This was the beginning of Bon Jovi’s decline as a rock band. I’m not a fan of country but I do love this album. Have a Nice Day was a great rock album followed by Lost Highway which was a venture into country territory. Here Bon Jovi got back to some good ol’ rock and roll. Both are solid albums, but neither album stands out as exceptionally noteworthy. Maybe it was my period of life, or that they just didn’t resonate with me. I call these the forgotten years because, for me, these next two albums just kind of got lost in the shuffle. The next two albums were two of their best and most different, as they moved out of the hair band stage and into a more mature rock. It was only four years between albums, but those four years were a lifetime to a kid moving from high school to college. There are so many classic songs on these two albums alone. I still can’t help but crank up the volume for You Give Love a Bad Name or Bad Medicine. These were the glory years of hair bands, and Bon Jovi was at the top of their game. I hadn’t started listening to Bon Jovi until S lippery When Wet, but once a fan, I went backward and purchased the earlier albums, as I am wont to do. How ’bout that… I learned something today. I hadn’t realized until just now that I can easily break down their albums into periods and that those periods pretty consistently come in pairs. But before I get to ranking their albums, let’s take a look back. I may not be an expert on the band, but I do know their music. Having been a fan since almost the beginning and owning every album they have released, I consider myself something of a Bon Jovi connoisseur. I still have the CD in my truck, one of only SIX discs in my CD changer. I couldn’t get enough.Īfter Jersey, Bon Jovi disappeared for what seemed like forever before releasing one of my top albums of all time: Keep the Faith. I remember friends riding in my car, commenting that I ALWAYS had a Bon Jovi tape playing. By the time the album New Jersey came out, I was hooked. It all started with You Give Love a Bad Name, which was released somewhere around my sophomore year of high school. I’ve been a Bon Jovi fan for as long as I can remember.
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