Bad
| Michael Jackson
Bad
Bad is the seventh studio album by American singer and songwriter Michael Jackson, released on August 31, 1987 in the United States by Epic Records and internationally by CBS Records.[2] It was released nearly five years after Jackson's previous solo studio album, Thriller (1982). Badwas written and recorded over the span of over three and a half years. The lyrical themes include media bias, paranoia, racial profiling, romance, self-improvement and world peace. The album cemented Jackson's status as one of the most successful artists of the 1980s."-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
Bad is the work of a gifted singer-songwriter with his own skewed aesthetic agenda and the technical prowess to pursue it.
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Los Angeles Times
"Bad" is a fair-to-strong array of soul and rock blends.
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All Music
He moved deeper into hard rock, deeper into schmaltzy adult contemporary, deeper into hard dance
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Sputnik Music
Almost every track is superb
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BBC
An awesome, evergreen and essential pop masterpiece.
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AV Club
Bad is a triumph.
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The Root
Making himself a neutral symbol of global acceptance.
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National Public Radio (NPR)
Bad has more valley's than peaks.
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PopMatters
So powerful and omnipresent.
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Drowned in Sound
Impressive
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Albumism
Bad contains more solid pop classics than most greatest-hits compilations, a deeper bench than some may remember, and trailblazing visuals
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Velocities in Music
Michael Jackson is the King of Pop, and Bad is living proof.
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The Young Folks
Riddled with experimentation and suffering from fewer outside influences, Bad contains some of Michael Jackson’s most endearing material.
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The Morton Report
This is a superb package that only enhances the legacy of Bad and of Michael Jackson as an artist.
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Express
Tight, immaculately produced pop that sounds as fresh today as it did 25 years ago.
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Audopxide
an excellent pop album that feels very much like an architect of its time.
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