Aloha !

3? There were at least 15 clips there I hadn't heard before. Only about 3 of them stood out though.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

funnily enough, it was actually 4 new clips.

First Song: Sound Like Goo Goo Dolls, Luckily I like these.

Second Song: Intro Like This is Our House, but the rest is still a mystery.

Third Song: Sound Like a soundtrack Movie, has a similar style to Willing to Try.

Fourth Song: This song could have been on the album undiscovered soul. Sounds a little blues.


These preview are more or less what you expect from richie.

Waiting to hear these tracks on Album.

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Richie It has made me very happy today.

A part from sugar daddy those other tracks seem to have a lot of potential!

I didn't care for the 4th clip at all but I can't get the third one out of my head. I keep going back to the "Don't give a shit about me" from Sugar Daddy but what is the line right before that?

EDIT: "Do yourself a favor baby, don't give a shit about me?" I really really like that.

It's not. It's very Sambora, big sounding, talk box, drum machine, etc.

ah ok. cool, can't wait to hear it! thanks again.

Just got home from work:

Same, the third one sounds absolutely brilliant. The fourth clip is somewhat lacklustre but I've a feeling that when we hear the whole song it could be fantastic. I dare say there's a few brilliant songs out there that wouldn't sound so good if you only heard a random 20 seconds.

awesome. thanks for taking the time out to put this up.

Thanks very much for putting this up. Never heard of it before.

is it just me that cant hear these new songs??? i see the song list but cant hear the songs

they all sounded shit to me.

Home To You (assuming that's the title) is definitely a new favorite of mine. I hope i'm not getting ahead of myself when i say i can see it being a hit. I don't expect it to blow up, but it'd play to pop radio very nicely, as long as they're willing to overlook the fact it's from Richie Sambora.

Totally agree!!!! It sounds like the 3rd song is the one he co-wrote with Bernie Taupin

I really wish I these didn't go up. I don't want to overplay the samples, September is too long away to ruin the songs now.

I'm really struggling to find out how anyone finds any of these new songs "good"...

you need to stop living in the past...

I don't hear it sounding like Nickelback at all.

I like all of them except 'Sugardaddy' (which is awful!)

I do get what people are saying about it being close to Jovi's modern sound though. I think Ebbin has a big part to play in that and would have preferred Richie to have branched away from that sort of sound but what has been teased sounds pretty good on the whole and who knows what the other tracks will be like.

At least the lyrics sound a little more natural than some of Jovi's recent efforts.

I think Sugardaddy might surprise us. Yes from the clip it sounds a bit crappy, but if it had some really biting lyrics in the rest of the song it'd forgive the WGIGO-esque part we heard. I can imagine it having an absolutely awesome solo too. It's so difficult to properly judge if a song is crap from 20 seconds, you never know what the rest has in store.

That being said, I think you can tell if a song is definitely going to be good from 20 seconds. The first (Home to you) and third (Seven Years Gone) clip sound great. Anyone else loving Seven Years Gone? I read a few youtube comments which reckon it's about the death of his father (seven years ago now). Makes the song a bit better and more meaningful lyrically to me, rather than just being about a girl. Anyone else agree?

The 10 second clip of the second song sounds horrible, yet it intrigues me the most because the lyrics and content are something I haven't heard from Richie/Bon Jovi. We've heard loosing faith, love, etc.

Nothing else "wowed" me at all from the small clips especially because I don't like Bon Jovi's recent efforts and I hear elements of Bon Jovi's records all over these four clips.

I don't think Ebbin has as big of a part in the sound (outside of the production) as you seem to think. It sounds like something that could easily be sung by Jon on a Bon Jovi record and this is supposed to be Richie's material. Ebbin has not been involved with a Bon Jovi record for years.

I guess people will have to finally start acknowledging that Richie is just as responsible for Bon Jovi's sound and lyrics going down hill as Jon is.

Hm. Seven years ago puts it at 2005, he died in 2007. 2006 was a really huge year for him though, it could be about the divorce, or even none of the above.


You mean I'd stop having to make that claim in every thread I post in?! Oh the free time I'll have!! :)

Apologies, you are indeed correct. I remember there being bad news right before the Hull concert (Richie's Dad had cancer) and because it was the HAND tour my mind went to 2005.

Oh good call. His dad was diagnosed in 2006 so it's plausible. Who knows when the song was written though..

Probably recently, the lyrics seem to be looking back at the time he's spent in between missing his Dad.

I love the third clip! Can't wait to listen to this record!

agreed! - pretty cool - must have been during bounce promos...

third song (Seven Years Gone?) is my favorite of the four.

Naw, 2004. Even after Luke stopped working with the band after the failure of Bounce, he was still Richie's go to guy.

Can't wait to hear the full songs, hard to tell when you just hear a few seconds...!

Wait, Richie's songs sound like Bon Jovi? I'm shocked!

Richie going modern Pop/Rock ? I hear Daughtry, Nickelback and 30s to Mars (albeit it's not evident) all over it. The purpose of richie sambora releasing a solo record was to actually do something different !

This is the purpose of the indie thing too.

Was it really? When did Richie tell you this?

1. You've no idea what the album will sound like on the basis of four 10 second clips.

2. The purpose of the album was that Richie wanted to make a solo album. His album, his purpose. Don't confuse your desire for what the album would be with what the purpose of it was. That's unbelievably arrogant.

Again, I'd love to know how you know this?

All I've heard Richie say is doing it with an indie label allowed him to make the album he wanted to.

That's probably the problem right there....he's going to make the album he wants to make, not the album you insist that he makes. What an asshole he is.

Oh yes, things are certainly getting back to normal around here.

Aloha !

Actually, listen to any 10 second snippet of any Bon Jovi album of the last 10 years and you'll have a pretty good idea of what it'll sound like. It's not as if their songs differ in production much as of lately.

Yeah, but what's the point of making a solo album if you're going to make it sound like anything you've released the past 10 years? The whole point of Stranger and Undiscovered Soul was to expand his horizon and show a side we hadn't seen of Richie before. This album has nothing new to offer apart from mediocre middle of the road stuff no one gives a shit about apart from a select few Richie obsessed Bon Jovi fans. There's a reason he chose Ebbin as a producer, guys like them are hired to make it more commercial, as opposed to more artistical.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

Here here.

Richie is not Jon, in the respect that Jon always seems to be chasing the next 'big hit' and wants to sell out the desert more than once. So, if his new album sounds modern and commercial so be it, it is because this is the type of music he genuinely wants to make. I wasn't expecting to hear another 'Ballad of youth', I'd like to think the man has changed a bit, along with the music industry, in 20 years. I don't think Richie has to 'prove' anything to us as fans, we will either like it or not, thats it.

andi