Dirty Diana is remarkably lean, Steve Stevens' flamboyant guitar aside, yet powerful too. Quincy Jones' production is tight yet yielding, every song allowed to breathe and never cluttered by needless elements. It's a special rarity: a commercial behemoth with nary a lapse in quality across its 48 minutes. Yet Bad was as well-received in the press as it was by Jackson's fans. Jackson's star was at its zenith across the 1980s - but fame never guarantees critical approval. The title track rocketed to No.1 in the US, followed by The Way You Make Me Feel, Man in the Mirror and Dirty Diana.
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In Britain, Bad (the song) peaked at 3, as Rick Astley sat atop the pile. Its chart campaign didn't begin with the title cut, but with I Just Can't Stop Loving You, a number one in both the US and UK. And Bad was just that: almost a greatest hits package, it spawned nine hit singles. Ubiquity comes cheap in 2012 (thanks, internet), but in 1987, it was earned by being the best of the best. Like 1982's Thriller, it's an album that appeared to easily find a home within the record collection of rockers and poppers, punks and poets alike. You can also write your own.Ī multi-million-unit-shifter, Bad was (and remains) as important to 1980s pop culture as the rise of the Walkman, the Back to the Future movies, and the shooting of JR.
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