I think the highlights of Thriller are stronger than the ones on Bad, but the latter is a damn fine album and still fun to hear all these years later. I remember well the full length Martin Scorsese video for Bad premiering on Channel 4. It was released on 31 August 1987 and is one of the best-selling albums, with an estimated 35 million copies sold worldwide. Still, I don't like him removing it on the remastered versions. Bad is the seventh studio album by America songwriter and singer Michael Jackson. The spoken intro to I Just Can't Stop Loving You is cringe inducing and he should never have done it. They don't feel like the 'proper' album to me. It also includes an exclusive booklet of previously unseen photography from the BAD era. Especially as the later editions feature Michael's tweaks. This 25th Anniversary Edition of Michael Jackson's landmark album features the remastered original album PLUS a bonus CD of additional material from the BAD sessions and new remixes. I have the 20(?) remasters, but the original CD sounds best. After Bad, every other album was far too long and overblown, though of course there were always moments of genius. 30 years later I can hear that there's a little filler here and there, but tracks like The Way You Make Me Feel, Dirty Diana, Smooth Criminal and the title song are so fantastic I can forgive that. It was fantastically successful and a great sounding record/CD to boot. The 31st of August was a bank holiday here so I had to wait until the following day for the shops to open so I could pick it up. ![]() Click to expand.And it's 30 years ago today that I bought the CD.
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