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Also, I don't quite get your reasoning behind "the album didn't sell well so there was no need to release singles". Surely singles are promoting the album? |
I like that album pretty much. Undivided, The Distance, Hook Me Up, Right Side of Wrong(Desperado-cover to my ear though) are great songs. But then there are Everyday, Bounce, All About Lovin' You and Love Me Back to Life... What can I say about those songs...well catchy choruses... but that's it. Too easy and stupid to be released... When Bon Jovi is obviously band that does melodic music it isn't enough that they can put together songs that only lean on those catchy choruses...
I still think that Bounce is much better than HAND or LH though... HAND should have been released by some pop artist like Pink becauce that album is just meaningless and pointless piece of junk, electric guitar and some heavy riffs itselves do not gualify as rock music... in my opinion:) |
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It's an awful album, just awful. Too glossy production even for Bon Jovi's standards, too short songs, awkward synthesizer effects throughout the album, poorly written crap songs. Everyday and Bounce are pure clones of It's My Life, and IMO the band had never before copied their own material this much. Sure their old power ballads may have at times reminded each other quite a lot with their lyrical content but now when they had one big hit, for the first time they started to do more songs that followed exactly the formula of that hit. It's like they have no shame at all, and are truly desperate to get more hits.
All About Loving You is a boy band song. It's the kind of ballad Backstreet Boys and N'Sync and those other boy bands used to do, and the song has nothing in common with the rock ballads this band did in the 80s and 90s. Hook Me Up is also a boy band's "rock song"... I have never understood it when people have called this a heavy song, sure there's a miserable attempt at a heavy guitar but always when I heard this song I thought of the Backstreet Boys. I've always thought that the lyrics of Joey are retarded. They tried to do a storytelling song but this song has simply none of the drama and suspense of Springsteen's storytelling songs. With this song they truly show how they are the poor man's Bruce Springsteen. Bounce has the whiniest and crappiest Bon Jovi ballads ever. You Had Me From Hello, AALY and Open All Night are such unbelievable cheese and treacle that I don't even know how to describe it. Misunderstood is an annoying, disposable pop song. There are only two decent songs on the album, Undivided and The Distance, and compared to their old material they are not that great either. The album's name is stupid. It was pathetic how they used to say how the word "bounce" can mean different things to different people... they could have just as well named the album Ball or Table. Shoe would have been an equally intelligent name for this album. I also hate the Bounce promo pictures because with no other album do they look more like a group of supermodels rather than a group of musicians. Looking at the pictures on the album's sleeve, it's obvious that they put much more effort into posing in photographs than making music. Simply put, this album fails in everything. In 2002 this album had the most uninspired, poppiest, shortest and most unoriginal songs they had ever done and it was hard to believe that they could go any lower than this. It's funny how some people like Walrus say they became fans because of Bounce, when with me it was the opposite: when I heard Bounce for the first time, I immediately knew that this band was done. |
I listened to it on a long car ride yesterday, as I was in the mood for it. I loved it, just as much as I did in 2003 (it really needed some months to grow on me back then). Afterwards I listened to some bonus tracks from that era, only to find out again how much I love "Postcards From The Wastelands", which SHOULD have replaced "Open All Night" (which I still like, somehow) as a closing track. That would have lifted the album a lot.
It's certainly not their best ever album, but still not as bad as people put it. The production isn't great and here and there and there is really a Richie solo missing at the end of "The Distance", but overall it creates a great atmosphere. It may be because of my memories about the time of its release. Someone here said it was a good time to be a fan. Yes it was. It was the first album I followed on the internet, I heard the broadcast from Shepherds Bush in my car (which rocked me totally off my feet) and I agree, the band felt totally confident about their stuff. Probably the last time they were so much into their songs that they really presented them with a passion, a bit like in the KTF era when older fans were confused about the new sound. I discovered the album on vacation in Spain, spring 2003, sitting on the beach, getting into it. Then I went to Australia for two months, backpacking the country, and I remember one walk through Adelaide by night, listening to the album, then again on some beach in Cairns... so many things connect to it, and the concerts on that tour were GREAT, among their best ever. At least the ones I have seen, Mannheim and Munich - the latter being their outstanding performance with 3 hours of music and a totally exhausted Jon, that gave his last to perform 2 more encores, "These Days" and "Twist And Shout". As I said, they gave it all. And the songs worked live as well, the performance of "Joey" convinced me, though "Undivided" was waaayyy to slow. The album has great songs. Period. And the flow is great, too, always liked it. That needed to be said! :-) With some little changes here and there and a different production it could have been a masterpiece - dark, mighty and heavy. And looking back I liked that they tried something different after "Crush". Though you can see at what they were aiming with "Everyday". |
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