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Source: This Day In Music

On 30th Nov 1982, Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album was released. It spent 190 weeks on the UK album chart became the biggest selling pop album of all time, with sales over 50 million copies. Seven singles were released from the album, including 'Beat It', which featured guitarists Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather and 'Billie Jean'.

This groundbreaking 14-minute masterpiece broke the mold for music videos. In 1983 when MTV was just two years old and videos cost around $100,000 to produce. “Thriller†was shot on a unprecedented budget of $500,000 — in just four days.

Directed by John Landis, who also wrote the screenplay with Jackson, “Thriller†has continually been voted the most influential pop music video of all time.

Not wishing to take anything away from the plot, it has been said it is very close to Landis’ work An American Werewolf in London, which I guess the singer must have seen and liked. Jackson and his girlfriend run out of gas in dark woods where they do what everyone in the movies does — walk off deeper into the forest (go back, don’t do it!). Jackson asks her if she would like to be his girlfriend, she says yes, and as he’s giving her a ring (he’s a fast worker), a full moon appears, and Michael begins convulsing in agony — transforming into a horrifying werewolf-type thing.

The scene then cuts to a movie theater where Michael and his date are actually watching the scene unfold in a fictional Vincent Price movie titled Thriller. The couple then leave the theater and walk down a foggy road as Michael teases her by singing the verses of “Thriller.†They pass a nearby graveyard, in which the undead begin to rise out of their graves.

At the time of filming the 25-year-old singer weighed just 99 lbs and had a 26-inch waist. Ola Ray, who co-stars with Jackson, was a former Playboy centerfold (she was the Playmate of the Month for the June 1980 issue). She has since stated in interviews that she tried not to let Jackson know about her Playboy history, because she wanted the part. Ray went on to appear in over ten films including 48 hours, Beverly Hills Cops II, and Fear City.

Apparently the biggest selling and most influential video of all time was almost not released. Jackson, a strict Jehovah’s Witness, was told he would be shunned if he went ahead with the film. After much discussion, a disclaimer at the start of the film by Jackson stated: “Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult.â€

I remember seeing “Thriller†for the first time and, like everyone else, I was blown away by the filming, the dancing, the story, the song! Once again Michael Jackson had outdone every other act. Jackson later stated that he wanted to make something special to keep his latest album at the top of the charts. Well, he did that all right.




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Iconic as it is, Thriller is vastly overrated. Bad>>>>.

I can take over-rated. It still remains revolutionary.

 

 

 

Invincible > Dangerous > Off The Wall/History > Bad/Thriller

Odd as it may seem, I can't rank the albums because each of them have special memories attached, but am forever frustrated with how "Invincible" did not do as well as it should have.
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It's not overrated, it's a great song anyone can dance to, its highly loved because its good.

It deserves all the attention and its used every halloween, if it was bad it would be overrated but its not.

Everyone needs to learn what overrated means.

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It's not overrated, it's a great song anyone can dance to, its highly loved because its good.

It deserves all the attention and its used every halloween, if it was bad it would be overrated but its not.

Everyone needs to learn what overrated means.

Exactly.

Regardless as to what people say about the song, it is a song that made its mark and remains timeless. The records, the achievements, the shift in the industry etc. It's resilient to all negative remarks. Downplaying anything doesn't work.

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Nope, not overrated.

 

Why don't you go review the first amendment and get back to me, hunny.

 

I don't like "Thriller," the song. "Beat It" is considerably better. I also LOVE "Smooth Criminal." The ad-libs on that song>>>>the rest of his discography.

 

I got £1 of free Amazon credit in their MP3 store; I purchased Perfume. Bow down, unni.

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Source: This Day In Music

 

On 30th Nov 1982, Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album was released. It spent 190 weeks on the UK album chart became the biggest selling pop album of all time, with sales over 50 million copies. Seven singles were released from the album, including 'Beat It', which featured guitarists Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather and 'Billie Jean'.

 

This groundbreaking 14-minute masterpiece broke the mold for music videos. In 1983 when MTV was just two years old and videos cost around $100,000 to produce. “Thriller†was shot on a unprecedented budget of $500,000 — in just four days.

 

Directed by John Landis, who also wrote the screenplay with Jackson, “Thriller†has continually been voted the most influential pop music video of all time.

 

Not wishing to take anything away from the plot, it has been said it is very close to Landis’ work An American Werewolf in London, which I guess the singer must have seen and liked. Jackson and his girlfriend run out of gas in dark woods where they do what everyone in the movies does — walk off deeper into the forest (go back, don’t do it!). Jackson asks her if she would like to be his girlfriend, she says yes, and as he’s giving her a ring (he’s a fast worker), a full moon appears, and Michael begins convulsing in agony — transforming into a horrifying werewolf-type thing.

 

The scene then cuts to a movie theater where Michael and his date are actually watching the scene unfold in a fictional Vincent Price movie titled Thriller. The couple then leave the theater and walk down a foggy road as Michael teases her by singing the verses of “Thriller.†They pass a nearby graveyard, in which the undead begin to rise out of their graves.

 

At the time of filming the 25-year-old singer weighed just 99 lbs and had a 26-inch waist. Ola Ray, who co-stars with Jackson, was a former Playboy centerfold (she was the Playmate of the Month for the June 1980 issue). She has since stated in interviews that she tried not to let Jackson know about her Playboy history, because she wanted the part. Ray went on to appear in over ten films including 48 hours, Beverly Hills Cops II, and Fear City.

 

Apparently the biggest selling and most influential video of all time was almost not released. Jackson, a strict Jehovah’s Witness, was told he would be shunned if he went ahead with the film. After much discussion, a disclaimer at the start of the film by Jackson stated: “Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult.â€

 

I remember seeing “Thriller†for the first time and, like everyone else, I was blown away by the filming, the dancing, the story, the song! Once again Michael Jackson had outdone every other act. Jackson later stated that he wanted to make something special to keep his latest album at the top of the charts. Well, he did that all right.

 

 

 

 

How could I not?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Full Album

 

 

 

 

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How typical? haha / Fixed now

 

 

 

Black Michael Jackson was good looking :)

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I got £1 of free Amazon credit in their MP3 store; I purchased Perfume. Bow down, unni.

But wtf is your album, Robert? :>_>:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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But wtf is your album, Robert? :>_>:

 

I'm going to buy the whole back catalogue and once that's done, feel the need to complete my collection.

 

Not that Britney Jeanney deserves it with an album like that, even if I have warmed to it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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But wtf is your album, Robert? :>_>:

 

I'm going to buy the whole back catalogue and once that's done, feel the need to complete my collection.

 

Not that Britney Jeanney deserves it with an album like that, even if I have warmed to it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:lol:

 

Godney Jeansus is faboo. Play "Tik Tik Boom" on some speakers with bass. I love it :stare:

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