Ten Classic Bon Jovi Albums Presented As Special Editions

Originally Posted by Rob

Well yes better equipment will be available but there is little you can do volume wise when you're already at max anyway. A lot of analogue recordings from the 80s and early 90s were recorded well within the maximum gain so not to reduce the quality. Remastering is basically a process that normalises the track and brings any random peaks in the waveform to a similar level as the rest of the track. This is so the gain can be boosted and thus the overall volume of the track without (in theory) reducing quality. If these tracks have already been remastered digitally, as they have with the remasters that were released just before the turn of the century, then to make it louder still you would have to sacrifice a bit of quality and make certain louder parts of the track quieter or even inaudible.

The best way of checking this would be to open the track in a piece of recording software such as Audacity. If the waveform appears to be solid in some or all areas rather than having peaks and troughs then there's a good chance the gain has been over-boosted. It's shit when they do that. I can see why they do it so the songs sound louder and stand out on radio, etc, but the extent to which it is done these days is ruining music as we know it.

Originally Posted by jungleland

Crush is surely no classic is is average and pretty disappointing after TD. SO it is only 3 classic iconic albums as I think KTF is highly overrated. I like the first tow albums even more and would even rate the first one as a classic

Originally Posted by gazthomas

Crush brought them a new fan base, and therefore made their music cross grenerations

KTF - Bed of roses, Dry County, ITA etc...... plus it was a great comback album with some of jons best vocals.

Originally Posted by jungleland

KTF also had a lot or corkers in the 2nd half like "I want you" (Pure boredom), "Save a prayer" (Filler bar 3), "Blame it on the love..." (lame Sleep part 2), WOman in love (one of the worst BJ songs ever). The only good song in half 2 is "Fear" the rest is very forgettable. I won't list the corkers on "Crush" as there are too many to mention . Without IML it would have bombed and only because of that song it "crossed generations". Thanks o Max Martin. All the huge hits were co-written. I reckon D. Child as 6th member of the band. He has more input than hired gun Huey.

Originally Posted by jungleland

Shitty english what's the equivalent to "bad" then +g*?

Originally Posted by sammy645

I finally bought One, New Jersey. Its actually quite good, a decent improvement.

Any other of the albums worth buying?

Originally Posted by jungleland

KTF was the weakest of them all but still miles ahead of other relases from other bands back then.
Even on bad days they were miles better than on a good day in the last few years sadly. The energy and passion (what was THE strength of BJ) has almost completely vanished.

Originally Posted by jungleland

KTF was a disappointment for me. First BJ album with LOADS of wek tracks like "WOman in Love" /"I want you"/"Save a prayer"/"Little bit of soul"/"Blame it on the love...". And I hate to say it but i never liked BOR. SO you have 6 weak tracks which makes 1/2 album.