certain bits remind me a lot of Undiscovered Soul

Nowadays sound brilliant!! Very MSPreacher song ;D
And I agree thats some songs remind me US style of songs.

I thought "Our Secret Place" was one of the new songs :(
But some great songs still like:

Every road leads home to you
Burn the candle down
Learning how to fly
Forgiveness street
Walk beside you
7 years gone
You can only get so high

Probably it is ;)

We have 12 songs which one of them has number 14. Nowadays don't have number. We don't have songs with numbers 01/10/13.

So if album will have 14 songs we didn't hear 2 songs yet ;)

World sounds so much like Love of my Life by Queen

There are actually 13 songs.

Hmmm. Where?? I have list from 1-12 songs in which are songs:

Nowadays
02.Every Road Leads Home To You
03.Sugar Daddy
04.Wheathering The Storm
05.Learning How To Fly (Broken Wing)
06.Takin A Chance On The Wind
07.7 Years Gone
08.Burn The Candle Down
09.Forgiveness Street
11.World
12.You Can Only Get So High
14.Walk Beside You Ruff

Which is 13song?

Backseat Driver

spot on about the MSP sounding Nowadays!

http://soundcloud.com/phlcssns?utm_c...rce=soundcloud

You can find it here

Thanks. So one song left - Our Secret Place - Number 1 or 13 ;)

Hang on has the album actually leaked 3 months before release?

Pretty sad that the album has leaked already. It's always the same inside-war if you're gonna listen or wait ;)
Anyway, I'm hoping for many track-by-track reviews. Love those!! :D

Well 72days before Release yes

Didn't have time to listen to all tracks yet, but really liking Forgiveness street and Backseat Driver so far! :)

How many hours and minutes?

hmm...it is certainly not as bad as I feared it would be;-).
And it rocks, some parts remind me a bit of the Foo Fighters...

it's been online for at least 6 weeks now, maybe some people found it back then but chose not to broadcast it and potentially ruin how well the album does. Shame.

Well the person who leaked it has their name attached to it. Bravo.

EDIT: Aftermath of the Download?

The owner of this SC channel is actually an official team member of the album production. This makes this leaking-thing kinda weird.

I think the guy named Phil Cassens leaked the album. He has worked on it.
His twit
https://twitter.com/PhilCassens

This whole thing is a confusing stupid stupid very stupid screw up.

Well, the tracks appear to have been taken down now :-/...

Aloha !

I ripped them all with the thought of them being gone in a few hours. After having given it one listen I deleted all of it. It's too dire for words. Melodramatic lyrics and none of the songs have any identity, it all sounds the same and I felt there was no need to keep any of it. I'm not even sure if I'll buy it.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

The songs are very good, much better than the current Bon Jovi. Nowadays and Learning How to Fly (Broken Wing) sound fantastic, great guitars.

Two songs have not been filtered. but have previews.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWp46...lated#t=01m02s




This was leaked 18 days ago, this means that it is not the final mix of Stephen Marcussen is working right now.

The album leaked long before that, a track was added 18 days ago and the rest over a month ago. They went up far before they were getting mastered. This is not the final mix at all.

Maybe they thought it was better to do it on purpose instead of waiting 'till it happens accidentally....also: it is a lot more social media friendly;-)

Could anybody who saved them drop me a pm please? Thanks in advance :)

can someone pm the album to me ? I haven't even listened to it ! thanks !

Nope, you're way off the mark there. This has been on the internet for months it just so happens that it was found by the majority today. They didn't want this to happen.

If it was uploaded by an member of the team, I do think they did it on purpose.
If you really want something to be kept secret you don't put it on the internet.

Any chance of a PM from those that manger to save the tracks? Thanks.

Aloha !

If it'd not be a screw up it'd be the final product and not some products that haven't even been finished yet. And no one leaks stuff on purpose on as Sunday because there's no mass media to pick it up. Add the fact that it was deleted within few hours it's quite obvious this being a screw up. Common sense, people.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

I think I just lost a few brain cells trying to process this comment. There was no way this was leaked purposely if you can even call it a leak.

People just seem so afraid to expand themselves these days don't they?

So don't call it a leak. If you put something on the internet, someone else will find it.
Even though they deleted it. Many people have it by now.
If they didn't do it on purpose they are stupid.

Aloha !

Well stupid it clearly is, no one disagrees with that. There's a reason why albums still get leaked nowadays long before there release date. And I doubt many people actually do have it, considering the incapabilities of people getting stuff that's not fed to them by an mp3 download. The audience Richie is going for doesn't care about Richie, it's only a minority that will have picked up on this.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

The tracks had varying numbers. The highest the first track ever got, before today, was 80ish listens. Before it got pulled it had around 2800.

If people really wanted it then they could get it. A quick google search shows you a very easy way to get stuff from Soundcloud, but yes I agree, most people are far too lazy to do that. I'm just surprised it took everyone so long to get it, it's been up there for ages, why they didn't remove it before I do not know.

;-)
Why using a social network service when you don't want fans to find it. If you don't want it, us a intranet or protect your account (but even this way people will be able to get it, just makes it harder)

I don't think it will sell well and I'm not sure about the quality yet. Even though I kind of like it, doesn't seem to have the depth of Stranger. Still better than I thought it would be.

Aloha !

Oh I'm not saying many people haven't heard it, but there's a difference to listening to a song and having a song. Of the 2.800, how many will actually have put in the effort of trying to download it? I'm sure a leak will show up within a few days but considering how many people in America see Richie singing as a sign for a bathroom break, how many people will actually care enough about the new stuff in a period where Bon Jovi is more about Jon than it has ever been? Just by listening to these pre-production versions it's clear that Richie is going for a direction that should target a larger audience than the one he went for in 1998. How much of that target will care about this in the first place?

Because believe it or not, there's still people out there thinking that not mentioning that something can be found somewhere automatically means that no one will find it in the first place. I've had bootleg downloads in my signature before, all you had to do was click on the image and you'd wind up at a download site. The image was clicked a total of 6 times because out of the masses out there, there were always the ones creative enough to think outside of the box.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan