Thriller video fact number Twenty-Six:

Michael Jackson used to be black.

I remember the first time MTV played Thriller, it was really long, and the only memory I had of the "before song started" was someone got his head run over by a bus tire ... I only saw it that one time, scared the crap out of me, and everytime I think of that song, the head being run over is my first memory, then I think of zombies dancing.
/did anyone else ever see that?
//have seen the 14 minute version many many times, and never see that part

I count only 11 of those facts as being about the "Thriller video." The rest of them are about the Thriller album or its component songs.

/wants to be starting something with Submitter

#27 If you care, you are old.

#28 Jackson's girlfriend in the video, Ola Ray, now lists her turn-offs as "men who like, or look like, Michael Jackson."

#29
having one great album within a genre makes you the king of that genre.

Uzzah: I count only 11 of those facts as being about the "Thriller video." The rest of them are about the Thriller album or its component songs.

/wants to be starting something with Submitter

ah what the hell, you just said it for me.

thx,
dc-kid

Of the 9 tracks on thriller, seven were released as singles, of those seven , there was no video made for four of them, P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing), The Girl Is Mine, Wanna Be Startin Something and Human Nature. Oh and of the seven singles, none did worse than #10 on the US top 40 pop singles chart.

thomps: #29
having one great album within a genre makes you the king of that genre.

#30 Avril Lavigne is the queen of punk.

Is this a Thriller diller night on Fark?

/wassa a diller?
//the midnight hour is close at hand

#31 Guys emulated Michael Jackson to get chicks and were successful.

I only knew the Brooke Shields one.
then he brought Webster to the next one. or maybe a monkey.

however, "Ola Ray" is GISstastic.

#32 Freddie Mercury was supposed to sing on Thriller, but the cocaine in his moustache frightened poor Michael.

#33 Who cares? Didn't RTFA. Thriller sucked then/sucks now.

jj325: #33 Who cares? Didn't RTFA. Thriller sucked then/sucks now.

i care so little about both this article and this thread that i simply have to post to let everyone know my apathy for this subject!

klondikekd: thomps: #29
having one great album within a genre makes you the king of that genre.

#30 Avril Lavigne is the queen of punk.

This is my favorite one.

She has been quoted recently as saying (I promise this is true):

"I'm covering Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" and while I'm singing there will be a video montage of me smoking cigarettes and flipping the bird"

Wow. She is so punk rawk it hurts.

She's also, for the first time, going to have backup dancers accompany her on stage (remember when the Ramones did that? No?) and she said "there will be kicks and punches!"

Again, her punk rawkness ... it hurts me.

WaltzingMathilda: klondikekd: thomps: #29
having one great album within a genre makes you the king of that genre.

#30 Avril Lavigne is the queen of punk.

This is my favorite one.

She has been quoted recently as saying (I promise this is true):

"I'm covering Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" and while I'm singing there will be a video montage of me smoking cigarettes and flipping the bird"

Wow. She is so punk rawk it hurts.

She's also, for the first time, going to have backup dancers accompany her on stage (remember when the Ramones did that? No?) and she said "there will be kicks and punches!"

Again, her punk rawkness ... it hurts me.

Darn, she is more hardcore than Ashlee Simpson. Maybe Ashlee can loan Avril those cool anarchy symbols Ashlee uses on her set.

thomps: #29
having one great the greatest album within a genre makes you the king of that genre.

Get off my lawn.

#34-It was played on the radio so much that a pre teen Boogerwolf wanted to poke out his eardrums so that he wouldn't have to hear it anymore.

/"Off The Wall" was his best work

Let me just say that I am not your typical Michael Jackson fan (more into indie music) but I was pretty impressionable when this album came out (11 years old).

So I am completely serious when I say that the song Human Nature written in part by Toto's Steve Porcaro is just an incredible song and could have been a hit for almost anyone.

"Thriller," the biggest-selling album ever,

Maybe for the world as a whole.

According to the RIAA, The Eagles Greatest Hits 1971-1975 is the all time biggest seller in America with 29 million sold to Thriller's 27 million.

True Fact: Ola Ray was the only naked Negro my boss allowed up on the wall of nudity in our shop.

thomps: #29
having one great album within a genre makes you the king of that genre.

Hey, Off The Wall was a better album.

The Thriller video came out when I was 3. I have been afraid of this man ever since. When he turns with those yellow eyes...

See you next Wednesday.

Just because the thread needed it: Thriller in the prison yard

Just gotta ask, who was the queen who volunteered to play the girlfriend? S/he gets so into the role...

According to the RIAA, The Eagles Greatest Hits 1971-1975 is the all time biggest seller in America with 29 million sold to Thriller's 27 million.


I spent Xmas season 1977 selling pens in Macy*s across from the electronics department where the only two records played ever were a disco Xmas album and the Eagles Greatest Hits. Needles to say, I grew to hate the Eagles.

radioman_: According to the RIAA, The Eagles Greatest Hits 1971-1975 is the all time biggest seller in America with 29 million sold to Thriller's 27 million.

56,000,000 reasons to poke out eardrums with a knitting needle.

/I have the best taste in music.
//This is not opinion, but fact.
///Trust me.