The Best of Jackson 5: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection (Eco-Friendly Packaging) | 
 enlarge | Artist: Jackson 5
Label: Motown
Category: Music
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 17043
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: B000771802
UPC: 602517078536
EAN: 0602517078536
ASIN: B000NJWT2U
Release Date: April 3, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | I Want You Back - The Jackson 5, Gordy, Berry Jr. | | • | ABC - The Jackson 5, Gordy, Berry Jr. | | • | The Love You Save - The Jackson 5, Corporation [1] | | • | I'll Be There - The Jackson 5, Davis, Hal | | • | Never Can Say Goodbye - The Jackson 5, Davis, Clifton | | • | Got to Be There - The Jackson 5, Willensky, Elliot | | • | Sugar Daddy - The Jackson 5, Gordy, Berry Jr. | | • | Daddy's Home - The Jackson 5, Corporation | | • | I Wanna Be Where You Are - The Jackson 5, Ross, T-Boy | | • | Maybe Tomorrow - The Jackson 5, Gordy, Berry Jr. | | • | Dancing Machine - The Jackson 5, Davis, Hal |
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Product Description
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Jackson 5 (Remastered, Repackaged) Jackson 5 Label: Motown Release Date: 4/3/2007 1 I Want You Back - 3:00 2 ABC - 2:59 3 The Love You Save - 3:06 4 I'll Be There - 3:59 5 Never Can Say Goodbye - 3:02 6 Got to Be There - 3:24 7 Sugar Daddy - 2:34 8 Daddy's Home - 3:08 9 I Wanna Be Where You Are - 3:01 10 Maybe Tomorrow - 4:46 11 Dancing Machine - 2:41
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 great album geared toward the casual fan January 12, 2008
Matthew G. Sherwin (last seen screaming at Amazon customer service)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Jackson 5 is a budget priced CD best suited for the casual fan who just wants some of the very best of the artistry of The Jackson 5. We get twelve tracks which display their fine talent and there isn't a dud in the bunch. In addition, the quality of the sound is really quite good.
"I Want You Back" starts off the album with a great pop music number highlighting Michael's vocals while the rest of the group provides excellent harmonizing for the extra vocals. The number packs a lot of punch and the melody is quite catchy. "ABC" continues in the same vein; Michael sings this to perfection and that funky early `70s music makes this number even better. What a strong number!
Listen also for "The Love You Save" which carries a `70s pop flavor to it as they perform this without a superfluous note; and I like the musical arrangement a lot. "I'll Be There" and "Never Say Goodbye" has The Jackson 5 switching gears pretty quickly so show us just how well they could perform a ballad that was somewhat more serious and more mature sounding as well.
"Maybe Tomorrow" is a good number that I think they still could have replaced with another, stronger hit but many people will enjoy this tender song anyway. The album ends on a strong upbeat note with "Dancing Machine." "Dancing Machine" has an incredibly good beat to it and it will make you want to jump up and dance wherever you are!
This CD has "eco-friendly" packaging, so you'll have to go to the website listed above to find more information that would ordinarily have been printed in the liner notes.
Overall, this budget priced CD is full of great tunes by The Jackson 5. I recommend this for the casual fan; more diehard fans will already have these songs in their collections.
The Jackson 5 rocks... motown's greatest band ever! July 4, 2004
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Micheal. Tito. Jermaine. Jackie. Marlon. The boys of motown. Though this CD would be a little better if it had a few more songs on it it is still a great CD. I love most of the songs on here. There are only four songs on this cd that I don't listen to regularly... and seven out of eleven isn't bad. Micheal's voice on "Never Can Say Goodbye" is a little shrill but it is still a really, really cool song. This is the only Jackson 5 or Micheal Jackson CD I have...but I think I'm gonna have to get Micheal Jackson's #1's and the Jackson 5 Ultimate Collection pretty soon. If you are a die-hard fan of the Jackson 5 and you don't have the ultimate collection...go for it... but if your just a a reasonable fan of the J5... get this CD.
No superlative good enough for this found in my thesaurus March 16, 2006
Lawrence Brown (HOUSTON, TX United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Below you will find a lengthy analysis of the opening song on this record "I want you back." If a single song can generate this kind of response, imagine the musical content of the entire 21 song record.
This song obliterates me. All the performances are incredible, including, to quote a friend, Michael's astounding, dumbfounding lead vocal.
The bass part sounds to me as if it came straight from the composer and arranger, but in any matter it's stuffed full with inventive ideas and super fonky! Given the calculated nature of this recording I would expect the arranger to have worked out the bass part note for note. The recording is a careful tapestry of many sounds that blend together to give the overall effect. The intro is a good example. The melody played by the bass is wonderful, but that melody is doubled by other instruments plus other things are woven around that melody, all indicating that the arranger wrote it all out note for note, the bass player serving to faithfully play the arrangement.
(Un)fortunately, any excellence in other portions of this song is obscured by Michael's unbelievable vocal. So much stuff, so much soul, so much range and flexibility. This vocal is way in the unbelievable range for any artist. But to come from a brand new 11 year old is, as my friend put it so well, "dumbfounding."
*He sounds a little hoarse and that increases the authority.
*The way he uses subtle, rhythmic vibrato on the word "me" in the phrase "won't you please let me back in your heart." (Hear this on the Amazon snippet.)
*The pause and surprise attack on the word "back" in the same phrase. (Hear this on the Amazon snippet.)
*The screaming with 100% authority.
*The drifting out of tune on the words "now, baby, yeah" in the phrase "Yes I do now, Oh oh baby, yeah yeah yeah yeah, Nah Nah no no." (Is there a technical term for this "drifting out of tune" vocal technique?) (Hear this on the Amazon snippet.)
*The authority and inventiveness and soul of the scatting on that same phrase and other scats in the song, including the various fun "Huh"s.
*The natural way he does the call and response sections with his brothers.
*The perfect timing all over the place, including jumping on some of the responses a little early.
*The exciting vocal build on the phrase "All I want, all I need, all I want, all I need!" with the fantastic atonal exclamation on the second "all I want."
And on and on. You could almost analyze every single note the guy sings. The fact that this guy could do this at 11 years old shows beyond any question that singing at this level requires talent given to you directly by God. You can't get it and you can't learn it. God either gave it to you or He didn't. My guess is that some genius worked out most of this stuff and recorded a track for Michael to sing along with during the session. I mean God given talent or not, Michael could not have come up with that stuff on his own, atonal, drifting out of tune, etc. But to even sing along and get these results....incredible. Plus, who was that singing genius that came up with all that stuff?
Other great parts of the song are the pervasive background vocals, the excellent call and response, the subtle, almost inaudible use of strings and background vocalizing, and the various guitar parts that weave an interesting tapestry.
One thing that I think is ground breaking but at the same time takes away from this arrangement is the calculated, restrained drum part. The drum part sounds completely canned, written out and played note for note. It's not exuberant; instead it's carefully restrained. To my ears it sounds too mellow for this joyous, raucous romp. But it's groundbreaking because this style of drumming became prevalent later and today in the 2000s you rarely hear any drum pyrotechnics in favor of a steady drum beat that does not break the flow of the song.
I wonder if all the vocals on this recording are Jacksons? I assume they are and that shows the talent of this family and the quality of this product.
Excellence and analysis of each individual part aside, the real value of this song, besides Michael's vocal which you simply can not retire to the background, is the overall sound. Each part is carefully calculated and blended to create a unique, exuberant, joyful, new, and instantly recognizable sound that's unlike anything that had been heard before. Though each part is worthy of study, perhaps the best way to listen to this song is with a 6 inch speaker through an AM radio in your car. And isn't that the way it was meant to be?
Larry Brown
Now I get it! July 12, 2009
Shamontiel L. Vaughn (Chicago)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My mother was (and is) a huge fan of the Jackson 5, but they were so much older than me that I only listened to them because of her. She used to talk about how gorgeous they were, but they're all my father's age. However, over the years and with listening to more Michael Jackson music this past week, I have even more respect for the group that brought out Michael Jackson the solo artist. (Whoever this guy is in the peach shirt on the bottom right-hand corner is gorgeous, by the way.) I knew all the songs by heart before I purchased this CD (courtesy of my die-hard Jackson 5 fan mother), and somehow the songs sound so much sweeter. Again, it's terrible that I waited until Michael Jackson's unexpected passing to pick up a Jackson 5 CD when they really deserved my money far sooner. Excellent CD. I press play and let the entire thing play out, but I have to replay "Never Can Say Goodbye" a few times because that's always been my favorite song of theirs.
Great for People New with the J5's music June 13, 2000
mistermaxxx@yahoo.com (usa)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
this is a Great Disc for New Listeners too the Jackson FIve.However their are far better Compilations of them out their.but if you are Looking for the songs that made them a Household Name then here you are.I want You Back,Never Can Say Goodbye,I'll Be there are TImeless.
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