Is There Anyone Who DOESN'T Like The Circle?

Yeah me too. Little City was the song that took the longest to grow on me. Learning How To Fall took almost as long and subsequently they are my favourate two songs off the album.

Actually, New Jersey DOESN'T sound dated when I listen to it and hands down, it's the better album. I rarely listen to Slippery all the way through in fact.

And I never said anything about the effect it had on Bon Jovi's career either. I've never denied that it's a classic album - but it is only such a classic because it was a breakthrough album at that point in time. Prayer, Wanted and Never Say Goodbye are great. The rest are good but there's nothing outstanding about them. Tracks like Wild In The Streets and Raise Your Hands are no better than It's My Life, or Sleep, or any of the other fun pop rock songs Jovi have done since. They just set the scene.

But yeah, that's just my opinion. Glad you're amused.

Nah. Its grown on me, alot after many listens, but I dont rate it as one of my favourites. Its a decent album though.

I guess I have changed my mind a bit. This was really the only album I didnt like straight away, so I cant list it as a favourite.

Breakthrough album?Sure it was,all 15 million copies of it.It must have been good right?What about without love,id die for you,and the rest.
Anyway i will agree that jersey is a better album.
But in terms of outstanding,Sleep when im dead wouldnt make it on jersey or slippery,it simply aint good enough.

Just want to say that bounce is a great album.Peope complaining that there arent enough rockers are on crack.Undivided,everyday,hook me up and bounce.
On almost every bj cd since njersey,you'll find about 4 rocking songs,the rest are either mid tempos or ballads.Except for have a nice day which seemed to have more rockers than most of the other post 1992 cds.
As for dest anywhere,that is a fantastic cd.Almost every song is great,i see that quite a few people here arent interested in change and they still want to hear slippery part 2.
The best thing about a jovi cd is that there all different,thank god for that.

Bounce is one of my favourite Jovi albums...Misunderstood (one of my personal faves), Undivided, Bounce, and I even like Joey!

Yeah, there are plenty of rockers on Bounce, but apart from Undivided and, to a lesser extent, Hook Me Up, they're all absolute cack.

Aloha !

Ever since Bon Jovi started recording albums with "different" songs their album releases have been piss. "We need a little bit of this, a little bit of that, a little bit of this, a little bit of that", all these style mixed together make a shit album altogether with the Bounce record being the perfect example for that.

And there's a difference between rockers and mid-tempo songs. A song can be mid-tempo and still rock. That said, the mid-tempo songs on Bounce and The Circle don't rock at all and I don't know what you're on when you're saying there's only 4 rockers on every Bon Jovi album apart from HAND.

There's also a difference in saying I want a rock album and I want a Slippery part II. People like you seem to think that you can't change and make a rock album at the same time.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

back to DA - still 2 of my favorites are

Sad Song Night and DRIVE!!! - great drum song - kenny aranoff - played at Starland....

Sad Song Night is a fav of mine as well, prefer it to all that made DA. I can see why Jon left it off DA, as it doesn't really fit, musically speaking it's a little to straight forward compared to the rest of material on DA; which is quite far off the traditonal musical path Jovi wise. As for the songs that made DA I love Suitcase, Piece Of My Heart, & Destination Anywhere.