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BOX SET SONG HISTORIES
(Friday, March 18, 2005)

Below is a breakdown of the when and where the songs from the 100,000,000 BON JOVI FANS CAN'T BE WRONG... box set originated. This is not scripture - it took some work culling this info from the archives (even on the box set DVD vs. the box set booklet you might find contradictions -- the truth is, 20 years of tapes unearthed with less than stellar labelling!):

DISC ONE:
1) WHY AREN'T YOU DEAD? (Unreleased demo circa 1994.) Recorded in NJ.
2) THE RADIO SAVED MY LIFE TONIGHT (Unreleased demo circa 1992.) Recorded in Vancouver and New Jersey. Vocals were, indeed, done while JBJ had a head cold.
3) TAKING IT BACK (Unreleased demo circa 1992.) Recorded in New Jersey.
4) SOMEDAY I'LL BE SATURDAY NIGHT (Unreleased demo of song that continued to be worked on until the version most are familiar with appeared on the 1994 Cross Road album.) Written in the islands, this was recorded in New Jersey in 1994.
5) MISS FOURTH OF JULY (Unreleased demo circa 1992.) Recorded up in Vancouver and back in New Jersey.
6) OPEN ALL NIGHT (Unreleased demo circa 1994.) Recorded in New Jersey.
7) THESE ARMS ARE OPEN ALL NIGHT (Unreleased demo circa 1998 recorded with the Big Dogs in New Jersey.)
I GET A RUSH (Unreleased demo circa 1996.) Recorded in New Jersey.
9) SOMEDAY JUST MIGHT BE TONIGHT (Unreleased demo circa 1996.) Recorded in New Jersey.
10) THIEF OF HEARTS (Final Studio Track from 2003.) Recorded at Sanctuary Sound II in New Jersey for intended inclusion in This Left Feels Right cd.
11) LAST MAN STANDING (Final Studio Track from 2003.) Recorded at Sanctuary Sound II in New Jersey for inteded inclusion in Thsi Left Feels Right cd. (Band has recorded a much different version of this song for planned inclusion in forthcoming studio album.)
12) I JUST WANT TO BE YOUR MAN (Unreleased demo from 1994.) Recorded in New Jersey.

DISC TWO:
1) GARAGELAND (Unreleased demo from 1999.) Recorded in New Jersey.
2) STARTING ALL OVER AGAIN (Remixed or Re-worked in 2004 for the box set; original demo released as a b-side from the 1992 Keep The Faith album.) Recorded in Vancouver - New Jersey.
3) MAYBE SOMEDAY (Unreleased demo from 1999.) Recorded in New Jersey.
4) LAST CAHNCE TRAIN (Unreleased demo from circa 1998.) Recorded in Los Angeles with Aerosmith's Joe Perry on guitar.
5) THE FIRE INSIDE (Unreleased demo circa 1994.) Recorded in New Jersey.
6) EVERY BEAT OF MY HEART (Unreleased demo circa 1992.) Recorded in New Jersey.
7) RICH MAN LIVING IN A POOR MAN'S HOUSE (Unreleased demo from 1998.) Recorded in New Jersey and Los Angeles with Dave Stewart.
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY (Unreleased demo from 1999.) Recorded in New Jersey.
9) YOU CAN SLEEP WHILE I DREAM (Unreleased demo circa 1999.) Recorded in New Jersey.
10) OUTLAWS OF LOVE (Unreleased demo from 1992.) Recorded in New Jersey.
11) GOOD GUYS DON'T ALWAYS WEAR WHITE (movie soundtrack song from 'The Cowboy Way' in 1994.) Recorded in Los Angeles; video shot in NYC.
12) WE RULE THE NIGHT (Unreleased demo from 1985.) Recorded in New Jersey and Philly.

DISC THREE:
1) EDGE OF A BROKEN HEART (the sorely-missed Slippery When Wet song not included on the 1986 breakthru album.) Recorded up in Vancouver.
2) SYMPATHY (Unreleased demo from 1992.) Recorded in New Jersey.
3) ONLY IN MY DREAMS (Unreleased demo from 1994.) Recorded in New Jersey. A version with Jon on vocals was captured but the one with Tico's vocals was included on the box set.
4) SHUT UP AND KISS ME (Unreleased demo from 1997.) Recorded in New Jersey with the Big Dogs.
5) CRAZY LOVE (Unreleased demo from 1998.) Recorded in Los Angeles and New Jersey.
6) LONELY AT THE TOP (Previously released b-side from the 1995 These Days project.) Recorded in New Jersey however, remixed for inclusion in the box set and cello parts were added by Garo Yellin for a more meloncholy feel.
7) ORDINARY PEOPLE (Previously released b-side from 2000's CRUSH album.) Recorded in New Jersey.
FLESH AND BONE (Unreleased demo from 1994.) Recorded in New Jersey.
9) SATELLITE (Unreleased demo from 1999.) Recorded in New Jersey.
10) IF I CAN'T HAVE YOUR LOVE (Richie solo demo circa 1991.) Recorded in Vancouver featuring David Bryan on keyboards.
11) REAL LIFE (Movie soundtrack from 1999's EDTV.) Recorded in New York City (at Avatar Studios, which had originally been the Power Station where Jon Bon Jovi had started his music career as a gofer) and New Jersey. It was remixed for inclusion in the box set.
12) MEMPHIS LIVES IN ME (Original composition for the musical 'MEMPHIS' co-written by David Bryan, written in 2003.) This studio recording was done in New Jersey specifically for inclusion in the box set.
13) TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING
(Unreleased demo from 1999 prior to CRUSH album.) Recorded in New Jersey.

DISC FOUR:
1) LOVE AIN'T NOTHING BUT A FOUR LETTER WORD (Unreleased studio recording from 1992.) This was recorded up in Vancouver and New Jersey, and is much more fleshed out than the original demo version.
2) LOVE AIN'T NOTHING BUT A FOUR LETTER WORD (Original demo from 1992.) This is the first version fo the song as written by Jon Bon Jovi and recorded in New Jersey, prior to taking it further and fleshing it out.
3) RIVER RUNS DRY (Unreleased demo from 1996.) REcorded in New Jersey.
4) ALWAYS (Original demo from 1994.) Recorded in the UK.
5) KIDNAP AN ANGEL (Unreleased demo from 1999.) Recorded in New Jersey.
6) BREATHE (B-Side internationally and Target CD.)- released in 2003; written and recorded 2001/2002 in New Jersey.
7) OUT OF BOUNDS (Unreleased demo from 1986.) Recorded in New Jersey.
LETTER TO A FRIEND (Unreleased demo from 1994.) Recorded in New Jersey.
9) TEMPTATION (Int'l b-side from CRUSH album in 2000.) But this version Re-worked in 2003 from TLFR sessions.
10) GOTTA HAVE A REASON (Unreleased demo written on spec for a movie sountrack in 1993.) Recorded in New Jersey and Singapore (as documented in the video footage on the box set dvd.)
11) ALL I WANNA DO IS YOU (Unreleased demo from 1997.) Recorded in New Jersey.
12) BILLY (unreleased demo from 1992.) Recorded in New Jersey.
13) NOBODY'S HERO (Unreleased demo from 1994.) Recorded in New Jersey.
14) *Hidden Bonus Track: LIVIN' ON A PRAYER (Original demo of Livin' On A Prayer from 1986... definitely written and recorded in New Jersey!)

Hope this adds some insights into the background of these songs.

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And now compare it to other list, is somewhat older and less updated.

Disc one:
"Why Aren't You Dead?" (outtake, 1994)
"The Radio Saved My Life Tonight" (outtake, 1992)
"Taking It Back" (outtake, 1992)
"Someday I'll Be Saturday Night (Demo)" (demo, 1994)
"Miss Fourth of July" (outtake, 1992)
"Open All Night" (outtake, 1994)
"These Arms Are Open All Night" (outtake, 199
"I Get a Rush" (outtake, 1996)
"Someday Just Might Be Tonight" (outtake, 1999)
"Thief of Hearts" (outtake, 2003)
"Last Man Standing" (outtake, 2003)
"I Just Want To Be Your Man" (outtake, 1994)

Disc two:
"Garageland" (outtake, 1999)
"Starting All Over Again" (bonus track for Japan release, 1992)
"Maybe Someday" (outtake, 1999)
"Last Chance Train" (outtake, 199
"The Fire Inside" (outtake, 1994)
"Every Beat of My Heart" (outtake, 1992)
"Rich Man Living in a Poor Man's House" (outtake, 199
"The One That Got Away" (outtake, 1999) "You Can Sleep While I Dream" (outtake, 1999)
"Outlaws of Love" (outtake, 1992)
"Good Guys Don't Always Wear White" ("The Cowboy Way" soundtrack, 1994)
"We Rule the Night" (outtake, 1985)

Disc three:
"Edge of a Broken Heart" (from "Disorderlies" soundtrack, 1986)
"Sympathy" (outtake, 1992)
"Only in My Dreams" (outtake, 1994)
"Shut Up and Kiss Me" (outtake)
"Crazy Love" (outtake, 199
"Lonely at the Top" (B-side, 1995)
"Ordinary People" (B-side, 1999)
"Flesh and bone" (outtake, 1994)
"Satellite" (outtake, 1999)
"If I Can't Have Your Love" (unreleased Richie Sambora solo track)
"Real Life" ("EDTV" soundtrack, 1999)
"Memphis Lives in Me" (from musical "Memphis," 2003)
"Too Much of a Good Thing" (outtake, 1999)

Disc four:
"Love Ain't Nothing But a Four Letter Word" (outtake, 1992)
"Love Ain't Nothing But a Four Letter Word" (demo, 1992)
"River Runs Dry" (outtake, 1996)
"Always" (demo, 1994)
"Kidnap an Angel" (outtake, 1999)
"Breathe" (B-side, 2002)
"Out of Bounds" (outtake, 1986)
"Letter to a Friend" (outtake, 1994)
"Temptation" (B-side, 2000)
"Gotta Have a Reason" (outtake, 1993)
"All I Wanna Do Is You" (outtake)
"Billy" (outtake, 1992)
"Nobody's Hero" (outtake, 1994)
"Livin' on a Prayer" (demo, 1986)

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Just reminded me what a TOP CLASS release the box set was. Even with Obie screwing up stuff all the time, this just kicked ass!!! ****IN' CLASS!!!

Yeah, some gems on that boxset..was pleased with the relase, despite them missing some obvious bsides.

And rolo_tomachi what's your source for that list by the way? Because you certainly didn't write all that, it's too well written .. ;p


Andi

I thought Why Aren't You Dead was from the KTF sessions?

I love Outlaws of love.

Haha, certainly, I not wrote. Long ago, a fan posted it on a forum. I don't remember who did it.

I thought I remember someone saying that list was posted on bonjovi.com right when the boxset came out.

ETA: The date is March 2005. I'm almost certain it was posted on the official website or Backstage or something, and someone was smart enough to copy and save it. I've seen that very same list on this forum a few times in the past 3 years.

Yeah, that's the list Obie posted on bj.com back in the day. But I think it was originally posted before 2005.

It was early 2005, I remember the box set came out in November and it took them a while to post it.

Obie did a LOT of work pleasing the hard cores with this box set and I will always appreciate the effort he did with this.

7) RICH MAN LIVING IN A POOR MAN'S HOUSE (Unreleased demo from 1998.) Recorded in New Jersey and Los Angeles with Dave Stewart.

Was Dave Stewart suppose to record JBJ's 3rd solo effort? ...I know how Crush came to be, but I didn't know DS did any work with JBJ after DA.

You are totally correct. :-) I mixed up the years.

Yeah, it was a good effort, but I was very angry about many missed opportunities back then... I wanted all the NJ demos for instance that were floating around in poor quality and I hated how Obie stated that he didn't want to put them on the box because the hard-core fans already had them. I didn't. And I still don't in decent quality.

However, it includes songs like Breathe, Lonely at the Top, Edge of the Broken Heart, Good Guy's Dont Always Wear White, Ordinary People, Real Life (the album version from Edtv is better than the box set version) etc ....

I think they were aware of making two box set, and have reserved the material for the 30th anniversary or maybe the 40th anniversary. They would not put all the good in the first compilation.

The box set is just the perfect collection... 4 discs of music WAY better than last 4 albums xD We've should been listening to one new disc every 2 years and it would be something big :D

The mastering by George Marino is 10, perfect sound, are the best mixes of the entire catalog of Bon Jovi.

Regarding songs recorded between 96-99, what was their purpose?

After TD tour I thought they went separate ways as such to do solo albums/movies etc and re-convened for Real Life and later Crush.

Yeah, songs like Love is war, Does anbody really, etc. would be GREAT to have in more than just decent-to-good quality. Also Nothing from then HAND sessions is one of the best songs they ever did, but the best version I could find still has some distortion (from the cymbals and/or guitar) in the chorus :(

I guess most of 'em on the box set were just Jon's solo with other musicians.

The line between band and Jon's solo stuff is blurred very heavily. A LOT of the songs are Jon and his solo band.

Awesome Tune!!!!

This was an 80's tune, not 92.

On the Box Set Jon said this one had dust on it with We Rule The Night. He doesn't remember writing it and referred to it as the "earlier stuff" he doesn't necessarily like.

I think so however Jon gave Bruce Fairbairn 30 songs in 1999 of which he only produced one.... Real Life before he passed in May 1999.

Bruce was probably going to do Crush but maybe his passing also changed Sex Sells into Crush....

He was talking about Out of Bounds, not Outlaws of Love.

Aloha !

That's not how things work. You don't record 30 songs and then hand them to a producer to make something of it. No one really knows how much had been finish with Bruce Fairbairn before he died, and most demo's that have been released from the Crush era have a different feeling to them compared to what Real Life sounds like.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

We'd have to go digging through the interviews to find it but I'm pretty sure Jon has said they didn't get any further than sifting through the piles of songs they brought to the table to figure out which to go after. I honestly don't believe Bruce had anything to do with it past re-vamping Real Life.

No it's OUTLAWS OF LOVE

Start at 25:50

How could anyone think Outlaws of Love was from '92 anyway? It's so Bon Jovi 80's.

What are you talking about? I never said anything about recorded songs?

In an interview he stated that he gave Bruce 30 and Richie brought 1. He wasn't specific as to what stage the songs were in or what album they were for. He said Real Life was the last song Bruce did for them before his passing.

Jon has his own recording studio and it capable of some sort of production so you don't really know what stage the songs were in when he handed them over.

By the way, these are the conversations I love to have and was hoping my 90's post could morph into something like this. I can't take these simple topics anymore on ranking your favorite song or worst line. Like I stated, my 90’s topic was influenced from the Box Set topic while I was reading about the These Days songs.

I agree. I hear some of the same guitar tones as Love Is War and Borderline.

Nah dude, Outlaws is definitely a 90s demo. Simply because of the vocals in the high bits. High vocals in the 80s demos were very strained and gravelly.

I'm usually the biggest defender of Rdkopper in here, but I'm 98% he is wrong on this one.

Yeah the guitar riff definitely has that 80s sound but the chorus and the high bits definitely has than 92/94 demo era. It almost has the sound of Love Ain't Nothing But a Four Letter Word (rock version without the brass).

Also im pretty sure i've watched interviews where Jon has got it totally wrong about when songs were written and released...im sure its either 92 or 94

Ack, you're right, my apologies!

I agree with you about the amount of songs they gave Bruce. They talked about going through the huge pile of songs they amassed in that time period, I don't think they recorded anything with Bruce past Real Life. The demos have such a loose feel, it was probably just them and Obie.

You think that, Bon Jovi will release new "box set" the next year?

We should ask.

I'm thinking early 80's because he is so high. Like 85ish. What gives it away for me is the rasp in Jon's voice. Listen to Edge Of A Broken Heart then listen to Outlaws. It's that same voice I've been missing for 20 years now. I remember listening to the Box Set the day it came out and instantly pegged it for '85. And then Jon's blurb in the interview I attached just confirms it.

One can only dream. They need to dig deep and far.

The problem with Jon is, he hates all the great songs we love.

He didn't like Outlaws but "had" to put it on there

He contradicts the crap out of himself though, simply because it was so long ago. You can hear him say Why aren't you dead was recorded for Crush, then it was KTF, with paperwork saying '94. Three separate eras. There'll never be a way to know for certain when it all came from and it's maddening. I've been ranting on here for years about how they claim Ordinary People is for These Days. It's not. Nope.

8:11 forward tells the same story I just told. He states "written" and I think he is saying the ones Richie written, not the one. I haven't watched this in 10 years and it's hard to hear Jon in certain parts.

I love Outlaws of Love, and I'm also pretty certain it's 80s, sounds nothing like the Keep The Faith era or even the New Jersey era, I'd put it at Slippery at the latest.

There's others on that official list I strongly disagree with as well ... Satellite, Last Chance Train and The One That Got Away mainly

I believe The One that Got Away was written for the movie Message in a Bottle and it fits the timeline of when it came out. The other two I'm iffy about.

I could be wrong, but it just doesn't sound like Crush era Jon to me

Where do think they are from?

Satellite sounds like KTF era, and Last Chance Train sounds like Blaze of Glory era.

I think "Last Chance Train" was recorded around 1998, if I remember rightly. The vocals (and maybe the whole track) was pitched up a few keys on the box set version aswell.