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  3. The Circle is easily their worst album, it's not grown on me since it came out. the music isn't bad at all, but the vocals (and lyrics in particular) are so lazy and half arsed. it's hard to believe the same guys who wrote These Days, Living In Sin and Undivided could come up so short.
  4. Bon Jovi are pish
  5. ^ not so.

    they've had some fantastic records, are phenominal live and are all extremely talented. their new album is just a bit of a slump in quality is all.
  6. Originally posted by wangmaster:The Circle is easily their worst album, it's not grown on me since it came out. the music isn't bad at all, but the vocals (and lyrics in particular) are so lazy and half arsed. it's hard to believe the same guys who wrote These Days, Living In Sin and Undivided could come up so short.


    Corporate cock-rock at best, now. What happened to the five and six minute songs they used to do? Like Bed Of Roses, Always - both well-known but brilliant pieces of work; I listen to Cross Road a lot more than anything else because it's perfect AND has Runaway. Ever since that Crush album, it seems like it's the same in, same out - yet the same isn't all that good to go off of because it sells. I'd rather listen to HTDAAB and ATYCLB over the last 10 years of BJ - although Have A Nice Day was decent for about half and even that was stretching it. BJ suck now as of the last decade, a bit like U2. But their 80s and 90s output is great. Like U2 and all the bands who went from doing decent music to doing god-awful 'rock and roll'.

    AC/DC (Stiff Upper Lip, Ballbreaker, Razor's Edge) and Aerosmith (Just Push Play, Nine Lives, Get A Grip, Permanent Vacation)...all those and haven't bothered to release something as awesome since their glory days. And don't forget the Stones...I'm not including Guns N Roses because they didn't bother to release anything since well before BJ lost it; a covers album they did but that wasn't much chop. All the old singers - Michael Jackson included, I'm a big fan for years now but his last album was like Bounce and The Circle, sucked.

    Crush was dire. Badly badly badly dire. All I liked on Bounce was Undivided. Have A Nice Day -- Welcome To Wherever You Are, I Want To Be Loved, Bells Of Freedom, Who Says You Can't Go Home, Last Man Standing, I Am and Unbreakable. That's it on that album. Hated Lost Highway because it was far too much country-sounding for me. Off the new album: We Weren't Born To Follow, Bullet, Brokenpromiseland, Love's The Only Rule.

    They need to get some rock back - go back to 1984 (my favourite BJ album) or if Jon likes, 1981 or even further would be advised. Revisit the Power Station sessions - easy album to come across - and see just what they could be doing. Granted it does sound New Wave-ish, but hell, New Wave is better than their current output, and he did it well. They must be content with pumping out shit and having people love it.

    At least U2 managed a decent four songs for the decade on a new album. BJ managed to put 10 out on three albums. BJ have had some great records but like U2, they have hit a low point unfortunately. I wonder is it too late for them to come back again or will they just keep churning out The Circle Part Two? God only knows.
  7. ^ I love the Power Station tapes, the Springsteen influence is really prominent.

    Crush is one of my favourite BJ albums, and I have no problem with the rest of the 00's output as such. yes, it's more predictable, and it's not gonna change anyone's life the way their earlier stuff did, but there's some great pop/rock tunes among the bunch (Misunderstood and Captain Crash springing to mind). The Circle, on the other hand, is the band going through the motions and producing an album full of nothing but uninspired filler - bar a few songs - and no track on it could compete with even the worst tracks from their late 80s/early 90s heyday.

    all in my opinion, of course.
  8. *bump*

    we just got 4 dates for Germany in 2011 announced, yeah!! bring it on

    European tour dates
  9. Originally posted by wangmaster:^ I love the Power Station tapes, the Springsteen influence is really prominent.

    Crush is one of my favourite BJ albums, and I have no problem with the rest of the 00's output as such. yes, it's more predictable, and it's not gonna change anyone's life the way their earlier stuff did, but there's some great pop/rock tunes among the bunch (Misunderstood and Captain Crash springing to mind). The Circle, on the other hand, is the band going through the motions and producing an album full of nothing but uninspired filler - bar a few songs - and no track on it could compete with even the worst tracks from their late 80s/early 90s heyday.

    all in my opinion, of course.


    I was just listening to those Power Station songs the other day and they really are good. No need for a hit, no need for a great lyric or outstanding instrumentation or even being influential or inspirational - it's just good early 80s (70s reminiscent too) rock and roll. The rock and roll the world really is missing in the mainstream medium.

    Crush is absolutely shithouse. I've heard some real crap in the last 10 years relating to rock and apparent rock (21st Century Breakdown) and it wasn't my thing. Bounce at least had three good songs on it, Have A Nice Day had some great watered-down pop (watered-down pop is better than watered-down and shit 'soft' rock) and Lost Highway; well, let's not go there.

    Regarding The Circle, I just played it and skipped about eight songs - at least the last Meat Loaf album might not have been that good but at least the songs were listenable - even the Desmond Child and Dianne Warren ones. I think I've finally heard the worst album of the last two years. I bet the new songs on the greatest hits record are gonna own Circle and going by whatever that new song was called then we have a winner.
  11. Originally posted by Yogi:[..]

    LOL, they're starting here in Zagreb. Could be a fiasco, not many people listen to Bon Jovi here.




    They'd know the hits at least, surely. Well, the bigger songs anyway.
  12. of the new songs, i've only heard "What Do You Got?"

    I was impressed though, I prefer it to the Circle-sounding stuff.
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