Originally Posted by Becky (Post 1227533)

Don't doubt the guy! I was an Elvis fan by the time I was 3 or 4. I was left to entertain myself at that age and had access to a record player and my mom's records and I consistently played Disney, Golden Book, and Elvis records. I also loved Ray Coniff. I also banged around on a keyboard and accordion that were at my disposal.

Originally Posted by steel_horse75 (Post 1227526)

My dads massively into music so Ive loved it since I was about 5 or 6. My nan used to buy me a single every Friday and I saved up pocket money for albums.
First ever single was Dead Ringer for Love by Meatloaf and first album was Shaky by Shakin Stevens - but i was brought up on The Beatles, Stones, Clapton, Cream, Hendrix etc.
I got my own taste about 14 and thats when I discovered Jovi.

Anyways, I like bit and pieces of all albums. When they get it right they really do get it right but as far as a consistent album - not been once since These Days.

Every album has a duff track or 2 but the first 6 for me (with the exception of those 1 or 2 tracks) are immense.

Originally Posted by hackster73 (Post 1227553)

Agreed

It's almost like you could make a very strong album from 2 post 2000.

Crush-Bounce

HAND-Lost Highway

The Circle-What About Now

Burning Bridges-THINFS

I know this means the output is less frequent but that isn't a bad thing. An album every 4 years...

If you mix these together, remove the throw away songs you can be left with 4 strong albums. Anyone want to try?

Originally Posted by hackster73 (Post 1227553)

If you mix these together, remove the throw away songs you can be left with 4 strong albums. Anyone want to try?

Originally Posted by hackster73 (Post 1227554)

It's either that or use some of the bonus songs that in most cases were better than some of the album cuts... Another reason to believe, standing, we can dance, dirty little secret, unbreakable, nothing, walk like a man, etc

Originally Posted by rolo_tomachi (Post 1227558)

I would not say a strong album, perhaps more audible. The problem is that it never has that entity as the old albums had. All post2000 albums sound like a collection of nonsense songs to me.



That's exactly what I usually do with albums like Crush, Bounce, Have a NIce Day and Lost Highway. The b-side save a bit the flow of the album, but still there is a long distance to consider it a strong album, perhaps more solid, and more pleasant, which is not bad. The Circle is probably the only album I do not need to remove, add or replace, it's not perfect but the album flow works for me, it's not a great album, but I can listen to it from beginning to end without skipping songs. With WAN however, I need to change some songs with bonus and some songs of GH 2010, and still a bit of shit. THINFS and BB make a very good hybrid for me.

Knowing that they are not great albums, I consider myself fortunate to have all that bunch of songs, and especially the box set 2004. Material in abundance.