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View Poll Results: What's your favourite post-2000 Bon Jovi ballad?
Thank You For Loving Me 19 27.14%
Save The World 0 0%
All About Lovin' You 2 2.86%
Welcome To Whatever You Are 1 1.43%
These Open Arms 3 4.29%
(You Want To) Make A Memory 37 52.86%
Seat Next To You 1 1.43%
'Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore 1 1.43%
What Do You Got? 2 2.86%
Thick As Thieves 4 5.71%
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Old 05-19-2013, 06:33 PM
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Make a Memory most definitely. Why? It's brilliant, that's why.
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Make a Memory. It will probably be the last true Bon Jovi ballad ever. What a brilliant song. I love the video as well.
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All About Lovin' You for me. I took to that song straight away, it just evoked a certain feeling within me. I like the video too. I'm a sucker for a happy ending

These Open Arms is a great, great song. I never really liked it first time around but I actually think it's one of the best post 2000 songs.

Thank You For Loving Me is a great track too, for some reason always felt like Always part 2.
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Memory for me. It's beautiful. but Welcome to Wherever You Are is a great song too and I almost picked it.
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Memory for me. It's beautiful. but Welcome to Wherever You Are is a great song too and I almost picked it.
Ha, you said 'Welcome to wherever you are''! *points and laughs*

Just kidding, but I think you're on your own there..

'Make a memory' for me, its a refreshingly different Jovi ballad, nice low key but passionate vocal from Jon (this end of his vocal register suits him so much better these days, and is the type of style I could see on a Jon solo album)
And I love the outro. It gives me that same melancholic feeling that ''Its hard letting you go'' gives me. It's very much a 'JBJ song' to me however, It doesn't have that band feel that 'I'll be there for you' or 'This aint a love song' has going for them..

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Just kidding, but I think you're on your own there..

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm on my own, but I can't help it. I love that song. I think it's got a great message. It's definitely Jon as Mr. Optimism on steroids though.
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Memory for me, I think partly because the lyrics are much more open to interpretation than usual. It's not restricted to the man/woman relationship most ballads are.
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Mine would be Bells of Freedom, but it's not listed.
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I was going to vote Thank You For Loving Me, but These Open Arms is just beautiful, it's the best.
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Its a hard choice for me.... i've always loved Make a Memory but Thick as Thieves was a very very pleasant surprise, one of the best tracks of WAN. I dont know if I like Thick as Thieves that much because of it being unexpected or because I trully think is a great song.... maybe both.

The only thing that is clear is that Memory has passed the test of time ^^
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