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Michael Jackson – Thriller (Vinyl) Original Japanese Pressing
Epic Records (1982)

5.00 out of 5 based on 1 customer rating
(1 customer review )

$70.00

Scarce Actual 1982 Japanese First Pressing Still In Top Condition! High Quality Vinyl, Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover Includes Insert & 16-Page Colour Booklet Which Folds Out To Poster Of Michael Jackson. Superior First Edition, Produced Purely By Quincy Jones!

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SKU: 25-3P-399 Categories: Audiophile, Japanese Pressings, Pop, Rarities, Soul / Dance / Reggae Tag: Michael Jackson
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Scarce Actual 1982 Japanese First Pressing ~ Still In Top Condition! High Quality Vinyl, Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover Includes Insert & 16-Page Colour Booklet Which Folds Out To Poster Of Michael Jackson.

This Is The Superior First Edition Of ‘Thriller’, Produced Purely By Quincy Jones (Later Versions Were Dabbled With).

Condition – Vinyl: EXCELLENT! Sound quality is fantastic!

Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT!

Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Nice condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.

Side 1:
Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
Baby Be Mine
The Girl Is Mine (Featuring Paul McCartney)
Thriller (Featuring Vincent Price)

Side 2:
Beat It (Featuring Eddie Van Halen)
Billie Jean
Human Nature
P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
The Lady In My Life

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Japan

Condition

EX / EX

Format

LP

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1 review for Michael Jackson – Thriller (Vinyl) Original Japanese Pressing
Epic Records (1982)

  1. geoffofdunnlirium@hotmail.com
    5 out of 5

    AMG – February 5, 2015

    Off the Wall was a massive success, spawning four Top Ten hits (two of them number ones), but nothing could have prepared Michael Jackson for Thriller. Nobody could have prepared anybody for the success of Thriller, since the magnitude of its success was simply unimaginable -- an album that sold 40 million copies in its initial chart run, with seven of its nine tracks reaching the Top Ten (for the record, the terrific "Baby Be Mine" and the pretty good ballad "The Lady in My Life" are not like the others). This was a record that had something for everybody, building on the basic blueprint of Off the Wall by adding harder funk, hard rock, softer ballads, and smoother soul -- expanding the approach to have something for every audience. That alone would have given the album a good shot at a huge audience, but it also arrived precisely when MTV was reaching its ascendancy, and Jackson helped the network by being not just its first superstar, but first black star as much as the network helped him. This all would have made it a success (and its success, in turn, served as a new standard for success), but it stayed on the charts, turning out singles, for nearly two years because it was really, really good. True, it wasn't as tight as Off the Wall -- and the ridiculous, late-night house-of-horrors title track is the prime culprit, arriving in the middle of the record and sucking out its momentum -- but those one or two cuts don't detract from a phenomenal set of music. It's calculated, to be sure, but the chutzpah of those calculations (before this, nobody would even have thought to bring in metal virtuoso Eddie Van Halen to play on a disco cut) is outdone by their success. This is where a song as gentle and lovely as "Human Nature" coexists comfortably with the tough, scared "Beat It," the sweet schmaltz of the Paul McCartney duet "The Girl Is Mine," and the frizzy funk of "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)." And, although this is an undeniably fun record, the paranoia is already creeping in, manifesting itself in the record's two best songs: "Billie Jean," where a woman claims Michael is the father of her child, and the delirious "Wanna Be Startin' Something," the freshest funk on the album, but the most claustrophobic, scariest track Jackson ever recorded. These give the record its anchor and are part of the reason why the record is more than just a phenomenon. The other reason, of course, is that much of this is just simply great music.

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