Michael Jackson – Xscape

The guy below me wrote basically a book about nothing. SMH

Bad quality. Sounds fuzzy. I guess there’s no other choice ha

Sounds like an average yet fine CD album issued back in 90s. For the vinyl record, I'd give it 3 to 4 stars. It sounds pretty normalized and compressed on the flat like side with the beat and voice emphases. Most of the records issued in last decade or two with barcode starting in triple 8 sound pretty loud yet on a compressed and flat like side representing a fine average regular CD album you may come across. I still have no idea how they manage to make it happen stating that famous "Made in E.U." on the album with barcode showing 888 at the start. According to a number of sources online, it should be Made in Singapore in fact not Made in the European Union really. It could be that just the headquarter managing this release resides in Singapore, but it's quite possible they master and print in a Singapore factory/facility. I wish this interesting album was still available mastered and printed in the USA or in some real European fine facilities like in Germany, Italy, Czech Republic whatsoever except the Netherlands making lots of very average prints nowadays. It looks this fine album has never been mastered and printed on the top notch US or Europe facility thought it'd be nice
to have one Made in outside of famous infamous "888". The album sound normal having no any other option. For a real fine vinyl album, I'd give it 3+ strong stars. I'd take it as another album release on a standard CD printed on vinyl mistakenly. Not the best and most enjoyable stereo sound engineering and mastering job as for a vinyl golden expectation yet still a collection of fine Michael Jackson's songs. If you get a none-warped record on both sides, you've got best for a strong 3-star vinyl experience.

Is there also a reissue on vinyl? Does only the first pressing circulate? What is the difference between the version with sticker and the one without?

This album sounds sooooo good on vinyl. Excellent MJ album right here. Beautiful packaging too.

Very loud record cutting, fills the room and will get anyone excited. Although, I seriously wish this was a 2 LP release, with the 2nd LP being the original versions that were on the deluxe CD edition and a gold cover. Love owning this just because of the glorious shine on the cover

Excellent release all around. Very good sound quality, clean pressing with no real background noise, and a nice quality gatefold jacket. I’m not sure why they wasted a gatefold jacket on this 1 LP album, but at least they gave us a nifty pointing Michael picture to fill the extra slot. This is the first that I’ve heard this entire album and all of the songs ended up being pretty great. I’m glad that this was able to be released so we could enjoy some bonus MJ.

Coffret Box-set 3 cd doré, excellent qualité audio. .

The album "Michael" and "Xscape" really are quite good but still minor releases. Not as good as the old albums. Very nice for fans though. Which is understandable as Michael himself was not directing, producing or approving these. 4/5 for both albums. Michael had a great career but I wish he had released something after Invincible. It was strange that he released nothing after. Infact it's odd that already 20 years have passed from Invincible. It was all digitally produced just like they do music today. The leaflet picture of a sliced Michael represents a sliced sound sample. That's the idea of the picture and music. Sliced digital waveforms composed on a computer. The world hasn't changed much since. Music has only gotten more silly, artificial, pretentious and detached. They are still slicing the sounds on computers, only using much more tech and software now. But how are the results any good? Musicians are out of new ideas. They should go back to basics and forget the computer for awhile. It's only a tool, but it has come to dominate everything.

Is there a Deluxe vinyl albulm with the originals ???