The Verdict: Woman In Love

Probably from going to a rocky song to a ballad straight away and things.

Yeah, in a concert/DVD I could understand but with an album you just listen to it really.

Dunno really. Depends lol.

Aloha !

The flow of an album means that if the track order works. For example; place Hey God in the middle of These Days and the flow of the album would be ruined. It wouldn't have fit in there, just like the band opening a show with Thank You For Loving Me wouldn't work. There's no rule for it, it either works or it doesn't, though when it doesn't it's often easy to say why it doesn't.

10 years ago, before the MP3 generation, the flow of an album was a great deal. Artists made albums, made complete products. Nowadays the market is very single orientated, and therefore most recent albums just contain songs instead of a complete concept. The perfect example of an album with excellent flow is The Beatles' Sgt. Peppers. Every song compliments the one before but takes a new direction.

Jon has often talked about how he still thinks of an album with an A side and a B side, which is probably why the second half of any Bon Jovi album often is very different to the first half, with Bounce being the perfect example for that. It's a shame that the market has changed so much because it makes albums a lot harder to sit thru nowadays. Whenever you feel like skipping a song every now and then on an album it often means that there's no proper flow, Crush being the perfect example for that.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

Oh I get you now. Thanks for clearing that up

Its an OK song, I think I have 2 main problems with it:

1) It's essentially exactly the same song as Social Disease and 99 In The Shade, even down to reprising the Beach Boys style vocal harmonies from 99ITS. Considering how much shit the "It's My Life clones" get, I'm really surprised no one ever seems to mention the fact that this was a much earlier example of the band rewriting the same song

2) It doesn't fit in among the "weightier" songs on the album. Especially placed where it is, sandwiched between Dry County and Fear, two of the most socially conscious songs the band had written to that point, this sort of meaningless good time rock just seems out of place

Actually, those two points sort of add up to one: it just sounds like it would have been more at home on one of their 80s albums. And I don't think it's all that great anyway, it's difficult to explain, but I find the instrumentation somewhat - undistinctive, maybe

OK, rant over

I hadn't listened to this song for about 2 years, because I overplayed it.

I played it for the first time in those 2 years last night and I remembered how good it was.