Final Jones/Jackson summit
Bad was Michael Jackson’s third and final album produced with Quincy Jones and engineer Bruce Swedien, following Off the Wall and Thriller.
Challenge
Write Them Before You Scroll
The page turns the marketing hook into a concrete action: test the five-song chart fact first, then use the Fan Zone CTA while the answer is fresh. Click any slot to reveal or test your pick.
Five blank slots. No dates, no extra trivia required.
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Attraction / desire
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The Pressure Behind the Trivia
Quincy Jones and Bruce Swedien’s final Jackson collaboration matters because the five-for-five run came out of a sharper, higher-pressure follow-up to the biggest album in pop history.
All-night pressure
Swedien recalled the marathon sessions as intense enough that second engineers were being “carried out on stretchers.”
The anthem brief
“Man in the Mirror” was written by Siedah Garrett and Glen Ballard after Jones asked for an “international anthem.”
Pressing clue
US first-pressing vinyl copies carried Epic catalogue numbers E 40600 / OE 40600; European pressings carried EPC 450290 1.
Editorial note: the catalogue-backed session story behind Bad is not just chart dominance; it is the pressure of Jackson, Quincy Jones, and Bruce Swedien pushing a post-Thriller studio marathon hard enough for Swedien's own recollection of exhausted second engineers to become part of the album's lore. — Vinyl 80s catalogue note, grounded in the Bad entry's session-history summary
Answer reveal
The Five-Song Answer Board
Answer key for the challenge, kept deliberately lean: song names only, no unbriefed release-date or personnel claims.
01
I Just Can’t Stop Loving You
First slot in the five-for-five run.
02
Bad
The title track keeps the pop-noir challenge visible.
03
The Way You Make Me Feel
One of the five consecutive US #1 singles.
04
Man in the Mirror
The anthem from the Jones/Garrett/Ballard brief.
05
Dirty Diana
The fifth answer on the board.
Collector tip
After the Quiz, Check the Wax
If the five titles came quickly, go physical: compare the spine, labels, and catalogue number on your copy. The supplied collector clues are E 40600 / OE 40600 for US first-pressing vinyl and EPC 450290 1 for European pressings.
Social proof / context
Bad in the Catalogue
ArtistMichael Jackson
LabelEpic Records
ProducerQuincy Jones
Chart peak#1Billboard 200
Notable tracksBad · Smooth Criminal · Man in the Mirror
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