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Originally Posted by Captain_jovi
Yeah he made lots of points about how Bounce had 9/11 songs but it wasn't a 9/11 record. HAND was the first time he started mentioning politics in his lyrics/song promotions and The Circle is closer to when it became more than that.
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Agree. One of the reasons I rate Lost Highway very highly of the era since HAND - it's the only record not inspired by politics AT ALL. It was inspired in big by personal heartbreaks in the band and I really think that inspires the band to write better lyrics. THINFS of course is also very personally inspired but in a different way and there were still social themes.
When BJ abandoned relationship songs (
almost completely) after LH something simply got lost that was a big part of Jovi for me. I just can't care for lyrics like Working Man, WWBTF, BWC, Whats Left of Me, WAN etc.