This was the era that my Bon Jovi fandom started and reached its all time high. Bought Crush in 2000 and highly anticipated Bounce and very highly anticipated Have a Nice Day, then between 2006/07, my passion for this band dipped. This was I think around the time a country-fused album was in the works and "(You Want to) Make a Memory)" was about to be released. After that, my fandom was on quite a slippery slope to the point where now I'm not so excited about a new album anymore.

As for the albums/music themselves, after bringing myself up to speed with pretty much everything the band had done between '84-'98, I knew it was not on the same level as the earlier albums, and wondered why Jon's voice sounded off, and with each new album I anxiously waited for more moments of brilliance and that the band would deliver a good, solid hard rock album with great guitar solos and meaningful lyrics. That never happened.

But I do much prefer Crush, Bounce and Have a Nice Day over the albums that were to follow, with Bounce being the winner of the bunch for me. There were some poor single choices, some of which were tailored to be singles to begin with, which doesn't help, but I didn't mind some of the poppier tracks like "Misunderstood" from time to time.