53. "Yeah, I wish they had done that" In response to In response to 52
>the only 2 problems I had was them not using the original >mixes for disc 1 and those stupid remixes on disc 2. They >could've easily included 2 or 3 more unreleased tracks or the >unreleased instrumental of Liberian Girl and the unreleased >dance mix of Leave Me Alone
because now I'm going to have to shell out for a copy of "the original mix" (I believe we had it back in the day since we copped Bad on CD not long after the videos were on TV, but that CD is lost in the ether now).
I really dislike those remixes (well, really, the Pitbull featured one, I could take or leave the other two) ... Mike's music stands better "in the moment" (speaking to alternate mixes of the songs we all know as released in the album's first half-life), not remixed some 25 years down the line.
it was kind of interesting hearing Mike sing in Spanish and French.
I agree now, after hearing all of the extras they included, that Mike and Q did the right thing in paring the songs down to the list they did for Bad (including "Leave Me Alone"... which is my favorite song from there). I really like "I'm So Blue", "Free" and "Fly Away". I'm kind of shocked at the "Abortion Papers" song -- Mike was never a stranger to controversial topics, but that sort of song reminds me more of mid-'90s Mike than mid/late '80s Mike.