Thriller (Lambchop album) 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. The track "Your Fucking Sunny Day" was released as a single from the album in a re-recorded "clean" version, under the title "Your Sucking Funny Day". Three of the songs, "Hey Where's Your Girl", "Crawl Away" and "Superstar in France" are cover versions of
Thriller (Michael Jackson album) the first album to reach 30x platinum, with U.S. shipments of 33 million album-equivalent units certified; only the Eagles' album "Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)" has sold more copies. The album won a record-breaking eight Grammy Awards in 1984, including Album of the Year. It produced seven singles—"The Girl Is Mine", "Billie Jean", "Beat It", "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", "Human Nature", "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)", and "Thriller"—all of which reached the top 10 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. "Thriller" broke racial barriers in pop music, enabling Jackson's appearances on MTV and meeting with President Ronald Reagan at the White