Michael Jackson b-sides
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Topic: Michael Jackson b-sides
Posted By: Underground Dub
Subject: Michael Jackson b-sides
Date Posted: 24 November 2014 at 5:36pm
Unlike contemporaries Madonna and especially Prince, Michael Jackson was less of a singles artist in terms of including a wide variety of material on the B-sides of his commercial singles.
There's certainly a lot of fun alternate mixes to be found on later releases, but early on the same songs found themselves repeated sometimes up to 4 times on the flipside of single releases.
As I no longer own a majority of these, would anyone be able to shed light on if any of the many B-side releases of "Get On The Floor", for example, differed from the first LP pressing mix (available on original Japanese CD pressings of "Off The Wall"), or if some of them actually utilized the remixed LP version (available on all subsequent US and international pressings of the same album).
Any info is greatly appreciated. =)
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Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 24 November 2014 at 9:11pm
I'd actually like to know this info, too, if anyone has already researched it. I do have all the stock singles from "Thriller" that I could check if needed, but I don't believe I have any from "Off The Wall."
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Posted By: jimct
Date Posted: 24 November 2014 at 10:21pm
Aaron, here are the four MJ stock 45s released from "Off The Wall", with the
B-sides and their listed times included:
-Epic 50742: Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough/I Can't Help It (listed 4:29)
-Epic 50797: Rock With You/Working Day And Night (listed 4:55)
-Epic 50838: Off The Wall/Get On The Floor (listed 4:37)
-Epic 50871: She's Out Of My Life/Get On The Floor (listed 4:37)
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Posted By: Brian W.
Date Posted: 25 November 2014 at 5:28am
I verified several years ago when making one of my A&B
sides MJ comps that all three US 45 appearances of "Get on
the Floor" were the remixed version. (As the running times
would indicate, anyway... the original LP version is about
ten seconds longer.)
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Posted By: Underground Dub
Date Posted: 25 November 2014 at 9:31am
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Thanks for the confirmation, Brian.
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