Reviews (page 5 of 10)
The usual hits were good, also liked "Wild In the Streets"
a few real bangers here
Actually liked it, some pure cheese and soft core porn sounds but generally a good album
Dedícame una bon
Enjoyed the inane rhyming.
I’m not wet but this album definitely fucks. Only song that truly sucks is Without Love. Probably a true 3.5 but fuck it 4 stars!
Very solid classic album
It's great even though Jon is ripping is throat out in every song.
3 absolute killer tracks
Bon Jovi are the Pet Shop Boys from the American guitar rock in the sense that at their first 4 albums or so, they wrote extremely catchy hit songs: take Runaway from '84, or on this album: You Give Love a Bad Name, Livin' on a Prayer and Wanted Dead or Alive, all 5-stars songs. But then at some point the albums became solid at most. Always thought this was due to their Bruce Springsteen influences taking over, but On Slippery When Wet it is BS all over, but is mixed with 80s pop music. Still sounds great and at the time, I really liked the album. But would have rated it as 4-star album, as the song material was a little too inconsistent. Really wanted to give it 5-stars this time, but stick to my view from 35 years ago.
Always found this a bit (too) smooth but there are in fact quite a number of killer songs on this album.
Amazing freaking album
I'd always thought that these hair pop metal poodles were a bit of a joke. And they are, it's just I'm glad I'm in on it. Best Tracks: You GIve Love a Bad Name; Living on a Prayer; Raise Your Hands
1986 and I was in two but I turned them as proper metal, when this came out, it was hated by me and my peers as it was felt that this was a solo album. Bon Jovi had become something less than heavy metal. Fast forward 35 years, and I listen to it now with a very different here, I appreciate it as one of those albums change the face of rock. Having listened to it, a few times, I can understand its commercial appeal and what it did for the music genre. It’s not an album that I would listen to regularly but it’s wonder if I were in the right frame of mind I would enjoy
J'ai envoyé un courriel à Robert et celui-ci m'a bien confirmé que Bon Jovi appartient à la catégorie des joyeux gueulards.
Bon Jovi vient prendre la tête du classement des joyeux gueulards du générateur grâce à cet excellent album. D'aucun diront que Bon Jovi appartient d'avantage à la caste des tristes gueulards, mais cette classification n'a pas encore été acceptée par le tribunal du gueulard rock.
I am 10 years old again, listening to 89FM and big hair rock is fkin cool.
Pas trop mon kiff mais certaines chansons sont bien. 3,5/5
I can enjoy this for what it is, and what it is is often cheesy, always catchy, pop rock/hair metal. Is it great? Not necessarily. But it's nice to listen to. Maybe it helps that I was born in the mid 90s and wasn't really ever subjected to hearing this kind of music at its peak.
There are some indisputably fun songs on here (although I don’t know if Jon was going for “fun”). There are some stinkers. On the whole a decent album, and that intro organ riff pushes it up to a four for me
Probably a 3.5 - but for the time and style its pretty enjoyable. Fun, fair amount of hits, and nowhere near as cheesy as hair metal can go. Shows why they've lasted so long.
Overplayed singles that I'm sick of, but the album as a whole is a good listen.
LP
A very entertaining album to listen to filled with classic hits
C'est juste du bonbon... impossible de ne pas chanter. Certains passages de synthétiseurs ont moins bien vieilli, c'est sûr. Mais j'assume ce plaisir.
That vibrato those high hats.
While a bit of a dated relic of an album, I think it holds up quite well with the other albums of its time. I enjoyed this album quite a bit and I'd listen to it again.
Good classic rock albulm with riffs and bangers.
Lol this is wild freaky without contextual cues
Classic.
No voy a decir que es el mejor album de rock de la historia, pero sí que fue el comienzo de una larga carrera. El disco es bastante bueno, con buenas canciones, y un Livin' On A Prayer que se ha convertido en uno de los mayores himnos del rock.
Classic.
Lots of good tracks, Especially enjoyed Wild in the Streets and Never Say Goodbye (pure 80’s gold)
Such a slice of 80s magic. I've belted out these tunes many times before.
I expected to hate this so hard. In my mind, Bon Jovi is that cheesy act that my wife likes from when she was a kid. I hate that I didn't hate this. This band definitely knows how to rock. The music is... well, dammit, it's irresistible. Richie Sambora is a monster shredder and Tico Torres is a freaking machine. They're locked in and unrelenting. Every song is either a fist-pumping anthem or a heart-felt ballad. This is an album crafted by people who knew exactly what they were doing. I'm not a huge fan of that 80 vocal style that Jon Bon Jovi is known for but it is what it is. The main problem is the lyrics. They are just SO cheesy. That, I believe, was entirely by design. Bon Jovi fully intended to get peoples' blood pumping but not challenge them with the lyrics in any way. And it worked. For a hot minute, they owned the intersection of pop and hard rock. And they reaped the rewards of that balance. It hurts to say but (if this album is any indication), they earned their fame. I guess I should have trusted my wife. She's always been a rocker. Now she'll get to hear her three favorite words: "you were right."
I bought 'Livin' on a Prayer' and 'Wanted Dead or Alive' on 7" at the time but never got around to buying the album. Not quite sure why. 1986/87 was a big time for me buying albums so I'm guessing I just never got around to it as there was always something else to buy. Even after all this time I still don't have it. It's the sound of me being 14 and I'm ok with that. I also wrote my first car off with 'New Jersey' playing on the car stereo but that's another story.
Banger.
The great songs are great, cheesy crowd pleasers. a few filler songs of course.
I liked just about every song on this album but at least I have the decency to be ashamed of that.
legendary glam metal montage music that slightly overstays its welcome, but it's ok since Livin' on a Prayer + You Give Love a Bad Name were also here
temazo tras temazo, no sabía que fue este disco de donde salieron esos himnos de bon jovi, aquellas rolas que no conocía igual me gustaron mucho, bon jovi tiene ese sonido particular del rock ochentero y una voz sin igual, de las mejores del rock en mi opinión, un discazo, no me voló la mente, pero sí es muy, muy bueno en una palabra: clásico
A classic
very impressed!
Very, very 80’s. I loved every second of listening to it
Fun, catchy, this album is 80's rock to its core. It's the kind of album that you simply can't turn up loud enough.
Stupid silly fun with songs that last the test of time.
This is brilliant. Knows exactly what it is, doesn't try to be anything more than anthemic stadium rock that is of its time, and totally nails it. Can see how people would dislike the style (and if the album was 15 minutes longer it would definitely get a bit too much for me), but I love the exuberance and the energy. Is it the most musically sophisticated album we've listened to? No. Are the lyrics particularly insightful? No, it's Springsteen without the depth. Is it the most fun album we've had so far, 130 albums in? Probably, yeah. 4/5.
The singles are so ubiquitous it's hard to be objective but this flew by, not a band I'd seek out but the songwriting is top tier
Bon Jovi's breakthrough and possibly the most mainstream 80s rock album out there. It encompasses everything there is to love about glam rock. High energy, iconic riffs, and catchy choruses begging the audience to sing along. An unpopular opinion, but this is my favorite Bon Jovi album. Lots of fans prefer their 90s work, but the excitement here is unmatched. There's rarely a boring moment here, and it never drags on. My least favorite track is the required-by-law hard rock ballad "Never Say Goodbye." Some songs give me classc rock n roll or roots rock vibes, like the Burce Spingsteen-esque closer "Wild in the Streets."
first listen there are too many bangers on this to not love it
Generally I hate Glam metal. This is probably as good as it going to get for me. There is probably better stuff out there, but I don't care to find it lol.
Great album! With a couple of all time hymns like "You give love a bad name" and "Livin' on a prayer". It was an important piece in the stadiums rock boom during and after the 80's.
Biggest hold against it is the overplaying of the big songs on this album, but I suppose that’s not on him. Good album.
WOAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
Not perfect, but most decent hits are here
Haha, well, I was never a HUGE Bon Jovi fan, but this really does take me right back to 1986ish. So, extra star for you. :-)
Buenísimo disco de rock con grandes clásicos, buenas guitarras y excelente voz
I feel like this should be a guilty pleasure but I really am not even that guilty. This is just a damn good rock album.
Absolute classic
A classic! Sang along while cooking dinner.
This was some rocking fun, as well as awesome nostalgia. The first "side" of this album was nearly perfect. Yay Bon Jovi!
This wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.
They do what they do well! Many of their songs are classics for good reason but it's not my favorite kind of rock, so when listened to as a whole, it becomes a bit one-faceted.
Great album.
Bon Jovi is IT when it comes to hair metal in the 80s. Their music has transcended to every wedding and company party in 2022. Richie Sambora is a great lead guitarist for Bon Jovi and it’s too bad he left the band. Love the album as a whole, but there are a couple misses “Let it Rock” and “Social Disease” don’t stand out. But 3 of his greatest hits ever come from this album, there’s a reason it’s on this list.
Obvious classics, great guitar, a little slow and predictable at times, but overall a very good album.
Negatives - it's "hair rock", it's cheesy AF Postives - you know all the words, its catchy, sounds good loud, and just leaves you happy..... (all assuming you are of the appropriate age and demographic - which I am).
Is this "great" music? Objectively, no. But, is it fun? Yep. Is it, perhaps, the quintessential 80s rock album? Maybe. Not much else to say. If you want to understand 80s music, this is a must-listen.
Solid rock I can dig
string of hits. no skips. karaoke stuff
its bon jovi...what do i say
this album is the essence of 80s rock can't believe he managed to put so many bangers on 1 album
I love the singles, and the other songs were not as dull as I expected; there's some genuinely great 80s rock songs on here that aren't "Living on a Prayer"!
I mean...it's Bon Jovi. "You give love a bad name"... Start the party!
listened to this one a lot as a kid. i feel like it's loaded with hits. i'm alone in this feeling haha.
heavy yet not too heavy and with a playful edge, have listened to it before will probably listen again
4.5/5 well this was a good one!
Muy buen disco, aunque la mitad del disco no le llega a los talones a los sencillos, pero está muy prendido
Guilty Pleasure, aber gut
Peinlich gut
I never listened to the entire album before, so I discovered some new songs. Even the really overplayed ones are actually good after not hearing them for a year.
Bon Jovi's third album - with a few of their most popular songs - was an instant commercial success for the glam metal / hard rock band. It was the best selling album of 1987, along with being Bon Jovi's best selling album, and has been certified 12x platinum, which makes it diamond certified! It's chock-full of amazing songs to listen to for any occasion. This album is a jammer for anyone from Generation X or younger!
Some absolute bangers.
Time machine
I wanted to not like this album, because of some unconscious bias I had with Bob Jovi. But it was undeniable, they’re obviously not the most innovative band but their songs are catchy. So many bits in this album
Man, "Livin' On a Prayer," "You Give Love a Bad Name," AND "Wanted Dead or Alive" are all off the same album? Wow. This must be an absolute smash for the album cuts too! That's what I thought when I looked at the track listing. The rest of the album is good but forgettable. Turns out, the tracks you remember off this album are well known for a reason, but the other tracks are forgotten for a reason. They're just okay. 4/5 because I can't ignore that three all-time classics are all on this album, but the rest of it really let me down despite being perfectly good.
It may be glam but it's a whole load of fun and you can't deny that there are a handful of absolute anthems here.
Pleasingly silly opening that reminds me of Argent. Pipe organ and distorted guitar, and the on the nose title "Let It Rock". Equally subtle lyrics... You Give Love A Bad Name rules, all Billie Jean ripoff and drama. Hating on Livin' On A Prayer would be so easy, but it is a perfect pop sound. Indeed, the only way you could hate on Bon Jovi is from a rock purist perspective. This is a failure to see Bon Jovi (up to c. 1995) are a near perfect pop group. A pinch of power balladry, a good wedge of Spandex metal, and a sprinkle of Bruce Springsteen's patented New Joisy blue collar relatability, and you've found a formula worth millions. It is no surprise that Jon Bon Jovi is related to the legendary producer Tony Bongiovi - who worked with the Talking Heads, Ramones and Shirley Bassey. Social Disease is the only hard rock song I can think of with full Motown horns on it. Points scored there! Wanted Dead or Alive is another slice of perfection. Cowboy rock. And if there is anything as enjoyable as singing the bit where it goes "Wanted....WAAAANNTEEEEED!" then you aren't taking enough joy in life. Raise Your Hands is the first disappointing entry on this album. Boring stadium singalong stuff. Without Love is very much something that could be used as filler on Magic (105.4) between better power ballads, so yet Mam's heart rate doesn't get too high. The whole back half of the album is disappointing to be honest. Never Say Goodbye is a better power ballad, and you can at least see what they were trying to do with Wild In The Streets. It's Judas Priest's Break-in The Law without the commitment. If this had kept its momentum up, it'd be an all the great album. As it is, I have a five star A side, and a 2 star B side.
43. Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi 10 tracks. WHAT an album! Some people thinking that this stands on the back of 1 track are missing lots. I think it's a "proper album" with ebb and flow rather than just a collection of tracks thrown together. It doesn't make we want to listen to this album again, but it makes me want to listen to more like it. 4/5.
Iconic 80s guitar tone and a few anthemic masterpieces slightly spoiled by the indulgent run time
Excellent hard rock / hair metal. Drags a little bit in the second half, but the opening half (with all the big names: \"You Give Love a Bad Name\", \"Livin' on a Prayer\", \"Wanted Dead or Alive\") is exceptional and more than enough to carry the album.
When I was about 7 there was this hit song on MTV called “Always”, me and my siblings liked it so much my parents bought us the CD (cross road) and we became obsessed with it. It wasn’t until many years later that I learned it was a compilation and that most of the songs were from before I was born lol. I had never listened to this album in full before but the hits I’m very familiar with and bring me back to my childhood even if the teems are not for kids. Even if glam metal is not my jam I have a soft spot for this one and I also praise the like instruments as opposed of the synth infested 80’s albums on this list
Overall this album is good, but the singles are what really carry this album. Especially Livin' On A Prayer, that one really hits different. Although I did really enjoy Raise Your Hands too.
Bon Jovi, you know what you're getting here. Lots of his classics are on this album, Livin on a Prayer, Shot Through the Heart, Cowboy. Pretty consistent throughout.
Sloppy, hairy, excessive. This band is like a house made double cheeseburger and loaded fries. In the moment, its deeply satisfying. On closer inspection, its very bloated and doesn't say or offer anything new. But hot damn You Give Love A Bad Name hits like few other hair metal tunes do. And Livin' On A Prayer deserved to take over the world. Raise Your Hands is a sleeper hit on this record.
Much better than I would ever give them credit for. The hits are hits for a reason.
Super corny as I expected but honestly not a bad listening experience 7/10
8/10. Great album, but I feel like these songs sounded a lot better when I was a kid.
Not heard for ages. Great fun. Some filler, but the big singalong numbers never get old.
4th October 2021 Listened while working out in the sun in Spain with seb and jen playing with my headphones. Love me a bit of dramatic power ballad and this is one of the greats. Got some good songs around the big hitters too.
The boys are wet, what can I say
Great pop album in rock disguise.
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: You give love a bad name, Livin’ on a prayer, I’d die for you
Enjoyed this a lot more than the other Bon Jovi album I listened to. The style can get a bit over the top and grating after a while, but there are enough classic songs on here to pull it off
The fourth star is purely for nostalgia. A pretty damn good album that has aged pretty well.
Heeft de hits de rest vult mooi aan
Oke, witte wijn, dit album EN 45+ jarige vrouwen die iets te geil staan en we hebben een zieke vibe! Die cover? Niet doen! (de japanse is veel beter)
I don't like Bon Jovi's 80's stadium rock but I understand why it should be included on this list. A 3 that I will begrudgingly give a 4 because I've just been sick of listening to bad british indie fuzz.
bollarna är tömda till den grad att det värker efter tredje låten. Resten är som att kolla porr med post-nut clarity
Ordinarily I'd ignore stuff like this - preposterous, overblown stadium rock. But my perspective has been damaged by the swathes of utter rubbish we've had forced on us lately. Consequently, this felt like a breath of fresh air. It gets 4 stars, principally for 'Wanted..' which is a real classic (though the live version is better).
I love this album but not as much as New Jersey. So I will go with 4 stars
First song quite good, second and third amazing, then just ok for a bit, then one more pretty good song towards the end
Top draw 80s cheese
This was my whole 7th grade. Holds up pretty well.
Face has been rocked.
One of the first album I bought and my first concert was Bon Jovi. Album still hold up
Yeah I unironically like Bon Jovi, its probably rock for your mum but it's harmless hair rock which is fun, enjoyed this album even if he is a bit of a bell
Just straight up good fun
This has gotta be the most iconic Bon Jovi album ever, right? Loved them when I was in high school and love them now!
I have a soft spot for this album. In HS I played in a band that covered most of it. Made me love and hate it. Going with love now due to nostalgia.
I grew up with this album, so it's a little hard to separate my review from the nostalgia, but I can try. Every song is solid, but some suffer from being overplayed. Very of its time for the ballads and very karoakeable. Definitely didn't age well, but play as a history lesson to the kids. You know I haven't been writing very good things. Why is this a four? I'd rate it 3.75 because of the hooks and generally catchiness. It's not a deep album and sometimes sounds like a parody of itself, but its another everyman album. The production is good and the guitars are perfect. The drums are super 80s and I like them like that. The lyrics are fitting. Overall, a good album worth buying.
Los mejores clásicos de Bon Jovi. No es de todo mi agrado, pero es un álbum disfrutable (especialmente con la buena voz que tiene).
Love this album.
Several big hitters
Goed album, met heel wat meezingers. Maar geen complete uitblinker
4/5 Rock/pop
Ik dacht dat ik dit wel geinig zou vinden om weer eens te horen, maar puur vanuit nostalgie 4 sterren! 😁
Wow. This is much better than I expected.
Several good songs on this album. The singles are the standouts though, expectly.
No denying this one, great album
I'm not the biggest BJ fan, but you can't knock this album. It is HIT after HIT after HIT. If you've ever enjoyed a bit of hair metal, you've heard and enjoyed every one of these songs.
Classic
A little cheesy, but really good melodies!
i love
4 stars for livin on a prayer
Awesome album. Rockin 80s guitar that's borderline cheesy but no where near as much as the likes of whitespace. Makes me want to blast the album in the cassette deck of an 88 corvette while sharing a delicious 40 of Olde English with my best buds. Only thing keeping it from a 5 is some weaker tricks near the end.
Has some of Bon Jovi's greatest hits on one album. The album has a theme of lack of love.
Wow, Good album, lots of hits, not always my style.
3.5 nice. only few songs weren't great
4/5 3.5/5. The singles are timeless and carry the album, everything else is cool. Standout Tracks: You Give Love A Bad Name, Livin' On A Prayer, Wanted Dead Or Alive, Raise Your Hands
Det er lidt kikset i dag, og det er lidt ulideligt med vokalen, men helt ærligt ... det er så crazy stadion-arena-hair-metal-rock, og jeg kan ikke forestille mig en meget federe oplevelse end at stå med en kande fadøl på et gigantisk stadion og høre You Give Love A Bad Name Det kiksede kammer så virkelig over på de tre sidste numre, hvilket trækker den ned på en 3'er På samme måde som ACDC - Back in Black får 4 stjerner, så er det her jo heller ikke fantastisk, langt fra endda, men det er fandme sjovt 3.6
En sikker 3'er. Flere bangers der trækker op. Men også meget ligegyldigt fyld. Endnu engang må man dog spørge sig selv, hvad argumentet er for, at lige det her album skulle med på listen
I was surprised how much of a GnR vibe this gave, not sure if that's a good thing or not.
Hugely cheesy and overblown, with full on “woah-oh” backing vocals from the whole band and too many farting synths, but it’s impossible to not sing along. A bit shit, but in a great big grin on your face kind of way
3 iconic bangers mostly broken up by 80's glam, radio rock, cheese. I never had beef with Bon but also never really had anything good to say besides those 3 singalong rock favorites. There is some charm in the guitar work, but sad to say I don't think bon wrote it. He's had a militia of studio goons doing the work for him since the 80's. But, what can I say its not meant to be a monolithic rock album. Just something else from the 80s for your consideration.
"Livin' on a Prayer" sempre valerá o ingresso, mas a grande surpresa é que o álbum é interessante. Não existe introdução, aperto de mão ou conversa fiada. O Bon Jovi simplesmente invade a sala com seus cabelos perfeitamente hidratados e começa a despejar refrões. Confesso que estou apaixonado por Wanted Dead or Alive.
A good stadion rock album and a middling parody smashed together.
It's not great but the hits still hit what can I say
Трудно победить предубеждение к BJ.
Really? This one surprises me even though it's from my era. I honestly haven't played this since the late 80's and that's mainly because the 3 hits are so overplayed, even today, that I just want to avoid the commerciality of it all. I will add that I was a fan from day one, "Runaway" & "She Don't Know Me" were my jams in the 10th grade! I even liked "7800 Fahrenheit" which was kind of a flop, then they released this and went big time, they lost their luster for me right then and there. You can't get much bigger than "Livin' On A Prayer" as far as classic rock songs go, maybe "Don't Stop Believin'". Then you have "You Give Love A Bad Name" and "Wanted Dead Or Alive". Throw in fringe hit "Never Say Goodbye" and you have a megahit album, like it or not. Weak glue songs like "Social Disease", "Without Love", "Raise Your Hands", "I'd Die For You" and "Wild In The Streets" taint the album a bit. "Livin' on a Prayer" and "You Give Love a Bad Name" were written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, with the assistance of hitmaker, Desmond Child Regardless, they're laughing all the way to the bank and still gettin' paid for this album, it's the last & really the only huge album they had. 3.5 solid stars for such a gigantic album (then & now), longevity, hits, impact even today and their loyal fans.
I like Bon Jovi and the two big songs on here are obviously bangers but honestly, quite a bit of filler on this album. Enjoyed but not blown away.
Ehhhhhhhhhhh.
I should like Hair Metal. It has everything I love: wailing guitars & nice riffs. It just comes off as cheesy, often the lyrics. I always thought Hair Metal was Stripper Music. Bon Jovi wasn't one of those who struck me as Stripper Music. They are. it's high class. I think get Bon Jovi though. This is one of their best. The hits HIT & some of the lesser ones do, too. The ladies love Jon & the boys, too. You have to expect a nice layer of 80s cheese but it's good.
The hair metal equivalent of the Eagles
Damn there’s some classics, didn’t realize these were all bon jovi
Bon Jovi is like this weird Springsteen / Van Halen monstrosity with all the soul ripped out of it. That said, I didn't hate it, so it's a reluctant 3.
Sometimes it’s fun to go back to one’s early years and this album takes me back. Not something I’d listen to front to back or on repeat but still good to hear from time to time.
I forgot these guys were classed as hair metal. Feels like getting slapped by the 80s. So smooth, but surprisingly more enjoyable than others on the list. Then you reach track 4. After solidly mid. 3 Heard before? Some Owned: No, 106/417 (25%) Will I get: No
Батя рок во всей своей красе
Like most produce from the Garden State, this doesn’t age well. You’ve got those classic song alongs that we all love but it’s very 80s. I’ll give it one bonus star for the Bristol Bon Jovi car.
When reviewing Beastie Boys Licensed To Ill, I learned that today me is lame. Well, today me likes Bon Jovi, which is a sad reminder that today me is indeed, Lame AF. Mostly I like Bon Jovi because it's fun and nostalgic. Well written songs ready made to become arena anthems. Jon Bon Jovi as a person is by all accounts a great human being, does his part to make the world a better place. Today me is a fan, saw him live a long while back (as an adult) and enjoyed the show even though his voice wasn't quite tip top. Today me has lost his soul. Young me with the terrible mullet knew Bon Jovi, the hair metal Ken doll my sister had a life size poster of taped to her bedroom door (true fact), was a corporate sellout phony. Every morning I'd come face to face with that dumb ass big hair d bag staring at me from across the hall. Tearing him down would no doubt get me grounded for a week, maybe two, not worth the cost. I always hated glam hair metal because I knew it was a cheap rip off of heavy metal crafted for the lame ass masses. Music with no soul or purpose. I was right about that....but truth be told the music really was pretty good. Young me would never admit it, but Bon Jovi isn't terrible. So I'm okay with being a lame old guy that likes old school hair metal. Bon Jovi is a great example of the genre and rightfully on this list.
Oh so 80s. Listen to me I can make my guitar talk. Living on a prayer
I won’t speak ill of my fellow Jersey peeps. This is a fun album, full of sing-along rock. There’s a reason we know the singles, and the musicality is quality, especially Richie Sambora on lead. It doesn’t have the cheesiness of most hair metal, but it doesn’t take many risks either. So it’s probably an album you enjoy more than admit that they’re groundbreaking.
It is so odd to listen to this again and just hear all the fucking hits that were on this one record. 1. You Give Love A Bad Name 2. Livin' On A Prayer 3. Wanted Dead Or Alive I'm not even angry/mad that it is butt rock, arena rock, hair metal, whatever you want to call it there are fucking hits on this thing.
Strong flavours of Bill and Ted about this one, goofy but fun 80s hair metal. I'm surprised that this contains basically all Bon Jovi's hits, You Give Love A Bad Name and Livin' On A Prayer back to back is amazing, but even the songs of not heard before were enjoyable. I liked listening to this a lot, it's lots of fun, but I think one album is all the Bon Jovi I need in my life and I won't be seeking out any more.
Never really been a fan of Bon Jovi, but this was a decent effort. However, an album full of their songs is several tracks too may for me, it all starts getting a bit too 'waily' and 'screechy'. I made it all the way through, it's probably somewhere between 2 and 3 stars for me. I'll be generous as it's a Friday.
Sounds much the same, but a few bangers on here
Good hard rock experience, in intro song good nice anthem vibe ..and the second and third sounded good but in third song was experimental..I liked it really those moaning sounds in starting and then one soft rock type song then afterwards all songs sounded same and last was really nice out them .. overall i 'd say Good album
Pretty standard dad rock, which isn't necessarily a bad thing depending on my mood. Definitely thought I might've started a Boston album by mistake the way this one started out though.
“Livin’ on a Prayer” and “You Give Love a Bad Name” are probably more . . . familiar than good. And they’re the best things on a pretty inconsistent album.
it's like that B movie you hate but keep coming back to when you're 7 beers in
Not a big lover of this sort of MOR American rock and this is perhaps the biggest example of that. Was always the soundtrack to Top Gear muscle car reviews but has now lost that mantle and is now more likely to be heard in seedy karaoke pubs. If it fulfils that purpose then fair enough but I also admit that there are times when the hits from the album sound OK in sun drenched beer gardens. I bought this CD very cheap in a charity shop. Reason being, as I have already said, it is a significant album for this genre and worthy of a place in my collection albeit seldom if ever played other than on random shuffle. 3/5 12/8/26
Happy 40th Birthday for this coming Tuesday, album This came out when I was less than 2 months old. Cheesy as fuck, but the hits are bangers.
What would it be like to hear Livin on a Prayer or You Give Love a Bad Name or Wanted Dead or Alive for the first time? These songs are so ubiquitous that they feel hard to judge. The tracks on this album that I wasn’t previously familiar with range from fine to kind of annoying. I prefer Def Leppard and Van Halen. Low 3.
O…I understand why many people don’t like the pop metal thing
Unfortunately, I could not bring myself to hate this fully. The big hits, especially “Livin’ on a Prayer,” sound even better in the album context. The high-gloss guitars and synths are pretty satisfying. That being said, god I hate his sung melodies. Dude learned the blues scale and stopped learning. And of course the whole thing is a pretty shallow enterprise. I think if you know the hits, there’s no reason to listen to anything else on here even if it’s aight.
Absolutely of its time. Big hair rock done very well
ну очень стадионно, не для меня (и местами хорни, я думала он романтик)
Livin' On A Prayer was one of the first songs I bought for my iPod Nano (on December 27, 2009, to be exact) and I literally bought the music video instead of the song. I was a big fan back then and I remember that my cousins and friends were too. I feel like Bon Jovi is the rock music that you like when you're a kid because it hasn't been over played for you yet and you don't have the ears to appreciate better music yet. But then you end up liking their music when you're older for nostalgic reasons and knowing lots of their songs because they are played all the time, everywhere. And that's how I feel about this album.
When it gets it right, it's great (basically the singles) everything else just sounds like filler.
Nice. 3.4-ish
This was admittedly better than I thought it would be.
Bon Jovi is Great Value brand Van Halen, but it turns out that makes for a decent sound
3/5 Some classic tracks on here and some run of the mill songs but I had a good time with this.
A good record from a legendary artist
Decent 80s album
🅱️on Jo🅱️i I turned it off at around song 8. It's jon bovi; it's fun to listen to for a little, but nothing I would actively seek out to listen to in my free time. 2.5 rounded up. not sure anyone NEEDS to hear von jobi before they die
I'm not gonna sit here and pretend this album isn't fun. Peak masculinity used to involve so much hairspray.
7,50/10 Buen album, me gusto. Tiene muy buenos temas y algunos medio pj
A divisive dumpster fire album. I’m giving it a three just based on the fact that the top singles on this album have crazy staying power. Industry designed and forced or not it’s impressive to make singles that are recognized 40 years later. I went into this album being a hair metal denier. I still am BUT I didnt hate this as much as I should have.
4 outta 5
This one has some bangers, but maybe it's more nostalgia than anything else. All sounds like very same-y dad rock, and I didn't discover new songs to like. Highlights: livin on a prayer (always fun to belt out in a crowd), you give love a bad name, wanted dead or alive
not my taste but so iconic
pretty good
very good
I am biased here, because this album has some of my favorite songs. This is my first time listening to the whole album though. Solid album flow This sounds like the 80s in the best way Started strong, but ending was not as impressive
5: I will happily play this album anytime 4: I may occasionally play this album of my own free will 3: I will happily listen to this if someone plays it in the background 2: I will tolerate this if it is playing in the background 1: I will leave the room if someone plays this in the background
Truth be told, I am not a fan of this style of music, this anthem hair band just a tad too classic rock thing. Now, with that said, NO genre or band or style is "bad" (arguably outside wall of noise which just causes me physical anxiety). So there are songs here that are quite excellent. Taken as a whole, even back in the day I was always on the fence. Now! Fast forward a bunch of years and the lead singer John Bon Jovi is a bit of a folk hero for the people. He talked a suicide off a bridge and hugged that person... I mean gold star right there! Human's don't get much better than that and so sure, I may not like the musical style but I will take that dose of humanity anytime!
7/10 - Straight bangers. The only thing hold it back for me is that the hits (love them) just feel out of place in an album. Not a reflection on the album itself, just a reflection on me Fav Tracks: (besides the hits) Social Disease, Raise Your Hands Heard before? --------–- ✅ Saved a new Song? ----- ✅ Saved Album? -------–-- ✅ Will Listen Again? ---––– ❌
Just a big bag of cheese puffs.
Obviously a well polished and well produced hit album. I'm just not a fan of this band. Give me Deep Purple or Uriah Heep anytime.
nothing really stood out to me
full of bangers, rightfully named album. great choons
Dumb as rocks, but good fun
boff. Wel oke, maar niet baanbrekend (+ Living on a Prayer is echt beuuuuu)
Story time. When I was a senior in high school, me and a couple of my friends were driving to some sort of regional school newspaper/yearbook conference nearby. Somehow, this annoying sophomore kid ended up riding in the car with us. We were into The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, etc. He wanted to listen to Bon Jovi in the car. Needless to say, I believe we listened to Siouxsie and The Banshees the whole way! Fast forward to today and I've been married to that annoying sophomore for 30 years! This is all to say that I've heard this album many, many times - not voluntarily. Hair bands from the 80s was never really my thing. But, you have to give this album credit for the number of hits it produced and the number of albums is sold. I won't ever seek out listening to Bon Jovi, but I also won't turn them off if it pops up on something.
it has the hits but it's still bon jovi :/
The highs had me contemplating whether I'd actually give Bon Jovi a 4....but by the end, I was so tired of the same Bon Jovi energy all the way through every song on the album that it narrowly escaped a 2
Generally: Great album, but very front-loaded. And an awful lot of "whoa-oa"s throughout. Let it Rock: The intro to this is great, but then it transforms into what is now fairly generic rock. It probably sounded a lot more original in 1986, though. You Give Love a Bad Name: Absolute classic - the first time I've heard this through headphones, so didn't realise what great use it made of stereo, with the bassline wandering around the listening. Living on a Prayer: Another absolute classic, and the most "New Jersey" song on the album - could easily see this being covered by Bruce Springsteen, actually. Social Disease: Ugh, yet another absolute classic! Huh, I always thought that "Love is a" was part of the title, but apparently not. Really a great groove - more rock music should include horns. Wanted Dead or Alive: and side A closes with one more classic, this is ridiculous. I'm fairly certain this is the song that got Jon Bon Jovi the Young Guns II soundtrack gig. Really impressed at how different every song on side A manages to be. Raise Your Hands: High energy, but forgettable. Without Love: great drumming I guess? Otherwise it pretty much just slides off my brain. I'd Die for You: this could have probably been another classic with better lyrics, as it is it's just another overly earnest angsty teenage lovesong. Never Say Goodbye: one of those "last song at the disco" tracks. Nice, tuneful, laid back - not sure why this is the second last track, it would seem better to close the album with this. Wild in the Streets: and we end with one more fairly forgettable high-energy number.
It's corny, but it's fun for a minute. Some of the songs on the latter half are straight up terrible, but I don't think it's meant as an album, there are the bangers and the fillers. Therefore I don't think it's an album for me, to me songs alike, some of them barely fresh ideas, but I do like it generally speaking.
Bon Jon Bovi
Jon von bi
I was determined to dislike this. It is probably described as "fun" by a lot of people, but when has that ever stopped me? Except after a few tracks I couldn't help but bop my head to it. Sure, it's not the kind of music I particularly go for, but it's hard to argue with the power of "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Livin' on a Prayer", "Wanted Dead or Alive", and "Never Say Goodbye" among the others. I still wouldn't voluntarily listen to this again though, which drops it to a high 3/5.
Bon Jovi was huge in the mid-80's and it wasn't hard to get burnt out on their hits because they were played so often. This would be my first time listening to the whole album. Not totally my thing but not bad. 3.5/5
classic
kinda peak
Three all-timers is pretty significant. Dead or Alive is one of my favorite songs... and I really don't like Bon Jovi much at all. There was a bunch of stuff on this record that triggered my gag reflex... even so:
Listen, I get the attraction. Singalong arena hard rock with plenty of punches in the air. But it's too much hairspray for me. Hope you enjoy it.
Is glam rock a good genre? Probably, no. Generic, radio friendly, and without much to say. That being said, these fellas could certainly write a hit, and it's a lot of fun to listen to. That being said, there are far better examples of this type of music. That being said, maybe I should just get tf over myself and enjoy fun music for the sake of it. That being said, the songs here that aren't mega-hits aren't exactly fun at all, and maybe pretty bad. That being said,// Fave tracks: - You Give Love A Bad Name - Livin' On A Prayer - Wanted Dead Or Alive
NICE
All of Bon Jovi's greatest, overplayed, hits!
I mean it's good but it feels wrong giving a 4... might bump later
Fun! But not enough that I'd want to replay
Well, full disclosure, I don’t hate them. Sure, pretty boy metal? I agree, album title that even not knowing the full story about the Vancouver strip joint, is suggestive? absolutely, but they could actually write great catchy songs, so while I never would buy an album I can quite happily listen to Living on a Prayer and not tear my ears out. In fact, woah-oh! I’m half way through listening to this album and it is joyous, in the same way skateboarding as an adult is, you know its immature but boy is it fun.
This really should be a 4 out of 5, but I'm forced to deduct a star because of "Livin' on a Prayer". Before I get to that, the rest of the record is great. I hadn't heard "I'd Die for You" before, but it's a pretty good track. "You Give Love a Bad Name" is an absolute banger. Atreyu made a really good cover version about 20 years ago that goes pretty hard. So about "Livin' on a Prayer": My wife went to Auburn University for undergrad and pharmacy school . For those of you who follow American college football, you might know the student section sings that song at every single home game. As an Alabama fan, I am legally and spiritually opposed to that song. I've heard it blasting in Jordan-Hare Stadium more times than I can count. Musically, the album is a gold standard for 80s arena rock and hair metal. Richie Sambora's guitar work is top-tier, and the production is massive. It's just too bad Auburn had to go and ruin a classic.
At the age of 16, and as a first year student at technical college, I discovered Bon Jovi. Def Leppard and Iron Maiden followed quickly, then I found Metallica... Heard before ✅️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit ❌️ probably not Default ★★★☆☆ (6/10) Total reviewed : 329 Already owned : 76 Purchased : 15 To buy : 4 Nope : 234
I’ve always been a casual fan of Bon Jovi, but not much more. I like their hits and even count a couple of their ballads among my favorites in rock. Aside from that, I never gave them much thought. I was much more interested in Def Leppard, Van Halen, and Guns N’ Roses. I wasn’t sure why that was exactly until I listened to this album. The hits really do hit, but the misses feel like spineless rock: cheesy lyrics with passable rhythms. I enjoy Jon’s voice and the band is talented, but much of the album feels like those forgettable background songs they’d throw in 80s movies to indicate tension was happening. I’m tempted to toss an extra point at the album for the simple fact that Jon Bon Jovi has aged better than all of his contemporaries. Dude looks damn good!
Equal parts seriously dated and timeless legend. Lame and shamelessly fun at the same time. Some of the hits on this are popular with generations that did not live during the 80's. Who knew the son of that pasta sauce guy could do that?
Wow, listening to this album from Track 1 to Track 10 in its intended order was something. I've never really been a Bon Jovi guy, just learning a couple riffs from their most popular songs on guitar just to entertain people when they ask if I can play Bon Jovi. This album encapsulates the late 80's hair band corporate sponsored arena concerts to a T. Every song has been engineered and algorithmically designed to appeal to midwestern white male nostalgia. Songs about drinking cheap beer, smoking cigarettes, having sex with women, driving fast cars, and making questionable decisions on Friday night. The lyrics are chantable, the sound is designed for stadiums holding 40k people with lasers and pyrotechnics. I did have a good chuckle when I heard Never Say Goodbye because you can hear almost the exact part of this song that inspired Nickelback's album "All the Right Reasons". If you were to make a Venn diagram of Bon Jovi and Nickelback fans, it would be a circle. Make of that as you will. I'll give this album a 6/10 because it was a fun listen but at the end of the day, it's still Bon Jovi.
I dont like hair metal but really enjoyed this one. Some songs are timeless pieces of pop.
Meh. Bubblegum stadium pop rock. I mean you can't deny there are some hits on here. But yeah. Not really to my tastes.
Que los temas estén buenos no significa que estén buenos (?). Muy fuerte al medio, pero god. Los temas medio sencillones y también muy épicos, se nota que apuntaban a ser himnos todos y eso un poco la baja. Pero banqueira.
You know you're in for some gas right off the opening seconds of the album! Total glam rock bangers on here, on top of the classics I was already familiar with. I do think Bon Jovi is best enjoyed in moderation, however, as their sound would surely get old fast in a frequent rotation. Standouts: Let It Rock • You Give Love a Bad Name • Livin' On A Prayer • Raise Your Hands
Lots of hits. More range than average hair metal.
That’s a nostalgic banger. Definitely understand why it’s on the list. Can’t always say that.
My mom liked this album
Not a big Bob Jovi fan but this was a good album
Unc karaoke album
Buen álbum, sin dudas lo que destacan son los grandes 4 hits de Bon Jovi, de estos mi favorito sin lugar a dudas es Never Say Goodbye, tiene algo que me genera una angustia instantánea, destaco el trabajo de ls guitarra que está casi al nivel de Van Halen y se nota mucho su influencia, y Jon Bon Jovi tiene una voz que me agrada, muy poderos.
vocês são muito chatos por não gostar de um álbum divertido e pra cima desses. é white music? sim, mas ao menos é uma white music que não fere 2028937392 direitos humanos, então já estamos no lucro. 3,5.
Απίστευτη 80s κλασικούρα. Χωρίς παρεξήγηση απλώς έχει ακουστεί τόσο πολύ που έχω βαρεθεί. Δεν είναι κακά τα κομμάτια όμως, απλώς βαρετά Livin' On A Prayer
I'm too used to litening to Bon Jovi Cross Roads (greatest hits), so this felt a little like one great song with a bunch of ok songs.
Do I add or subtract points based on the fact that I got into my first car accident while listening to this album on the way back from a dinner at the Plutkos, specifically the platinum track You Give Love a Bad Name, as the only NJ car in a 4-car PA accident? I don’t know, but this album is equal parts cliched and rad.
This is my project so I will base my ratings on straight nostalgia if I wanna. Listening to this album 40 years after it was made there is a glaring revelation: yes, it is cheesy. But that does not negate the fact I remembered every word of every song and I felt something in my soul, albeit a bit of embarrassment mixed with the sort of wisdom that only comes with being able to laugh at yourself. Ah, this album on any other occasion would be a 2 now, but there are 3 redeeming factors tied to personal nostalgia that bump it up to a 3. 1. My dad took me to a Bon Jovi/Skid Row concert when I was 11 years old. They played a lot of these songs and it was the coolest thing I ever experienced up to that point in my life. He bought me a concert t shirt, which I still have, and I wore it to school the next day and the other 6th graders were in awe. 2. "Never Say Goodbye" was often used as a couples skate when I was that same age. I remember wanting to be a teenager so badly just so I could experience the good times I would someday reminisce. I would see the teenagers hold hands and skate to this song while I was waiting on the wall for the dumb 6th grade boys to skate around and ask me to skate. It broke my heart in a good way. 3. "Wanted Dead or Alive" is just a great song among the cheese. In fact, Jon Bon Jovi is much better as a cowboy than this spandex mess. I prefer that Young Guns 2 soundtrack to any of his other music. Anyway, this album IS 1986. It is cheesy now, but back then it was really something great.
Good
I want to give it a four because the hits are so awesome, but the rest are too cheesy. Still, you give love a bad name!
Ihan hauskaa ja hyväntuulista kasarirockia, joskin ne kolme megahittiä (You Give Love a Bad Name, Livin' on a Prayer ja Wanted Dead or Alive) kannattelevat tätä levyä. Ilman noita kyseisiä kappaleita tätä tuskin olisi otettu mukaan tälle listalle.
One thing’s for sure... Hair metal hasn’t aged all that well. The cheesiness here is off the charts. There are a couple of solid tracks, but most of it just takes me back to those trashy college bars, watching sloppy drunk regulars try to pick fights with the younger crowd. Funny in hindsight, but not exactly something I’m eager to relive.
Decent 3
Penis music. Pero mentiría si dijera que no he cantado los estribillos de You give love a bad name y de Livin' on a prayer.
Boy howdy. It's big and dumb. Really big and dumb. Fat licks played by the whole band with usually little nuance involved in arranging. Music made for the arena rock circuit specifically. Lyrics that work as rhymes but again lack subtlety and thought for the most part. It's a himbo given new form as sound waves. But, forgive me, I like it. It's an identity that is clear and I appreciate that I can participate in it without too much effort, just this once. Junk food is bad for you, but I really like a donut or a fat burger when I'm in the mood. I'm not a man made of stone and I admit it. I scream the gearshift key change in Livin' on a Prayer along with Bon Jovi any time I'm not in a strictly quiet environment. I am a human person.
Whilst living on a prayer is a certified banger, most of the album is just a bit too cheesy for my tastes
This is one of the albums I was dreading, not because I thought it would be bad, but because I thought it would be really boring. I've hated Livin on a Prayer for a while now, due to it being super overplayed, and never been crazy about You Give Love a Bad Name. I think Wanted Dead Or Alive is their best song, which isn't saying much. Every other song is forgettable or just ok. Low 3.
80s synth rock, with a few really popular hits that won't fail to get people jumping and dancing (Livin on a Prayer, You give love a bad name). I just so happened to listen to a rendition of Livin on a Prayer in a pub a few weeks ago, what a coincidence. Would I listen to this on repeat? Nah, probably it sounds too glam for my taste. But I'll definitely karaoke Livin on a Prayer
I hate this but it's kinda awesome? I would not be surprised if this sold 15M copies. I'm not going to look it up.
Started a 2, ended a 3 … I GUESS
They are good at what they do. Given how much I'm not a fan, I'm impressed with how many of their songs it turns out I know.
has some bangers and classics but i wouldn't listen to it everyday... at one point all the songs started to sound the same so i got bored
hard hitters in this album and mister Bon Jovi is really hot
Listened to before? Partially Context? A popular 80s hard rock album, with many ambiguous hits. Reviewed in a holistic format. I have a personal vendetta against mainstream hard rock music. It's trashy without political subtext. It's relentlessly masculine (and often misogynistic). It reminds me of those white middle aged couples that go to sports games and get drunk and start making out. Still, I have to credit "Living On a Prayer" for being a huge factor in getting me into rock music, even if I did end up going on a much more alternative route. It and "You Give Love a Bad Name" are undeniably great songs. I'd even say "Let It Rock" is a pretty good song. The rest are okay at best: very heavily dated and cushion for the smash hits. The whole album is also very one-note and can get it old when it's not being exceptional. Ultimately, I feel the same way about this album as I do about songs like "Party in the USA": unless I'm at some kind of fun event, where everyone's singing along, I don't want to hear it. And even then, in an ideal world, we'd be singing along to "Wild in the Streets" by the Circle Jerks rather than "Wild in the Streets" by Bon Jovi.
perfectly serviceable 80s rock album with all of the required bits, even the misogyny! really not my taste.
Yes, we all know the hits, but Raise Your Hands is the best song on this record...not least of all for its appearance in Space Balls.
Bon Jovi is not my favorite, but this album is really good. There are a lot of huge hits throughout and this is just a strong album. These are simple classic rock tunes. It is a great time. Actual rating...3.5 Liked Songs: "You Give Love A Bad Name" , "Livin' On A Prayer" , "Social Disease" , "Wanted Dead Or Alive" , "Raise Your Hands" , "I'd Die for You" , "Wild In The Streets"
Finest hard rock opera
This one has all the hits?
3 huge hits. Rest is pretty meh.
Very slippery. Great BJ album lots of his best on this album. It started to lose me a bit on the second half. But still great.
While this really isn't my favorite genre, nor do I really love any of these tracks, I have to recognize that these are bangers. Fuck the RYM nerds, I think this album has a lot of merit, even if it lacks any sort of artistic integrity. Every year, we need a hit factory kinda band, and Bon Jovi was the 1986 edition. The record label gave these guys money and writing talent, and they made hits. Is that really that bad?
This has aged...poorly
Really good guitar!!! Kinda drops off after the start
Loved it when I was 15. I'm not 15 anymore
Honestly surprised at the amount of hits on this album. Bon Jovi really put in the A game for this album. Would rate higher but I still have trauma from these songs doing them in a high school production of Rock Of Ages
Actually has multiple classics on it
While I never went to a Bon Jovi concert, I would imagine the group could get everyone off their seats. The music isn’t bad, some songs are memorable so I’m giving them a 3.
As a Jersey Guy, respect to Bon Jovi. They accomplished a lot taking metal/hair band music into the pop main stream. A couple huge songs on this album, but nothing I love.
It’s Bon Jovi! It’s rock!
The first half of this album is rip snorting fun. The back half falls away into generic and boring filler tracks. Still mostly good and mostly fun
3.5/5
Lots of fun tunes, some bangers.
Despite some obviously very catchy 80s glamorous hair metal tracks, it's all quite shallow really isn't it? It's just Jovi pretending he's in love with women to get them to sleep with him in ten different forms. Can't deserve anything too high as a result of that but the catchiness does still hold true, and there are some definite memory associations with many of these tracks for me.
Can I shock you? I think I actually loved this. It’s a Bon Jovi greatest hits (almost) with an admittedly terrible title. There’s some real 80s slop on here with ridiculous lyrics but that’s the point i suppose - silly, ridiculous, loud and raucus. It’s stadium rock, or it wants to be. 3.7/5.0 Best Song: You Give Love A Bad Name
It sucks and it's class at the same time. The bangers are massive and the bad songs are terrible, but somehow it's just the same song over again. This is maybe the most defining album of the 80s, in the fact it is the most 80s sounding album. Best Track: Obvs livin on a prayer
Fun and silly
cool
joah bon jovi halt
Yes, I’ve heard the hits from this album. Who hasn’t? I never put name and face to music, so I was mildly surprised… this guy rocks pretty damn hard! And here I thought he was just another pretty face. Still not a big fan, but can’t ignore the success.
04/03/26 Começou bem, acabou cheesy
Livin' On A Prayer is admittedly a great song. However, Bon Jovi is a very overrated band in my opinion.
First half was a solid supplement to my squats. Second half was high school footballer music
I’d love to be able to say that my taste is too cool and sophisticated to enjoy this incredibly cheesy generic 80s arena rock, but unfortunately that’s not true. What is true, though, is that the trio of monster hits on side one (‘You Give Love a Bad Name’, ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’, ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’) are easily the best songs on the album, and most of the rest are several notches down in quality. The lyrics are almost uniformly awful, the production dated, but it’s so catchy and infectious it’s hard to resist. Switch off brain and enjoy.
Not my cup of tea, but I can definitely understand why others enjoy it.
A lot of his songs I've heard through osmosis. Not bad, but never been my type of music.
I didn’t want to like it as much as I did and that’s on having an open mind. Felt super cringe and very high school musical with the anthemic vocals and straight ahead drumming (actually the drums were the major thing I would change across the album). But overall I felt …. Kinda awesome ???? There’s a reason why he’s an icon I guess. Crazy that he’s Milly Bobby Brown’s father in law. We really do have to hold on to what we’ve got ❤️
I WANT to give it more but i feel that thats just because ik most of the songs and it is a bit nostalgic... I liked it mostly, I just know that if i listened to it today (w/o knowing anything about it) i would not have been too impressed and i would have found his voice annoying:( Iconic guitar solos tho
i mean. i had fun! i'm just not sure why this album is on the list in the first place. im guessing sheer popularity put it here bc it doesnt seem revolutionary or influential even in the realm of glam-rock. very shiny and phony - i suppose maybe it was influential in how shiny / polished / poppy it was? if anything theres probably other slimy phony arena pop-rockers who r very indebted to this album. the 3/4 measure before the keychange in living on a prayer remains one of the most hype moments in music history though that couple seconds is truly brilliant
Contains some of the band's biggest hits with "You give love a bad name", "Livin' on a Prayer" and "Wanted Dead or Alive"; both the former tracks helping to define what a rock anthem actually is. Both are still hella fun to this day, with incredible riffs that just inspire a good mood. "Wanted Dead or Alive" with it's twangy cowboy guitars and epic delivery of the title line makes it a fun track, too. This album is definitely getting a 3, because it's a fun listen and I've always been a sucker for the right kind of synth and guitar together. My only gripe is, even when it's trying to be serious (like in "Without Love") it still just comes off as silly, but that may be by association with the kinds of lyrics and tone that usually accompany the guitar chords and drums still heard in this track from others that are more whimsical. ******************************************************************************* This is another album with some weirdly hateful reviews, someone literally spending some 6-7 paragraphs to explain why it's so awful. Seems to be hair metal itself is incredibly divisive; a separate homework assignment I may have to do. To me, all it says is that these people - leaving the 1* reviews - can't seem to understand that not everything requires profundity and nuance. Sometimes, just some plain dumb fun is all we want. The "switch your brain off" and enjoy feeling we've all had in one medium or another after a long day or when you're in a party mood. It's why bad movies and video games are equally as successful. Despite that, I can appreciate - as I have said many times previously - that when you consider yourself not just a fan of a medium but an enthusiast bordering on connoisseurship, you may well deplore what's dumbed down and popular for the sake of itself. For me that's always been video games: The Call of Duty's, Fortnite's and FIFA's of the world are the lowest common denominator and unfairly detract from games with far better story or design. That being said... these games are a bit of dumb fun for when you need them; you don't always want to get bogged down into RPG lore or complex mechanics, you just want to shoot someone in the face.
War der Lieblingssänger meiner Mudder, klar n paar tolle Songs dabei, aber hat mich jetzt nicht sonderlich mitgerissen. Schon sehr poppiger/schnulziger Rock
Some of the songs from this album have definitely been overplayed, but I didn't hate the ones I hadn't really heard yet. Bon Jovi's voice can get a bit much after a while, but there's a time and place for this album, I suppose. Karaoke bars, mostly.
It has the significant bangers, but aside those, its not extremely amazing. Those bangers do make up for it though!
Three stars for the three classics on this album. The rest is filler and sounds massively dated