Bon Jovi Keep The Faith Oh Yeah!!

[03gills]

Hi everyone, i just bought Bon Jovi's Keep The Faith album today and i was totally blown away, this is by far their best work, now yeah, i am bit biased since i am a huge Bon Jovi fan, but how can you not say that 'Dry County' is not the best song these guys have put to CD, check out richie's ungodly solo that last's a good three minuites (thats about as long as most songs are!) if anyone else has got an opinion i'd love to hear what you think.

[White of High]

Dry County is one of the best song ever and best of Bon Jovi! 10 minutes long, great pictores, great vision. The video is fantastic too. For example they show an astronaut (who wos got off Moon) in Arizona... :)

Save A Prayer and the hit, Bed Of Roses are great too. If I Was Your Mother is a great hard-progressive rock song!

There are lot of fantastic moment but the best is always Dry County... And it wasn't hit. Why???

[Crystal Eyes]

I love Keep the Faith! I'm a fellow Bon Jovi fan and have to agree with you on Dry County. It's a great song!

White of High I have to admit I haven't heard of 'Save a Prayer'. What song is this?

[White of High]

It's the second or third best on the album. This is the last song, after Little Bit Of Soul. Yes, it's a bonus track, somewhere you find Keep The Faith (Live) like bonus.

The fiorst part of this an a capella chorus and after a great progressive rock song...

[evil nickname]

Peronally, I don't think it is the Bon Jovi album (I reserve that title for 'These Days'), but it's very good indeed.

My favorite tracks include Keep The Faith, In These Arms, the afformentioned Dry County and Save A Prayer, which is the European (and Japan as well I thought) bonus track. A snippet from the lyrics:

Did you ever feel like you were drowning?
Did you ever feel betrayed by a kiss?
Did you ever feel like you needed somebody?
Would you feel alone in a world like this?

Did you ever feel like you needed shelter?
Did you ever laugh when you wanted to cry?
Did you ever dream about revolution?
Don't you ever feel like your living a lie?

Too many children grow up blind to the truth
Say a prayer for me - I'll save a prayer for you

Overall I'd say it's a great album

[White of High]

I think the best era of Bon Jovi was 1990-1995! I think These Days is the best album. There are "(It's Hard) Letting You Go" (the best) and My Guitar Lies Bleeding In My Arms and These Days. Very great songs!!!

My second fav are Keep The Faith and Blaze Of Glory (John Bongiovi solo album)!!!

[Winston]

These Days is by far their best album ever. The 1st side of KTP is great. In These Arms is a brilliant song. The 2nd side is not. With the exception of Dry County.

It's amazing how a band like Bon Jovi can release such great albums then turn around and release the terrible This Left Feels Right :nuts:

[White of High]

Crush, Bounce and this new album are terrible... These aren't Bon Jovi!

[Winston]

New Jersey, SWW and These Days are though :wink: They have seriously lost the plot in their recent recordings :nuts:

[White of High]

My Bon Jovi tracklist:
1. Dry County
2. (It's Hard) Letting You Go
3. Let's Make It Baby
4. Blaze Of Glory
5. My Guitar Lies Bleeding In My Arms
6. For You (sycilian lyrics - you can't find it NOWHERE)
7. Bed Of Roses
8. These Days
9. Runaway
10. Save A Prayer

[mari]

:D My favorites are still New Jersey and Slippery When Wet 8) 8)

[Modern Girl]

My favorites are -

New Jersey

and the Young Guns 2 Album

[Cathie]

Love Bon Jovi too :D Rockier songs like Keep the Faith and Bad Medience (yes - i know i cant spell) are great but also love ballads like Bed of Roses and Always. Either way, love it.

[Winston]

Richie Sambora's Undiscovered Soul is a brilliant album.....much better than any Bon Jovi album......

[evil nickname]

Richie Sambora's Undiscovered Soul is a brilliant album.....much better than any Bon Jovi album......

I don't know if it's better than all Bon Jovi albums, but the more Richie sings, the merrier. Great album, especially the tracks "Who I Am" and the titletrack.
"Stranger In This Town" is also very good.

[Winston]

Spot On..Undiscovered Soul is the best song on the album.....Stranger is a good album. Mr. Bluesman and The Answer are brilliant songs.....

[DIZZY DRUMMER]

I got "This Left Feels Right" for my B'Day - it's also good

I really like Bon Jovi - have made some great songs :bunny:

[Winston]

:shock: This Left Feels Right is terrible....They destroyed their songs. :bicker:

[Crystal Eyes]

I would say that Bon Jovi's music since These Days has been pretty good. There are some songs on Bouce that I don't like so much but apart from that I've enjoyed what they've done. This is not counting This Left Feels Right. I have warmed to this album a bit but not all of it works. My favourite one off it it It's My Life but I don't like quite a few of the other songs. I think it was interesting idea and quite brave to try an rework songs that are already great it just unfortunately didn't quite work in my eyes.
As for Richie I agree with evil nickname. Perhaps not better than Bon Jovi but still a fantastic musician! I love Undiscovered Soul and Father Time to.

[Lizziebaby]

I love Bon Jovi, These Days being my favourite album by far. It took me ages to get into Crush (ended up having 'Thank you for loving me' as the first dance song at our wedding reception!), but try as I might, Bounce just doesn't do it for me..

[Winston]

Bounce is pretty awful. Joey and Right Side Of Wrong are the only decent songs on the album.

[evil nickname]

I think Crush isn't too bad, but Bounce could (should) have been a lot better. It's not as bad as their first two albums, but it isn't way up there with Slippery When Wet, Keep The Faith, and These Days.
Crush has some very good songs on it (It's My Life, Just Older, One Wild Night) and also some very not so good ones (She's A Mystery, Mystery Train), but overall, it's pretty good.
Bounce has also some good songs (Joey, and I kind of dig Everyday too), but there aren't any songs on it that are either instant classics, or songs that are plain bad. Overall it's a pretty decent album, but nothing special.
Kind of like Jon's solo albums: Blaze of Glory is pretty good, but Destination Anywhere is just, well nothing special. It isn't bad or so, but apart from some songs (Midnight In Chelsea, August 7, some I can't recall from the top of my head), the material is pretty standard stuff.

[White of High]

Destination Anywhere is a typical pop-rock album. But tehre are some very interesting song. Little City and It's Just Me are very strange. I love them... in very depressive mood!

[03gills]

I have't heard 'Destination Anywhere' yet so i can't comment, but i still love 'Keep The Faith', the only problem i can see is that the production is more stripped down and richie's guitar solo's have become more mellow(bar 'Dry County') and as a result the songs have lost quite a bit of that 'arena' like energy that the older Bon Jovi songs had. It doesn't hurt the record much but because 'keep the faith' has a more 'adult contempery' feel which i think put a lot of 80's Bon Jovi fans off.

[Winston]

Bouce is alot 'heavier' than KTP.....reason being..........Richie bought a new guitar :shock:....

Get Destination Anywhere...it's a good album...for Jon........Richie's solo albums are better....

[Crystal Eyes]

I like Destination Anywhere. It's more mellow but I still like it quite a bit.

[03gills]

Heavy is not alway's good, the majority of songs on 'Bounce' are too heavy, even the jump along and shout songs here are too heavy, richies guitar and tico torres' drums are too overpowering and don't let the rythm sections breathe where they need to.

[Wanderer]

I quite liked "Bounce", it certainly seemed truer to Bon Jovi's past albums than "Crush" was ("Crush" seemed to have been overly influenced by the poppier sound of "Destination Anywhere"). I particularly liked the heavier tracks (Undivided, Everyday, Hook Me Up and Bounce) and the more Billy Joel - style narrative approach of Joey.

I remember reading a post on a Bon Jovi forum about "Bounce" that made a lot of sense to me. It was saying that one of the main problems was the production - on the heavy songs the "quiet bits" aren't much less quieter than the "loud bits" so that the contrast is lost.

It is also noticable on "Bounce" that Jon Bon Jovi's voice isn't quite as good as it once was, although it does sound better than it did on "Crush".