True.. it is loud and too compressed (as is most pop music these days).

But every album since crushed has been mixed and mastered poorly, with the exception of maybe Lost Highway. Though I don't have much love for LH and I haven't analyzed the dynamics, it sounds pretty clean. Nothing jumps out at me.

The first time I remember thinking any Bon Jovi song was mixed poorly (or possibly recorded poorly) was Hook Me Up and Right Side of Wrong for totally different reasons. HAND on the other was their first album to sound overly compressed.