Bon Jovi - New Jersey
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Free Music Notes for New Jersey
Free Music Review: Another smash hit
Hit: 5 Stars
This album, of course, was the followup to the mega-smash hit "Slippery When Wet" album. Of course this didn't sell quite as many millions, but it was still huge. While "Slippery" had two # 1 and three total top 10 hits, this album also had two # 1's and a total of FIVE top 10 hits. For sure, the success was once again well-deserved.Some of the best-ever Bon Jovi tracks are on this album, such as the huge rocking hits "Lay Your Hands On Me" and "Bad Medicine" as well as non-hits like "Wild Is The Wind", "Stick To Your Guns" (with its lead-in "Ride Cowboy Ride") and "99 In The Shade". "Born To Be My Baby" was a fantastic anthem hit as well. I also enjoyed "Blood On Blood", an anthem about brotherhood and "boys becoming men".
On the other side, a few tracks are present that are not quite up to the level of previous Bon Jovi tracks, such as the hit "Living In Sin", "Homebound Train", and the silly "Love For Sale", which closes the album. Don't get me wrong--these songs are for the most part very good, but just not quite to the previous level.
That leaves "I'll Be There For You", the definining ballad and another huge hit on this album. You listen to it at first and thing that the lyrics are just too cheesy and sappy even for Bon Jovi, but over time it still grows on you. While this ballad didn't have quite the power behind it of previous Bon Jovi ballads, it is impossible not to like it overall.
Overall, I love this album still. While a few of the tracks aren't quite as good as on previous albums, others are simply amazing. Still too great an album overall to give less than five stars. After all, it is the last truly rocking Bon Jovi album to date.
Free Music Review: A most worthy followup record from Bon Jovi
Hit: 5 Stars
I'll be quite honest about this, I truely thought that after Slippery When Wet, Bon Jovi would have nothing left in the tank. I was totally wrong. New Jersey is not only a very worthy followup to Slippery When Wet, it's also a really well put together record.
For all intents and purposes, New Jersey was a monster of a record for Bon Jovi. It spawned two more number one singles, with Bad Medicine and I'll Be There For You, and launched Bon Jovi into a relm not shared with many during the 1980's. New Jersey is a straight forward pop metal record, not surprising considering it was released in 1989, when bands like Poison, Warrant, and Cinderella were ruling the airwaves. The entire album is strong from beginning to end, there isn't anything really I would call filler, and most of the tracks could have easily been radio or video hits in 1989. My favorite tracks from the album are Born To Be My Baby, 99 In The Shade, Bad Medicine, Blood On Blood and Living In Sin. Another song I find quite interesting is Love For Sale, it's a cool little acoustic number that has the guys just hanging around being loose. Some people might label it filler, and by all accounts, it probably is, but it's still pretty cool to listen too.
I'll admit i'm not the biggest Bon Jovi fan around, but lately I been listening to them alot, and they really had some great records in the 80's and early 90's. I say go buy this record now!!
Free Music Review: This is the greatest album ever made
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the greatest album ever made by probably the greatest band in the world. Only the last track lets this album down otherwise it cold be labelled perfection.Bon Jovi still play the first eleven tracks at concerts which show just how good this album is. I mean how many do you here from Crush or These Days?
Lay Your Hands on Me probably the biggest concert song ever starts of this album. The beauty about the songs on this album is that they're written to be played live so even though their not you still get a similar sort of feeling to that which you do at a concert.
Some of the lesser played on the radio songs such as Blood on Blood, Wild Is The Wind and 99 In the Shade are my favourites.
I don't like the last track Love For Sale which if you haven't heard it is a song set in the recording studio with Richie Sambora (the guitarist) and Jon Bon Jovi constantly talking over it about a girl who wants Jon home instead of making the album. I think it is a terrible song and they should have left it off to appear on their terrible filler album thirteen years later Crush or just threw it in the bin.
If you're a Bon Jovi fan this is their greatest album and you definitely purchase it. Eleven tracks of sheer brilliance are contained within.
Free Music Review: Another top album of the boys from Jersey...
Hit: 5 Stars
Not only is this work a great follow up to the infamous "SLIPPERY WHEN WET" as another reviewer below so eloquently put it, but it is a great album in its own right. Jon and the guys worked so hard on this album day in and day out and held the longest tour of theirs to date in support of it (over 250 sold-out shows), that they became sick of each other and had to take a three year break until 1992.
Have you folks ever noticed anything peculiar about the cover art of these two albums? There is hardly anything to look at. That in and of itself is a musical statement. This band is telling us not to look at their glam-rock appearence and long hair, but to listen to the music because that is what it is all about. And they sure did take us aback...four hits are on this album including, "Lay Your Hands on Me", "Bad Medicine", Born to be My Baby", and "I'll be There for You".
Although this work did not top the charts as high as "SLIPPERY WHEN WET" did, it is a masterpiece that any other 80's hair band would want to steal if they could. This album solidified BON JOVI's fame and brought them much fortune - and unbeknownst to us - there was more to come as the years came and went...
Free Music Review: Landmark #2
Hit: 5 Stars
Following the massive success of "Slippery When Wet" Bon Jovi could have hacked out anything and sold a bunch of records. But "New Jersey" is anything but hacked-out. In fact, it may quietly be one of the best rock and roll records of all time, certainly in the past 15 years.While quickly re-establishing itself as arena gods with "Lay Your Hands On Me" and "Bad Medicine," Bon Jovi quietly began to leave behind the hair metal boom with songs like the Springsteen-esque "Born To Be My Baby" and "Living In Sin." By the time this album rolls onto its second side, the true gems "Wild is the Wind" and "Stick To Your Guns" position themselves as so much more than the bubble-gum rock Bon Jovi is sadly lumped with.
In "Blood On Blood" Bon Jovi may have done the unthinkable: write the kind of song a group of guys can call their own, macho, exciting but soulful and emotional. It's a song that will stand forever away from the Billboard charts but remain near and dear to real fans forever.
Much like this album.