Stone_FTC

70s jazz fusion in all its radiance.
The album is a pleasure to listen to from start to finisg. The tracks stretch out gracefully without ever dragging or losing your attention. There's maybe a slight dip around Captain Marvel, where it feels like the ideas start to thin out, but 500 Miles High pick things right back up.
Spain is of course the centerpiece of the album.

Few albums are this personal and vulnerable. Every single line feels like an open-hearted confession.

It took me a long time to truly appreciate this record for what it is. I used to find it less accessible than Blue, and it’s only in the last few years that I’ve managed to fully connect with its intimate, raw lyrics. It's an absolute masterpiece.

Bedtime Stories, long considered the ugly duckling, the ink stain on Madonna’s otherwise pristine 1990s run, is now being gradually reappraised year after year.
What’s paradoxical about this album, often framed as a somewhat embarrassed step back from the provocations of the LAP and Erotica eras and their surrounding controversies, is that it also stands as one of her most intimate and personal records lyrically. In fact, what is sometimes described as her most sonically impersonal ... read more

Barely an 80 score and only a modest spot in the top-100 albums of 1991 for Dangerous on aoty. I have to admit, that genuinely surprises me, because to my ears Dangerous is by far the most accomplished, personal, inventive, and fully realized record in MJ's career.
With Dangerous, Jackson steps into the 1990s with a clear set of new intentions. Quincy Jones is no longer at the helm, his influence now firmly tied to the legacy of the 1980s, and Jackson moves away from the "string of ... read more