Hand Album

Novocaine is great! Last Cigarette is not so good, but "You always lose the girl in a Brian Wilson world" is a ****ing great line.

My fave post 2000 album and arguably number 2 or 3 overall. There is no song on it I can't listen to. Complicated is as close as it gets but as dumb as it is, I just switch off the brain and enjoy it.

The only song I skip sometimes is LMS. Not because I don't think it's good but because I love the original version and think they sorta ruined it.

Only unbearable for me is Unbreakable which makes me want to puke but it's a bonus track so doesn't count. Don't get the love for Dirty Little Secret either to be honest. Decent but not great in my view.

Best track on HAND for me

Haha fair enough.

It never ceases to amaze me that literally every track they record seems to get some love on this board. It's all about opinions though.

The only song I hate on the album is Complicated. Even a song like Wildflower, which I want to dislike, I actually enjoy quite a bit. Bells Of Freedom eventually grew tiresome, but I remember really liking it originally. Also, while Welcome To Wherever You Are has taken a lot of flak from people, I love it. I wish they had released it as a single stateside following Who Says as I thought it had a real chance to gain some traction. I would have swapped Complicated out for Dirty Little Secret, but other than that, no changes.

The title track is one of my all-time favorite Bon Jovi songs, if not #1. I also really enjoy the album as a whole, especially I Wanna Be Loved, Welcome to Wherever You Are, Who Says, LMS, Bells of Freedom (absolutely love it), and Novocaine. The rest of the songs are pretty good too, Wildflower and I Am are probably my least favorites of the bunch. And of course, the HAND logo is my favorite.

I love the album, only song I end up skipping is Welcome to Wherever You Are, for some reason I can't get into that song. My fav 5 songs from the album:

Last Man Standing, I Am, Story Of My Life, Novocaine, Complicated

I used to hate Complicated but these days I'm listening it all the time, it's a fun song.

'Unbreakable' is awful, really embarrassing. It's one track I thought would get more hate than it does.

HAND, I Want To Be Loved, Last Man Standing, Novocaine, Story Of My Life, Dirty Little Secret- half way to a truly fantastic album.

WSYCGH, Last Cigarette, I Am, Complicated- solid enough without being awesome.

Bells Of Freedom, Wildflower- two songs I really like, but I'm not sure of their placement together in middle if the album, and maybe Wildflower isn't suited to the album at all.

Welcome To Wherever You Are- boring, cheesy nonsense that really doesn't fit the album at all.

Its with the times though, no one is selling as many records as they once did. The band are still selling records, yes not by the bucket load, but Lost highway sold about 4.5m, circle sold 3m, WAN will sell about 1.5m this year if that, just a shame