It Only Takes One To Say Goodbye

bonjovi90 · #51 12-19-2018, 02:23 PM

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I agree with most of that, yeah. Misunderstood while not filler, just felt like boy/girl pop rock that sounded like songs of the era. Obviously they needed something new to capitalize on the resurgence but man, I think more time off would have lead to a more cohesive record.

Crush and Bounce are, in my book, the most uncohesive albums they've released. They obviously had no idea where to go directionally and since It's My Life was the hit song before (and didn't remotely sound like anything else on Crush), they were kind of lost I guess and just fishing for so many directions or whatever was popular at that time.

Captain_jovi · #52 12-19-2018, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by bonjovi90

Crush and Bounce are, in my book, the most uncohesive albums they've released. They obviously had no idea where to go directionally and since It's My Life was the hit song before (and didn't remotely sound like anything else on Crush), they were kind of lost I guess and just fishing for so many directions or whatever was popular at that time.

Agreed. I feel like Crush without IML is pretty dang cohesive actually. It followed the tone Jon's Sex Sells era had. Telecastery, rootsy americana pop rock/power pop. But then it just didn't know what it was.

steel_horse75 · #53 12-19-2018, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by bonjovi90

Crush and Bounce are, in my book, the most uncohesive albums they've released. They obviously had no idea where to go directionally and since It's My Life was the hit song before (and didn't remotely sound like anything else on Crush), they were kind of lost I guess and just fishing for so many directions or whatever was popular at that time.

Wasn't most of Crush meant to be a JBJ solo album? probably why it sounds so directionally all over the place?

Bounce is a real mixture of good bad and damn right ugly (AALY and RSOW)

Captain_jovi · #54 12-19-2018, 03:11 PM

Kind of. Some of the songs stemmed from what would have been Jon's next album and the other half is the songs Jon and Richie wrote together when work on the album began. The songs Jon brought from his aborted album were all recorded with the band though.

bonjovi90 · #55 12-19-2018, 03:43 PM

I guess the lines being so much blurred between Jon's third solo album and the Crush record are the reasons why they blatantly added some Big Dogs demos as B-sides IIRC. Isn't it unclear to this day who actually played on Hush?

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Captain_jovi · #56 12-19-2018, 03:57 PM

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I guess the lines being so much blurred between Jon's third solo album and the Crush record are the reasons why they blatantly added some Big Dogs demos as B-sides IIRC. Isn't it unclear to this day who actually played on Hush?

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It's the exact same version that was played in '98 to the fanclub so all signs point to the Big Dogs. Plus that solo is pure unfiltered Bandiera.

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