Michael Jackson - Thriller

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2015

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian start off the month of massive albums with the biggest and bestselling album of all time, Michael Jackson's Thriller (1982. Epic). Following up on the success of his collaboration with Quincy Jones on 1979's Off the Wall, Jackson re-teamed with the producer to create this career defining record. Hailed as the album that saved the music industry, no less than 7 of Thriller's 9 tracks were released as singles. Bill and Brian discuss how they view Michael Jackson, his career, and the legacy he created. They also talk about Brian's first experience with Jackson's music when he was in kindergarten, Jackson's development into a worldwide phenomenon, world music, legendary bass lines, the cult of personality, and as always a track by track review of the whole album!

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene.
0:33.0	I said don't mind, but what do you mean?
0:36.0	I'm the one?
0:38.3	Who would dance on the floor and around?
0:43.3	She said, I am the one.
0:46.3	Who would dance on a floor and in the round?
0:53.3	She told me her name was Billy Jean
0:56.0	And she calls to sing
0:58.0	Then heavy hair turned me the ice and dreams of being the one
1:02.0	Who'll dance
1:04.0	When we blow
1:05.0	Get around
1:06.0	People always told me Be careful what you do Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bill.
1:17.6	And I'm Brian.
1:18.7	And it's just the two of us this evening.
1:20.2	Yeah, it's been a while since we haven't had a guest.
1:24.1	So what we do here on The Great Albums podcast is every week we take a different album of music and just talk about what makes it great.
1:32.3	And this is from the perspective of just some fans of music.
1:35.8	Yep.
1:36.2	You know, we're not documentarians.
1:38.8	Nor are we critics per se.
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