Usually, I go for music that has a melody in its core, and this is what the song is really about it’s actually as described has the spirit of “artists such as Landon Tewers, Sevdaliza, Missio, Stephen and Grandson and other “dark” parts that refer to Dana Dentata, Ghostemane and Istasha.” Frankly, his voice was the first thing that caught my ears really because I loved his technique which reminds me of the one and only Michael Jackson, among other influences such as Linkin Park. You would think that I am exaggerating but I believe when you gonna give a listen below you will feel the same immediately.

Also, I would like to salute the work that has been done over here with the music structure, I haven’t seen a song in 2021 so far with such tight dynamics, harmony along melody as an I mentioned earlier. Feel the incredible vibes below!

1.’The Girl is Mine’

The song is recorded by MJ and Sir Paul McCartney, and released as the first single of Jackson’s sixth solo album, Thriller (1982). Next year cooperation happened after when Michael recorded two songs in McCartney’s fourth solo album, Pipes of Peace (1983).And they are ‘SaySaySay’ and ‘The Man’.

2.’Beat it’
One of MJ’s heaviest songs and one of his masterpieces as well. “There had never been a soul hit with as much heavy guitar as this or a heavy-metal hit with as much soul. Paul Jackson Jr. and Steve Lukather play the menacing riff, but Eddie Van Halen‘s speed-shred solo is the coup de grâce. Van Halen says producer Quincy Jones‘ only advice was ‘go be yourself’.“Rolling Stone – The 100 Greatest Guitars Songs of All Time. 

4.’Human Nature’

I like the chorus so much of this song and the choir part at the end of the song as well. The song was in the first “hit” album by MJ, Thriller. The song is written and composed by Steve Porcaro and and produced by the legendary, Quincy Jones.

5.’Dirty Diana’
Steve Stevens delivered a kickass guitar lines and solo in this song. ‘Dirty Diana’ from Bad is one of the most recognized and beloved hits for Michael until now.

6.’Black or White’
I really like the variety of this song among different music genres. Anti-racism was one of the important issues that MJ was trying hard through his works to be against at. The song was featured in his eighth album, Dangerous, and written, composed and produced by Michael Jackson and the Grammy-award winning record producer, Bill Bottrell.

7.‘Give In To Me’
This is my first song that I have ever heard byMichael Jackson and one of the few songs that introduced me to Rock and Heavy Metal world. Most of us have seen the video and liked the electric vibes that goes between Slash and MJ’s especially when it was in the last solo of the song. Not gonna say much, watch it below and you’ll get what I mean…

9.’Come Together’
Isn’t it by The Beatles?! Yes, it is but he covered it. As he also covered others like; ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’, ‘My Girl’ and ‘With a Child’s Heart’. Frankly, I like The Beatles one so much, but also I like the Pop Rock version by him, it’s so alive!

10.‘D.S.’
Yea, baby! A cool Disco-Rock song HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I. Also, another cooperation between Michael and Slash. Oh, yea! That’s why you find a kickass solo in the song!

11.’Privacy’
The song is written by Jackson, Jerkins, Jerkins III, Daniels, Bernard Belle and guess what? Slash again on guitars! ‘Privacy’ from MJ’s latest album in 2001, Invincible, which is mostly got fair reviews but fans were expecting more than that since his previous release in 1997, Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix.

Edited by: Nehal A.Ali

Tributes for Michael Jackson: 

• The Weeknd – Dirty Diana
• Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal
• Sungha Jung – Beat it
• Dolapdere Big Gang – Billie Jean

Tributes for The Beatles:

• Michael Jackson – Come Together
• Jim Sturgess – Revolution 
• Doxology – Eleanor Rigby

Tributes for Metallica:

• Apocalyptica – Nothing Else Matters
• Avril Lavigne – Fuel
• Acid Drinkers – Seek And Destroy
• The Sins of Thy Beloved – The Thing that Should Not Be
• Van Canto – Battery 
• Miss Elena House – Nothing Else Matters

Tributes for Bob Dylan:

• Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower
• Guns N Roses – Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

Tributes for Black Sabbath:

• Pantera – Planet Caravan
• Megadeth – Paranoid 

Tributes for Deep Purple:

• Opeth – Soldier of Fortune
• Throne of Chaos – Smoke On The Water

Tributes for Pink Floyd:

• AndromidA – Another Brick In The wall I & II
• AndromidA – Another Brick In The wall III
• Korn – Another Brick In The Wall

Trubutes for Nina Simone:

• Joe Bonamassa – Funkier Than a Mosquito’s Tweeter
• Dolapdere big Gang – Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood

Tributes for Eric Clapton:

• Lefay – Cocaine
• Ozzy Osbourne and others – Tears in Heaven

Tributes for Queen:

• Valensia – Bohemian Rhapsody
• Never Shout Never – Bohemian Rhapsody

Tributes for Led Zeppelin:

• Dark Angel – Immigrant Song
• Angra – Kashmir
• Dread Zeppelin – Black Dog

Tributes for Iron Maiden:

• Children of Bodom – Aces High
• Graveworm – Fear of The Dark

Random cover songs:

• Skid Row – Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix cover)
• Alaa Wardi – Royals (Lorde cover)
• Justin Murphy – Losing My Religion (R.E.M cover)
• Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohan cover)
• Kyle Jordan Mueller and Cece – Marry the Night (Lady GaGa cover)
• Incubus – Stand by Me (Ben E. King cover)
• Travis Ratledge – Someone Like You (Adele cover)
• Linkin’ Park – Rolling in the Deep (Adele cover)
• Brandon Ummel Band – Moves Like Jagger (Maroon 5 cover)
• Future Idiots – Bad Romance (Lady GaGa cover)
• Green Day – Working Class Hero (John Lennon cover)
  
• Five Finger Death Punch – Bad Company (Bad Company cover)
• Breaking Benjamin – Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode cover)
• Walk off the Earth – Somebody That I Used to Know (Gotye cover)
• Shinedown – Simple Man (Lynyrd Skynyrd cover)
• Ryan Lewis – Wonderwall (Oasis cover)
• HIM – Wicked Game (Chris Isaak cover)
• John Mayer – Free Fallin’ (Tom Petty cover)

Stay tuned for the next part…

Shereen G and Mena Ezzat

Regardless, we will have another list for that; but for now, let’s discover more about people who really helped in modern music development, and worked with international artists and bands that we know and adore their hits. However, 50% of their success returns to their producers. Let’s know those music market masters…

Jimmy Page

Many people know him as the lead guitarist of the legendary classic rock band Led Zeppelin. Actually, the reason that Page created the band was his love to record production as well as putting new recording techniques, which became his legacy that was followed by music makers afterwards. Page spent hours and hours in the studio just trying to record techniques as well as observing the different points and changing microphones access, amplifier and trying new sounds and sometimes creating sound effects! Jimmy Page mainly produced for Led Zeppelin, The Firm and Screaming Lord Sutch bands. In addition, several side projects, one of them was Puff Daddy’s hit ‘Come With Me’.

Rick Rubin 

One of the wide known names in Europe and States. This artists didn’t work on a specific genre; he just knew how to get the right tunes for an artist and deliver it to the audience. I guess there’s few of the music industry that Rubin didn’t work with. Yes, any international artist/band you know you will find his name behind them. Some of these are: Johnny Cash, Metallica, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Slayer, RHCP, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Limp Bizkit, SOAD, The Cult, Neil Diamond, Mick Jagger, ZZ Top, Audioslave, Rage Against The Machine Danzig, Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow. Away from rock music, he worked with Adele, Justin Timberlake, Shakira, Public Enemy, Eminem, Lady Gaga and many more…

Bob Rock

Bob is considered to be the man behind the success of Metallica. Yes, Bob was actually the main reason of letting some of Metallica’s riffs reach the fans in a proper sound and song structure. And that was so obvious in ‘A Year and Half in the Life of Metallica’; the documentary film that was made for the recording production for Metallica: ‘Black Album’ shows him giving instructions to the band and sometimes guiding, even arguing with them to work hard and get it right. In addition, he worked with Aerosmith, Motley Crue, The Cult, David Lee Roth, Bon Jovi, Cher, Skid Row, Bryan Adams, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Michael Buble, and The Offspring. Besides, he is a well-known audio engineer, so he worked with Survivor, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and many else.

Quincy Jones 

Quincy Jones is considered as the most famous music producer on Earth! Jones started as a producer in the early 50s and was a well-known for his work with the King of Pop Michael Jackson, as well as, Little Richard, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Frank Sinatra, Samuel George – a.k.a Sammy Davis, Jr. – Aretha Franklin, Eddie Van Halen, Will Smith, 2Pac, Ray Charles and hundreds! Besides, he was the producer, composer and conductor of many international hits such as ‘We Are the World’ and ‘Bokra’ – Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me with many Arab artists such as; Shakira, Tamer Hosny, Souad Massi, Marawan Khoury, Latifa, Diana Karazon, and the American hip hop artist Akon. The song was written by Magda Al-Roumi.

Paul O’Neill

For you, who don’t know Paul, he is one of the responsible of creating the genre of progressive metal. O’Neill started as an engineer and worked with many international acts, such as; Aerosmith, Joan Jett, Def Leppard and others. In the 80s, he became the number one promoter for shows in Japan and promoting every tour of Madonna and Sting. The real change happened was with Savatage, which was when he changed the whole concept of the band from just a heavy metal band to become the first influential progressive metal band as well as his other orchestral works with same band members and other musicians in the ranked #1rock orchestra, Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Tony Platt 

Tony is one of the greatest English sound engineers and record producers. His resume could talk better than we do. Some of his notable works were with; Bob Marley, Buddy Guy, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Gary Moore, Johnny Cash, Samson, Manowar, Celtic Frost, Ronnie James Dio and Anathema.

Dieter Dierks

Most known as the owner of one the best international studios, Dierks Studios (audio and video studios), and the producer for the legendary band Scorpions. Many international artists worked and record there, such as; Michael Jackson, Accpet, Tina Turner, and many others.

R. Kelly 

This could be a name that many readers weren’t expecting in such a list, but this awesome composer, song-writer, arranger, mixer and record producer should be mentioned also. Kelly worked with numerous artists as a producer since the early 90s till now, and he was even the main reason behind many international artists production besides the younger ones. He produced for Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Toni Braxton, Aaliyah, Billy Ocean, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Whitney Huston and many else.

Mike Clink

Well, he is a man with not much of a resume but no one can deny he was one of the developers of the hard rock/heavy metal movement. He started as an audio engineer – like many other producers – in the 80s and then found his interest in record production. Clink produced for Gun N’ Roses, Triumph, Motley Crue, Megadeth, UFO, Jefferson Starship, Heart and many others.

Roy Thomas Baker

Baker isn’t only a music producer but he is also a songwriter, arranger and the governor of The Recording Academy – the U.S. organization of musicians, producers and audio engineers. His notable productions were for many legendary bands, such as: Queen, Yes, Jet, Nazareth, Free, Journey, Chris de Burgh, Ozzy Osbourne, Guns N’ Roses as well as motion pictures soundtracks for Heavy Metal in 1982 and American Anthem in 1986.