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Originally Posted by Thinny
Yeah you're right, but I mean - What Do You Got doesn't sound any different from the Shanks stuff to me...honestly none of the greatest Hits new tracks did anything for me so I didn't pay then a huge amount of attention, but i always hated What Do You Got.
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What Do You Got is not a good song for me, but production choices versus This Is Love, This is Life are night and day. It's still mushy on choruses largely cause instrumental arrangements are bland, but dynamics are much better still. If anybody else produced This Is Love, This Is Life, it could have been a serious contender for major Jovi single.
Again, this doesn't mean Shanks' choices are so horrific, they are in line with industry standards in those times, and I agree with you, if we are to play blame game, of course it ends with Jon's responsibility. But much of those songs just don't breathe. If you listen to LH songs that Shanks produced, try to listen them 5 times in a row and your ears will be so much tired than with other songs on the same album.