★★★★★
With these two releases, teen pop idols the Jackson 5 firmly established themselves as the more grown-up Jacksons, handling all writing, performing and producing duties on the third and fourth albums they released after leaving Motown. The albums are an enticing mix of high-energy dance tracks and smooth, soulful crooning...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Something of tremendous significance happened after ' Destiny album was released in December 1978: resumed his solo career and issued his first album of adulthood, . After this point, the balance of power shifted within the Jacksons, and subsequently, they would only last three further albums as a recording outfit...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
This is an excellent primer for The Jacksons' catalogue, but you won't find any stuff from their 14 Motown albums. (They left Motown in 1976 without Jermaine Jackson - where this album picks up - and recorded six more albums through 1984, plus 1989's dismal 2300 Jackson Street with sister Janet...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Their second collaboration with producers Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff was a flop, but this buoyant, slightly-too-frantic disco-funk record is marred only by a few sticky ballads. The Jacksons sound surer on songs about girls than on ones about pacifism and travel, though.
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Post-Destiny, they pounded their chests: Check the title, or the cry of "Can you feel it?!" at the start. It's a monster dance record, with velvety orchestrations and ravishing harmonies.
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
In 1976, when the Jackson 5 started shaving, they renamed themselves the Jacksons and began recording with Philly Soul geniuses Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff. With the gems "Enjoy Yourself" and "Goin' Places," the old Motown spark mellowed, yielding dance music fizzier than the otherwise ubiquitous disco...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
They produced this platinum breakthrough, and for the first time the grooves sounded like they belonged to the family. Michael took another leap, developing his superspeed melisma and stratospheric yelps.
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
After Off the Wall, Michael wasn't just the Jacksons' lead singer, he was their raison d'être. This live album encompasses his early solo hits, a corny Jackson 5 medley (with accompanying skit) and some decent harmonizing.
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
They split from Motown, cut the 5 from their name, replaced brother Jermaine with brother Randy and started hosting a TV variety show. Sadly, Gamble and Huff's lush mirror-ball productions smoothed off the group's few edges.
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
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