Criminally overshadowed? Well, if you judge it up against Thriller and the subsequent couple of albums after, then ya. But on it's own it's far from overshadowed from a commercial aspect (commercial aspect added for Frown's benefit)
Off The Wall
- 8x platinum in the USA
- 20 million units sold worldwide
- ranked 68th in Rolling Stone's top 500
- was the first MJ album to have 4 singles peak in the top 10
- inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
- MJ won a Grammy for best R&B vocal performance
Any artist would give anything to have a single album with that sort of pedigree.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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