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Old 10-29-2024, 07:49 PM
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Im wondering if the label are hesitant to release a box set after the last few albums havent sold.
It might have to be via the website and download only.

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Why Whitesnake/Coverdale can release each year a box set of each album and Bon Jovi would have to do it via website or download?
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Why Whitesnake/Coverdale can release each year a box set of each album and Bon Jovi would have to do it via website or download?
Exactly. The notion that there in no money in physical product from the band and label is nonsense. Labels make a good chunk of their money from re-issues and box sets and archive releases these days. You don't have to sell millions to make money on these kind of products you just have to be clever about the formats and the marketing. Universal do this all the time for bands with a much smaller fan base!
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Old 10-29-2024, 08:31 PM
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I wasn’t basing it on whatever the general public things (I’ve no idea of, nor would I care, what the public consensus is anyway), I was basing my opinion I’ve heard of the album myself. I’ve heard “Legendary” and “Living Proof” and listened to clips of the other tracks on iTunes and that was it. What I heard was fine, but nothing really pulled me in.

Similar thing happened with 2020, I did listen to that album in full on YouTube once, and that was it.

If people like the new albums, that’s great. But personally, it’s just not for me.
Ah, fair enough! I really think there's some good stuff on there that go beyond the clips but if it's not for you, it's not for you.
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I think 2024 was the best Jovi year since 2011, by far. It gave some hope, some solid material, some excitement and a really good documentary.

Could it have been better? Absolutely. A bit bitter taste, cause Jon has not recovered still and album is a commercial flop? Sure. But still, it's a band with 40+ years of longevity, this may be best we get and I'm satisfied to be honest. I regained my love for the band, I became more forgiving and also got reminded why they were so f*cking great and legendary (pun not intended) to begin with.

Personally I never got the anniversary obligations to be met, I don't care for 20, 30, 40, 50 years of band. I am looking forward to the boxset, but don't mind if it takes some more time. Hopefully it gets done, they have so much material that would basically make people turn their heads if some of retro unreleased songs get published as singles. Paradoxically, some general audience would say "Jovi si back", but why not, just release some good stuff.

I think major lack of enthusiasm for future is Jon's voice. Band is not that old by today's rock standards. But voice problems are making me not optimistic for future unfortunately.
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Guess I'm in the minority but I've really enjoyed the anniversary stuff. I hadn't really followed the hype on the build up to it so maybe I didn't have as high expectations, but the first 6 months there seemed to be loads going on (I definitely wasn't expecting a full 12 months of party like some people seemed to ).

- New album was pretty great, I still listen to some of the songs regularly
- Love the archive! Pretty sure it was deliberately designed to make you work for the content a bit so that doesn't bother me. Also Jon had been going on about it for about 3 years so I had pretty much given up hope of it ever materialising so was a nice surprise when it did!
- I was lucky I got to go to one of the listening parties in London so at least got to see JBJ in real life even if not performing. Appreciate that if you didn't live in one of the few places they were doing these then might have felt a bit left out.
- The doc was great, sure it could have been more open and honest about stuff and/or more about the music, but 5 hours of Jovi material will always keep me happy! And generally seeing Jon all over the tv and various interviews etc was nice and made it feel like the band had come back to life a bit.

The only real let down for me was the lack of tour but I imagine noone is more gutted about that than Jon. I know from experience how traumatic even a minor surgery can be, so I can imagine going through all that and desperately hoping it helps then realising you're no better (and possibly worse) must be absolutely soul destroying.

So no, not a let down for me. Just a little bit heartbroken that it seems more likely to be the final chapter than it was intended to be.

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