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Originally Posted by stretch37
I hated what about now at first. it grew on me and became one of my regulars right up until Burning Bridges came out. The circle I used to love when it came out, but it was an album written for the recession times, similar to Bruce Springsteens Wrecking Ball. So not as much staying power and I've completely lost interest in it now. it was fun at the time though.
I feel like some of the music on Burning Bridges is the best Bon Jovi in awhile. Teardrop To The Sea and Who Would You Die For are classic bon Jovi and great sing alongs. I use Teardrop as a warm up. And We Don't Run is a great anthem.
This all not to mention What Do you Got and No Apologies.
I'm not sure what you mean by they stopped being Bon Jovi back on some old record. I guess I became an obsessive fan of a completely different band in 2009 then and before that when Crush came out. It's My Life I digged in high school along with Thank you for Loving Me and Runaway and a few other school dance favorites. to me they've always just sounded like Bon Jovi just updated their sound over time as any artist does whose actually creative.
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I have liked most of Bon Jovi's stuff - like Meat from my dad's music taste - I think other than a couple of songs here and there Have a Nice Day was the last album I really remember listening to as an album although my other half has their more recent stuff. As far as I knew, a lot of fans of their first couple of albums thought they changed after that and went too pop rock, but other than some adaption to the times,
I never really saw a massive shift between the likes of Runaway/In and Out of Love all the way to the songs from Crush. Up to that point they had a "sound" and for me that sound never changed. You could always tell a Bon Jovi song as soon as you heard it. I think Bounce went a little bit overkill, but Nice Day and what I've heard since seems to have been brought back down in line with Crush.
I will probably find time to fill in the gaps I've got in their stuff at sometime - but I tend to go through two phases which are Meat and Springsteen. Just finished the Springsteen phase with Meat's new stuff emerging so that means it's going to be at least three months before a new phase can begin.