The annoying thing is that it is a self fulfilling prophecy, they have kept the LH songs in and so they become favourites, or at least tolerable and recognisable. If they persevered with The Circle songs in the same way, they do would become favourites. There is no way on earth that keeping LTOR and Thorn as staples would do anything other than make these songs favourites- Lost Highway wasn't a hit but it goes down well as its a regular player. Bon Jovi don't have hits nowadays so they should play whatever is strong from the album.

I don't buy the argument that the songs don't work live- most of them can and do. WFTWM may miss the spot but that's as much down to peoples dislike of the song as well as the nightly robotics that go with it. I think WWWB works very well- probably would have worked better if Jon stood on The Circle to sing it. WWBTF should work but its been played with such a lack of effort and Jon needlessly on his guitar- if he moved around the stage and encouraged more interaction it would liven it up.
Superman Tonight they have completely missed the point on with "everyday heroes" concept and it doesn't work- the song however does work if it was executed properly, maybe the recently done acoustic version could do this.

Thorn I will defend to the death that this is a must in any Circle setlist especially with the duelling guitar outtro. It's too good not to have on the set. Ditto, LTOR a great song enhanced by the live version. Yet these two are left on the shelf more often than not. Learn To Love could easily be sung on The Circle stage. Keep them in the set and the audience will take to them.


At least some of the LH songs have/had their uses- WGIGO has the very good affects and gets Jon to see the behind stage seats. WLOL shouldn't be there at the expense of a Circle track and certainly not so close to LH at the start of the set. Memory is a useful song to have in the set more often than not- can easily be switched up with Roses, Always, IBT4U and the like.
ILTT sucks balls.

But again, they persevere with the wrong songs- swap WLOL with Any Other Day and get rid of ILTT and give Everybody's Broken or Seat Next To You a whirl if you must have a LH track.

It's probably because the LH stuff is detracting from the Circle songs on The Circle tour, that it is a problem, I'm sure there would be no problem if the songs were in addition to other tracks rather than a replacement. Hopefully they can start to shed some of these and replace them with other tracks.