In 1987, after the release of his milestone albums Thriller and Bad, Michael Jackson went on his first world tour as a solo performer. His Bad World Tour set new standards for the tour business: supported by a bombastic live show, Jackson played 123 concerts attended by a total of 4.4 million fans., inaugurated in September 1987 with fourteen sold-out shows at the Korakuen Stadium in Yokohama, Japan.

Tracklist:
1. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
2. Things I Do For You
3. Off The Wall
4. Human Nature
5. Heartbreak Hotel
6. She's Out Of My Life
7. I Want You Back
8. The Love You Save
9. I'll Be There
10. Rock With You
11. Lovely One
12. Working Day And Night
13. Beat It
14. Billie Jean
15. Shake Your Body
16. Thriller
17. I Just Can't Stop Loving You
18. Bad

http://www.play.com/Music...oduct.html

On the 'Bad' tour,he only performed two songs from the Bad album?!

SoulAlive said:

yeah i was looking for more bad songs as well

strange.

what? no Another Part of Me,
who's the fuck Mcnugget that made this fuck up?

EmbattledWarrior said:

No Smooth Criminal?? Oh helllll nawwwww

SoulAlive said:

No, the first leg in Japan and Australia were warm-ups for the rest of the tour. When it kicked off in the summer of 1988 that's where the "real" shows are. These were just for extra promotion in 1987 when the album had just been released.

Finally, I consider this his best tour and looks.

Ellie said:

It's a shame Mike didn't start the tour off doing more Bad songs because his voice was in great shape at that point and he was singing 100% live. His vocals were never so good again. As the tour went on the quality of the vocals declined. Unfortunately, in the 87 leg he's doing songs like Things I Do For You and Lovely One that should've been dropped by that point. I doubt if most people in the audience had ever heard those songs before. That means we don't have the totally flawless Bad concert we would liked to have had for posterity.
But all in all I would much rather they released one of the early American dates. I'll take a little vocal roughness if it means I get a truer representation of MJ in that time.
[Edited 8/2/07 6:01am]

Should've dropped the J5 medley's too....

I mean..they were'nt with him

I'd rather have some music videos and television performances from the "Destiny" and "Triumph" era. By the time "Bad" had come out, Michael's music had become much weaker. The only thing he gave a damn about by then was making pop and pleasing mass audiences.....yuck.

Cool, I'm definitely picking this up.

Incidently, will they be releasing this on CD as well? I'd like to have an audio concert of this tour.

it's an unofficial release.Sony or the Michael Jackson Company aren't involved

The setlist of the tour was:

Wanna Be Startin Somethin
This Place Hotel
Another Part Of Me
I Just Can't Stop Loving You
She's Out Of My Life
I Want You Back/The Love You Save
I'll Be There
Rock With You
Human Nature
Smooth Criminal
Dirty Diana
Thriller
Music Interlude(It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night/Don't Stop Til You Get Enough)
Workin Day And Night
Beat It
Billie Jean
Bad
The Way You Make Me Feel
Man In The Mirror

HUH?

From Sign O' The Times?

bboy87 said:

Here are some performances from the recently leaked Brisbane concert:

Wanna Be Startin Somethin
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OvmVOoBtdNA

Rock With You
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GX5oOw2j6iY

This Place Hotel
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GoeV0Ke3NCk

Off The Wall
http://youtube.com/watch?v=06Cx6B7OHYk

Human Nature
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BjywI7nc_PQ

Lovely One
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5XLRpQdeqmM

papaaisaway said:

yep
His band would play it during the interludes while Michael got ready for the second half of the show
[Edited 8/2/07 8:14am]

bboy87 said:

Thats Better!

With the Dangerous Tour (last year) and the Bad tour being released, amyeb we'll see othe Tpurs like Victory, Triumph, Destiny and Goin Places.

Maybe an official release of their Variety Show.

SoulAlive said:

only the first leg of the tour, the 2nd leg had more...i think he did that because it was his first solo tour

funkpill said:

he does those on every tour, he can't forget where he started

WOWOW ... im very excited about this... but i seriously hope the performance selection are incorrect... because I love
Another Part of me and Smooth Criminal... and I want those to be in the DVD

mimi07 said:

Not a question of forgetting where he started from.

It just didn't fit in the list.

In fact, the whole list needed a make over

My question is.....




How in the world did this dude go to these areas like Korea, Czech Republic, Thailand, Singapore, Israel, Chile, and SELL OUT STADIUMS?!

bboy87 said:

Seriously?

bboy87 said:

Because he's Michael Jackson. There are few others who can do that.

emilio319 said:

The Live in Budapest: Dangerous Tour dvd, is crap and it's not the actual Budapest concert. I tapped the original transmission of it on BBC1 in November 1992, as it was shown in Europe first.

The DVD version of the concert was shown on HBO in December 1992, and that version is different from the original transmission because it's been re-edited with shots put in from various European concerts. So some performances of Michael singing Wanna Be Startin Somethin, She's Out of My Life and Man In The Mirror etc are filled with edited from various concerts. This gives the DVD version of the concert a very contrived look and feel.

So my advice is don't by the Live in Budapest: Dangerous Tour dvd. I own the DVD version because it came as part of the Michael Jackson: Ultimate Collection box set.

MattyJam said:

I've had this 1987 Japan Bad concert on video since 1989. It's quite a good concert, but like the Dangerous Tour dvd it's not a good representation of the Bad Tour. And both of them don't show how amazing Michael Jackson is live.

What fans want is the 1988 European or USA leg of the Bad Tour where Michael sang a lot of songs from the Bad album, and sang and danced 100% live better than any artist past and presnt.

bboy87 said:

Just like the British had with the Beatles, he was America's greatest export and so many things came together for him in the world of music (Thriller was already a classic and the anticipation for BAD) and the fact that in some places, they were being introduced to American pop music for the first time (especially if they were under former dictatorships that prevented American/western music/ideas).