No wonder Bon Jovi had to take a two-year hiatus to recover. While the Slippery When Wet hits are more recognizable to the casual fan, New Jersey is a better and more varied album overall, from the boyhood nostalgia of "Blood on Blood" to the indelible anti-marriage anthem "Living in Sin" and prom-ready classic "I'll Be There For You." Bon Jovi never made a perfect record (and there's some filler here too-see "Wild Is the Wind"), but this represents the band-and pop-metal in general-at its puffy-haired peak. Everything about this record is gloriously huge: the hooks, the solos, the goofy "Lay Your Hands on Me" intro, the overall haze of Springsteenian testosterone and state-of-the-art '80s cheese. New Jersey (the most on-the-nose album title since Dirty Mind) is Bon Jovi's first set of songs that sound as if they were recorded specifically for packed stadiums outfitted with pyrotechnics. If Bill and Ted produced a rock album, it would sound like this. Once you get beyond the arena rock power, the anthemic choruses and the rock majesty of the new Bon Jovi album, This House is Not for Sale, you’ll also. Let the haggling begin!īon Jovi's fourth album, 'New Jersey,' was released in the fall of 1988 and went on to sell 7 million copies in the U.S. Members: Jon Bon Jovi, Hugh McDonald, Tico Torres, David Bryan, Phil X.
Songs: This House Is Not for Sale, Living With the Ghost, Knockout, Labor of Love, Born Again Tomorrow, Roller Coaster. In honor of the band's current tour, we ranked all the studio albums, not counting Burning Bridges-technically a compilation-or the acoustic rehashes of This Left Feels Right. This House Is Not for Sale (2016) by Bon Jovi. Sometimes derided as the poor man's Springsteen because of their shared Jersey roots, Bon Jovi deserves respect (no, really!) for combining the Boss's working-dude appeal with hard-rock sleaze and managing to evolve and endure after the '80s faded. Frontman Jon Bon Jovi's gravelly voice and knack for soaring, arena-ready hooks, coupled with the band's reliably bombastic pop-metal riffs, made Bon Jovi into an indelible hit machine. And if you hate Bon Jovi-well, you ought to give them some credit for pissing you off for this many years.īon Jovi's bottomless appetite for crunchy riffs and lovestruck ballads has been documented on 13 studio albums. If you're a Bon Jovi fan, such astonishing longevity is a gift that makes its disciples happy and its singer very rich. No other artifact from the hair-metal era has shown the same persistence. Bon Jovi This House Is Not For Sale (2016) Posted by On November - 3 - 2016. If the rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey, formed in 1983, were a person, it would be old enough to run for president. "It's about time," Jon Bon Jovi said as his band was inducted-finally-into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April.
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