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The Essential | 
| Artist: Michael Jackson
Label: Columbia
Category: Music
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Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 276
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
EAN: 5099752042227
ASIN: B000A3IF8G
Release Date: July 18, 2005
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | I Want You Back | | • | ABC - The Jackson 5 | | • | The Love You Save The Jackson 5 | | • | Got To Be There | | • | Rockin Robin | | • | Ben | | • | Blame It On The Boogie - The Jacksons | | • | Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) | | • | Dont Stop Til You Get Enough | | • | Off The Wall | | • | Rock With You | | • | Shes Out Of My Life | | • | Can You Feel It | | • | The Girl Is Mine (Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney) | | • | Billie Jean | | • | Beat It | | • | Wanna Be Startin Something | | • | Human Nature | | • | P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) | | • | I Just Can't Stop Loving You (Michael Jackson And Siedah Garrett) | | • | Thriller |
Disc 2
| • | Bad | | • | The Way You Make Me Feel | | • | Man In The Mirror | | • | Dirty Diana | | • | Another Part Of Me | | • | Smooth Criminal | | • | Leave Me Alone | | • | Black Or White | | • | Remember The Time | | • | In The Closet (Duet By Michael Jackson And Mystery Girl) | | • | Who Is It | | • | Heal The World | | • | Will You Be There | | • | You Are Not Alone | | • | Earth Song | | • | They Dont Care About Us | | • | You Rock My World |
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A Career Retrospective November 8, 2007
Crazy Bald Heid (Surrey, England)
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
From the stirring opening of I Want You Back this collection will hook you, this is the only collection of Michael Jackson's entire career and demonstrates with great clarity why he was the self styled "King of Pop" before the media circus and the Prince of Perversion.
The urgency of the opening three Jackson 5 songs is astonishing, and the delivery and phrasing of an eight year old boy prodigious. I'm not so keen on the treble of ballads that pass the time until the disco fuelled Jacksons hits, which are again peerless pop. The solo career from Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough right through to Smooth Criminal are more polished peerless pop from when he ruled the world.
The collection does drop from this rarified air but even the later songs are better than you might remember.
The only genuine full career retrospective of a formerly great artist. Magical you will know every song and nearly every word.
Really ultimate. August 6, 2005
Sonic
102 out of 106 found this review helpful
Why there had to be another Michael Jackson Best of-album with a similar tracklist as "History", "Greatest Hits", "Number Ones" and "The Ultimate Collection" remains an open question. But in contrast to the Box Set this album is a lot less expensive. So if you like "The Jackson 5", "The Jacksons" and Michael as a solo artist this is the ideal collection of songs.
The first CD starts off peppy with "I want you back", "ABC" and "The love you save" which are without a doubt the three best songs of the "Jackson 5" and will surely put you in a good mood.
"Got to be there" and "Ben" are two timeless ballads which show young Michael's enormous volume. After that the album is taken to another level by a row of sensational dancefloor tracks like "Shake Your Body" and Michael's first ultimate worldwide hit "Don't stop 'til you get enough", which will truly get every party going. Nevertheless the album even manages to beat this with the never-to-be-beaten baseline of "Billie Jean" and the immensely powerful "Beat It".
The second CD presents seven hits from "Bad" including the fantastic "Man in the Mirror" and the catchy "Smooth Criminal".
This is followed by Michael's biggest hit of the 90s "Black or White" and further great songs from the "Dangerous"-album. Among them classics like the tremendously groovy "Who is it" and the bombast-ballade "Will you be there".
Fortunately the album also includes the two undoubtedly best songs from the "History"-album. The irresistible, furious finale of "Earth Song" is probably the most emotional and most rousing piece of music ever put on CD. Not without reason did the song remain on top of the charts for 7 weeks. The original percussive and guitar-driven "They don't care about us" is no less fabulous.
To sum it up, on this album every great song is followed by another smash and it thereby shows an immense variety of music. The two CDs undenieably demonstrate that most of Jackson's songs are surely timeless. Therefore "The Essential Michael Jackson" is the ultimate album for everyone who likes good music. There is no better.
The most comprehensive Michael Jackson collection! June 27, 2009
G. Basford (Nairn, Scotland)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Released in 2005, this is most certainly the collection that covers Michaels entire career. Starting with the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" on Disc 1, moving through his early solo career with the beautiful "Ben" and the quirky "Rockin Robin" we then move onto his teenage years with the Jacksons "Shake Your Body" and "Blame It On The Boogie". We are then brought on his solo career again with the 4 mega-hits from his Off The Wall album. Back to the Jacksons again for the big hit "Can You Feel It". No less than 6 tracks from the biggest selling album of all time "Thriller" come next, before we finish off Disc 1 with the lovely "I Just Cant Stop Loving You" and of course "Thriller" itself. Disc 2 kicks in with "Bad" and we have another 7 tracks from the album too, including the wonderful "Dirty Diana" and "The Way You Make Me Feel", before we move onto 6 tracks from the "Dangerous" album including my favourites, the guitar driven "Black Or White", the gorgeous ballad "Heal The World" and the beautiful "Will You Be There". To finish off this outstanding collection we have the ballad "You Are Not Alone", "Earth Song", the drum driven anthem "They Don't Care About Us" and to finish with, from his final album "Invincible" we have "You Rock My World". You cannot get more comprehensive than this collection, so if you are looking for an album that covers Michaels entire career (and not just the obvvious tracks) then you cannot go wrong with this. The only question I ask is why "One Day In Your Life" was missed off. A small gripe though and a track you can find elsewhere. Remember Michael with this wonderful album!
The Best MJ Compilation August 18, 2009
MR NC SHACKLEY (London, England)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
For someone who, like me, was a huge fan of Jackson's singles, but not as keen on his album work, this is the perfect compilation. There are numerous other MJ compliations - `Number Ones' and the `King of Pop' which are both single disc, to the more expansive `The Collection' and `The Ultimate Collection', both comprising of five discs. I find the former to be too slim though, missing a crucial number of hits, while the latter contain a lot of outtakes and unreleased songs aimed more at die-hard fans.
`The Essential Michael Jackson', with two discs, seems to be the only collection wide enough to include nearly all of his biggest hits, but not so large that it contains fillers and extras. All the tracks, with one or two exceptions, are in chronological order, beginning with some of the Jackson 5 hit singles, through to The Jacksons, leaving about three quarters of the CDs for the best of his solo work. Unsurprisingly, the bulk of the songs come from his three most successful albums - Thriller, Bad, and Dangerous.
Some Jackson fans may complain that it doesn't include enough songs from History (3) and Invincible (1), but then this is more of a hits collection than a true career retrospective. Of course, with MJ's recent death, there may be a flurry of compilations which manage to do this better in the near future, but for now, those looking for the essential MJ shouldn't look further than here.
"He really was the king of pop" September 15, 2009
J. Jenkins (Dudley Port, England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
While there will always be those who complain that a greatest hits butchers an artist's body of work, (the liner notes here basically say as much)there can be few better arguments for Mike as the King of Pop than this double disc retrospective. The sheer number of writing credits for Jackson himself is particularly striking, and surely enough to guarantee his place in the pantheon of greats alongside McCartney and Lennon, Bowie, Prince, et al.
What you have here, besides more pop classics than you can shake a stick at, is a pocket history of late 20th century black music, from Motown to disco to modern R&B, that proves Jackson as one of the most adaptable artists there was. He could do anything he turned a gloved hand to, and hopefully that will endure long after the more salacious interest in his private life and death fade away.
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