I think this is a good thing. The record company might be driving a lot of these over produced pop songs and now Jon might have some more artistic freedom. In addition, hopefully better promotion.

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anyone order the album through the old play.com and received it yet?

in what way?

In this interview Jon says Teardrop is just like the title track Burning Bridges about "you broke my heart" - the label.

What a brave journalist to answer the question what the song Burning Bridges is about :o

It's funny because he didn't want to give interviews first but now, as noone got the message really, he started to explain.
The label news is now starting to hit the masses.

I think in future I'm going to stay away from songs for future releases.

Listening to this album again and I absolutely love the first three songs but didn't appreciate them as 'new' when I listened to them when I put the album on. I've probably listened to them three about 100 times altogether.

Listened to 'I'm Your Man' about ten times and 'Blind Love' once before the album. So I had 5 songs that were 'new' and even on them I heard almost half of them.

Kind of ruined the whole process for me and I'm usually quite good at staying away from stuff.

I was thinking the same thing. The 5 new songs that were released prior, don't seem new to me anymore. Neither do a couple others due to my brilliant idea to do snippet extentions. There are now 4 songs out of the 11 that actually feel new and the rest are already old news.

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agree. the album seems old before ive even got hard copy. for 2016 album im not going to listen to previews or download songs released in advance

I think we will not be able to avoid it.

It's a much better experience to not listen to previews as I always do. In fact I still haven't heard the new album yet thanks to the Rakuten seller I ordered from promising to get it to people by day of release, and then not.

I saw it on Spotify but didn't give in to temptation. CD in the stereo will be my first listen, hopefully tomorrow night!

I've decided myself that I won't listen any previews of the next album. Only songs that are released as singles.

I can't believe that, for some days, I led a 1:30 minutes snippet let me think that Fingerprints was a shitty song. How could I be so wrong.

I've gave the album a couple of listens in full now.

I'd say I'm enjoying it more than I did on first listen. Some of the songs I didn't care for much I'm really enjoying. I think 'We All Fall Down' is good but the production lets it down, in my opinion. Not really one to go on about production much but I find it hard to understand what Jon is saying when it picks up a little bit because noise is happening over the vocals. Apart from that, I quite like the song.

Really liking 'Life Is Beautiful', though. When I first heard it, I thought it was an okay song. Nothing great. It's a really nice song, though. Can't really imagine what album it'd fit on but it's a nice song.

I absolutely hated 'Blind Love' on first listen. Worst song I'd heard by the band in a long time at first listen but when I got the album and gave it another listen, I was surprised at how much better I found it. I still don't think it's great by any means and certainly not the best ballad the band have done, but the lyrics are really nice and the way Jon sings it is something I quite like too.

'Fingerprints' I do enjoy listening too but I still can't see the fuss over it. I think the solo is decent but I honestly don't think that's anything spectacular. Just longer than anything Richie has done in a while which doesn't mean much. It could be song that really grows on me with time, I guess. I enjoy it, though.

Still think it's a good album after a couple of days of listening which isn't what I thought about 'What About Now' all that much. First listen I enjoyed because it was new music but then when I actually listened to that album a few times, I realized just how weak it was.

8/10 is probably my overall score for the album, still. I do really regret listening to the first three songs so much before the album came out, though. I think I'd be very impressed with this album if I hadn't.

Totally agree with these comments. We All Fall Down and Life is Beautiful are songs I keep going back to listen to. And I don't know if a song has ever grown on me as much as Blind Love has already. Really like this song.

Can someone please point me to the thread or page with the songwriting credits? Thanks!

The first page of this thread :)

Of course! Thanks.

Yes, this. I wish I could resist but I doubt I'll be able to.

It was very wise of Jon to lower our expectations: the songs are brutally outdated, the production values negligible, the whoah-whoah choruses juvenile, the keyboards missing in action, the guitar work, in the immortal words of Dorothy Parker, "runs the gamut from A to B." But I would not be insulted if I were to hear Who Would You Die For again -- with a little polish (especially from Richie), I think it's the only song that shouldn't have ended up on the editing room floor. So this is Jon's idea of a special gift to Bon Jovi fans!

This album makes 'perfect sense'. That is, it's a bunch of leftovers put together simply to comply with the contractual obligations they had with Mercury. A lot of bands do that.

Btw, does anyone knows the era of each of the album's songs ? Some are clearly older than 2009...

The board's reaction to the album has been pretty positive, I don't think it's being looked at as harshly are you are.

Nope, it's all fan theories.

Other than Jon saying We Don't Run is new and the title track being obviously recent the rest is theories. I put my money on Teardrop to the sea being newly written but I obviously can't prove that, just the feeling I get the way Jon talked about it on the interview. I hope it's new anyhow....

Not only here, in a lot of Facebook Groups the reactions are pretty good. It's been a long time since I saw so many people happy with a new Bon Jovi record.

It must be, a) because of what you said, and b) because Jon said he had to a lot to write off his chest and that this song is about being heart broken, which to me is about the football team, the label, or Richie.

And c) because of the (almost) identical "whoah-ohs", which would also make Life Is Beautiful either a new song or one where this part has been added to.

I honestly think most, if not all, are new, except Saturday Night/Sunday Morning. Maybe he just had to include one that Richie wrote and chose that one.

Imo your first impressions are correct. I hate it.

someone summed it up here perfectly when they said it should be seen as disc 5 of the 100m boxset.

Starts of well with the first 3, real borefest in the middle and picks up again.
Still think the song bb would work better as a hidden song.

I'm glad it's not a hidden track. Could have left a mark that they wanted to hide it from the record company. And don't forget that it is the title track...

Or why do you think it would work better as a hidden song?

Because of its style. It's short so would work well as hidden track.

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From Japan. Was only sent Thursday!

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Lyric booklet!!

That's great! :D I'm still waiting. :popcorn:

Awesome! Could you transcribe the lyrics for the lyrics thread?

Done. Posted pics

Very much appreciated. Thank you!

No worries

Got my Japanese edition from CD Japan this morning too. Nice to have the lyric book. Steelhorse has beaten me to posting up the lyrics. Good work fella :)

Thank you so much!

Either the effort, time constraints or lack of interest from Jon as he's writing the new album has obviously effected how this album sounds.

I'm wondering if Shanks was given more input on the sound of the recording and producing? There's parts of the album that do not sound like the last few albums and some production sounds modern pop / rock sounding to me. There's plenty of people on here that will hate that, but it's a reason this sounds better than What About Now IMO.

And I agree with the person who said they should try a different producer that would push Jon, there's plenty out there with fresh ideas.

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I don't listen to snippets anymore because they ruin it for me. Sometimes you hear the best of the song and the rest is disappointing etc. I probably shouldn't listen to leaked/released tracks either because it affects I perceive the album when I listen to it in full. It was a huge letdown for me this time. Some of the early songs really pumped my expectations. Fortunately, even We Don't Run and the Weekend song had to grow on me, some of the six later songs are growing on me too.
I'm not into wriring reviews but I have some thoughts that occured to me while listening to the album. It might be obvious coming from me cause I'm a Richie's fan, I don't like the guitars in general. I can't find the right word for it in English, in my language translated to English it would be 'epicene'. In some songs I feel it's not even there, I miss some signature in playing thoughout the album. It's logical, that happens when you don't have a guitar player in a band - things like that happen on solo artists' albums. That leads to my next thought later. Kudos to Shanks for what he delivered in Teardrop and Fingerprints and I really like WDR solo. On contrary, that's quite refreshing.
My next thought is that the album just doesn't feel like a band album. I was happy for Blind Love being basically a piano song which I took as a sign David had more space. However, that was it. Tico has a few interesting hits in Who Would You Die For which I doubt if he played it or it was programmed. It just feels like a Jon's solo record. For the strange poppier production on some songs, no signature and more prominent guitar etc. The only song I still have feeling sounds like Bon Jovi in a way I see them is A Teardrop To The Sea. And yeah, of course the Weekend song is what Bon Jovi has been (or was) for the last 10 years.
I like the diversity of the album. Even in a 11 song album, there are some fillers for me but I can tell the difference between the songs. Maybe it is because it's put together from song with different background and history. I still can't decide if it is all new (what Shanks said) or mixed (what Jon said).
I don't like that there are only a few uptempto songs. WDR is great, the Weekend song and I'm Your Man which I considered as the weakest from the early songs but now is in the better half of the album. The rest is something like slower or faster midtempo songs. Plus the production and especially effects on Jon's vocals on some songs are really horrible. It's probably to hide his vocals abilities. Or not, I love Teardrop where he sounds natural.
I like We Don't Run. Well I learned to like it, it rocks (though not a rock song that much), it has a hook, it's fast, you can shout along to it. Great.
I like the Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning because I don't know the Nickelback songs it copies. That's typical BJ tune of the last decade and I realized that I enjoy listening to it.
I like Blind Love, finally a ballad without pathos (at least I feel it this way). When I first heard it, I thought is sounded like the beginning to Richie's Weathering The Storm and then that the piano sounds like Richie's You Can Only Get So High. Still I really like it. I woulnd't need the orchestration, the piano would be enough for me.
I'm getting into liking Fingerprints, which I still think would suck without the guitar solos. And Who Would You Die For - it sounds like many songs together, so many influences and ideas, still can't make my mind about it.
I adore A Teardrop To The Sea - excellent lyrics and the passion in singing. That's what I want from them. The passion is so missed in the recent releases. I know there won't be another New Jersey or These Days but the passion in music and having something to deliver should be there - I miss those thing in WAN and other albums compared to the classics (of course there are many other things which simply can't be there anymore).
And yeah Burning Bridges is fun. I only don't get why it got released when it clearly makes fun/bashes the record company which releases this record.
Sorry for the length, I needed to write it out of me :)

I had a meeting with another professional this morning and in our off-topic conversation about things we enjoy I mentioned Burning Bridges and he said, "Why haven't I heard of that one?" I told him, "Well, it just came out Friday." He said that would explain it. I told him it was the best album they'd put out in years so he'd have to get a copy. It was actually really amusing to me because I've never see an adult male act so truly befuddled about why he didn't know about a new Bon Jovi album. Maybe they should have promoted it a little bit!!