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Non-Hip-Hop Best Posts: Michael Jacksons best studio Album ?

  1. Oldboy
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    Oldboy

    Dec 26, 2015
    Bad
     
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    Pablo Dragon Z-azou

    Dec 26, 2015
    This isn't even a MJ album
     
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    white jesus god's son

    Dec 26, 2015
    Totally agree with this.

    I think Michael had a couple different periods that could be described as "his prime," depending on what type of style you like from him. Thriller is definitely one of those periods, and he was coming into his own writing songs like WBSS, Beat It, Billie Jean... but the Bad era was when he really took control of the creative direction.

    Save for Just Good Friends and Man in the Mirror, that whole album was his creation. Look at the track list: it's 8 or 9 of his biggest hits ever. Then you take into account all the iconic short films, the tour... the routines he was coming up with during that time. You could argue all that was external to the album (we're talking about the songs), but I think that's a really limiting way to think about what he did. Bad was a vision and the music was just a part of it.
     
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