Track Rankings - Slippery When Wet

10 - Livin' On A Prayer
9 - Wanted Dead or Alive
8 - Raise Your Hands
7 - You Give Love a Bad Name
6 - Without Love
5 - I'd Die For You
4 - Wild In The Streets
3 - Never Say Goodbye
2 - Let It Rock
0 - Social Disease

Ridiculously difficult. Apart from Social Disease, because it's shit.

10. Bad Name (=the ultimate hard rock song of the 80´s)
9. Prayer (the older I get, the more I appreciate this song)
8. Wanted
7. Die 4 U
6. Never Say Goodbye
5. Without Love
4. Let It Rock
3. Wild In The Streets
2. Raise Your Hands
1. Social Disease (it got only 1 point because of the overall exceptionally high quality of the album, still it is a VERY STRONG hard rock song)

Such classics, all of them. Numbers 2-7 are completely interchangeable.

That's tough. Usually the worst song in my list of any album is a song I dislike. Here it is different.

10 Livin' On A Prayer
09 I'd Die For You
08 You Give Love A Bad Name
07 Wanted Dead Or Alive
06 Never Say Goodbye
05 Raise Your Hands
04 Wild In The Streets
03 Let It Rock
02 Without Love
01 Social Disease

I have Wanted quite low and it's because it is overplayed for me. I mean - it should be played at every show but not in such a boring way. It is really boring nowadays. It gets better only when the crowd or Richie sing a verse (the best is when both). The guitar solo is ace, no doubt about that. If there was an intro, for example some acoustic song which would change for every show (to have few in a rotation), it would be miles better live.
Raise Your Hands, Wild In The Streets and Let It Rock are perfect party rock song and I love all of them equally. Even Social Disease is a great rock song but one song has to be the last one.

10 Livin' On A Prayer
09 Wanted Dead Or Alive
08 Wild In The Streets
07 I'd Die For You
06 You Give Love A Bad Name
05 Raise Your Hands
04 Let It Rock
03 Without Love
02 Never Say Goodbye
01 Social Disease

No easy decision here. Prayer definitely got the top spot because it's the bands definitive anthem and always will be. Wanted has a fantastic mood and build up to one of Richie's finest studio solos, so it earned to get the place after Prayer. The rest was pretty close. Although it was the bands first No.1 single I didn't place Bad Name that far up, because it's probably the most overplayed song in the set. Many may disagree on my decision to put Without Love over Never Say Goodbye - a pretty close one, too but I just like WL a little better. Social Disease is an ok song, but clearly the weakest link on this album. Would have fit Aerosmith's Permanent Vacation, which it was originally intended for, a little better maybe, due to the brass parts.

10 - Wanted Dead Or Alive
09 - Livin' On A Prayer
08 - You Give Love A Bad Name
07 - Wild In The Streets
06 - I'd Die For You
05 - Raise Your Hands
04 - Let It Rock
03 - Never Say Goodbye
02 - Without Love
01 - Social Disease

Yep, Bad Name and Wanted do nothing for me live... Jon's voice is nasally (or denasally...whatever) and completely on autopilot.... probably the same for Prayer, but for some reason it has sounded really good the last couple of tours.

I think Prayer is almost as good as its ever been. I think around the Bounce/HAND tours it got pretty stale and uninspired. It was better on the LH tour and even better on the Circle tour. Maybe it's just me.

It's the opposite for me. I think 'Prayer' sounded better in 2003-2006 than now.

It's probably just me then. I know I have an appreciation for Prayer now more than ever... but I thought it was mainly attributed to how impressed I was with recent performances. It could be that I am just growing into it.

I doubt it. I have a weird taste when it comes to Bon Jovi. I prefer to hear Jon hardly being able to sing and going for it (Bounce/HAND) than the weak nasal voice you can hear quite often now.

10 - Wanted Dead Or Alive
9 - Wild In The Streets
8 - Let It Rock
7 - Livin' On A Prayer
6 - Never Say Goodbye
5 - You Give Love A Bad Name
4 - Raise Your Hands
3 - I'd Die For You
2 - Without Love
1 - Social Disease

Funny, because I'd rate Raise You Hands and I'd Die For You over all but about 5 songs from Bounce onward.