Amazing Album

When I first heard this CD when I was little, I loved all the songs on the album. "Black Or White" has been one of both mine and my mother's favortie songs. Even though this CD is my mom's, I still listen to it while I practice my hip-hop dances in either my room or living room. This is one of the best MJ CD's you will not stop listening to. If ya'll are Michael Jackson fans, be sure to find this CD in whatever music store you can find it in.

More artistic than its predecessors.

I think apart from the world beater 'Black Or White', this album had more artistic progression than Michael's previous 3 best sellers. 'Keep The Faith', is the best album track gem Michael ever recorded. A really uplifting song and sung like no other in his career. The album is worth the price of purchase just for this gem and the title track. Which has an industrial funk feel to it. Although it could've been edited down by as much as 2 minutes and been a very strong single. It has one of the catchiest choruses ever. Get this album, it is the last of the essestial 4 albums Jackson recorded in his career.

Remember The Time?

If you loved Michael Jackson this LP was one of his very best, freeing him up from the production coffin imposed by "Q," Quincy Jones, which was great in the 1980s but which was beginning to sound a bit old fashioned by 1990. Many hits rose out of this album, even though none of them were able to stand the test of time and few of them continue to be performed today on the rare occasions when MJ now performs live. It's almost as if, with the exception of HEAL THE WORLD and REMEMBER THE TIME, he is somehow ashamed of this phase in his recording career. But he shouldn't be, because success or no, it is part of his long progression from Gary, Indiana, to artistic greatness. Today it is hard to remember a time when we used to se Michael Jackson's face on TV untainted by the current charges that cloud hus visage. But back in the day he was nearly universally loved and respected for his unique combination of talents and innocence--he was a paradox that you thought you could count on.



Some have said that Teddy Riley led MJ down the wrong path with a barrage of intrusive percussions and a taste for verse-chorus-bridge-verse that goes nowhere and seems to start up again at will. Others have accused Riley of being on an ego trip, appointed the divine rescuer who would somehow "save" Michael Jackson from his own eccentricities and put him back into r&b with a vengeance. Michael seemed to be playing up to his own fame, and the videos that grew out of the DANGEROUS LP were playing a game of, how many of my famous friends could I force to appear in the video. If it wasn't Magic Johnson, it was Naomi Campbell. Did anyone really think Naomi Campbell was good friendship material? I don't know her personally, but her screen image is that of one who would just as soon slit your throat as look at you, if there were twenty-five cents to be made doing so. And what was the idea of Shaq doing the rap verses on the track Jam? Come on, with all the talented musicians out there why drag in a b-ball star? At least Janet hired Kathleen Battle not Venus and Serena!



Nevertheless when all is said and done DANGEROUS is an epochal achievement and one of the great cultural moments of the late 20th century.