![song list for michael jackson bad album song list for michael jackson bad album](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dsUXAEzaC3Q/mqdefault.jpg)
In a more just world, Jackson's final No. Like "We Are the World," "Ben" is a Michael Jackson No.
#Song list for michael jackson bad album movie#
"Ben" is an earnest ode to a pet rat, recorded for the 1972 horror movie of the same name and written by composer Walter Scharf of "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"-scoring fame. 1 track with the Jackson 5's charts-topping hit "I Want You Back," Jackson scored his first solo No. 1 spot, the song's inclusion on this list feels like a fluke.Īfter becoming the youngest artist to collaborate on a No. There's nothing egregiously wrong with "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" – it's just that, when it comes to the many superior Jackson hits that missed the No. The first single from Jackson's "Bad" album is also its weakest one. Co-written by Jackson and Lionel Richie, "We Are the World" may have raised more than $75 million for the USA for Africa organization, but it's less a real song than a star-studded and hopelessly overblown PSA and doesn't deserve to be counted as an official Michael Jackson No. Where to start with "We Are the World," the biggest charity single of all time, which recruited 46 singers to contribute a few words each to raise funds to combat poverty in Africa. 1, and judge for yourself which were the best – and worst – of his most-popular songs. 29, revisit Jackson’s 14 songs that reached No. In honor of what would’ve been Jackson’s 60th birthday on Aug. 1, while a good number of arguably lesser singles managed to reach the Billboard Hot 100’s peak. (Pretty Young Thing),” “Got to Be There,” “Smooth Criminal” and his “Scream” collaboration with sister Janet Jackson all failed to reach No. Bona fide classics such as “Thriller,” "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin,’ ” "P.Y.T. Yet for all his record-holding achievements, listeners may be surprised which of Jackson’s singles hit No. For this dreadful stretch, everything is mechanical, and while the album rebounds with songs that prove mechanical can be tolerable if delivered with hooks and panache, it still makes Bad feel like an artifact of its time instead a piece of music that transcends it.View Gallery: Michael Jackson's life and legacy in photos Part of the joy of Off the Wall and Thriller was that craft was enhanced with tremendous songs, performances, and fresh, vivacious beats. And they constitute a near-fatal dead spot on the record - songs three through six, from "Speed Demon" to "Another Part of Me," a sequence that's utterly faceless, lacking memorable hooks and melodies, even when Stevie Wonder steps in for "Just Good Friends," relying on nothing but studiocraft. Then, there are the album tracks themselves, something that virtually didn't exist on Thriller but bog down Bad not just because they're bad, but because they reveal that Jackson's state of the art is not hip. Look at the singles: only three can stand alongside album tracks from its predecessor ("Bad," "The Way You Make Me Feel," "I Just Can't Stop Loving You"), another is simply OK ("Smooth Criminal"), with the other two showcasing Jackson at his worst (the saccharine "Man in the Mirror," the misogynistic "Dirty Diana"). For one thing, the material just isn't as good. He wound up with a sleeker, slicker Thriller, which isn't a bad thing, but it's not a rousing success, either. This meant that he moved deeper into hard rock, deeper into schmaltzy adult contemporary, deeper into hard dance - essentially taking each portion of Thriller to an extreme, while increasing the quotient of immaculate studiocraft. The downside to a success like Thriller is that it's nearly impossible to follow, but Michael Jackson approached Bad much the same way he approached Thriller - take the basic formula of the predecessor, expand it slightly, and move it outward.