TheseDays is their ONLY consistent good album! :s!?

Yeah. That's the best thing about These Days: When you get older, you find a new song you like the most. I for example detested Diamond ring, My guitar and some other stuff when I was 14 or so (loved If that's what it takes back then) and now it's almost vice-versa. Really cool for an album to be able to do that.

A pessimistic album.. hmm, maybe. I'm a shinyhappy person myself and still I love These Days the best. However, I don't really listen to it much (except live versions). I've found that TD is the best-ever singalong album there is. Most of the songs are easily sung along and that's really cool.

And about fans... Yeah right. I love every album in a way but TD is the best one. It may not be in "classic BJ" style but I don't care. The best Bon Jovi album ever, that's all I care about.

These Days is a great album because it just never seems to date. All those songs could have easily been released today had they not back in '95, and no one would feel that they sounded "old".

That's the only real problem with some BJ's albums. In my opinion, "Bon Jovi", 7800 Fahrenheit, and Slippery When Wet, although very good albums, sound very 80's and very dated.

These Days also manages to capture the "depression" of the mid-90's and gives a more serious, darker side to their music.

I've just read the whole thread and i thought i'd have a say as well.

These Days was my first Bon Jovi album i bought while i was on holiday in Turkey in 1995.
I only listened to the first few songs on my own cos i loved them all. I got in my sisterw car one time and she had it playing "my guitar" And i thought cool, this song is really good. So i went home put my cd on and listened to past number 5. The more it went on the more i liked it.

Out of all the BJ albums, These Days is my fave album, i love the songs, i love the music. Everyone might say "its there darkest album" so what. It was written with more passion and emotions this time around than any other BJ album or song.

My fave song off this album is Something To Believe In, the lyrics on this song are the most powerful i have ever heard on a song and they come across in a specific way, which is intended to do.

Anyone who slates These Days should really take a step back and have a listen to the album properly, just sit down listen do nothing while its on.

It may well be a consistent album but so are all the albums in a certain way, to there own extent.

I agree that its a great album, but I don't think its perfectly consistent- for example, Lie To Me is one of my least favourite BJ songs ever. A lot of the songs are great, and as a whole album its great too, very mature and sensitive, but for me it just doesn't really get me as much as, say, Keep The Faith does

Keep On Rockin'

it's all about time and age...New Jersey will always be the bench mark I compare their albums to because this was the first album of theirs I bought and is one the albums I relate to my teens. Younger fans would not have lived through the late 80's when BJ ruled the world and were competing against GnR, Metallica and Poison(ha! whatever happened to them?) at the time. I always find it difficult listening to older stuff eg stuff from the 70's because the music was written to reflect the mood of the time which is possibly what younger BJ fans have trouble relating to when listening to say slippery, new jersey or KTF.

for me these days is my favourite album ever not just bon jovi. there are some average tracks IMO like all i want is everything and damned but the fact is that the rest of the album is so good that they don't matter. it's not only a musical triumph for the band. but the production and engineering on it is a masterpiece. to go from keep the faith which basically was recording - guitar into marshall amp into mich with some onboard effects onto these days with the orchestral pieces and massive sounds is amazing.

sorry krb102!!!I was in a bad mood back then....and you are right,most ppl don't know TRANSYLVANIA is in Romania.By the way,I live in Transylvania too,hehhehe!!!
These Days kicks ass and it was really idiotic to talk about real fans or not real fans.These Days is Bon Jovi!!!That's me......

There's one thing about These Days(it doesn't have songs like BAD MEDICE-I'm just listening to it)and I miss them ,but they wouldn't feet in the album as they don't fit on Bounce....



!!!!Shoot me!!!!!!

These Days is probably my 3rd favourite Bon Jovi album. I think that all the songs are quality and they truely show the groups talent. It shows the ability to not just be able to write one genre of rock - stadium rock.
But I can seewhy people may not like the album. It isn't really what someone may expect from Bon Jovi, if they'd listened to an album like SWW or NJ, and then heard TD, they would probably think that it was another band I think that there is on song that doesn't fit in with the albums theme, that being Something For The Pain. Don't get me wrong, I like the song, but I just don't think it fits in. :P

Hey KRB I think you get the idea of what they mean.......
Its a pessimistic album....the only one that BJ have eva written and its out of their character.

This is why its not a great BJ album

It is a great album. Maybe the reason why some people don't like it is because it isn't a collection of simple pop songs with simple lyrics. Maybe it is just too mature and intelligent for some people (i.e. most of the people who posted theit favourite movies in the thread on the Non BJ forum. I'll quote just a few: Armageddon, Independence Day, Rat Race, City Of Angels, Money Train)