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Originally Posted by Jeeper
Crush was a huge disappointment for me at the time. I was visiting my then gf's family and we had a 2hr car drive home. As we were both Bon Jovi fans, we bought the album the day it was released and decided to wait until our car journey home to listen to it.
I clearly remember feeling deflated. It just wasn't the BJ I remembered. I honestly felt it was a boring album full of filler. I loved It's My Life, and liked Just Older and One Wild Night. The rest I didn't care for.
It took a while to adjust to it. I now like the album a lot more. I've personally found that with this era of the band, the albums sound better to me if I listen to them, then distance myself from them, then listen to them again.
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This sums it up for me perfectly... 'Deflated' is a great way to describe it too .
Back then, all you could do is compare it to the past but now we could look back on it and compare it to today so yes, opinions have shifted... The same with the tour... I do think "Save The World" is a hidden gem once you get past the opening line (never went to college, don't have a degree). The songs for me takes off with, "it comes down to this"
It's still not my go to album of choice by any stretch but for me, it's a time piece in my life... It was Bon Jovi's reentry into America, they became legendary, return to stadiums, and it was also a change for me personally. First career job, which came with new friends, etc... 16 years ago feels like yesterday... And to think that the time between These Days and Crush felt like forever... Scary!!!!