Aloha !

Back when It's My Life was released I was very into this song. It was the first new single I bought and was very happy with the many b-sides. I knew Bon Jovi had released a few before for the These Days record and didn't expect to get so many for It's My Life.

I thought the diversity of b-sides was pretty cool as well. I Don't Want To Live Forever sounds like a solid pop/rock song. However, I've started buying more CD's lately and am into Stereophonics nowadys. Last week I received Word Gets Round, their first album, with this song on it:


What does this remember you off? For the people that have never bought the singles, here's the Bon Jovi song:


It's obviously a rip off. The Bon Jovi song was written after Destination Anywhere which makes sense as the Stereophonics song was a hit in the UK when Destination Anywhere had been released.

The Stereophonics song's lyrics, although being pretty simple, are way inferior to the Bon Jovi song. Listen to the lyrics and you might understand what the song is about.

I still like the Bon Jovi song though. I think it didn't make the Crush album because of the lyrics of the chorus containing the "I don't want to live forever, I want to live while I'm alive" thing. They must've thought that repeating it on the same album was a little too much. Repeating it on every other album after it appearantly wasn't though. But apart from that, the song is good, I think.

Apart from saying things like Stereophonics suck, eh, Thierry, what do you think about I Don't Want To Live Forever? Should it have made Crush?

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan