Bad (studio album) by Michael Jackson

This is quite good pop album, I really like hits here and the rest is typically mid. The Way You Make Me Feel and Smooth Criminal are some of the best songs he ever created and I really like how Dirty Diana sounds especially with his voice range.

Michael Jackson has one of if not the greatest voices of all time. It has an unbelievable range and uniqueness to it that you always know straight away when he is singing. He utilises it like an instrument on this record and it becomes part of the sound he is creating. It is so impressive to see the number of hits that are on this record and every time I come back I expect one to drop off in quality but they never do. Despite this, there has always been 2 glaring issues with this album and it comes with Speed Demon and Liberian Girl. It might just be for me but they are misses and are skippable cuts on this record. They feel dated and a bit messy every time I listen to them and if they were removed this would be his greatest release. However, every other song on here is just incredible and it feels like a greatest hits record. Overall, there are so many phenomenal songs on here that demonstrate Michael Jackson's musical ability and vocal talent perfectly.

Wheres ¨Leave me alone¨?????????????????

From Jboy56 02/15/2022 12:18

Superb stuff from MJ. Every artist on Earth would take even the "worst" song on this album to his/her own album and would be grateful even TODAY.

Not as good as Thriller, but still contains some iconic tracks. My highlights are Dirty Diana, Smooth Criminal and Man In The Mirror.

From InsanityPrawnBoy 05/12/2021 00:10

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for me, the best album ever, the quality, the videos, songs, everything on this album is a true masterpiece, and the tour... oh, really the goat.

Bad is also one of his best albums, at the same time isn’t better than Thriller or close to Thriller. As it doesn’t have an artistic achievement songs like Billie Jean or Beat It a Motown 25 performance or video like Thriller. On the other hand it is still a amazing album, the songs, videos, tour and the era seemed cool. The videos are fire especially Smooth Criminal, songs are amazing, the tour is the best solo tour of MJ. The album for me is a 9/10. It just doesn’t have a performance like Motown 25, video like Thriller or a song artistic like Beat It and Billie Jean. Favourite songs on the album are Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel, Liberian Girl, Another Part Of Me, Man In The Mirror, Dirty Diana, Smooth Criminal and Leave Me Alone.

Bad inevitably failed to match Thriller both in terms of success and artistically.
There’s no artistic achievements like Beat It or Billie Jean and it’s not as consistant as Thriller.
However it still a fascinating record because it was almost impossible to follow an album like Thriller but MJ was still able to create great pop songs like Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel, Smooth Criminal, Dirty Diana, (the bonus Leave Me Alone) and of course Man In The Mirror.
The videos from the album are fantastic too.
Bad produced 5 number 1 singles and sold over 35 million copies, in fact it’s only a disappointment when we think of Thriller who set the bar too high.

But Bad stand the test of time and it’s a classic today, his singles are still played on radio all over the world and some music critics finally recognize it as one of the greatest of the 80s and of all time.
A classic of pop. 9.5/10

This album doesn't even come close to Thriller. There
are no songs as good as Beat It or Billie Jean.
The only songs I liked were Smooth Criminal and
Dirty Diana. The title track was just..........bad!