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Old 08-24-2003, 09:12 PM
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Quizá me digan que es fácil escribir una crítica del octavo disco de Bon Jovi nueve meses después de su edición, a finales del verano pasado. Pero lo cierto es que, siendo un grupo archicriticado y multiobservado como este quinteto de Nueva Jersey, viene bien dejar que las aguas se calmen un poco y, de paso, aprovechar para contestar a todas las críticas y objeciones que, invariablemente, tiene sortear este grupo cada vez que hace algo. Además, el paso del tiempo y el haber oído el disco en directo, tienden a atemperar y matizar bastante alguna que otra opinión exaltada que pudieran provocar al principio algunas canciones de Bounce.

Sí, este grupo no es lo que era antes. Sí, su cantante es atractivo y se beneficia de ello. Sí, en directo su voz ya no es tan buena como solía serlo. Sí, la guitarra de Richie Sambora quizá no destaque tanto en punteos como antes. Todo eso son verdades, pero yo me pregunto ¿y? Efectivamente, ya no son lo que eran antes… son mejores. Jon Bon Jovi sigue teniendo gancho entre las chicas… menos mal. A veces en concierto pierde voz… como le ha ocurrido a la mayoría de cantantes de rock ochentero. Y Sambora ya no puntea tan alocadamente… pero ha ganado en elegancia y madurez.

Bon Jovi siempre ha tenido que pagar un precio muy alto por hacer discos tan variados entre sí. Del AOR y el heavy metal de sus dos primeros discos, evolucionaron al hard rock tan aclamado de Slippery When Wet y New Jersey, y de ahí al metal duro de Keep The Faith para culminar con su inclasificable obra maestra, These Days. En 2000, Crush fue una aceptable vuelta al ruedo y, ahora en 2002, les noto más que nunca cohesionados como grupo. Bounce no es un disco de Jon Bon Jovi ni de Richie Sambora, es un disco de Bon Jovi, en donde todos tienen su importancia. Además, lo mejor es que, si bien se presentan al público dando una imagen muy a la moda, ahora son más duros que antes, pues han tomado prestadas muchas cosas del rock alternativo actual, e incluso del modern rock americano, y las han mezclado con su inimitable e inconfundible marca de estilo, hasta el punto que, para mi, han dignificado muchísimo, con sus mágicas letras y sus espléndidas melodías, lo que en otros campos están haciendo Creed, Our Lady Peace o 40ft Ringo.

VUELVEN LAS GUITARRAS

Y qué mejor manera de entrar diciendo "aquí estoy yo, y Crush es un disco para nenas" que con el arranque demoledor de Undivided, tanto musical (unas guitarras oscurísimas que suenan como una tormenta) como líricamente ("that was my brother, lost in the rubber, that was my sister, lost in the crash", en referencia al 11-s). Le sigue un excelente puente y un estribillo antológico, de esos que te hacen vibrar con auténticas melodías rock, cantando con garra por Jon Bon Jovi y coreado con delicadeza por Richie Sambora. Los gritos de la segunda estrofa, el constante guitarreo, el intenso punteo y el trecho final que introducen las palabras "enough, enough" no hacen más que redondear una de las mejores canciones del grupo. Atención también a los últimos treinta segundos de canción, cuando parece que la tormenta ha pasado y aparecen violines y guitarra acústica: el efecto que consigue es de auténtica obra de arte y la apelación del estribillo a permanecer unidos por encima de las diferencias cobra una emotividad tremenda teniendo el recuerdo en la cabeza de los terribles atentados de 2001.

Pero no es momento de ponernos lacrimógenos y sí de animar a que olviden sus complejos todos aquellos que temen mostrarse ante la gente cómo realmente son. Así que de nuevo enchufamos las guitarras bien altas para dar comienzo a Everyday, el single que abrió la promoción de Bounce. Un tema lleno de producción, compacto y quizá poco dado a variaciones, en el que Jon Bon Jovi vuelve a lucirse, pues es él con sus complicadas entonaciones el que lleva la canción, de estrofas atonales, un puente que cambia vertiginosamente la melodía (hasta acabar con un abrupto "I'm on my way!") y un estribillo en el que las entonaciones descendentes rompen de nuevo con lo que habíamos oido antes. Es un estilo nuevo en Bon Jovi, pero no sólo por el modo de cantar sino también por la base rítmica (brutal) y la batería (trepidante). Aun así, creo que hay algo de la melodía de Keep The Faith cuando Sambora marca el riff de fondo que acompaña a la frase "bleeding, sweeting, dying" del estribillo y, por cierto, el solo de guitarra resulta particularmente espectacular en los tonos agudos, que suenan en una suerte de ascensión "dramática".

The Distance es la balada del rock alternativo que, por ejemplo, han hecho Creed en My Sacrifice y Our Lady Peace en Somewhere Out There. ¿Supone ello que The Distance sea un plagio de éstas? No. Lay Your Hands On Me era la canción sincopada específica del hard rock, que también hizo Def Leppard en Pour Some Sugar On Me, Danger Danger en Everybody Wants Some, Firehouse en Rock On The Radio y Warrant en Cherry Pie (todas ellas inspiradas, desde mi punto de vista, en el I Love Rock 'n Roll de Joan Jett). Si The Distance es un plagio, admítase lo mismo de Lay Your HandsOn Me. Ahora bien, dejando al margen esta cuestión, he de decir que me parece una canción con la que Bon Jovi han llegado al punto exactamente opuesto de sus influencias, es decir, han llegado a Led Zeppelin. Y digo esto porque es una balada guitarrera con contrarritmos a medio camino entre un funk ralentizado y el toque "groove" de los Zeppelin. Por lo demás, destacar la magnífica labor de Richie Sambora en guitarras, melodías y talk-box, los momentos en que Jon Bon Jovi modula su bella voz flotando sobre guitarras acústicas… y la simbólica letra de la canción, toda llena de imágenes poéticas que dan forma definitiva a esta interesante balada ambiental.


El siguiente trío de canciones son de esas en las que digo que noto unido al grupo, sin que nadie sobresalga por encima de nadie. Suponen un cierto parón después del grandioso arranque, como una pausa publicitaria que, para colmo, va de mejor (Joey) a peor (All About Lovin' You). Pero, en cualquier caso, da gusto poder apreciar la labor de cada músico, ya sean esos emocionantes coros de Richie Sambora o las indispensables ambientaciones de David Bryan.

Un par de notas de piano clásico preludian la historia de Joey, cantada por un portentoso Jon Bon Jovi asumiendo el papel de narrador de la vida de Joey Keys, un chico de barrio amigo del protagonista de la canción, que ha de tomar las riendas de su vida y salir de la monótona vida que lleva (brillante la contraposición entre la amarga frase que dice el padre de Joey, "tomorrow is a ride that goes nowhere" y la afirmación final llena de optimismo "tell the old man it's tomorrow; we're off to find somewhere"). Una canción muy elaborada que avanza sobre los teclados de David Bryan, acompañados de violines, guitarras acústicas de base y que contiene uno de los mejores momentos musicales del disco, a saber, cuando los violines se cuelan en los silencios del solo de Sambora quien, por cierto, nuevamente está soberbio en los coros, sobre todo ese "who you're gonna be!!". El tema tiene un cierto aire a Elton John, y es de un pop tan delicioso y sencillo que te atrapa sin remedio.

Con Misunderstood ocurre algo parecido. Al principio, es un tema que puede pasar inadvertido, o incluso desagradar. Pero lo cierto es que es un pop-rock nuevo en Bon Jovi, una canción muy actual que empieza con acordes de guitarra acústica, ritmos de batería llenos de golpes intermedios (esta es LA canción de Tico Torres), y un fondo de guitarra eléctrica intermitente, tomado a partes iguales del solo de Freak Of the Week (Marvelous 3) y del estribillo de For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is), del cantautor electro-acústico Pete Yorn. Aunque Jon Bon Jovi cante en plan balada, el tema tiende más a un tipo de medio tiempo cañero muy comercial y radiable (tanto, que Misunderstood fue de las canciones más "aireadas" en EEUU durante el primer trimestre de 2003). Salió como segundo single en una versión remezclada, y resultó ser uno de los pocos remixes que mejoran el original -en directo, de hecho, la tocan con los añadidos de la remezcla-. Ambas comparten una estructura sencilla de estrofas, puentes y estribillos que llegan a su clímax en un eficaz punteo de guitarra. Y es una canción preciosa, con la que más de un "incomprendido" por su novia o mujer podrá identificarse, un tema que crece y gana en gustabilidad cada vez que lo vuelves a oir.

Si algo es All About Lovin' You es agradable. Nada hay en ella especialmente llamativo: Bon Jovi están probando a hacer a su manera la balada de la "nueva ola" acústica que nos invadió entre 2001 y 2002. Es decir, un tipo de canción muy liviana -no hay cambios de ritmo significativos, ni subidas de intensidad, ni solos de guitarra-, artesanal en su ejecución -el hammond de David Bryan da una textura muy bonita a las estrofas-, sencilla en sus melodías -atención a las finas notas con que Richie Sambora introduce la canción- y arrebatadoramente romántica en la letra. Thank You For Loving Me del Crush fue un timo: como su composición se basaba en una estructura de progresión acumulativa, parecía que iba a ser una gran power balada, pero resultaba tan típica y tan básica, que sus pretensiones de emocionar se hacían algo ridículas. All About Loving You, en cambio, no engaña: es una canción "correcta", para degustar sin complicaciones. Eso si, si algo hubiera que recordar de este que fue tercer single sería, exclusivamente, el "every time I look at you, baby, I see something new" del estribillo. Una apelación a ser "creativos" en el amor, tan acertada como brillante.

UN EXTRAÑO CAOS LLENO DE CALIDAD

A partir de aquí soy incapaz de establecer grupos de canciones, entre otras cosas por la disposición de las mismas, en la que se imponen las baladas. En este punto, se disparan las opiniones sobre qué demos (Alive, Lucky, Standing, Another Reason To Relieve) podrían, si hubieran sido incluídas, haber realzado la lista de canciones que compone la segunda mitad del disco. Lo cierto es que, aún siendo excelentes, no acabo de ver que alguna de ellas cuajara al cien por cien con el estilo de Bounce y por eso -dejando al margen si están mejor o peor secuenciadas- es que tiendo a ver a estas seis últimas canciones como un conjunto caótico pero que, no obstante, rebosa calidad, se mire como se mire.

Encendemos motores. Si el trallazo con el que empieza Hook Me Up no te hace vibrar, deberías hacer que te revisen los oidos. ¡Vaya tema! Guitarras oscuras, hard rock y caña a tope. El bombo de Tico Torres dirigiendo lo que podría ser un buen himno de estadio, Jon Bon Jovi y Richie Sambora de la mano cantando, este último brindándonos un electrizante solo de guitarra… ¿alguien quiere más?

Repentinamente, los Jovi bajan de cuarta velocidad a primera para Right Side Of Wrong, una balada musicalmente "épica" y líricamente trágica con un largo punteo, no tan impresionante pero más bello que el de Dry County. Jon Bon Jovi demuestra lo buen letrista que es desde la primera línea: "A friend of a friend needs a favor. No questions asked, there's not much more to say". ¿Se puede resumir mejor que en esta frase una historia de gangsters al estilo de la película Camino a la perdición (2002, Sam Mendes)? Como fondo, tenemos una orquestación preciosa, el piano y la ambientación de David Bryan y una sólida base de guitarras acústicas en las estrofas iniciales. Y en primer plano la historia de la canción, muy del cine negro, sobre dos amigos que roban un banco por hacer un favor a un tercero… con no muy buenos resultados. Se trata una canción cuidadísima, una auténtica obra de arte, en la que chocan los talentos de Jon Bon Jovi, en letra y voz, con los de Richie Sambora, que despliega su personal estilo en el extenso y brillante solo de guitarra que hay a mitad de canción.

Metemos la segunda marcha para Love Me Back To Life, intraducible título de esta impresionante balada llena de guitarras agresivas. Aquí hay de todo: melodías de talk-box, estrofas sencillas con guitarra acústica, Jon Bon Jovi modulando como él sabe y un conjunto de violines que acompañan a los ligeros contrarritmos de guitarra eléctrica en el estribillo. La letra contiene frases memorables ("can't figure out whose live i'm living"), pero lo mejor del tema se concentra en el medio minuto donde violines, talk-box, punteo de guitarra y melodía se funden todo en uno. Podría ser un buen single.

You Had Me From Hello repite las virtudes y defectos de All About Lovin' You. Pero esta vez se trata de una balada eminentemente acústica, elemental y muy tranquila, que no se sabe muy bien como vino a parar a este disco. La sutil ambientación de David Bryan sigue siendo muy eficaz en las estrofas, Richie Sambora con sus guitarras otorga al conjunto un cierto tono artesanal y añejo, y Jon Bon Jovi canta en tonos muy bajos una letra inspirada en una escena del film Jerry Maguire (1996, Cameron Crowe). Hay un cambio de ritmo al final, de una intensidad muy moderada, como requiere el tempo de esta canción, más apropiada para el último Mark Knopfler que para un grupo que hace no mucho nos deleitaba con la magistral This Ain't A Love Song.


Colocar tres baladas antes, no es la mejor manera de anteceder al bombazo que supone la canción Bounce. Guitarras que se aproximan, ritmos programados, batería acústica y de pronto la voz de Jon Bon Jovi que detiene todo: "i've been knocked down, so many times". Empieza la fiesta, con una composición que estira las ideas de It's My Life en utilización de pausas, golpes de batería, talk-box… pero que, desde mi punto de vista, mejora notablemente a It's My Life, básicamente por dos motivos. En primer lugar, por el antológico puente de la canción "you can call it karma, call it luck; me, i just don't give a…" y, en segundo lugar, por el breve pero excelente punteo de Richie Sambora, que además se la pasa guitarreando durante todo el tema. Está todo tan bien dispuesto que la canción se pasa en un suspiro, aunque da tiempo para considerarla como una de las mejores de la historia del grupo.

El disco se cierra con Open All Night, un tema objetivamente interesante, cantado por un Jon Bon Jovi meloso y melancólico (atención a la melodía del "i don't wanna fall in love with you", momento en el que cada palabra tiene su entonación, como bien notó Jon Tyler). Es una canción digna de estar en un These Days, junto con Diamond Ring y Bitter Wine, pero, en mi opinión, le falta algo de la profundidad que portaban aquellas. No encuentro ninguna línea de la belleza de "what was once holy water, tastes like bitter wine" y, además, el hecho de que sea la sexta balada del disco, le coge a uno ya sin ganas de oir más. Eso si, la guitarra de Richie Sambora suena perfectamente a juego con el aire lánguido del tema.

UNA PARADA EN EL CAMINO

Bon Jovi está siguiendo el camino habitual de un grupo de música: después de haber dado el do de pecho, musicalmente hablando, con su obra maestra These Days, nos ofrecieron un disco normalito y comercial como Crush. Cumplida la misión de desengrasar músculos y descansar con un disco fácil, era hora de aceptar nuevos retos y así lo han hecho en Bounce, volviendo a trabajar duramente en las composiciones (Joey, Right Side Of Wrong), haciendo acopio de nuevas influencias (The Distance, Love Me Back To Life), respetando el aspecto comercial consustancial al grupo (Bounce) y ofreciendo un conjunto de canciones muy compactas, inimaginables sin la presencia de alguno de ellos.

Es por todo ello que cabe valorar muy positivamente el esfuerzo presente en cada minuto del disco. Quizá para muchos, la banda no ha hecho más que recoger lo que han hecho otros sin aportar nada de cosecha propia. No estoy de acuerdo, y creo que es una opinión generada por el hecho de que el álbum suene tan actual. Sin duda, no es un disco para el gusto de todos, pero como decía al principio, creo que Bon Jovi han introducido melodías nítidas donde antes había eran esquemáticas, y letras inteligibles donde antes sólo había frases inconexas. Añádase esto al hecho de que en el disco sí hay avances (los storytellings de Joey y Right Side, el aire cinematográfico de muchos temas, la recuperación de la guitarra rítmica y, por ende, del ritmo), para desear que esta banda no se canse nunca de ofrecer buen rock comercial con guitarras y melodías y, si encima varían de disco a disco, mejor.

EN RESUMIDAS CUENTAS

Lo mejor:
La vuelta al rock duro, el impresionante arranque de Undivided, las letras -bien escritas, emotivas en algunos casos e inteligibles siempre-, los coros de Richie Sambora en todo el disco y la cohesión con la que suena el grupo.

Lo peor:
Algunas canciones demasiado "normalitas" como All About Lovin' You o You Had Me From Hello y la mal secuenciada sucesión de canciones finales.

La canción:
Undivided, lo mejor que han hecho desde Hey God.

El momento:
Richie Sambora despuntando en Joey cuando exclama "who you're gonna be" (y que trae a la memoria aquel maravilloso momento del New Jersey, cuando sobresalía su grito "you know my hands are dirty" en I'll Be There For You).

Los bonus tracks:
No Regrets es a Bounce lo que Neurotica era a Crush: la mejor canción (según muchos). Quizá no sea para tanto, pero lo cierto es que el solo de guitarra -un poco saturado al estilo flash de finales de los ochenta- y, sobre todo, el fantástico estribillo, dan que pensar. El otro bonus track, Postcards From The Wasteland, es un desperdicio, una canción lenta sin pasión en la que, encima, el solo de piano de David Bryan queda "censurado" por una losa de guitarras rítmicas.

Los videoclips:
Con el lío que hay sobre la distribución de singles por países, aún no sabemos si en Europa habrá cuarto single. De los videoclips que ya hemos visto, se puede afirmar fácilmente que son los mejores desde 1992. El de Misunderstood, por su amable comicidad y el de All About Lovin' You por increíble emotividad.

La pregunta:
¿Cómo es que han tardado tanto tiempo en darse cuenta del excelente espesor que otorgan los violines a las canciones cañeras y no sólo a las baladas?


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They maybe tell me that it is easy to write a critic of the eighth disk of Bon Jovi nine months after their edition, at the end of last summer. But the certain thing is that, being a group archicriticado and multiobservado like this quintet of New Jersey, he/she comes well to let that the waters calm down a little and, in passing, to take advantage to answer to all the critics and objections that, invariably, he/she has to draw this group every time that makes something. Also, the step of the time and having heard the disk in direct, they spread to moderate and to tinge enough some that another exalted opinion that you/they could cause some songs of Bounce at the beginning.

Yes, this group is not what was before. Yes, their singer is attractive and she benefits of it. Yes, in direct their voice is no longer as good as it used to be it. Yes, the guitar of Richie Sambora doesn't maybe highlight so much in punteos as before. Is all that trues, but do I wonder and? Indeed, are what you/they were before no longer… are they better. Jon Bon Jovi continues having hook among the girls… less bad. Sometimes in concert it loses voice… as it has happened to most of singers of rock ochentero. And Sambora no longer dots so foolishly… but it has won in elegance and maturity.

Bon Jovi has always had to pay a very high price to make disks so varied to each other. Of the AOR and the heavy metal of their first two disks, When evolved to the hard rock so acclaimed of Slippery Wet and New Jersey, and of there to the metal hard of Keep The Faith to culminate with its unclassifiable one teacher, These works Days. In 2000, Crush was an acceptable turn to the rotation and, now in 2002, I notice them more than ever cohesive as group. Bounce is not a disk of Jon Bon Jovi neither of Richie Sambora, is a disk of Bon Jovi where all have its importance. Also, the best thing is that, although they are introduced to the public giving an image very up to date, now they are harder than before, because they have taken borrowed many things of the current alternative rock, and even of the modern American rock, and they have mixed them with their inimitable and unmistakable mark of style, until the point that, for my, they have dignified very much, with their magic letters and their splendid melodies, what you/they are making in other fields Believes, Our Lady Peace or 40ft Ringo.

THEY RETURN THE GUITARS

And how better way to enter saying here I, and Crush is it is a disk for babies that with the devastating outburst of Undivided, so much musical (some dark guitars that sound like a storm) I eat lyrically (that was my brother, lost in the rubber, that was my sister, lost in the crash", in reference at the 11-s). it continues Him an excellent bridge and an anthological refrain, of those that make you vibrate with authentic melodies rock, singing with claw for Jon Bon Jovi and chanted with fineness by Richie Sambora. The screams of the second verse, the constant guitarreo, the intense one dots and the final distance that you/they introduce the words enough, enough doesn't make more than to round one of the best songs in the group. Attention also to the last thirty seconds of song, when it seems that the storm has happened and violins and acoustic guitar appear: the effect that gets is from authentic work of art and the appeal of the refrain to remain united above the differences cobra a tremendous emotividad having the memory in the head of the terrible attacks of 2001.

But it is not moment of becoming tear and yes of to encourage to that forget their complexes all those that fear to be shown before people how they are really. So again we plug the very high guitars to give beginning to Everyday, the one sails that he/she opened the promotion of Bounce. A topic full with production, compact and maybe not very given to variations, in the one that Jon Bon Jovi shines again, because it is him with its complicated intonations the one that takes the song, of atonal verses, a bridge that changes the melody vertiginously (until putting an end to an abrupt I'm on my way"!) and a refrain in which the descending intonations break up again with what we had heard before. It is a new style in Bon Jovi, but not only for the way of singing but also for the rhythmic base (brutal) and the battery (trepidante). even so, I believe that there is something of the melody of Keep The Faith when Sambora marks the bottom riff that accompanies to the sentence bleeding, sweeting, dying of the refrain and, by the way, the alone of guitar is particularly spectacular in the sharp tones that sound in a luck of dramatic ascension.

The Distance is the ballad of the alternative rock that, for example, they have made you Believe in My Sacrifice and Our Lady Peace in Somewhere Out There. Does it suppose it that The Distance a plagiarism is of these? No. Lay Your Hands On was I the specific syncopated song of the hard rock that also made Def Leppard in Pour Some Sugar On Me, Danger Danger in Everybody Wants Some, Firehouse in Rock On The Radio and Warrant in Cherry Foot (all them inspired, from my point of view, in the I Love Rock ' n Roll of Joan Jett). If The Distance is a plagiarism, admit you the same of Lay Your HandsOn Me. Now then, leaving to the margin this question, I must say that I find a song with the one that Bon Jovi has arrived to the exactly opposed point of its influences, that is to say, they have arrived to Led Zeppelin. And I say this because it is halfway a ballad guitarrera with contrarritmos between a funk ralentizado and the touch " groove " of the Zeppelin. Apart from this, to highlight the magnificent work of Richie Sambora in guitars, melodies and talk-box, the moments in that Jon Bon Jovi modulates its beautiful voice floating on acoustic guitars… and the symbolic letter of the song, all full with poetic images that give definitive form to this interesting environmental ballad.


The following trio of songs is of those in those that I say that I notice together to the group, without nobody stands out above anybody. They suppose a certain parón after the grandiose outburst, like an advertising pause that, to make matters worse, he/she goes of better (Joey) to worse (All About Lovin' You). But, anyway, he/she gives pleasure to be able to appreciate each musician's work, be already those touching choirs of Richie Sambora or the indispensable atmospheres of David Bryan.

A couple of notes of piano classic preludian the history of Joey, sung by a prodigious Jon Bon Jovi assuming the paper of narrator of the life of Joey Keys, a boy of the main character of the song neighborhood friend that must take the reins of their life and to leave the monotonous life that takes (brilliant the opposition among the bitter sentence that the father of Joey, tomorrow is to ride that goes nowhere and the final statement full with optimism tell the old man it's tomorrow says; we're off to find somewhere"). A very elaborated song that Bryan advances on the keyboards of David, accompanied by violins, acoustic guitars of base and that one of the best musical moments in the disk contains, that is, when the violins are strained in the silences of the alone one of Sambora who, by the way, again it is superb in the choirs, mainly that who you're gonna be!"!. The topic has a certain air to Elton John, and it is of such a delicious and simple pop music that catches you without fail.

With Misunderstood it happens something similar. At the beginning, it is a topic that it can happen inadvertent, or even to dislike. But the certain thing is that it is a new pop-rock in Bon Jovi, a very current song that begins with chords of acoustic guitar, battery rhythms full with intermediate blows (this it is THE song of Tico Torres), and a bottom of intermittent electric guitar, taken to parts similar of the alone one of Freak Of the Week (Marvelous 3) and of the refrain of For Nancy (' Cos It Already Is), of the electro-acoustic cantautor Pete Yorn. Although Jon Bon Jovi sings in bleated plan, the topic spreads more to a type of half time very commercial cañero and radiable (so much that Misunderstood was of the songs more aired in USA during the first trimester of 2003). it Left as second it sails in a version remezclada, and it turned out to be in fact one of the few remixes that improve the original -in direct, they play it with those added of the remezcla -. Both share a simple structure of verses, bridges and refrains that arrive to their climax in an effective one I dot of guitar. And it is a beautiful song, with the one that more than a " incomprendido " for their girlfriend or woman will be been able to identify, a topic that you/he/she grows and you/he/she wins in gustabilidad every time that you hear it again.

If something is All About Lovin' You it is pleasant. Anything is in her specially attractive: Bon Jovi is proving to make to its way the ballad of the new acoustic wave that invaded us between 2001 and 2002. That is to say, a type of very light song -no there are significant rhythm changes, neither ascents of intensity, neither alone of guitar -, handmade in their execution -the hammond of David Bryan gives a very beautiful texture to the verses -, simple in its melodies -attention to the fine notes with which Richie Sambora introduces the song - and captivatingly romantic in the letter. Thank You For Loving I of the Crush was a cheat: as their composition it was based on a structure of accumulative progression, it seemed that it will be a great bleated power, but it was so typical and so basic that their pretenses of being moved made something ridiculous. All About Loving You, on the other hand, doesn't deceive: it is a correct song, for degustar without complications. That if, if something had to remember of this that was third it sails it would be, exclusively, the every cheats I look at you, baby, I see something new of the refrain. An appeal to be creative in the love, so guessed right as brilliant.

A STRANGE CHAOS FULL WITH QUALITY

Starting from here I am unable to establish groups of songs, among other things for the disposition of the same ones, in which the ballads are imposed. In this point, the opinions are shot on what we give (Alive, Lucky, Standing, Another Reason To Relief) they would rot, if they had been included, to have enhanced the list of songs that composes the second half of the disk. The certain thing is that, still being excellent, I have just seen that some of them clotted at the a hundred for a hundred with the style of Bounce and for that reason -leaving to the margin if better or worse secuenciadas are - it is that I spread to see to these last six songs like a chaotic group but that, nevertheless, it overflows quality, it is looked like it is looked.

We light motors. If the trallazo with which Hook begins Me Up doesn't make you vibrate, you should make them to revise you the hearings. Go topic! Dark guitars, hard rock and cane to it collides. The drummer of Tico Torres directing what a good stadium hymn, Jon could be Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora of the hand singing, this last one offering us an alone electrizante of guitar… does somebody want more?

Suddenly, the Jovi gets off fourth speed to first for Right Side Of Wrong, a ballad musically epic and lyrically tragic with a long one I dot, not so impressive but more beautiful that that of Dry County. Jon Bon Jovi demonstrates the good letrista that is from the first line: "To friend of to friend needs to favor. Not questions asked, does there's not much live to say". can You summarize better than in this sentence a gangsters history to the style of the movie in route to the perdition (2002, Sam Mendes)? As bottom, do we have a beautiful orchestration, the piano and the atmosphere of David Bryan and a solid base of acoustic guitars in the initial verses. And in first plane the history of the song, very of the black cinema, have more than enough two friends that steal a bank to do a favor at a third… with not very good results. It is a song cuidadísima, an authentic work of art, in which the talents of Jon collide Bon Jovi, in letter and voice, with those of Richie Sambora that their personnel style deploys in the extensive and brilliant alone of guitar that there is to song half.

We put the second march for Love Me Back To Life, untranslatable title of this impressive ballad full with aggressive guitars. Here there is of everything: talk-box melodies, simple verses with acoustic guitar, Jon Bon Jovi modulating as him knows and a group of violins that you/they accompany to the slight contrarritmos of electric guitar in the refrain. The letter contains memorable sentences (can't figures out whose live i'm living"), but the best in the topic concentrates on the means minute where violins, talk-box, I dot of guitar and melody they melt everything in one. It could be a good one it sails.

You Had Me From Hello repeats the virtues and defects of All About Lovin' You. But this time it is an eminently acoustic, elementary and very calm ballad that one doesn't know very well like wine to stop to this disk. The subtle atmosphere of David Bryan continues being very effective in the verses, Richie Sambora with its guitars grants to the group a certain handmade and old tone, and Jon Bon Jovi he/she sings in very low tones a letter inspired by a scene of the film Jerry Maguire (1996, Cameron Crowe). there is a rhythm change at the end, of a very moderate intensity, like it requires the tempo of this song, more appropriate for the last Mark Knopfler that delighted us with the masterful This Ain't TO Love Song for a group that makes not a lot.


To place three bleated before, it is not the best way to precede to the explosion that supposes the song Bounce. Guitars that approach, programmed rhythms, acoustic battery and suddenly the voice of Jon Bon Jovi that stops everything: "i've been knocked down, so many cheats". the party Begins, with a composition that stretches the ideas of It's My Life in use of pauses, battery blows, talk-box… but that, from my point of view, it improves It's notably My Life, basically for two reasons. In the first place, for the anthological bridge of the song you dog call it karma, call it luck; me, i just don't give to… and, in second place, for the brief but excellent I dot of Richie Sambora that also you the raisin guitarreando during the whole topic. Everything is so well willing that the song spends in a sigh, although he/she gives time to consider it like one of the best of the history of the group.

The disk closes with Open All Night, a topic objectively interesting, sung by a Jon Bon mellow and melancholic Jovi (attention to the melody of the i don't wanna fall in love with you", moment in which each word has its intonation, as well Jon noticed Tyler). it is a worthy song of being in a These Days, together with Diamond Ring and Bitter Wine, but, in my opinion, he lacks something of the depth that you/they carried those. I don't find any line of the beauty of what was eleven holy water, tastes like bitter wine and, also, the fact that it is the sixth ballad of the disk, he/she already catches one without desires of hearing more. That if, the guitar of Richie Sambora sounds perfectly to game with the languid air of the topic.

A STOP IN THE ROAD

Bon Jovi is following the habitual road of music's group: after having given the chest do, musically speaking, with their work teacher These Days, offered us a disk normalito and commercial as Crush. Fulfilled the mission of to degrease muscles and to rest with an easy disk, was hour of accepting new challenges and they have made this way it in Bounce, working difficultly in the compositions again (Joey, Right Side Of Wrong), making storing of new influences (The Distance, Love Me Back To Life), respecting the aspect commercial consustancial to the group (Bounce) and offering a group of very compact songs, unimaginable without the presence of some of them.

It is for everything it that is necessary to value the present effort very positively in every minute of the disk. Maybe for many, the band has not made more than to pick up what you/they have made others without contributing anything of own crop. I don't agree, and I believe that it is an opinion generated by the fact that the album sounds so current. Without a doubt, it is not a disk for the pleasure of all, but like he/she said at the beginning, I believe that Bon Jovi has introduced clear melodies where before there was they were schematic, and intelligible letters where before there were only unconnected sentences. Add you this to the fact that in the disk yes there are advances (the storytellings of Joey and Right Side, the film air of many topics, the recovery of the rhythmic guitar and, for ende, of the rhythm), to want that this band never gets tired of offering good commercial rock with guitars and melodies and, if above they vary from disk to disk, better.

IN HAVING SUMMARIZED BILLS

The best thing:
The turn to the hard rock, the impressive outburst of Undivided, the -very written letters, moving in some cases and intelligible always -, the choirs of Richie Sambora in the whole disk and the cohesion with which sounds the group.

The worst thing:
Some songs too " normalitas " like All About Lovin' You or You Had Me From Hello and the bad secuenciada succession of final songs.

The song:
Undivided, the best thing that has made from Hey God.

The moment:
Richie Sambora blunting in Joey when who you're gonna be exclaims" (and that he/she brings to the memory that wonderful moment of the New Jersey, when its scream you know my hands stood out it plows dirty in I'll Be There For You).

The bonus tracks:
Non Regrets is Bounce what Neurotic was Crush: the best song (according to many). it is not Maybe it stops so much, but the certain thing is that the alone of guitar -a little saturated to the style flash of final of the eighty - and, mainly, the fantastic refrain, they give that to think. The other bonus track, Postcards From The Wasteland, is an I waste, a slow song without passion in the one that, above, the alone of piano of David Bryan is censored by a flagstone of rhythmic guitars.

The videoclips:
With the mess that there is on the distribution of you sail for countries, we don't still know if in Europe there will be room it sails. Of the videoclips that we have seen already, one can affirm easily that they are the best from 1992. That of Misunderstood, for their kind comicality and that of All About Lovin' You for incredible emotividad.

The question:
How is it that they have taken so much time in realizing the excellent thickness that you/they grant the violins to the songs cañeras and not only to the ballads?


THE DISC, SONG TO SONG:


Impressive 1 2 4 7 8 9 11
Excellent 3 5
Correct 6 10 12
Boring
Unbearable
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There are words in spanish as "ochentero", "cañero"......but I think you can understand
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Yes, we can understand, thank you for posting, true it's a pretty good review !
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Aloha !

Well it's a good review though I do absolutely do not agree with him/her.

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great review!

i agree with alot of it, but disagree on alot of it too.
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