Michael Jackson: Thriller

Join us on a thrilling journey as we unravel the genius of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, and his iconic Thriller album. We promise, this is not your typical album review, but an immersive exploration of the groundbreaking 1982 release, its memorable hits, and the masterminds behind them. From discussing how the legendary Paul McCartney influenced this masterpiece to revealing our personal narratives of discovering MJ’s music, we delve into every fascinating facet of Thriller. 

This episode shines a light on the musicians who added their unique flavor to these classics, unpacking the funky rhythms, keyboard and synth solos, and guitar licks that form the album's soul. We also address the controversies surrounding Jackson and their effects on his music, plus the emotional love triangle in "The Girl is Mine". Plus, we have a special segment that spotlights the vital role of sound effects in creating an unforgettable music experience. Whether you're a die-hard MJ admirer or a newcomer, we assure you, you'll walk away with a newfound appreciation for Thriller.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:05

Here's Johnny, here's Johnny, here's Johnny, here's Johnny.

Speaker 2 0:30

Here's Johnny.

Speaker 3 0:35

Alright, thank you for listening to the Greatest Nine Hits. I'm Chris and playing Thriller on the acoustic guitar is my co-host, tim, and we want to thank you for listening to our Halloween episode, where we're going to be doing Michael Jackson's Thriller sixth studio album, released on November 30th of 1982 by Epic Records. Quincy Jones produced, worked with him during Off the Wall in 1979. We're going to get into all the songs. The amazing thing about this album is that all like there are nine songs, and seven of them are all songs that everybody knows, like all over the world, and it was a thing that Michael Jackson set out to do when he made this album. He was tired of you know one or two hits on a song. Why can't all of them be? You know great songs on the whole album being hits and emission accomplished. So kudos to Michael. God rest his soul. But nevertheless, we're going to do what we always do. We're going to. We're going to chat it up In the beginning of the show. We're going to listen to every song on this album. Rank our top three non-hits, but in this album, since all of them are hits, I think, with the exception of two, then we're going to just give you our three favorites, because I think it's worthy. You know, to just like, how would you rank Beat it versus Billy Jean, versus Thriller, versus Human Nature versus PYT? Everybody's got their song. You know. They may be the one that is the most downloaded, you know, or whatever, but they're, all you know, big songs and it's. You know. People are particular about the songs that they like. So we'll go through ours and we thank you for listening. Continue to listen to us and download us wherever you get your podcasts. Cake is up on PayPal, as you see fit.

Speaker 3 2:44

A lot of musicians on this album. There were a lot of contributors, you know. It's not worth saying that. You know, of course, there were the guys from Toto. We all know that Eddie Van Halen played guitar on Beat it. You know you have the great guitar solo. I think it was Steve Lukather from Toto who did the rhythm guitar on that one. I think they did it for beer or something like that, I don't know. I hope hopefully Eddie got some nice Heideken to Steve Lukather's Blats or whatnot.

Speaker 3 3:27

But that's neither here nor there. We're here to celebrate this album, listen to the songs, have some fun along the way. We've got some great sound clips. We've got great pop culture references taxi driver, old school, not in school, wedding crashers, you name it. We've got it. So we're going to listen to everything.

Speaker 3 3:54

What else can I say about this? I think Baby Be Mine and the Lady of my Life are probably the two I think they're the two least down-literative of all the songs. But there's PYT, human Nature, billie Jean Beat it, thriller, the Girl Is Mine, duet with Paul McCartney. I just read everything in the pre-versed order. Tim over there just conked his head on the lamp there. We're getting off to a good start, man. We're getting off to a scary start. We hope everybody has a happy and safe Halloween. Get some good candy.

Speaker 3 4:42

Some of the writers who collaborated see. Rod Temperton wrote Thriller. He wrote the Lady of my Life, steve Piccaro from Toto and John Battis wrote Human Nature. I didn't know that. James Ingram and Quincy Jones wrote Pretty Young Thing. Rod Temperton also wrote Baby Be Mine. Michael Jackson wrote Want to Be Starting Something. He also wrote the Girl Is Mine with Paul McCartney. There are buds back in the day.

Speaker 3 5:22

I think Michael Jackson ruffled Paul McCartney's feathers a little bit when he bought the Beatles album collection. They had it falling out. I don't think they ever reconciled thereafter? I think it was a little. From what I read, it was contentious. That's all in the past. What we have left is some really incredible music. That's what's going to last, anyway. Janet Jackson, I think. Latoya they sing background vocals, janet Latoya who else? Maxine Waters what is this? I don't think it's the same. The Congresswoman this is just. I think it was on the first track. Julia Waters, all background vocals. Vincent Price does the voiceover on Thriller at the very end. Nobody knows who he was that guy. He used to do a lot of comedy, I think House on the Haunted Hill. You would see his movies on Saturday mornings along with the cartoons back in the 70s. That's how I remember him. He was always on those 70s variety shows. So shout out to Vincent Price. Passed away. Oh, october 25th 1993. Not too far off from Halloween. He was 82 though, so that's interesting. But what else can I say?

Speaker 1 7:16

Here's Johnny.

Speaker 3 7:25

There, he is All right. So, yeah, tim's going to join me in a sec. He's going to give his take on these For me. I mean, I've got my origin story. You know, I used to listen to albums at my house. We had stacks of them. This off the wall was, you know, my launching point to Michael Jackson, and he worked with Rod Temperton on that one. I think he played more of a role in where Quincy Jones, I guess, took the stage on this one and Temperton took a back seat. So but you know, it'd be interesting to get Tim. Tim was negative, I don't know four or five when this came out. Well, how you doing bud?

Speaker 4 8:09

You all right. Negative positive yeah, net positive yeah, something like that.

Speaker 1 8:16

Here's Johnny, I'm doing it.

Speaker 3 8:20

I got the songs on a loop. All right, I'm turning those off. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 8:25

Now I remember going to visit like my parents' family friend in New York and they just had a huge TV and the thriller, the thriller and beat it and all the Michael Jackson videos were on and I was just like glued to the television. They're like Tim, this is whoever, and I'm like uh-huh, no, I'm watching this craziness on the TV, Do you see this? And I was just like I had never seen anything like it.

Speaker 3 8:57

People flipped man when he first did the moonwalk. That was like a huge thing.

Speaker 4 9:02

Holy moly. His dancing skills, above all, was the most amazing thing of it. The makeup and the coordination was just nothing like I'd ever seen. And still to this day, I have pipe dreams of orchestrating a choreographing, maybe a short staged dance for a group of my friends to maybe watch. I don't know what song it would be, I don't know what song, but you need a song.

Speaker 3 9:36

Yeah Well, he had the upbeat songs, he had some disco songs, he had some, you know, I guess, r&b songs on this. And then you've got another category of, let's say, you know, rock and horror with thriller, and then so it wasn't all they were trying, they were coming out of disco and I think that they wanted this to be a little bit more Makes sense. He's more accessible to other people with other musical tastes, and so they brought in all those collaborators and I think that that's what I mean.

Speaker 3 10:13

that was a big part of it. It was that you could like the unbeat it, the, you know, the rhythm guitar and the guitar solo kind of gave it, you know, a toughness, which was really cool at that time.

Speaker 4 10:30

Yeah, it was crossing heavy metal with that even hailing it was spooky, but year round spooky.

Speaker 3 10:39

Yeah, but not just soulful things. So too.

Speaker 4 10:42

There's some ballads. The girl is mine, the girl is mine, you know had all those. So I'm not familiar with off off the wall. I'll have to give that a listen.

Speaker 3 10:55

It was more disco-y, but it was really really good. I you've heard a few of the songs. I'm sure you listen to it, you know, but this took it to the next level and it really did.

Speaker 4 11:07

I guess what is this? Beat out the Eagles as a hotel. California is one of the best. It was between between them and this album, and then eventually it's the best selling album of all time, with estimated sales of 66 million copies worldwide.

Speaker 3 11:25

Wow, just one eight grand album maybe four. It was like I said seven singles reached the top 10. That's insane.

Speaker 4 11:39

Only the second and third song were not released as singles, which, yeah, the lady of my life, at the very end.

Speaker 3 11:45

And then yeah, the girl be my or no? Well, the girl is mine, was a hit, that was the one with Paul McCartney. And then is it baby mine. I don't know, I don't know, I got all confused here. Well, let's see if we go to the talk amongst the girls.

Speaker 4 12:03

Baby be mine, that's it.

Speaker 3 12:06

That's what I meant, baby be mine. But it starts off with want to be starting something and it's, it's really, you know it's, it's, it's energetic. So you ready to, you're ready to kick it off? Any last words?

Speaker 4 12:21

I don't know what do we have a sound club for?

Speaker 3 12:24

you.

Speaker 4 12:27

Yeah, I don't know yeah.

Speaker 5 12:31

Say and let it out, give it some air, man.

Speaker 4 12:32

Yeah, start it up. Oh, this is thriller. Oh, we did the little intro thing. Oh, now we got the bouncy, bouncy.

Speaker 3 12:50

It wasn't about, like his, the contentiousness of the media and paparazzi.

Speaker 4 12:56

Yeah, he hated the paparazzi.

Speaker 3 12:58

They were starting something.

Speaker 4 12:59

Also, billy Jean, always talking trash, everybody's talking trash.

Speaker 2 13:26

He's talking to me. Are you like me now? Are you like me now Fuck?

Speaker 4 13:36

you. Thank you, tom. Who are they? Yeah, I'm not open for interviews. I'm sorry, I didn't say something.

Speaker 3 13:47

Can't do some shout outs.

Speaker 4 13:50

Shout out to the walkers, joggers, bikers, treadmillers, sitters, standards, yeah.

Speaker 3 13:59

Shout out to the drivers. Yeah, shout out to the trick or treaters.

Speaker 4 14:06

This album will give you a lead foot, I'm sure, but also being a good, good mood.

Speaker 3 14:13

That's right, I'm not a good mood for a lead foot, although I never heard thought about how people could listen to dance music in the car.

Speaker 1 14:24

I mean I can say how it speaks.

Speaker 3 14:26

It's like you're not going to be dancing around in the car. Yeah, it's not really. It is listening to music, but it's also like moving.

Speaker 4 14:33

Well, on that note, maybe shout out to the trampolinas there you go, Get those. Drain that lymphatic system there. You know, that's interesting.

Speaker 2 14:51

Tito, give me some tissue. Man, somebody's got to teach these kids. There's no such thing as a free trip to Hawaii. Yeah.

Speaker 3 15:07

Well, yeah, there was some. There were some problems. The media started something for sure.

Speaker 4 15:11

That's right, he's innocent. Come on, nicole. He says he's innocent, yeah.

Speaker 3 15:16

He was a All his comedians making fun of him A scheme just to Look over here.

Speaker 4 15:21

Yeah, michael.

Speaker 2 15:25

Jackson's doing something.

Speaker 3 15:28

I thought he was just friends with so many kids. Corey Feldman, he's in her child. Yeah, yeah, he was childlike.

Speaker 2 15:44

I'm just on the whole, in case I get the fries during the night. What's your favorite? Vegetable I don't know Steak.

Speaker 3 15:57

No, the carrots, Carrot, okay carrots.

Speaker 4 16:01

They're good for you.

Speaker 2 16:01

Raw and cooked.

Speaker 4 16:05

Oh funky, that was funny. I love this, yeah, who?

Speaker 3 16:10

does guitar in this one. Is this Luca there? It seems like it could be, but you talking to me. Who the fuck are you? Thank you at all. It's David Williams.

Speaker 1 16:24

I'm not a fan of him. I'm not a fan of him. I'm not a fan of him.

Speaker 3 16:30

I'm not a fan of him. I think it's David Williams.

Speaker 4 16:34

That's good repetitive.

Speaker 3 16:36

Yeah.

Speaker 4 16:42

It's bold. You know, repetition is a form of creation. Okay, sure, briny, no said that.

Speaker 3 16:56

Well, it's kind of got a repetitive percussion in the background.

Speaker 4 17:01

What is that? Is that the LM1 drum machine? I think, okay, there's a. I was reading some tech jargon. There's also a synth clavver.

Speaker 3 17:16

Yeah, I've heard of that. I don't know what it is Greg Philanges Philange Philange, greg Philange Philange.

Speaker 2 17:35

He would have an enormous swanstuker.

Speaker 4 17:37

He's going to be very popular. Jackson got sued for the mama say. Mama say oh yeah. Masakusa Sugg.

Speaker 3 17:52

Funky soul Makosa. Yeah, it's like Cameroonian Makusa Cameroon. Funky soul Makosa.

Speaker 4 18:02

You got to look that song up.

Speaker 3 18:05

Yeah permission. From the album Electro Funk, volume 2.

Speaker 4 18:09

You got to cover that album. Yeah, next this will be the hit Same song.

Speaker 1 18:22

Ah, can we get some meatloaf? Yeah, ah, ah.

Speaker 2 18:27

Ah, mama, mama, mama, mama.

Speaker 3 18:34

Why we got to get an abortion?

Speaker 5 18:38

What?

Speaker 3 18:40

I thought the arc of his girlfriend one once. Hey, we're not at Billie Jean yet.

Speaker 4 18:44

What are you talking about? We're going out the rails.

Speaker 3 18:48

We're going out, the rails Sit the next couple plays out. We're going to go next here. Uh, it should.

Speaker 4 18:56

He said ma.

Speaker 1 18:58

Yeah so this is not it.

Speaker 3 19:04

Oh, this is very sensual. He didn't really do like very white, kind of like, oh yeah.

Speaker 4 19:17

This is that, though it's just kind of getting there. Well, it's his range, ok, every moment takes me to paradise. Darling, let me hold you, I'll warm you in my arms and melt your fears away. Not them away. Not them away, because all that shit is bullshit.

Speaker 3 19:58

Yeah, this is a. It's kind of a song you play when the date is going well, you know, you know it's the pressure of the night is off.

Speaker 1 20:09

Oh now feel, feel naughty, feel naughty.

Speaker 3 20:13

Yeah, both of you are feeling naughty, so Really isn't naughty yeah this is what you put on like 1982.

Speaker 2 20:21

It's like oh yeah, All right.

Speaker 4 20:24

This is where you're going in. Both of you go, yeah.

Speaker 1 20:28

I thought I saw a booty cow.

Speaker 4 20:35

That's a nice line. You're the future that I desire. Girl, I need to hold you Just colder. Don't say it. You're getting a fight with your girlfriend. You're just basically like trying to get back together and you're like just quoting baby, be mine by Michael Jackson and it works. Yeah, and you know what happens after the fight. The makeup, yeah. Oh, I can just see Michael in the studio just spelling these numbers out. It's nice little. It's a little zippered jean jackets, exactly. Shout out to the mountain climbers out there.

Speaker 3 21:48

Get fillin' James is doing a little keyboard action on this too. That temperate is doing a lot of synthesizer. David Williams has a little guitar here, as well as Larry Williams. I wonder if they're well, Larry. Williams does saxophone. David Williams does guitar on this one. Larry Williams also did sax on first song. Want to be Certain, Son. Bill Wolford keyboard. Oh, no, synthesizer on track. One Last one. Whoa Key change, yeah Was that a mixing thing, or is that on purpose?

Speaker 4 22:38

I think it's just a break to make it. I got something. Yeah, there's a.

Speaker 3 22:48

Doing some Brian Eno stuff.

Speaker 4 22:51

You know, you know three way to drag.

Speaker 2 23:03

Everything this world could be to me.

Speaker 3 23:08

All right.

Speaker 5 23:11

Let it out, give it some air. Man Play with it, take.

Speaker 3 23:15

Okay, all right, that's the down hit. This one wasn't a bad song. All right, all right. The girl's mine Don't take it out.

Speaker 2 23:25

Every night she walks right in my dreams Since I met her from the start.

Speaker 4 23:34

I'm surprised I am the only one who is special in her heart.

Speaker 2 23:39

The girl is mine.

Speaker 5 23:42

You wanted it more than I did. Come on Demo.

Speaker 2 23:46

The dog girl is mine. How do you know? It's fine.

Speaker 4 23:59

The dog gone girl, yeah gone girl, yeah gone girl.

Speaker 2 24:05

I don't understand the way you think, saying that she's yours, not mine, sending roses and your silly dreams.

Speaker 3 24:14

Ladies and gentlemen, Paul McCartney.

Speaker 4 24:23

Shout out to all those tangled in a confusing love triangle.

Speaker 5 24:29

How do you know it's fine and we only did it once.

Speaker 2 24:34

All right. All right, take it back. I love you more than he did Take you anywhere. Well, I love you endlessly. Love it. We will share. So come and go and meet you on the town, but we both cannot ever. So it's one of the other and one of the other.

Speaker 4 25:05

Take you together I take head, shoulders, knees and toes.

Speaker 2 25:11

Guys, there's no.

Speaker 4 25:17

I take head, shoulders, knees and toes. What, what is that all about? Dog on girl.

Speaker 2 25:33

Dog on girl is mine.

Speaker 3 25:40

So, yep, they like the same girl. Yeah, probably Right, is that?

Speaker 4 25:46

what it is. Yeah, okay, they're fighting.

Speaker 3 25:49

They're fighting over. They're fighting over.

Speaker 4 25:51

No, she's mine, but it's in a flamboyant song way.

Speaker 3 25:57

Yeah, it's all innocent, you know she's mine.

Speaker 1 26:03

I mean, if you have a problem with that, maybe you could just stand outside and figure it out.

Speaker 4 26:08

Thank you, ben Affleck. Yeah, oh, boys, we could smile. It's elementary, you did that pretty good, oh men's smile.

Speaker 3 26:19

We're not gonna like that Okay.

Speaker 2 26:21

Oh, I think I told you I'm a lover, not a fighter.

Speaker 1 26:26

I've heard it all before Michael. She told me that I'm her forever lover. You know, don't you remember?

Speaker 2 26:32

Well, at the love in me. She said she couldn't love another. Is that what she said? Yeah, she said it. You keep dreaming.

Speaker 4 26:38

I don't believe it, guys, guys, there's a reason to fight.

Speaker 3 26:43

I don't know if it's fighting. In fact I was thinking, maybe we could all have a three-way. A three-way, I mean, yeah, totally.

Speaker 4 26:54

I take head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.

Speaker 5 26:57

All right, Okay, you can have those You're like.

Speaker 1 26:59

Enough, All right yeah so that was like a. That was a ballad right.

Speaker 3 27:02

Yeah, so very sweet, very innocent, very, yeah, very soothing. Yes, soothing Girls mine. You talking to me, I'm not talking to you, I'm not talking to you.

Speaker 4 27:15

I'm not talking to you, I'm not talking to you.

Speaker 1 27:17

I'm not talking to you, you talking to me.

Speaker 4 27:21

All right, phil in trash, I was gonna stand up.

Speaker 3 27:28

Okay, here's our song.

Speaker 4 27:36

Damn right, it's cool.

Speaker 1 27:40

Oh.

Speaker 3 27:48

So this like has everything, like all different types of music. There's disco, it's rock. Go to the club show you how to split appeal. Oh yeah, that was like the ecstasy thing that was the song to.

Speaker 4 28:07

We missed it.

Speaker 3 28:07

Yeah, missed opportunity.

Speaker 4 28:10

This sound too over here. Yes, everybody just howl at the moon tonight. Okay, are you Cinderella's out there? Shout out to the Cinderella's costume wearers.

Speaker 3 28:34

Shout out to the slutty nurses.

Speaker 4 28:38

Blood pressure is going up. Just the site. I Put the candle back. It's the door slammed on him.

Speaker 1 29:20

Oh, here's Johnny.

Speaker 2 29:35

Hello, would you like to have a role in the hay?

Speaker 4 29:40

Of rolling the hair.

Speaker 3 29:42

Shouts a young Frankenstein oh.

Speaker 4 29:46

Gene Wilder man.

Speaker 3 29:51

AK the candy man, ak AK the deaf guy.

Speaker 4 30:02

Here's evil. See no evil shout out to the trick or treaters out there.

Speaker 3 30:05

Yeah.

Speaker 4 30:08

Don't be TP in houses, all right.

Speaker 3 30:13

Yeah, you have no business TP in those houses, and much less listening to this podcast. But yeah, exactly. Well, shout out to you. Nevertheless, they'll get you off our back.

Speaker 4 30:23

We'll get you off our porch. Get off our porch. Do you hear the doorbell? Is that the trick or treaters right now?

Speaker 3 30:34

That in and of itself is a horror show.

Speaker 4 30:39

We don't give them candy we give them a Tutorial about how to split a pill. Raise your blades.

Speaker 3 30:55

So much tracking we had. This is number four. Got Bruce Cannon doing some of those effects. Shout out to Bruce. Bruce is crushing it. Yeah, he's sort of like our Tim With the with a special effect special. Yet Jerry hay shout to him on the horns.

Speaker 1 31:24

Gary.

Speaker 3 31:25

Grant, you're both crushing it. Shout out to Anthony Marinelli, who's doing the synthesizer programming. Well, that's, yeah, that's cannon right there. Shout to Vincent.

Speaker 4 31:49

Price. They wrote this in the cab ride over I did it.

Speaker 1 32:10

Dead deep down.

Speaker 3 32:13

Baskerville, sherelock Holmes yeah, oh, that's a basket. Yeah, that's a basketball reference there. Yeah, I picked up on what you're laying down.

Speaker 4 32:31

There it is.

Speaker 1 32:37

No matter what you hear in there, no matter how truly I thank you do not open this door. Oh, oh.

Speaker 3 32:59

Yeah, that heavy synth in the back is Greg, phil and James I don't know how to pronounce last night Wow, it's badass.

Speaker 4 33:22

Well.

Speaker 3 33:24

So that's, side one.

Speaker 5 33:27

Here it is boner jam, so three, it's a mixed tape I'm made.

Speaker 3 33:31

All right, that's gonna jump. Nice little echo, a little reverb All right, let's go man got a big box of porn for you.

Speaker 4 33:49

What Shout out to the 40 year old virgins out there? Yeah, shout out to the 40 year old virgins.

Speaker 3 34:01

A big demographic for us.

Speaker 5 34:07

Did you ever see a school of rock? Yeah, well, this is uh, it's called school shout out to Eddie Van Halen.

Speaker 4 34:28

Jump part was programmed on drum machine. We got the bells lab digital synthesizer synergy keyboard on this, an e-flat minor, 138 beats per minute, coming at you here yeah.

Speaker 3 34:46

And totos all over this. I think Jeff and Steve Piccaro, you know, play drums and synths.

Speaker 4 34:52

They're getting porky on it. Yeah, they are Again real porky.

Speaker 2 34:58

I don't think you understand something, dave, I don't.

Speaker 1 35:00

I don't watch this stuff. Okay, because I don't do that that much.

Speaker 2 35:20

You don't dare, don't, don't take it out.

Speaker 4 35:25

Not in public.

Speaker 5 35:28

Come on, I've jacked it twice. It's a big.

Speaker 4 35:35

Everybody didn't know what that line was. It wasn't. It's show it, yeah, show them how strong is your fight. It's a little weird line. It is really.

Speaker 3 35:48

Showing how funky strong is your fight, yeah like what.

Speaker 2 35:54

Oh.

Speaker 5 35:54

Same. Let it out, give it some air. Man play with it.

Speaker 1 36:01

You gotta play, don't, don't, don't, don't, take it out.

Speaker 5 36:07

Dude, I've jacked it twice since I've been here. Are you kidding me? Why not yeah?

Speaker 3 36:18

here it is boner jams, oh three. Okay, enough of that, tim he's.

Speaker 4 36:23

He's like going crazy with those. We gotta listen to eddie. Yeah, finger tapping. Oh, whammy bar.

Speaker 2 36:42

What, what.

Speaker 4 36:49

You should have done that for the yeah okay, yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 36:56

Okay.

Speaker 3 37:01

Wow.

Speaker 4 37:07

Finger tapping on a. You see guitar and your mind look like Thor yeah, I'll follow you into the midst of avalan.

Speaker 3 37:26

If that's what you're saying, he would have an enormous swan stucke.

Speaker 4 37:37

I'm gonna be very popular.

Speaker 3 37:41

Wow okay, yeah, still still relevant today, still very Uh enjoyable. Yeah, great guitar solo Great.

Speaker 4 37:54

There's some good plastic surgery in young Frankenstein too.

Speaker 3 37:58

Sure, alright, so onward and upward. Uh, this is Billy Jean. Oh yeah, oh, what is this like? It's like about Pregnant.

Speaker 1 38:10

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 38:15

I'm glad we'll have this time to talk about it together To the world. Yeah, that topic that is so comfortable for everybody and for us to.

Speaker 4 38:27

Yeah, sounds like a fast time situation. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 38:33

I don't want to have a D'Amone radner kind of a showdown with you.

Speaker 5 38:42

We got to get an abortion. My brother Arka, his girlfriend one once.

Speaker 3 38:47

Ugh D'Amone, here's a scum bag.

Speaker 4 38:52

D'Amone scum.

Speaker 3 38:54

He's like well, you wanted it more than I did.

Speaker 5 38:56

You wanted it more than I did.

Speaker 3 38:57

Yeah.

Speaker 5 38:58

No.

Speaker 3 38:59

You take that bag.

Speaker 5 39:01

Here's a Alright. Alright, Take it back.

Speaker 4 39:05

That's not even young kids what they say.

Speaker 3 39:19

You're breaking more than their hearts.

Speaker 4 39:24

The he's and the oh babies were definitely added afterwards, but when he does it live, he does both at the same time. I guarantee it. Yeah, they were like he's, just he and the oh babies were overdubbed. He and the oh baby and kids on my own sonning yeah, this is Michael Jackson Jr. Oh for For 40 days, 40 year old versions.

Speaker 3 39:59

For 40 years and 40 nights.

Speaker 4 40:02

Kelly Clarkson Think twice. Do you think twice? Don't think twice. I'm confused.

Speaker 1 40:18

I don't know.

Speaker 5 40:28

We gotta get an abortion. My brother Arka, his girlfriend one wants.

Speaker 4 40:42

He's over here trying to bring in female listeners.

Speaker 5 40:46

You wanted it more than I did.

Speaker 3 40:50

Take it back. Take it back. You take that back. Alright, alright, take it back.

Speaker 2 41:02

He's gonna want to look at your butthole or something.

Speaker 3 41:04

Oh, that's a Tim. I'm not gonna, I don't, I don't want to look at your buttholes, okay.

Speaker 1 41:28

Do you talk into me?

Speaker 4 41:31

Oh, here's Lukather, this is.

Speaker 2 41:37

If you have a problem with that, you can just sit outside and figure it out.

Speaker 4 41:43

It's fat sound. It is Pretty good.

Speaker 3 41:52

Lewis Johnson on bass Not bad.

Speaker 4 41:58

This song is pure filth. You can't get tired of this song. I feel like people don't get tired of this song.

Speaker 3 42:10

I like it. It's timeless.

Speaker 4 42:13

In the club. Honestly, it's just like song two on track.

Speaker 3 42:20

Track two on side two, I mean Hutchinson, the defensive end for the Lions. He does this whole shtick to this song.

Speaker 4 42:30

It does have Jackson 5 sort of vibe to it. He's throwing back but he's adding a bunch of really fat sounds and obviously everybody wants to work with him.

Speaker 3 42:47

Yeah, it transcends all six generations that are alive right now.

Speaker 4 42:52

Based on groupies, backstage people potentially.

Speaker 3 43:00

So here we're getting now into the ballads, kind of poetic, you know.

Speaker 2 43:16

Tito give me some tissues. Jermaine, stop teasing.

Speaker 5 43:33

Me out.

Speaker 4 43:44

Shout out to the Apple Blighters out there, fruit consumers and the fruit workers, the fruit growers.

Speaker 3 43:59

Shout out to Nancy Kerrigan Thank you for being a sport.

Speaker 4 44:11

That was a sneaky sound effect you got in here. I didn't even know you did that one. That was good, that's important. See that girl. That was a huge story back in the day. That was one of the first, like sports stories that I remember.

Speaker 2 44:34

Why? Why Does he do it that way? I'm like living this way.

Speaker 3 44:53

Wow, you're getting all creative and artsy. Maybe you'll do like a here's Johnny and kind of faded in.

Speaker 4 45:09

That's good. Kind of get him in a little bit.

Speaker 2 45:20

We need his heart pills.

Speaker 5 45:22

Way up here.

Speaker 3 45:26

You're like fade in.

Speaker 4 45:27

Here's Johnny with the S Rollin the hay here. I think it's a roll in the hay.

Speaker 3 45:38

How so? It's good you like to have a roll in the hay.

Speaker 4 45:48

Yeah, why? Why? Nancy's on background vocals? Why?

Speaker 1 46:12

Why.

Speaker 4 46:25

Michael Boddiker on the EMU emulator, a series of digital sample synthesizers using floppy disk storage. That's what Shout out to those floppy disk users out there.

Speaker 3 46:41

Shout out to the floppy disk God, rest your soul. You're in a graveyard of.

Speaker 4 46:47

Not as popular as the large funshtukens.

Speaker 3 46:51

Yeah.

Speaker 4 46:53

AKA the CD-ROM.

Speaker 1 46:55

Why.

Speaker 4 46:58

Why Micro micro processor chips?

Speaker 2 47:07

You talking to me.

Speaker 4 47:25

Tenderoni Shout out to Chromio how is? O is the perfect time he's gonna want to look at your butthole or something Wonderful music did some other things too. Shout out to the tea drinkers with honey in it, I did coffee and tea today.

Speaker 3 48:58

I like the green ice tea.

Speaker 4 49:08

That's into the air baby.

Speaker 2 49:38

I'm doing business.

Speaker 4 49:46

Take it there. You hear that little modulation synth that's like a bend. There's like a bend thing.

Speaker 3 50:05

What about Moog?

Speaker 5 50:07

How do you know it's fine? I mean, we only did it once.

Speaker 2 50:10

I haven't done it with anybody else. I know it's yours.

Speaker 3 50:17

I think even David Page is doing a little synth on here.

Speaker 4 50:20

Just like 7th synth engineers.

Speaker 3 50:29

That was on.

Speaker 4 50:30

Thriller. We got some chipmunks on here in the studio.

Speaker 3 50:38

We got Alvin.

Speaker 4 50:39

Theodore, the other one.

Speaker 3 50:43

Simon Theodore Optimus Prime.

Speaker 5 50:50

Give it some air, man.

Speaker 4 50:53

Play with it. Take it out and play with the synth. It's a pretty young synth, gotta play with it. We're on to the last song here. Time flies.

Speaker 3 51:05

You're just like a non-hit. Probably one of the best songs on the album. I like this one.

Speaker 1 51:18

Old.

Speaker 4 51:22

Tempered in Jones.

Speaker 3 51:28

Sometimes less is more, so true, gary Grant on the Flugelhorn Shout out to Gary.

Speaker 2 51:53

Shout out to the Flugelhorn players.

Speaker 3 52:05

Shout out to Fender Boats. Another synthesizer programming engineer.

Speaker 4 52:20

Exponential love Increased.

Speaker 3 52:24

Actually there could be a criticism on this album. I would say too many synth engineers. They really didn't need like 9 people to do any different synth parts Even in that day.

Speaker 4 52:42

Too many synths in the soup.

Speaker 3 52:46

Spoiled the song. Too many synth players in the kitchen.

Speaker 4 52:53

They had to fit them in the kitchen.

Speaker 3 52:55

The studio's kitchen.

Speaker 4 53:04

Can we go back to a line here?

Speaker 3 53:08

Yeah, Show you how to split a peel.

Speaker 4 53:16

Shout out to the responsible ravers out there.

Speaker 3 53:21

When you take ecstasy, take it responsibly. Is there a way to take it responsibly?

Speaker 4 53:28

Is there even ecstasy? I don't even know, it's like a lude. It doesn't exist anymore.

Speaker 3 53:43

Okay, I don't know.

Speaker 4 53:45

Just bath salts and chamomile for me. Bath salts in water for a tub, soaking it, not taking it.

Speaker 3 54:00

We don't condone irresponsible drug use. We pass on grass.

Speaker 4 54:11

Nancy Kerrigan. Michael got to meet the president for this. He had a crazy ass outfit on.

Speaker 3 54:27

The jacket with the zippers. It was the best, captain Crunchin shit Something like that.

Speaker 4 54:35

It's hilarious.

Speaker 3 55:07

It was like he had taken it down. He takes it down even lower.

Speaker 4 55:14

That is good.

Speaker 3 55:21

This is, like always, the last song of the night, the last call for alcohol.

Speaker 4 55:34

Hopefully you're leaving with a lady 99%? You're not. You just got to wait for that 1%.

Speaker 3 55:48

It's at 130. It's the last call. It's like 99%, not Prince Charming, it's all we're saying.

Speaker 4 56:12

Shout out to non possessive love dynamics.

Speaker 3 56:19

You got to respect that. There we go, sure. So what do we think about it? We're going to go top 3. There's no non hits on this. They're all hits. So what are the top 3? How much thought have you given this here?

Speaker 4 56:38

Top 3. It's going to be top 3. Top 3 in my top 3 is going to be starting something I really do like the song could have been my number 1.

Speaker 3 57:04

Just because it's sort of like ambiguous too.

Speaker 4 57:07

If you don't listen to the lyrics as much, then it's like starting something fun, like starting a party, or it can be vaguely Like starting beef.

Speaker 3 57:19

You start a beef at the party. I think it's also good advice If you're in a party and want to be starting something and then all of a sudden, if you start yelling out, mama say mama s s a kusa. Mama say mama s s a kusa. I'd kind of freak out. I would be second guessing whether I want to be in this fight. For that reason, I accept that as your number 3.

Speaker 4 57:47

What's your number 3?

Speaker 3 57:48

Mine is going to be. I'm going to go with one of those two songs that are we're not part of the seven, that we're all top tens should be in here somewhere. So I'm going to say the lady in my life, there it is, because there isn't, you can make a case that it's a better song than Billie Jean in my opinion, or a pretty young thing for sure there. So, yeah, it takes it down. It's a slow song, it sounds authentic, it sounds like a good. He's not faking the sensual aspect of that song. It comes off as very authentic and so that's why it's my number three.

Speaker 4 58:30

Okay.

Speaker 3 58:31

So your number two.

Speaker 4 58:32

My number two. Oh, you know I'd be lying if I went with. You know I do like the lady in my life, PYT, love it. But number two, Thriller. It's got to be Thriller. Come on, it's amazing song Beat. It could have been there, I don't know, depending on the day. It's just such a good song. I you know everybody's playing it today on Halloween. Sure, what's up?

Speaker 3 59:11

I'm going to say beat. It's my number two song.

Speaker 4 59:14

Nice.

Speaker 3 59:14

Yeah, because it just rocks. It's got that cool guitar, it's got a great beat to it, his lyric, I mean his voice over. How can it not be an incredible song with Michael Jackson's voice over? Even Lukather does a great job, you know, keeping the rhythm down while Eddie Van Halen does that song.

Speaker 4 59:34

So yeah, it's my number two. The West Side Story vibes to it, that's right, all right. Yeah, my number one it's Billy Jean. I mean, what a, what a, what a banger. It's a banger in the queue. Hell yeah, it's such an obvious banger. But it's also like just it just slaps and hits in a nonviolent way.

Speaker 3 59:58

Yeah, it's just this kind of like in the heavy metal world. It would sort of be, you know, like like those those famous intros of ACDC, like right House Bells or like yeah, or even you shook me all night long or it's catchy yeah. Like or what's. That's the one. Yeah, but you get the idea. Oh yeah, I get it. But that intro to Billy Jean is there, yeah, but having said that, I mean that's the obvious choice as a number one.

Speaker 3 1:00:35

Yeah, it's no, it's no coincidence that it's, you know, listen to three times over versus any other song on here. But in my opinion, the best song on here is Thriller. Hell yeah, because there's there's horns, there's you know, it's like there's disco, there's soul, there's the horror, there's Vincent Price, there's all kinds of stuff going on, incredible video. And it changed the world for sure. It changed MTV and it changed music. I think that song changed music more than any other. Wow. So Thriller has.

Speaker 4 1:01:08

Yeah.

Speaker 3 1:01:09

Because it had so much in it, so Okay. But you know, hey, Billy Jean, you know it was right there for me as well. So, anyway, it puts a bow on it, you know. Any last thoughts.

Speaker 4 1:01:20

It puts a jerry curl on it Just Right, and it and it and on it. And it's spooky, some howling, you know Ow, ow, all right.

Speaker 3 1:01:33

All right, Thanks for listening. Guys Take care.