I think Man in the Mirror, Dirty Diana, Bad, Smooth Criminal, Leave Me Alone and I Just Can’t Stop Loving You are Jacko classics. It is an album with some obvious highlights. There are sites that ranks the tracks on Bad. Many artists have cited Bad as a key album to them, so critics have returned to the album and judged it on that basis. I think there has been reappraisal of the album, seeing as a lot of time has passed by. Tracks like Just Good Friends are not among Jackson’s best. Maybe critics were expecting something similar to that album in 1987. I feel Bad is an underrated album that might have been compared to Thriller too heavily. Many would say Thriller, whereas others gravitate towards Off the Wall (or another one of his studio efforts). There is this debate as to which Michael Jackson album is the best. He could pen these songs that got straight to the heart. In terms of Pop albums, I think Jackson was the master. It was the third and final collaboration between Jackson and producer Quincy Jones. It was released on 31st August, 1987, nearly five years after Jackson's previous album, Thriller (1982). I am discussing an artist and album that delighted and enthralled me as a child. I am not going to talk about accusations of sexual abuse that have been levied at him. I know there is a bittersweet and slightly controversial nature discussing Jackson today. In terms of the earliest albums, Michael Jackson’s Bad was a huge one for me. Might seem a little self-indulgent, but I think every music lover has those albums that came to them during childhood that impacted them and changed how they felt about music.