Bon Jovi - Lost Highway
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Free Music Notes for Lost Highway
Free Music Review: Jamie R. "Awesome CD"
Hit: 5 Stars
I know my review title is corny but I just wanna get to the point. "Lost Highway" is an awesome CD. IN mid-2006 I had read on the internet about BJ making a country record and I thought to myself they already did one song (Who Say You Can't Go Home) that they converted country and it was great but I hope they aren't gonna really do this. Well I've always been a gigantic Bon Jovi fan and I was really unsure about this. I waited until (you want to) make a memory came out and I loved it. as different as it was i really loved it. So I bout the albu june 20 and Was amazed how much better it was. As much as I love ywtmam It can't really compete with the other songs one here.
"Lost Highway" - A fast paced easy going song about breaking free and finding your way. (My favorite song)
"Summertime" - Another face paced song more on the fun side about love and fun and having a good time in the summertime.
"Make A Memory" - A slow mellow love song about love duh. It's beautiful. You'll either Love it or hate it. There is no in between.
"Whole Lot of leavin'" - A song that starts out slower and then picks up quickly about the ones you love leaving. I swear it seems like the music itself is remenicing.
"We Got It Going On" - This one Big & Rich play with Bon Jovi and it completely rocks. If you want to see the old bon jovi, this song takes you back from "One Wild Night" to "You Give Love A Bad Name" It's the perfect Football anthem. You have to love it.
"Any Other Day" - This one starts kinda mellow and picks up in the chorus. I'm not quite sure if this is about having a bad day but normally having a good day or a good day normally having a bad. I think it's the second one. But It's an awwsome some
"Seat Next To You" - This is the perfect ballad. "Baby, I want you to take me, wherever you're going to. Maybe, say that you'll save me, a seat mext to you." it's undiniable
"Everybody's Broken" - This song is kinda bouncy, it's fits the song 'I Am" on the "Have A Nice Day" album but its a little brighter.
"Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore" - This is the duet with Leann Rimes. It is absolutely beautiful. thats all i can say. It will be a hit.
"The Last Night" - This one is upbeat but light about the last night you'll be alone I really can't say the meaning cuz Its too many words unless I'm over thinking it and i think i am. I think. It great.
"One Step Closer" - It's about getting close to someone. It's beautiful just like the others. you'll see just buy it. it's kinda slow but it is jumpy.
"I Love This Town" - Just give this one a listen and you'll know what it's about instantly. Nashville.
All in all, afew songs stand out but at the same time, it's hard to say 'Hey that's gonna be a single" and I know that sounds so cliche' coming from a #1 Bon Jovi fan but it's true. They are all great they are all catchy. Just wait till they start releasing more singles. I predict five or six singles and all hits from this album. Unlike the last few great albums only releasing two or three. If they don't release 5 or 6 singles they are going psycho. If you like bon jovi buy this. you won't regret it. yes it has it's twang country song but it's only nashville influenced. Just buy it
Free Music Review: Lost Highway Delivers
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm beyond relieved that this album received great reviews. When I first read the online reviews of the disc, many were disappointed that Bon Jovi had ventured away from his hard rock image and slowly slipped into an experimental country sound. I'll be the first to say that this isn't my favorite Bon Jovi album by a long shot, but it's still an excellent release. You can't expect a CD recorded in the heart of Nashville to escape without a hint of country between the lines. I like the direction Jon went with this album. I'm hoping someday he goes back to the rock that made him an American icon, but change is never a bad thing with such a multi-talented artist. Musically, it delivers... Vocally, it delivers... and lyrically, it is without a doubt some of his most clever and intelligent writing.
Fortunate enough to be from New Jersey, I got to see Bon Jovi for the first time last month, and he is nothing short of phenomenal. I saw him on his 10 show run at the new Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, and he tried to do something different at every show. The night I went, he played the entire 'Lost Highway' album start to finish, something he's never done before (he played 31 songs altogether), and the next night (my sister went) he played an acoustic version of "Bed Of Roses" and went down into the crowd.. He is worth every penny in concert and I would highly, highly recommend seeing him if you ever have the chance.
As far as this album is concerned, these are my song ratings:
1) Lost Highway: 9.5/10 (2nd Single)
2) Summertime: 9/10
3) (You Want To Make) A Memory: 9/10 (1st Single)
4) Whole Lot Of Leavin': 9/10
5) We Got It Going On: 10/10
6) Any Other Day: 9.5/10
7) Seat Next To You: 7.5/10
8) Everybody's Broken: 7.5/10
9) Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore: 9.5/10 (with LeAnn Rimes)
10) The Last Night: 7/10
11) One Step Closer: 8.5/10
12) I Love This Town: 10/10
It's the first album since 'New Jersey' to debut at #1, but sales have been down somewhat, so at a very reasonable $10, the album is well worth the purchase. For some, it may not quench the rocking Bon Jovi thirst, but with time comes change, and talent doesn't disappear. Jon Bon Jovi is still one of the best in the business and his music will live on forever.
Grade: A-
Free Music Review: Got my plastic dashboard Jesus
Hit: 5 Stars
When I first heard Bon Jovi was doing a country album, I was not afraid like a lot of die hard fans because I like a lot of new country. Music from people like Keith Urban and Kenny Chesney fits for the child of the 70's in me who grew up with the Eagles and Jimmy Buffett among others. I was already an adult in my 20's when Bon Jovi hit the scene so unlike those who loved them as teenagers a change is not so devastating to me as say Bruce Springsteen singing someone else's folk songs was. So take my review with the grain of salt that I do love today's country music. That being said, I believe this is the finest writing this band has done since These Days, their 1995 album of introspection which didn't resonate with a lot of the 80's rock crowd at the time but now is revered as one of their best. This CD was written in Nashville and Jon, Richie and the boys wrote and played with some heavy hitters. Hillary Lindsay who co wrote Jesus Takes the Wheel among others. Big and Rich who have become honorary country cousins to the Jersey boys. Lee Ann Rimes who adds her beautiful voice to the stunning duet Strangers. And produced by Dann Huff of Keith Urban and Rascal Flatts fame and John Shanks, who has co written many Keith Urban hits. Add to this mix of talent and the anticipation of Jersey meeting Nashville personal turmoil within the band and you have the backdrop for personal and heartfelt songs which at the end of the day, whether you call this new country or Bon Jovi rock and roll (I would argue you can hear both), that is what good country music is all about.
Highlights for me are Lost Highway, the road song of the summer, Whole Lot of Leaving which features some Keith Urban style celtic stylings and reflects the inner turmoil band members were feeling, We Got it Going On which is stereotypical Bon Jovi and Big and Rich in one big old fun mash up, Seat Next To You which has a real If I Should Fall Behind quality to it about everlasting love, and Till We Aint Strangers Anymore which has Nashville duet hit written all over it.
So crank up the mature Bon Jovi on the that Lost Highway- the possibilities are endless!
Free Music Review: Multiple Layers of Sound He Created
Hit: 5 Stars
There's one thing I want to say, so I'll be brave. Basically, I don't know how many times I kept on trying and kept on failing and failing and trying and failing in order to make certain dream come true. Sometimes it's better to sink than to swim. Thankfully, Bon Jovi doesn't subscribe to this advice. I was once told in confidence that he does, but this propitious slab proves that his artistic compass could indeed see land. Tracks like "Vanishing Horse" and "Ditching a Plane For Cat Food" are the immediate standouts, highlighting Bon's enthusiasm for the novelty hits of yesteryear. But "jack'round" music is not the only boring part here. Bon begins to put all his eggs in the most fearsome basket of all by track 3, the thunderous and ivy-covered "False Hope." I thought that was the most awesome song there was at the time. It is an anti-Irish diatribe in the spirit of "Firecrotch" from his 1976 masterpiece "Pussy Heaven," but this time the unsuspecting targets are Chinese railroad workers of the late 1800's. Heartfelt verses give way to the rousing, chanted chorus of "go home or effing die!" Over and over. Yeah. Sometimes I hear a CD and I think that nothing could ever be as good as this. Well, that's what I thought about this one. "Final Approach" is the best song. It's a heavy rocker in the spirit of Century or Robust Rufus, and probably the most emotionally-healthy breakup song I've heard to date. And I've heard a lot of emotionally-healthy breakup songs. I assume this was written to deal with the death and Co-dine overdose of Bon's second wife, Marie, in August. I was made to understand that he was so excited by her magnetism and the intensity of her speech methods, but especially by the power of the images she was capturing in her "beat poetry." Then the whole damn thing basically all goes downhill from there. Awesome record, though. The only thing that offended me about this slab was all the thinly-veiled jabs at the mentally retarded population. Hitler was NOT right, Bon! LOL Oh, well.Free Music Review: Artistic Statement (?)
Hit: 5 Stars
For 25 years Bon Jovi has been keeping the Jersey Shore Sound alive, but unless Southside and others (most famously The Boss) they have always been combining it. This time the choice fell on country. Yes, it's not a joke, it's country... although using a banjo in the background or just having "Big & Rich" sing with you doesn't necessarily constitute Country... or Western for that matter.
And let's be frank, Jon can give a thousand more interviews telling everybody who doesn't want to hear it that evolving into country is just an artistic statement, this record has foremost paid off econonomically for the band. It was just a given that any country-pop-rock-combination would work in small-town America, the first Billboard #1 debut since "New Jersey" is just proof of that.
But let's stick with Jon's argument: Let's assume that this album is just an artistic statement, just about the beauty of writing songs, and not about selling tickets or anything. If the art tells us anything about the artist, then the question is obvious: Is this new direction a sign for a creative burnout? Or is this album to the band what a haircut is to an abandoned woman?*) Or, to concentrate on other members of the band, to a failed acting career?
Disregarding that, there is just one bottom line: If you buy Bon Jovi, you get Bon Jovi, no matter what. You get the Jersey Shore, the Pop, the Rock, the Captain Kidd, the King of Swing, the Tommy, the Gina, the Country (attempt), the Live Experience... the uncomparable... just the good ole Bon Jovi. They've given us the soundtrack to all of our Twentysomethings' lives.
Keep the faith these days-ly,
Team Heaton
*) By the way: Alcohol is not the answer, even if you just broke your shoulder.