Bad: 25th Anniversary
Michael Jackson
Bad: 25th Anniversary (often titled Bad 25) is the 2012 25th‑anniversary reissue of Michael Jackson’s 1987 album Bad, released on September 18, 2012 through Epic/Legacy and MJJ Productions. The project digitally remasters the original record and greatly expands it, with standard editions offering a two‑disc set and deluxe/box versions adding a full live concert (Live at Wembley, July 16, 1988) on CD and DVD, plus memorabilia like posters, replica tickets, and photo booklets from the Bad era. On streaming and triple‑vinyl formats, Bad 25 runs 24 tracks and roughly 1 hour 47 minutes, pairing the eleven core album songs—Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel, Speed Demon, Liberian Girl, Just Good Friends, Another Part of Me, Man in the Mirror, I Just Can’t Stop Loving You, Dirty Diana, Smooth Criminal, Leave Me Alone—with a trove of demos, outtakes, and remixes.
The bonus material is the heart of Bad 25’s appeal for fans and critics. Disc 2 and 3 (or the expanded digital tracklist) unveil previously unreleased songs from the Bad sessions—Don’t Be Messin’ ’Round, I’m So Blue, Song Groove (a.k.a. Abortion Papers), Free, Price of Fame, Al Capone, Streetwalker, Fly Away—as well as Spanish and French versions of I Just Can’t Stop Loving You and contemporary remixes like Afrojack’s Bad (with Pitbull) and Nero’s rework of Speed Demon. Reviewers largely praise the demos and outtakes, which show Jackson experimenting with grooves, vocal ideas, and lyrical themes that deepen our sense of the Bad era’s creativity; many consider Bad 25 one of the strongest posthumous Jackson releases because it reveals how he approached Bad much like Thriller—taking each stylistic thread (rock, hard dance, adult contemporary, gospel‑inflected pop) and pushing it further while maintaining immaculate studio craft. Some criticism focuses on the modern remixes, especially the Afrojack/Pitbull tracks, which are widely regarded as inauthentic or unnecessary compared to the original album and vintage material. Commercially, Bad 25 debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Pop Catalog Albums chart and topped charts in Italy, reinforcing Bad’s enduring status and giving listeners a richly documented, multi‑angle view of one of pop’s landmark records.
Bad: 25th Anniversary (often titled Bad 25) is the 2012 25th‑anniversary reissue of Michael Jackson’s 1987 album Bad, released on September 18, 2012 through Epic/Legacy and MJJ Productions. The project digitally remasters the original record and greatly expands it, with standard editions offering a two‑disc set and deluxe/box versions adding a full live concert (Live at Wembley, July 16, 1988) on CD and DVD, plus memorabilia like posters, replica tickets, and photo booklets from the Bad era. On streaming and triple‑vinyl formats, Bad 25 runs 24 tracks and roughly 1 hour 47 minutes, pairing the eleven core album songs—Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel, Speed Demon, Liberian Girl, Just Good Friends, Another Part of Me, Man in the Mirror, I Just Can’t Stop Loving You, Dirty Diana, Smooth Criminal, Leave Me Alone—with a trove of demos, outtakes, and remixes.
The bonus material is the heart of Bad 25’s appeal for fans and critics. Disc 2 and 3 (or the expanded digital tracklist) unveil previously unreleased songs from the Bad sessions—Don’t Be Messin’ ’Round, I’m So Blue, Song Groove (a.k.a. Abortion Papers), Free, Price of Fame, Al Capone, Streetwalker, Fly Away—as well as Spanish and French versions of I Just Can’t Stop Loving You and contemporary remixes like Afrojack’s Bad (with Pitbull) and Nero’s rework of Speed Demon. Reviewers largely praise the demos and outtakes, which show Jackson experimenting with grooves, vocal ideas, and lyrical themes that deepen our sense of the Bad era’s creativity; many consider Bad 25 one of the strongest posthumous Jackson releases because it reveals how he approached Bad much like Thriller—taking each stylistic thread (rock, hard dance, adult contemporary, gospel‑inflected pop) and pushing it further while maintaining immaculate studio craft. Some criticism focuses on the modern remixes, especially the Afrojack/Pitbull tracks, which are widely regarded as inauthentic or unnecessary compared to the original album and vintage material. Commercially, Bad 25 debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Pop Catalog Albums chart and topped charts in Italy, reinforcing Bad’s enduring status and giving listeners a richly documented, multi‑angle view of one of pop’s landmark records.
Bad: 25th Anniversary
Michael Jackson
Bad: 25th Anniversary (often titled Bad 25) is the 2012 25th‑anniversary reissue of Michael Jackson’s 1987 album Bad, released on September 18, 2012 through Epic/Legacy and MJJ Productions. The project digitally remasters the original record and greatly expands it, with standard editions offering a two‑disc set and deluxe/box versions adding a full live concert (Live at Wembley, July 16, 1988) on CD and DVD, plus memorabilia like posters, replica tickets, and photo booklets from the Bad era. On streaming and triple‑vinyl formats, Bad 25 runs 24 tracks and roughly 1 hour 47 minutes, pairing the eleven core album songs—Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel, Speed Demon, Liberian Girl, Just Good Friends, Another Part of Me, Man in the Mirror, I Just Can’t Stop Loving You, Dirty Diana, Smooth Criminal, Leave Me Alone—with a trove of demos, outtakes, and remixes.
The bonus material is the heart of Bad 25’s appeal for fans and critics. Disc 2 and 3 (or the expanded digital tracklist) unveil previously unreleased songs from the Bad sessions—Don’t Be Messin’ ’Round, I’m So Blue, Song Groove (a.k.a. Abortion Papers), Free, Price of Fame, Al Capone, Streetwalker, Fly Away—as well as Spanish and French versions of I Just Can’t Stop Loving You and contemporary remixes like Afrojack’s Bad (with Pitbull) and Nero’s rework of Speed Demon. Reviewers largely praise the demos and outtakes, which show Jackson experimenting with grooves, vocal ideas, and lyrical themes that deepen our sense of the Bad era’s creativity; many consider Bad 25 one of the strongest posthumous Jackson releases because it reveals how he approached Bad much like Thriller—taking each stylistic thread (rock, hard dance, adult contemporary, gospel‑inflected pop) and pushing it further while maintaining immaculate studio craft. Some criticism focuses on the modern remixes, especially the Afrojack/Pitbull tracks, which are widely regarded as inauthentic or unnecessary compared to the original album and vintage material. Commercially, Bad 25 debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Pop Catalog Albums chart and topped charts in Italy, reinforcing Bad’s enduring status and giving listeners a richly documented, multi‑angle view of one of pop’s landmark records.
Bad: 25th Anniversary (often titled Bad 25) is the 2012 25th‑anniversary reissue of Michael Jackson’s 1987 album Bad, released on September 18, 2012 through Epic/Legacy and MJJ Productions. The project digitally remasters the original record and greatly expands it, with standard editions offering a two‑disc set and deluxe/box versions adding a full live concert (Live at Wembley, July 16, 1988) on CD and DVD, plus memorabilia like posters, replica tickets, and photo booklets from the Bad era. On streaming and triple‑vinyl formats, Bad 25 runs 24 tracks and roughly 1 hour 47 minutes, pairing the eleven core album songs—Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel, Speed Demon, Liberian Girl, Just Good Friends, Another Part of Me, Man in the Mirror, I Just Can’t Stop Loving You, Dirty Diana, Smooth Criminal, Leave Me Alone—with a trove of demos, outtakes, and remixes.
The bonus material is the heart of Bad 25’s appeal for fans and critics. Disc 2 and 3 (or the expanded digital tracklist) unveil previously unreleased songs from the Bad sessions—Don’t Be Messin’ ’Round, I’m So Blue, Song Groove (a.k.a. Abortion Papers), Free, Price of Fame, Al Capone, Streetwalker, Fly Away—as well as Spanish and French versions of I Just Can’t Stop Loving You and contemporary remixes like Afrojack’s Bad (with Pitbull) and Nero’s rework of Speed Demon. Reviewers largely praise the demos and outtakes, which show Jackson experimenting with grooves, vocal ideas, and lyrical themes that deepen our sense of the Bad era’s creativity; many consider Bad 25 one of the strongest posthumous Jackson releases because it reveals how he approached Bad much like Thriller—taking each stylistic thread (rock, hard dance, adult contemporary, gospel‑inflected pop) and pushing it further while maintaining immaculate studio craft. Some criticism focuses on the modern remixes, especially the Afrojack/Pitbull tracks, which are widely regarded as inauthentic or unnecessary compared to the original album and vintage material. Commercially, Bad 25 debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Pop Catalog Albums chart and topped charts in Italy, reinforcing Bad’s enduring status and giving listeners a richly documented, multi‑angle view of one of pop’s landmark records.