Off the Wall
Studio album by Michael JacksonWikipedia
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Nov 3, 2026
Ricky LimeHOST
I mean, both amazing collections.
Ricky LimeHOST
He also produced Off the Wall, which came out in the late 70s, which is Michael Jackson's other like quintessential sort of masterpiece.
Ricky LimeHOST
You know,
Kelly SharonHOST
they had a good working relationship for sure.
speaker_0HOST
Ray Charles, by the way, was his longtime friend since they were like 20 years old.
speaker_0HOST
He hit the zenith of his career, if you will, in the 1980s when he produced three of Michael Jackson's albums, Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad.
speaker_0HOST
Of course, Thriller became the best-selling album of all time worldwide.
speaker_0HOST
In America, it is still the Eagles with their greatest hits album, just saying.
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speaker_0HOST
Due to the way that they promoted it at that time and also the tensions within the group itself, it did not hit the Billboard singles chart.
speaker_0HOST
In 1979, Michael Jackson released Rock With You.
speaker_0HOST
This was the second single off his solo album Off The Wall.
speaker_0HOST
And it kind of was the, let's say, the bridge between the disco era and the pop era.
RedHOST
You did? So, yeah, so Because of You by Ne-Yo.
RedHOST
But then, like, does Off the Wall qualify? You know what I mean? Like, and does Song of the Key of Life qualify? Or is that more disco?
Digga JonesHOST
I
RedHOST
consider
RedHOST
Then, you know what I mean? Then, yeah.
RedHOST
Then those would have to be considered.
RedHOST
And if they both qualify as R&B, then it has to be Off the Wall.
Digga JonesHOST
Okay.
Damien BarlingHOST
No, it depends on how many rounds it was.
Damien BarlingHOST
Michael's catalog, it's really essentially, what, five albums when you talk? I mean, I guess if you pull the Jackson 5 into it, but you got Off the Wall, Thriller, Dangerous, Bad, and History.
Damien BarlingHOST
Yeah, you throw Invincible in there, so six albums.
Damien BarlingHOST
If you just went across the board, musical genre, I think Kanye could probably take just about anybody.
Mike JosephHOST
I mean, I think it was just a comparison thing.
Mike JosephHOST
And I think Michael needed a benchmark for him to... want to achieve more and you know him and prince were the same age you know they both came up in the midwest um you know off the wall came out around the same time i want to be your lover came out and you know a lot of like i remember reading like teen magazines around that time like right on and they were always like pitting michael against prince you know thriller and purple rain were somewhat contemporaneous with one another Um, so, you know, I think it was like really a media, uh, comparison that kind of went out of control a little bit.
Mike JosephHOST
Um, but again, Prince and Michael are very much like apples and oranges.
Mike JosephHOST
Like Prince's music does not sound like Michael's and Michael's does not sound like Prince.
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Mike JosephHOST
I mean, Prince has played Michael songs in concert.
Mike JosephHOST
Like there's footage of Prince playing Don't Stop Till You Get Enough.
Mike JosephHOST
So I'm pretty sure Prince was jamming out to Off the Wall.
Mike JosephHOST
That would have been
Pez JaxHOST
Bad and Dangerous.
Char McLachlanHOST
Yeah, well, Off the Wall is one of my favourite Turtle tracks.
Pez JaxHOST
Yeah.
Char McLachlanHOST
However, Bad, I'm like...
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Char McLachlanHOST
say.
Pez JaxHOST
It's like a nine-minute remix.
Pez JaxHOST
I don't know if it's official, but it mixes Off the Wall with Butterflies.
Pez JaxHOST
Amazing.
Livvy LandonGUEST
What are y'all doing? Y'all are late to this, but I love it.
Jesse JacksonHOST
I love the idea that when Off the Wall came out, right, and it was such a big hit.
Jesse JacksonHOST
And I like to think that the record company said, OK, we're going to put out another album.
Jesse JacksonHOST
And it can't be as good as Off the Wall, right? We're going to have to expect it to be down a little bit.
Jesse JacksonHOST
And then it's better, right? It becomes Thriller.
Jesse JacksonHOST
You're like, what?
Diallo RiddleHOST
Let's talk a little bit about where Michael is in his career at this time.
Diallo RiddleHOST
This is the early 80s, after he released his fifth studio album, Off the Wall, which it should be pointed out, it sold 10 million copies.
Diallo RiddleHOST
That was already a massive hit.
Diallo RiddleHOST
At the time, it was already, I believe Quincy said, it was already the biggest black album that had ever been recorded.
Diallo RiddleHOST
In Questlove's view, he's like, I wish it had sold a little bit less so that he wasn't always trying to chase the biggest album of his career every single time.
Diallo RiddleHOST
If he
Blake "LUXXURY" RobinHOST
had peaked with Off the Wall and then dipped a little bit, maybe some back and forth might have been healthy.
Blake "LUXXURY" RobinHOST
Yeah, exactly.
NellyGUEST
Because I wouldn't say that Thriller is Michael Jackson's best record.
NellyGUEST
Off the wall.
NellyGUEST
Musically.
NellyGUEST
But he created Thriller because he was pissed off.
NellyGUEST
Because they would not acknowledge him in other categories with Off the Wall.
NellyGUEST
So he set out to make the biggest selling record of all time.
NellyGUEST
So that's why commercially it's unmatched.
Simon TeslerHOST
But first, The Jacksons, with a track from their penultimate album together.
Simon TeslerHOST
It's written by Michael, already a big solo star now, following the release of Off The Wall a couple of years earlier.
Simon TeslerHOST
And you can hear the first sonic hints of what would become the track Thriller two years later.
Simon TeslerHOST
The Jacksons recorded the song as Heartbreak Hotel, but after its release, the title was changed to avoid confusion with Elvis Presley's song of the same name.
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