en http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/ Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:17:48 GMT Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:17:48 GMT http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/The-Essential-Michael-Jackson-2-CDs/3997819 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:23:29 GMT The 2CD The Essential Michael Jackson takes you on a journey from budding star, to iconic legend and allows you to immerse yourself in the musical and emotional development of each track defining the story of a global superstar. Michael Jackson needs no introduction, as part of the Jackson 5 he helped make up a remarkable musical family and one of the biggest pop phenomenons of the early 70s. The Jacksons' infectious brand of funky soul and now iconic stage presence reached out globally and made them and Michael international stars. As the success of the band grew, Michael branched out with his own solo career first launching with "Got to be There" and then "Rockin' Robin". The momentum started to grow with the release of more successful singles and, as the hype surrounding the Jackson 5 slowed down towards the late 70s, Michael continued to develop and grow as an artist. With the release of Off the Wall, an immaculately crafted set of funky disco-pop, smooth soul, and lush, sentimental pop ballads, Michael cemented his place as a global star. The 1980s were a career-defining period with his instantly identifiable voice, eye-popping dance moves, stunning musical versatility, and loads of sheer star power Michael Jackson was unstoppable. The 1982 album Thriller became the biggest selling album of all time and combined his musical genius with an exceptional and ahead of its time music video epic. Bad (1987) was released with enormous public anticipation and spawned another succession of hit singles with "The Way You Make Me Feel" and "Man in the Mirror."

The Essential Michael Jackson - 2 CDs]]> http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/The-Essential-Michael-Jackson-2-CDs/3997819 http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/CONSPIRACY-FILES-MICHAEL-JACKSON-DANGEROUS-S/2830161 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:39:58 GMT CONSPIRACY FILES: MICHAEL JACKSON DANGEROUS S

CONSPIRACY FILES: MICHAEL JACKSON DANGEROUS S]]> http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/CONSPIRACY-FILES-MICHAEL-JACKSON-DANGEROUS-S/2830161 http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Michael-Jackson-A-Remarkable-Life/2825061 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:39:33 GMT Michael Jackson-A Remarkable Life

Michael Jackson-A Remarkable Life]]> http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Michael-Jackson-A-Remarkable-Life/2825061 http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Off-the-Wall-Limited-Edition/4647060 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:39:10 GMT Off the Wall made music history. Not only was it the release that signaled the arrival of Michael Jackson as a major talent outside the Jackson Five, it was the first record by a solo artist to contain four Top 10 hits. "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough," "Rock with You," "Off the Wall," and "She's out of My Life" were essential listening in the late '70s and early '80s. The release also contains the kinetic "Working Day and Night" and "Burn This Disco Out." Paul McCartney contributes "Girlfriend." Thanks to Quincy Jones's production, it was still all about the music back then. The artistry Jackson exhibited on Off the Wall still amazes. Avoiding the shallow excesses of most of the period's disco, Jackson's dance rhythms here are made all the more powerful by Jackson's vocal restraint. --Steve Gdula

Off the Wall (Limited Edition)]]> http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Off-the-Wall-Limited-Edition/4647060 http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/The-Best-of-Michael-Jackson-The-Jackson-Five/4391840 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:38:47 GMT Extensive 20 Track Collection Spanning Michael's, Jackson Five and Early Solo Recordings on Motown.

The Best of Michael Jackson & The Jackson Five]]> http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/The-Best-of-Michael-Jackson-The-Jackson-Five/4391840 http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Off-the-Wall/4647058 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:38:17 GMT Off the Wall made music history. Not only was it the release that signaled the arrival of Michael Jackson as a major talent outside the Jackson Five, it was the first record by a solo artist to contain four Top 10 hits. "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough," "Rock with You," "Off the Wall," and "She's out of My Life" were essential listening in the late '70s and early '80s. The release also contains the kinetic "Working Day and Night" and "Burn This Disco Out." Paul McCartney contributes "Girlfriend." Thanks to Quincy Jones's production, it was still all about the music back then. The artistry Jackson exhibited on Off the Wall still amazes. Avoiding the shallow excesses of most of the period's disco, Jackson's dance rhythms here are made all the more powerful by Jackson's vocal restraint. --Steve Gdula

Off the Wall]]> http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Off-the-Wall/4647058 http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Jacko-Juice-Michael-Jackson-5-fl-oz/4072506 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:38:02 GMT You'll fall for this sauce! Shake well over a 5th story balcony, and refrigerate after opening. Caution: May turn skin white.

Jacko Juice, (Michael Jackson), 5 fl oz]]> http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Jacko-Juice-Michael-Jackson-5-fl-oz/4072506 http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Man-in-the-Mirror-Michael-Jackson-Story/2772403 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:37:44 GMT Flex Alexander's affecting performance in the lead role lifts Man in the Mirror, an account of the troubled, turbulent adult life of Michael Jackson. And a grim, melodramatic, and sometimes way over-the-top tale it is, as the film chronicles the litany of catastrophes visited on Jackson since Thriller turned him into the self-proclaimed King of Pop. It's all here: the Jehovah's Witnesses' horrified reaction to the supposedly blasphemous "Thriller" video (a disclaimer was added at their behest); the filming of the Pepsi commercial during which Jackson's hair caught on fire; the constant hectoring and bullying by his father, Joseph Jackson, and his subsequent alienation from his family; his many cosmetic surgeries; the debacle that was his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley; the controversial incident when he dangled his newborn son from his Berlin hotel room window; and, of course, the ongoing allegations of child molestation (to their credit, the filmmakers are fairly circumspect about the latter, neither condemning nor exonerating him). Through it all, Alexander plays Jackson as a true innocent, guileless and easily manipulated, wondering how the world can be so wicked ("What's wrong with love?" is a frequent refrain), and yet essentially kind, likable, and devoted to his fans. Alexander has Jackson's voice down, as well as some of his dance moves, and if Man in the Mirror contains no actual Jackson songs or realistic performance footage, well, that's life in the low-budget world of made-for-TV movies (it originally aired in 2004 on VH-1). Man in the Mirror hardly qualifies as great art, but in the end, it's nothing more, or less, than diverting, voyeuristic good fun. --Sam Graham

Man in the Mirror-Michael Jackson Story]]> http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Man-in-the-Mirror-Michael-Jackson-Story/2772403 http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Invincible/4284431 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:36:59 GMT For such a boldly titled and apparently driven attempt to reinstate Michael Jackson at the center of the pop world, Invincible is a listless thing. Split between scratchy funk workouts and midtempo ballads that might have appeared as Bad B-sides, the album plays on and on while never seriously promoting dancing or romancing. Its handful of weird moments--the resurrection-by-tape of Biggie Smalls on the bridge of the title track, for instance--are hardly large-scale bizarre like the first disc of HIStory. The title track turns out to be hardly the rampant egofest you'd imagine; instead, its subject is a female whom Jackson cheers on. Likewise, the most ear-catching moments of the "comeback" single "You Rock My World" come with Chris Tucker's jivey introduction. Despite a debt to "Payback"-era James Brown, "Rock" floats away like steam midway through. It's almost a relief when the old self-regard turns up: on the growling "Privacy," Jackson rants about muckrakers "stalking" him in search of "the stories you need to bury me," all this long after foundering divas and troubled boy-group members have replaced him on tabloid covers. The man may occasionally break away from the mirror but seems unsure where else to find inspiration. --Rickey Wright

Invincible]]> http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Invincible/4284431 http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Bad/4391456 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:36:37 GMT "We wanted a tough album," producer Quincy Jones recalls in a bonus interview on this special edition of Bad. Though the 1987 blockbuster would appear to be Michael Jackson's most personal statement to date--9 of its 11 cuts were written solely by him--its appeal also rested more on craft than the idiosyncratic art of Thriller and Off the Wall. At the same time, most of Bad has aged well in spite of its digital brittleness and MIDI treatments of gems like Jimmy Smith's organ solo on the title track. While the third best of his first three Epic solo discs, Bad carries a lot of what people love about Jackson's music. This disc also benefits from two fine outtakes, the exciting, uptempo "Streetwalker" and the Carpenters homage "Fly Away." Either could easily have extended the record's run of hit singles. --Rickey Wright

Bad]]> http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Bad/4391456 http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Dangerous/4391457 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:36:15 GMT Michael Jackson was still going for pop hits with 1991's Dangerous, but he also front-loaded the album with six straight Teddy Riley-assisted cuts. This half-hour swoop of tense, aggressive, often angular funk was Jackson's most interesting music since Thriller, and still sounds, well, invincible on this remastered edition. After that, the record's uneven, but there's nothing embarrassing about it, either. "Gone Too Soon," a non-Jackson composition about teen AIDS casualty Ryan White, is a quiet statement (particularly played next to the choir-laden "Heal the World," "Keep the Faith," and "Will You Be There") showing that the star doesn't always have to get showy. The sprightly "Black or White" is explicitly pro-interracial romance, an angle its video didn't go near, and the urgent "Give In to Me" is almost scary. Scary good, that is. --Rickey Wright

Dangerous]]> http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Dangerous/4391457 http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Michael-Jackson-s-Moonwalker/3999483 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:35:53 GMT

Michael Jackson's Moonwalker]]> http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Michael-Jackson-s-Moonwalker/3999483 http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Michael-Jackson-Dangerous-The-Short-Films/4284435 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:35:37 GMT

Michael Jackson - Dangerous: The Short Films]]> http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Michael-Jackson-Dangerous-The-Short-Films/4284435 http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Thriller/4284432 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:35:14 GMT Michael Jackson's Thriller is the bestselling album of all time, with 45 million worldwide sales powered by seven Top 10 U.S. singles and eight Grammy Awards. The 1982 album was also a success from which the pop superstar never really recovered--subsequent albums seemed to have no other goal than to beat the records set by Thriller. The highly-polished sound of Quincy Jones's production sounds almost organic compared to Jackson's more recent work, and in the same regard, Thriller was significantly slicker than its predecessor, Off the Wall. Both albums established a Jackson style that aimed for the dance floor with songs built on a state-of-the-art bed of percussion and keyboards. Elements of milestone Thriller tracks like "Billie Jean" (arguably Jackson's best-ever performance) and "Beat It" (with its hard-rock solo by guitarist Eddie Van Halen) influenced not just Jackson's records, but those of the entire dance-pop world. On the song "Thriller," Jackson indulged his taste for the juvenile and invited Vincent Price to rap in a really scary voice. With Thriller the album, Jackson created a different kind of monster--a hit album of such magnitude that it would have an irrevocable impact not just on the singer's art, but on his altogether kooky life. --John Milward

Thriller]]> http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Thriller/4284432 http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Michael-Jackson-The-Ultimate-Collection/4284430 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:34:55 GMT Michael Jackson was hailed as the King of Pop long before he became infamous for his peculiar, headline-grabbing antics. Fortunately, this five-disc retrospective box set -- spanning 1969 to 2004 -- returns the spotlight to Jackson's triumphs as an artist. Disc 1 chronicles the Gloved One's not-so-humble beginnings as the young-yet-dynamic lead singer for the {|Jackson 5|} with a string of four No. 1 pop and R&B singles ("I Want You Back," "ABC," "I'll Be There," and "Got to Be There"), which appear alongside disco-era Jackson 5 hits ("Dancing Machine," "Enjoy Yourself"). Disc 1 also includes MJ songs from the films The Wiz and Ben, as well as career-defining solo numbers from {|Off the Wall|} ("Rock with You," "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"). With the inclusion of six hit singles from {|Thriller|} -- still the bestselling record of all time -- Disc 2 captures the pop icon at the height of his career. Disc 3 features seminal tracks from {|Bad|} ("Smooth Criminal") and {|Dangerous|} ("Remember the Time"), while Disc 4 features selections from 1995's {|HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book 1|} and 2001's modest comeback, {|Invincible|}. Besides more hits, what further distinguishes The Ultimate Collection from the aforementioned two-disc HIStory is the addition of 13 rare and previously unissued recordings, including demo versions of "PYT" and "We Are the World," and a DVD containing a full-length concert shot in Bucharest during 1992's Dangerous tour. The deluxe box set also contains a 64-page booklet with never-before-seen photos, personal memorabilia, a chronological timeline, complete discography, and an essay by acclaimed music journalist Nelson George -- making this truly an Ultimate Collection.

Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection]]> http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/http://michaeljackson.zlio.com/p/Michael-Jackson-The-Ultimate-Collection/4284430