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Michael Jackson - The Best of Michael Jackson: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection Audio CD

A fair review of the Michael Jackson "The Best of Michael Jackson: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Michael Jackson reviews here, or go back to the Michael Jackson tabs.

Michael Jackson Band: Michael Jackson
Title: The Best of Michael Jackson: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection
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Release Date: 2000-11-21
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Got to Be There 2: I Wanna Be Where You Are 3: Rockin' Robin 4: People Make the World Go Round 5: With a Child's Heart 6: Happy [From Lady Sings the Blues] 7: Ben [From "Ben"] 8: We're Almost There 9: Just a Little Bit of You 10: One Day in Your Life 11: Music and Me

Michael Jackson
Just his pure angelic voice. Soulful music from Michael Jackson before all the madness. Sends me back to the good old days of the 70's.


It is Good
I had the LP years ago (One Day in Your Life) & enjoy the music a great deal. You need to be sort of sappy to like this CD. You hear so much crap out there these days- what is wrong with some songs about feelings. One Day in Your Life is the kind of song that everybody feels sometime.


Don't buy this one
d. Like an earlier reviewer said, the "Millennium" edition of this c. , as well as others are total rip-offs. If you really want a good collection of Michael's solo recordings from when he started back in 1971, buy the Michael Jackson "Anthology" collection - it's much better than this millennium spoof, and offers way more tracks than this few.


The Millenium Criminals Strike Again!
First of all, how can you justify putting out an 11-track cd of songs which are usually 3 minutes long or less? Even more so when the artist in question was a legend even BEFORE he went solo? Surely Michael Jackson deserves at least 24 tracks. It seems like the Millenium brand exists to rip off consumers and trivialize the legacy of major recording artists. Millenium has done similar hatchet jobs on the Spinners, the Four Tops and Sublime. If ever a company's product was ALL about the money, this is it! Put these turkeys out of business--don't buy this compilation!.


From the perspective of a 24 year-old aspiring music critic

So did I find any sonic gems on this album? You better believe it. For me, listening to any music created before 1985 feels like an expedition through time in search of hidden musical treasures; I really didn't start paying serious attention to the music industry until the summer of 1989 - the summer between my 6th and 7th grades. I was already familiar with "Got To Be There"; it's one of my favorite Michael Jackson slow songs of all time. For those who haven't heard it, I would just describe it as an innocent and passionate declaration of love.

We continue with urgently pleading "I Wanna Be Where You Are", a song I'd heard sampled in 1991 by rapper MC Lyte in her song "Georgie Porgie"; this song is great. "Rockin Robin" is a fun remake - you can almost picture a cartoon video in your head while you listen; the song is colorful and playful.

"People Make The World Go Round" was another surprise for me. I like it, but the reason it surprised me was because in 1996, the group Westside Connection used this song as the basis for their hit, "Gangstas Make The World Go Round". . . at any rate, I felt educated when I heard the original, which is wonderful. I always appreciate learning something new (or old, depending on your perspective, of course).

"With A Child's Heart", and "Happy" are both great ballads firmly rooted in the pop tradition; benign, tender and sugary. "Ben", on the other hand is young MJ's eerily beautiful masterpiece. From what I understand, the song was used for a horror movie called "Willard"; the movie was about a boy and his homicidal pet rat. . .

The next two tracks don't really fit Michael Jackson's voice in my opinion; they were produced with a philly-soul sound that was more rugged than Michael's signature pop/R&B. Eventually, we make our way to track #10, the ultra-somber "One Day In Your Life" - my favorite song on the album. Here are some of the lyrics:

One Day In Your Life

You'll Remember The Love You Found Here

You'll Remember Me Somehow

Though You Don't Need Me Now,

I Will Stay In Your Heart

And When Things Fall Apart,

You'll Remember One Day. . .

I think this song is very sad and moving. I admit that it may strike some as ridiculously corny, but it worked for me. The sound and feeling behind this song bring to mind the melancholy that fueled Gloria Estefan's 1987 ballad "Anything For You". . .

We close this collection with a ballad called "Music and Me" that ends the album perfectly. On this CD you're getting both versions of Michael - the child, and the adolescent. It's a great buy. . .

Thanks for reading

C. H. R.


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