Hey Krisi, you could hear the BJ concert from your window?????????????? AMAZING!!!! Well, I always saw the videos of Always, In These Arms, Bed Of Roses and Blaze Of Glory and TV around 1993, 1994 and I liked the music. Then in 1995 I always saw Hey God and Love Song on TV. One day I was at a friend's who actually isn't a BJ fan. He had borrowed Crossroad from another friend. He said Always, Bad Name and Bed Of Roses were cool songs, the other ones weren't that great. I think he didn't even give them a try
unfortunately, neither did i...i recorded these 3 songs on tape and went home. I listened to them 24/7 until i started disliking Bed Of Roses (now it's one of my faves again). Someday, I was at a store with my mom, I bought These Days because I liked Hey God and TAALS (as mentioned above). I only listened to these songs, gave all other songs a try of maybe 5 seconds each and thought: Not that great. Later that year, I think at Chritmas, I got Crossroad. I think having it made me more feeling "cool" than happy to have such a great cd. I hated Prayer then because I only listened to the bginning and thought: Sounds like a monkey....lol....One day, I was bored, I and decided to listen to all songs on TD and Crossroad. And suddenly I was hooked up. From that moment I loved the band. But I didn't care for the other albums, I had my Best Of and the latest record. Should be enough I thought. In 1997 I bought Jon's solo album DA and that was all for the next 3 years. Someday in that 3 years I bought the Live From London video...Then, with the release of Crush I got back into Bon Jovi (by that time I was huge Nirvana, Bryan Adams and especially Oasis fan and didn't listen to BJ that much anymore). Crush made BJ being my favourite band again and to get some "new" songs (BJ songs I didn't know then) I bought all the other albums plus Blaze Of Glory. Last year I bought Stranger In This Town and of course OWN live. That's my story, boring, isn't it?
ktf, Johannes