Postcards From the Wasteland

It's a damn shame most of those songs never made an album. Specifically Standing, Another Reason To Believe and We Can Dance would've made 'Bounce' so much better. For 'Crush' I would've put Ordinary People, You Can't Lose At Love, Welcome To The Good Times and I Don't Wanna Live Forever instead of She's A Mystery, Save The World, I Got The Girl and Mystery Train.

The 'These Days' songs are much better left off the album. When She Comes is the only one I would possibly add.

Your right, The End and I Thank You aren't good but When She Comes has that great part before chorus and I really like that song.
Let's make it baby is one of the worst Jovi's song I've ever heard.

Yah Let's Make It Baby is terrible.

When She Comes doesn't really fit 'These Days' mood-wise but is a good song. I prefer it, as a song, to a few of the songs on the final album.

Postcards was better than all the songs that are on Bounce. It definitely should of made it on there. An awesome song!


Kat

Thinking about it, you could actually put together almost another whole, fairly coherent album from the Bounce B-Sides, with a bit of a mellower, stripped down side to it - We Can Dance, Postcards From The Wasteland, Breathe, Lucky, Another Reason To Believe, No Regrets

Say what you like about Bounce, but I still maintain that taking into account all of the songs that came from the sessions that it shows the band at a very high level of creativity and diversity, possibly more so than for any other album session post - These Days

And although I do like the finished product, with a different producer, and a few song substitutions here and there, it could have been a pretty killer album

I agree. It was quite diverse.

I cannot stand Lucky. I wish I could like it.

Lucky doesn't sound like Jovi's song... I don't like it.
But it is always that there are some great songs left out of the album 'cause they don't fit it.
When Jon and Richie write songs, they might sound terrible but if they are important to the writers, of cource they wanna share them with us.
Bon Jovi have tons of great unreleased songs which would have sold a lot and Jon and guys probably know that but when some songs just don't fit in and don't have any meaning to them it would be stupid to put them on the album..... At least I think so....
I could easily make two complete albums of songs of Box set and would like it very much and respect it like any other Jovi's album but if Jon and Richie would think: "well they have killer melody but that's it. I don't give a shit about them cause they don't do anything for me", I wouldn't be interested at all.

So to sum up: I understand it somehow why songs like Radio saved my life tonite, Fire Inside, If I can't have your love, One that got away, Got to have a reason, We can dance, Stay and many others didn't make it to the album and If Jon and Richie are happy about it, so am I

Richie had nothing to do with Stay but I totally see your point, well said.

I always liked Prostitute a lot, always thought i could've placed on TD perfectly somewhere in the middle

Hey God, Prostitute & All I want is everything thoughout the album....