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I know most people classify jovi albums by the decade that they were in, but I was wondering the other day about taking it a step further. I noticed that you can pretty much classify them in pairs. I did that below and gave some titles to the classifications. I was wondering what everyone thought of this notion and if they had any other classification titles. Keep in mind that this only works for studio albums of original material; no crossroads, one wild night, TLFR, and 100 million fans.

1) BJ/ Farenheit- "baby steps" "almost, but not quite"
2) SWW/NJ- "Step aside bitches!" " Showing the world how it's done" "You got fame and became a brand name"
3) KTF/TD- "you really shouldn't have written us off" "We'll be back America; HELLO EUROPE AND ASIA!!!!!" "Suck my balls grunge"....(sorry but my ode to cartman)
4) Crush/ Bounce-"Not old, just older" "Thought you forgot about us huh" "Daddy's back!"
5)HAND/LH- "No seriously, I always thought country could work" "selling out never looked so cool"...(i'm expecting alot of shit from this one) "what's a guitar solo?"

haha pretty good and I think I have to agree with you too!

Uhm.... except HAND is actually a pretty good rock album, so that kinda' throws a spanner in your works.

yeah, HAND and LH don't really fit together all that much. Well aside from one song that is.

Yeah, I had already sort of grouped them into pairs in my mind already but for slightly different reasons:

BJ/Farenheit - pretty duff apart from a few stand out tracks
SWW/NJ - Great fun rock (young Jovi)
KTF/TD - Great mature rock (old Jovi)
Crush/Bounce - Crap pop-rock
HAND/LH - Trying to find their direction again but on the whole not great

I'll go along with this, although I probably like HAND and LH a little more than you do. Maybe that's just because they're such a huge improvement over Crush & Bounce, imho. There are only a few tracks on those 2 that I can stand at all, while there are only a few on HAND and LH that I skip on a regular basis.

I'd agree with all of this except 5.
HAND rocks LH sucks (in my opinion)


I agree!

Yeah, they do largely fit into pairs:

BJ / 7800 - Darker, grittier pop/rock/metal
SWW / NJ - Stadium sized anthemic 80s rock
KTF / TD - More blues and hard rock edged, more grown up but still incredibly passionate
Crush / Bounce - Both somewhat hit-and-miss attempts to experiment with contemporary sounds, and remain relevant in a changed musical landscape

Then HAND, which saw them settling comfortably into a modern commercial rock style ... which, while it did make for the most consistent post - 2000 album up to that point, also made it the most "safe" of the three

Then LH .... basically adult contemporary music with a bit of classic BJ pop-rock and a bit of country influence

So I guess the HAND / LH pairing is something like: radio friendly modern pop-rock

1) BJ/7800 - "garage band"
2) SWW/NJ - "riding wild horses, kicking asses, blowing houses up"
3) KTF/TD - "rock 'n soul"
5) CRUST/LH - "optimism, popish, trying to be teenagers again, ..."
6) BOUNCE - "damn if we had worked better with this record, it would have been a ****ing rock record"
7) HAND - "ouch, can't believe it's a Bon Jovi record...."

i agree LOL