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Originally Posted by Javier
I love Richie, he was always my favorite member of the band, and I really do get that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. but I'm really surprised at how with a bit of time, Aftermath is being looked at as an example on how good Richie can be. I was really let down with the album, the jam sessions at the end just scream laziness, the songwriting is nothing that he hasn't been doing in Bon Jovi for the past 10 years. Sure there are good songs, 7 years gone is a great tune even if it's basically a rehash of a live version of The distance. You can only get so high is Richie's own personal version of Make a memory (musically speaking). And just like WAN has wayyy to obvious influences coming from The killers, Matchbox 20 and Coldplay, Richie did the same with his album with The Foos, Jet, Gavin Degraw, and a few others. Granted, i'm not saying WAN is better, because it isn't, but they're both pretty much on the same level, only Aftermath has more guitars, well because Richie's a guitar player, but they're both really calculated albums when we get down to it.
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Most people are disappointed with Aftermath. I certainly expected a lot more. But a couple of months later, I see how it's miles better than anything Bon Jovi have done....well, pretty much since These Days really. Half of it I like. And there's only two songs I don't like actually. Which are World and Weathering the Storm. The rest is at least ok. And not from a sound, production, guitar etc perspective. But from a songwriting perspective. Look at Taking A Chance on the Wind or Always Walk Beside You...they are proper, real songs. And then Burn the Candle Down and Fly with A Broken Wing - those are proper Sambora rockers, in the vein of Rosie really. Again, it's my least favourite Richie record. But it's not an 'album by the numbers' that Bon Jovi have been doing for 10 years. And that's what makes me think that Richie could actually give me more if he left the band, than if he stayed in the band.
06-23-2013, 11:30 PM
