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Originally Posted by Supersonic
In your opinion it didn't bomb. I think a single that made it into the Billboard 100 for only 1 week is a single that bombed. No matter if they made a video for it or if they didn't.
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No, not my opinion. The song was never in any position for consumers to have any real opportunity to make it a hit the way Slippery's 3 singles were. It also wouldn't chart well on the Billboard 100 because it
wasn't a single. You don't enter the Top 100 being a radio single only until you are charting on radio. A video DOES matter because it was all about MTV back then to have a hit, but you REALLY wouldn't know or grasp that concept because you were 4 freaking years old then. Kids simply just didn't call radio stations to get a song played...they called 1 800 Dial MTV and without fail..each and every Bon Jovi video would hit the number 1 spot on that show, which was the early version of TRL for those kiddies who have no clue. I guarandamntee you Edge would have done exactly the same as Slippery's 3 videos and everybody here who had their pubic hair in 1987 will tell you I know what I'm talking about. You...do not.
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Originally Posted by Bleeding Purist
Where did you get this info? What's the source?
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An old interview with Bon Jovi I once read. He was asked about Borderline during the Crush tour and his reply was that it was released in Japan to see how Slippery would do.
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When you can refer to interviews the band gave at the actual time of the song in question, then get back to us. Don't waste our time referring to Crush era interviews that were barely 4 years ago. "Old' would be 1986 at this point, not 2000. It may be correct in this case....but you have a habit of relying on these Crush era sources which have screwed the facts up over the years.
I fully encourage you to be meticulous in documenting the facts regarding Bon Jovi from 1995 (or whatever year it was that you became an active Bon Jovi consumer) on up. You were there then. You experienced it as it happened. People like you are needed to preserve it. When you do refer to details that have to do with more recent events..you DO get it right. But with all due respect, you really need to STFU about Bon Jovi in the 1980s and early 90s cuz you are warping the history as it actually happened. I KNOW it's not your intention and you are just as passionate as I am about them, maybe more so as a discography completist. But you need to take a back seat to others when it comes to eras you weren't there for and listen to them. I don't mean just me...but the others here like me who were there.
Jeezuz..I sound like one of my nemesises over at the KISS boards who goes on about those who weren't there in the 70's don't know the deal. You can catch up, you can gather up data..but you only have part of the picture and there is always details that just disappear overtime or get warped.
09-30-2004, 10:43 AM
