Product Description

This two CD set updates previous Michael Jackson 'best of' collections and spans Jackson's career from his early work with his brothers in the Jackson Five through to his solo work. Featuring various UK number ones including 'Earth Song', 'You Are Not Alone', and 'Billie Jean', the album also includes a whole host of UK top forty hits.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. I Want You Back
2. ABC - The Jackson 5
3. The Love You Save – The Jackson 5
4. Got To Be There
5. Rockin’ Robin
6. Ben
7. Blame It On The Boogie - The Jacksons
8. Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)
9. Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
10. Off The Wall
11. Rock With You
12. She’s Out Of My Life
13. Can You Feel It
14. The Girl Is Mine (Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney)
15. Billie Jean
16. Beat It
17. Wanna Be Startin’ Something
18. Human Nature
19. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
20. I Just Can't Stop Loving You (Michael Jackson And Siedah Garrett)
21. Thriller

Disc 2:

1. Bad
2. The Way You Make Me Feel
3. Man In The Mirror
4. Dirty Diana
5. Another Part Of Me
6. Smooth Criminal
7. Leave Me Alone
8. Black Or White
9. Remember The Time
10. In The Closet (Duet By Michael Jackson And Mystery Girl)
11. Who Is It
12. Heal The World
13. Will You Be There
14. You Are Not Alone
15. Earth Song
16. They Don’t Care About Us
17. You Rock My World

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1215 in Music
• Released on: 2005-07-18
• Number of discs: 2

Customer Reviews

The ultimate performer!!
Michael Jackson is THE ultimate performer. Regardless of how you see him as a person, he is an electrical force to be reckoned with in his work. That man can MOVE!! No one can move like him, his voice is immediately recognisable, his style is stupendous. He has given us some memorable music and dance, and I for one am grateful for that. Who could ever forget Thriller, Billie Jean, and my own personal favourite, Man in the Mirror? This album contains tracks that can be found on previous works, but all together on one album? Yes please!! Its the ultimate album from the ultimate performer, and lets give him the credit he deserves for that. No one performs like Michael Jackson., and I'd still pay to see him. However,this album is the next best thing to a live performance, so I'll be buying it.

A Career Retrospective
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.

An excellent album but....
This album is excellent for any mj fan as it sums up mj's career into two cd's of over 10 hours of timeless classics such as "black or white", "earth song", "billie jean", "thriller" and "beat it"-but what mj fans will realise is that over the past 4 or so years there have been many "greatest hits" and all consist of mainly the same material. "Greatest hits volume 1", "Ultimate collection", "Number ones" and now "Essential". Seems like sony are milking money out of mj fans.