Responding to the last 2 comments....

Bon Jovi not coming up with songs good enough to become hits does not necessarily make them nostalgic. If that was the case, they would have been considered nostalgic 5 times over in the US by now.

There are 2 main reasons not to get radio play. 1. Because your song sucks 2. Because no one give a shit about you.

I think 2 is the case for a lot of the acts I mentioned prior which would cross them over into the nostalgic category. Poison, The Crue, The Stones. But I think people are routing for Bon Jovi with every release. I think the radio stations want the new song to blow the roof off. With songs that sound dated like WWBTF, WTYG, BWC, how could any radio back it up?

To sum it up, if you COULD have a hit, then you are not nostalgic and I think Bon Jovi COULD still have a hit in 2013.

And as far as the point of Springsteen making the music he wants while Jon goes after the commercial audience, Bon Jovi are a commercial band. It's who they are... Jon has stated multiple times that he is not 19 anymore and can't write a song like he is. He his writing socially conscience songs so in essence he is putting out the music he wants but with his commercial spin.

If Jon was that desperate, he'd collaborate with younger songwriters and producers which is something I think he should do.

There is no doubt Bon Jovi loses a little with each generation but I think they still have some relevance. Younger kids do know the music but couldn't name one song from The Stones and probably never even heard on Poison.

I still have a problem lumping The Stones and Poison into the same "nostalgic" definition. Bon Jovi will never be a Poison. They might be heading in the Stones direction but are not there yet.