The Best of Michael Jackson

EDITORIAL REVIEWS The title of 1975's Best of Michael Jackson seems something like an unfunny joke in the wake of the global success that the star found with the Wall and Thriller just a few years later. Best offers a handful of charted singles ranging from the incandescent "I Wanna Be Where You Are" and "Got to Be There" to the ephemeral "Rockin' Robin" and the tedious rat-love flick-theme "Ben." The rest is a mishmash of workaday sentiment ("With a Child's Heart," "Music and Me") and a few tracks of the proverbial pleasant-but-unexceptional work that the solo Jackson would soon transcend. -Rickey Wright .COM The title of 1975's Best of Michael Jackson seems something like an unfunny joke in the wake of the global success that the star found with the Wall and Thriller just a few years later. Best offers a handful of charted singles ranging from the incandescent "I Wanna Be Where You Are" and "Got to Be There" to the ephemeral "Rockin' Robin" and the tedious rat-love flick-theme "Ben." The rest is a mishmash of workaday sentiment ("With a Child's Heart," "Music and Me") and a few tracks of the proverbial pleasant-but-unexceptional work that the solo Jackson would soon transcend. -Rickey Wright

Best Of Michael Jackson: Motown Compact Classics Series