Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
When Michael Jackson died a few months ago, I didn't have an opportunity at the time to write down any of my feelings about his passing, much less his career, his legacy, and his impact on my own life. I didn't cry, I don't remember being "shocked," and I didn't really react at all, to be honest, except with some mild degree of incredulity over the way so many people were just wracked with...
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
'Coz this is THRILLER, thriller night, and no one's gonna save you from the beast about to strike. You know it's THRILLER!" Singing/screaming these lyrics is how I decide to wake my flatmate Fionn on Wednesday morning at 2.30am. He is not amused. Fionn is the only one I could convince to get up at all hours, trek out to the Liffey Valley cinema, and check out the 4am screening of Michael Jackson's...
highwayfive (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
My Favorite 100 LPS since I was born. My Top 100 LPs since I was born! 1. American Music Club – California 2. New Order – Low Life 3. The National – Alligator 4. Momus – Tender Pervert 5. Tricky – Maxinquaye 6. Pixies – Surfer Rosa 7. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures 8. Burial – Untrue 9. Portishead – Dummy 10. PJ Harvey – Rid of Me 11. The...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
As a film, Michael Jackson's This Is It is fairly straightforward, a series of musical numbers shot during rehearsals for the spectacular 50-show concert Jackson planned to stage at London's O2 arena but didn't live long enough to perform. As a cultural artifact, though, it's something more compelling: the final act of a pop legend, all the more powerful if you were one of the kids who bought ABC on...
Spanish Teaching (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Telegraph.co.uk 'This Is It' film: Equal parts thriller, off the wall, HIStoryUSA TodayBy Kevin Mazur via Sony Pictures By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY When Sony Pictures announced that it would release a Michael Jackson film culled from tapes of rehearsals for concerts that he would never get to perform, some hearts surely jumped at the …Michael [...]
USA Today (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
If 'This Is It' doesn't miraculously restore the middle-aged Michael Jackson to his past glory, it at least offers glimpses of ...
PooterGeek (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Further to my rant about clueless DJ’s replacing proper producers, here are a couple of funny little animations about the horrors of being a mastering engineer to today’s “talent”: Mastering: The Movie Part One and Part Two. And, from an interview this month’s Sound on Sound magazine, here’s Bruce Swedien, studio engineer for Michael Jackson’s Off The Wall...
Martian Martian Martian! (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Ruby and Michael just stood there glaring at each other. Then Michael broke the silence. "I don't really care how I got here. Now that I'm here, I'm stayin'. And there's nothing a little witchie-poo like you can do about it. Naah-naah. Wee-hee!" "You are most definitely not staying here!" said Rhea "I don't even like your damn music!" "Now you're just being ignorant....
VEACE (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
This is a list of songs I've posted since the inception of this Hilarious Thing Called Blog. I'd totally put all these songs in my ipod and name it "Veace Playlist" except I gave my ipod away to a McDonald's customer. I also have a McDonald's charge on my credit card for $14.58, which leads me to believe I bought him and seventeen of his friends dinner. Yeah, girl! Shake That – Eminem...
MTV News (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Song showcases MJ's often-overlooked talent as a singer. By James Montgomery Michael Jackson rehearses for his "This Is It" tour Photo: Kevin Mazur/AEG/Getty Images Michael Jackson was a hell of a singer. I only say this because to the casual music fan, it might not be apparent. Whether it was because so much about him — his dance moves, his style, his swagger — was so dynamic,...
Althouse (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Posthumous Michael Jackson, streamable at the official site . My observations — sorry, Michael: 1. The words are like one of those awful finale songs the write for "American Idol." 2. The singing is not up to your standard. Presumably, if you'd lived, you'd have rerecorded it with more of a feeling of style, varying between urgency and effortlessness, instead of continuing throughout...
MTV News (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
New song appears twice on soundtrack to upcoming documentary. By Gil Kaufman Michael Jackson's <i>This Is It</i> Photo: Epic The new Michael Jackson single, "This Is It," debuted online at midnight on Monday (October 12), with some instantly speculating that the heartstring-tugging song could become one of the late pop star's best-selling singles of all time. The spare, mid-tempo...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
If you were hoping that the King of Pop would bow out with a song as good as Billie Jean, Scream or Smooth Criminal, then you may be in for a disappointment You don't want to damn something before you've actually experienced it, but I don't hold out a great deal of hope for the forthcoming Michael Jackson film and CD, This Is It . There's undoubtedly a fascinating documentary to made about Jackson's...
Chart Blog (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Posthumous releases are a strange phenomenon. They don't always work, sometimes you can see the join, and there's something a little icky about hearing the voice of someone you know is no longer with us, singing a song you've never heard before. And if it's a song they weren't keen to release in the first place, there's the voyeurism factor to overcome too. This being Michael Jackson, all of the emotions...
Haystak Music (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Thriller was the sixth studio album by Michael Jackson. The LP was released on November 30, 1982 by Epic Records as the follow-up to Jackson's 1979 album "Off the Wall." With a production budget of $750,000, recording sessions took place between April and November 1982 at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California. Assisted by producer Quincy Jones, Jackson wrote four of Thriller's...
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