Awesome musically, naive in life (The Essential - Michael Jackson)

Member Name: phillipsdj

Product:	The Essential - Michael Jackson
Date:	08/07/09 (27 review reads)
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Advantages: Great Songs which you can chart your life to

Disadvantages: Adds no new songs

Like a lot of people I used to be a huge Michael Jackson fan in the 80s and 90s, and following the recent media coverage of his unfortunate passing I have dusted off all my old CDs and given them another listen - also like a lot of people, although I found his lifestyle choice bizarre and some of his decisions wrong/mis-judged (Please note that I do not believe that he was a paedophile) I think that some of his music was out of this world and listening to Michael Jackson: Essential I realise that almost every song invokes memories from certain times of my life.

The ability to make music which causes such feelings is a very rare talent and I think a large percentage of performing artists today still look up to Jackson as their idol/inspiration etc.

Essential is a 2 CD collection which contains 38 tracks ranging from some early Jackson 5 tracks (I Want You Back, ABC etc) all the way through his golden years where, musically, he could do no wrong (Bad, Billie Jean, Thriller etc etc etc) to Earth Song and They Don't Care About Us which, I believe, were both from his HIStory album.

The full track listing follows below but I can guarantee that even the most hardened anti-MJ listener will be singing along by the end as they follow his career and plot it along their own lives and remember what they were doing at the time of each song.


CD 1
I Want You Back
ABC
The Love You Save
Got To Be There
Rockin' Robin
Ben
Blame It On The Boogie
Shake Your Body Down
Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
Off The Wall
Rock With You
She's Out Of My Life
Can You Feel It
The Girl Is Mine
Billie Jean
Beat It
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
Human Nature
PYT (Pretty Young Thing)
I Just Can't Stop Loving You
Thriller

CD 2
Bad
The Way You Make Me Feel
Man In The Mirror
Dirty Diana
Another Part Of Me
Smooth Criminal
Leave Me Alone
Black or White
Remember The Time
In The Closet
Who Is It
Heal The World
Will You Be There
You Are Not Alone
Earth Song
They Don't Care About Us
You Rock My World

Although you will already have all of these songs if you own every album it is nice to have them all in 1 place and as a Jackson fan it is nice to own the CD.

Summary: Great for Michael Jackson fans