'Slippery...' was the first proper rock record that I ever owned, and I still love it. However, 'New Jersey' was on another level, in my eyes/ears. 'Homebound Train' and '99 in the Shade' are my two favourite Bon Jovi records. Can't believe that you had it ranked so low! I appreciate the advice, mind. I absolutely gave up after 'Keep the Faith' and it sounds like I didn't miss much. Thanks for the vid, mate.
The very first batch of cassettes I bought back in the day was 3 and they are: Poison - Looked what the cat Dragged in, Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil and.... Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet... all hold a special place in my heart as they are the first in my collection.. Great video!
My list: 1. These Days 2. Keep The Faith 3. New Jersey 4. Slippery When Wet 5. Have A Nice Day 6. Burning Bridges 7. Bounce 8. Lost Highway 9. Crush 10. Bon Jovi 11. 7800° Fahrenheit 12. The Circle 13. What About Now 14. This House Is Not For Sale 15. 2020
I was meant to place New Jersey over This House Is Not For Sale and apologies for the kids outside the house screaming during me talking about These Days and Crush. Must remember to shut the windows next time 🙂
Slippery When Wet is one of my favorite albums of all time. One of the rare albums where I genuinely love every song. It was one of the first CDs I ever got. I have New Jersey (great follow up to SWW) and These Days (decent album, not amazing) as well. I really love the Cross Road CD, especially for the “Prayer '94”remake.
With You on Slippery When Wet, an all killer no filler album. Things mostly went downhill after These Days but This House Is Not For Sale did surprise me as i quite enjoyed it. Cheers fella 👍
I enjoyed your points of view. As we are all different, I respect it. It’s crazy how we can discuss the same songs and have different views. I have These Days as, by far, my favorite record. Every single note is perfection for me and it changed my life. I’m a career musician based on hearing that record. And with the later ones, every song you mentioned from those are the ones I don’t like as much. The Circle… man… Love’s The Only Rule is great! And a note, Burning Bridges isn’t an attempt at country. It’s a fulfillment to their label. Most of the songs are previous songs that didn’t make records, and Jon even said he delivered it in a paper bag, which is the artwork. They also didn’t promote it minus a lyric video here and there. Again, I did enjoy hearing your point thoughts. My order… probably: 1. These Days 2. New Jersey 3. Keep The Faith 4. Have A Nice Day 5. Slippery When Wet 6. Lost Highway - I LOVE this record 7. Crush 8. Bon Jovi 9. This House Is Not For Sale 10. The Circle 11. 7800 Fahrenheit 12. Bounce 13. Burning Bridges 14. 2020 15. What About Now
Hi thanks very much for your response. Yes it's really interesting how one persons least favourite is the other's favourite album. That makes sense about Burning Bridges as it sounds like a like an album that's had very little effort into it. Thank you for watching and leaving your comment. Cheers
I was born and raised in New Jersey it would have been criminal to not have caught this ranking haha. Completely agree with your assessment… Wanted Dead or Alive is a 100% perfect song. New Jersey released still in the height of the hair metal era, those influences are heard all over that record, but without actually touching the LA strip itself, how interesting! Great video James!
Great ranking video James. The first 5/6 albums are definitely their best. Slippery When Wet was released on my 11th birthday and after hearing it I persuaded my parents to buy it for me. I was totally blown away by it and that's how I got into rock/metal music, happy days. Hope you're feeling better soon
@@mrboulder9714 First time I saw them live was at Hammersmith in 86 on the Slippery…..tour, where they played a number of songs from 7800. Mind you they’d only three albums out back then! Seen them several times since but 86 was special. Still got the tour T-shirt as well.
Nice ranking video James as usual. I'm not too known with the "newer" albums, mid 00s and onwards are completely unknown for me. Guess I shall stick with the classics :) (Hope your feeling a bit better btw!)
My personal ranking is: 1. These days (by far) 2. Keep the Faith 3. Have a Nice Day 4. New Jersey 5. Lost Highway 6.The Circle 7. Slippery 8. Bounce 9. This House 10. Crush 11. What About Now 12. Bon Jovi 13. Burning Bridges 14. 7800 15. 2020 For me the only track off of These Days I don't really care for is If That's What it Takes but even that is still a great song
I remember seeing the You Give Love A Bad Name video on Americas Top 10 back in the 80s that song turned me into a metal head when i was about 12 years old. That's when it all started for me. My love for Bon Jovi started then and lasted till the Blaze of Glory album which i love the title track. After that i kind of went off them with more heavy bands taking over my likes. But this month on UA-cam i've gone back to listening n watching the old Bon Jovi classics and this video of yours come up today. Let It Rock in now high on my list of fav BJ songs ever. You watch them play that live back in their prime its rocking along with Wanted, Bad Name and those other classics from the 80s. Back then in the late 80s i would buy everything with my money on bands that i liked when they released stuff. Bon Jovi was no exception i had loads of their stuff on Vinyl 7inch, 12inch, cassette, CD and VHS
Thanks for watching and commenting. One of the first bands I got into and I still love listening to the old records. Some of the newer stuff is bloody awful but up until Keep The Faith they were untouchable
@@mrboulder9714 Great stuff keep up the quality video's i do enjoy watching them. I've been subbed for about 6 months. And enjoyed watching all of the 1s I've seen We have very similar taste in bands and certain songs from back then in the 80s-90s
Little side note about the song Raise your hands. The song was heard in the 1987 movie SPACEBALLS. John Candy's character (Barf) dances to it early in the movie, in the winnebago.
I don't get much from the latter day albums myself but I'm glad that you do. They were a very important part of my musical journey, no doubt about it. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment on the video. Cheers
Wow... almost all the latter day band photos are pictures of the band walking towards the camera :D Good to hear your thoughts on those albums. I like their albums up until and including 'New Jersey' but lost interest in them after that. I think I got tired of all the ballads and I wasn't impressed with what I perceived to be their attempt at alternative rock on'Keep the Faith'.
@@mrboulder9714 I have yet to pick up the Fahrenheit one, but your video convinced me that I should grab it as soon as I can. It also convinced me to stay the hell away from their latter day stuff :D
Honestly to me for being a fan of Rock,Hard Rock,Metal mostly. My two pennies opinion here is his first two albums are Masterpieces(not into his lyrics though). The next two were great albums then anything he has recorded after New Jersey he could have resume that 24 years into one single album.
Agreed that the first 2 are fantastic, the first 5 for me is where its at. After that they could have released the best 2 songs from every album after and you would have 1 decent double album. Thanks for watching
I got the second album today on vinyl. It's a fantastic album. Now I finally I have the first four on vinyl, I'll check out Keep the Faith, so thanks to your video I'm pretty sure I don't need to listen to anything past Keep the Faith (might buy the CD for $2.00), I hate ballads and pseudo country, but I like the power hair ballads and power rockers from the 80's.
Second album is amazing and it's a shame the band don't even acknowledge it. Yeah you don't really needs to check out anything past Keep The Faith although I did really enjoy This House Is Not For Sale. Thanks for watching and commenting
1. These Days 2. Crush 3. Keep The Faith 4. New Jersey 5. Have A Nice Day 6. Slippery When Wet 7. Bounce 8. Lost Highway 9. 7800° Fahrenheit 10. What About Now 11. Burning Bridges 12. Bon Jovi 13. The Circle 14. This House Is Not For Sale 15. 2020 I honestly hated this ranking
Haha, well it just goes to show how we're all different. I'm astonished You have These Days at number 1 as I think that is a terrible album. Thanks for watching
Their first album is always the best for me.I still have a 1980's cassette of it. It has a minute and half guitar solo very much in the style of van halens eruption at the end of side one. You can't find it uploaded anywhere online or even any info that the solo exists
@@mrboulder9714 I just posted the cassette rip solo. It is at the end of the album,not side one ,my mistake...here is the link ua-cam.com/video/uc1qQEiB510/v-deo.html
I only care for the early stuff...the rest I don't care for actually. I tried to check some of the later salbums some years back and I absolutely hated it. They really lost it imho. If I should make a list it should be something like this: 1. Keep The Faith (yes I love this album) 2.Slippery When Wet 3. Bon Jovi 4. New Jersey 5. 7800° Fahrenheit 6. These Days and like i said, the rest....meehh..I might give Crush a chance though. But that's about it.
Agree with your top 3 there James and yeah anything after faith is hit or miss. I picked up Have a nice day when it came out, surprisingly good and cheap as well. My mate had highway and we listened to it a lot but it wasn't good like you say and that's when I went off them. Seeing how you seem to be a big fan Check out the power station years, it's a solo album from John before he started Bon Jovi.
My Ranking: 1.New Jersey 2.Slippery 3.Keep the Faith 4.7800 Fahrenheit 5.Bon Jovi 6.These days 7.Bounce 8. HAND 9.Crush 10.The Circle 11.This House is not for sale 12. What about now 13. 2020 14. Burning Bridges They started as a Hair Metal Band in the 80s and now they are just a Rockband
I love This House Is Not For sale honestly. A great album imo. Too hard to rank all their albums as i like all of of them. 2020 is probably the worst for me but still not bad. These Days is my favourite.
I was definitely surprised at the quality of This House Is Not For Sale. A lot of the latter day albums are very patchy. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. Cheers
Very nice to see someone else who thinks that These Days is average at best. Some really good songs but i agree there ballads are pure garbage. The song "these days" is a great ballad and thats about it. Good to see that there's love for 7800 Fahrenheit as its very underrated with the price of love my favourite
Yeah These Days for the most part bores me, some good songs but so many bad ballads. I don't understand the bands dislike for 7800 Farenheit, I think it's an album packed full of great songs. Cheers for watching and commenting on the video
My ranking 1 bon jovi 2 Slippery when whet 3 75800 faheirnt 4 keep the faith 5 new Jersey 6 this house is not for sale 7 these days 8 have a nice day 9 crush 10 2020 11 the circle 12 lost highway 13 bounce 14 what about now 15 burning brigdes
Interesting ranking. This house is not for sale is not an album I’ve even listened to, may have to give that one a go now. These days is my number one though, the vocal harmonies, the bluesy guitar playing and overall darker tone really apples to me. My guitar lies bleeding and something to believe in are stand outs on that album.
I checked out after Keep the Faith and I will say over the years i've wondered if i was missing something but thankfully you've put the work in and im not even going to concider it lol. I love the first 5 and by the sounds of it im already ditching far better albums from my collection that the latter day stuff. Enjoyed your take on it all too, get well soon!
Homebound Train is a killer song. Saw them in the bay area open for the Scorpions, think Blackout tour. They got booed off stage. Kiss and Bon Jovi not as popular in my area back then. More LA and east coasty
As a life long Bonjovi fan, I began to fall off the wagon after their these days album. From Crush onward their albums and songs seemed to just sound bland and repetitive. Lost highway seemed like an attempt to change things up and find a new audience but for most part it’s been rinse and repeat
i always felt These Days was better than Keep The Faith....since glam metal had long passed anyway These Days to me was a good departure for them musically and in songwriting ability....the last BJ record i really liked was Bounce and that was 20 years ago.Have A Nice Day has its moments but its not number one on my list.From 1984 to 2002 i recommend all of that including KTF
These Days was the beginning of their decline, a snoozefest of an album with so many lame ballads. As far as 2020 goes, I agree its a terrible album. To be honest you're spoilt for choice for bad albums towards the end of the discography. Thanks for watching and commenting
Jovi were my intro to rock in 1988. Loved them, and followed them through the artistic highs of the 90s (both Jovi albums and both sets of Jon and Richies solo albums). Musically and lyrically quite a progression. What came next was so disappointing. There are good tracks on each release, but through the 2000s each album dispensed with more of their personality, the guitars were mixed as a muddy inoffensive wall, and a lot was simply bland. Lyrically some descended to Hallmark cards set to music - easy answers, empty platitudes. "My life" songs, battling an unknown foe, climbing that mountain. Army of one. Too many cliched cheesy lyrics. Not all obviously. The sound was neutered, the rock edge smoothed out. An almost emo-rock sound, very 2000s.
@@mrboulder9714 I also thought THINFS was an improvement over the previous few. It included some of their best tracks in a while in New Years Day, Living with the Ghost and a few others.
@robs2126 I know enough to know that their songwriting for the past 20 years has, for the most part, been very bland. 150 million people can be wrong, as their are a lot of sheep who follow the crowd and buy in to what's popular. As for cheer up, I'm doing just fine thanks, sorry I didn't spend the whole of this video blowing smoke up the arse of your favourite band. Enjoy your day
@@mrboulder9714 😂😂😂 Clearly you don’t that obvious. If you did you know the story behind Burning bridges. If that you happy whole f**k as the song says Have a nice day. Ps ain’t my favourite band
No way would I ever compare DL to BJ. That is doing a gross injustice to the great Def Leppard name. Bon Jovi has been lame af for a long time. DL even to this day are not considered to be a lame band.
It's really not an injustice to Def Leppard to compare them to Bon Jovi. Both are commercial rock bands and both have not released anything really good in 30 years
'Slippery...' was the first proper rock record that I ever owned, and I still love it. However, 'New Jersey' was on another level, in my eyes/ears. 'Homebound Train' and '99 in the Shade' are my two favourite Bon Jovi records. Can't believe that you had it ranked so low! I appreciate the advice, mind. I absolutely gave up after 'Keep the Faith' and it sounds like I didn't miss much. Thanks for the vid, mate.
Cheers James, you definitely are not missing much at all if you checked out after Keep The Faith. Cheers fella and thanks as always
Blood on Blood too.
You missed out Mate.Check out These Days.
Nothing tops Slippery,New Jersey and Keep The Faith
Nothing tops the first 5 albums, no doubt about it. Thanks for watching and commenting
I'm so glad you showed some appreciation to 7800° Fahrenheit! Its so underrated. Only Lonely is such a great ballad!!
It's an amazing album and I can't understand why it doesn't get any love, even from the band! Thanks for watching
How is Only Lonely a ballad?
The very first batch of cassettes I bought back in the day was 3 and they are: Poison - Looked what the cat Dragged in, Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil and.... Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet... all hold a special place in my heart as they are the first in my collection.. Great video!
3 great album's. Thanks for watching Steve
My list:
1. These Days
2. Keep The Faith
3. New Jersey
4. Slippery When Wet
5. Have A Nice Day
6. Burning Bridges
7. Bounce
8. Lost Highway
9. Crush
10. Bon Jovi
11. 7800° Fahrenheit
12. The Circle
13. What About Now
14. This House Is Not For Sale
15. 2020
Thanks for watching and sharing your ranking. Cheers
I was meant to place New Jersey over This House Is Not For Sale and apologies for the kids outside the house screaming during me talking about These Days and Crush. Must remember to shut the windows next time 🙂
Slippery When Wet is one of my favorite albums of all time. One of the rare albums where I genuinely love every song. It was one of the first CDs I ever got. I have New Jersey (great follow up to SWW) and These Days (decent album, not amazing) as well. I really love the Cross Road CD, especially for the “Prayer '94”remake.
With You on Slippery When Wet, an all killer no filler album. Things mostly went downhill after These Days but This House Is Not For Sale did surprise me as i quite enjoyed it. Cheers fella 👍
New Jersey 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Captain Crash & the spiders from Mars (Bon Jovi-David Bowie) 🤣
I enjoyed your points of view. As we are all different, I respect it. It’s crazy how we can discuss the same songs and have different views. I have These Days as, by far, my favorite record. Every single note is perfection for me and it changed my life. I’m a career musician based on hearing that record. And with the later ones, every song you mentioned from those are the ones I don’t like as much. The Circle… man… Love’s The Only Rule is great! And a note, Burning Bridges isn’t an attempt at country. It’s a fulfillment to their label. Most of the songs are previous songs that didn’t make records, and Jon even said he delivered it in a paper bag, which is the artwork. They also didn’t promote it minus a lyric video here and there. Again, I did enjoy hearing your point thoughts. My order… probably:
1. These Days
2. New Jersey
3. Keep The Faith
4. Have A Nice Day
5. Slippery When Wet
6. Lost Highway - I LOVE this record
7. Crush
8. Bon Jovi
9. This House Is Not For Sale
10. The Circle
11. 7800 Fahrenheit
12. Bounce
13. Burning Bridges
14. 2020
15. What About Now
Hi thanks very much for your response. Yes it's really interesting how one persons least favourite is the other's favourite album. That makes sense about Burning Bridges as it sounds like a like an album that's had very little effort into it. Thank you for watching and leaving your comment. Cheers
I was born and raised in New Jersey it would have been criminal to not have caught this ranking haha. Completely agree with your assessment… Wanted Dead or Alive is a 100% perfect song. New Jersey released still in the height of the hair metal era, those influences are heard all over that record, but without actually touching the LA strip itself, how interesting! Great video James!
Cheers Rick, thanks for watching mate. Wanted Dead or Alive is amazing
Great ranking video James. The first 5/6 albums are definitely their best. Slippery When Wet was released on my 11th birthday and after hearing it I persuaded my parents to buy it for me. I was totally blown away by it and that's how I got into rock/metal music, happy days. Hope you're feeling better soon
Cheers Adrian. Yes the first 5 album's are definitely their best. Slippery is an amazing album and always will be. Thank you for the well wishes mate
@@mrboulder9714 i think New Jersey is a lil bit stronger than Slippery
Never gave Bon Jovi a go. Watching this has intrigued me. Best wishes recovering from COVID
Stick to the early stuff if you're gonna dive in. Thanks for the well wishes and thanks for watching
@@mrboulder9714 i gave the first album a listen last night. Better than i expected. Will listen again before moving forward.
I’m with you regarding 7800. Absolutely brilliant album. Much maligned which is a real shame.
God knows why the band dislike it. I've loved it from the very first listen. Cheers Glen
@@mrboulder9714 First time I saw them live was at Hammersmith in 86 on the Slippery…..tour, where they played a number of songs from 7800. Mind you they’d only three albums out back then! Seen them several times since but 86 was special. Still got the tour T-shirt as well.
Nice ranking video James as usual. I'm not too known with the "newer" albums, mid 00s and onwards are completely unknown for me. Guess I shall stick with the classics :)
(Hope your feeling a bit better btw!)
You're familiar with the best stuff mate 👍 Getting there Kenan, thanks for asking mate
My personal ranking is:
1. These days (by far)
2. Keep the Faith
3. Have a Nice Day
4. New Jersey
5. Lost Highway
6.The Circle
7. Slippery
8. Bounce
9. This House
10. Crush
11. What About Now
12. Bon Jovi
13. Burning Bridges
14. 7800
15. 2020
For me the only track off of These Days I don't really care for is If That's What it Takes but even that is still a great song
Cheers for commenting and sharing your ranking. Thanks for watching
I remember seeing the You Give Love A Bad Name video on Americas Top 10 back in the 80s that song turned me into a metal head when i was about 12 years old. That's when it all started for me. My love for Bon Jovi started then and lasted till the Blaze of Glory album which i love the title track. After that i kind of went off them with more heavy bands taking over my likes. But this month on UA-cam i've gone back to listening n watching the old Bon Jovi classics and this video of yours come up today. Let It Rock in now high on my list of fav BJ songs ever. You watch them play that live back in their prime its rocking along with Wanted, Bad Name and those other classics from the 80s. Back then in the late 80s i would buy everything with my money on bands that i liked when they released stuff. Bon Jovi was no exception i had loads of their stuff on Vinyl 7inch, 12inch, cassette, CD and VHS
Thanks for watching and commenting. One of the first bands I got into and I still love listening to the old records. Some of the newer stuff is bloody awful but up until Keep The Faith they were untouchable
@@mrboulder9714 Great stuff keep up the quality video's i do enjoy watching them. I've been subbed for about 6 months. And enjoyed watching all of the 1s I've seen We have very similar taste in bands and certain songs from back then in the 80s-90s
Little side note about the song Raise your hands. The song was heard in the 1987 movie SPACEBALLS. John Candy's character (Barf) dances to it early in the movie, in the winnebago.
I only saw that film once years ago so I don't remember it. Cheers Rodney
I love every Bon Jovi album there isn't a fault on any I love Bon Jovi have done for years and I am so glad to have existed along with Bon Jovi.
I don't get much from the latter day albums myself but I'm glad that you do. They were a very important part of my musical journey, no doubt about it. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment on the video. Cheers
Wow... almost all the latter day band photos are pictures of the band walking towards the camera :D
Good to hear your thoughts on those albums. I like their albums up until and including 'New Jersey' but lost interest in them after that. I think I got tired of all the ballads and I wasn't impressed with what I perceived to be their attempt at alternative rock on'Keep the Faith'.
You heard the best stuff definitely Kim. Some of these latter day albums are unbelievably bad
@@mrboulder9714 I have yet to pick up the Fahrenheit one, but your video convinced me that I should grab it as soon as I can. It also convinced me to stay the hell away from their latter day stuff :D
Honestly to me for being a fan of Rock,Hard Rock,Metal mostly.
My two pennies opinion here is his first two albums are Masterpieces(not into his lyrics though).
The next two were great albums then anything he has recorded after New Jersey he could have resume that 24 years into one single album.
Agreed that the first 2 are fantastic, the first 5 for me is where its at. After that they could have released the best 2 songs from every album after and you would have 1 decent double album. Thanks for watching
@@mrboulder9714 I agree,
cheers.
I got the second album today on vinyl. It's a fantastic album. Now I finally I have the first four on vinyl, I'll check out Keep the Faith, so thanks to your video I'm pretty sure I don't need to listen to anything past Keep the Faith (might buy the CD for $2.00), I hate ballads and pseudo country, but I like the power hair ballads and power rockers from the 80's.
Second album is amazing and it's a shame the band don't even acknowledge it. Yeah you don't really needs to check out anything past Keep The Faith although I did really enjoy This House Is Not For Sale. Thanks for watching and commenting
1. These Days
2. Crush
3. Keep The Faith
4. New Jersey
5. Have A Nice Day
6. Slippery When Wet
7. Bounce
8. Lost Highway
9. 7800° Fahrenheit
10. What About Now
11. Burning Bridges
12. Bon Jovi
13. The Circle
14. This House Is Not For Sale
15. 2020
I honestly hated this ranking
Haha, well it just goes to show how we're all different. I'm astonished You have These Days at number 1 as I think that is a terrible album. Thanks for watching
Nice the RANKING. I also think that Crush is better then THESE DAYS. nice video.
Cheers fella and agreed. Thanks for watching
Their first album is always the best for me.I still have a 1980's cassette of it. It has a minute and half guitar solo very much in the style of van halens eruption at the end of side one. You can't find it uploaded anywhere online or even any info that the solo exists
Wow that sounds like quite a rarity you have there. It is a great album. Thank you for watching and commenting
@@mrboulder9714 I just posted the cassette rip solo. It is at the end of the album,not side one ,my mistake...here is the link ua-cam.com/video/uc1qQEiB510/v-deo.html
I only care for the early stuff...the rest I don't care for actually. I tried to check some of the later salbums some years back and I absolutely hated it. They really lost it imho.
If I should make a list it should be something like this:
1. Keep The Faith (yes I love this album)
2.Slippery When Wet
3. Bon Jovi
4. New Jersey
5. 7800° Fahrenheit
6. These Days
and like i said, the rest....meehh..I might give Crush a chance though. But that's about it.
The first 6 are the only ones you really need, everything after that is hit and miss. Cheers Mark
Agree with your top 3 there James and yeah anything after faith is hit or miss. I picked up Have a nice day when it came out, surprisingly good and cheap as well. My mate had highway and we listened to it a lot but it wasn't good like you say and that's when I went off them. Seeing how you seem to be a big fan Check out the power station years, it's a solo album from John before he started Bon Jovi.
Top 3 are killer releases mate. Thanks for that heads up, I wasn't familiar with The Power Station stuff, will definitely check it out
When did you first become a Bon Jovi fan?
In 1986
@@mrboulder9714 Cool, me too.
@@BradCarlMusic Thanks for watching
My Ranking:
1.New Jersey
2.Slippery
3.Keep the Faith
4.7800 Fahrenheit
5.Bon Jovi
6.These days
7.Bounce
8. HAND
9.Crush
10.The Circle
11.This House is not for sale
12. What about now
13. 2020
14. Burning Bridges
They started as a Hair Metal Band in the 80s and now they are just a Rockband
Great ranking and thanks for watching and commenting
@@mrboulder9714 thanks no Problem
7800 degree Fahrenheit the band was going through tough times and pressured for release 6 weeks
Such an underrated album. Thanks for watching and commenting
I love This House Is Not For sale honestly. A great album imo. Too hard to rank all their albums as i like all of of them. 2020 is probably the worst for me but still not bad. These Days is my favourite.
I was definitely surprised at the quality of This House Is Not For Sale. A lot of the latter day albums are very patchy. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. Cheers
I hate What about now, the only bearable song is Pictures of You and even then I would be struggling
The majority of those latter day Bon Jovi albums are terrible. Cheers for watching
Very nice to see someone else who thinks that These Days is average at best. Some really good songs but i agree there ballads are pure garbage. The song "these days" is a great ballad and thats about it. Good to see that there's love for 7800 Fahrenheit as its very underrated with the price of love my favourite
Yeah These Days for the most part bores me, some good songs but so many bad ballads. I don't understand the bands dislike for 7800 Farenheit, I think it's an album packed full of great songs. Cheers for watching and commenting on the video
My ranking
1 bon jovi
2 Slippery when whet
3 75800 faheirnt
4 keep the faith
5 new Jersey
6 this house is not for sale
7 these days
8 have a nice day
9 crush
10 2020
11 the circle
12 lost highway
13 bounce
14 what about now
15 burning brigdes
Top 6 are solid mate
Lost Highway is def in there top 5 albums.What are you on Son?
Haha. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on that one. Thanks for watching
Interesting ranking. This house is not for sale is not an album I’ve even listened to, may have to give that one a go now. These days is my number one though, the vocal harmonies, the bluesy guitar playing and overall darker tone really apples to me. My guitar lies bleeding and something to believe in are stand outs on that album.
This House is definitely worth checking out. I enjoy the bluesy playing on These Days, I just don't really enjoy the songs. Thanks for watching
For me, first 2 albums are the best. Slippery is OK. I bought them all as they came out. It was downhill from there IMHO.
First 2 are excellent album's. Thank you for watching
I checked out after Keep the Faith and I will say over the years i've wondered if i was missing something but thankfully you've put the work in and im not even going to concider it lol. I love the first 5 and by the sounds of it im already ditching far better albums from my collection that the latter day stuff. Enjoyed your take on it all too, get well soon!
You definitely checked out at the right time Mike. Thanks mate and thank you for the well wishes 👍
I’m sorry, but when you said “She’s a Mystery” is one of their best ballads, I had to click off the video lol
Compared to many of their other dreadful ballads that one is decent
Homebound Train is a killer song. Saw them in the bay area open for the Scorpions, think Blackout tour. They got booed off stage. Kiss and Bon Jovi not as popular in my area back then. More LA and east coasty
Never seen Bon Jovi live. After the recent footage from the latest tour I won't be bothering. Such a shame about Jon's voice
@@mrboulder9714 in the 80s and 90s they were really good live
As a life long Bonjovi fan, I began to fall off the wagon after their these days album. From Crush onward their albums and songs seemed to just sound bland and repetitive. Lost highway seemed like an attempt to change things up and find a new audience but for most part it’s been rinse and repeat
The quality of their albums these past 20 years has definitely plummeted. They used to make such great music. Cheers for watching fella
I checked out early. Actually all I need is the first two. Nice to get your perspective though MB. Rock on!
Cheers Ronnie. First 2 are bangers 👌
i always felt These Days was better than Keep The Faith....since glam metal had long passed anyway These Days to me was a good departure for them musically and in songwriting ability....the last BJ record i really liked was Bounce and that was 20 years ago.Have A Nice Day has its moments but its not number one on my list.From 1984 to 2002 i recommend all of that including KTF
i actually did give up after What About Now ....that and the Circle are still here in the room
2020 is the worst album they’ve ever made by a country mile & these days is also a class album not sure why you dislike it so much.
These Days was the beginning of their decline, a snoozefest of an album with so many lame ballads. As far as 2020 goes, I agree its a terrible album. To be honest you're spoilt for choice for bad albums towards the end of the discography. Thanks for watching and commenting
Have every Bon Jovi CD up until The Circle.
New Jersey is fantastic, so many great songs on that album. Thanks for watching fella
He is right the first three he mentioned suck
Quite a few towards the bottom end of that list are shite
"These days" sounds very "Aerosmith " to me , except the opener..
It's a dull album. Aerosmith is better than These Days. Thanks for watching and commenting 👌
@Mr Boulder my thought is that this was quite good, not as good as "keep the faith," though, what came after that was actually worse...
@@w7class Couldn't agree more. Other than This House Is Not For Sale, the later stuff is dreadful for the most part
Jovi were my intro to rock in 1988. Loved them, and followed them through the artistic highs of the 90s (both Jovi albums and both sets of Jon and Richies solo albums). Musically and lyrically quite a progression.
What came next was so disappointing. There are good tracks on each release, but through the 2000s each album dispensed with more of their personality, the guitars were mixed as a muddy inoffensive wall, and a lot was simply bland. Lyrically some descended to Hallmark cards set to music - easy answers, empty platitudes. "My life" songs, battling an unknown foe, climbing that mountain. Army of one. Too many cliched cheesy lyrics. Not all obviously. The sound was neutered, the rock edge smoothed out. An almost emo-rock sound, very 2000s.
Thanks for watching and commenting. I agree with a lot of what you say here, every album post 2000 is a mix of ok and terrible music
@@mrboulder9714 I also thought THINFS was an improvement over the previous few. It included some of their best tracks in a while in New Years Day, Living with the Ghost and a few others.
Not a fan but I do like 75800 Fahrenheit I think it’s their best album
It is a great album. Thanks for watching
like you videos, you should cut in a few seconds of some of the tunes you are chatting about, it lifts the entite energy of the content.
Cheers for watching and commenting
Burning bridges was bad preferred Lost Highway
Lost Highway is definitely better. Cheers for watching and commenting
They peaked with 7800°F (don't care if Jon doesn't like it) after Slippery When Wet and New Jersey, they sucked.
Keep The Faith was the last decent one for me. And yes, 7800 Farenheit is excellent. Cheers for watching
You obviously don’t know much about Bon Jovi or their songwriting . 150 million people can’t be wrong
These days is one of the best albums
Ps cheer up
@robs2126 I know enough to know that their songwriting for the past 20 years has, for the most part, been very bland. 150 million people can be wrong, as their are a lot of sheep who follow the crowd and buy in to what's popular. As for cheer up, I'm doing just fine thanks, sorry I didn't spend the whole of this video blowing smoke up the arse of your favourite band. Enjoy your day
@@mrboulder9714 😂😂😂 Clearly you don’t that obvious. If you did you know the story behind Burning bridges. If that you happy whole f**k as the song says Have a nice day.
Ps ain’t my favourite band
@robs2126 Apologies for not knowing EVERY single little thing about Bon Jovi. 🙄 Off you go sunshine 😂
@@mrboulder9714 Apology accepted 😂
@@robs2126 There was no apology
None of their albums is bad.
Their post 2000 output is mostly very dull
The first four albums are the best after that they change the style or the magic gone
The first 5 are excellent, they've released some shocking nonsense recently
This review might as well have been done by a rap fan.
@@matthewo5809 All our opinions are different
No way would I ever compare DL to BJ. That is doing a gross injustice to the great Def Leppard name. Bon Jovi has been lame af for a long time. DL even to this day are not considered to be a lame band.
It's really not an injustice to Def Leppard to compare them to Bon Jovi. Both are commercial rock bands and both have not released anything really good in 30 years
@@mrboulder9714 Do you think the Crüe would ever ask Bon Jovi to co-headline a world tour? Not a chance in hell!!! Def agree to strongly disagree!