What About Now revisited
So 5 years on I have listened to What About Now for the first time in maybe 2 years...
I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I'm interested to know what you all think 5 years on and to know your favourite tracks. |
Easily the worst Jovi album and most skippable. I'm With You was almost a good song. I tried really hard to like it, had it in my car for months when it came out but there's just no redeeming features. The best track was Into The Echo and it wasn't even on the album.
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Sambora mentioned something after he left about the album not being ready for release or rushed and that's what I felt at the time. There's some good songs, but generally most of them sound to me like they needed more work, either rewritten or just different production.
That and the fact I really liked The Fighter until someone here pointed out the Civil Wars song it sounds identical to. |
There were a few songs on there I liked, that's what the water made me for example, but I definitely agree it sounded unfinished. If it had released about a year later it probably would have been fine.
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I've tried and tried it again over the years, but I just don't start liking the album in any way. There are some decent tunes, but the best one (I'm With You) is hindered by probably the worst production on any Jovi release (or in fact any release at all).
As james_d so rightly said, it sounds unfinished. Like songs that weren't developed past their demo stage and not nearly ready for a release. Box Set material with loads of overproduction added to them. Even though I'm not a great fan of Burning Bridges or This House, I still find myself listening to those albums occasionally and enjoying them. But WAN just lacks on all fronts: lyrics get cringeworthy too often even for Jovi standards, musically it's bland and uninspired and there's no flow in there from at least song 7 or so onwards. It all blends into one big mash-up. To quote Jon from the HoF: This is the album where the shit hits the fan :( |
The funny thing is, I like Burning Bridges, but that seemed to be a rushed album to finish their contract. My theory, and I'm probably wrong, is that they spent less time on producing the album, so less chance of over producing the hell out of songs, thus we got less of the problems they had with WAN
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It was shit then and it's shit now. Crap album from start to finish.
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A Teardrop To The Sea I'm With You We Don't Run Pictures of You Amen That's What the Water Made Me What's Left of Me Who Would You Die For Fingerprints Life Is Beautiful Room at the End of the World The Fighter With These Two Hands Into the Echo |
The worst BJ album along with The Circle.
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