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.

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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.

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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

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

Thread bump to keep the truth alive

 

[Kool]

1st.

NO IT ISN'T. Mods delete this thread.

This!

 

[Newark88]

Yo no lie, this week for whatever reason I randomly played this on Apple Music and I forgot how fire this album was. Granted, this was really the first time I played this album in its entirety since it dropped! After the initial release, whatever songs were off the album, I would just hear it in passing (whether it be on the radio, the videos on TV, or some family function). But spinning the block back almost 35 years later, this album really stood the test of time. Michael was smart to tap into Teddy for the sound of this album because like someone said, this was the magnum opus of the New Jack Swing sound. Yes, we all have the classic Guy, Keith Sweat, Heavy D music from that era, but Dangerous perfected that sound. MJ brought the best out of Teddy. Of course Dangerous ain’t better than Off The Wall and Thriller but I will say it’s up there with Bad. The only thing Bad got over Dangerous were that the singles were bigger.

 

[kdslittlebro]

I only heard these albums post-Michaelmania, so it may have been a “you had to be there” thing, but I think it’s a clear step down from the first two to Bad, and another clear step down to Dangerous.

And tbf a clear step down is going from the peak of Everest to the peak of K2

1a. Off the Wall
1b. Thriller
3. Bad
4. Dangerous

But most ppl I talk to think it’s crazy to put OTW over Thriller so what do I know

 

[Art Barr]

The mix and mastering was clean as fukk on that album.

Of course

All michael jackson is the industry standard.


Art Barr

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Stop trippin'

 

[KingDanz]

 

[Art Barr]

I had to google.

If this was the forgettable mj album. That came out close to or on my bday in mek teens.

It was.

This was mj caught in a weird.
what if mj made rhe soundtrack to dikk tracy's batman.

Plus his attachment to black nationalism was a joke. That after getting spanked for the bad video before this. It was even more of a stretch to listen to any commentary. As it was obvious. Mj was too far gone from being under the knife.

Plus his skin color change was just to oftputting.
As a matter of fact. The cover not really selling mike was rhe first sign of danger for this album.
plus teddy riley and new jack swing was dead. Like teddy was so far removed from what guy was. This was more like mike was reaching. To attach to an era. That mike eas not really a apart of. Plus was so lost and lacking kn black nationalism. The song direction with content. Was not public enemy. Way after the initial boom of it takes a nation. Plus the wrong guy to try to talk. After spike's do the right thing too.

Best thing about this album was jam being used for jordan.
Which i don't remember if it was that official. Or just licensed.


Culturally this album was mj being too far gone being white. Then trying to get his black card back. I also distinctly remember this album. not being shyt to dirty diana from bad too.
Which was a signal of steep decline. Plus mj having levels of disconnect to fame. Plus mj being so lost. As far as black nationalism. That none of these records really hit.
Past what would soon become the bleuprint.
to the oversaturated marketing run from mca's mary j blige second album. A half decade maybe later. Where the actual plug in formula.
for the oversaturation method worked for mca and blige.
simply because the music matched. The timing and the marketing direction without missing a beat. As a rnb crossover pop construct This mj album totally missed.
Plus there was no nee jack swing magic left. That did not signal trash commercial sellout direction.
Album was for the international mj fan.
That was still a steep decline by half of atrophy. If we look at the numbers dropping twenty percent.
Release to release from a boom.




Art Barr