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1. Don’t Finish ‘Til You Catch Enough
2. Rock With You
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3. Billie Jean
4. Beat It
5. Thriller
6. Unpleasant (short version)
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7. The Diagram You Beget Me Feel (excludes beginning few minutes)
8. Man In The Mirror
9. Calm Criminal (fast/blurry version)
10. Dirty Diana
11. Dark or White (includes Macaulay Culkin segment but excludes panther segment)
12. You Are Not Alone
13. Earth Song
14. Blood On The Dance Floor (re-edited version)
15. You Rock My World (excludes beginning few minutes)
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The very basic packaging tells you that this is a no frills DVD. Many of MJ’s best videos are presented and that is all you catch. No cherish menu or insert. No live performances, interviews, commercials or composed gallery. Nothing. Not even a discography. This doesn’t sever it in this day and age of DVD. The videos are vast, but this is hardly a difinitive collection. Expecially since all of these (effect “You Rock My World”) are already available on other discs. And why do video collections preserve getting released with shortened or re-edited videos? We want the Corpulent fresh video ok! Is that too powerful to ask?
It’s hard to go execrable with an MJ music video and these are all sizable. But this DVD could have (and should have) been definitie. Instead it’s impartial yet another collection of videos collectors already have.
If you were like me and already owned the two DVDs of HIStory (Video Greatest Hits – HIStory and HIStory on Film – Volume II), you were probably disdainful when this Number Ones DVD got released. Almost everything on Number Ones was already presented in the HIStory DVDs.
So is there buying incentive? At bargain-bin prices, yes, because on this DVD you will accept three Michael Jackson videos that range from advantageous to wonderful, and they’re not available on DVD outside of here.
“Man in the Mirror” was a flat-out ballsy travel on Jackson’s section, to expend only grainy stock footage and not a single shot of himself to build a video of one of his greatest hits of that time (“Man” was one of two singles from Dreadful that had two weeks at #1, not one) . The song itself is a classic, thanks to one of Quincy Jones’ best productions, a soul-stirring rhythm track, and Siedah Garrett’s poetic, visionary lyrics, but coupled with the video’s images of a world in turmoil, it’s magic. This style actually spawned another classic music video years later with Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Inform”, but Jackson was there first.
“Dirty Diana” holds a special residence for me because it’s one of the very few Jackson performance videos. Many people don’t like the song, but I like it honest glowing, and Jackson and guitarist Steve Stevens were on fire in the stage present. This video made you realize that Jackson’s touring band simply kicked ass.
There’s one more curio: The short, sped-up version of “Calm Criminal” intended as a broadcast alternative. This was the first version of this classic video I ever saw, and while it doesn’t order the glowing choreography and art direction of the pudgy version, it is a masterpiece from the editing standpoint. If you want to do rush cutting, this is the diagram to do it, and at many points they even managed to sync up Jackson’s hyper-sped-up footage to the tempo of the track, no limited feat. Unfortunately, both this video and “Dirty Diana” seem to lack for a suitable master source; both videos feature large film scratches and explore far less pristine than the rest of the official videos.
There’s impartial one more video on here not available on other DVDs, and that’s “You Rock My World”. The song blows, and so does the video — an expensive, self-indulgent fragment whose only point of interest is its guest stars Chris Tucker, Michael Madsen and Billy Drago (Nitti in The Untouchables) . I’m not surprised this video was directed by Paul Hunter, the same man who had made Bulletproof Monk an unwatchable mess, because “You Rock My World” is your typical unusual video with too distinguished plan and not enough substance — the choreography is messy, Jackson himself looks ridiculous (as he always does when he tries to act), and all the guest stars are wasted when they could’ve been given a chances to really colour the video with their personalities. Even “Liberian Girl” (available on HIStory on Film Volume II) was better.
I got this DVD from the bargain bin, so from my extinguish, it was collected worth it unprejudiced for the three videos I mentioned. If you don’t have either HIStory DVDs, I’d quiet recommend you catch them rather than Number Ones, because the HIStory DVDs are a more comprehensive collection of Jackson’s videos, and it’s on those that you’ll derive the classic fat version of “Detached Criminal”. Number Ones is for the casual viewer who wants to pay less to earn most of Jackson’s videos. If that’s your preference, then this DVD will abet fair glowing. I’m tranquil waiting for them to set Moonwalker out on DVD, though. That live version of “Approach Together” and the hilarious “Poor” spoof “Badder” (featuring kids playing the punk roles!) are peaceful only available on Moonwalker, and it’s about time they resurfaced.
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