{"id":41065,"date":"2008-08-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/jermaine-jackson\/"},"modified":"2008-08-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T00:00:00","slug":"jermaine-jackson","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/jermaine-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"Jermaine Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man, do I love this album. I couldn\u2019t have been more thrilled when they re-released it on CD last year. Albums this good simply don\u2019t deserve to be out of print indefinitely.\u00a0 Second only to Madonna\u2019s Like A Virgin<\/i>, this is the very best that 1984 had to offer. It was certainly a fortunate time for the Jackson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city><\/st1:personname> family, as there were no less than six Jackson<\/st1:personname>-related projects released to the market virtually simultaneously. Before you knew it, the three Jackson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city><\/st1:personname> girls were all competing for chart recognition and the six Jackson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city><\/st1:personname> brothers had come together for the Victory <\/i>album and a massive world tour. Jermaine was the busiest Jackson<\/st1:personname> of all, since he not only contributed to Victory<\/i>, but he also put out this amazing solo album and teamed up with artists like Whitney Houston, Pia Zadora, and Rockwell for their albums. He even delved into film soundtrack work, creating music for box office bombs like Voyage Of The Rock Aliens <\/i>and Perfect <\/i>starring John Travolta.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Despite so much activity early on, Jermaine\u2019s self-titled ninth album remains his greatest triumph. He must have produced the album himself, since there is no producer credit listed. Though duets such as \u201cSomebody\u2019s Watching Me\u201d and \u201cWhen The Rain Begins To Fall\u201d are conspicuously absent, his collaboration with Whitney Houston (\u201cTake Good Care Of My Heart\u201d) is here, as it is on her breakthrough debut album. Somewhat surprisingly, the biggest hit on Jermaine <\/i>Jackson<\/i><\/st1:personname> <\/i>was \u201cDo What You Do,\u201d though I have always considered it to be the weakest song on the album. I may have found it to be a poor choice for a single, but it did register fairly high on the charts. That\u2019s how much I knew!<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Since this disc was released during the aerobics craze of the early \u201880s, it was bound to have at least one high-speed track to work out to. The frenetic \u201cSome Things Are Private\u201d fits the bill perfectly and is made even better by the fact that it is sandwiched between two mediocre ballads. Back when I was a kid, I skipped right over drippy songs like \u201cOh Mother,\u201d preferring to play the other upbeat tunes instead. The first song \u201cDynamite\u201d is the best of the bunch and is followed in quick succession by other standouts like the terrific dance track \u201cSweetest Sweetest\u201d and his memorable duet with brother Michael, \u201cTell Me I\u2019m Not Dreaming.\u201d Rounding out the classic first half is the Voyage Of The Rock Aliens <\/i>cut \u201cEscape From The Planet Of The Ant Men.\u201d This number is pure fun that all kids are sure to love, though it would help to actually see the movie to put the words into some context.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Now that I\u2019m an adult, I\u2019ve even grown to love the ballads. It\u2019s a little sad that Michael Jackson<\/st1:personname>\u2019s Thriller <\/i>swallowed up most every other album in its path, because Jermaine <\/i>Jackson<\/i><\/st1:personname> <\/i>is just as impressive and deserved success in equal measure. Actually, Jermaine\u2019s voice has more range than Michael\u2019s does, but without a move like the Moonwalk, there was nothing Jermaine could do to prevent HIStory<\/i> from being written.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":29485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8263],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-41065","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-jermaine-jackson","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41065"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}