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Beat It (Single Version)

by Michael Jackson · from The Essential Michael Jackson

1982Pop4:19Track 17

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Review by Mira Okafor★★★★Sample

The production on this is so warm it feels like sitting next to a radiator in January.

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Review by Jules Archer★★★½Sample

I respect it more than I love it. “Beat It (Single Version)” is undeniable though.

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Disc 1
1
I Want You Back
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2:59
2
ABC
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2:58
3
The Love You Save
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3:05
4
Got to Be There (Single Version)
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3:23
5
Rockin' Robin
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2:33
6
Ben (Single Version)
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2:46
7
Enjoy Yourself
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3:25
8
Blame It On the Boogie
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3:35
9
Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) [Single Version]
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3:46
10
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
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6:05
11
Rock With You (Single Version)
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3:24
12
Off the Wall (Single Version)
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3:47
13
She's Out of My Life (Single Version)
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3:39
14
Can You Feel It (Single Version)
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3:51
15
The Girl Is Mine (with Paul McCartney)
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3:43
16
Billie Jean (Single Version)
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4:55
17
Beat It (Single Version)
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4:19
18
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' (Single Version)
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4:21
19
Human Nature (Single Version)
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3:47
20
P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
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4:00
21
Thriller (2003 Edit)
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5:13
Disc 2
1
Bad
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4:07
2
I Just Can't Stop Loving You
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4:13
3
Leave Me Alone
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4:41
4
The Way You Make Me Feel (Single Version)
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4:27
5
Man In the Mirror
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5:21
6
Dirty Diana
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4:43
7
Another Part of Me (Single Version)
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3:47
8
Smooth Criminal
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4:19
9
Black or White
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4:17
10
Heal the World
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6:26
11
Remember the Time
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4:01
12
In the Closet (Single Version)
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4:48
13
Who Is It (7" Edit)
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4:00
14
Will You Be There (Single Version)
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3:44
15
Dangerous
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7:00
16
You Are Not Alone (Single Version)
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4:55
17
You Rock My World
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5:07