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03-20-2023, 05:14 PM
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Senior Member
Jovi Addict
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Join Date: 04 Sep 2017
Gender: male
Posts: 452
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- Does Crush count? If yes probably this album for me, because even though it is not a great album I hadn't been burned by that point so still had plenty of goodwill. While I do not listen to it much now I still look back fondly on that time. Also, the first half is still mostly excellent.
- Bounce is similar, I was still excited by this album. Didn't like it a lot but it got enough listening time. Such a sporadic messy one-tone album, but also oddly charming. I still like around 30% of the album but detest a few of the songs too. It got plenty of listening from me though as I was trying to force myself to love it. With B sides replacing some tracks it could have been worthy of classic status.
- Lost Highway was a miserable album and I only really love Memory from it and like Whole Lot of Leaving. However, I knew someone at the time who loved this album so I got to listen to it plenty because of that. Never has Jon's insistence that they never jumped on bandwagons and started going "Yo" looked more dishonest.
- The Circle was probably where I fully jumped off the Bon Jovi train. I think it was probably about as good a rock record as Jon was capable of by then. Even so, it had little heart and was plenty patronizing too. Although I like a couple of the songs and I did listen to the album a bit.
- Have a Nice Day, I disliked it from day one. It was the most calculated album by that point, and a clear push to that American corporate rock that I just never could enjoy. It was sugar pop pretending to be rock. I have come to appreciate the title track, but the rest I think is the most embarrassing music Bon Jovi has ever done until 2020. I was cringing for my own fandom at the time. Still, I was still a little blinded and did give the album listens.
- This House, I have a strange relationship with it. I think the bare songs are there and are verging on potentially excellent. It is just so bland and soulless and even though I kind of like most of the songs in a twisted objective way, they evoke almost no emotion in me.
- WAN I hate front to back but I did listen to it because my son bought it and gave it some traction in my house. I have never been as instantly shocked by the production of a new album as I was by WAN. Muddy and noisy without any dynamism and with music that has zero virtuosity, almost like programmed on a computer. Everyone on this album just seemed so tired and out of ideas.
- 2020 I listened to it one time and was mostly too ashamed because of the lyrics to get through it. There was one song I liked but I honestly do not even know the titles of all the tracks. I am aware that sometimes music needs to sink in and deserves more listens, but I just cannot bring myself to donate my time to this album.
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