Bad

pa ovo je dosta slabo... ove su pjesme jako duge? bilo bi mnogo bolje da su sve po tri minute. ovako se ponavlja te ponavlja. usto je već ovdje malne karikatura. čudno, mislio sam da je to postao kasnije. sve u svemu sasvim bezvezno. dobra mi je "smooth criminal", ali i ta je malčice preduga. bokte

5 hits + filler

Onhan nuo megahitit erinomaisia, mutta aika paljon unohdettavia biisejä myös. 3/5

Disturbing album cover for a start. We didn’t know it at the time but maybe Jackson was trying to tell us something with the menacing look, a nonce jacket and his right hand in a wank grip.

Anyway back to this record. So it took him 5 years to follow up Thriller and this was the best he could do. A couple of reasonable songs, Bad and Smooth Criminal, but the rest is forgettable formulaic trash.
My main issue with the whole album is the annoying Tourettes-like ticks throughout.

Heee-Hee!
Hah!
Ah-hhhea!
Uh!
Shaaamon!

For fuck’s sake give it a rest. It gets so tedious.

And I’m sorry I can’t listen to this without thinking of the comedy nose jobs, the strange skin whitening and the dangling of babies over 5th floor balconies. The behaviour was whacko enough before we even knew what he used to get up to with young boys and a chimp.

In her line of work my wife has worked against a fair few awful people and she says Bad people can't help but tell you they are Bad. They find a way to tell you they are Bad.

I didn't like it back then either. Anodyne.

I bloody LOVED this.This is only the second Michael Jackson album I’ve ever heard and while I wouldn’t exactly say I’ve become a fan of his yet, I will be keeping this saved and going back to it.

Top Track - Smooth Criminal, a belter of a song. Can’t believe I’d never heard this before considering I do really like the Alien Ant Farm cover version.

In 1987, people probably hadn’t realised just how bad Michael Jackson truly was (like really, really bad), but they must have noticed that he was hitting a creative dead end. There are some fun tracks but as an album, Bad is pretty patchy, and his vocal mannerisms are starting to slip into self-parody territory.

Great great album, not much else to be said.

I mean..... heres the thing. The lead single "Bad" is absolute dogshit. That said some of ol Mikeys best work is on this.

So many bangers on here. Some songs are fillers, but these can be ignored

I think Off the Wall and Thriller might be a little better, but this of course slaps

I hoped I’d get something to cheer me on this blah Friday. This came up, first full album of his I have heard, and within 2 seconds I literally could not stop clicking my fingers to the beat and intermittently woohing. The soul and RnB feels so familiar and retro but there is a freshness to it. It’s a wonderful album but I need to go put my fingers in a bucket of ice water now!

How do you follow Thriller?

Bad has some cool and heavier elements, but this is definitely MJ just starting his downslide.

I sure hope he's okay.

This has always been my least favorite mj album, and relistening to it it feels a bit rushed in a lot of places. Its a very sparce album which seems like a crazy word to use for Michael Jackson the perfectionist, but he clearly understands pop music of the era. The good songs work. Its funny to listen to dirty Diana and it feels so much like a sequel to Billie Jean and it just ended up a bit flat coming from him...

I don't know. Its a good album but not a great one like thriller or the one after this. Plus the added drama of his life, just left me a bit unfulfilled.

Hit after goddamn hit, eeee-heee!

I can see what Michael was aiming for: portraying himself as a bad boy for the ladies. Unfortunately, the lyrics are so vaguely applicable that I can't help but think this is just a corpo's attempt to appeal to as broad of a demographic as possible. And the whole 'bad boy' act feels more like the one guy who wears leather jackets constantly claiming he's a badass.

Even without the allegations l, I was never a huge Michael Jackson fan , and this hasn't changed my mind.

Hard to rate this one. I was assuming it would be an automatic 5. But man are there some terrible songs on here.

Old fun! 3/5 #albumsky #musicsky #albumchallenge

Good album full of hits.

High 4/5