IT IS GREAT!!

Buy this CD now. It has Jackson 5's best hits.

The Jackson 5 rocks... motown's greatest band ever!

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.

Worth a Re-listen

I wasn't that interested in the Jacksons during their heyday. In fact, it seemed like "kiddie rock" to me. And I guess it was in a way, but 30 years on, I'm wondering what's so bad about that. I had recently borrowed a Motown compilation from the library with the ballad "I'll Be There" included on it and was impressed with the overall production. Much of what had sounded a little blurred and tinny over my car radio back in the day sounded polished on my CD player. So I checked out this compilation as well to see if after three decades and multiple scandals, it didn't all deserve another listen.



And it does, by and large. By the 70s, Motown was putting out stuff that was pretty darn polished. There's also no denying that the prepubescent Michael Jackson was pretty darn precocious (apparently--before all that arrested development stuff seems to have set in). He can be a bit shrill here and there, but for the most part, he was already a real pro. Like many listeners who were already a bit older, however, some of that slickness and precociousness seemed a bit strange even then. It would get stranger.



But as music qua music, it holds up pretty well. The Jacksons were bubblegum, to be sure, but a better brand--and with better packaging, if you can forgive those 70s duds--than most.