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albummaster
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- #1
- Posted: 03/17/2016 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1935): Dangerous by Michael Jackson
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Today's album of the day
Dangerous by Michael Jackson (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1991.
Country: 
Overall rank: 786
Average rating: 66/100 (from 237 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Jam
2. Why You Wanna Trip On Me
3. In The Closet
4. She Drives Me Wild
5. Remember The Time
6. Can't Let Her Get Away
7. Heal The World
8. Black Or White
9. Who Is It
10. Give In To Me
11. Will You Be There
12. Keep The Faith
13. Gone Too Soon
14. Dangerous
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Applerill
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Gender: Female
Age: 31
Location: Chicago 
- #2
- Posted: 03/17/2016 22:21
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It's getting to be near a decade since I first heard this, and I still am not sure how this is perceived at large. Is it still considered a major misstep, or has time made it known as an unsung masterpiece? Personally, I think my opinion is somewhere in between, but I'm not sure.
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Romanelli
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- #3
- Posted: 03/17/2016 22:28
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If you haven't heard it since you were 12, you should probably take the time and listen again if you care to know the answers to whatever questions you may have about it.
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Applerill
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Gender: Female
Age: 31
Location: Chicago
- #4
- Posted: 03/17/2016 22:34
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| Romanelli wrote: | | If you haven't heard it since you were 12, you should probably take the time and listen again if you care to know the answers to whatever questions you may have about it. |
Nah, I've heard it since certainly, but like Bad and even Off the Wall, I just don't feel it that much as a whole. I can't deny that the "Jam" video is a masterpiece, though, and I've noticed a bit of revisionism in the past few years on the album (wasn't there a 33 1/3 on it?)
Edit: (Dang, I guess not even my poptimist friends like it that much, so maybe I was wrong about the reevaluation. Still would love to see what you all think, though)
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- #5
- Posted: 03/17/2016 22:42
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| Applerill wrote: | | It's getting to be near a decade since I first heard this |
| Applerill wrote: | | Nah, I've heard it since certainly |
I'm confused
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Applerill
Autistic Princess <3
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Location: Chicago
- #6
- Posted: 03/17/2016 22:50
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| dividesbyzero wrote: | | I'm confused |
"First heard"=First listen. I've heard it many times since, but I've known about it since MJ left us in 2008, which is a really long time.
Anyway, the 33 1/3 book seems really, really interesting. Here's what the author had to say on choosing the album:
| Quote: | It’s the right vehicle for this project. Dangerous just seems to me like such a pivotal album in Michael Jackson’s career–I know most would peg Thriller as his musical pinnacle (although some would say that honor belongs to Off the Wall); Bad was the first album he toured as a solo artist, so that’s certainly an important milestone, but some feel that *Bad* was not as good an album as Thriller. I think most feel that by the time Dangerous came out, Jackson’s best work was behind him, but I disagree. What makes Dangerous so intriguing to me is that Jackson seems finally to inhabit adulthood on this record. He deals with weighty subjects, including love and lust; he gives us a darker, less childishly optimistic vision of the world; and he often seems at an emotional breaking point. He does this with less theatricality–which is not to say less musical excess–than he displays on earlier records.
One review of the record, by Jon Dolan, compared it to Nirvana’s Nevermind. Dolan wrote, “Jackson’s dread, depression and wounded-child sense of good and evil have more in common with Kurt Cobain than anyone took the time to notice.” While we’re making ambitious statements about this record—pace rock aficionados (and I count myself among you)—I’ve long toyed with the idea of Dangerous as Jackson’s Achtung Baby, in many ways a similarly brooding, vulnerable leap into the breach. It isn’t only lyrics that take Jackson down that road, but new ways of using his voice, the embracing of new musical styles, including hip hop, and a more pronounced allegiance to the sound of black music, past and present, than his earlier work. I see Dangerous as a concept album through which Jackson explores ideas of the postmodern, of love, sexuality, spirituality, and the future. To have the opportunity to explore this underrated album in a book length study is really exciting. |
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benpaco
Who's gonna watch you die?
Age: 28
Location: Missouri
- #7
- Posted: 03/17/2016 22:57
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I'll be 100% honest and say I haven't heard the album but the cover is terrible and "Black or White" is great
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Applerill
Autistic Princess <3
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Location: Chicago
- #8
- Posted: 03/17/2016 23:30
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Oh, and I just started reading the book, and found that it opens with an Armond White quote of all things. This is going to be fun.
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mickilennial
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- #9
- Posted: 03/18/2016 01:29
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“Jam”, “Black or White”, and “Who Is It” are absolutely excellent; a great transitional period for Michael.
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Applerill
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Gender: Female
Age: 31
Location: Chicago
- #10
- Posted: 03/18/2016 02:23
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Okay, I'm about a third through the book, and almost done with the album, and I am absolutely amazed at how extraordinary I've now found them both to be. The album really is the MBDTF of the nineties, and has much more in common with Public Enemy than Sade. Some bloat will possibly keep it at 4.5 for me, but this is definitely MJ's masterpiece, and now makes me want to hear History, Invincible, and even Blood on the Dance Floor from this "noisy" perspective.
And of course, the book seems like it may possibly be one of the best that 33 1/3 has ever had. Once again, I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand Michael Jackson as a serious conceptual artist along with a performer.
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