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MUSIC<br />
TONE AUDIO NO.51<br />
Michael Jackson<br />
BAD: 25th Anniversary Edition<br />
Sony Legacy, 3 CDs/1 DVD<br />
$40<br />
No artist in history has<br />
ever felt what it must have been like<br />
for Michael Jackson to follow-up their<br />
sophomore album. That’s because<br />
no studio set has ever sold in such<br />
vast quantities as 1982’s Thriller. After<br />
sweeping the Grammy awards and<br />
piling up 25-plus million in sales in the<br />
U.S. alone, what does one do for an<br />
encore? No matter what he created,<br />
Jackson could’ve never pleased<br />
everyone or met expectations.<br />
Long lurking in the shadows of its<br />
ubiquitous predecessor, BAD is placed<br />
in a renewed context thanks to this<br />
opinion-changing reissue. Augmented<br />
by a disc of standout B-sides, demos,<br />
and rarities—and a DVD containing<br />
Jackson’s July 16, 1988 concert at<br />
Wembley Stadium (audio contents are<br />
replicated on a CD)—the multimedia<br />
set eradicates previous criticisms<br />
suggesting the record a calculated<br />
imitation of Thriller, albeit one with<br />
more modernized arrangements.<br />
(continued)<br />
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December 2012 69
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