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Sun Mar 21 2021
1
OK, here we go. Noncing Jackson's - Bad
I'm not in the best place to listen to this. It's friday night and I'm usually balls deep in techno or jungle by this point...
I'm familiar with the singles but don't think I've ever listened to this through. The title track sounds a lot like the Ghostbusters theme, which I didn't recall before. Nor the dreadful synth riffs about 2:45 in. Ahhh, the signature wooooos as well. Shamone motherfucker.
eeeheeeeee The way you make me feel. God this sounds dated, what year is it? 1987. Pulp released their second album in 1987. Cocker and Jackson became the best of friends many years later.
Speed Demon. I've never heard this before I don't think. Ffs I've just realised that this album is gonna destroy my "mainstream" stats for the week on last.fm. All these tracks sound very similar, think it's the bassline that is just about the same in all of them so far. Wooo ahhhhhhh
Liberian Girl is fucking terrible. Though at least it sounds markedly different to the first three tracks. ooooohhhhh
We're Just Good Friends, you're ignorant. eeehhhhheeeeee eh hu oh he eeeee. Jesus fucking wept. I thought I might enjoy this album. He's an all time great pop star, I expected it to be toe tapping at least. This is a total chore. OOoowwwwww. The tracks just don't go anywhere. It's really dull and repetitive. According to the review Plex pulls though, this is meant to be deeper into hard rock and hard dance. Really? REALLY? I dunno about the rock side but I clearly have a different definition of hard dance. Though this could definitely benefit of a fucking big donk on it. There was a great techno remix of Billie Jean that chugs away for 11 minutes by Bushwacka. I could listen to that on repeat over having this on. Another Part Of Me has come and gone. Man in the Mirror I remember hearing before. "This wind is blowing my mind"...... ok. Yeah I mean I can see how this one did ok. But really it's drivel. I've just remembered this is quoted in Lego batman "If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change oooooo" KEY CHANGE. That key change is the highlight of the album so far. SHAMONE. At least this track doesn't end fading out too.
I just want to lay next to you for a while
You look so beautiful tonight
Your eyes are so lovely
Your mouth is so sweet
A lot of people misunderstand me
That's because they don't know me at all
I just want to touch you
And hold you
I need you, God I need you
I love you so much
FUCK OFF!!
I wanna put it out there, I fucking love Off The Wall. It's brilliant. This is hot garbage. Why is it on this list, what qualifies it over countless others? Cos he was massive? They could have swapped in a Toots and the Maytals album instead of this. No Toots but we get second rate Jacko.
Who they rope in to do the guitar on Dirty Diana? This is probably my favourite so far. Maybe I've just been ground down and desperate to think I've not completely wasted this time. Weren't Duran Duran around at this time? At some point this has made me thing of View to a Kill. I don't know any other Duran Duran tracks other than that like. Smooth Criminal, this is a classic innit? I mean after some of the dross on this album I'm thirsty for something that isn't terrible. THe sound of school discos when I was 9 will have to do.
The last track is fitting called Leave Me Alone. I could make more jibes, but really by this point I just want to be left alone. ooooOOOOOhhhhhhoooOOOOOO
I've tried, I really have. I don't like it. It's not just it's music that doesn't interest me, it's music I don't like and I'm struggling to find pretty much any enjoyment out of. Joe Smooth's Promised Land came out in 1987. Brothers, sisters, one day we will be free. From fighting, violence, people crying in the streets. I'm not surprised people were crying in the streets when Jackson was number 1 in the album charts with this.
1/5
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Sun Feb 28 2021
4
The downside to a success like Thriller is that it's nearly impossible to follow, but Michael Jackson approached Bad much the same way he approached Thriller -- take the basic formula of the predecessor, expand it slightly, and move it outward. This meant that he moved deeper into hard rock, deeper into schmaltzy adult contemporary, deeper into hard dance -- essentially taking each portion of Thriller to an extreme, while increasing the quotient of immaculate studiocraft. He wound up with a sleeker, slicker Thriller, which isn't a bad thing, but it's not a rousing success, either. For one thing, the material just isn't as good. Look at the singles: only three can stand alongside album tracks from its predecessor ("Bad," "The Way You Make Me Feel," "I Just Can't Stop Loving You"), another is simply OK ("Smooth Criminal"), with the other two showcasing Jackson at his worst (the saccharine "Man in the Mirror," the misogynistic "Dirty Diana"). Then, there are the album tracks themselves, something that virtually didn't exist on Thriller but bog down Bad not just because they're bad, but because they reveal that Jackson's state of the art is not hip. And they constitute a near-fatal dead spot on the record -- songs three through six, from "Speed Demon" to "Another Part of Me," a sequence that's utterly faceless, lacking memorable hooks and melodies, even when Stevie Wonder steps in for "Just Good Friends," relying on nothing but studiocraft. Part of the joy of Off the Wall and Thriller was that craft was enhanced with tremendous songs, performances, and fresh, vivacious beats. For this dreadful stretch, everything is mechanical, and while the album rebounds with songs that prove mechanical can be tolerable if delivered with hooks and panache, it still makes Bad feel like an artifact of its time instead a piece of music that transcends it.
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Sat Feb 13 2021
5
what is the moral stance on listening to a bad persons' music and enjoying it? should we have separation of artist and art? I think the answer to this is: if the artist commits the crime in the here and now and you are aware of it you should stop supporting them as they will receive the benefits of your support but in this case a) michael jackson isn't receiving anything from my listens b) when he recorded this album hopefully he wasn't up to any nasty behaviour
in answer to that - brilliant album - man in the mirror was the blowing in the wind of the 80s. Most of the songs to this day hold up very well and don't sound corny (minus i just cant stop loving you).
some of the most iconic basslines
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Mon Nov 08 2021
5
225 albums, c'est ce qu'il aura fallu attendre avant qu'enfin, le jour de gloire arrive. Oui, les rumeurs sont vraies. Comme vous l'avez probablement entendu a la pause café de votre lieu de travail, ou encore au detour d'une conversation dans les transports en commun, j'ai enfin attribué la note de 5/5.
Après des tonnes d'albums absolument moyens (Sinatra), absolument surcotés (Pink Floyd), absolument désastreux voir dangereux (Frank Zappa et son zoo de macaques), la lumière est venue de l'artiste ayant bercé mon enfance. En effet, alors que mon camarade d'écoute robtertiaire dû passer ses jeunes années à écouter exclusivement The Crusaders, j'ai pour ma part eu la chance d'être éduqué par les performances artistiques sensationnelles de Michael. A noter que rob n'a vraiment pas eu une enfance facile, puisque dû à cette Crusaders dépendance, robdû rentrer dans une classe spécialisée dans notre lycée (ndlr: CLIS), afin de remettre à niveau sa culture musicale.
Merci Michael en tout cas
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Mon Jan 18 2021
5
Obviously Micheal Jackson is an icon but after listening to this album I can see why and the impact he’s had on society. Great album
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Tue Mar 02 2021
5
Incredible, era defining album. Music that everyone enjoys and knows the words to. The production is crisp and beautifully crafted, every synthetic sound is perfectly constructed. One or two duff tracks but only because of the direct comparison. Would happily go to 'the cancelled disco' to listen to this again.
Favourite track: Man in the Mirror
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Tue May 18 2021
2
This album... is bad. It just reeks of the sounds of its era. Only two good songs are Bad and Smooth Criminal. The added background of his child rape allegations stand out in the many songs about forbidden love and changing for the better. He’s a talented song writer, but this is where he began to fall out of relevancy.
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Wed Sep 22 2021
1
It’s Bad, really really Bad!
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Wed Feb 10 2021
5
Best album by a child molester!!
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Mon Nov 08 2021
5
En écoutant cet album, j'ai revu tout mon onglet History défiler devant mes yeux : les Costello, les Morrissey, les albums punk, les Portishead, les Byrds, les Frank Zappa, les Goldfrapp... et je compris dès lors que tout ce chemin parcouru et ces heures sombres faisaient aujourd'hui sens.
Vous savez d'ailleurs probablement que la chanson Liberian Girl tournait en boucle dans mon mp3 la semaine au terme de laquelle je me suis fait remercier de mon premier cabinet d'avocats (j'ai évoqué ce moment dans ma critique de l'album Are You Experienced de Jimi Hendrix, souvenez-vous).
Je voulais revenir sur cet épisode que j'ai, certains s'en sont rendus compte, quelque peu enjolivé.
En réalité, la rupture de mon contrat se fit en deux temps : un premier entretien avec l'une de mes deux tutrices (c'est précisément cet épisode que je narre à merveille dans ma critique de Hendrix) lors duquel celle-ci m'annonça que j'étais sur la sellette (et non directement viré comme j'ai pu l'écrire) et un deuxième entretien avec un autre avocat du cabinet une semaine plus tard (nous l'appellerons ici Saddam Hussein) lors duquel on m'annonça mon éviction.
Ce jeudi-là, vers 15h30, j'entendis une voix provenant de l'étage inférieur m'annoncer que Saddam Hussein voulait me voir.
Je descendis les escaliers muni de mon enceinte JBL et toquai à la porte de Saddam Hussein.
« Saddam Hussein ! C'est moi, Robassembléeplénière.
— Entre, Robassembléeplénière. »
Je m'assis en face de lui et vis au même instant sur son bureau deux papiers similaires contenant un texte bref suivi d'un espace probablement prévu à l'effet d'une signature.
« Qu'est-ce que cela peut bien vouloir dire, Saddam ?
— Hmm... comment t'expliquer... je peux me connecter ?
— Euh, oui tu peux.
— C'est laquelle ?
— JBL Flip 5.
— D'accord.
— C'est bon t'es connecté.
— Monte le son et écoute bien.
— Berk.
— Tu reconnais ?
— Bien sûr, c'est Rid of Me de PJ Harvey, ma chanson détestée par excellence.
— Et tu comprends pourquoi je l'ai mise ?
— Non, Saddam Hussein.
— Réfléchis bien.
— Quoi ?! Vous vous débarrassez de moi ?! »
Je réunis mes affaires et partis du cabinet quelques minutes plus tard, sans me retourner.
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Thu Apr 08 2021
4
*Not* bad. It's good. Very good.
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Thu Mar 24 2022
4
Excited to see this pop up!
fun listening to MJ outside the context of weddings
speed demon = animusic vibes
feel like the songs that are popular are popular for a reason. Not many of the other tracks are standing out that much to me.
man in the mirror best track by far
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Fri Apr 16 2021
2
yes hes a pedo which ruins this album. unfortunately tho the sounds and such are very fun.
nvm just hit liberian girl. kill this fucking album
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Wed Jun 07 2023
2
Album title = review
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Thu Oct 22 2020
5
classic!!!
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Wed Nov 18 2020
5
It's a classic
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Tue Jan 05 2021
5
Конечно, повторить уровень Триллера было практически нереально, поэтому MJ этого и не сделал.
Альбом, хоть и блещет энергией предшественника, но обладает меньшим пафосом и грандиозностью, ведь Король Поп-Музыки решил прогнуться под моду на синти-поп тех лет, что создало музыкальное полотно, синтезированное на 80-90%. Это открывает его по детскому наивному, но по зрелому техничному голоску новые исполнительские возможности, которыми он пользуется не с меньшей грацией и профессионализмом, чем на прошлых двух альбомах, а отмеченные ранее инструменталы по прежнему "взрывоопасны". Особенно хотелось бы выделить припев "Speed Demon", в котором бас звучит как мотор автомобиля при попытке его завести. Это звучит крайне неожиданно и, не постесняюсь сказать, вызвало у меня улыбку восхищения. Что особенно отличает этот альбом от Триллера, так это наличие в нем сразу двух баллад "Liberian Girl" и "Man In The Mirror". Первая окунает в холодную, в какой то степени восточную атмосферу, а вторая, наоборот, теплая и жизнерадостная. Идущие, соответственно, после "Speed Demon" и "Another Part Of Me" очень разряжают обстановку быстро сгорающего танцпола.
В общей степени, альбом получился крайне энергичным и актуальным примером синти-попа, который, без преувеличений, можно ставить от начала до конца на домашних вечеринках, ведь все любят Джексона.
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Tue Jan 05 2021
5
graceful rhythms and wonderful vocal, but album is "bad"
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Tue Apr 06 2021
5
An album full of hits, one could think it's a Greatest Hits
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Thu Jan 21 2021
5
Classic
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Fri Jan 15 2021
5
Pretty sweet guitar riffs
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Fri Mar 26 2021
5
Nice to listen to. It was some time ago I had listened to this album. Very nice was the part added for the 25th anniversary.
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Thu Jan 14 2021
5
Great
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Sat Mar 13 2021
5
I’ve listened to this a million times.
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Wed Jan 20 2021
5
What a cracker. Man in The Mirror has always been one of my top MJ tracks
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Mon Jan 18 2021
5
Yani, obviously
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Thu Jan 28 2021
5
Really good
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Tue Apr 06 2021
5
My favourite MJ album. A pop masterpiece with more character than Thriller.
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Wed Jun 02 2021
5
I was surprised by the number of songs on this album that I didn't know. I obviously like the ones I know and think those songs carry this album's place on the list.
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Wed Jan 20 2021
5
Pura magia, el estilo inconfundible de Michael bien podría ser un género musical por sí mismo. Aunque muchos dirían que es musica pop, en este album se pueden percibir todos los generos musicales, rock, soul, blues, funk, dance, etc, etc! 10/10
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Mon Jan 18 2021
5
Not much to say, legendary album
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Tue Mar 02 2021
5
Masterpiece.
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Wed Apr 07 2021
5
El rey del pop. 3 megahits.
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Thu Mar 25 2021
5
His magnus opus that's for sure
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Tue Mar 02 2021
5
Even better than the last one somehow?? Such bangers, I remember being 9 and absolutely rocking out to Man in the Mirror so points for nostalgia too
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Tue Mar 02 2021
5
9. great but off the wall is better
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Mon Mar 08 2021
5
Gran álbum, no se puede agregar más al nombré de Michael Jackson
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Tue Jun 08 2021
5
This is a personal favorite🤩 Smooth Criminal, Dirty Diana, Man in the Mirror always speak such truthful words. Mr Jackson had some disturbing issues but writing music, producing videos, choreography and entertaining so many for so long are not them. Well done 👍🏼
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Tue May 18 2021
5
Not. Too. BAD! Amirite guys???? Looks like the Jackson 5's bandleader decided to step out and attempt a solo career. The childhood trauma really shines on this one. Better than the Beatles! CHA-MONE-AH! A+
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Mon Feb 22 2021
5
MJ is an absolute legend and an all time favorite! So many good songs on this album
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Wed Mar 24 2021
5
Auf diesem Album sind so unfassbar viele Welthits drauf, auch wenn man sie überhört hat. Natürlich gehört das Album in diese Liste und wird noch viele weitere Generationen beeinflussen.
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Fri Feb 26 2021
5
I love Liberian Girl and Dirty Diana. These totally weird narratives about fake personas are just like amazing time capsules to me. All the other songs are obvious bangers but these two songs about random fictional women are awesome.
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Wed Mar 24 2021
5
Beim Moonwalk wieder in die Vitrine gerasselt - der König des Pop. Muss man mehr sagen? Rundes Album, fast keine Füller, fettenst produziert.
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Tue Mar 02 2021
5
An absolute pop classic.
Best track: The Way You Make Me Feel
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Tue Mar 02 2021
5
It was nice to take a break from my self imposed Michael ban and revisit this old friend. Some thoughts...
Bad- I always used to pretend I was the bookish nerd version of Michael as seen at the start of the Scorsese directed music video whenever I returned home from University on the train.
The songs are so strange and unlike anything else in pop, Michael seemed to mainline into American culture for a decade and his albums of the eighties are the highly polished exponents of this.
Liberian girl-this is perhaps the strangest of the album and I remember the music video being of the same ilk; Steve Spielberg slowly spinning around in his directors chair with a facial expression that conveyed his general confusion as to what emotion he needed to be portraying, as Macauley Culkin fucked about on the lighting rigging and Eddie Murphy pretended to be a pharaoh. I notice this in quite a lot of MJ movie style music videos; a tentativeness to everyone's actions as if the purpose of the script is not quite scratching the surface of the emotion that is awakened when they listen to the music. I may have misremembered this music video so please ignore all this if that's the case.
Smooth Criminal is probably my favourite track although Dirty Diana is a close 2nd.
The extra tracks on this 25th anniversary version are nice (I'm so blue being my favourite) but easy to see why they didn't make the cut.
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Thu Mar 25 2021
5
ну это король хули еще сказать
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Thu Mar 25 2021
5
До прослушивания был настроен поставить 5 как одному из самых громких альбомов 80-ых от исполнителя, которого я в целом уважаю. Потом наткнулся на какой-то проходняк вроде The Way You Make Me Feel и Speed Demon, из-за чего уверенность попропала. Но ведь альбом немалый, окромя них ещё 9 треков есть. И они годные. Имеются вообще балдёжные хиты а-ля Bad, Liberian Girl и Smooth Criminal, потрясающий кавер на Сосагана. Всё же в перерывах между игрой в салочки днём и сосалочки ночью мог Майкл музло писать. Возможно, даже своим трудом задавать суть времени. Суть, возможно, последней эпохи, от которой веяло оптимизмом, ещё не погрязшей в декадансе, расколе и лицемерии. Где-то выше жаловался на своё неприятие праздности, но в этом альбоме веет скорее праздничностью, что в моём представлении - другое. Праздничность - энергичная и мотивирующая, а не расслабленная и ленивая. Посему всё же нахожу для себя основания ёбнуть пятёру.
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Thu Mar 25 2021
5
idk why the album cover says its bad, it actually really good!!!
ладн, на самом деле на мой взгляд это лучшая пластинка Джексона, уж никак не Триллер (на этой куда меньше филлеров, на самом деле раздражает только I just can't stop loving you + слишком уж пластиковый звук некоторых инструментов, например баса в спид демоне). Но когда переслушивал пришла такая мысль: почему в каждом из своих love-jams Джексон звучит так, будто ему абсолютно похуй на этих баб, про которых он поёт? Ну типа я даже не могу представить, чтобы хоть какая-то типша потекла от Way you make me feel или прочих фанковых завываний поп-короля. Почему у него так хорошо получаются песни про то, что он BAD, DEMON и хочет BEAT IT (сложный мем), но при этом когда начинаются любовные баллады — Майкл звучит как ребёнок, который выучил слова, но не совсем до конца их понимает и просто джемует под сочные битки. кажется, определённые выводы можно было сделать ещё в то время... 5/5
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Tue May 18 2021
5
Already have this album in my library. Fantastic! Obviously, a classic!
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Fri Jun 18 2021
5
Definite classic
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Thu Jun 17 2021
5
Loved it! Can't believe I haven't listened to the whole thing. I like it more than Thriller.
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Mon May 17 2021
5
Michael
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Fri May 07 2021
5
Solid, great songwriting, great performance by MJ, one of the best albums of the 80’s.
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Fri Jun 25 2021
5
Classic MJ album. I can only imagine hearing this for the first time back in 87'. Thriller is like Michael Jordan in the 80s. Fresh, new, iconic. You knew this dude was it. Bad is like MJ in the 90s. The GOAT winning championships and proving why he's in the GOAT conversation.
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Fri Jul 23 2021
5
No notes needed
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Mon Aug 02 2021
5
Amazing. Perfect Pop record. Imagine yourself driving through a latino country with Coconut trees surrounding you in the afternoon. With a beach party later at night.
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Wed Aug 25 2021
5
Obviously
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Thu Aug 26 2021
5
This is an incredible album. Every song either is or could have been a hit. And with good reason too. I don't think I paid as much attention to this album when it came out because the previous albums were "Thriller" and "Off the Wall" and how do you top those? Answer is you probably don't but this is still a top tier album.
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Wed Sep 08 2021
5
Okay this album rips
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Tue Sep 28 2021
5
"Bad" is a good song. Really, really good. A worthy successor to "Beat It." Oh, I just compared it to the Thriller album. So hard not to. Sorry, Michael. I love the brass, the percussion, the keyboards, the backup singing, and of course, the iconic bassline. All not to mention the one and only MJ's vocals.
But this is yet another album that I had never listened to as such. So here we go.
I've always loved loved the way "The Way You Make Me Feel" makes me feel. "Speed Demon" is a new one. Fun. "Liberian Girl": smooth eighties. "Just Good Friends": You think a duo with Stevie Wonder would be better... "Another Part of Me": Fine.
And then we're back to hit territory. Sincere and heartfelt "Man in the Mirror" and the absolutely perfect love duet, "I Just Can't Stop Loving You." How can you not want to dance with your love to this with fog on the floor and a wind machine in your hair?
Then we have the growly rock tribute to evil seductress "Dirty Diana" (she likes the boys in the bands, and is, apparently, irresistible to any man, so, yeah, it's her fault), and then we go from temptress to an irresistibly catchy song about the battered female victim of a "Smooth Criminal." This one has always bothered me since I listened to the words. Would "You've been hit by, you've been struck by, a smooth criminal," be the first words to a bleeding and dying woman after "Are you okay?" "Smooth?" really? And then we DANCE, cuz this song is smokin' hot! But did she survive? You said it was her doom, so did the mouth to mouth resuscitation not work? I have lots of questions. I think if it had different lyrics, however, it would be a near-perfect electric jam.
And then we finish with "Leave Me Alone" which I haven't heard in years but immediately brings to mind the amazing video, which I had to watch again. I'm going to leave those to speak for themselves.
Some pretty amazing things on this album, which after some doubt, I think was indeed a worthy followup to Thriller and strongly brought the MJ sound to the late 80s and vice versa.
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Thu Sep 30 2021
5
Can't say anything bad about Bad, it's polished 80s sunshine and doesn't get much better. Relistened to the two non-single tracks and they could have been singles too. Feels churlish to give this anything less than top marks.
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Tue Oct 12 2021
5
A timeless gem
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Wed Oct 13 2021
5
Ooh she bad!! This is a great album, once you’ve shook loss the memories of hearing allegations about MJ
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Wed Oct 20 2021
5
Is it uncool to say that this is my favourite Michael Jackson album?
It's just so funky, with even ballads like The Way You Make Me Feel sitting on massive grooves. I guess songs like Liberian Girl is pretty generic, but it has perhaps one of the strongest ending of an album I can think off, with all the tracks from Main in the Mirror to Leave me Alone hitting like freight trains.
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Sat Oct 30 2021
5
Never heard the full album before, but it is a pop masterpiece. Highly recommended even for rock fans!
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Tue Nov 02 2021
5
Was soll man sagen… echter MJ
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Sat Nov 06 2021
5
Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel, Smooth Criminal, Man in the Mirror
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Thu Nov 18 2021
5
Amazing not as great as thriller but a solid album all the way through. Somebody on the sound engineering team learned with gating was
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Mon Jan 03 2022
5
Easy 5.
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Tue Jan 04 2022
5
Outstanding Michael!
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Fri Jan 07 2022
5
Bad man
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Wed Jan 12 2022
5
Excellent, loads of great tracks.
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Wed Jan 19 2022
5
Iconic
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Mon Jan 24 2022
5
Ive listened to it before, classic. Dirty Diana is fav track
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Tue Jan 25 2022
5
Good
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Thu Jan 27 2022
5
i've never listened to an mj album all the way thru but wow! very fluid album and enjoyed the songs...liberian girl is luvly!
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Sat Jan 29 2022
5
Clássico.
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Sun Jan 30 2022
5
Não gostei
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Mon Feb 07 2022
5
Dit is een van de baanbrekende albums, die popmuziek zijn handtekening heeft gegeven. The best artist of all times!!
Favorieten? Nou, het komt niet vaak voor dat ik alle liedjes op een album leuk vind. Dit album heeft gewoon alleen maar hits! Wat moet je daar nog op zeggen?!
*****
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Tue Feb 15 2022
5
One of the best albums of all time. Most of the songs are well known and still hold up to the test of time. All time classic.
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Wed Mar 02 2022
5
It's a Michael Jackson album. And not just ANY MJ album. Bad.
Bad is fucking good, to no one's surprise. Fave track is the title track of course. I admittedly have never been the world's biggest fan of Michael Jackson's music (personally not my thing) but the quality of the tracks is undeniable. There's not a single skip on this album, and that's extremely hard to pull off.
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Thu Mar 03 2022
5
Classic iconic
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Sun Mar 06 2022
5
Muah
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Mon Mar 07 2022
5
There are some good tracks on here for sure. Not sure if I have much love for Jackson's lesser-known songs as much as the hits like "Bad" and "Man in the Mirror". I had never heard "Speed Demon" before and it's kind of a corny song, but that little bass (or synth?) run is awesome. "Smooth Criminal" is a great little boost towards the end. Strong start, strong finish.
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Thu Apr 07 2022
5
Good
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Sat Apr 09 2022
5
Classic pop album. Pop is *not* my thing, but you just can't help but enjoy this album end to end.
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Thu Apr 14 2022
5
banger and a half. listened to this after listening to the worst album i've ever heard. good choice.
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Sun Apr 24 2022
5
Just about every song on the album was a hit...so, it is a very familiar album. I actually got to go see him in Rotterdam when this album was out. I think Dirty Diana was popular at the time of the concert. It was an amazing concert am I am really glad that I got to see him.
Best songs: Bad, Dirty Diana, Smooth Criminal, Man in the Mirror, The Way you Make Me Feel, Another Part of Me, I Just Can't Stop Lovin' You, Leave Me Alone, Liberian Girl, Speed Demon.
Then there is: Just Good Friends... When I heard it today, I totally don't remember ever hearing it before. And I've heard this album so many times over the years.
4.9/5
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Sun Apr 24 2022
5
All time classic
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Tue Apr 26 2022
5
Clássico
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Fri May 06 2022
5
Most people wouldn't be able to adequately follow up an album like Thriller. But Michael Jackson could.
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Fri May 06 2022
5
Bad.
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Thu May 12 2022
5
Es un álbum impresionante, cuando crees que talvez es repetitivo pum, te cambia de perspectiva toral, recomiendo dirty diana, un temazo
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Wed May 25 2022
5
just good friendsssss
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Sun Jun 05 2022
5
This is the first album I've not listened to. Why? Well, I know it inside out, too right I had it as a little kiddo in late 80's UK. Goddamn, this was so important to the era back then, and I'm not re-appraising it now.
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Sun Jun 05 2022
5
Bought this on tape when it first came out - forgot how long the album is. On reflection some nice random slow tunes thrown in there sandwiched in between the well known ones
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Mon Jun 13 2022
5
5/5 classic
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Wed Jun 15 2022
5
The king of pop strikes again with a flawless combination of funk, rock, disco, adult contemporary, and many other genres (calypso, gospel, etc). It's a proper followup to Thriller, with songs following the formula hit on overdrive. The whole album is full of hits, whether a ballad or dance track, so it only reasons that 9 of the 11 songs became singles.
The production is one of the best of the 80s. I'm a huge fan of the innovative synths and drum machines. There are themes like the atmospheric exotic jungle synths of "Liberian Girl" and the highway racing of "Speed Demon," but it's the best on the rock tracks "Bad" and "Smooth Criminal." My only two complaints are that (1) some tracks don't resolve very well, leaving you hanging, (2) the two middle tracks "Just Good Friends" and "Another Part of Me" while not bad (carried by the cool synths and MJ's performance) are nothing more than outtakes and ruin the momentum. I'm also not a fan of ballads, but I admit "Man in the Mirror" and "I Just Can't..." are soulful ballads that beat anything in the genre. Last 3 tracks are my favorite.
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Mon Jun 20 2022
5
As far as a pop album goes, this has to be unbeatable, every song was a single!
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Tue Jun 21 2022
5
Classic.
Even the songs I hadn't heard that much were really good. It's hard to follow up the most succesful album in history, but he did pretty fucking well, Bad sure doesen't feel like a letdown.
4 or 5
Eh 5, it's still legendary
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