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Jackson 5
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.1128
Jackson 5 Album Rankings
1
The first single-disc Jackson 5 collection to take full advantage of the compact-disc medium,The Ultimate Collectionis certainly the ultimate for any but the most hardcore fans.
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2
Nineteen years after the release ofAnthology, Motown finally tops that 33-track, three-LP compilation with this 82-track, four-and-a-half-hour, four-CD/cassette box set.
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3
After three consecutive Top Five Pop albums in 1970 alone, it was somewhat of a no-brainer that Motown would want to include a holiday long-player to that list.
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4
The Jackson Five stand in the tradition of super young rock singers that goes back to Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers and, more recently. Little Stevie Wonder.
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5
Less than three months following the release ofABCcame the Jackson 5's aptly titled follow-up,Third Album. This two-fer CD also includes their subsequent long-player,Maybe Tomorrow.
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6
Ain't no Jive with the Jackson 5... The early part of the '70s was a convoluted mess of divergent musical genres and styles, all battling each other for record sales and radio airplay.
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7
This CD contains their debut album,Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5and the follow-up disc,ABC. In terms of sheer performance talent, the Jackson 5 are unquestionably among the best.
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8
AlthoughDancing Machinecontained a few more choice pre-disco leanings, such as "She's a Rhythm Child" and "Life of the Party," the emphasis began to shift to album (read: longer) tracks rather than si
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9
This single disc contains the CD debut ofGoin' Back to Indiana-- the Jackson 5's hour-long television variety special -- as well as their subsequent studio album,Lookin' Through the Windows.
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10
This double-play CD contains theSkywriterandGet It Togetheralbums as well as a trio of recordings made, but not issued, circa the Jackson 5's intermediate and increasingly independent years at Motown.
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11
Not even six months after the Jackson 5 -- Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon, Michael, and Tito -- issued their debut long-player, Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5 (1969), the vocal quintet returned with ABC
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13
If someone gave an award for creative repackaging that skirts fraud, Motown would win hands down. These are classics from the standpoint that they're great.
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16
It sounds like Steeltown cut these 14 unpolished, pre-Motown Jackson 5 tracks in a garage, but that's the charm of this CD.
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17
After three consecutive Top Five Pop albums in 1970 alone, it was somewhat of a no-brainer that Motown would want to include a holiday long-player to that list.
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23
During the fall of 1970, pop music lovers remained in the grip of Jackson 5 fever. The quintet's Third Album (1970) continued the trend with another huge crossover smash.
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25
Maybe Tomorrow (1971) was the Jackson Five's fourth long-player in less than two years, actually their fifth if you count the excellent holiday offering Jackson 5 Christmas Album (1970).
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27
Motown's bantamweight superstars have cranked out another one, and my guess is, the tumult having settled, a certain polarity greetsSkywriterwithin the record-buying public.
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28
Once The Jacksons left Motown, it was a certainty that the company would churn out anthologies featuring them forever. That's been the case, although there's nothing wrong with any of these songs.
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32
Too often, the Jackson 5 are written off as simply being the group that gave Michael Jackson his start.
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