[Captmorgs]

Interesting career retrospective from a 2013 article series on the now defunct Grantland web site started by Bill Simmons (now a podcaster on sports and pop culture; founder of The Ringer web site). I thought the article was fair overall, giving Jon and the band credit for outlasting their peers. Although the author missed on the fact that fans of the band did indeed really like the albums from the 1990’s.

https://grantland.com/features/the-w...rt-3-bon-jovi/


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[Captain_jovi]

This was a wonderful article, thanks for sharing!

[semigoodlooking]

Americans absolutely sleep on Bon Jovi's success in the nineties. Misunderstand it at best and dismiss it at worst. Of course, it is just shoddy research to not know how globally massive Bon Jovi was during that period.. For many - most? - it is the peak era of the band. Nothing could replicate the success of Slippery and Jersey exactly, because few bands have that kind of success to start with. However, Bon Jovi's nineties run is the reason why the band became a touring juggernaut through the 2000s.

[Alphavictim]

Keep The Faith went to number 1 in the UK, number 2 in Germany. Slippery did not (#6 UK and #11 Germany). These Days went to #1 in the UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland!

So yeah, "the 90s were tough for Bon Jovi" is super US centric lol

Excellent article otherwise

[JoviForever]

Written completely from a US perspective. Worlwide the 90’s was the bands most successful decade - certainly musically and touring.🤔 They’ve never come close since!

[Javier]

Not only that but even in the US, they were playing the same arenas and amphitheaters that were supposedly a "comeback" on the crush tour! Sure some may not have been sold out, but 3 nights at Jones Beach is nothing to sneeze at!! That plus KTF went 2x platinum, Crossroads 4x platinum and TD achieved platinum (just barely). BOR, Always were top 10 hits, KTF was a #1 song on the rock charts, Saturday night was a hit on adult contemporary, This ain't a love song was a top 20 hit. They weren't in their commercial US peak for sure but far from "struggling" or having a "tough" decade...