*Sigh*

Time to spend more money! I didn't know the difference was that extensive.

As for the Remasters, I sweetened the deal by going for the Japanese Remasters which came with bonus discs. This was while Tower Records was still standing. They were expensive but I have positive association with picking those up. Though I admit I never got around to buying the first album and New Jersey in that format (neither are huge faves and I got ahold of the bonus discs through other means).

Dan, don't get me started on Blaze not having been remastered....

It did.

Cross Road: The Best of Bon Jovi: Amazon.co.uk:...
That's the version of Crossroad I've got. The original release had Prayer '94 instead of In These Arms and didn't have Never Say Goodbye.

If you have the original versions, stick with them and make a lossless back up on your hard disk or a dvd/ blu-ray disc.

The remastered versions pale in comparison with the original discs in terms of clarity and dynamics, they're good only if you hear your music in your car or on a small boom box.

The only difference that BOG remaster(or SITT remaster for that matter) will make is of loudness, something like an increase of 8-10 decibels or maybe more so that it is on par with the current over compressed recordings.

here's two images to clarify my point (first pic is the original dynamic and better version while the latter being the compressed, flat version.)

http://i48.tinypic.com/1z1cupk.jpg 1990

http://i48.tinypic.com/16bkcpi.jpg 2010

If you're that keen on getting a remastered version, I can squash the album for you (free, of course) or get yourself a waves L2 limiter along with goldwave and go crazy....you can't do any worse than Obie or Rick Rubin's team.

I may be wrong but didn't the US version had Prayer 94 and a different title like "14 classic grooves" while the international version had 15 tracks including Never say goodbye?

It's a possibility I suppose, but I do remember seeing the orginal Crossroad in a UK record store a few years ago and I doubt they'd be selling US releases in a UK store. I'm not 100% though as I wasn't a Jovi fan back in 1995.

Thats not actually 2 dif versions of the same track is it,cause if it is who ever mastered the secornd should be fired as it cuts some amount of frequncies

It is, I did the remastering as an example to show what Justice in a barrel will look like if released on a remastered Blaze of glory album.....and I didn't "cut" off any frequency, I simply compressed the song using a limiter(SONNOX OXFORD) AFTER some peak reduction.

and yes, I deserve to be shot for doing that, it sounds as awful as anything coming from the music industry since 1997/8 :D

EDIT
and this is how it'll look like if I boost the volume without using any limiter, notice the massive clipping.

http://i48.tinypic.com/24zhnvc.png

I don't think any mastering engineer is stupid enough(yet) to screw up this bad.

I dont know about that but,cheers for the examples anyway.