Greatest Hits: "The Ultimate Collection" and lead single: "What Do You Got"

You can hear the pedal steel guitar in the verses, which I don't think would be in any of their songs not from LH.

I think this song will just be murdered live with the key lowered. It's low enough. I hope they don't lower the key on this one, like they didn't on Any Other Day.

because they can....

it's an impression they have or it is for real ? why would they do that ? I think maybe they came back the the LH sound thinking they tried more pop a la coldplay with the Circle and it didn't work but I don't think it's FROM lost highway outtakes

I agree, I don't think it's a leftover from LH. I like the song and, unlike, WWBTF, it grabbed me right away.

Heard it five or six times now. I'm very disappointed but god alone knows why. Til now I've always hoped against all the evidence, that they could release a great single. Boy, do I feel stupid. It's average. It's bland. It's corporate. It's forgettable. It's banal.

The lyrics fall so far short of what even Bon Jovi can turn out. Yeah they have a bunch of cliches, but the singles usually have enough swagger to pull it off. These are pure bullshit though, seriously supermarket, chain-store, own-brand greetings-card bullshit. Delivered by someone just filling in the hours.

This band needs a break, or a management shake-up. Jon can keep the wheels turning, but it's no good if they just churn out dead-eyed music like this.

What really sticks in my craw is all this talk of brands. Using the 80s font shows that somewhere someone working on releases KNOWS that Bon Jovi are a marketable brand - I wish Jon had half the nous of the people who put together the cover art and then perhaps he wouldn't be serving up low-fat versions of Nickleback songs. That Bon Jovi logo suggests the heyday, when Bon Jovi turned out reliable hits. Yes, the general public see it as a bit formulaic, but that was the house style and it made their name shorthand for a whole phase of a lot of people's lives. What a shame it's come to this, boring, caffiene-free, tee-total music that makes the Jonas Brothers seem edgy.

I'm not advocating a return to the hair metal sound. That all worked because of the quality of the songs, and the sense of fun/passion/humanity that they conveyed. It's that bit that catches in your throat, the lyric that pops up in your head and gets you through the day, the chorus that you can't stop humming. All this passion is missing from releases like this.

I feel like the best bits of recent mid-tempo songs are the bits that seem like they could be auto-biographical: when you glimpse Jon and Richie in make a memory ('you can sing the melody to me, and I can write a couple lines') and When We Were Beautiful ('back when we were beautiful, before the world got small, when we were innocent'). I wish they'd stop generalising so much, stop trying to steal Nickelback's fans. I wish they could kick back and trust themselves to make their own album. One that comes from them, not their idea of the market.

Well that sucked...

I don't think it's from the LH sessions. The content feels Circle Era. I think it sounds more like a LH track because they backed away from the sonic sound of The Circle due to it's "failure."
That said, am I the only one who thinks the song sounds like almost everything from the 98/99 era Sex Sells/Jon's solo album demos? That was my immediate first thought, before Nickelback or anything else. I don't know how I feel about the song honestly. I don't HATE the way I would have TIOH, but it doesn't grab me either. I do think there's a very strong possibility it'll fair better US Chart-Wise than WWBTF though.

someone said it was from a press release from Universal.....
saying it was part of the LH ...


well...dunno if it's true...

but this song is more HAND than LH for me XDD

I mean, really HAND...it really looks like Welcome to (...)

i thought that too but those were never my favorite either. That's when Bon Jovi went downhill for me.

It's a really good song. It's just not the monster hit it should have been. I hope it's successful for them. I want this GH to be huge for them.

EDIT: I wonder if the intentionally put it up with the ability to download it for free, or if it that was a mistake.