The Very Best of the Jacksons and Jackson 5

Expected more raw blues music.

got parcel a day earlier than before cd is good music tracks are simply great i just that there were some tracks from yheir triumph album

nice songs love it

Best CD after a long time

I bought this to learn the bass lines … all of the tracks are classics from a time when musicians could play.

Wanted something with Blame it on Boogie

Only a couple of months ago, Sony issued "The Essential Jacksons" as part of its erratic tribute/greatest hits series. That was the first time the group's Epic (the label, though the adjective applies as well) output was ever anthologized on CD. This 2-disc set appears to be a major upgrade. Not only does it correct "Essential"'s glaring omission of "Torture" but includes most of not only the J5's, but also Michael's Motown solo hits. (I assume any further repackaging's of Jacko's solo hits at CBS--and you know eventually there will be several--will need to be a separate marketing event.)I believe a few of the boys' Motown mid-level hits have been left off; also, Jermaine's early hit on the label ("Daddy's Home") has not been permitted to rub elbows with Michael's hits. But Motown has already put those tunes out about fifty times already; having the highlights of Jacksons' CBS years in one place is big news.P.S.: (I'll never get to mention this anywhere else.) The third single from 1984's "Victory" was "Body." Maybe by this time this was released there was finally burnout over all things Jackson, because even though Michael did not sing lead on this, the song missed our Top 40 (yep, I'm a colonist). However, Jacksonmania was so out of control back then that the tune was programmed into a plastic wrist watch for children. So I'm in a store one day in '84, and this innocent little beeping melody, the words to which are roughly, "Girl I want your body, you know I need your body..." emanates from a six-year-old kid's watch. (I forgot how I knew he was six.) The effect was creepy, so I'm kind of glad "Body" is missing from the above track listing. P.P.S.: I suspect the watch is now going for fifty bucks on e-Bay.

Could do with remastering but a classy act nonetheless

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