Michael Jackson - Bad
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Artist: Michael JacksonEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Special Edition
CD Release Date: 2001-10-16
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Bad
- Way You Make Me Feel
- Speed Demon
- Liberian Girl
- Just Good Friends
- Another Part of Me
- Man in the Mirror
- I Just Can't Stop Loving You
- Dirty Diana
- Smooth Criminal
- Leave Me Alone
- Streetwalker [#][*]
- Todo Mi Amor Eres Tu (I Just Can't Stop Loving You) [*]
- Fly Away [#][*]
Free Music Notes for Bad
Free Music Review: Great Music from the King of Pop
Hit: 4 Stars
Michael Jackson produced Bad to be a bigger, better Thriller. While he couldn't match the sheer phenomenon of that release, he came very close. Bad spawned some of his most memorable singles. The title track is cheesy but undeniably well-crafted and infectious, while "The Way You Make Me Feel" is a classic, shuffling R&B number. "Man in the Mirror" is Michael at his most syrupy, gospel choir and all. Quite the opposite is "Smooth Criminal," with its unsettling lyrics and equally creepy, claustrophobic beat. A recording of his own heartbeat opens the murder-themed track. "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" is a gorgeous ballad; Michael's and Siedah's voices mesh together brilliantly. An attempt to recreate "Beat It" with "Dirty Diana" fails, while a duet with Stevie Wonder on "Just Good Friends" seems to collapse under the weight of such a pairing. Despite a few throwaways, album tracks like "Speed Demon" and "Leave Me Alone" are gritty ventures into Michael Jackson's unparalleled imagination. As a highly produced record of immense variety, Bad represents the ultimate in pop perfection. Creating a follow-up to the most successful album of all time had to be incredibly daunting; with Bad, Michael Jackson proved he was up to the challenge. 4 Stars.
The well-packaged special edition comes with updated liner notes and extra tracks featuring a few b-sides and interview clips with Quincy Jones. Aside from the remastered sound, these bonuses do little to improve the original product but are enjoyable nonetheless.
Bad Poster
"We wanted a tough album," producer Quincy Jones recalls in a bonus interview on this special edition of Bad. Though the 1987 blockbuster would appear to be Michael Jackson's most personal statement to date--9 of its 11 cuts were written solely by him--its appeal also rested more on craft than the idiosyncratic art of Thriller and Off the Wall. At the same time, most of Bad has aged well in spite of its digital brittleness and MIDI treatments of gems like Jimmy Smith's organ solo on the title track. While the third best of his first three Epic solo discs, Bad carries a lot of what people love about Jackson's music. This disc also benefits from two fine outtakes, the exciting, uptempo "Streetwalker" and the Carpenters homage "Fly Away." Either could easily have extended the record's run of hit singles. --Rickey WrightPop Music CDs
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