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Originally Posted by bonjovi90
I remember that reason for Why Aren't You Dead and I assume it might be from the KTF sessions. Maybe Jon wasn't fit enough when they recorded it and hence he screamed more on some parts. The Radio Saved My Life Tonight was obviously recorded when he had a pretty bad cold and it didn't stop him. So some vocal fluctuations need to be considered.
The only other explanation I'd have is that they revisited the song for a possible inclusion on Crossroad (since it reflected in some way Bad Name/Bad Medicine with its "tongue-in-cheek" lyrics), but decided against it in the end since they weren't heading in that direction anymore.
Miss 4th of July is THE grey summer song for me, so it definitely was written in 1991. I'm just questioning whether only the vocals were re-recorded later or whether the entire band reworked the song at some point. That again leads me to the question how the song may have originally sounded in 1992.
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Just gave Why Aren't You Dead another listen. At first, I thought that the vocals may also have been re-recorded, but there are parts where it definitely sounds like the Jon from 92-96 singing, more like 94/95, but that's hard to tell. So it's either the KTF demo (with probably some instrument tracks added/polished) or they indeed re-visited the song for Crossroad/Open All Night and it's a recording from that time frame.
Miss 4th Of July sounds way too polished for me, so I guess that's been re-recorded (at least for the most part). And the vocals sound like early 2000, though that could be misleading, since some parts also would've sounded the same in the late 80s, some in the 90s, but there are some parts that to me suggest 2001-2003. Guess we'll never know