My Thoughts:
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)

Press Release:
In the three years since Michael Jackson's first solo album, Off the Wall, sold 7 million copies and spawned four hit singles, black music has veered away from the danceable but ultraslick style that Off the Wall epitomized. From Prince to Marvin Gave, from rap to Rick James, black artists have incorporated increasingly mature and adventurous themes–culture, sex, politics–into grittier, gutsier music. So when Jackson's first solo single since 1979 turned out to be a wimpoid MOR ballad with the refrain "the doggone girl is mine," sung with a tame Paul McCartney, it looked like the train had left the station without him.

Tracklist:
1. "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" – 6:02
2. "Baby Be Mine" – 4:20
3. "The Girl Is Mine" – 3:42
4. "Thriller" – 5:57
5. "Beat It" – 4:17
6. "Billie Jean" – 4:57
7. "Human Nature" – 4:05
8. "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" – 3:58
9. "The Lady in My Life" – 4:12

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