Michael Jackson "Dangerous" is every bit as good as 'Thriller', 'Off the Wall', & 'Bad'

[Mike the Executioner]

He ended up giving us variations of this album for the rest of his career. People forget how good his music and singing was and his basic soul dancing. He needed a break to gather himself like maybe do smaller shows and projects. Maybe an MTV unplugged special held at the Apollo where he focuses on his earlier sound. But you know he'd never go for it because he was always trying to outdo himself on everything. But I feel he could have found himself again performing with the precise timing of a live band like Prince or James Brown instead of getting caught up in magic and a bunch of shyt being triggered on a keyboard.

I don't know if you've ever heard of it, but there were plans for Michael to do a special one-time show for HBO in 1995. It would have been him performing at the Beacon Theatre in New York, without the elaborate stuff you would get from his concerts. Him and Marcel Marceau were going to perform "Childhood" together. There wasn't a lot of time to rehearse or put everything together, and Michael ended up in the hospital a few days before the show was going to be filmed, so they cancelled it and never rescheduled it.

EXCLUSIVE: Inside Michael Jackson’s 1995 ‘One Night Only’ Special That Never Was

On July 25, 1995, pop superstar Michael Jackson revealed that he would be participating in a television special called Michael Jackson: One Night Only – an intimate concert to be filmed at New York’s Beacon Theatre on the 8th and 9th of December, before being exclusively aired on HBO at 8 P.M...

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[Peak]

Not saying it's better, but it's on par with those albums for sure. IMO, all 4 of these album are perfectly interchangeable. But that's another thread.

This album at the time didn't get the praise it deserved. It was hard/gritty/edgy in it's sound and had the most hip-hop influence & features of any MJ album. It's full of energy. On top of this MJ was discussing social issues & racism and people hated on him for that at the time. And a newer guy by the name of Teddy Riley did most of the production as opposed to a heavyweight name in Quincy Jones.

The other thing that worked against it is, the songs were LONG. You wanna know where Justin Timberlake got that idea to do 6-7 min pop songs? Look at this album....

But make no mistake, this album spawned some huge hits and had NINE songs released as singles. NINE songs! Not a skippable track. Not to mention, one of the best album covers EVER.

Give it another listen if you haven't in a while.

 

[OmegaK2099]

 

[OmegaK2099]

I don't know if you've ever heard of it, but there were plans for Michael to do a special one-time show for HBO in 1995. It would have been him performing at the Beacon Theatre in New York, without the elaborate stuff you would get from his concerts. Him and Marcel Marceau were going to perform "Childhood" together. There wasn't a lot of time to rehearse or put everything together, and Michael ended up in the hospital a few days before the show was going to be filmed, so they cancelled it and never rescheduled it.

EXCLUSIVE: Inside Michael Jackson’s 1995 ‘One Night Only’ Special That Never Was

On July 25, 1995, pop superstar Michael Jackson revealed that he would be participating in a television special called Michael Jackson: One Night Only – an intimate concert to be filmed at New York’s Beacon Theatre on the 8th and 9th of December, before being exclusively aired on HBO at 8 P.M...

www.google.com

Mike needed a stripped down show that was just about music. He needed the band to sound like “The Jackson’s Live” again. It would’ve been nice to play some of those Dangerous tracks more with the straight up live band. This sounds like a show length version of his MTV VMA performance

 

[DaHNIC82]

Been listening to this all week. This album is cold as fukk..

 

[North of Death]

Been listening to this all week. This album is cold as fukk..

Top 3 music album all time of any Black Music genre..shyt still fresh today to me