Lowkey BABY BE MINE is the best track on THRILLER

[bigbadbossup2012]

This man gets it

Bad is Michael Jackson's best album. Easily

OTW felt like MJ coming into his own, but still young

Thriller was more like a dare, on some, "Oh you think I can't make a Universal album that ends up being the best seller? Watch this"

Bad on the other hand felt like it was actually Micheal. Like he hand picked the songs we wanted to make without any thought of if it would sell records. Look at the songs Leave Me Alone or Man in the Mirror. Nothing on OTW or Thriller come close to that, as far as that maturity, aura, and confidence

None of y'all get it

 

[prime]

As I get older I prefer the Bad album. For an album from the eighties the production was ahead of its time.

The best track on Thriller imo is PYT. You can throw on that song and watch people go crazy

both are really close if this song should've replaced speed demon
bad would've been 10/10 album speed demon is just too fukking trash

 

[prime]

We can do that.
But I'll leave you with this

Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 6:02
Baby Be Mine 4:20
The Girl Is Mine 3:42
Thriller 5:57
Beat It 4:17
Billie Jean 4:57
Human Nature 4:05
P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) 3:58
The Lady In My Life 4:57

Bad 4:06
The Way You Make Me Feel 4:58
Speed Demon 4:01
Liberian Girl 3:52
Just Good Friends 4:05
Another Part Of Me 3:53
Man In The Mirror 5:18
I Just Can't Stop Loving You 4:23
Dirty Diana 4:52
Smooth Criminal 4:16

ALTHOUGH BOTH ARE CLASSIC, THERE'S A FEW SONGS ON BAD THAT TAKE IT OUT OF CONTENTION AGAINST THRILLER

i like said both album are really close but if streetwalker was on the album instead of speed demon bad would've been better

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

The song is great, combines dream pop, r&b and funk styles.

Still, Human Nature is the best track on the album.

I can see why someone would say Human Nature but...



Damn Dog

 

[Taadow]

Naw

Yeh

 

[MustafaSTL]

You spelled The Lady In My Life wrong.

 

[Mike the Executioner]

"Baby Be Mine" makes me feel like I'm actually in the 1980s.

That song makes me want to take a Saturday afternoon drive for hours. Sometime in May when it starts to get hotter so about 75-80 degrees. Then you get home in time to watch the Mets play on channel nine (because they used to play on channel nine back then).

But it has to be the Mets, not the Yankees.

This man gets it

Bad is Michael Jackson's best album. Easily

OTW felt like MJ coming into his own, but still young

Thriller was more like a dare, on some, "Oh you think I can't make a Universal album that ends up being the best seller? Watch this"

Bad on the other hand felt like it was actually Micheal. Like he hand picked the songs we wanted to make without any thought of if it would sell records. Look at the songs Leave Me Alone or Man in the Mirror. Nothing on OTW or Thriller come close to that, as far as that maturity, aura, and confidence

I don't think Bad is MJ's best album, but I see your point. That was the album where he wrote the majority of it (only "Just Good Friends" and "Man in the Mirror" weren't written by him), so up to that point, it was his most personal album. There was a lot of pressure on him to top Thriller, some of it self-inflicted. He was obsessed with having it sell 100 million copies and he would write that number down everywhere he went, like hotel rooms.

He was also distracted by outside projects and advertisers were going crazy because there was no album ready for their marketing campaigns. They shot the video for "Bad" almost a year before it came out. There's this great article from SPIN Magazine that talks about what Michael was going through at that time:

Michael Jackson's 1987 Cover Story: 'The Pressure to Beat It'

 

[patscorpio]

Thriller the worst song is Girl Is Mine....as I got older I've liked it less and less. Paul got the superior collab on his album with Say Say Say

 

[Suzie]

Billie Jean and PYT said wassup.
Wanna Be Starting Something is underrated though

 

[Everydayimshufflin]

Human nature for me

 

[patscorpio]

both are really close if this song should've replaced speed demon
bad would've been 10/10 album speed demon is just too fukking trash

I like the BAD album..the highs are high...the lows are just..like that joint and dirty diana

 

[Easy-E]

Every song could make a claim for "best track on the album" , which shows just how great of an an album it is

Except The Girl Is Mine...which I would have preferred Stevie The GOAT on as a Part 1 to Just Good Friends

 

[Easy-E]

Whole damn album slaps. Even the “throwaways” bang.

The demo version sounds like Stevie Wonder wrote and produced it

LAWD THIS IS A DOPE TRACK

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

@O Fenômeno why did MJ and Quincy split after the Bad album?

I believe it was because the sound was going a bit heavier and street.

I think @Art Barr said something like Rap was the one genre Quincy couldn't master..

Mike need a sound that connected back to the streets which is where r&b was at that time and Teddy was the man for it. I heard rumors he wanted Jimmy Jam and Terry but his sister was already working with them not sure if that was true or not.

 

[Darts]

This thread is low key kinda disrespectful for MJ fans to name songs he didn't write as his best songs.

Nah his best music will always be the shyt he wrote and co-produced himself, starting with DSTYGE.