Genre: Soul
Places I remember: Music shop in Nelson
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Black Or White (BLM makes the message a current one)
Gear costume: Jam, Who Is It
Active compensatory factors: My vinyl version of this album was a double and with a double album there are always potential issues - songs that get lost, songs that shouldn't be there, songs that don't fit and so on.
Dangerous showcases over its four sides some good songs, but also some of Michael Jackson's more forgettable material. There are also other songs that could have been trimmed from the set.
At his best there are few who compare; I'm thinking of the catchy pop songs like Jam, Black and White, Who Is It. Unfortunately his other sickly sentimental side - the icky Will You Be There is also here.
I'm not sure about his piously sincere save the world songs like Heal The World. His heart was in the right place and, in a world locked in Covid-19 hell, the message is still relevant. But, yikes, it's like drowning in saccharine music sometimes.
Where do they all belong? That's it for Michael in my collection - from the terrific Off The Wall through to mega seller Thriller, on to Bad and Dangerous. He sure could deliver!
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