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