goldsausage Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 Anyone else here love the rock band Jon Bon Jovi? They're so damn awesome.Everything from You Give Love A Bad Name (perhaps in the same league as Born In The USA?) to You Want To Make A Memory (just as good as The River!).I just can't explain how good Jon Bon Jovi are, their lyrics speak to my heart and the music speaks to my soul.So yeah, anyone else here love the Kings Of New Jersey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunner Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 LOL!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeoGetz Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 Yeah, dude, Jon Bon Jovi are one awesome band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wegotstyle Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 QUOTE (goldsausage @ Apr 11 2009, 08:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Anyone else here love the rock band Jon Bon Jovi? They're so damn awesome.Everything from You Give Love A Bad Name (perhaps in the same league as Born In The USA?) to You Want To Make A Memory (just as good as The River!).I just can't explain how good Jon Bon Jovi are, their lyrics speak to my heart and the music speaks to my soul.So yeah, anyone else here love the Kings Of New Jersey?mmmmmmmmmmm?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney McRubble Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 The New Jersey pretender. Need I say more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daskill Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 I liked them a lot when I was younger. Not so much now, though I still listen to them from time to time. A good band, to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pregnant Sally Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 I really am down with Bon Bon. not near as much I used to be, their last album tho was great, but I think Jon and the boys get a bad rap. they have written some classics, whether they be pop-metal-glam classics, they are classics. I think the most tiresome criticism I hear about the band is that they're a hair band, meanwhile Jon cut his ages ago, and many friends I have still have long hair even tho it's well past the 80's....and who really gives a shit what a singer's hair looks like anyway?plus they are a ton of fun live. good band, even if I can't stand a couple of their albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pregnant Sally Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 QUOTE (goldsausage @ Apr 11 2009, 08:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Everything from You Give Love A Bad Name (perhaps in the same league as Born In The USA?) to You Want To Make A Memory (just as good as The River!).I cannot agree with this however. especially can't agree with the song that's supposed to be as good as The River. I'm not sure anything is as good (not withstanding other songs from Bruce) as The River. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HelloNewman Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 He has really nice teeth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pregnant Sally Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 he does have nice teeth. nice smile, too. Jon is totally hot, just not Bruce hot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wasted in the heat Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Ack! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pregnant Sally Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 you know you love them Wasted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldsausage Posted April 13, 2009 Author Share Posted April 13, 2009 Well how could any sane person not love a band that write so many anthems? In fact, I think the Powers That Be In New Jersey should make it illegal to not appreciate the Kings of their land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustDan Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Sorry dude... someone shoulda warned you.... this website is not very Jovi friendly...In fact, next to U2, BonJovi is the band most GreasyLakers love to hate.... They're a good live band from what I hear.... As far as their recorded music, kinda hit 'n miss.....hit 'n miss... or as Liz Phair would say F**k & Run... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pregnant Sally Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 QUOTE (JustDan @ Apr 13 2009, 02:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>As far as their recorded music, kinda hit 'n miss.....hit 'n miss... or as Liz Phair would say F**k & Run...this is more along the lines of how I should have described what their recorded music does for me: enjoy plenty of their older stuff, despise the two albums that came after Crush, whatever they're called, and was thoroughly impressed with their latest offering. and it's not like I ever really think to throw them on the player, but when I hear them on the radio or see a video unexpectedly, I usually enjoy most of it. I don't see them as pioneers of rock and roll (glam metal in the 80's), have never viewed them as a groundbreaking band, just a band that has churned out some great material and made me a happy camper when watching them live.and what Liz Phair said is funny--even if don't care much for her material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solo Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Dry County. Enough said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldsausage Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share Posted April 27, 2009 QUOTE (solo @ Apr 14 2009, 11:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Dry County. Enough said Actually that's not enough said. You can't just go round naming song titles and expecting people to know what you think about them.Hey Mickey. Enough said.See - I could be thinking either that song is real good or real shit, how would anyone tell? I'll tell you how, cos I'd say:"Hey Mickey. What an awesome and catchy song! I'm gonna learn it on guitar, that's how great it is".But on the subject of Dry County - what a brilliant song, perhaps Bruce could take a leaf outta Jon Bon Jovi's book when re-writing Jungleland? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pastor Jeff Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 I know this is long, but it is entertaining--and I felt compelled to share...This is an excerpt from a book written in 1991 by Jimmy Guterman & Owen O'Donnell: "The Worst Rock n' Roll Records of All Time."#26 Worst Album: Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi.How many cliches can you squeeze into a single pop song? Probably not as many as Jon Bon Jovi can.For proof, listen to "Raise Your Hands" from his mammoth album Slippery When Wet. (We know, that's two already, but titles don't count.) In the song, the former Jon Bongiovi lets loose with "nasty reputation," "sticky situation," "ain't nobody better," "show me what you can do," "under the gun," "on the run," "set the night on fire," "playin' to win."Impressive, no? And that's only the first verse.Perhaps we're being unfair. Nobody listens to Bon Jovi's brand of pop for its lyrics; they listen because they want to bang their heads lightly. It's a style of music played by half the bands on MTV. A grafting of hard-rock style onto safe-as-milk teenybopper fluff, it's a genre that has come to be known as power ballads or bubblemetal. A canny marketing strategy (no doubt dreamed up by their convicted drug-dealer manager, Doc McGhee), the sound almost doesn't work for Bon Jovi because the band members are barely functional. The guitar solos (by Richie Sambora, one of Cher's more recent minor pop-star conquests) sound like afterthoughts, the bass lines whine like spoiled children, and Jon Bon Jovi's voice is frequently double- and triple-tracked in halfhearted attempts to cloak its fundamental blandness. Bon Jovi stumbles into sentimental territory on "Never Say Goodbye," but delicacy is not this 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 Meat Head Jovi's idea of evocative storytelling.Which makes it bizarre that the three megahit singles from Slippery When Wet were taken to reflect Jon's newfound ability to be a spokesman for a generation of young, working-class kids. Maybe since Bruce Springsteen was ensconced in one of his epic studio hibernations when Slippery When Wet came out, and the rock audience figured they had to get some salt-of-the-earth wisdom from a New Jersey guitarist, Jon got the post by default. For whatever reason, Jon became a legit star. Yet even the most cursory listen to his three smash singles--"You Give Love a Bad Name," "Livin' on a Prayer," and "Wanted Dead or Alive"--gives the lie to such respectability. "You Give Love a Bad Name" is pop metal at its most whiny; every edge is sanded down. "Livin' on a Prayer" tries to be an anthem for kids in trouble, but its lyrics cut it down at the roots: if "it doesn't really matter if we make it or not," why does the narrator suggest they try? And then why does he sing, "Take my hand/We'll make it, I swear?" (Forget for a moment that we never get a concrete clue as to what they're trying to do.)"Wanted Dead or Alive" is the funniest; think of it as Ennio Morricone meets Pee-Wee Herman in a cowboy suit. Its linking of six-guns and six-strings is a direct steal from Billy Joel's equally failed self-mythology, "The Legend of Billy the Kid," and its affected, Wild West sound makes the posturing even more ludicrous (you try to sit straight-faced through lines like "I've seen a million faces/And I've rocked them all"). No wonder this song convinced the producers of Young Guns II, another work about the West with the credibility of a "Hee Haw" sketch, that Bon was the right man to score the film. Jon responded with eight permutations of "Wanted Dead or Alive," some of which had the same chord changes.Jon Bon Jovi and his band made millions (before Jon temporarily broke up the group in 1989--for artistic reasons, if you can believe it) serving up condescending sentiment and reducing every emotion to a bare-faced cliche--either because they thought that's all their audience could comprehend or because that's all they could comprehend. On Slippery When Wet, their worst and most popular album, Bon Jovi sounds like bad fourth-generation soft metal, a smudgy Xerox of Quiet Riot, Pat Boone in leather.YMMV, but a pretty entertaining read, nonetheless. And just think, that was only #26... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustDan Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 QUOTE (goldsausage @ Apr 27 2009, 08:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Bruce could take a leaf outta Jon Bon Jovi's book when re-writing Jungleland?You've just lost whatever little credibility you had to start with when you started this discussion thread... Even worse for you, you've managed to make yourself a bufoon on top of the loss of your creedence. As a songwriter, Jon Bon Jovi isn't fit to wipe dogshit off of Springsteen's boots. Mr. Bon Jovi is a good singer and a good performer. But lets be clear... Jon Bon couldn't hope to write a song like "Jungleland" if he acquired the entire wrath of God's arsenal for eternity.... Now please... stop embarrasing yourself & just leave it be, ok?....You should've quit while you were behind...Here endeth the lesson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pastor Jeff Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 QUOTE (JustDan @ Apr 28 2009, 11:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Here endeth the lessonThanks, Big Dan... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pregnant Sally Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 QUOTE (Pastor Jeff @ Apr 28 2009, 04:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>"Wanted Dead or Alive" is the funniest; think of it as Ennio Morricone meets Pee-Wee Herman in a cowboy suit. Its linking of six-guns and six-strings is a direct steal from Billy Joel's equally failed self-mythology, "The Legend of Billy the Kid," and its affected, Wild West sound makes the posturing even more ludicrous (you try to sit straight-faced through lines like "I've seen a million faces/And I've rocked them all"). No wonder this song convinced the producers of Young Guns II, another work about the West with the credibility of a "Hee Haw" sketch,wonder what this know-it-all would say about Outlaw Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnF Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 I llike the intro to Dead or Alive and I also like er...er.. er...Well that's it really. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pregnant Sally Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 no need to be sorry, and I actually prefer the intro to Young Guns over Wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BossSpice Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 He was kinda cute in Ally McBeale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promise61 Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 QUOTE (goldsausage @ Apr 11 2009, 08:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Anyone else here love the rock band Jon Bon Jovi? They're so damn awesome.Everything from You Give Love A Bad Name (perhaps in the same league as Born In The USA?) to You Want To Make A Memory (just as good as The River!).I just can't explain how good Jon Bon Jovi are, their lyrics speak to my heart and the music speaks to my soul.So yeah, anyone else here love the Kings Of New Jersey?Funny as. Fair do's. Priceless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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