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Best album overall

What is your favorite album?

  • Off The Wall

    Votes: 38 10.9%

  • Thriller

    Votes: 39 11.2%

  • Bad

    Votes: 84 24.1%

  • Dangerous

    Votes: 120 34.4%

  • HIStory

    Votes: 43 12.3%

  • Blood On The Dance Floor

    Votes: 5 1.4%

  • Invincible

    Votes: 20 5.7%
  • Total voters
    349
MJJA said:
Dangerous is so musically and sonically diverse and out of the twenty or so tracks of MJ's that I rate 5* or better 7 or 8 are on that album.
History to me is number 2 because in my opinion it features four of his greatest tacks in TDCA, SIM, ES and LS. Four songs that are nothing short of incredible in their depth and power.
Then it is Bad. His last "fun" album so to speak. Incredible energy and has to be just about every dancers favorite album ever.
I actually think that Invincible as a whole is better then Thriller but Thriller has at least two absolute classics in WBSS and BJ. Then again Invincible has Speechless.
Then it is OTW. Great grooves but the disco element just doesn't appeal to me.
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OTW was more than disco
 
For me my top 3 MJ albums will always be:

1. Dangerous
2. HIStory
3. Bad


Dangerous will always be number 1 for me. Because of the fact that Who Is It is on that album. And to me there is no MJ song as great as Who Is It. I think it is the most greatest song he has ever done. That song has been my obsession. Ever since first hearing it on the Oprah interview. Over 20 years ago.
 
For me, it's Thriller followed ever so closely by Dangerous.
 
Surprised that Invincible as so low on this list. In my opinion it is where it should be on the list but I thought here were a lot more than 21 people who regarded it as their favourite album
 
MJJA said:
Sure but their was a strong disco element.
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Jazz inflected disco-pop. Merged with rhythm and blues. That jazzy disco was/is glorious.
As a journalist just said in another thread recently "the sexiest album of all time."
 
1. Bad
2. HIStory
3. Dangerous
4. Thriller
5. Invincible
6. Off the Wall
8. Blood on the Dance Floor
 
1. Bad.
2. HIStory
3. Thriller
4. Dangerous
5. Off The Wall
6. Blood on the Dance Floor
7. Invincible
 
When I previously voted for this poll I can see I voted for Bad, but now it's:

1. Dangerous
2. Bad
3. Off The Wall
4. HIStory
5. Thriller
6. BOTDF
7. Invincible

But 1-6 is very close together for me, they often switch places depending on mood, although Dangerous is a pretty constant #1 now. I think the albums 1-6 are all great in their own way. I like it that all of them have different styles, different moods, different thematics - and it only depends on my current mood whichever I prefer at any given monent. During summertime I tend to listen to the fun albums the most (OTW, Thriller, Bad).
I think each and every album had to be done and was a different side of Michael's creativity.

The only album that I think is a bit below all the others is Invincible. But I do not want to start yet another Invincible pro & contra thread. :p
 
1. Dangerous
2. Bad
3. Thriller
4. Off the Wall
5. History
6. Invincible

And before someone says INVINCIBLE IS SO UNDERRATED, yes it is, but not among fans. Invincible would be higher up on my list if it had 10 tracks.

Dangerous, Bad, Thriller and Off the Wall are masterpieces. History is very good, but not as good as the top four. Invincible is good, but ultimately too long.
 
I love all the albums, but BAD is just breath-taking. Every track is perfection, the album is proof Michael Jackson is the greatest thing to happen to music!!!
 
My list. The Top 5 are very hard to separate.

1. Dangerous 10/10
2. Off the Wall 10/10
3. Bad 10/10
4. Thriller (Sounds cruel, but I still think it is amazing) 10/10
5. History 9/10
6. Xscape 8/10
7. Blood on the Dancefloor 7/10
8. Michael 6/10
9. Invincible 5/10

Haven't listened to all the early Motown ones and won't rate Jacksons and Jackson 5 stuff.

The top 4 change almost daily, in another post I said Thriller was top, but overall I felt parts of songs drag on a bit and Lady in my life is average rather than great. It is like with Purple Rain by Prince, it is a great album, but when you have heard teh songs a thousand times, they sound less great I guess. Beat It and Billie Jean will never date.

I put Dangerous first as I was all over that album, the songs are memorable and it was proof Michael had picked up on the New Jack swing and even rap sound at the time. I was heavily into Rap and New Jack Swing then and the album has Prince like funk grooves in Can't Let her get away, Who Is it has a Prince like mystique too and in the Closet is a very sexy and mysetrious jam too.

Off the wall is 2nd as I love Disco music a lot and Michael was proving so much here, the music is extremely tight and very catchy. Its a splendid example of timeless late 70s Disco style music that will not date. Get on the Floor,Working night and day are almost 2015 like. Plus when you consider this album came before all his 80s and 90s material and set Michael Jackson up as a viable and very commercial adult star. There would not have been a Thriller or Bad without an Off the Wall. In a way Destiny was a test run for this.

Bad too, I just love, but the grooves are a wee bit stuck in the late 80s, which for me is a great thing. I love te rock sound the album has and the dance standards in Smooth Criminal and Dirty Diana, TWYMMF is the perfect ballad by anyone. Only Adore by Prince compares to it and what a surprise both are from 1987.

History has some great cuts, but I think things were coming undone. I can understand the anger behind DS, but is really a beat being repeated and some of the long openings grate on you a bit. Still there are enough highlights. The first 5 songs are stunners and I must take a point for him cursing in Scream and the lines in They don't really care about it. Michael must have been angry there.

Never really got into Invincible, but I love Butterflies and Cry.
 
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1. Bad
2. Dangerous
3. History
4. Thriller
5. OTW
6. Invincible
7. BOTD

The ongoing narrative that MJ was past his peak post Thriller is absolute nonsense, Bad and Dangerous was undoubtedly his peak.
 
"Best" is such a subjective term when related to preference, but my favorite album is still "Thriller". There's a reason "Billie Jean" became Michael's signature song, and I love some of the often-ignored tracks like "Baby Be Mine" and "The Lady in My Life". I also love the bonus track "Someone in the Dark" from the Special Edition, and "For All Time" from the 25th-anniversary release.
 
#1 Dangerous
#2 Bad
#3 History
#4 Thriller
#5 Off The Wall
#6 Invincible
BOTD

The rest are posthumous so I don't consider them authentic Mj albums.

Regardless he is the BEST ever!
 
Reading my first post I made on this thread 7 years ago, I picked Thriller but revaluating my choices, Michael's 90s albums are his best works. Dangerous and HIStory are lyrically superior to his previous albums. We know he started to write meaningful songs on Destiny but the older Michael got, the more personal, political, poignant, yet hopeful/idealist his lyrics were and also he got a lot more artistic and creative experimenting with new sounds taking them to a higher level.
 
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I'm a big fan of many types of music & many, many artists. But MJ is the only one who I consider made perfect albums or near as dammit.

Dangerous is perfect.
Thriller is perfect
Bad is perfect (albeit JGF is below the others)
OTW is a blueprint of perfection...so close
HIStory - two thirds perfect, just 2 or 3 unecessary inclusions (less is more)
Invincible was released in 2001 :)

Dangerous is the best album ever made. Fourteen tracks and 77 minutes of pure auditory bliss, with tracks that not only stand out on there own but somehow become one cohesive piece of work that encompasses every genre out there and masters in all of them. Michael's pseudonym was the King Of Pop but Dangerous shows he's quite simply, the King Of Music.
 
For a long time HIStory used to be my favorite album because I considered it his most personal and honest. Dangerous closely followed it. In the last few years I've come to appreciate Invincible more and now it is #1 for me. It does have a couple of fillers like Don't walk away or Heartbreaker, but the rest of it is awesome with many tunes one more appealing than the other.

innuendo141 said:
Wow, this just got me. Didnt realise I was in a thread that was created before he died.
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HIStoric said:
Oh shit you're right. 7 years wow...
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WOW indeed; time sure flies by, doesn't it?

SmoothCriminal1995 said:
I love all the albums, but BAD is just breath-taking. Every track is perfection,the album is proof Michael Jackson is the greatest thing to happen to music!!!
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But I thought Michael Jackson was music, how on earth can he be the best thing to happen to himself? :p He may be grand and all, king and emperor of this universe and the one next door, but still.....not even he could be self-sufficient, could he? :blink: Just kiddin', please don't mind my silly sense of humor.
 
Off the Wall. It's a rare case where it's extremely underrated by the fans, but LOVED by the mainstream media/audience.
 
Dangerous is my favourite, mainly because of "Who Is It" and "Give In To Me".
But the other albums are great too. :)
 
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