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Michael Jackson


Laughing Man

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this past Tuesday marked the release of another shameful record label cash-grab Michael Jackson posthumous "album" consisting of songs that Jackson rejected and likely never would've wanted released, updated to modern pop radio "standards" and featuring vocals that may or may not even be the real King of Pop himself.

 

like anyone who legitimately respected the man as an entertainer, instead of supporting corporate greed and the desecration of his legacy I've elected to use this occasion as an excuse (not that one is necessary) to instead reflect on what I consider the best years of his career, the Epic Records releases of Off the Wall through HIStory: Past, Present and Future Book I.

 

in doing so I've decided to follow up my previous "album collection" blog entries with one dedicated to the King of Pop.

 

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stack on left, top to bottom:

 

- Off the Wall (special edition)

- Thriller (special edition)

- Bad (special edition)

- Dangerous (special edition)

- HIStory: Past, Present and Future Book I

- This Is It (single-disc edition; technically a posthumous release, but it was one that Jackson himself had approved and been involved with before his death, so I count it as his final legitimate release.)

 

on the right is the "collector's edition" released last year of Jackson's 2003 compilation Number Ones. although it resembles vinyl packaging, it's actually an 8x8 digipak housing a standard CD and featuring an 8x8 version of the album's booklet with "enhanced graphics".

 

I've yet to pick up Invincible - honestly, I've been holding off on it because I simply find it to be a disappointing release. that said, I do plan on picking it up sometime soon along with Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix.

 

as a side-note, writing this has reminded me that I never posted any pictures of my completed The Cure collection - my favorite band of all time with the largest amount of albums by a single artist I own to show for it. I'll probably do that soon.

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The only artist I'm consistently okay with posthumous releases from is Frank Zappa, only because, in his book, I'm pretty certain I remember reading him say that he had a lot of material he would make that he liked, but was waiting to release, and considering he died only four years after publishing the book, fair to say that most of that content was still unreleased when he passed.

 

Valleys of Neptune was a rarity in the sense it was a good posthumous Hendrix album, but otherwise posthumous releases feel more like cash grabs than anything else.

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