Thriller (song) - Cover Versions

Cover Versions

1980s

• In 1989, American composer Henry Mancini and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra recorded an orchestra version of the song.

2000s

• In 2000, British death metal band Ten Masked Men covered the song on their album Return of the Ten Masked Men.
• In 2001, American-born Australian singer Joe Dolce covered the song on a complication album, Andrew Denton's Musical Challenge.
• In 2003, Scottish rock band Aereogramme recorded "Thriller" for their Livers & Lungs EP.
• In 2003, German a cappella group Maybebop covered the song for their album Heiße Luft.
• In 2004, English electronic music group The Prodigy sampled "Thriller" on their The Way It Is.
• In 2007, Ian Brown covered "Thriller". Amos Barshad and Nick Catucci, of NYMag.com, commented that "before you dismiss" the song, if you "give it a listen", Brown’s "louche, drugged-out reinvention is actually pretty great."
• In 2008, German group Wise Guys recorded an a cappella version of the song as "Schiller" for their tenth album Frei!. The stage choreography based on Michael Jackson's music video and member Ferenc also recites a part of Friedrich Schiller's Die Bürgschaft.
• In 2008, "Thriller" was also covered by Ben Gibbard, lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service.
• In 2008, industrial metal band Gothminister covered Jackson's song for their album Happiness in Darkness.
• In 2008, a remix of The Pussycat Dolls' song "When I Grow Up", entitled the "Darkchild Remix" and featuring rappers Diddy, Lil Wayne and Fatman Scoop, contains elements of "Thriller" heavily sampled throughout the remix, most noticeably in the song's introduction.
• In October 2009, Imogen Heap covered "Thriller" for BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. It was later used for BBC's end montage to its UEFA Euro 2012 football tournament coverage.

2010s

• In 2011, Patrick Stump covered the song in an a cappella mash-up tribute along with several other Michael Jackson songs over pre-recorded backing vocals.