[eddie73]

So i haven't played this album for about 3 years now i bet, put had it on in my car for last 2 days ! I genuinely forgot how good this album was and is defo the best album they have done in the last 13 years.

The production is better than anything they have released since without a doubt.

They should of stuck with this formula as it sold 7 million copies world wide, so what do they do ! go completely the other way and decide to go " pop" and its failed big-time

The last great rock album they did. You can actually hear guitar on this lol

Even the bonus tracks are better than anything released since.

What i would do for another record like this !

[ezearis]

I love Have A Nice Day, though I'd do some changes on the tracklist.

Originally Posted by eddie73

The production is better than anything they have released since without a doubt.

But with this I gotta disagree, the production on Lost Highway is way better than the one in Have A Nice Day, all I can hear on it is noise and Jon's voice. You might like HAND more, but LH has better production/mixing without a doubt.

[Gabriel Shoes]

Originally Posted by ezearis

I love Have A Nice Day, though I'd do some changes on the tracklist.



But with this I gotta disagree, the production on Lost Highway is way better than the one in Have A Nice Day, all I can hear on it is noise and Jon's voice. You might like HAND more, but LH has better production/mixing without a doubt.

I'm with you on this, all I can hear is noise.

[eddie73]

Originally Posted by ezearis

I love Have A Nice Day, though I'd do some changes on the tracklist.



But with this I gotta disagree, the production on Lost Highway is way better than the one in Have A Nice Day, all I can hear on it is noise and Jon's voice. You might like HAND more, but LH has better production/mixing without a doubt.

Dont really know a lot about the production to be fair. But anything where you can hear the riffs of a guitar is good enough for me and i can certainly hear it, i love noise, for me its as good as it gets, but what do i know

[ezearis]

Originally Posted by eddie73

Dont really know a lot about the production to be fair. But anything where you can hear the riffs of a guitar is good enough for me and i can certainly hear it, i love noise, for me its as good as it gets, but what do i know

Yeah, I dig the guitar sound on some of the songs of HAND

[JoviForever]

Dirty Little Secret is better than anything they have done since and it didn't even make the album!

[steel_horse75]

I think it's crap.
Hands a great song so too I wanna be loved. Then it gets crap.
Only saved by a few songs like I Am and Complicated and even they are average.
The two bonus songs are good though but Unbreakabke sounds a bit dated already.
DLS is a top tune though
For me their worst album

Ps that line that says god makes no mistakes makes me wanna puke. Worst line in any Jovi song. Makes cat in a tree on beautiful world seem like poetry.

[Javier]

Definetly my favorite post-2000 album. The tour was also the last time they put on such an energetic show (even though the "left" ballads kind of ruined it) and I think it had a lot to do with the album tracks being as upbeat as they are.

[Dave 1986]

I used to love this album back in 2005. At the time I thought it was a huge return to form. By that I meant in the sense that it seemed more "pure" compared to Crush and Bounce, more actual guitar solos and just felt that it "rocked" more. Now it pretty much bores me. I played it about 6 months ago and it does nothing for me.

The title track absolutely floored me on initial release. It had the now-typical "It's My Life" symptoms but it was much less processed than that and "Everyday" and had more of a classic-rock vibe to it. Back then I thought "THIS is the kind of lead single I wanna hear from this band today!" Now? Somehow now it's lost it's impact, and the shoddy compressed production does it no favours either.

I can see why the album often gets cited as their best post-2000 release as I suppose it is probably more consistent than the others, it's loaded with more rock songs and tones down on the ballads at bit.

Plus I thought the red smirk gimmic was ace!

[Crushgen24/88]

Novocaine, Have A Nice Day, and Last Cigarette are really great tracks, and Last Man Standing, I Am, and Story Of My Life are very good, but other half of the album is mediocre at best, and drags the whole thing down. It's nowhere near as good as Crush IMO. I do love the smirk though, to the point of having it tattooed. Wish they had done more with it.