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The large Songs of the 20-year old career.

The basis new bon of the Jovi of album is acoustically put on, those tendency however electrified! On "This Left Feels right", so the title of the new work, those volume with superstar status just as dramatic as brilliant change of way made. Together with the producer Pat Leonard have bon Jovi & CO. it in most convincing way achieved to release 12 of their classical authors from all ballast to and develop it again - so that from it somewhat new, although familiar and at the same time absolutely unexpected could develop. "This Left Feels right" developed following its sold off US route in intensive 23 days.

On the certainly most unusual, but outstanding succeeded album in the career of bon Jovi everything that was old, is again new. Well-known stadium Hymnen and large Balladen became again to create in new, strong and surprising interpretations. The album presents an extensive pallet of ambitionierter musical connections.

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Source: Polydor Iceland

In German: http://www.hit1-reviews.de/bonjovi/

In German: http://www.laut.de/lautstark/cd-revi...t_feels_right/

Poor translation:

Even who does not have a bon Jovi plates in the cabinet, the majority of the Songs of "This Left Feels right" becomes. Because the twenty-year-old volume history of Jon bon Jovi and colleague might have touched meanwhile everyone acoustically. Released from the Mainstream Rockkorsett, bon Jovi present now their largest hits on acoustic basis and with revised arrangements - to including two new TRACKS.
Already the Opener gives the musical reorientation. "DEAD Or Alive" receives the listener with Sample Beat and punctual skirt attack and functions with his Staccato Streichersamples according to the rem ix-principle. "Livin ' on A Prayer" will Perl-end to the Ballade - the perfect TRACKS for kuschelige chimney fire evenings. Jon becomes here stimmlich by Olivia D'Abo, which accompanies woman of the album producer Pat Leonard.


"It's My Life" turns out for the orchestralen "Bed OF Roses" with piano company and completely without Drums to the augennaessenden Hymne, similarly. "You Give Love A bath name" rekuriert against it with Slideguitar on Blues. At all the affinity for usual American people music might have been one of the success guarantors bon Jovis. "load one standing" and "Thief OF Hearts" are Songs after the typical bon Jovi Strickmuster.

Anno the 1992 with bon Jovi untypischen impact things rhythms brought in "Keep The Faith" convince as Ballade less. "This Left Feels right" presents itself nevertheless as welcome alternation for all those, Jovi plates of many presenting are already completely measured whose bon: old hits in the new garb, predominantly as Balladen and acoustic versions in modern sound regenerated.

In the new arrangement compositions of the quartet from new jersey reveal besides its campfire romance. Similarly as Aerosmith or Guns N'Roses at their best times embody bon Jovi the Mainstream skirt, which promises most normal the Worker the liberty after end of workday. Bandleader John bon Jovi is as it were the Marlboroman of the Balladenrocks.

BON JOVI
THIS LEFT FEELS RIGHT
Label:
MERCURY
Rating: *** Submitted: 09/11/2003
Reviewer: Alan Sargeant
www: www.mercuryrecords.co.uk/


‘Samey’. It’s not in the dictionary. It’s not in your thesaurus, and it’s similarly unlikely to be in your ROM based Office lexicon. So what does it mean? Unexciting? Not exactly. Repetitive? Perhaps. Boring? The jury’s out…

But ‘samey’ this album is.

Bon Jovi love playing acoustically. Anyone who has seen their best performances in the last 10 years will tell you that, and for a handful of songs in the midst of a fist to the ceiling high wattage racket, it works generously. To stretch it across 14 tracks though, is asking a lot of anyone, regardless of their loyalty. But to their credit, Bon Jovi just about manage to charm.

Rather than bang out a facsimile selection of ‘hits’ that you or may not have in your collection several times already (on the ‘Crossroads’ Best Of…of 1994 for example)
Long Jon and his bandy brethren serve up an alternative take on all their most popular songs to date. And for alternative, don’t just read ‘acoustic’ read ‘bluesy’, read ‘jazzy’, read ‘slowy’. Okay, so that’s another word that doesn’t exist, but you get my point.

Opening track, ‘Wanted Dead Or Alive’ begins familiarly enough but wait for it, there’s a ‘twist’. Instead of the steady beat of kick and a snare you have some trippy, loop style thing going on, some orchestra stabs and some fashionably distorted and compressed vocals. You might question the legitimacy of the alteration, but it works. It’s totally unnecessary, but it works.

Although diehard fans may disagree, the reworking of ‘Living On A Prayer’ works significantly better than the original. It’s tender, more compassionate and perhaps closer to the original intent. Olivia D’Abo may sound like she’s singing with a mouthful of tissues, but she lends a husky and desperate weight to the central premise of the song: we’re down on our luck, but we’ll make it. Let’s face it, the hellfire thumping approach of the original and all the finely coiffured mullets that characterized the release were hardly a sympathetic reading of the actual events in the song now, were they?

‘Bad Medicine’ initially seems faintly amusing with it’s gothic and macabre vocal theatricising any former semblance of sincerity right out of the penthouse window, but strangely enough, the band have performed a significant feat: they've successfully rescued their rather safe and inoffensive brand of cock-rock with some neat post-modernising.

The trouble is, it’s too samey. ‘It's My Life’ is a haunting ballad, so too is ‘Keep The Faith’. This would be fine but for the fact that Bon Jovi have already got their staple diet of heart-wrenching ballad in plentiful supply: ‘Bed Of Roses’, ‘I’ll Be There For You’, ‘Always’ – they’re all here. Far better they had the band twisted these into hardcore acid house numbers than to have stuck with their standard formula, if only to redress the balance, at least.

Distinctly more palatable for the discerning among us, perhaps sacrilegious for those less so. But while he can boast such a lovely head of hair, our Jon can surely not dissapoint.





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BON JOVI
ALL ABOUT LOVIN YOU
Label:
ISLAND
Rating: ** Submitted: 13/05/2003
Reviewer: Alan Sargeant
www: http://www.bonjovi.com


The press spiel reads something along the lines of 'All About Loving You' putting priorities back where they belong, and on this evidence those priorities must be placed somewhere between spending more with your hair stylist and more time washing your socks. Unfortunately for Joe Public, making decent records seems to come much further down the list.

It now seems a long, long time since the band first charted in 1984 and started racking up a really rather remarkable five number One albums in the UK alone. It seems longer still when one is forced to sit through this kind of turgid AOR ear-wreckage. Don't get me wrong, I actually like a bit of smaltz. Nilsson's 'Without You'? An undisputed classic. Aerosmith's 'I Don't Want To Miss A Thing'- a rarefied pillow tickler and then some. So what's wrong with this? Nothing and everything. It's neither attractive nor offensive in equal measures. It's a Bon Jovi love-song. What more can I say? Bar the inspired but largely under priveleged oboe line, it's simply not very remarkable.

For all those die hard Bovi fans, however, you might be interested to know the video to this song was directed by Marc Klasfeld, the same director who did "Misunderstood" and stars the two actors who played "Jack & Jill" in the "Misunderstood".

Nothing against these daddies, it just doesn't work for me this time.


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From the Boston Herald: http://theedge.bostonherald.com/disc...?articleid=180

3 and 1/2 out of 4 stars

Bon Jovi
This Left Feels Right

( Island )


Review by Linda Laban


Friday, November 14, 2003

There are those who thought Bon Jovi's power rockers and ballads were histrionic enough already.

Not so the New Jersey boys. ``This Left Feels Right,'' a supposed acoustic album, turns their best-known songs into symphonic meisterwerks (``It's My Life''), new age-y folk sagas (``Lay Your Hands on Me''), swinging jazz-blues (``You Give Love a Bad Name''), and dance-r & b slow jams (``Livin' on a Prayer,'' a sultry duet with actress Olivia d'Abo).

Ultimately, ``This Left'' will feel right to confirmed fans who don't mind hearing their favorite anthems rethought in a smooth way that all but nixes the rock side of things.

yeah! i don't understand a f'cking word!
maybe if i translate again word by word
i will understand the german text that
comes out in the end...

Thanks for posting Becky

I wonder what version did the German press get, if they've got these two songs on it... The reviewer probably didn't listen to the album at all.

Ice

Aloha !

It's a bit weird that when I clicked on the link where that review was placed and they showed a tracklist that did not include those two songs. I think you're right they did not listen to it at all.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan