Product Key Features
Release Year2008
FeaturesStudio Recording
GenrePop, Rock, R&B & Soul
StyleContemporary R&B, Post-Disco
TypeAlbum
ArtistMichael Jackson
Release TitleThriller [25th Anniversary Edition]
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs2
DistributionSony Music Distribution
Guest ArtistPaul Mccartney, Vincent Price, David Foster, Eddie Van Halen, Janet Jackson, Steve Lukather, Jeff Porcaro
Number of Tracks20
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
BassSteve Lukather, Louis Johnson
GuitarDavid Williams, Paul Jackson, Jr., Eddie Van Halen, Dean Parks, Steve Lukather
MixingMick Guzauski, Bruce Swedien
ReviewsRanked #7 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums of the 80s" Survey., "A magnificent helping of pop history, due in no small part to Quincy Jones's immaculate production.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's genius....This is a profoundly quirky and omnivorous R&B mash-up, making room for hard-rock guitar and soft-serve balladry.", Ranked #20 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...There was a time when he was truly the King of Pop. This is it...", 5 stars out of 5 -- "THRILLER was MJ at his breathiest and most salacious, and his most beautifully fragile....A work of genius.", 3 stars out of 5 -- "Tracks like 'Wanna Be Starting Something' remain slabs of total pop, whose genius should never by obscured by a blizzard of sales stats.", 5 stars out of 5 - "...The music stands undimmed by time....delivers some of the greatest ever pop-soul-dance-whatever...hardly a weak moment, and still no one goes 'aow' quite like Michael Jackson.", Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century, Included in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums Ever", "A masterpiece....THRILLER was a collection of songs that cohered as the statement of a young artist proclaiming his freedom...", "The entire album is a masterpiece....THRILLER is the dance album that’s still played almost 40 years later."
Additional InformationPerhaps the biggest album in music history, MJ's 1980s masterpiece is a true ambassador of what pop music can be.
EngineerBradford Cobb, Matt Forger, Aaron Hook, Craig Johnson, Aya Takemura, Humberto Gatica, Bruce Swedien, John Strother
VocalsPaul Mccartney, Michael Jackson
KeyboardsKeith Harris, Steve Porcaro, Anthony Kilhoffer, Bill Wolfer, David Paich, Jeff Bhasker, Greg Phillinganes, Will.I.AM, Anthony Caruso
PercussionChuck Prada, Paulinho Da Costa
DrumsMichael Jackson, Jeff Porcaro, Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, Will.I.AM
Number of Audio ChannelsStereo