Man in the Mirror in a large crowd). Instead, it featured a montage of footage of various major news events and famous people. The "Man in the Mirror" music video was directed, produced and edited by Don Wilson. Don and Michael Jackson developed the idea for the video. Larry Stessel who was Video Commissioner at Epic Records at the time was the Executive Producer. PCM Stereo music video version of this song was included on "Number Ones", "Michael Jackson's Vision", the Target version DVD of "Bad 25", and the song's video that released on VHS in 1989. An alternate live video was used as
The Richest Man in Babylon (album) 'proper' album, is certainly their most complete work to date, and arguably the first to be presented as one complete, cohesive whole. … this ranks as Thievery Corporation's finest yet." Allmusic's John Bush said that the album "doesn't have the hooks or the production finesse to compete with "The Mirror Conspiracy"" but that "a few tracks on the backside do plow new ground, thanks in part to new guests..." Among fans the album is popular, peaking at number 9 on "Billboard"'s Independent Albums list on October 19, 2002 and number 2 on the Dance/Electronic Albums list on October 26, 2002.