Which songs should be dropped from setlists for good?
 

I'm just wondering, which songs aren't wanted to be played anymore by Bon Jovi die hard fans. I've been hearing a lot of opinions about that, and I just decided to make a thread to it. I want everyone to write down BJ's songs that they have been playing for a long time and you think should be retired. I'm sorry if the same topic already exists, but I didn't found anything like this in "Tour Discussion" category.

These are songs that I personally think shouldn't be played at all, or atleast very rarely. Most of them might be good, but just overplayed.

Lost Highway
We Got It Goin' On
Raise Your Hands
Runaway
Bed Of Roses
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Hallelujah
Captain Crash And The Beauty Queen (I like this song, but it was horribly overplayed during the LH tour)
The Radio Saved My Life Tonight
(You Want To) Make A Memory
Someday I'll Be Saturday Night ( only the acoustic version, I think the original version should be played on every show)

What do you think?

I think Bed Of Roses does not belong to this list. It´s brilliant live ;-)

Well if you disagree with my list, write down yours, it's simple, that's why I made this thread :)
As far as Bed Of Roses goes, unlike many people, I've never found this song the masterpiece that some fans did. For me, as a ballad it always was weak comparing to the superior ones, like Always, I'll Be There For You, Never Say Goodbye, This Ain't A Love Song and others. It has been too sugar-coated for me. The live performances were really great, though. But ever since Jon started doing the TLFR, I think should've been dropped. It was cool to hear the return of the original version in the LH tour, but now, I think it sucks once again. I don't have a very big problem with this song being performed, but I just think that that one "super-mega-hit ballad" spot could be used for another song, like those I written a couple lines above this sentence.

Bed of Roses not on setlist = Wrong

It's a huge hit.

WWBTF or at least not every night !
All the LH songs ...
Bed Of Roses - Jon can't sing it properly anymore ...
All HAND/Bounce Songs ...

I'd say drop the following:
Anything from the second half of crush apart from OWN.
All of Bounce except Undivided, Bounce, RSOW and Everyday
Welcome to wherever you are, less WSYCGH
All of LH except memory, LH, summertime and any other day.

Have continual rotation of the circle so we get to hear all the songs in the album and it keeps fresh.

KEEP
Roses - classic song
Something for the pain/saturday night set - the little acoustic set is a wonderful break in the show
Hallelujah - one of the best cover songs Jovi do and great when twinned with roses
Thorn in my side, LTOR - Passionate live performances of these songs look fantastic.

They should keep only Prayer, wanted, bad name, ktf, these days and then put shuffle on their ipods and play whatever the hell comes up

lol that'd be awesome.

Matrix,

1. If Bed Of Roses is a hit, then what is Always? Always is a much bigger hit than Bed Of Roses and it's still yet to be played on this tour. Yeah, Jon may not sound as good as he did back in '95, but when this song returned to setlist, he still sounded good and everyone was happy to hear it. I have no problem with Bed of Roses if it's performed the original way, like it was at some of the LH shows, but not the way it's being performed now.

2. I think you don't get the difference betweet "dropping" and "not performing". With dropping from the setlist, I mean get rid of songs that are/were staples on Bon Jovi shows for the last few years, so I don't think your suggestion not to do anything from Bounce is a right calll to this topic since it hasn't been played in a long time, with few very rare exceptions.

None at all.

On any given night, any band should play the best show possible that reflects 1) their current artistic intentions, 2) the mood and feeling of that specific show (if they have the skill).

The only thing they shouldn't do is calculate and play a predictable lowest common denominator show that really doesn't excite anyone.