Michael Jackson - Vol. 1-Greatest Hits History
Michael Jackson - Vol. 1-Greatest Hits History
Basically an unnescessary release, but of course superb.,
Basically, I simply can’t see the need of this re-release of the first disc of the HIStory set - HIStory was certainly a release no-one should miss, and even if the second disc contained several missers or mediocre songs (’Smile’, ‘Chieldhood’, ‘Come Together’, ‘This Time Around’, ‘2Bad’) it did contain a fair share of classics proving that Michael has - or had at that time, Invincible might certainly question this - not lost his touch as the King Of Pop - take songs like ‘Scream’, ‘They Don’t Care About Us’, ‘Stranger In Moscow’, ‘Earth Song’ and ‘You Are Not Alone’.
Instead, I think Michael should have waited a couple of years and grapped the opportunity to release a double CD with ALL his greatest hits - because there are SO many fantastic songs NOT included here - let me mention: ‘Off The Wall’, ‘Workin’ Day And Night’, ‘Human Nature’, ‘Say Say Say’, ‘Liberian Girl’, ‘Dirty Diana’, ‘Smooth Criminal’, ‘Leave Me Alone’, ‘Jam’, ‘In The Closet’, ‘Who Is It’, ‘Give In To Me’, ‘Will You Be There’, ‘Dangerous’, the above mentioned HIStory songs, and from his recent Invincible release ‘Cry’ and ‘Speechless’.
All of these songs are masterpieces, and many of them MUCH better than some of material included on this CD, even if all these songs are excellent.
I’ve seen listed - with no details - a forthcoming Cd and DVD combi-release titteled #1’s - let’s see what this brings, but probably not a complete collection of Michael’s best works, unfortunately.
Thank you for releasing this!
I always wanted to buy a MJ album, and when History was released back in 1995 as a double cd, I didn’t buy it. It was expensive and I was only interested in the first cd with the big hits, not the second which had only new material. Well, they have finally released the first cd of big hits seperately and I’m extremely happy!
I can’t say that I’m a big MJ fan, like I said this is the first album that I own by him, but one can’t deny that he’s truly one of the all-time greats. This cd is full of classics, only a couple of other artists have as many hits (Beatles, Elvis, Whitney, Madonna, etc.).
I love all the songs, the only complaint that I might have is the exclusion of “Smooth Criminal”, and to a lesser extent songs like “Leave Me Alone”. But it’s understandable because if they put everything on this cd, then nobody would buy his older albums. So it’s okay, the cd contains a lot of classics so it’s no problem that a couple are missing. In my opinion, this is a cd that should be in everybody’s collection. If you want to buy a MJ album, this is the perfect choice!