Bon Jovi "Fan Album": Burning Bridges- Out 21 Aug

Teardrop to the sea, if the last 'Nobody grieves' would have replaced the first two this song would've been even better.

There's absolutely no reason why a fininished version was not good enough for any previous (or future album)

- Jon, can we PLEASE not use the line "living my life" again?
- No, this is great.
- But here I wrote some lyrics that...
- I said no.
- And what about some keyboards?
- No, I'll add some background guitars for Bobby.
- **** it, I'm out of here.
- Stop behaving like a Child, Dave.

I love the first verse "So this is it"

SN/SM is the best "pop" song the band has done since Misunderstood.

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I don't know... Summertime it's pretty good but sadly it wasn't a single. Every time I play it in my car, people asks me the name of it and say they like it!

Maybe I should give Billy Falcon's solo record from the early 90s another listen. I remember it being super boring, but the guy has co-written a ton of great songs in the last couple of years.

It both inspires hope and aggravates me that the band probably COULD have released better albums, but just chose to go in the direction they did. I mean, most of these are unused old ideas/tracks.

Would you like it as much if Richie had not co-written it?

Musically, I really like Beautiful World. (Awful lyrics, though.) Props for giving Misunderstood the respect it always deserved but somehow never got. Great track.

I highly recommend "When". "When Sunday comes" "Fall to Me" "When" and "Flying" are great tracks.

I own the record (bought it for a buck once), I guess I'll just have it playing when I get up tomorrow morning. Hopefully it won't put me back to sleep! :P

Has he ever done anything on his own after that? The guy co-wrote the two best tracks on Bounce, which were anchored by heavy riffs and shouty vocals. He pulls that style off very well; I'd like to hear in that vein from him.

Yeah, I debated between "street" and "scene" because it seemed to describe a (literal or metaphorical) "car crash" and I couldn't decide if it was a "chalk line" they draw on the street for a sobriety test or "chalk outlines" they do around bodies at an investigation "scene". Jon was of no help whatsoever because he clearly thinks the word is "schreen". I could go either way.

And after listening in the car today, I also think the person is counting "tips" rather than "chips", although either would work for that line, too.

Another interesting thing I noticed while traveling: I was listening to Crush (which I'm not as familiar with because it may be my least favorite studio album), and I was surprised to hear these references in Two Story Town (RS, JBJ, Mark Hudson, and Dean Grakal):

"Sick of dreaming dreams that never come true on a one way street ..."

"Seven days of Monday morning in this two story town..."

And in Save the World (JBJ), I heard
"They can say it's blind love but it's a fool who don't believe..."

When I got home and checked to see who was credited with the writing, I saw that the "new" one-way street and Monday morning references show up together in SNGMSM, which is credited to RSS, JBJ, and Shanks; while both STW and Blind Love credit JBJ as sole writer. I know there are some words/phrases that are used over and over in their songs but I don't recall the overuse of "one-way street", a month (or week) of "Monday mornings", or "blind love" being among those. It made me wonder if SNGMSM and Blind Love might both be Crush outtakes. Any thoughts?

I wouldn't put phrases they tend to use as a qualifier for what period it came from but I see where you're going with that. Skies shining a different kind of blue/a different kind of blue was scattered throughout These Days, D.A AND Crush.