re: MJ

I have no doubt he has 100's of unreleased songs in various states. Too, if he called someone up to collaborate I'm sure they would bring as much stuff as they could just to get a cut on one of his albums.

I haven't really been interested in those unreleased compilations they've put out since his death. They seem to mostly be from 2000 on, I think, and some question if it's really him on the songs anyway, even his family.

The other day I was in Wal-Mart and they recently put out a CD single:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/I-Just-Can-t-Stop-Loving-You-Walmart-Exclusive/20925480

The b-side is a demo. Not sure if it had been released before.

While looking for that, I saw that there will be a 3CD/1 DVD 25th Anniv Bad released in Sept.

Like Dr Dre right now. Detox has been going on for over a decade. I'm sure there are 100's of songs from that.
With a project like that, I wish he would release his finished album version, and then release all the other stuff. Like a Smile/Pet Sounds box or series, that would be cool that once (and if) he puts Detox out, then they started releasing everything by year. You would get everything he worked on in 2000, etc. For me, with a lot of these type of albums that involve a lot of collaboration, it seems they keep some songs that are weaker maybe because of who's on it, instead of choosing the best tracks.

I was never into MJ as a kid. I never got his albums or anything and I was a child of the 80's/90's.
It wasn't until I got the Special Edition of Off the Wall with the demos that I really realized how talented he was.
Go and listen to the demos. He wrote some or most of his biggest hits, and it was all there in the demos. What's really cool with the OTW demos is that his family is recording with him and they're playing all this percussion. It sounds really cool.

i was born in the 90's and when i was young my bros showed me his music videos i thought he was the coolest person on earth the way he danced and walked on the sidewalk and made it light up (billie jean) to me he was magical for some reason...yeah you're right his demos are unbelievable ever heard this beauty before? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wZbJC_fXyU

Never heard that one. It seems to have no connection to the Thriller version besides the title.
Some of the unreleased tracks are better than the ones that made the cut. I'm sure several really solid albums could be made from his unreleased stuff. I wish they would do deluxe versions of the albums and keep it era specific with all the unreleased cut tracks and demos.

I was never into MJ as a kid. I never got his albums or anything and I was a child of the 80's/90's.
It wasn't until I got the Special Edition of Off the Wall with the demos that I really realized how talented he was.
Go and listen to the demos. He wrote some or most of his biggest hits, and it was all there in the demos. What's really cool with the OTW demos is that his family is recording with him and they're playing all this percussion. It sounds really cool.

I think the autotuning at points is intentional. It's most apparent on when i learn to sing which includes lines like

"Because a machine
Could burn the life out of me
Not the same when I try
It's just a bad lullaby"

I didn't think about it that way. If that's the case I wish they would have made a note of it in the booklet that it was intentional to match the song/lyrics.
That was the first album he did with a new producer after Gene Eugene died, so I thought maybe the new producer was ok with using Auto-Tune in places.

I can't remember if that is the main place where it sticks out for me though.

I have never seen those possible White Album covers or heard that it might be called A Doll's House - what does that even mean?

Are you familiar with the play of the same name by Ibsen? 

Nope.

I have never seen those possible White Album covers or heard that it might be called A Doll's House - what does that even mean?

One of the record shops in Brighton has a sh*t-ton of Beatles albums that are essentially worthless because they're old rough copies and there are so many of them - they must have 20+ copies of The White Album alone. I'm getting an idea....

I have always wanted Mono British/Parlophone copies of the Beatles albums. All I see over here are Capitol/US versions with altered tracklistings up to Pepper.
Is a decent copy of Revolver/Parlophone easy to come by in the UK?

I really like LHAS, but some of the vocals sound like they have some vocal tuning modification on it. Nothing like T-Pain or Cher, but minor use like it was originally intended. I would have to listen again to point out what I mean. The arrangements are stellar though. I had forgotten just how good it was until I listened to it again a few months ago.

I'm a big fan of Starflyer 59. LHAS was the first new album I bought of theirs when it came out.
It was around the time I was really getting into The Beach Boys/Pet Sounds/etc., too.

Here is a good fan site with a messageboard:

www.sf59fans.com

I'm glad they got their latest album Kickstarter-ed and have recently started tracking.

Do you have LHAS on vinyl?

Jon Brion has about 12 albums' worth of stuff, done and mixed, but he won't put 'em out, so I haven't heard them. Drives me nuts. There's gotta be a least one album's worth there you might call a lost masterpiece.

Did he give the number 12 in an interview?

I haven't heard about Jon recently, but I have always wondered how much he had archived since he only put out 1 solo album in the last decade+.
You may could make a 2nd album if you took cuts from all of his movie soundtracks over the years. If there isn't quite enough cuts, maybe you could take some of the instrumentals to fill it out.

The last new song with his voice I remember hearing was when I was watching Step Brothers and he had a nice sounding song on there. I don't think it's available complete anywhere though.

But yeah, I have long wondered why he does not release a solo album here and there. Even if he is busy producing and scoring, at the least couldn't he set apart a week here and there and get it done?