In what order did you buy/get your Bon Jovi albums?

Found this cool thread on Aerosmith's site and thinks it's a funny topic to fill out because it tells a lot on how you became a fan, when and how you were introduced to their music

For me it has been:

KTF
Slippery
New Jersey
Bon Jovi
7800 Fahrenheit

... after that it were all the albums in the order they came out.

Cheers,
Elvistico

Have we done this before? I feel like we have. In any case:

1. Slippery When Wet / One Wind Night Live: 1985-2001 (Both on the same day in August 2001)
2. Crush / Bon Jovi (Both on the same day in April of 2002)
3. Cross Road / Bounce (Both on the day Bounce was released in October of 2002)
4. New Jersey (December 02)
5. Keep The Faith (January 03)
6. These Days (August 03)
7. 7800* Fahrenheit (October 03)
8. This Left Feels Right (November 03-Day of Release)
9. Stranger In This Town (January 04)
10. 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong (November 04-Week of Release)
11. Have A Nice Day (September 05-Day of Release)
12. Lost Highway (June 07-Day of Release)
13. Destination Anywhere (July 07)
14. Young Guns 2 Soundtrack (August 07)
15. Undiscovered Soul (April 09)
16. The Circle (November 09-Day of Release)

Some of the stuff (namely TD and the Solo records I had burned copies of before I got them proper)

I got New Jersey and SWW on the same day back in 1988.
A few weeks later I got Bon Jovi and 7800 on the same day.
After that, I got them as they were released.

We have indeed - http://drycounty.com/jovitalk/showthread.php?t=9698 - but the last entry was made way back in 2008!

Here's what I posted on May 31, 2008:

My eBay score is now 434. Scary. Very scary.

Mine was a strange order.... I didnt even know much about the band's previous albums until I was a fan for a few years...

1. Cross Road [2004]
2. Have a Nice Day [2005]
3. Lost Highway [2007]

Then between August and September of 2007 I bought the rest of the studio albums (that were released at the time). I remember the day I bought them all, except Slippery and New Jersey for some reason. I remember listening to These Days and thinking it wasnt as good as the other I heard . I must admit, These Days was the album that took me longest to get into. The order was something like...

4/5. Bon Jovi/7800* Fahrenheit [2007]
6. Bounce [2007]
7. New Jersey [2007]
8. Slippery When Wet [2007]
9. These Days [2007]
10. Crush [2007]
11. Keep the Faith [2007]

Keep the Faith was last because I had to order it in. Keep the Faith was also the album I loved quickest. The first time I listened to it I loved nearly all the songs straight away.

After seeing them in concert in January 2008, I went and bought

12. One Wild Night [2008]
13. This Left Feels Right [2008]
14. 100,000,000 Fans [2008]

Although I didnt actually buy TLFR or the Box Set. TLFR was given to me by a friend who bought it, thinking it was their greatest hits ... And the Box Set I got for my birthday by my sister.

15. Stranger In This Town [2009]
16. The Circle [2009]
17. Undiscovered Soul [2010]
18. Young Guns II Soundtrack [2010]

Still am yet to get Destination Anywhere.

Its been a great ride!

Woah, I had you down as being a fan from the start.

So, Lost Highway was the album that reeled you in?

My brothers used to buy all the albums in the 90's so I didn't have to buy any. My first purchase was Crush in 2000, then each album as they came.

Cross Road - Late 04, my parents had a copy and I heard it and decided to buy my own
HAND - Week of release
Crush - October 05
KTF - November 05
Bounce - July 06
These Days - April 07
The Circle - January 2010

I never really realized the gap between 07 and now.

I know, I'm in the right age group to have been a fan from the start. I was very grown-up and very buttoned-down in those days, though. My how things change. The first money I ever spent on Bon Jovi was when I bought that copy of LH, but it was really Who Says with Jennifer that started it all. I was listening to country at that point, and since Jennifer is a Georgia girl, that song got a LOT of play here. I didn't do anything drastic like go out and buy HAND, but I just started noticing when Jovi was on TV, etc.

My first Jovi show was night 3 of the Prudential run on October 28, 2007. I told my friends and co-workers that it was my "mid-life crisis" trip! LOL Obviously that mid-life crisis is still going strong.

Let's hear it for mid-life crisis Terri

I'll just copy and paste my response from that long ago thread (there sure are a lot of ghosts in that thread)

I started with New Jersey which I stole from my son after I heard it blasting out of his room. I have long since bought my own (multiple) copies.

I went back for Slippery right away after listening to New Jersey and then I got the rest in chronological order. Sometime after I bought Slippery I went back and bought Bon Jovi and 7800 but I don't remember exactly when - not too long after.

I haven't always bought singles in order though. To this day I will find something or other on e-bay that I never bought and I'll purchase it used.