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Post by butterflies2 on Jan 2, 2024 15:55:36 GMT
I’ve just started reading Brice Najar’s Book On The Dance Floor. Very interesting. I didn’t know that the Black & White fan club was responsible for helping create the Ghosts box set. In fact it was their idea to include Blood On The Dance Floor and they came up with the entire concept really. The success of the box set hinged on whether MJ would allow On The Line be included in the set. Sony didn’t think MJ would allow it and discouraged Laurent Hopman and his team at Black & White from requesting it, but lo and behold MJ surprisingly allowed it. Much to the delight of everyone. They were also responsible for creating the program booklet for the Ghosts film premiere and they reproduced a mini version of the program for the box set also. 150,000 boxes were produced and it sold out. The Christmas I got that Ghosts boxset is one of my favourite childhood memories! I don't think I've ever been so excited to receive a Christmas present before or since. Yes I still remember receiving history and botdf for my birthdays as a teen |
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Post by aazzaabb on Jan 2, 2024 16:07:42 GMT
I’ve just started reading Brice Najar’s Book On The Dance Floor. Very interesting. I didn’t know that the Black & White fan club was responsible for helping create the Ghosts box set. In fact it was their idea to include Blood On The Dance Floor and they came up with the entire concept really. The success of the box set hinged on whether MJ would allow On The Line be included in the set. Sony didn’t think MJ would allow it and discouraged Laurent Hopman and his team at Black & White from requesting it, but lo and behold MJ surprisingly allowed it. Much to the delight of everyone. They were also responsible for creating the program booklet for the Ghosts film premiere and they reproduced a mini version of the program for the box set also. 150,000 boxes were produced and it sold out. The Christmas I got that Ghosts boxset is one of my favourite childhood memories! I don't think I've ever been so excited to receive a Christmas present before or since. I love it. I picked it up online a few years ago in mint condition on eBay for around £50 or thereabouts. Delighted with it. |
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Post by TonyR on Jan 2, 2024 18:04:10 GMT
I’ve just started reading Brice Najar’s Book On The Dance Floor. Very interesting. I didn’t know that the Black & White fan club was responsible for helping create the Ghosts box set. In fact it was their idea to include Blood On The Dance Floor and they came up with the entire concept really. The success of the box set hinged on whether MJ would allow On The Line be included in the set. Sony didn’t think MJ would allow it and discouraged Laurent Hopman and his team at Black & White from requesting it, but lo and behold MJ surprisingly allowed it. Much to the delight of everyone. They were also responsible for creating the program booklet for the Ghosts film premiere and they reproduced a mini version of the program for the box set also. 150,000 boxes were produced and it sold out. The Christmas I got that Ghosts boxset is one of my favourite childhood memories! I don't think I've ever been so excited to receive a Christmas present before or since. Yeah same. I got it on the day of the release, which I thought was my birthday but according to Wiki it was May. Nevertheless, that alongside my Dangerous pop up (actually maybe that was my birthday?), and my 3" CD single of SPYHO are my favourite items. |
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Post by MattyJam on Jan 2, 2024 19:59:02 GMT
The Christmas I got that Ghosts boxset is one of my favourite childhood memories! I don't think I've ever been so excited to receive a Christmas present before or since. Yeah same. I got it on the day of the release, which I thought was my birthday but according to Wiki it was May. Nevertheless, that alongside my Dangerous pop up (actually maybe that was my birthday?), and my 3" CD single of SPYHO are my favourite items. No way was Ghosts boxset relased in May! Thats wrong. I wouldn't have waited until Christmas for it if it was May. I thought you didn't like SPYHO? |
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Post by butterflies2 on Jan 2, 2024 20:00:26 GMT
Wikipedia isn’t always accurate, they didn’t even post the rest of Beyoncé’s awards from last years Grammys lol
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Post by aazzaabb on Jan 2, 2024 20:01:47 GMT
The Christmas I got that Ghosts boxset is one of my favourite childhood memories! I don't think I've ever been so excited to receive a Christmas present before or since. Yeah same. I got it on the day of the release, which I thought was my birthday but according to Wiki it was May. Nevertheless, that alongside my Dangerous pop up (actually maybe that was my birthday?), and my 3" CD single of SPYHO are my favourite items. The great thing about being married to an MJ fan is that she brought the Dangerous pop-up to the relationship. Also, an MJ fan who fancied her gifted her the SPYHO 3” CD single. Happy days. |
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Post by butterflies2 on Jan 2, 2024 20:07:59 GMT
Yeah same. I got it on the day of the release, which I thought was my birthday but according to Wiki it was May. Nevertheless, that alongside my Dangerous pop up (actually maybe that was my birthday?), and my 3" CD single of SPYHO are my favourite items. The great thing about being married to an MJ fan is that she brought the Dangerous pop-up to the relationship. Also, an MJ fan who fancied her gifted her the SPYHO 3” CD single. Happy days. Aw you’re married to an mj fan? Sweet! |
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Post by aazzaabb on Jan 2, 2024 20:25:20 GMT
The great thing about being married to an MJ fan is that she brought the Dangerous pop-up to the relationship. Also, an MJ fan who fancied her gifted her the SPYHO 3” CD single. Happy days. Aw you’re married to an mj fan? Sweet! Yes, her name is TonyR! 😆 But seriously, yes. We met on an old fan forum during the release of Thriller25. T25 is quite sentimental to me actually. Even if I occasionally vomit when Fergie comes on. Thriller40 was our 15 year anniversary of when we met. What about you butterflies2, any relationship on the go? |
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Post by aazzaabb on Jan 2, 2024 20:37:39 GMT
General question;
Do you consider Blood on The Dance Floor an album, an EP, a maxi disc or a compilation with some remixes tagged onto the end of it? A few years after MJ departed I began to consider it as an album. Obviously it’s not technically an “album” but it was marketed as a remix album.
Where does it fall exactly? Is it something that could be included amongst say an album ranking?
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Post by butterflies2 on Jan 2, 2024 20:39:27 GMT
Sort of getting to know someone yeah
That’s cool you met for thriller 25! I still remember buying it and loving the remixes without fergie the fungus
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Post by butterflies2 on Jan 2, 2024 20:50:24 GMT
General question; Do you consider Blood on The Dance Floor an album, an EP, a maxi disc or a compilation with some remixes tagged onto the end of it? A few years after MJ departed I began to consider it as an album. Obviously it’s not technically an “album” but it was marketed as a remix album. Where does it fall exactly? Is it something that could be included amongst say an album ranking? Ep with remixes. I remember the news show extra comparisons of botdf and thriller sales stupidly ugh |
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Post by MattyJam on Jan 2, 2024 20:53:54 GMT
General question; Do you consider Blood on The Dance Floor an album, an EP, a maxi disc or a compilation with some remixes tagged onto the end of it? A few years after MJ departed I began to consider it as an album. Obviously it’s not technically an “album” but it was marketed as a remix album. Where does it fall exactly? Is it something that could be included amongst say an album ranking? It's an album to me. Obviously it's difficult to rank it alongside the others, seeing as it only has 5 original songs, but as someone who quite enjoys remixes, I have no problem viewing it as a complete album. With just a few changes, it could've been listenable from beginning to end as there's quite a lot of great HIStory era remixes that didn't end up on BOTD (mainly the ones commissioned for the US market). But even with what we did end up with on BOTD, there's at least 4-5 all out bangers in terms of the remixes. Added to the 5 original new songs, that's a solid 9-10 tracks of good music in my eyes. |
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Post by butterflies2 on Jan 2, 2024 20:59:55 GMT
I seriously didn’t think of it as a real album, and like an extension of the HIStory era,l. Other 80s and 90s artists had remix albums too, so I treated this as such with botdf
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Post by MattyJam on Jan 2, 2024 21:06:51 GMT
I seriously didn’t think of it as a real album, and like an extension of the HIStory era,l. Other 80s and 90s artists had remix albums too, so I treated this as such with botdf Well, the 5 new songs help massively, of course. I mean, The Time's first 3 albums only had 6 songs on each. I know 5 tracks is more like an EP, but with the remixes tacked on as well, which were a big part of the HIStory era in Europe, it's a cracking little companion piece to listen to alongside the main album. |
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Post by butterflies2 on Jan 2, 2024 21:08:44 GMT
Companion piece sounds right to me
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