Tuesday 19 July 2016

Michael Jackson - Leave Me Alone (1987)



You could just sit Michael Jackson in front of a DX7 or some other FM keyboard, and he would belt you out a single. Sit him there for long enough and you'd have an album. The entire clan of Jackson's were synonymous with FM synth in the mid to late 80s. Every one of their albums (from Janet to Jermaine and everyone one in between) is not just featuring FM, but seem to be hinged entirely on FM as the backbone. The Jackson's were an FM Family.

I could have just picked any song off the 1987 "Bad" album, and had it work perfectly here. We've all heard these songs so many times. But how many times have we heard the FM that was the foundation to almost every hook outside of Michael's trademark vocals?

Going back over the Bad album is like playing a Sega Genesis game with impeccable production and vocals, haha. It is glorious! We have not seen the last of the Jacksons in the Summer of FM.

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