Michael Jackson: Bad 25th Anniversary

[Reyna ♔]

OFFICIAL TRACK LIST OF BAD 25TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION IS UNVEILED

New York, NY – Epic/Legacy Recordings in collaboration with the Estate of Michael Jackson today announced the highly anticipated track listing for the September 18th release of Michael Jackson BAD25 that celebrates the legendary album and record breaking BAD tour. Featured in the deluxe package, are three CDs, two collectible booklets, and the first ever authorized DVD release of a concert from the record breaking BAD World Tour – the July 16, 1988 sold out Wembley Stadium show in London.

Filled with previously re-mastered versions of iconic hits and un-released recordings from the King Of Pop, the BAD25 anniversary deluxe edition CDs and DVD will include the following:

CD one features re-mastered versions of Michael’s biggest hits on the original BAD album, including, “Smooth Criminal,” ”Man In The Mirror,” “Bad,” “Another Part of Me,” “The Way You Make Me Feel,” and “Dirty Diana” arranged in the same sequence as they appeared on the original album released 25 years ago. “Leave Me Alone” was added to the album as a bonus track following its initial release and has been included on the disc.

CD two offers fans a rare listen to thirteen additional tracks, 6 of which are previously unreleased demo recordings created at Michael’s personal studio built at his then-home on Hayvenhurst Avenue in Encino, California. Also included are all three bonus tracks from the 2001 expanded edition of BAD, the previously un-released French version of Michael performing the classic, “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You,” a high power version of “Speed Demon” remixed by Nero and the brand new remix of “Bad” worked on as an electrifying collaboration between Pitbull and Dutch DJ Afrojack.

Recordings included in this package reflect the songs and spirit of Michael Jackson’s artistry during BAD’s recording sessions and have been selected to show the different stages of how Michael’s songwriting and recording genius took shape. Some tracks are so complete that any other artist but Michael Jackson – who worked tirelessly to make sure his songs reflected his vision – might consider them finished tracks. Others are less complete but offer insight into Michael’s creative process in its various stages. Included is the demo, “Al Capone,” an early incarnation of what ultimately became “Smooth Criminal,” “Don’t Be Messin’ Around,” an example of a more complete demo, and a song initially titled, “Song Groove.” That song later became known as “Abortion Papers” which according to Michael’s own records, he spent considerable time in weighing how best to thoughtfully address something that was, and remains, a very personal and sensitive issue.

A true highlight of the package is CD three and the DVD – the never seen before live concert on DVD and its accompanying music CD of Michael’s legendary July 16, 1988 concert at Wembley Stadium. The concert is not a compilation of performances, but rather one complete show, exactly as Michael performed it for Prince Charles, Princess Diana and the 72,000 fans who were in the audience for that night’s sold out show. This show was one of the seven record-breaking nights played at the venue attended by more than half a million people – three times that many people tried to purchase tickets. The DVD was sourced from Michael Jackson’s personal VHS copy of the performance as shown on the JumboTrons during the concert. This footage was only recently unearthed and is the only known copy of the show to exist. The visuals have now been restored and the audio quality enhanced so that fans can share in the excitement of that famous night in 5.1 surround sound taken from the original multitrack recordings made that night.

In addition to the complete Wembley Show, the DVD will also contain “The Way You Make Me Feel” from Michael’s July 15th performance at Wembley Stadium. This is the only song not performed on July 16th due to the late start of that night’s show. Also included are the thrilling early performances of “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” and “Bad” from the Yokohama Stadium performance in September of 1987 during the first leg of the BAD World Tour.

BAD25 – COMPLETE TRACKLISTING:

DELUXE BOX TRACK LISTING

CD ONE – Original Album

1. Bad

2. The Way You Make Me Feel

3. Speed Demon

4. Liberian Girl

5. Just Good Friends

6. Another Part Of Me

7. Man In The Mirror

8. I Just Can’t Stop Lovin’ You

9. Dirty Diana

10. Smooth Criminal

11. Leave Me Alone

CD TWO – Bonus Tracks, Unreleased Tracks, Demos, Remixes

1. Don’t Be Messin’ Around

2. I’m So Blue

3. Song Groove (A/K/A Abortion Papers)

4. Free

5. Price Of Fame

6. Al Capone

7. Streetwalker

8. Fly Away

9. Todo Mi Amor Eres Tu (I Just Can’t Stop Loving You, Spanish Version)

10. Je Ne Veux Pas La Fin De Nous (I Just Can’t Stop Loving You, French Version)

11. Bad (REMIX BY AFROJACK FEATURING PITBULL – DJ BUDDHA EDIT)

12. Speed Demon (REMIX BY NERO)

13. Bad (REMIX BY AFROJACK – CLUB MIX)

CD THREE – CD Live at Wembley Stadium July 16, 1988

1. Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’

2. This Place Hotel

3. Another Part Of Me

4. I Just Can’t Stop Loving You

5. She’s Out Of My Life

6. I Want You Back / The Love You Save / I’ll Be There

7. Rock With You

8. Human Nature

9. Smooth Criminal

10. Dirty Diana

11. Thriller

12. Working Day And Night

13. Beat It

14. Billie Jean

15. Bad

16. Man In The Mirror

DVD – DVD Live at Wembley Stadium July 16, 1988

1. Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’

2. This Place Hotel

3. Another Part Of Me

4. I Just Can’t Stop Loving You

5. She’s Out Of My Life

6. I Want You Back / The Love You Save / I’ll Be There

7. Rock With You

8. Human Nature

9. Smooth Criminal

10. Dirty Diana

11. Thriller

12. Bad Groove (the Band Jam section)

13. Working Day And Night

14. Beat It

15. Billie Jean

16. Bad

17. Man In The Mirror (Encore)

And Bonus Tracks Include:

1. The Way You Make Me Feel (Performed at Wembley the previous night, July 15, 1988)

2. I Just Can’t Stop Loving You/Bad (Performed at Yokohama Stadium, September, 1987)

[Reyna ♔]

[bu.]

Price Of Fame and Al Capone are songs I've been wanting to hear for YEARS!! :excited:

[Reyna ♔]

Price Of Fame and Al Capone are songs I've been wanting to hear for YEARS!! :excited:

Me too, especially AC!!! Dude, I am so excited. Got the deluxe collectors edition on pre-order, I am SO ready for this

[bu.]

Me too, especially AC!!! Dude, I am so excited. Got the deluxe collectors edition on pre-order, I am SO ready for this

I seriously cannot wait! The DVD is gonna slay!

[cnd]

F*ck yeah! Now this is how you re-release a landmark album.

[jarrylf]

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD loving it. I can't wait for AC. If this had A Place without No Name...... I'd have to dive in the pool right now lol

[RedSimba]

I'm looking forward to hearing the unreleased songs! ("Streetwalker" was way too good to be left off the album ) I would've loved if they included the extended versions of "The Way You Make Me Feel" and "Bad" too (the parts after the false fade = epic!) but now I'm being greedy lol

[Chase]

Michael Jackson - Bad Afrojack Remix Featuring Pitbull Snippet

http://soundcloud.com/marchinglikeasoldierboy/bad-remix

[Kim]

This is way better than Thriller 25.

[Reyna ♔]

At least there are only a few remixes on the album

[bu.]

Not long to go

[cnd]

At least there are only a few remixes on the album

Thank god for that. I hated the remixes on T25. :& They were atrocious.

[Reyna ♔]

Thank god for that. I hated the remixes on T25. :& They were atrocious.

Right? Messing with perfection is a no-no. But we know the reasons behind each of them.

Thriller 25 remixes - Mike being nice and giving some artists he liked a chance to say they worked with the king.

Bad 25 remixes - Trying to stay current and re-introduce Michael to the new public.

But there are only three remixes on this album and 2 out of three are the same song. I say it's a "lesson learned from last time" situation.

[cnd]

Right? Messing with perfection is a no-no. But we know the reasons behind each of them.

Thriller 25 remixes - Mike being nice and giving some artists he liked a chance to say they worked with the king.

Bad 25 remixes - Trying to stay current and re-introduce Michael to the new public.

But there are only three remixes on this album and 2 out of three are the same song. I say it's a "lesson learned from last time" situation.

Exactly. I have yet to hear a decent MJ remix. It just goes to show that his music is flawless and shouldn't be tampered with.

[bu.]

I think it's great of them to not focus on the remixes this time. With T25 I think they focused way too much on the remixes rather than the wonderful album that is Thriller. This time I like how they're focusing on Bad the album rather than Bad the revamped version lol. Plus THE DVD

[Reyna ♔]

Mystery About Unreleased Michael Jackson Songs from “Bad” Anniversary Album

EXCLUSIVE There are some mysteries about a couple of unreleased tracks including in the upcoming Michael Jackson “Bad25″ album. Two of the eight tracks– which are really wonderful–are unknown entirely to the engineers who worked on “Bad” in 1986. Those tracks are a lovely ballad called “I’m So Blue” and a slice of funk called “Song Groove (aka Abortion Papers).” Neither Bruce Swedien nor Bill Bottrell has any memory of them. I played the songs for each of them this weekend, and came up with no answers. “Michael must have gotten out and recorded with someone else,” Bottrell told me.

But don’t worry–they are completely by Michael Jackson. They’re the genuine article.

The anniversary boxed set of the huge-selling 1987 album contains quite a few surprises. Eight of them, actually. There are eight unreleased tracks that didn’t make it onto the “Bad” album. Surprisingly, they’ve remained in the vaults at Sony all this time. One of them, called “Don’t Be Messin’ Around,” was released earlier this summer as the “B” side of a re-released single on “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” from Wal-Mart. I have no idea why Sony did that, since it seemed a squandered opportunity.

Now these eight tracks are coming as a separate CD inside “Bad25,” which contains four discs. The first disc is a remastered version of the original album. The second disc has these eight songs. The third disc is a live CD from a concert Michael performed on July 16, 1988 at Wembley Stadium in London. The fourth disc is a DVD of live performances from that time. Target customers get a disc of the original music videos from “Bad.” What’s unclear is what happens to a Spike Lee documentary about the making of “Bad,” which should have footage from the recording sessions with Quincy Jones, engineer Bruce Swedien, and manager mastermind Frank DiLeo.

“Bad25″ will be released on September 18th.

But it’s the eight songs that are going to make fans very, very happy. A couple of them are known, like “Don’t Be Messin’ Around” and . But the others are real surprises, especially a track called “Streetwalker.” It the vague feel of “The Way You Make Me Feel” in that it’s a Motown oriented shuffle. But it’s also a dynamite track. The version on “Bad25″ was mixed by Bottrell, but there are others by Swedien. Jackson was never satisfied with any of them. “Streetwalker” will be known to players of the video game “The Michael Jackson Experience.” But it’s also a hit. We’re going to be hearing ir on the radio– a lot. (“Streetwalker” and another track, “Fly Away,” were first included in the “Bad” re-release back in 2001.)

The others are all gems. “I’m So Blue” is beautiful ballad, with a vocal by Michael that recalls his best work. If Sony were smart, they’d release it as their first single from this set. It also has a harmonica solo that either is by Stevie Wonder or sounds just like him. The other tracks– “Al Capone,” “Free,” “Fly Away”– are also excellent.

There are reasons the songs didn’t make the final album.

“Price of Fame” is a mixture of a “Billie Jean” outtake, musically, combined with the Police’s “Spirits in the Material World.” Michael’s vocal on this track sometimes dips into his “real” voice–a lower register–than his stage falsetto and whisper that he perfected. “Free” is just another breezy ballad, and “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” was already on the album, and a hit. “Al Capone” is a different take on the hit, “Smooth Criminal.”

The strangest of the eight songs is titled “Song Groove (aka Abortion Papers).” Swedien doesn’t remember this track. Neither does Bottrell. It’s got a killer rhythm track and a very catchy hook and melody. But the lyrics–and I’m not sure whether Michael wrote them–are like the real flip side of “Billie Jean.” He sings “Those abortion papers/think about signing your name…”

I don’t know if Sony had producers fiddle with these tracks to make them sound more modern. They could very well have been augmented. But I hope the Jackson fans don’t try to destroy them the way they did the songs on the “Michael” album. Like those tracks, these are completely real, they’re Michael Jackson’s vocals, and they’re a wonderful reminder of the King of Pop at his zenith.

Source: http://www.showbiz411.com/2012/08/27/mystery-about-unreleased-michael-jackson-songs-from-bad-anniversary-album

[Reyna ♔]

I'm getting more and more excited for this by the moment But that "Michael" album reference has me concerned

[bu.]

I'm getting more and more excited for this by the moment But that "Michael" album reference has me concerned

That article has got me beyond excited ! That comment got me iffy too. I see they're blaming the fans though for the "Michael" albums 'failure' . Maybe if Sony hadn't [allegedly] tanked with the vocals in the first place then there'd be no doubt? Either way I hope they've left his vocals as they are for this. Do you know what 're-mastering' usually involves when it comes to old songs? I'm so tone deaf I can never tell the difference between the original and 'remastered' except the newer version seems a little louder

[Reyna ♔]

That article has got me beyond excited ! That comment got me iffy too. I see they're blaming the fans though for the "Michael" albums 'failure' . Maybe if Sony hadn't [allegedly] tanked with the vocals in the first place then there'd be no doubt? Either way I hope they've left his vocals as they are for this. Do you know what 're-mastering' usually involves when it comes to old songs? I'm so tone deaf I can never tell the difference between the original and 'remastered' except the newer version seems a little louder

It still went platinum, so Sony better keep quiet about shading us. They're lucky they got that after those alleged tamperings Exactly. I bought the album eventually, a few songs you could really tell were messed with, but most, no. Still, leave them as they were and just remaster them. Is it so hard to do? It typically just has to do with the sound as I understand it. Not much else than that

[bu.]

It still went platinum, so Sony better keep quiet about shading us. They're lucky they got that after those alleged tamperings Exactly. I bought the album eventually, a few songs you could really tell were messed with, but most, no. Still, leave them as they were and just remaster them. Is it so hard to do? It typically just has to do with the sound as I understand it. Not much else than that

Precisely! Sony acting fresh for no reason . I admit to buying the album first week after deciding to boycot them (which didn't last )...I don't really listen the songs that have alleged tampering on them tbh...not out of guilt or anything but I feel the Cascio tracks are genuinely weaker . I'm just mad Behind The Mask and Hollywood Tonight weren't bigger than they could have been.

Ah right . I just cannot wait for this ! I've been telling everyone about it and they're excited too! I hope it gets a little more promotion!

[RaLpHieReBeL516]

just preordered mine!

[RaLpHieReBeL516]

janet should do this with RN

[RaLpHieReBeL516]

they shouldve included moonwalker

[Reyna ♔]

Precisely! Sony acting fresh for no reason . I admit to buying the album first week after deciding to boycot them (which didn't last )...I don't really listen the songs that have alleged tampering on them tbh...not out of guilt or anything but I feel the Cascio tracks are genuinely weaker . I'm just mad Behind The Mask and Hollywood Tonight weren't bigger than they could have been.

Ah right . I just cannot wait for this ! I've been telling everyone about it and they're excited too! I hope it gets a little more promotion!

That's how they are. But the Estate still owns half of it so it's all good Really? I can really get into "Monster" and "Keep Your Head Up", I forget what the other one was YES! Those two were excellent. They should have been much bigger than they were.

Same here! Ditto! Oh it will, trust, MJ fans are gonna be ON IT! We've been waiting 5 years for this, even longer for that DVD