THE BEST SONG: In And Out Of Love, which is definitely the most rocking song on the record. Silent Night, the band's first real ballad, comes as a second. Tokyo Road and The Hardest Part Is The Night are rather good too and are third and fourth, respectively.

OVERALL: 7800 Fahrenheit isn't an improvement from the first Bon Jovi album. For the most part it is very much like that first record. The lyrics on 7800 are mostly about nothing. Clumsy synthesizers are notably present on the album. There are no classics, but there are a few really bad songs. Songs like King Of The Mountain, (I Don't Wanna Fall) To The Fire and Always Run To You are weak for any recording artist - although I guess we should give them credit for being funny. Only a few tracks are real rock songs while most of the album is this very typical 1980s soft rock. 7800 is somewhat weaker than the debut album and one of the worst Bon Jovi records.

However, having that said, a large part of the criticism of that kind can be forgiven for the fact that this is really a band still on their developmental stage. This was a band still searching for their own sound, they were yet to find where they should be musically. And even the band themselves became very soon overly critical of their first two albums. Of their first two albums, only Runaway stayed in the live set and the band started to act as if the albums didn't exist and they were ashamed of making them. It's true that they aren't really great music but that's a wrong attitude as far as I can see it; the albums were an integral part of their development and they do have their good moments. So while 7800 Fahrenheit is easily one of their weakest pieces of work, it is also a look at Bon Jovi making their baby steps and a bit of a frightening look at the 1980s pop genre - and it includes a few good songs too. But it's really no more than that.


OVERALL SCORE: 8 OUT OF 20