Hey yall i've got a question for you older members, who are old enough tor remember all the hype & succes of thriller?

 

 

well here it goes:

 

 

1.Whats your reation when you first saw thriller wne it was brand new???

 

2.Did yall like mj before thriller & did your view on him changer after thriller??

 

3.Did you get caught up in all the hype around that video & album?? did it deseve all the hype??

 

4.Did mj change your way of looking at music videos???

 

5.If thriller came out today do you think it will have caught the same hype & succes??

 

6.Is thriller mj best album or do you think he's done better albums??

 

 

 

Sorry if its its to0 any question but i wasnt born yet when thriller came out and the the hype & succes around it

and that infamousmoonwalk at the motown 25th aNNIVERSARY SHOW.

 

Damn i wish i was born earlier so i could experience all that and mtv was fresh and new.

And music video was still a new thing on your tv screen.

 

 

I loved Thriller back in the day and had the album (on cassette). I already liked MJs music, having liked (but not bought) the Off The Wall album. However, I got fed up with all the hype and the press coverage - and then my sister bought the album too and then played it to death. But I wasn't really interested in the Bad project, although I liked Man In the Mirror and Dirty Diana.

 

Thriller captured a moment in time, it was phenomenal and helped rewrite certain aspects of the music business, some good, some not so good. On a positive note it was a success that was deserved as the material was excellent. Not so good was the legacy it left of an album becoming the source of so many singles and all the accompanying hype. Several singles releases helped keep the album near the top of the chart for well over a year but it led to other acts following suit and mining an album for many singles. Few acts had done this before Thriller. After Thriller it became the norm and led to a certain staleness on radio and in the charts - album sales soared but singles sales dropped.

 

An album these days doesn't capture the public in the same way as Thriller did as many marketing techniques now the norm were perfected by MJ and Epic records with Thriller. Some albums since have had long shelf lives with several successful hit singles keeping the album up there (eg Come On Over by Shania Twain in the late 90s had a long shelf life due to a succession of hit singles pulled from the album) but none have come as close as capturing the success that Thriller had in 1983 and 1984.

 

It is by far MJs best album - and to think, it was a flop when first released! It took Billie Jean, released months after the album, to kick start the whole phenomenon...

I loved Thriller back in the day and had the album (on cassette). I already liked MJs music, having liked (but not bought) the Off The Wall album. However, I got fed up with all the hype and the press coverage - and then my sister bought the album too and then played it to death. But I wasn't really interested in the Bad project, although I liked Man In the Mirror and Dirty Diana.

 

Thriller captured a moment in time, it was phenomenal and helped rewrite certain aspects of the music business, some good, some not so good. On a positive note it was a success that was deserved as the material was excellent. Not so good was the legacy it left of an album becoming the source of so many singles and all the accompanying hype. Several singles releases helped keep the album near the top of the chart for well over a year but it led to other acts following suit and mining an album for many singles. Few acts had done this before Thriller. After Thriller it became the norm and led to a certain staleness on radio and in the charts - album sales soared but singles sales dropped.

 

An album these days doesn't capture the public in the same way as Thriller did as many marketing techniques now the norm were perfected by MJ and Epic records with Thriller. Some albums since have had long shelf lives with several successful hit singles keeping the album up there (eg Come On Over by Shania Twain in the late 90s had a long shelf life due to a succession of hit singles pulled from the album) but none have come as close as capturing the success that Thriller had in 1983 and 1984.

 

It is by far MJs best album - and to think, it was a flop when first released! It took Billie Jean, released months after the album, to kick start the whole phenomenon...

 

Wow thats a fantastic post thanks for postin i looove hearing people's opinion about mj & thriller who are old enough

to remember all that hype & succes of thriller. I had no idea it was a flop when it was first released wow thaNSK ALOT.

I guees "Billie Jean" was the saviour of the album and that "Moonwalk"

 

Can i ask another question what did people think of mj back in 87 when he released "Bad" didn't he get lots of flack

because he was looking "White"???

 

 

Wow thats a fantastic post thanks for postin i looove hearing people's opinion about mj & thriller who are old enough

to remember all that hype & succes of thriller. I had no idea it was a flop when it was first released wow thaNSK ALOT.

I guees "Billie Jean" was the saviour of the album and that "Moonwalk"

 

Can i ask another question what did people think of mj back in 87 when he released "Bad" didn't he get lots of flack

because he was looking "White"???

There was a bit of negativity surrounding MJ in 1987, certainly his skin colour was an issue by then. It didn't help that he released one of the worst tracks on the album as the opening single. In fact, three singles in to the project and he missed the top 20, Man In the Mirror reaching only #21. However, by the time he arrived in the UK in July 1988 he was back in the papers everyday and his popularity was back up again. I lived in Wembley in July 1988 when he played there, it was utter chaos! Far worse than when 100,000 people used to descend on Wembley for the football!

 

Thriller had entered the album charts at #29 on 04/12/82, its early chart run was 29-15-19-36-36-30-19-13-11-5-2-1, the upsurge being due to Billie Jean. the first single, The Girl Is Mine had received a lukewarm reception. It was the release of Billie Jean that kick started everything - the album was at #13 the week before Billie Jean charted and was #1 the same week Billie Jean reached #1.

 

The full chart run of Thriller up to 2004 can be found at http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/TopTen/acts/act01397.htm - it spent most of 1983 and 1984 in the top 10!

I remember Thriller coming out in December 1982. No-one paid much attention really until Billie Jean which is one of my all-time 5 favourite singles. Thriller's definitely Jacko's best-album and my favourite of all-time. Had it first on cassette in 1983. As Robbie said above, I too had liked the singles from Off The Wall but hadn't bought the album. My sister worked as a Saturday girl in a record shop and she said the demand for Thriller was just phenomenal, especially the day after the Thriller short-film was shown. One person after the other wanted the album and all ages too. A true phenomenon. How many albums have had such popularity?

Many people prefer Bad to Thriller but I fail to see why. Bad is very good but Thriller's awesome.

Edited May 14, 200817 yr by Crazy Chris

1.Whats your reation when you first saw thriller wne it was brand new??? - Indifferent with the exception of Beat It which is my all time fave Jackson song and I still feel the same way in the present day

 

2.Did yall like mj before thriller & did your view on him changer after thriller?? - Not especially but I did like Don't Stop Till You Get Enough and Off The Wall

 

3.Did you get caught up in all the hype around that video & album?? did it deseve all the hype?? - No and No, the Thriller video was good and cleverly done but overated

 

4.Did mj change your way of looking at music videos??? - No can't say it did tbh

 

5.If thriller came out today do you think it will have caught the same hype & succes?? - No I think that Michael Jackson is damaged goods now, his career is as good as over regardless of his talent

 

6.Is thriller mj best album or do you think he's done better albums?? - It is his best but that is not saying much

Edited May 14, 200817 yr by Tim Barnes

1.Whats your reation when you first saw thriller wne it was brand new??? Irrelevent to my life.

 

2.Did yall like mj before thriller & did your view on him changer after thriller??NO and no

3.Did you get caught up in all the hype around that video & album?? did it deseve all the hype?? No and it definitely did not deserve the hype

 

4.Did mj change your way of looking at music videos??? With Thriller yes it did.

 

5.If thriller came out today do you think it will have caught the same hype & succes?? No chance

 

6.Is thriller mj best album or do you think he's done better albums?? Don't care

A great set of questions to ask

 

I was 11/12 at the time Thriller broke big for MJ, so this is my viewpoint from the time:

 

1.Whats your reation when you first saw thriller when it was brand new???

 

I thought it was the most amazing video ever made, like a mini film, having seen the classic zombie movie The Evil Dead less than 6 months earlier.

 

2.Did yall like mj before thriller & did your view on him changer after thriller??

 

"One Day In Your Life" was the 2nd single I ever bought (in 1981), whilst I bought Billie Jean on 7" vinyl & I remember as a 9/10 yerar old going to school Disco's & I loved the Jacksons "Can You Feel It".

 

3.Did you get caught up in all the hype around that video & album?? did it deserve all the hype??

 

I guess so. I & a few others went round a school friends house the Saturday morning after the video was shown on a Friday night on Channel 4 (I think), as he had a video recorder (which not too many homes had back then) & we watched the video. I bought the album on cassette in January 1984 with money gained from Christmas. Whilst the video was definitely worth the money & hype spent on it.

 

4.Did mj change your way of looking at music videos???

 

Yes. It pushed the envelope & moved the goal posts big time.

 

5.If thriller came out today do you think it will have caught the same hype & succes??

 

No chance. Thriller came out at the right time, in the right place. Music Television Videos were just beginning to get popular thanks to the emergence of cable TV & MTV in the early 1980s. Only the 1980s could have produced global super stars like MJ, Madonna, Duran Duran, George Michael & Prince. The world was recovering from a near decade long recession, so people had more money to spend. Radio & TV stations were starting to become more tolerant of black music artists in their own right. Whilst VHS video players were becoming more popular & cheaper to buy. MJ looked really good in 1983 before he ruined his face with plastic surgery & started to record ever more increasingly neurotic/paranoia tracks or (even worse) Messianic schmaltz that reached its nadir with the appallingly offensive Earth Song.

 

6.Is thriller mj best album or do you think he's done better albums??

 

No, Off The Wall is his best album. Thriller contains The Girl Is Mine which is corny treacly pap, and I don't like Beat It, as I can't & never could stand Eddie Van Halen's w*n**ry style of guitar playing.

1.Whats your reation when you first saw thriller wne it was brand new??? Irrelevent to my life.

 

2.Did yall like mj before thriller & did your view on him changer after thriller??NO and no

3.Did you get caught up in all the hype around that video & album?? did it deseve all the hype?? No and it definitely did not deserve the hype

 

4.Did mj change your way of looking at music videos??? With Thriller yes it did.

 

5.If thriller came out today do you think it will have caught the same hype & succes?? No chance

 

6.Is thriller mj best album or do you think he's done better albums?? Don't care

 

i agree with these answers.... and craigs(tim barnes), im totally nonchalant about him.... hes never impressed me much although i understand his popularity (retro wise) in some quarters.... but he just wasnt my taste in music.

 

i detest the creep now.

Although I arrived late in the world when MJ 'rulled the globe', I can still have an opinion. :lol:

 

I think 'Thriller' is an awsome video, probably did influence other artists to actually 'improve' their video's, as most video's from the start of the 80's would probably just be shot in a room with the artist swaying on the spot or singing up against a wall.

 

Is Thriller his best album? Nooo... Although It does contain some of his most well-known material. Shame really, as fare as MJ is concerned, he is past it. He'll NEVER have a #1 again, not in the Uk, not in the US and not anywhere else, (or maybe Japan).