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Free Music Notes for New Jersey
Free Music Review: One of The Best
Hit: 5 Stars
After listening to this album all the way through I have only got one thing to say.......BON JOVI ROCKS!!!!Free Music Review: This album will always be a CLASSIC in my collection!
Hit: 5 Stars
What else can I sayFree Music Review: Bon Jovi: New Jersey review
Hit: 4 Stars
How do you follow up an album like Slippery When Wet? Well, frankly, just like this! While New Jersey didn't quite make the big splash that Slippery did it certainly still made a big "wave" in the hair-rock world! Slippery would have been the perfect cd if it would have replaced some of its songs with ones like "Bad Medicine", "Lay Your Hands on Me", or "Stick to Your Guns". All of these are great rock songs especially "Bad Medicine". This cd relies more on the voices of the group and less on the, not so inconsiderable, guitar playing of Richie Sambora, this is what makes this cd different than Slippery. "Bad Medicine" I guess is the "You Give Love a Bad Name" song for NJ, and "Lay Your Hands on Me" is the "Let it Rock" song of NJ. So I guess, in a way, it still highly resembles Slippery, but why shouldn't it? I mean, Slippery was one of the best rock albums of the '80's, so why not try to repeat the formula that made that album? You could argue all day about how different and alike the 2 albums are but still one thing is definately agreeable; both are awesome! "Bad Medicine" has great lyrics, guitars, drums, and vocals. "Lay Your Hands on Me", while not the best song in terms of lyrics is still a powerful rock song. "Blood on Blood" is a great song and a great anthem to any guy teen group. "Born to be my Baby", Living in Sin", "Wild is the Wind" are all wonderful rock songs too. "I'll be There for You" is not the best rock ballad out there, or even Jovi's greatest, but it's still good. "Love for Sale" is different and funny, that is what makes that song work. "99 in the Shade", although it has a strange tune is good too. I think this album represents the versatility of Bon Jovi, not only in the songs, but in the style of music. Several songs on this cd are nothing like any of their previous or later cds. You can really tell though that Jon and Richie both find their voices in this one too. Their vocals were mixed very well with the music. Although this isn't their best, with Slippery still being #1,in my opinion, NJ is a close second. In closing I'll say this; I can't find enough great things to say about Bon Jovi (the man and the group) their songs, lyrics, guitars, drums, voices, and talent are all top notch stuff, and New Jersey mixes all of their great talent together into one cd. So, if you're an '80's "hair-rock" music fan, buy it! if your a Bon Jovi fan you should already have it! If you're just a fan of great rock in general, you should buy it. Frankly, New Jersey and Slippery When Wet make a magnificent team! So put them in a cd player and play both of them back to back... the way it should be!Free Music Review: The "Essential" Bon Jovi
Hit: 4 Stars
You know an album is great when it sounds better every time you hear it. I picked "New Jersey" up on audio cassette for a dollar, and it was my introduction to Bon Jovi. Now I own 3 Bon Jovi albums, and I love them all."New Jersey" is different than the other albums I own ("Slippery When Wet", "Crush"). It feels more like a concert than an album. Whether it was intentional or not, the songs just flow nicely from one to another. The first two songs kind of get you going, though they're kind of repetitive and more of a "warm up" to the rest of the album. Then, with an authoritative "1, 2, 3, 4", the drums come in and "Born to be My Baby" opens. Then the album hits its stride. "Living in Sin" follows...it's beautifully written and sung, and shows off the band's ability to harmonize. If you have the cassette, like me, the 1st side finishes with "Blood on Blood", a high energy song about the band members' wild boyhood.
But if I could only have one side (speaking in tape terms again), it would be the second side. "Homebound Train" opens, continuing the energy that the first side ended with, and then comes "Wild is the Wind", a passionate and upbeat song about what it feels like to be seperated from the one you love. Then comes the mono, record-like recording of "Ride, Cowboy, Ride". It sounds kind of weak, but I'm still glad it's there, because it makes "Stick to Your Guns" sound that much cooler when it kicks in with it loud drums and beautiful chords. What follows is probably the best song on the album, "I'll Be There for You". I don't know how to describe its greatness, other than to say that it's the song that all of us guys wish we could sing (if we had Jon Bon Jovi's voice) to that one girl who we love, but never seems to love us in return. And just when you think the song is done, it hits its key change, and you'll just sit back and breathe a sigh. It's that cool.
The last couple of songs on the album aren't that special, but they kind of serve the purpose of "letting you down easy" so that you're actually ready to let the album stop playing. "99 in the Shade" is a fun song, but nothing special. The last song, "Love for Sale" isn't really a song, and you'll hate it at first, but after a couple of times, you'll start to find it funny, and you'll like the way it literally finishes the album off with one of the Bon Jovis requesting that they just "say the record is done".
This album may not be for everyone, but it's still undoubtedly a great album, and one of the reasons I still have a cassette player in my house. Give it a try.
Free Music Review: A worthy follow-up to their best work.
Hit: 4 Stars
Bon Jovi, after 2 mediocre albums that only hinted at their potential, burst into the rock stratosphere with Slippery When Wet, which remains one of the best-selling rock albums in America. It was a solid, thoroughly enjoyable rock romp the entire way through, and it was definitley a hard task to follow it up.From the opening, thunderous beat of 'Lay Your Hands on Me', the listener knows that Bon Jovi was more than up to the task. More importantly than the quality of music, however, is that Bon Jovi (the man and the band) finally seem to be finding their own musical identity. Their songs rely more on rhythmic grooves than Richie Sambora's riffs, and the songwriting is less reliant on Desmond Child and more reliant on their own talents, Jon especially, who steps into his own on the hit ballad 'Living in Sin', which hinted at his solo potential that he would later realize.
Boundries are pushed with half-epics like Blood on Blood, even if it's a total Born to Run ripoff (hell, the choruses are almost interchangable). But this is a good thing, it shows that the band is incorporating their influences more, and relying on trendy imagery less. Other songs hint at this too, like Wild is the Wind and 99 in the Shade. The band had a couple more hits with the irresistable Bad Medicine, the keyboard-driven, infectious Born to Be My Baby, and the lovely, if not cliched, I'll Be There For You.
New Jersey doesn't come across as the Slippery When Wet clone that one would think, sure, it re-uses the formula, but that's to be expected when following up such a monsterous hit. New Jersy is Bon Jovi's first attempt at forging their own permenant niche in rock, and it wasn't perfect (a couple of throwaway tracks ruin the otherwise perfect feel), but it would definitley prepare most listeners for the occasional breakthroughs their future work would bring, even if it took the band a while to get to that point. Overall, a pivotal album for one of rock's greatest bands.