Anyone ever heard "Thunder Highway"? A song Jon recorded for Footloose in 1983.

https://backstage.bonjovi.com/artifa...o-march-5-1983
https://backstage.bonjovi.com/artifa...-with-bon-jovi

In this interview he tells he was going to have a role in the movie Footlose and that he recorded a song called Thunder Road. Probably nobody heard it and I think he didnt appear at all in the movie. But I was just wondering what happened with it. And why didnt they include it on the deluxe version of "Bon Jovi"? Rare stuff like this would have been perfect bonustrack material.

iBon Jovi are the worst band for releasing unheard stuff on re-releases - look how great NJ 30 year box set was - weve had nothing like that for any other re-release / anniversary editions.

Jon really needs to look at the likes of Whitesnake on to give fans what they want.

We dont want live verions of the same songs, extra 20 seconds play out at the expense of unreleased songs.

imo - when you re-release or celebrate an anniversary you release EVERYTHING that was recorded for that album - whether its a good or bad demo, 30 second clip of them trying something, clips of working on riffs/lyrics and the booklet should be of photos of lyrics/tabs.

So for me...
Disc 1 - full album
Disc 2 - demos , outakes, ideas etc
Disc 3 - full live show from that tour
booklet - full of photos from recording sessions, lyric sheets and the tour.

Id buy that in a heartbeat. Dieheards want this. Boxsets are only bought by die hards as a casual isnt going in to a shop to spend £75 on a band they like 1 song from.

A favourite band of mine, The Wildhearts - do this thing where they float an idea - everyone signs up and buys it - then they make as many as ordered so no one wastes time and money,
Ironically, their album in 1995, PHUQ, was also meant to be a double album but label changed its mind. So a few years ago they put the feelers out for who was interested in a re-release of the double album as it was intended to be - in a triple vinyl velvet boxset with a big book where all the band members write about each song of what they think of it, what it was like recording it, how they got the sound, stories of what was going on in the band at time as by time original came out someone had left and all ideas for the artwork etc - the cost was £100. I ordered one immediately - its fantastic.

re Jovis re-release SWW and Debut Im not buying the album again with live songs weve heard and 6 mixes of the same song.


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in their defense, with the first box set, the new jersey deluxe release; various other bonus tracks/b-sides, no other band in the history of music has released as many extra studio tracks as Bon Jovi. There's also another box set of unreleased music if the record company and Jon can come to an agreement on how to release it.

If I had to chose between a plethora of never before heard songs or a competent reissue of an album with demos and outtakes of already existing songs, I'll take the former.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracks...ingsteen_album)

1998

That...doesn't feel right? I mean it might be, but has that been said anywhere?

I'm not aware of any other band with more, regardless it's a lot of extra studio songs with more on the horizon. I think Bon Jovi is currently at over 100 extra studio songs.

Borderline
Living In Sin (1 track)
New Jersey deluxe (7 tracks)
Keep The Faith (2 bonus tracks)
Keep The Faith single (1 track)
Cross Road (2 tracks)
Always (1 track)
These Days (2 bonus tracks)
These Days bonus disc (2 tracks)
This Ain't A Love Song (4 tracks)
Crush (2 bonus tracks)
It's My Life (4 tracks)
Say It Isn't So (4 tracks)
Bounce (2 bonus tracks)
Everyday (6 tracks)
box set (40 tracks)
Have A Nice Day (3 bonus tracks)
Lost Highway (3 bonus tracks)
Greatest Hits (4 tracks)
What About Now (2 bonus tracks)
Burning Bridges (1 bonus track)
This House Is Not For Sale (9 tracks)
2020 (2 tracks)
Forever (1 track)

Your answer is above! Springsteen not only has the "Tracks" box set, which contained 66 unreleased tracks, the "18 Tracks" album added 3 more.

The Promise double CD contained 22 unreleased tracks from the Darkness On The Edge Of Town sessions.

The River expanded edition (titled The Ties That Bind) had a disc of 22 unreleased songs from The River session.

The High Hopes album also featured several outtakes from previous albums.

There's the odd track that gets repeated, but you are looking at over 100 songs there already, and there are probably more...(B-Sides, Bonus Tracks, etc)

Oh wait you included greatest hits bonus tracks on your list too. So there was a whole 12 track CD of unreleased material as a Bonus Disc on The Essential Bruce Springsteen. And his Greatest Hits album featured 4 new songs (5 if you count Streets of Philadelphia which hadn't appeared on an album).

So yeah, Bruce wins by far...

There's also German band Die Ärzte (hello Dominik) who have released 60 unused tracks in 2019, 37 b-sides in the 90s, a full record's worth of non album tracks only sold at live shows, their guitar player released several of his home demos too...

Bon Jovi have a lot, but "more than any other band ever" is just nonsense. Especially if we're just counting stuff like demos, alternate takes or international bonus tracks

cool, I'm not a Springsteen fan but that's impressive for sure.