I have some mixed feelings about this era of the band. Crush was the first album that I awaited the release of all excited and everything, from 96 onward is when I started getting into the band and buying the back catalog. I'll always have a connection to crush because of that, but I don't know, I guess I was just expecting too much out of that album. When I went back to listen to it a few years later I found it fresh and enjoyable. Bounce was also a mixed bag, I loved some songs, wasn't much into others and while enjoyable, if I never listen to Everyday, Missunderstood, Two story town, Say it isn't so, love me back to life, and so one, I don't think I would miss them.

Now with HAND, some people hate this album, I love it! I love the energy of it, I love the tour where they sometimes played 8 songs of it in one night, the cover, the promo shows everything, it will always be one of Jovi's most underrated albums to me. What's really curious about this era is how they hardly let the public breath through releases. Every year that didn't have an album of brand new material, had to have a live album, a TLFR or boxed set. I mean, I'm not really complaining but they did go a bit overkill on these years....