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View Maybe I'm being unfair. Nobody listens to Bon Jovi's brand of pop metal for its lyrics – they listen because they want to bang their heads lightly. It's a canny marketing strategy, but Bon Jovi's band is barely functional: guitar solos pop up like afterthoughts, bass lines whine like spoiled children, and Jon Bon Jovi's voice is double- and triple-tracked in halfhearted attempts to cloak its blandness. Bon Jovi stumbles into sentimental territory on "Never Say Goodbye," but delicacy is not the band's strong suit – Meat Loaf is subtle compared to these guys. The callous clinker "Remember when we lost the keys/And you lost more than that in my back seat" is Bon Jovi's idea of evocative storytelling.
Jon Bon Jovi and his band serve up condescending sentiment, reducing every emotional statement to a barefaced cliché – either because they think that's all their audience can comprehend or because that's all they can comprehend. On Slippery When Wet, Bon Jovi sounds like bad fourth-generation metal, a smudgy Xerox of Quiet Riot.
JIMMY GUTERMAN
(RS 486 - November 6, 1986)
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bet writes:
fuck u JIMMY GUTERMAN!!!!!!!!!
Feb 20, 2008 08:25:40
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tonos writes:
I grew up with bon jovi.I started to learn guitare by playing living on a prayer sitting at a fire place and my first song i sang was lie to me chillin at the house of a girl i loved. I know people think bon jovi don't do real rock or pop rock and I feel bad sometimes saying I like listening to them but you know I am a singer, and Jon Bon Jovi is the best singer in perfection. He has a perfect vibrato in his voice and he knows how to sing with the heart. And you know I am a song writer, and Jon is the best songwriter because he don't write unnecessary stuff he brings he to the point. And the lyrics are the best I know as well. You just have to listen to them. "I drove all night down streets that wouldn't bend, but somehow they brought make here once again".If you listen to them you just have to agree. Third I am a guitare player and Richie ain't the best guitare
player know more but the solo to runaway is world class and it is fun playing it or "My guitare lies bleeding in my arms" is a very good solo as well. I find it amazing how the write songs and perform them. It is a pitty what happend nower days, the songs are all crap. That
album with the new versions of the old songs was horrible!People don't know when to stop. But the
old songs live forever. I listend to nearly everything, Led Zeppelin, Kiss, Foo Fighters, Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Sex Pistols, Van Halen, but I always get back to listening Bon Jovi and playing they're songs.
M. N.
Jan 19, 2008 03:07:15
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