Annnnnnd -- here's the HQ version plus video clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ri2KEiXlNk

Make of what you will ...

Meh. It's ok. Perhaps the rest of the album will be good as long as the songs don't all sound the same.
Funny how to me a lot of the stuff they do I'm not impressed with often sounds like a straight Springsteen rip off. If you compare this to say Wrecking Ball, the latter is a much better song and originally Bruce just wrote it for a one off performance before they knocked down the Giants Stadium. Turned into a 6 minute song that lead off his next album after that. I think Bon Jovi struggles with inspiration at times and finding original things to write about. Sometimes it helps to think small/more personal and something big can come out of it. My opinion anyway.

It's not too bad. Very catchy and I think musically they do an alright job. It does however just sound very typically Bon Jovi.

For me: The writing's quite generic and uninspired; platitudes and generalisations. Watching this clip, the only thing I can even remotely get excited about is Phil X on guitar, because I know just by looking at his face that he's genuinely thrilled to be there, making music. The rest, to these eyes and ears, just look jaded, and the video feels incredibly 'phoned in'. I mean, if it was playing in a bar somewhere, it would be 'inoffensive' background music, sure, but other than that, it just doesn't do it for me.

Me too.

That seems to be a common trend lately :twisted:

Personally, I think this song is very emotional, and is personal for Jon. After a few listens I'm digging it. It did sound rather traditional Bon Jovi at first.

How so? I've praised every single aspect of Braver Than We Are, from Meat's vocals down to song choice and production!! In fact, the ONLY person who has brought Meat up in this thread (specifically his VOCALS) is you. Maybe you simply 'see what you want to see' (and here's the 'cheap shot' ... are you ready? Okay: i.e. the new Bon Jovi single!!!! Ah ... I'll be here all night folks, I'll be here all night).

Truce? :twisted:

I think I confused at least half of what I thought you had said with that of some others on here.

That said, we all know each others opinions, and what each of us prefers to say out loud or how we try to deal with our aging rockers and how it impacts how we feel about their music.

No feelings were meant to be hurt, I did mean it as a cheap joke and I apologize for taking it too far, and for putting way too much of it on you.

Plus, we essentially have the same opinion on it, so there's no point in arguing.

Plus, plus, plus.

Anyways i gotta work!

PS. I accept your cheap jab in return.

PPS. You'll always be TheDoode to me <3

I'm ment to start trouble, not you:D
I will have to listen a few more times to it, it's not great but not bad

:lol: Well to be diplomatic I think we all do from time-to-time with someone or another.

Adults. We're like a classroom of children with no teacher to mediate :-P

J/K of course

:cool: On Fleek Brah #sarcasm #iusedANewWord #isThisTheFirstMlukfcHashTag

Just call us Sir lol

Been a big fan of Bon Jovi from day one but they lost me at This Left Feels Right, think Doode (that writer guy moniker is just wrong lol) expressed it right, just releasing what they thought was the trend not staying true to their own roots was a mistake. Liked a few of their tracks since but this is poor, not as good as Saturday Night Gave Us Sunday Morning and that didn't hold a candle to their earlier stuff.

Yea, definitely not as exciting as Saturday Night Gave Us Sunday Morning or as gritty/fresh as We Don't Run.

I am really hoping this song is the "Where are we now" of the album. For anyone that isn't a Bowie fan, this song was by far the most boring of the album The Next Day (heavily IMO)(Although many felt it was very emotional, like Speaking in Tongues has some doing), I really enjoyed the more upbeat, hard hitting Bowie tracks on the album like Love Is Lost, and If You Can See Me, or God Bless The Girl off the Extras bonus CD.

Would it surprise you if I said I've been a big Bowie fan since the early nineties, too? But I've got to agree with you -- I really thought that (You Will) Set The World On Fire should've been a single, but at the same time I love the surreal and eerie disquiet of Where Are We Now (which was, quite literally, a comment on society AND Bowie's own return to music at the same time), and I loved the way in which is just quietly seeped back into mainstream culture again after all of that time. Was deeply shocked and saddened by his death this year. I honestly just never saw it coming at that time (1 day after the album release).

Any time! :-)

I will ALWAYS say it EXACTLY as it is on this forum. If there's one thing The Doode could never abide, it was all the god damn hypocrisy ;-)


Aww, hell ... :cool:

Let's do it: top TEN Bon Jovi songs -- GO!!

P.S. Ah, The Doode'll always be around in some form...