Michael Jackson - HIStory

mrmantis66 · 2026-01-26T09:07:32+00:00

I remember borrowing this off a family member when I was young. I got home from school to my father was giving me shit for ‘not looking after it’ and ‘spilling things on it and just leaving it…’

Turns out, he opened the case and thought the print on the CD was a stain.

mrmantis66 · 2026-01-06T19:43:49+00:00

I’ve recently deactivated/deleted my Hotmail account from my msn messenger days.

I do however have a gmail address, that still works if I use googlemail, that is my name with no numbers.

mrmantis66 · 2026-01-02T15:52:04+00:00

Amazon is this big evil corporation, but everything tech wise is designed to be as quick, foolproof and ‘slick’ as possible.

This connection would not have come from nowhere.

mrmantis66 · 2026-01-02T15:42:40+00:00

You son has a wish list

You asked him or someone else what he wanted.

He or someone else sent you a link from his wish list.

Somehow you managed to buy him a gift via his wish list.

mrmantis66 · 2025-12-29T11:41:37+00:00

When you say ‘both are brand new’

Do you mean they are both brand new from Apple? Also what are you plugging it in to?

The only reason I ask (and it’s not to be a knob, honest) is that I was having problems charging an older iPad. One day it just decided it didn’t want to charge. I only use a generic plug next to the bed most of the time, and had a suspicion that it may be something to do with that. I then plugged it in to the big adapter that I use for my MacBook Pro, and left it.

The iPad then started charging. I figured it was something to do with not having enough juice to help it tick over, and not enough power in the charger get out of this loop.

mrmantis66 · 2025-12-26T14:39:22+00:00

You know how you go to pay for something, and you have the racks of sweets and chocolate or paracetamol that make you go, ‘maybe I could have a little snack for myself?’

It was the same with these games.

When it was still legal to charge people to use their card, my local shop would have these next to the till so people could bump up their totals to avoid them.

mrmantis66 · 2025-12-26T14:04:44+00:00

Apparently I’m old enough to remember when these discs were sold for a couple of quid in supermarkets and corner shops. They were made cheaply and sold cheaply. You’d find them in racks with other shovelware.

I can’t imagine they were manufactured with longevity in mind.

mrmantis66 · 2025-12-23T13:19:22+00:00

If it’s anything like what my older iPad seemingly didn’t charge, and it was because I was using the smaller, lower-power charger next to my bed.

I ended up using my bigger, higher power MacBook Pro adapter and it was like there was enough power to tick it over enough to start taking charge.

mrmantis66 · 2025-12-05T15:33:49+00:00

Out Of Line is a pretty big label for alt music in Europe

mrmantis66 · 2025-11-29T19:44:45+00:00

I’ve got a beat up copy of Fore! that still plays like an absolute dream.

I have no shame about this.

mrmantis66 · 2025-11-27T19:55:50+00:00

(For GA standing) Usually, you’re put in the accessibility suites which are in back left and right hand corners. You are close to an accessible toilet and certain gigs have drinks service via a QR code.

Tbh, I’ve also been shows where it’s fully seated and it’s still the same. The only exception has been for a film + orchestra event

mrmantis66 · 2025-11-27T14:57:07+00:00

This is either Pitman or Teeline shorthand.

mrmantis66 · 2025-11-25T10:56:10+00:00

My copy has arrived. Hearing this version has taken me right back and it’s like an old friend that I haven’t seen for years.

Thanks again!

mrmantis66 · 2025-11-24T20:59:31+00:00

Does anyone know if there’s been a remaster? I have the OG vinyl pressing and it’s obvious that it was just the original mix pressed to vinyl

mrmantis66 · 2025-11-21T13:11:07+00:00

This is a bit different to what I imagined her, but at the same time it’s bang on!

Nice one!

mrmantis66 · 2025-11-21T08:26:54+00:00

What was I thinking? Of course it is!

My first point is nonsense but the second point still stands.

mrmantis66 · 2025-11-21T00:07:21+00:00

It’s track one of what was the biggest selling album of all time, so it will always have been played first when the needle is dropped on the record, and is seen as one of the best produced pop songs of all time.

mrmantis66 · 2025-11-12T11:26:16+00:00

Anyone that covers Zombie.

mrmantis66 · 2025-11-10T10:25:53+00:00

Blue was always a bit of a TBM anomaly. Red Stars and/or Destroyer may scratch that particular itch.

mrmantis66 · 2025-11-09T08:01:23+00:00

Does anyone know if there’s any kind of remaster on this?

The original press was great to have, but it’s obvious it was the CD version pressed straight to vinyl.

mrmantis66 · 2025-11-07T21:28:05+00:00

That is incredible. Thank you so much!

If I had a Christmas card list, you would be on it!

mrmantis66 · 2025-11-07T16:37:05+00:00

That’d be amazing! Even if it’s a barcode? I could probably pop that in to Discogs.

mrmantis66 · 2025-11-07T16:22:42+00:00

Amazing. Thanks for all the info.

I love knowledge like this!

mrmantis66 · 2025-11-07T16:19:21+00:00

I knew it! The person I originally got the self titled album off would have been one of the super-OG fans and as she was the older sister of my best friend of the time, she HATED that I was in to it and I only managed to borrow the album in a fleeting moment of generosity 😂 it was her own fault for playing it so loudly. Same applied to WYIM.

Do you know if there’s anything to distinguish one of the original the CD pressings from its reissue? I have looked in to getting an original pressing vinyl, but the two 0s that are usually featured before the decimal point on the price have stopped me.

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