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The Essential Michael Jackson | 
| Artist: Michael Jackson
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
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Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 3328
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 94287
UPC: 827969428726
EAN: 0827969428726
ASIN: B0009XNUK0
Release Date: July 19, 2005
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | I Want You Back - The Jackson 5 | | • | ABC - The Jackson 5 | | • | The Love You Save - The Jackson 5 | | • | Got To Be There - The Jackson 5 | | • | Rockin' Robin - The Jackson 5 | | • | Ben | | • | Enjoy Yourself - The Jacksons | | • | Blame It On The Boogie - The Jacksons | | • | Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) | | • | Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough | | • | Rock With You | | • | Off The Wall | | • | She's Out Of My Life | | • | The Girl Is Mine (with Paul McCartney) | | • | Billie Jean | | • | Beat It | | • | Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' | | • | Human Nature | | • | P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) | | • | Thriller |
Disc 2
| • | Bad | | • | I Just Can't Stop Loving You (with Siedah Garrett) | | • | Leave Me Alone | | • | The Way You Make Me Feel | | • | Man In The Mirror | | • | Dirty Diana | | • | Another Part Of Me | | • | Smooth Criminal | | • | Black Or White | | • | Heal The World | | • | Remember The Time | | • | In The Closet | | • | Who Is It | | • | Will You Be There | | • | Dangerous | | • | You Are Not Alone | | • | You Rock My World |
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Album Description
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."
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 THE King of Pop ! January 6, 2009
E. Szeligowski (Virginia Beach , VA USA)
I am a huge MJ fan and I love collecting his CDS , books , DVDs , etc . This was good to add to the collection (:
 pretty good December 26, 2008
shawn (usa)
as far as michael jackson goes this is a pretty good cd set. it covers his career with the jackson 5 and his solo career. all the songs i like from michael jackson are on this set so i'm happy with it.
Looks Great .... September 12, 2008
AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
but looks can be deceiving. I suppose it's understandable that devoted fans of Michael Jackson would automatically assign 5 stars to a release with two discs from Epic/Legacy (Sony) containing 38 tracks and, admittedly, one of the better pictures of him taken before things started to droop.
And, certainly, it delivers quite a package in terms of his biggest hits as a solo artist. However, in view of the fact he had close to 50 of those, why did they feel it necessary to include seven tracks from his days as part of The Jackson 5/The Jacksons? (these are tracks 1 to 3, 7 to 9 and 14 on disc 1). It's not as if there aren't already enough compilations covering that aspect of his career from the same distributors!
In taking that approach they omitted some significant solo efforts such as I Wanna Be Where You Are (# 2 R&B/# 16 Hot 100 in 1972), Just A Little Bit Of You (# 4 R&B/# 23 Hot 100 in 1975), Jam (# 3 R&B/# 26 Hot 100 with Heavy D in 1992); Scream (# 2 R&B/# 5 Hot 100 in 1995 with Janet), and They Don't Care About Us (# 10 R&B/# 30 Hot 100 in 1996). The added omission of the late 1983 # 1 Hot 100 (for 6 weeks) and # 2 R&B duet with Paul McCartney, Say Say Say, is simply due to the fact that that came out on Columbia, and this covers mostly his Epic releases (although some Motown cuts are here as well).
The 8-page fold-out insert also has plus and minuses. On the plus side is the discography and sessionography of the contents covering four full pages and, on the reverse, the four pages of photographs showing him performing, including a kind of neat one of a very young Michael decked out in a suit and fedora holding onto a lamp post which, of course, will conjure up memories of Frank Sinatra. But I think a couple of those pages could have been sacrificed in order to extend the rather meagre one page of liner notes, written by the noted author/music critic Nelson George.
It's a very good compilation that could just as easily have been turned into an excellent one.
Blame it on the boogie March 18, 2008
Alyschia C. Williams (Dallas, Tx USA)
This cd was the bomb and i love both disks! Even the one with the group on it. "Blame it on the Boogie" is my number one song. I love to dance and i get down on that song. Great condition..I love it and thanks again.
Michael Jackson CD March 3, 2008
Sally (Greenwood, SC)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an excellant product for those of us who grew up with Michael Jackson. The selections take you from his years with Jackson 5 up until the present.
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