I think the highlights of Thriller are stronger than the ones on Bad, but the latter is a damn fine album and still fun to hear all these years later. I remember well the full length Martin Scorsese video for Bad premiering on Channel 4. Still, I don't like him removing it on the remastered versions. The spoken intro to I Just Can't Stop Loving You is cringe inducing and he should never have done it. They don't feel like the 'proper' album to me. Especially as the later editions feature Michael's tweaks. I have the 20(?) remasters, but the original CD sounds best. After Bad, every other album was far too long and overblown, though of course there were always moments of genius. It was released on 31 August 1987 and is one of the best-selling albums, with an estimated 35 million copies sold worldwide. 30 years later I can hear that there's a little filler here and there, but tracks like The Way You Make Me Feel, Dirty Diana, Smooth Criminal and the title song are so fantastic I can forgive that. Bad is the seventh studio album by America songwriter and singer Michael Jackson. ![]() Five years ago, as Epic prepared to celebrate the silver anniversary of Michael Jackson’s 1987 masterpiece, numerous writers from media outlets across the globe reexamined the album and re-reviewed it now in the shadow of Jackson’s 2009 death. ![]() ![]() It was fantastically successful and a great sounding record/CD to boot. Thirty years ago, on August 31st, 1987, Michael Jackson released BAD, his follow-up to the pop music phenomenon, Thriller. The 31st of August was a bank holiday here so I had to wait until the following day for the shops to open so I could pick it up. Click to expand.And it's 30 years ago today that I bought the CD.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |