Aloha !

5th option for me. Tell people you like the boxset and everybody loves you. Say you hate it because it doesn't contain that many great songs (something that even most boxset lovers agree with) and they hate you because you're supposed to love it for what it is.

Bon Jovi keeps disappointing me, album after album. Crush was not a great comeback. One Wild Night was not a great live album. Bounce was not the heavy guitar influenced album they promised us and TLFR does not contain the amazingly reworked songs. Further on;

Why didn't they release a good concert from the Crush tour instead of the Zurich one where the weather sucked, and the band wasn't in top form? Why didn't they release the full concert?
Where's the DVD from Giants 2001?
Why did they just re-release the Wembley VHS show instead of releasing a good DVD of the full show?
Shouldn't there be a decent DVD from the Bounce tour?
Why are all the These Days songs abandoned from the set?
Why can't the setlists be altered that much anymore?
Why are there no more real world tours?

All these questions can not be answered by those "real" fans because it's true. Bon Jovi ows us nothing as long as they don't promise anything. So stop making promises you can't make true. Stop telling how good Bon Jovi is live, because you're most of the time aren't. Many bands from the same era Bon Jovi comes from have become better over the years, and you're starting to get worse each tour. Stop telling how different each show is because the setlist is so different, because it isn't. Stop saying that Bon Jovi is a rock band, because according to the last albums, they're not.

But when saying this, you're not a real fan. Because you're supposed to love all those things, or just forget them and focus on the positive things. Ask people about their opinion about it and they feel attacked because you "obviously" don't accept their opinion. People can not handle criticism, can't handle it when you ask them why they form such an opinion.

That's why I'm a complainer, and that's why I chose for the 5th option. I've got good reasons for it.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan