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) leisure item—like a magazine, a toy, tickets to a hit movie—and started selling like a household staple". At the time of the album's release, a press statement from Gil Friesen, the then President of A&M Records, read that, "The whole industry has a stake in this success". "Time" magazine speculated that "the fallout from "Thriller" has given the [music] business its best years since the heady days of 1978, when it had an estimated total domestic revenue of $4.1 billion". "Time" summed up "Thriller"s impact as a "restoration of confidence" for an industry bordering on "the ruins of punk and