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Great Collection save for a few omissions

Pam Chastain | Warsaw In. | 03/15/2009

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Okay, I am a big Michael Jackson fan, but how could "I'll Be There" and "Dancing Machine" not be on this?! Save for that, this woul've been a five star item. It is wonderful to hear the evolution of MJ's voice throughout the entire collection. My CD skips as well on the second disk around the song "Dangerous." Must be a manufacturing issue. This is a must-have if you are a long-time Jackson fan."

The 3rd disc makes this set almost perfect

capaBILLity | Somewhere Out There, NJ USA | 01/28/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I am not a fan of Michael Jackson. I am a Prince fan. I am a fan of musicians, not just singers. So I should be a fan of Justin Timberlake and Usher right? Wrong. Getting back to Jacko. Usually BEST OF, GREATEST HITS or ESSENTIAL albums/box sets are filled with their complete hit catalogue. But there is always a song or two that should be on there and one song that is one there that shouldn't be. Who (or whom)ever arranged this hit fulfilled 3.0 package is just a few songs of perfect. Agree or disagree.



First of all, The 3rd disc starts with "Can't Get Outta The Rain". Now before I continue, here's Amazon's start of their product description of the Essential Limited series. 'Each Essential Limited Edition 3.0 expanded 3-CD set features the biggest hits and best-loved songs from superstar artists'. "Can't Get Outta The Rain" Best-loved? This song is awful. It's mocking disco with silly chants and noises. Quincy Jones should hide under a tree if ever asked about producing this one. They should have omitted that one. Secondly, where's songs like "You Can Win" from his Scarecrow role in the motion picture THE WIZ? Where's "Scream"? The only song that he's ever done a duet on record with his sister, Janet Jackson. Of even The Jacksons "State Of Shock" with Mick Jagger? Surely you don't mean to say that there was not enough room on the 3rd disc for those two tracks while disc 1 has 21 and disc 2 has 17 tracks on them, pushing disc 3 to 10 selections from 7, my goodness, would be-pushing it?



Nevertheless, this is an awesome set. Remember, I AM NOT A MICHAEL JACKSON FAN. But aside from my complaint, it gets no better than this. Starting with a few Jackson 5/Motown tracks to Michael's Motown solo hits, to shifting to The Jacksons and Epic to Michael doing it alone and never turning back. Questionable 2nd verse lyrics in "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" (lyrics slightly different from the THRILLER album). There's nothin' BAD you can say about this box set, really."

MJ

tak1 | 11/03/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"You could say whatever you wanna say about Michael but you can't deny the man's music is infectious. Yes, it has gone down the drain a bit lately with his last couple of releases. But you'd need a tight compilation like this to remind you of why the man was once historical and why there's still a chance for him to reconquer his throne. I'm one of the first to say that I'd love to see him evolve musically at this point in his career. I'm not sure that's a risk he's willing to take though. But I feel it's so urgently needed for his career to explode again. At this point it wouldn't hurt to try.

What prevents me from giving this compilation a 5 star rating is that it's missing some of his best tracks such as Earth Song and Scream. How were they not included?! And yes, it's great that some of the Jackson 5 songs were dropped in but how about I'll be there?! Otherwise this is a great compilation worth obtaining for your music collection!"