Michael Jackson danced like a one-legged sparrow having a fit on an electric fence. But that's a very good thing. Fast, spontaneous, improvized and electrifying, Jackson is one of history's greatest entertainers for a reason. And at the peak of his career, prior to the kiddy-fiddling accusations and his general decline into even deeper eccentricity and obscurity, he was the best in the business. The world hadn't seen a pop star like him. Even when his more eccentric proclivities became more and more public, in death he was remembered for the megastar he really was. And that's how he should be remembered, really. His breakthrough album, Thriller, sold countless millions of records and is still the best selling album in all history. I personally grew up on his Bad material, and I personally prefer that album myself to this one. But there's good songs here aplenty too, as you should expect from the best-selling album in history. "Billie Jean", "Beat It", "Thriller." Those are the staple classics here. But "Human Nature" and "Pretty Young Thing" are good enough to be played more than ten times as well. Not my favorite Jacko album, but still a very good album nonetheless. A-
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