds like Fergie was sitting on a toilet trying to take a s#!T. ~LMDO~
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I think it was more SONY ruining Thriller 25. It was....not the best... cough Fergie cough.
 
I don't think there will be a Bad 25 album.But,if he does want to release an anniversary Bad album,i would love it if he would redo the songs and make them sound more fresh,because Bad,imo,is the most dated album of his.Imagine Man in the mirror with piano and acoustic guitar.That would be great! :D
But,no,i don't think he will release it. :)
 
Nah Man In The Mirror is fine just the way it is and should be left alone
 
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