"This Left Feels Right", What'a ya say?

LOL!

Quite agree though never occured to me before!

This album has 5 great versions... Bad Name(THE BEST), Bad Medicine, Wanted Dead Or Alive, Born to Be My Baby and Its My Life...... But, if we include live versions, I'd say that Keep The Faith is one of the best versions....

Besides these ones, I can't stand the record...
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Yamaha YA-3

This album doesn't exist for me. I listened to it 1 1/2 (the second time I fell asleep that's why I only heard half of it) and now it collects dust in the cupboard.

When I say "their last album" I always talk about Bounce. TLFR is pushed in the back for me and I would forget it if people wouldn't say it's name from time to time. It's boring and has too much computer, Tico had free time since he was replaced by a drum computer and not to mention this horrible female voice in prayer that only is there because she is the wife of the producer and Jon couldn't find another female singer so short termed.

Becky, live it is different since they didn't use that much computer and this female voice is missing. The DVD is better than the album. Well, better, not really good though.

I'll forgive them for this CD if the next one is any good.

Thanks. I never would have figured that out on my own. :P

Becky

Here ya go:


Wanted Dead or Alive - Not too shabby becuase it keeps the orignal great acoustic riff. Quite like the electric power chord after the chrous too and then back into the riff. 3/5

Livin' On A Prayer - Oh no, Oliva or Sylvia or whatever she calls herself just doesn't fit in here. Prayer '94 was a much better stripped down version. 0.5/5

Bad Medicine - Quite melodic, not too bad. 2/5

It's My Life - So so. 1.5/5

Lay Your Hands On Me - Don't like it. The "Lay Your Hands On Me..." has lost its power. 0.5/5

You Give Love A Bad Name - Cool version. It's done like an old blues song with Jon singing in a husky voice. The bass line is quite quite chilled out and I like the slide acoustic guitar. I think it's a good "twist" on this song. 3.5/5

Bed Of Roses - Lyrics are still pretty good, but it's lost its power. 1.5/5

Everyday - Didn't like the original, don't like this. 0.5/5

Born To Be My Baby - No, hate it. they've made it into a sappy crappy Westlife style song. 1/5

Keep The Faith - Not too bad. I like the electric riff/solo in the middle of the song. Apart from that it's pretty boring. 2/5

I'll Be There For You - Jon's voice sucks and the whole song is just toooooo sappy. Another Westlife song. 0.5/5

Always - Jon's voice struggles to handle it. Too sappy. 0.5/5

The Distance (Live Acoustic - Bonus Track) - Superb. Possibly even better that the original. Best song on the CD. Jon sings it superbly, and Dave's subtle keyboard riff sounds great. The strings aren't over used and give the song atmosphere and Richie gets a good sound with the acoustic. 4.5/5

Joey (Live Acoustic - Bonus Track) - Perhaps a bit better than the original. Good version to a mediocre song. 3.5/5


Well Krycek if you rate TLFR so highly I'd like to see you rating some of the earlier albums. You'd end up having to give 10/5 for a lot of songs if a lot of TLFR songs are 5/5. I think Bon Jovi should have stuck with their original plans and just made an acoustic CD. The Distance and Joey recorded live sound much better than they do on the Bounce CDs. TLFR was a rip off and I was well pissed off with mine. It might have been ok as a bonus CD to the boxset or something, but as an album by itself at £14 which was what I paid for it, I got bummed big style. Overall it gets 1/5 for shear bravery of releasing it, and I'm being damn right generous there.

I hate it, and the only songs that i listen to it are Bad name (brilliant, IMO) and BTBMB, because i don't like the original song, but this one's good.

The idea was good. The execution was terrible. They took 12 rock songs and sucked all the power out of them. I remeber when I first put the CD in. They started playing the Wanted riff and I had this big grin on my face. Then Jon started singing with these warped vocal effects and I was thinking "yuck". The only ones really worth listening to are It's My Life and Everyday. Well, I'm not to worried about disliking the album because I think it was something that they needed to get out of their system. It's not going to be the path they're following from now on. At least, I hope not.

Hated it from beginning to end. Then I listened to it again just to make sure. I was right the first time.

What he said only double
I bought the Japanese version and got the "acoustic" bonus tracks from Yokohama. I also liked The Distance and think it beats the original but that was not part of TLFR. I have only listened to it once or twice all the way through. It was better live - I went to one of the Borgata shows - but not enough better to make much of a difference in my opinion of the whole project.

Kathleen