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Product Summary
Format: CD
Manufacturer: Epic Records
Buy.com Sku: 225589582
UPC: 886979939424
UPC 14: 00886979939424
Release Date: 11/21/2011
Buy.com Sales Rank: 8560
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Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
Sample
1. Workin' Day and Night [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
2. Immortal Intro: You Rock My World/In the Closet/Stranger in Moscow/Bad/Smooth Criminal/Dangerous/Another Part of Me/The Way You Make Me Feel/Jam/Scream/I Want You Back/ABC/Rockin' Robin [Immortal Version], The ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
3. Childhood [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
4. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
5. Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
6. Dancing Machine/Blame It on the Boogie/Why You Wanna Trip on Me [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
7. Ben [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
8. This Place Hotel [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
9. Smooth Criminal [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
10. Dangerous/In the Closet [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
11. Mime Segment:, The (I Like) The Way You Love Me/Speed Demon/Another Part of Me/Hollywood Tonight [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
12. Jackson 5 Medley: I Want You Back/ABC/The Love You Save [Immortal Version], The ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
13. Speechless/Human Nature [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
14. Is It Scary/Threatened/Somebody's Watching Me/Ghosts/Monster [Immortal Version] - (featuring 50 Cent) ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
15. Thriller [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
Disc 2
Song Title
Sample
1. You Are Not Alone/Just Can't Stop Loving You/Todo Mi Amor Eres Tu/Remember the Time [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
2. Beat It/State of Shock/Bad [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
3. Jam [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
4. Planet Earth/Earth Song [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
5. Little Susie/Scream [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
6. Gone Too Soon [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
7. They Don't Care About Us/Tabloid Junkie/Privacy [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
8. Will You Be There [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
9. I'll Be There [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
10. Immortal Megamix: Can You Feel It/Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough/Billie Jean/Black or White [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
11. Man in the Mirror [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
12. Remember the Time/Bad [Immortal Version] ~ Cirque du Soleil/Michael Jackson
Album Notes and Credits
Notes & Personnel Info |
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Personnel: Kevin Antunes (keyboards, bass synthesizer, drum programming). |
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Audio Remixer: Kevin Antunes. |
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Recording information: Germano Studios, New York, NY; Nightbird Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Studio Piccolo Inc., Montreal, Quebec. |
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Photographers: Herb Ritts; Jonathan Exley; Eugene Adebari; Alan Messer; Stephen Vaughan; Jim Britt; Duncan Raban; Sam Emerson; Neil Zlozower; Steven Paul Whitsitt. |
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Unlike the Beatles, Michael Jackson's body of work lends itself to the kind of glitzy mash-up soundtrack Cirque du Soleil requires -- which is a roundabout way of saying the soundtrack to their 2011 production Immortal feels a little sounder than the Beatles' LOVE. Of course, LOVE is by far a more ambitious work, creating new songs out of old samples, whereas Immortal is unabashed Vegas glitz, songs truncated or elongated to the demands of the stage, audio drops of music videos or interviews triple underscoring already apparent sentiment. Producer Kevin Antunes never recontextualizes the original recordings; he favors hits-on-parade medleys, letting the hooks -- the melodies, the rhythms -- sink in before moving on to the next snippet. Perhaps it shouldn't be surprising that roughly half of the album is devoted to music made after Bad: after he parted ways with Quincy Jones, Jackson flitted between attempts to reconcile with hip-hop and old-fashioned showbiz. Here, the latter overwhelms, bending all the disco and dance to its sensibility; it's an effective soundtrack for a lavish, expensive dance production. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine |
Engineer: Jed Lieber; Troy Germano; Rene Aube |
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Musical Guests | |
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50 Cent |
Compilation Appearances
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Solarium/delirium 0405 |
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Iris (Ost) |
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Corteo |
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Corteo(w/ Bonus DVD) |
Associated Artists and Works
Technical Info
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Release Date : 11/21/2011 |
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Original Release Date : 2011 |
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Catalog ID : 88697993942 |
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Label : Epic (USA) |
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Number of Discs : 2 |
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Studio/Live : Live |
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Mono/Stereo : Stereo |
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SPAR Code : n/a |
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UPC : 00886979939424 |
Professional Reviews
Entertainment Weekly (p.71)
- "'Immortal Megamix' kind of rules: a perfect pop primer in a nine-minute package." -- Grade: B
- "'Immortal Megamix' kind of rules: a perfect pop primer in a nine-minute package." -- Grade: B
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