History - Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson is hailed as the 'King Of Pop'. He hit the limelight in the late 1960s with his brothers as the Jackson 5 and they produced many hits before Michael launched his solo career. This has seen him produce such albums as 'Bad' and 'Thriller', both of which are still huge successes, and singles such as those of the same titles, 'Bad' and 'Thriller', amongst many many others. 'HIStory' is Jackson's long awaited Best Of album, released in 1995, and features an amazing list of great songs on two albums. The album is subtitled 'Past, Present and Future Book 1', and is a double CD. The first album contains the classic Jackson music and is a celebration of ...  Read the complete review

Michael Jackson's 1995 release 'History: Past Present and Future Book I' features what is quite possibly the best and worst from the King of Pop. Reeling from the infamous 1993 allegations, Jackson decides to speak out against the trashing he endured from the media in his work. However, if you were a loyal Michael Jackson fan then this double-disc set might annoy you as you are forced to buy a Greatest Hits compilation CD (containing the usual suspects of Billie Jean, The Way You Make Me Feel, Black of White, Rock With You, She's Out My Life, Bad, I Just Can't Stop Loving You, Thriller, Beat It, The Girl Is Mine, Remember the Time, Don't Stop til You Get Enough, Wanna Be ...  Read the complete review

"HIStory: Past, Present And Future, Book I" came in 1995 as a double album from the late Pop superstar Michael Jackson. It found that in it he brought together all of his old classics (from "Off The Wall" to "Dangerous") on the first half before delivering some all-new material to continue where he was seen to left off on "Dangerous" in 1991. Disc 1: 1. "Billie Jean" Getting the album going in perhaps the best way, this one has him showing just how strong his song writing is here, this song is one of the greatest songs which Michael left the music world with as he gets on some empowering ...  Read the complete review

Here's my review of the songs on Disk 2: SCREAM- Loud aggresive song. Definetly about Michael's troubles around that time. Despite being a good song,Janet sounds very weak. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT US- Not a brilliant song but yet again not awful. Drums beat throughout whilst Michael sings about police brutality! STRANGER IN MOSCOW- Slow song about being left in the cold about something (I think).Starts off very peaceful with the rain lashing down. Stays reasonably quiet until the end, a very pleasant song- not aggresive like the previous two. THIS TIME AROUND- Average r and b song. I don't think there was much effort put into ...  Read the complete review

HIStory: "The man's almost 40 - why is he singing about his childhood?" "I was left just selecting the ones I liked the best." "Sheez! Who steeped on his foot! - What's with all the negativity?!!" "Is THIS Michael Jackson (Little Susie, Money, D.S., Childhood)...NO! I don't think so!!! Where is he??" "He should have just written a book about the whole allegations episode." These are just some opinions on HIStory that I'm quite sure we have all either shared, or have heard others express. Given Michael's previous phenomenal success, what went wrong? Well, the thing with HIStory is this: ...  Read the complete review