Thriller (Lambchop album) songs from the album "Poor Fricky" by East River Pipe also released on Merge Records. The sleeve is a painting by Wayne White, a childhood friend of Wagner who also provided cover art for "Nixon", "Aw Cmon" and "No You Cmon" by the band. Thriller (Lambchop album) Thriller is the third full-length album by Lambchop, released in 1997. The album title was chosen as a reference to the Michael Jackson album of the same name, one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, as an in-joke by frontman Kurt Wagner regarding the low sales of the first two Lambchop albums.
Thriller (Michael Jackson album) to suggestions that Jackson was bowing to a white audience. "The Girl Is Mine" was followed by the hit single "Billie Jean", which made "Thriller" a chart-topper. Success continued with the single "Beat It", which featured guitarists Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather. The title track was released as a single and also became a hit internationally. On December 16, 2015, "Thriller" was certified 30× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, for shipments of at least 30 million units in the US. After the inclusion of streaming and tracks sales into the RIAA album awards in 2017, "Thriller"