I think they need to delay it.
Album could tank. We’ve not heard from any other member of the band about this album.
If released in May with no physical copies it would just fade after a week.
Delaying would be best so they can promote it better.
If it wasn’t for the Invictus games (that didn’t happen) hardly anyone would know there’s anew album out.
Heard limitless a few times on Planet Rock and Radio 2 last few weeks but that’s about it.


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[quote=Captain_jovi;1263469]Did Burning Bridges not come out literally with no one knowing, no promotion or anything? If Jon is to be believed and the songs are so relevant for the last few months, then perhaps it will be just put out there as the relevance may be gone by this time next year.

Yes, and by BJ's standards, it tanked. It also was a contractual obligation, with the bare minimum of songs needed to qualify, and one of these was a "**** you" to the record company; with lots of others being old demos.

It has some of the most inspired moments of the past three records, but there's LOTS of filler on there, too.

Aloha !

Do you feel This House Is Not For Sale didn't have fillers? I'd say that record consists of nothing but fillers, really. Apart from the title track there's not much on there worth writing home about, really.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

Devil in the Temple had the most potential.
But again with modern day Jovi the lack of guitar solo and play out makes it half the track it could've been.

I really like Roller Coaster.

That being said, while a lot of the album is super middle of the road stuff, the "climbed every mountain" track from BB is the most by the numbers BJ song ever. Also, Blind Love/Real Love (forgot which is which) was a case of putting an unfinished song on a record. The THINFS version was just a bonus track, at least. I mean, they fact they used b-tier material from the archives is enough to tell you they just wanted to get it up to ten tracks.

Of course, that "who cares" mindset also gave us Teardrop... and Who Would You Die For, which probably would (did?) not have made the cut for a regular, "proper" album. It does not feel like an album, though; just a collection of songs. I'd need to listen to THINFS again sometime, but the version I have is like 19 tracks; that's a little too much for me usually.

[quote=Jonty;1263482]It doesn't work like that and hasn't in decades. Dropping a record into nothingness when there's so much content out there is suicide. You have to remember Bon Jovi are a VERY un-cool band with little public success on the studio side since maybe 2007. As Alpha said, BB is a COMPLETELY different scenario and was never released to be a major official album for a myriad of reasons.

I have a hunch we will get a full 12 song album when it finally comes out. I think adding a few songs and maybe taking off 1 is the most likely scenario.

Here you go, Rolo...

https://www.iheart.com/content/2020-...line1_readmore

Sorry, buddy!

I don't see a reason why it couldn't be released in the fall when the situation calms down a bit and when they can support the release with some promo gigs in theaters around the world as they did with WAN and THINFS. Plus probably TV shows will be on so even without the tour, it will be possible to promote the album. Something that is totally impossible now and will be in May and I'm afraid of June as well. And nobody cares for records during the summer holidays.
And if it seems possible then, they can announce the tour for spring 2021 before Christmas. I say if it is possible, meaning that shows are allowed and there are actually arenas to play in.