New Jackson Single and Album

[LostFanBoy]

Sony Music has confirmed that it plans to release a new Michael Jackson album and single.
The song 'This Is It' will be made available on October 12, two weeks prior to the release of the concert film[/URL] of the same name, Entertainment Weekly reports.
The track will appear on a two-disc compilation - also titled This Is It - that will follow on October 26.
"Disc one will feature the original album masters of some of Michael's biggest hits arranged in the same sequence as they appear in the film," according to the record label.
"The disc ends with two versions of the never-released 'This Is It'. This song is featured in the film's closing sequence and includes backing vocals by Michael's brothers, the Jacksons."
The second disc will feature "previously unreleased versions" late[/URL] King Of Pop's catalogue of hits. It will also include a spoken word poem entitled Planet Earth and a 36-page commemorative booklet with "exclusive photos of Michael from his last rehearsal".
Former Sony CEO Tommy Mottola recently said that fans can expect to enjoy new music from the popstar for "decades to come".

looking forward to hearing this

[SibTiger33]

sounds good but isnt that poem the same one from the memorial?

[soundstory]

A spoken word poem ??

[LostFanBoy]

the single with backing vocals by his brothers

[raigraphixs]

No comments?

I think it's great, get to no.1

Emotions off missing micheal will surface when his new songs are released and the movie end of the month.

[GYRODEC1]

Hi,

Instead of just having one new song and masters of his classic songs. Why didn't he put brand new songs on the album.

I think were going to be ripped off again.
I'm sure MJ has 100's of unreleased songs hidden in his vaults that fans would love to hear.

[DJT75]

Originally Posted by GYRODEC1

Hi,

Instead of just having one new song and masters of his classic songs. Why didn't he put brand new songs on the album.

I think were going to be ripped off again.
I'm sure MJ has 100's of unreleased songs hidden in his vaults that fans would love to hear.

There's probably about 10 albums in the pipeline, release 1 per year & it may just pay off some of his debts. Release everything on 1 album & it'll be in the bargain buckets by next christmas.

[unique]

Originally Posted by GYRODEC1

Hi,

Instead of just having one new song and masters of his classic songs. Why didn't he put brand new songs on the album.

I think were going to be ripped off again.
I'm sure MJ has 100's of unreleased songs hidden in his vaults that fans would love to hear.

his management have said he has 100s of unheard songs in the vaults, but if that's the case, why haven't they been released before? he's not released anything in about 10 years apart from a load of reissues and compilations, and it seems most of the best unreleased tracks ended up on those. there are a bunch of other unreleased tracks floating around collectors but there's no unheard of songs that are much better than this

you have to ask the question, if he had 100s of unreleased songs, why are the unreleased? surely if they were any good they would have released them. and if this is the best they can do as an example of what they do have, then it's not a good sign of things to come, a 27 year old song that was originally given away to another singer to release 18 years ago as it wasn't good enough to release before

the new compilation is a real rip off. i thought they were going to put out a "live" album using parts of the rehearsals, not the same old hits yet again, especially not after releasing a hits compilation only about 3 months ago

[unique]

Originally Posted by GYRODEC1

Hi,

Instead of just having one new song and masters of his classic songs. Why didn't he put brand new songs on the album.

I think were going to be ripped off again.
I'm sure MJ has 100's of unreleased songs hidden in his vaults that fans would love to hear.

his management have said he has 100s of unheard songs in the vaults, but if that's the case, why haven't they been released before? he's not released anything in about 10 years apart from a load of reissues and compilations, and it seems most of the best unreleased tracks ended up on those. there are a bunch of other unreleased tracks floating around collectors but there's no unheard of songs that are much better than this

you have to ask the question, if he had 100s of unreleased songs, why are the unreleased? surely if they were any good they would have released them. and if this is the best they can do as an example of what they do have, then it's not a good sign of things to come, a 27 year old song that was originally given away to another singer to release 18 years ago as it wasn't good enough to release before

the new compilation is a real rip off. i thought they were going to put out a "live" album using parts of the rehearsals, not the same old hits yet again, especially not after releasing a hits compilation only about 3 months ago

[xit2050]

It appears Michael "stole" the song from Paul Anka.

Paul Anka Michael Jackson “This Is It” Co-Writer

http://www.tmz.com/2009/10/12/paul-a...I-never-heard/

[SibTiger33]

Originally Posted by unique

his management have said he has 100s of unheard songs in the vaults, but if that's the case, why haven't they been released before? he's not released anything in about 10 years apart from a load of reissues and compilations, and it seems most of the best unreleased tracks ended up on those. there are a bunch of other unreleased tracks floating around collectors but there's no unheard of songs that are much better than this

you have to ask the question, if he had 100s of unreleased songs, why are the unreleased? surely if they were any good they would have released them. and if this is the best they can do as an example of what they do have, then it's not a good sign of things to come, a 27 year old song that was originally given away to another singer to release 18 years ago as it wasn't good enough to release before

the new compilation is a real rip off. i thought they were going to put out a "live" album using parts of the rehearsals, not the same old hits yet again, especially not after releasing a hits compilation only about 3 months ago

I read a report a while ago about the unreleased tracks

saying that many of them were not of good enough quality to make a album right away.

My guess is that we will hear them in the future (most likely as samples) , once they have the time to actually work on them.

[DJT75]

Most artists do exactly the same, they maybe write 30 tracks, record 18 of them in the studio & choose which 12 to put on an album. You can't record every song or release every recording when some are obviously stronger than others. No-one will ever hear a groundbreaking new(old) Michael Jackson track because there simply isn't any, they'll just be the odd track like this one which sounds dated & not as good as others he released in that period.
I wouldn't get too excited about all this, it's selling old boots to make money only.

[GYRODEC1]

Quite right.

But I wouldn't be surprised if his new album 'This Is It' goes straight to number 1 in the charts. Even though there is only 1 new song on the album, a poem and the rest are his classics.

But I still feel were being ripped off. What the fans and the public want is unreleased songs that we have never heard of by MJ not his back catalogue of his old hits.

[LostFanBoy]

Originally Posted by raigraphixs

No comments?

I think it's great, get to no.1

Emotions off missing micheal will surface when his new songs are released and the movie end of the month.

I love it too ..kinda makes me emotional listening to it

[GYRODEC1]

Hi,

It's not bad, but I wish it was more beaty driven like Beat It or Smooth Criminal.