What timing!

MJ is such a performance artist, I don't think it will be the same.

feh, and it will all sell now that no one ever that he was a pedo.... Where were these fans his past few albums?

FeedTheCollapse: feh, and it will all sell now that no one ever thought that he was a pedo.



ftfm.

Michael Jackson's method of producing music was to hire a number of composers and have them just churn stuff out. He would then hire more well-known producers to make something out of the bits and pieces. It will be decades before they run out of stuff he recorded.

Something tells me Prince will have more posthumous albums to release than MJ, Tupac and Biggie combined.

Just so we're clear, there's usually a REASON an artist didn't release those tracks.

I produced miles and miles of recordings that I don't consider representative or 'good enough'.

God save dead artists from their vulture-like inheritors.

FeedTheCollapse: feh, and it will all sell now that no one ever that he was a pedo.... Where were these fans his past few albums?

His last album sold over 10 million copies. His true fans never really went anywhere. (But seeing them during/after the trials really creeped me the fark out.)

FeedTheCollapse 2009-07-03 01:10:21 PM
feh, and it will all sell now that no one ever that he was a pedo.... Where were these fans 'HITS' his past few albums?

Any one with more than a passing interest in music knows that all decent(and many not so decent)artists have many, many songs that were never released and there are reasons for this; the primary one is that 85% of the time the tracks are sub-par to crap.

It will be the same with him; yeah, the stuff will be released and wiill most likely sell millions of dollars worth, if not millions of copies, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are good albums.

People keep acting like Jackson was a comtempory artist; the guy hasn't released any new music is ages and then the stuff tanked.

Mottola knows better; he's just hyping it.

mfaby: FeedTheCollapse 2009-07-03 01:10:21 PM
feh, and it will all sell now that no one ever that he was a pedo.... Where were these fans 'HITS' his past few albums?

Any one with more than a passing interest in music knows that all decent(and many not so decent)artists have many, many songs that were never released and there are reasons for this; the primary one is that 85% of the time the tracks are sub-par to crap.

It will be the same with him; yeah, the stuff will be released and wiill most likely sell millions of dollars worth, if not millions of copies, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are good albums.

People keep acting like Jackson was a comtempory artist; the guy hasn't released any new music is ages and then the stuff tanked.

Mottola knows better; he's just hyping it.

All I need to refute this is to listen to some of the tracks on Pearl Jam's Lost Dogs collection, such as Yellow Ledbetter...

MJ will be making money for his Estate for the next 40 or 50 years.

Dralenan 2009-07-03 04:39:27 PM
mfaby: FeedTheCollapse 2009-07-03 01:10:21 PM
feh, and it will all sell now that no one ever that he was a pedo.... Where were these fans 'HITS' his past few albums?

Any one with more than a passing interest in music knows that all decent(and many not so decent)artists have many, many songs that were never released and there are reasons for this; the primary one is that 85% of the time the tracks are sub-par to crap.

It will be the same with him; yeah, the stuff will be released and wiill most likely sell millions of dollars worth, if not millions of copies, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are good albums.

People keep acting like Jackson was a comtempory artist; the guy hasn't released any new music is ages and then the stuff tanked.

Mottola knows better; he's just hyping it.

All I need to refute this is to listen to some of the tracks on Pearl Jam's Lost Dogs collection, such as Yellow Ledbetter...

What exactly are you refuting? Is Yellow Ledbetter any good?
Or is it crap?

Since I'm not a PJ fan I know nothing about 'Yellow Ledbetter'

I never said ALL the tracks were crap and unless Lost Dogs is a bootleg, then they released it, it isn't in the vaults and they thought it good enough to let out into the public.

And this:

Linux_Yes 2009-07-03 07:10:29 PM
MJ will be making money for his Estate for the next 40 or 50 years.

At LEAST that long. His death is the best thing that could happen to his career.

mfaby:

What exactly are you refuting? Is Yellow Ledbetter any good?
Or is it crap?

Since I'm not a PJ fan I know nothing about 'Yellow Ledbetter'

I never said ALL the tracks were crap and unless Lost Dogs is a bootleg, then they released it, it isn't in the vaults and they thought it good enough to let out into the public.


Here's the Wikipedia article on "Yellow Ledbetter" for you (new window)

/And "Lost Dogs" while i'm at it, too (new window)

davynelson: Just so we're clear, there's usually a REASON an artist didn't release those tracks.
I produced miles and miles of recordings that I don't consider representative or 'good enough'.

That's generally true, however in Michael's case, he was a crazy perfectionist. There's a reason why it took five years to release each album. He had a Brian Wilson-like obsession for nothing but total and complete perfection, especially in the wake of Thriller. I mean, how DO you even begin to followup something that monstrous? Is it even possible to top it?

Well, Michael tried. And the standards that he set for himself were so lofty and elated, I'm willing to bet that any of his unreleased work would almost be certifiable monster hits in any other artist's catalogue.

But Michael was not just any other artist. And just making hits was not good enough for him. He was looking for something more....transcendence, perhaps.

I look forward to hearing what he has been tinkering around with the last several years.