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Today's album of the day

Dangerous by Michael Jackson (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1991.
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Overall rank: 844
Average rating: 70/100 (from 480 votes).



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

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[Cyrax]

While it's definitely overlong and has a few filler tracks, I consider it an incredible album, a lot of effort put into the songwriting and production.

Jam and Who Is It are the absolute highlights for me.

[DommeDamian]

I relistened to this majestic piece of music for the first time in months, fucking YESTERDAY. Now it's album of the day. For the 28th time, albummaster you are creeping me out.

Here is my description to one of the 6 albums I could consider my favorite album ever:

Just like a country album can have the atmosphere/mood/lifestyle/vibe of being on the countryside, with your friends or family in leather clothing, eating some barbecues or something - Dangerous describes an atmosphere to a lifestyle that I just cannot explain. It is the exact lifestyle that fits me or not only hits close to home but home, yet I can never explain nor metaphorically state the tone of it. Even my fellow Moonwalkers don’t understand it. Maybe the only thing so far that I can express about that atmosphere is its nocturnal (like noir but in a much more observant, lush yet devastating environment) - and even in my ages/years I was completely different from now plus don’t proudly look back at, one thing that I’ve always been is a nocturnal-esque human. The soul is mysterious so when something hits, strikes, let alone lives inside your soul, it's difficult to describe as opposed to when something hits your heart.

A small theory of mine (in a sea of small theories regarding this) is that on this album, and generally on his 90s albums, his inner traumatic and sheer frightening life experience came through, though hidden behind the brawls and tortured yet controlled chaotic scream-singing, as well as the cryptic yet dopamine-inducing grooves. Like his childhood longing and struggles (as he very often mentioned in interviews but mostly everyone turned a blind eye on) was metaphorically locked away in a cage deepened within his mind and heart because of adulthood. But just like you cannot hide the truth forever, you cannot hide pain forever, which is where the (imo) most musically potent cry ever captured on wax comes through in the songs, and it's like I am the only person hearing it despite it having sold over 20mio copies. In his 80s music, he was the greatest singer and greatest entertainer, but here he truly became the greatest musician and artist who have ever lived to me. And that is without going in any details about any particular song or part of a song (like a statement, a vocal performance, section within the composition etc) in the album.
But instead of spending the description for my very most special album on things I cannot explain, let’s do the opposite.

This is, hands down and cut off, the best album to dance to, front to back. Don’t overthink the album, feel it.
There’s not space enough to talk about every track, but lemme do mention some. So Lord forgive me for the sin I’m doing now, of not mentioning the other supreme masterpieces on here.
Jam (the destroyer of an opener)’s first sound is my all-time favorite drum (if I have to pick one out of thousands), then a thick glass-breaking sound (something that, even as a little, I find both scary and cool), but ultimately fascinatingly matching to the drum. It’s like when Bruce Springsteen described the beginning sound of Like A Rolling Stone (Highway 61 Revisited) as “a snare shot that sounded like somebody’d kicked open the door to your mind” … I’d say that for my description that the first two seconds of Jam [(Dangerous)], is a direct shot that feels like somebody’d broke the maxi-glass window to your mind. Within the count of four, I’ve been invaded, and the thieves of sound, knowledge and emotion take my breath away. By the title track, they are honing my mind, and my words are also stolen when they disappear into thin air on the last bobbly effect.

Out of those genres and topics, that Dangerous is expanded with, it contains pretty much favorites from every single one; it includes harmoniously sonorous atmospheric rock in Give In To Me and a personal high-point for singer-songwriter high point in Gone Too Soon, which poignantly addresses the realism of death as it was written to a late 18-year old Ryan. The album dives into contemporary R&B and New Jack Swing with tracks like the lo-fi Why You Wanna Trip On Me , In The Closet that balances otherworldly grooves and classical, the crushingly thrilling Cannot Let Her Get Away, and the curvingly supernatural Who Is It. The title track is a fearless, seven-minute dance odyssey. Both that and also the four minute impeccability She Drives Me Wild [that was my second most played song of 2023 after Billie Jean, heard it at least a thousand times that year no sarcasm at all] borders on Industrial Rock, predating The Downward Spiral's drums of viciousness by three years.

Dangerous also features (imo) Michael's most fervent world-changing anthem Heal The World, alongside the catchy classic on racism Black Or White, and the non-preachy, spiritual Keep The Faith. Having listened to everything from Neutral Milk Hotel to Phil Elverum, the Doors to Stevie Wonder, and Bob Dylan, I confidently say that Will You Be There is the most emotional and real recording I’ve ever felt. Songs, albums and musicians I am usually feeling a lot, but this definingly transcendent tune mind blows me every spin, a step even further.

I mean what should I say, how could I say anything? This feels very unlike the rest of my favorite records. I want to praise it with all my heart but…It’s like talking to the girl I’m completely in love with, as opposed to my latest great and my dearest closest friends: I cannot find the (right) words. Simultaneously, It’s like a one-two-three-four(…)-fourteen punch of godlike grooves, thunderous emotion, supreme musical mastery, and a voice that makes angels sound kitsch. Its definitively beautiful way of rising it to a level where majestic is an understatement. No doubt, Michael is the greatest thing, the world has produced, in terms of vocals/voice, and musical persona(lities), past, present and for the future; he is the almost the musical equivalent to Jesus Christ. And this statement only becomes clearer and clearer, the more deservedly time, Dangerous gets play. Seriously, I can take half a year to more than year long vacation, from Michael’s discography, and as soon as I get back (home) to that, they surpasses literally every body of work, I’ve listen to/studied/yni, throughout the vacation…by ‘they’ surpasses, I mean his others records too [if I go listen to him, it's so hard to listen to anything else, knowing nothing will reach it]. Virtually, atmospherically and emotionally unsurpassable.
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