AKA shock horror as Ferret makes positive post about Bon Jovi
I don't listen to the band much nowadays, but tonight while having a discussion with David on msn, I decided to stick on These Days.
**** all this Circle shit, and that faux-country-top-40 crap Lost Highway, this is how I like to think of Bon Jovi. I know it's as cliched as We Got It Goin' On on here to say this, but These Days is just all round great, lyrically, musically, production-wise, in terms of peformances...
I'm a pretty crap guitarist (old Chuck Berry licks FTW) but I know what's good and all the different layers of guitar tracks on These Days are excellent, and display what a versatile player Richie is. I particularly enjoy all the slide work and that electric sitar he appears to employ on a couple of tracks. Jon sounds impassioned and technically impressive, so next time I hear his rubbish nasal and low vocals on The Circle I'll be very dissapointed
Here's hoping for a good selection of songs from it this tour. I mean, I don't know a single other band who almost completely ignores their best album.
I know you've all heard it all before and none of you give a flying **** what I think, but let's all just have a fapfest over how awesome These Days is.
(I'm probably gonna regret this stupid post come the morning.)