The best Bon Jovi album Part 2

Bounce wins for me, with Lost Highway being a close second. Up to and including Right Side of Wrong, it's ridiculously awesome, although the last three songs are very weak and Love Me Back to Life is a poor take off of the Distance. One of their best albums in their entire career, right up there with These Days. Lost Highway is also pretty great. I have to exclude the last three from that praise again, though. The Last Night, One Step Closer and I Love This Town don't do much for me.

I like the consistency of those two. It's not like half the album is amazing and the other half is just useless filler, like Crush and Have a Nice Day. They might not quite be amazing albums, but they maintain a pretty damn high standard throughout. I prefer a consistently good album over an album with a few incredible songs and the rest being crap.

Circle and What About Now both fall in the middle for me. There's a lot of great songs on the Circle, but it's littered with just a few too many songs I don't care for (Bullet, Fast Cars, Learn to Love, Live Before You Die [Happy Now is sort of borderline]) in crucial points of the album. When We Were Beautiful and Superman Tonight are some of the band's best songs literally ever, though. I think What About Now also has the consistency thing going, as the songs are largely decent (except for the lyric sheet), but the production is just abysmal. Huge turn off for what could be a great album.

TLDR: Bounce

All in my opinion, of course

This is the the 3rd album release I've been reading this board for and EVERYONE says: "laiek omg this is the best album since these days omg lol Yolo"

When there is no way that the albums have been getting better.

I voted for Lost Highway. I don't think the box set needs to be lumped in with regular studio releases.

The reason I including their whole discography was to see how ALL the releases fair against each other. I don't think its been done before so this poll is a little different. Some people may prefer 100,000,000 to some of the studio releases. Personally I don't think 100,000,000 can go in any other catagory other than studio album because its previouly unreleased materal that was put together in a certain way by Obie O'Brien too feel like each disc was its own Bon Jovi album. It's just a bit of fun.

I had to split the poll in two halves because this website site will only let me do 10 choices.

I could do a Best Studio album, Best compilation and Best Live album/DVD later on.

So far 24 people have voted.

Votes: Possition: TITLE
14 1st These Days
8 2nd New Jersey
7 3rd 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong
6 4th Bounce
5 5th Have A Nice Day
4 6th Lost Highway/The Circle
3 7th Keep The Faith
1 8th Crush/What About Now

Interestingly the first three albums have not scored any points yet. It will be interesting to see the results in a month. Will it be the obvious Slippery When Wet and Cross Road or will it be a post 2000 album?

This "contest" is so flawed. Were we only supposed to pick one song between the two polls? Because I voted for Bounce AND Keep the Faith, because they were the best in their respective polls...

Yeah I voted twice too.

These Days

and

HAND

Greatest Hits, Box Set, OWN and TLFR shouldn't be there. If they are all considered, the true winner is obviously Greatest Hits as it contains songs from the holy trinity of SWW, NJ and KTF, as well as having BOBITA in it. Second place is the Box Set which contains some gems from pre-Crossroad era (their golden era). Not as good as the GH because it also contains post-Crossroad era songs - some of which are terrible.

Excluding those albums:

1. HAND - easy winner over the remaining 4
2. Lost Highway - I'm not too keen of the album as a whole because (stylistically) it is a precursor to many turds in the subsequent albums. However, at least it has the title track, Any Other Day, We Got It Going On and I Love This Town.
3. The Circle - Love's The Only Rule is a classic great BJ tune, We Weren't Born To Follow and Thorn On My Side are pretty good, but we have total cluster****s like Bullet, When We Were Beautiful, Work For The Working Man and thatstupidsongwithnospaceinbetweenwordsinitstitle.
4. Bounce - Nothing's classic here, the guitars for the rocking tunes are too Creed-ish for my own liking. Clearly jumping on that atrocious trend. Bad move.
5. WAN - At least Bounce has a few memorable decent tunes like Undivided, the title track and Misunderstood. This album has exactly one of that (which is the first single). Everything else is like a rehash of the weak sauce tunes from LH.

Everytime I read "bobita" I start laughing, it means something like "little stupid girl" in spanish.