Michael Jackson - Thriller Hybrid Stereo SACD, 40th Anniversary, Numbered MFSL
Thriller Michael Jackson, Audio CD, Mobile Fidelity, 40th Anniversary, SACD .
The Best-Selling Album of All Time Celebrates It's 40th
Anniversary: Michael Jackson's Thriller Receives Definitive Treatment on
Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD Mastered from the
Original Analog Master Tapes for Superior Sound: Experience the
Transformative Songs, Soulful Vocals, Sleek Rhythms, and Vibrant
Production as If Hearing It All for the First Time34-Times-Platinum
Blockbuster Changed Music, Culture, Entertainment, and Society: Includes
'Beat It,' 'Billie Jean,' 'Thriller,' 'Wanna Be Startin' Somethin','
and 'The Girl Is Mine' (with Paul McCartney)Putting into perspective the
incalculable impact and pioneering significance of the best-selling
album of all time has never been easy. Though Michael Jackson's Thriller
lays claim to mindboggling statistics - for starters, it netted a
record-breaking eight Grammy Awards and sold upwards of 70 million
copies globally - that serve as reminders of how pervasive and
indispensable it remains to music snobs and casual listeners alike, it's
essence always traces back to the greatness, power, and scope of the
songs. Now, as it celebrates it's 40th anniversary, the blockbuster that
reconceptualized music via a genre- and color-blind blend of fleet pop,
funk, disco, soul, and rock sent up with cinematic panache and dynamic
energy; united audiences; made strides towards achieving racial
equality; and taught the world how to dance sounds even more
invigorating than it did during the advent of the Walkman.Mastered from
the original analog master tapes and housed in mini-gatefold sleeve
packaging, Mobile Fidelity's numberededition hybrid SACD does for
Thriller what Jackson's unforgettable appearance on the 'Motown 25' TV
special in 1983 did for his career: It makes the music personal, human,
desirable, relatable, imaginative - the definition of cool. This reissue
does so by presenting the songs in lifelike fashion, zeroing in on the
fundamentals with laser focus, and magnifying the brilliance of the
production, arrangements, and vocals in ways that let everyone
experience Thriller as if hearing the album for the first time. The
expanse and depth of the soundstage, range of detail, air around the
vocals, and natural decay of notes come through with demonstration-grade
realism. 'It's close to midnight...'