More Circular Thoughts
Nov. 7th, 2009 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athersgeoSo. I've now had a week (or thereabouts!) to have got my head around Bon Jovi's new album and I have to say that my first impressions on it were pretty much spot on.
It is a much better album than Lost Highway, in that it's a complete album - there isn't a track (or tracks) that after a week of listening I think "Oh, I'll skip that one". The whole thing works together and while there are some stand out tracks (and a retred), the whole is far better than the parts. I would also say that this is an album that's been written with a view to playing it live. Every single track is a sing-until-your-throat-bleeds anthem with choruses that are just aching to be sung by 70,000 people in a sold out stadium.
"Superman Tonight" is probably just about shading it as the stand out track, but I love the theme of "Live Before You Die", "When We Were Beautiful" is just about THE perfect stadium anthem, "Happy Now" has a great set of lyrics and "Learn To Love" is impossibly catchy - and this doesn't mean that the songs I haven't named aren't as good (they are, definitely) or that I don't like them (I do, very much so!).
On the retred side is "Bullet", which has a very similar feel to a couple of tracks off "These Days", namely "Hey God" and "Damned", though it's a much better song than either (particularly "Damned") and then there's "Working Man" which, er, recycles a bass line from a much earlier BJ hit (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kahva I'm pretty sure you'll spot this straight off!)
And then there's "Thorn In My Side" which ISN'T a cover of the Eurythmics track, but sooner or later I'm pretty sure I'm going to manage to fit the Eurythmics lyrics to the BJ track (or vice versa!)
All in all, then, I'm a thoroughly satisfied BJ fan. The only downside to this is that I've now got to try and figure out if I can manage to get to the O2 Arena next summer without bankrupting myself...!
It is a much better album than Lost Highway, in that it's a complete album - there isn't a track (or tracks) that after a week of listening I think "Oh, I'll skip that one". The whole thing works together and while there are some stand out tracks (and a retred), the whole is far better than the parts. I would also say that this is an album that's been written with a view to playing it live. Every single track is a sing-until-your-throat-bleeds anthem with choruses that are just aching to be sung by 70,000 people in a sold out stadium.
"Superman Tonight" is probably just about shading it as the stand out track, but I love the theme of "Live Before You Die", "When We Were Beautiful" is just about THE perfect stadium anthem, "Happy Now" has a great set of lyrics and "Learn To Love" is impossibly catchy - and this doesn't mean that the songs I haven't named aren't as good (they are, definitely) or that I don't like them (I do, very much so!).
On the retred side is "Bullet", which has a very similar feel to a couple of tracks off "These Days", namely "Hey God" and "Damned", though it's a much better song than either (particularly "Damned") and then there's "Working Man" which, er, recycles a bass line from a much earlier BJ hit (
kahva I'm pretty sure you'll spot this straight off!)And then there's "Thorn In My Side" which ISN'T a cover of the Eurythmics track, but sooner or later I'm pretty sure I'm going to manage to fit the Eurythmics lyrics to the BJ track (or vice versa!)
All in all, then, I'm a thoroughly satisfied BJ fan. The only downside to this is that I've now got to try and figure out if I can manage to get to the O2 Arena next summer without bankrupting myself...!
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