Funny, this album comes after KISS's Destroyer and I could almost cut and paste my KISS comments here. In a nutshell: bad music (this better than Kiss though), too much posing, but a number of fun party hits. I'm totally happy for this to exist, but it is almost a parody of itself. This extremely commercial, poppy "metal". But one can't deny that "Livin' on a prayer" and "You give love a bad name" are top songs to hop around as a teenager on a party (I've been told). So I'd say a 2* plus 1* for entertainment value. There is worse crappy music than this.