Bon Jovi - Lost Highway
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Artist: Bon JoviBrand: MLB
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-06-19
Music Label: Mercury Nashville
Product features:
- BON JOVI LOST HIGHWAY (F)
- Lost Highway
- Summertime
- Make a Memory
- Whole Lot Of Leaving
- We Got It Going On
- Any Other Day
- Seat Next To You
- Everybody's Broken
- Stranger (feat. Leann Rimes)
- The Last Night
- One Step Closer
- I Love This Town
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Free Music Review: **UPDATE** okay the newness has worn off - still, it deserves 4 stars
Hit: 5 Stars
**UPDATE** okay the newness has worn off - still, it deserves 4 stars
Bon Jovi is my favorite rock band. But I'm realistic. I know they won't go down in history as having the best lyrics or the best vocals, and I not every song they've got is 5 star level - but when you put it all together they've got the sound, the lyrics, the soulful groove, and that extra `put everything you got into it' quality that, put together, make them the best in my opinion. But that doesn't mean I'm automatically going to give everything they put out 5 stars. To measure the quality of Lost Highway I went back to listen to all their albums to see how the new album measured up. So that you know where I stand I've rated all their regular albums based on a point system. Here are the results:
1. Have A Nice Day, 2. These Days, 3. Lost Highway, 4. Keep the Faith, 5. New Jersey, 6. Slippery When Wet, 7. Crush, 8. Bounce, 9. Bon Jovi, & 10. 7800 Degrees Fahrenheight
Going through chronologically: Their early albums rocked harder then I remembered, the music is great, but the lyrics aren't as full of content or mature as later on, which is fine - they were young and their sound at the time reflects that. Keep the Faith marks the beginning of their maturing and really hitting their groove. These Days has everything, it's probably my most listened to album. Ah, then we come to Crush, their 2000 comeback after being gone for 5 years, it has a lighter, ever so slight, electronic pop sound to it. It's strength - Just Older. But Captain Crash And The Beauty Queen From Mars took points off this album. Bounce is an unusually serious and heavy sound on tracs 1-3,7,9,11. Have A Nice Day was a strong comeback from Crush and Bounce. This title trac opens it up strong - gone is the heavy laiden guitar pounding off Bounce, and back is their classic hard rocking sound throughout. The only exception being Who Says You Can't Go Home duet with Jennifer Nettles. Yet it sounded good, not my favorite song on the album, but I really like it.
Now Lost Highway - at first listen I liked it, I mean I really liked it. I can't remember the last time I bought an album and liked it so much. It's consistently good material and it's consistently Bon Jovi. Nearly all of the songs rock (like normal). Relax - it's not a country album. Only these few tracs have a country tinge to them: 1 - Lost Highway, the second weakest song on the album, "plastic dashboard Jesus"? Come on guys, 4 - Whole Lot Of Leavin' the Keith Urban wannabe song, and 11 - One Step Closer - good though. 5 - We Got It Going On with Big and Rich is the weakest song on the album and just a weak song period. But let's not forget that Big and Rich and LeAnn Rimes aren't exactly country compared to say, George Strait.
Anyway the remaining tracs are great:
2 - Summertime, classic Bon Jovi rockin' and having fun.
3 - (You Want To) Make a Memory, Like the band said it doesn't sound like anything else out there, but it sounds like Bon Jovi and it's already one of my favorites, I'm liking it more and more.
6 - Any Other Day, Starts with some guitar picking, but rocks no less than anything on previous albums.
7 - Seat Next To You, Nothing out of the ordinary, ballad.
8 - Eyerybody's Broken, Solid and rockin'.
9 - Til We Ain't Strangers Anymore with LeAnn Rimes is a solid rocking ballad.
10 - The Last Night, if anything this one sounds to have a slight Don Henley influence.
12 - I Love This Town, again Bon Jovi rockin' and having fun.
I feel Lost Highway merits A four star rating. It may be a little more ballad heavy then previous albums, but that's one of their strengths. I would like to see their next album rock hard like the old days with the songwriting and maturity strength of today. Anyway, be sure to get the version with two bonus tracs (offered here on Amazon or at Target). Walk Like a Man is awesome.
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"Artistic freedom made this record possible," says Jon Bon Jovi. "Musical freedom to explore--and emotional freedom to express what was in our hearts."The result of that freedom is Lost Highway, an album Jon describes as "a Bon Jovi record influenced by Nashville."
Bon Jovi explains. "Nashville is all about songs and songwriters. If you're someone like me who loves songs and hanging out with songwriters, Nashville is the place. I thrive on that feeling and I'm inspired by that creative ambience."
The result, a haunting set of 12 new and original sounding songs, is a stunning, multi-layered look into the nature of love and life in all its glory. Love, like life, is lost, found, forgotten and reclaimed in this collection.
The moods are many, but the core feeling is pure Bon Jovi.
"Writing this record with Jon was deeply cathartic," says Richie Sambora, who collaborated on ten of the songs. "I was going through emotional changes that were new for me. An ailing father. A painful divorce. The start of a new chapter in my life. I poured everything I had into this project, every last bit of soul at my command."
"For over twenty years now," Jon explains, "Richie and I have been close collaborators. Even when our songs create fictional stories, they reveal our states of mind. To a large degree, Lost Highway focuses on the light that love brings. When you shine the light on love, you see the chinks in the armor. You see every crevice, every crack. And that's all right".
Lost Highway is Bon Jovi's tenth studio album since the band formed in the early eighties. One hundred and twenty million albums and 2500 concerts in over 50 countries later, Bon Jovi is enjoying the greatest popularity in their history.
Given the chart success of their Grammy-winning country single "Who Says You Can't Go Home," it's no surprise Bon Jovi upped the ante by recording an entire album paying homage to Nashville. In some ways, it's amazing they didn't do this sooner, given the way Keith Urban in particular is blurring country-pop lines, much as Garth Brooks and others did in the 1990s. To their credit, you won't find predictably shallow invocations of past country icons or any self-conscious, in-your-face down-home twang added strictly to remind the listener of the musical premise. In fact, Lost Highway isn't "Bon Jovi goes country" so much as a meaningful tribute to the Nashville ethos done on their own terms. They honor the spirit of the town through 12 simple, direct originals. The intimate, smoldering "(You Want To) Make a Memory," the ballad "Seat Next To You," "Lost Highway" and its roaring celebration of freedom, and "Stranger," an effective duet with LeAnn Rimes, all invoke country's spirit, and "I Love This Town," an eloquent nod to Nashville itself, ties it together admirably. --Rich Kienzle
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