Product Description

This CD is available in five different coloured covers--the standard silver edition and four limited colours--green, yellow, red and blue.

Track Listing

1. Unbreakable
2. Heartbreaker
3. Invincible
4. Break Of Dawn
5. Heaven Can Wait
6. You Rock My World
7. Butterflies
8. Speechless
9. 2000 Watts
10. You Are My Life
11. Privacy
12. Don't Walk Away
13. Cry
14. The Lost Children
15. Whatever Happens
16. Threatened

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1011 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-29
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
For such a boldly titled and apparently driven attempt to reinstate Michael Jackson at the centre of the pop world, Invincible is a listless thing. Split between scratchy funk workouts and mid-tempo ballads that might have appeared as Bad B-sides, the album plays on and on while never seriously promoting dancing or romancing. Its handful of weird moments--the resurrection-by-tape of Biggie Smalls on the bridge of the title track, for instance--are hardly large-scale bizarre like the first disc of HIStory. The title track turns out to be hardly the rampant ego-fest you'd imagine; instead, its subject is a female whom Jackson cheers on. Likewise, the most ear-catching moments of the "comeback" single "You Rock My World" come with Chris Tucker's jivey introduction. Despite a debt to "Payback"-era James Brown, "Rock" floats away like steam midway through. It's almost a relief when the old self-regard turns up: on the growling "Privacy", Jackson rants about muckrakers "stalking" him in search of "the stories you need to bury me", all this long after foundering divas and troubled boy-group members have replaced him on tabloid covers. The man may occasionally break away from the mirror, but he seems unsure about where else to find inspiration. --Rickey Wright

CD Description
Comeback album from the King of Pop, six years and $21m later. Features a multitude of collaborations with R&B artists and producers such as Notorious BIG, R Kelly, Teddy Riley, Timbaland and Rodney Jerkins. Includes the single 'You Rock My World'.

Customer Reviews

The King of Pop is back
'Brilliant' is the one word that I would describe to summon up Michael's long awaited new album 'Invincible'.

After listening to the album a few times, the one main thing I noticed is that there is not one bad song on this album. This is quite an achievement when you consider Michael has around around for 30+ years. Other elders like Elton John don't have the same stance on their music as they use to have, Michael still does.

Ok, History was non-special, blood on the dance floor was terrible but at last, Jacko fans have news that they have been waiting for...he is back to near his very best.

The first 3 songs on the album are all high tempo, groovy tunes which perhaps gives the listener a false perception of what is to come as the album also contains a load of soft tempo and beautiful ballads.

After these 3 tunes, we start to enter the Jackson territory of ballads that no-one to this day can beat him on. Break of dawn and Heaven can wait are excellent tunes that have me singing to all day.

The album continues with the high standard production with other soon-to-be classics Butterflies, You are my life, Cry and Whatever happens.

If I have to criticise the album, I would say:

1- The first 3 songs should have been dispersed around the album better. Having three up tempo tunes together, we find 4 slow ballads together later on as well. Mix it up, Michael!

2- Perhaps too many ballads on the album. It would have been better to have more tunes like Whatever happens and You rock my world which have a faster beat with an R+B edge to it.

3- He shouldn't have released You rock my world as a first single: there are far better tracks!

However, its a 5/5

A Complicated, Sophisticated album
As a music reviewer I try to give a fair and un-biased opinion of the music whether I like or loathe the artist. Invincible is an album that HAS to be "listened" to, to be fully appreciated. In a way this is a slight disadvantage, since it appeals much more to those who have a "musical ear" and who understand the way music is put together. On first listening, or to the "un-trained ear" it is true that some tracks may go "over the head", but such is MJ's talent that what you first hear is far from the whole picture. Invincible is a highly complex and truly "musical" album full of the trademark discordant chords, complicated rythmns, subtle key and major/minor changes and juxtyposing harmonies. The most musically interesting tracks include "invincible", "unbreakable", "break of dawn", "butterflies", and "whatever happens". The most aesthetically pleasing (and saleable) include the likes of "speechless", & "cry". If you listen carefully with "open ears" you will find that whenever you expect the music to go one way, it inevitabley goes the other, this is a hallmark and much underrated feature of MJ's work - evident from the earliest albums.
Invincible marks an entrance to new territory for MJ. Sure there are the classic "get back at the tabloids tracks" ("Privacy") and the "children tracks" ("lost children"), and these may be used as amunition by those who wish to challenge his position as an innovator. But surely these are private tracks, not saleable ones, they are a means to express feelings in the only way MJ knows how - by song. Invincible IS a much more sophistcated album by MJ & if time is taken to listen and appreciate it, without being coloured by the many derogatory comments about the artist, you will see why.
To compare Invincible to the likes of Thriller & Bad before it is premature, it is time to turn our attentions to the present (isn't that what some critics say about MJ?!) Those albums were made almost 20 years ago - yes that's right 20 years ago! Whether you like him or not, the fact that people still talk about him (positively OR negatively) all these years later is a testament to the extraordinary impact MJ has had on the music industry.

Way underrated
I see a lot of reviews saying "nothing ground breaking", "didn’t meet expectations" well I don’t know about that because I wasn’t expecting this album, I just heard the song "WHATEVER HAPPENS" on my roommate's C.D player and knew I had to get it. Seems like I wasn’t alone because I used the song "HEAVEN CAN WAIT" for my "favourite song demonstration" in my English class, and the whole class couldn’t believe it, one boy said he didn’t know MJ still sang good songs. Half the class talked about picking up a copy, and if you haven’t you're missing out. Based on my experience this is the best of all Michael Jackson’s albums, and I can’t believe this album didn’t get more hype and attention, it should have, because it is superb! BUY IT!!!