When I was in high-school and college, there was no escaping Michael Jackson. Among my peer group, it was cool to bash Michael Jackson's music as candy pop designed for unintelligent people. We couldn't get away from his music on the radio. Secretly, however, we watched the Thriller video every time it came on even as we outwardly sneered at its lack of substance.
Still, there was nothing better to blast through the speakers to get the dance floor active.
More recently, I began to appreciate his music, dancing, and production as the desire to be different gave way to waves of nostalgia and a true appreciation for high quality music production. Few albums sounded better than Michael Jackson's albums. The clean and tight bass drums, the crystal crisp highs, the vocals which were often spit out with a vehement passion ...
It is the music that has been overshadowed by the man over the last several years and I think his early death will serve to focus more attention on the man's incredible talent at composing, arranging, dancing, and singing.
Not sure there's much "underheard" Michael Jackson, but here's a previously unissued demo from The Ultimate Collection that you can find inexpensively on Amazon.com here. I always liked his ballds. They tended to be well written and were not as easy to dismiss as his dance-floor hits.
Michael Jackson - Fall Again (demo) (4.02MB; 128kbps MP3)
Friday, June 26, 2009
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