Taking a right left!

Once again I wanna share some thoughts with you.

Taking a left turn. Doing the unexpected. Giving resistance, to yourself and your fans.
Isn't this things we want? A band that tries out new things.

There have been mixed feelings about Bon Jovi going to Nashville, the capitol of countrymusic. With so many fans with som many diffrent backgrounds, it would only be natural that some like it, and some doesn't.

The history has teached us that to take a leftturn, has proved to create fantastic new music. Some experiment fail, some succeed.

In many ways Bon Jovi has taken leftturns before with success. Keep The Faith was something new. These Days was very dark to be a Jovi record. Crush gave us short popsongs without guitarsolos! Bounce was a new sounding Jovi, but This Left Feels Right, yeah that was special. I'll give them credit for trying something completly new. Not many band, if any, has done the same thing before.
Like it or not, it was brave!
Have A Nice Day, that was good, but it wasn't surprising us.
So where does this leave us?
Lost Highway. We've heard some songs. I like the idea of them going to Nashville. Both they and we need something new from the Jovi camp!

Left turns from other bands has often gives us great albums. When Springsteen, The Boss, takes a leftturn, he goes acoustic and stripped, like on Nebraska or Devils & Dust. Radiohead almost took a commercial suicide with Kid A, but as time went by people loved it. Bob Dylan makes his own fans cry cause he is destroying his own songs at conserts.
All this is necessary to still be creative and not to grow old in the same shoes.

So, what I'm saying is, well I'm not sure...
I'm just very excited about the idea of my favourite band will have influence from country, cause I love countrymusic. Although I'm not to big fan of the usuall radiocoutry, like Who Says You Can't Go Home. I hope they won't make it to popsounding.

Let's welcome this new inspiration for the band and hope for a great album.
Like someone said "They haven't realised a ballad as first single since These Days..." That can give a superstitious man high hopes!!!

So, that's it. Many words, maybe not so meaningful, but still words...

Cheers!

Man, nice text... but i disagree about the "try new stuff = good music". Dude, they did the world's WORST CD EVER! This Left Feels Right is nothing but crap.
And about Lost Highway, i'm little bit counfused about that country thing. The rock songs are great but the country ones is weird, it's not a real country or a rock country song, it sounds like a POP COUNTRY. Jon is a opportunist in my point of view. They did WSYCGH, and then it makes #1 no country charts, after that what happens? .

I really think that bon jovi is about to shame the real country artists. lol

TLFR is a GREAT CD - step back and give it a chance - who else has ever done anything like that when they could have just eased out a boring same old same old and the cd ROCKS!!!!!!

turn the lights down and listen - det a copy of the live borgata show - its art

marc

Totally agree. I love TLFR!

deb

I love, LOVE the Borgata TFLR DVD.
The cd is meh to crap, but that DVD dominates.

I think the Nashville influence in this new record is more about the storytelling and going with personal rather than social issue stuff this time around. When I heard the acoustic version of MAM, with Lorenza, Everett, and Chris????, not sure of his name, it sounds richer, fuller than the spare band only version. I like both, but livei think this song will benefit from some extra musicians.

The one thing I am after hearing parts of this record is curious to hear the rest, I really want to hear where they went with this.

"Rocks" is not a word I would use. "Crap" is more like it. I can't believe I spent my money on a CD that bad.

Nope, still crap.

Ice

Thaks. Ofcause I don't mean that new stuff = good music.
My point is: A part of an experiment, is that you don't know what the result will be. That said, one shouldn't stop to experiment. This is what make the world go forward and not stand still.
Thats why I like this new country idea!

Btw, who produced Make A Memory, the production is REALLY great. I LOVE the sound of the song. Is it the new Dan dude?

For This Left Feel Right, I didn't mean this thread to be about whether it's good or bad. I'm just saying the were brave to try something so diffrent from everybody else.

Experimentation is really important for a band to grow and achieve true greatness I reckon ... even if its just subtle experimentations. Thinking about it, a lot of my favourite bands came up with a 'defining' sound on their early albums, before pretty much ripping it to shreds, and I love that: Bon Jovi with Keep The Faith, Pearl Jam do it with virtually every album, Red Hot Chili Peppers with everything after Blood Sugar, GnR with the Use Your Illusions ... of my top 5 bands I guess really only Iron Maiden haven't changed too much, although their line up changes have given them different sounds at times

Anyway, back to Bon Jovi ... yeah, I just generally find it to be more .... refreshing maybe when they try something different. That's why I consider Bounce to be as good if not slightly better than HAND: Bounce brings things to the table like the heavier songs, the more laid back ballads, the storytelling ballads, and with some of the b-sides more of an acoustic pop thing, and while it doesn't all completely work, at least its trying something new. Whereas HAND is definitely more consistent, and arguably has better songs, but its just so safe, so easy to put into a "modern rock" category

And as for TLFR ... it was a brave move, but they kinda didn't go far enough with it, if they'd taken more time over it it might have been better. Probably didn't help that it mutated from being a completely different album, in much the same way Crush did. But yeah, I digress, experimenting is a good thing, and I'm really hoping LH will be a breath of fresh air

It's good to see people agree with me.
I totaly agree about the Bounce vs. HAND. HAND is better, but it's a very "safe" record. They "couldn't" go wrong with it. On the other hand I think Bounce was a album they had to make, post 9/11. "Everybody" had to write about it, it seems natural, and BJ being Jersey/New York people, it seems even more natural.