Bad |  | Artist: Michael Jackson
Label: Sony
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Rating:  163 reviews
Sales Rank: 201
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Special Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 66072
UPC: 074646607220
EAN: 0074646607220
ASIN: B00005QGAX
Release Date: October 16, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Bad | | • | The Way You Make Me Feel | | • | Speed Demon | | • | Liberian Girl | | • | Just Good Friends | | • | Another Part Of Me | | • | Man In The Mirror | | • | I Just Can't Stop Loving You | | • | Dirty Diana | | • | Smooth Criminal (Radio Edit) | | • | Leave Me Alone | | • | Voice-Over Intro Quincy Jones Interview # 1/Quincy Jones Interview #1 | | • | Streetwalker | | • | Voice-Over Intro Quincy Jones Interview #2/Quincy Jones Interview #2 | | • | Todo Mi Amor Eres Tu (I Just Can't Stop Loving You) | | • | Quincy Jones Interview #3 | | • | Voice-Over Intro "Fly Away" | | • | Fly Away |
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Amazon.com essential recording
"We wanted a tough album," producer Quincy Jones recalls in a bonus interview on this special edition of Bad. Though the 1987 blockbuster would appear to be Michael Jackson's most personal statement to date--9 of its 11 cuts were written solely by him--its appeal also rested more on craft than the idiosyncratic art of Thriller and Off the Wall. At the same time, most of Bad has aged well in spite of its digital brittleness and MIDI treatments of gems like Jimmy Smith's organ solo on the title track. While the third best of his first three Epic solo discs, Bad carries a lot of what people love about Jackson's music. This disc also benefits from two fine outtakes, the exciting, uptempo "Streetwalker" and the Carpenters homage "Fly Away." Either could easily have extended the record's run of hit singles. --Rickey Wright
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 Rad. November 10, 2009
Joseph M. Perorazio (Columbus, OH USA)
The most 80's-sounding of his albums, 'Bad' has not aged as well as Thriller or Off the Wall, mostly due to its musical arrangements, which conjure up images of big hair and skinny ties. This was a safe album for Jackson, capitalizing on Thriller's strengths and making R&B/Funk palatable to white America. By mixing in touches of rock and new wave, cross-cultural appeal was guaranteed, and although the record sold astronomically well, it has not become an all-time classic. 'Bad' is still good, it's just not the cultural phenomenon 'Thriller' was. But it is classic 80's pop.
 Michael Jackson's Bad CD October 29, 2009
Sheilah A. Clark (Chicagoland, Illinois)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If anyone ever wanted to hear what it took to make this album then they should buy this to hear Quincy Jones give his own interpretation of how the 33 songs Michael Jackson wrote either made it to the album or not. Very entertaining as well as interesting and comical in parts. Just buy it and you will see!
Special Edition & Original "BAD" -- Collect both!! October 28, 2009
Snow (Honolulu, Hawaii)
When this album was first released I could not figure out why it was considered "rock" or a transition to "rock". I still can't figure it out over 20 years later. But, listening to Michael Jackson's work in 2009 underscores how sophisticated an artist and singer he really was with songs like "Man in the Mirror" and "Smooth Criminal". He was only 28 years old (or younger) when he created all of this work which was released just two days following his 29th birthday, on August 31, 1987. These songs took him into the next decade without sounding dated---that is genius!
After Michael Jackson's death, I purchased the Special Edition and a copy of the original version released in Japan. The gem on the original version is the introduction for the song "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" where he speaks a verse before he begins singing.
Don't understand why the following spoken introduction was removed from the later versions of the song:
I just want to lay next to you for awhile/You look so beautiful tonight/Your eyes are so lovely/Your mouth is so sweet/A lot of people misunderstand me/That's because they don't know me at all/I just want to touch you/I need you/I love you so much
See: "Bad(album " at Wikipedia for a list of additions and omissions between the Special Edition and the original Bad albums.
My second favorite Michael Jackson album. October 18, 2009
Freelan Justice (West Virginia, USA)
Right behind Thriller, I would consider BAD to be my second favorite Michael Jackson album. It was time, after Thriller, for Michael to show the world how bad he truly was. Hence the name of the album. And, to be fair to Michael, while he didn't get the success he did with Thriller, nor would he ever again in his lifetime, he definitely proved to everybody he's bad, and you know it.
TRACK LISTING:
1. Bad
2. The Way You Make Me Feel
3. Speed Demon
4. Liberian Girl
5. Just Good Friends
6. Another Part Of Me
7. Man In The Mirror
8. I Just Can't Stop Loving You
9. Dirty Diana
10. Smooth Criminal
11. Leave Me Alone
13. Streetwalker
17. Fly Away
*Special edition, of course*
My personal favorites on this album are Bad (he had to show the world he was bad,) The Way You Make Me Feel (which is a nice romp around the room song,) Man In The Mirror (because it's such a personal and touching song,) I Just Can't Stop Loving You (because I'm currently in that kind of situation and that song speaks to me because of it,) and, of course, Smooth Criminal (due to it being the ultimate dance song on the album!)
A Michael Jackson fan should definitely own a copy of Bad. I don't see why they wouldn't want to.
Drivin' to California October 16, 2009
Diane C. Anderson (Santa Fe)
Two weeks ago I drove from Santa Fe to California, a drive which takes 12 hours. I played Michael the whole way but the CD that really jams is Bad. To me, MJ is his edgiest on this CD. He's just pure, raw genius and he wrote more songs on this CD than Off the Wall or Thriller. The song that I can't get enough of is Streetwalker. I just keep hitting the replay button over and over again. If you don't respond to this song, you don't have a pulse.
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