I was watching some youtube videos from the 93-96 period and I simply noticed how energetic the band was.

Then I thought a little about those album elimination rounds and certain songs go out way too early and quite a lot of people are certainly unsatissfied with that(I noticed that this happens with the heavier songs mainly. Heavy songs go out quite early although there is a significant amount of people complaining how songs like Homebound Train Fear can be eliminated so quickly).

Also I thought of Bon Jovi not bringing out a consistent album since These Days. I mean some sound more like an entity than others but Crush, Bounce and Hand sound more like a collection of songs designed to please everyone, from the headbanger to the housewife, from the bob dylan fan to the pink fan, from the hair metaller to the adult rock fan. they simply throw in everything on the expense of consistency.

On the firts 2 records there were certainly some more commercial songs like She Dont Know Me or Silent Night but those were still in a minority as the records were still solid hard rock. then Slippery and New Jersey had that more commercial feel, more of the POP but the albums, and especially New Jersey, were quite consistent in style and very few songs sound like they do not belong there.

Keep The Faith is clearly divided into 2 halves. The more serious songs including KTF, Believe, Dry County , Fear and the more fun 80s songs like Blame it.., Sleep When Im Dead or Little Bit Of Soul. On a different dimension, they did really HEAVY riffing and extremly fast solo-ing but also wrote some of the cheesiest ballads ever. That album tried maybe like no other to appeal to as many people as possible. the quality of some songs is just too high so it can not be a bad record. nevertheless, it is not a consistent album.

These Days again has all over this somber feel and it rarely tries to appeal to different target groups. Overall I would rate it as the most consistent Bon Jovi album ever.

Now the post 2000 era. The quality of the music has obviously decreased. But I think Bon Jovi try to make their records as accessible as possible to as many audiences as possible. We will keep on getting 1-2 hard rockers, 3-4 midtmepos, 3-4 ballads, 1 country song...etc in the future...so all records will sound like compilations rather than like unitary albums because of this.

Now I wrote a manifesto here and I have no idea if you people agree with me but its hard to imagine a consistent Bon Jovi album in the future.