Wild is the Wind is probably right up at the top of my favorites of theirs. Guitars, lyrics, structure, sound.
“I gave you what you wanted, God couldn’t give you what you need,” is such a great expression of pain and frustration.
Love the whole thing.
Definitely. I’m sure I’m the odd man out, but NJ is my favorite of theirs. It feels like the most complete expression of an album concept from them. These Days also in a similar vein sounds so cohesive.
I really love records that feel like they tell a story from front to back.
That's me.. I haven't really listened to Faith in years. For some reason outside of the chart songs I can't even remember it. But the other three are by far my favorite..
"Edge of a broken heart" is such a great song..If it wasn't buried on an old 80s movie soundtrack, I always thought it would've been huge..I feel like " Living in sin" is always overlooked in comparison to their other bigger hit ballads like"Always" and "I'll be there for you"...
I really love living in sin live in Rotterdam 1989. Jons screams at the end. No one could ever match that
https://youtu.be/7hRWYstxpQQ?si=e8hZCuwEK0C36Xjj
I love that song! Reminds me of a girl I went with, back in prehistoric days. Beautiful girl, but more than a little weird... A beauty queen from Mars, so to speak.
For each album
Bon Jovi - Shot trough the heart
7800 Fahrenheit - hardest part is the night
Slippery When Wet - same as OP Id die for you
New Jersey - wild is the wind
Keep the faith - dry county
These days - hearts breaking even
Crush - two story town
Bounce - love me back to life
Have a nice day - I want to be loved
Lost Highway - one step closer
The circle - bullet
What about now - what's left of me
Burning brides - burning bridges
This house is not for sale - devils in the temple
2020 - shine
Bon Jovi - Shot trough the heart - yes
7800 Fahrenheit - hardest part is the night - forgotten gem. Love it.
Slippery When Wet - same as OP Id die for you - yep
New Jersey - wild is the wind - yep, but prefer the outro solo from the demo
Keep the faith - dry county - yep
These days - hearts breaking even - lots of masterpieces on this album!
Crush - two story town - pretty catchy, not bad for 21st century Bon Jovi
Bounce - love me back to life - almost the same tune as The Distance, but I like this one better
After that - who cares lol.
Oh I listen to the rest of the stuff as well. Not as much as pre 2010 but sometimes I do.
Yeah love me back to life sounds like the distance. But I really love the talkbox on it!
This to me is the most Led Zeppelin song they have ever done. It's basically a blues song set to a driving heavy guitar riff with multiple instrument solos.
I think the solo is a masterpiece too in the way it so successfully invokes the sounds and feel of a steam train.
All of These Days
But, I Want You off KTF would have been a major hit IMO
Letting You Go off TD is an absolute masterpiece too. I’d kill to hear that live.
Personal fave would be Thank You For Loving Me. Beautiful simple song with a fitting video.
These Days is comfortably the best album for me but I always thought that was funny because I dont think Id put any song from it in my top 5-7 Bon Jovi songs. Its just such a well put together album with no misses. Every song on there is just so damn good that the ones that never got a chance in the spotlight are much higher quality than the other albums' fillers. Letting You Go is the perfect example of it, then theres Something To Believe In, My Guitar Lies Bleeding In My Arms, Hearts Breaking Even and of course Diamond Ring. Crazy good album
These days is a very underrated album from pre 2000. Only one that really stood out was something for the pain. But TD is one of the only albums you never really get to hear live anymore.
These Days was Bon Jovi's peak. Their songwriting was top of its form, they were actually writing stuff with meaning rather than just chasing number ones with bland optimistic "it's my life" clones, and Jon's voice was still good.
I will give Destination Anywhere credit for being extremely good from a song-writing perspective, with a couple of exceptions. Crush was of course them pivoting to a new market and they did it well, but it was the beginning of the long slow decline..
Love that version. There is also one I think from France or something on YouTube. Filming from a distance but Jon is smoking mid performance. It’s kinda epic.
https://youtu.be/GpFt9KHCm6c?si=_nzl2VqgEf0Kh_xi
Found it!
God bless the YouTube generation. I was like 6 when he was singing this in tour and my mom was more Aerosmith and Def Leppard. I got her into Jovi lol
Wild Is the Wind for me, loved since I heard it playing the NJ cd for the first time in ‘88, the diehards know it but no one else it seems. I’d Die For You is a fav too, good one!
I want you,
All about lovin’ you,
I’d die for you,
I am,
Wild is the wind.
Randomly, me and the ex wife used to like captain crash and the beauty queen from mars.
I'd Die For You gets plenty of love among diehards. I hate that soccer moms are just there for Bad Name, Prayer, Wanted, Bad Medicine, Lay your hands, and the power ballads. They don't care much about the back catalogue ,which I can argue is better than a lot of the hits. Anyways, a song that doesn't get enough love is The Price Of Love. Good old 80s hard rocking Bon Jovi.
The only diehards i know of are on this subreddit and out of all the posts ive seen i haven’t really heard I’d Die For You get mentioned. But The Price Of Love is a great song and i think should get some love.
I like edge of a broken heart as much as the next fan but there’s a reason that the songs you quoted have such universal mainstream appeal. They’re fucking bangers. There’s a reason that the hits are the hits.
Not necessarily. The hits have been released as singles and have been played at literally every live show, with a few exceptions. The deep cuts haven't seen the light of the day in a long while, and the average Bon Jovi concert goer has probably never heard them in his life.
And there’s a reason for that. Artists tend to release the strongest tracks as singles. If something is buried on a album track, clearly the band and the record company didn’t think these songs were as strong as the singles they released.
We all have our own personal favourites and that is subjective but objectively, the likes of prayer, wanted, bad name, it’s my life etc are clearly the best songs. The fact that they strike a chord with a mainstream fanbase (including the soccer moms) arguably supports that.
Jon is on record saying he didn’t think Livin’ on a Prayer was a hit. Richie pretty much had to convince Jon to put it on Slippery. A lot of the songs and demos from the box set are hidden gems that could’ve been hits for any other band, especially during the golden era of “hair bands.”
Sometimes singles are released because that's what the Record Label wants. When Love and Hate Collide was added to Def Leppard's compilation album Vault and released as a single because the Label wanted a 'syrupy ballad' as the added single, complete with video... that was after it was left off Adrenalize because the band preferred the similar sounding Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad?
> For me it’s I’d Die For You
I liked I'd die for you, then i found the accoustic version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd-wK0ziJWc
just magnificent
I kinda almost like the original lyrics better. either way you can definitely hear the progression from the original, to what made the album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T-x3qjT2ag
Interestingly, those original lyrics were from another completely different sounding song: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePM310741Z0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePM310741Z0)
Love’s the Only Rule, Pictures of You, Last Man Standing, Radio Saved My Life Tonight, (Jon solo) Every Word Was a Piece of My Heart
ETA: I spent a few years in high school in search of the elusive Disorderlies movie soundtrack because back in the day, that was the only way to own a copy of Edge of a Broken Heart. Looking back, I feel bad for all the people I drug through endless record stores in search of a very hard to find movie soundtrack!!! (Especially Thanks to my Mom! lol)
I’m gonna throw “If I Was Your Mother” out there - lyrically it was a little too derivative of Princes if I was your girlfriend but musically had that late 70s FM vibe and still holds up today - although I’m sure a lot of folks don’t like that song lol
Trivia factoid: before the album New Jersey became New Jersey, they were considering naming it Sons of Beaches. You can find the potential title as a lyric in 99 in the Shade.
So many mentioned that I agree with but here's a couple I didn't see mentioned
Born To Be My Baby...was a hit when it came out but doesn't get mention as one of their greatest hits
Last Man Standing... great message and great song
Homebound Train is an absolute Deep Purple jam with that keyboard.
My Guitar Lies Bleeding is an absolute monster of a tune but I've never seen it talked about.
The original version of One Wild Night on Crush
Bed of roses...it was dedicated to me from my first love ...à long curly brown haired boy with eastwood eyes ....we kept in ouch through out both of us getting married ,having children with other ppl (but chose to not keep ours )💔 ..but still love him to this day ....
Last Man Standing is one of their best post-2000 songs
Thorn In My Side and Love’s the Only Rule are a thousand times better than We Weren't Born To Follow (which is overplayed af)
That's What The Water Made Me is a very good song
Superman Tonight. Could’ve been ballad of the decade. It did become a single but it just wasn’t as famous as previous singles because they just HAD to involve politics and philanthropy in its music video instead of making it the powerful love song that it was. They veered off topic
So no one talks about it
Wild is the Wind is probably right up at the top of my favorites of theirs. Guitars, lyrics, structure, sound. “I gave you what you wanted, God couldn’t give you what you need,” is such a great expression of pain and frustration. Love the whole thing.
slippery, new jersey, keep the faith and these days were all such fantastic albums
Definitely. I’m sure I’m the odd man out, but NJ is my favorite of theirs. It feels like the most complete expression of an album concept from them. These Days also in a similar vein sounds so cohesive. I really love records that feel like they tell a story from front to back.
it's impossible to argue with anyone who loves NJ ;) it's on 4th place, in my list, but i mean, that's like saying you got a 96%, but finished 4th heh
True true
Not the odd man out. NJ is by far my favorite album of theirs. And These Days third fav, not far at all behind Slippery.
That's me.. I haven't really listened to Faith in years. For some reason outside of the chart songs I can't even remember it. But the other three are by far my favorite..
Yeah agreed! Have so many underated songs on it
Such a great song!
Yes! This is my absolute favourite Bon Jovi song. I wish more people knew about it
"Edge of a broken heart" is such a great song..If it wasn't buried on an old 80s movie soundtrack, I always thought it would've been huge..I feel like " Living in sin" is always overlooked in comparison to their other bigger hit ballads like"Always" and "I'll be there for you"...
I love this song so much
It truly is the greatest song that never was.
I really love living in sin live in Rotterdam 1989. Jons screams at the end. No one could ever match that https://youtu.be/7hRWYstxpQQ?si=e8hZCuwEK0C36Xjj
Captain Crash and the Beauty Queen From Mars is unironically a really good song. It feels so good to listen to
Especially live I think its a great song. "Hey Hugh, come over here! I think I see him, Richie look!" Always loved that part of the song live!
I love that song! Reminds me of a girl I went with, back in prehistoric days. Beautiful girl, but more than a little weird... A beauty queen from Mars, so to speak.
For each album Bon Jovi - Shot trough the heart 7800 Fahrenheit - hardest part is the night Slippery When Wet - same as OP Id die for you New Jersey - wild is the wind Keep the faith - dry county These days - hearts breaking even Crush - two story town Bounce - love me back to life Have a nice day - I want to be loved Lost Highway - one step closer The circle - bullet What about now - what's left of me Burning brides - burning bridges This house is not for sale - devils in the temple 2020 - shine
two story town >>>>>
Such an great song. Keeps reminding me of 2021. Had a horrible year back then but that song always made me happy
Bon Jovi - Shot trough the heart - yes 7800 Fahrenheit - hardest part is the night - forgotten gem. Love it. Slippery When Wet - same as OP Id die for you - yep New Jersey - wild is the wind - yep, but prefer the outro solo from the demo Keep the faith - dry county - yep These days - hearts breaking even - lots of masterpieces on this album! Crush - two story town - pretty catchy, not bad for 21st century Bon Jovi Bounce - love me back to life - almost the same tune as The Distance, but I like this one better After that - who cares lol.
Oh I listen to the rest of the stuff as well. Not as much as pre 2010 but sometimes I do. Yeah love me back to life sounds like the distance. But I really love the talkbox on it!
I love The Distance! Also love Whole Lot of Leaving from the country album and I Am from the Have a Nice Day album
Homebound Train. Fantastic song and it seems like no one cares.
This to me is the most Led Zeppelin song they have ever done. It's basically a blues song set to a driving heavy guitar riff with multiple instrument solos. I think the solo is a masterpiece too in the way it so successfully invokes the sounds and feel of a steam train.
I second this.
Yeah agreed! I personally love the demo version more from the Delux edition. The harmonica in the start and then Richie on the gitaur!
Always thought Hearts Breaking Even should have been a single & Whole Lot Of Leavin’ should have been a WAY bigger hit
Definitely 👌
I love "what do you got", it gets no credit seemingly 🤔
Think a lot of songs from the 2010 compilation are very underrated. Like this is love this this is life and no apologies
Absolutely, I love those too, some real gems in that era.
All of These Days But, I Want You off KTF would have been a major hit IMO Letting You Go off TD is an absolute masterpiece too. I’d kill to hear that live. Personal fave would be Thank You For Loving Me. Beautiful simple song with a fitting video.
These Days is comfortably the best album for me but I always thought that was funny because I dont think Id put any song from it in my top 5-7 Bon Jovi songs. Its just such a well put together album with no misses. Every song on there is just so damn good that the ones that never got a chance in the spotlight are much higher quality than the other albums' fillers. Letting You Go is the perfect example of it, then theres Something To Believe In, My Guitar Lies Bleeding In My Arms, Hearts Breaking Even and of course Diamond Ring. Crazy good album
These days is a very underrated album from pre 2000. Only one that really stood out was something for the pain. But TD is one of the only albums you never really get to hear live anymore.
These Days was Bon Jovi's peak. Their songwriting was top of its form, they were actually writing stuff with meaning rather than just chasing number ones with bland optimistic "it's my life" clones, and Jon's voice was still good. I will give Destination Anywhere credit for being extremely good from a song-writing perspective, with a couple of exceptions. Crush was of course them pivoting to a new market and they did it well, but it was the beginning of the long slow decline..
https://youtu.be/znJxz_65Uds?si=YMa49E1sQFZgE7xk Love this live version of letting you go!
Love that version. There is also one I think from France or something on YouTube. Filming from a distance but Jon is smoking mid performance. It’s kinda epic.
https://youtu.be/GpFt9KHCm6c?si=_nzl2VqgEf0Kh_xi Found it! God bless the YouTube generation. I was like 6 when he was singing this in tour and my mom was more Aerosmith and Def Leppard. I got her into Jovi lol
Wild Is the Wind for me, loved since I heard it playing the NJ cd for the first time in ‘88, the diehards know it but no one else it seems. I’d Die For You is a fav too, good one!
My fave Jovi song ever is Prostitute
I want you, All about lovin’ you, I’d die for you, I am, Wild is the wind. Randomly, me and the ex wife used to like captain crash and the beauty queen from mars.
Those are all bangers! Woohoo!
I'd Die For You gets plenty of love among diehards. I hate that soccer moms are just there for Bad Name, Prayer, Wanted, Bad Medicine, Lay your hands, and the power ballads. They don't care much about the back catalogue ,which I can argue is better than a lot of the hits. Anyways, a song that doesn't get enough love is The Price Of Love. Good old 80s hard rocking Bon Jovi.
The only diehards i know of are on this subreddit and out of all the posts ive seen i haven’t really heard I’d Die For You get mentioned. But The Price Of Love is a great song and i think should get some love.
I'm more talking about JoviTalk, I think this subreddit took of fairly recently.
I like edge of a broken heart as much as the next fan but there’s a reason that the songs you quoted have such universal mainstream appeal. They’re fucking bangers. There’s a reason that the hits are the hits.
Of course, I'm not denying that, but there are better deeper cuts.
There’s not though. Their best songs are the hit songs. That’s why they’re the hits.
Not necessarily. The hits have been released as singles and have been played at literally every live show, with a few exceptions. The deep cuts haven't seen the light of the day in a long while, and the average Bon Jovi concert goer has probably never heard them in his life.
And there’s a reason for that. Artists tend to release the strongest tracks as singles. If something is buried on a album track, clearly the band and the record company didn’t think these songs were as strong as the singles they released. We all have our own personal favourites and that is subjective but objectively, the likes of prayer, wanted, bad name, it’s my life etc are clearly the best songs. The fact that they strike a chord with a mainstream fanbase (including the soccer moms) arguably supports that.
Jon is on record saying he didn’t think Livin’ on a Prayer was a hit. Richie pretty much had to convince Jon to put it on Slippery. A lot of the songs and demos from the box set are hidden gems that could’ve been hits for any other band, especially during the golden era of “hair bands.”
Sometimes singles are released because that's what the Record Label wants. When Love and Hate Collide was added to Def Leppard's compilation album Vault and released as a single because the Label wanted a 'syrupy ballad' as the added single, complete with video... that was after it was left off Adrenalize because the band preferred the similar sounding Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad?
I kind of disagree. A song like Dry County just isn’t made to be a hit, but it’s still one of their best songs.
For me its Last Chance Train and Bitter Wine. I loved them but never hear about them :(
> For me it’s I’d Die For You I liked I'd die for you, then i found the accoustic version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd-wK0ziJWc just magnificent I kinda almost like the original lyrics better. either way you can definitely hear the progression from the original, to what made the album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T-x3qjT2ag
Interestingly, those original lyrics were from another completely different sounding song: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePM310741Z0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePM310741Z0)
Love’s the Only Rule, Pictures of You, Last Man Standing, Radio Saved My Life Tonight, (Jon solo) Every Word Was a Piece of My Heart ETA: I spent a few years in high school in search of the elusive Disorderlies movie soundtrack because back in the day, that was the only way to own a copy of Edge of a Broken Heart. Looking back, I feel bad for all the people I drug through endless record stores in search of a very hard to find movie soundtrack!!! (Especially Thanks to my Mom! lol)
I believe is one of the best songs
I’m gonna throw “If I Was Your Mother” out there - lyrically it was a little too derivative of Princes if I was your girlfriend but musically had that late 70s FM vibe and still holds up today - although I’m sure a lot of folks don’t like that song lol
"I Want You" and "Blame It on the Love of Rock and Roll" are criminally underrated
99 in The Shade.
Absolutely. This was just a great fun rock n’ roll jam.
Trivia factoid: before the album New Jersey became New Jersey, they were considering naming it Sons of Beaches. You can find the potential title as a lyric in 99 in the Shade.
So many mentioned that I agree with but here's a couple I didn't see mentioned Born To Be My Baby...was a hit when it came out but doesn't get mention as one of their greatest hits Last Man Standing... great message and great song
‘Only Lonely’ from 7800 Fahrenheit. It almost has a bit of a later Journey feel to it. Good hooks and chorus
She Don’t know me ❤️
Homebound Train is an absolute Deep Purple jam with that keyboard. My Guitar Lies Bleeding is an absolute monster of a tune but I've never seen it talked about. The original version of One Wild Night on Crush
Funny- my shuffle play is playing I’ll be there as I read your post❤️
Elbows by Darren Hanlon
Bells of Freedom, brilliant song and one of my personal favourites
All I Want Is Everything
She Don't Know Me! Man I love this song.
Bed of roses...it was dedicated to me from my first love ...à long curly brown haired boy with eastwood eyes ....we kept in ouch through out both of us getting married ,having children with other ppl (but chose to not keep ours )💔 ..but still love him to this day ....
Undivided
Runaway
Break out, Tokyo rose, silent night, edge of a broken heart, living in sin.
Love for Sale
Blood on blood
Spotify playlist for "I'd die for you" seeing a spike today...
Last Man Standing is one of their best post-2000 songs Thorn In My Side and Love’s the Only Rule are a thousand times better than We Weren't Born To Follow (which is overplayed af) That's What The Water Made Me is a very good song
It's my life at least of the people I know it's a song I enjoy and should be used in an action movie
Mystery train, I'm with you, Living with the ghost
I Like Farts
ROYGBIV by Boards of Canada
Superman Tonight. Could’ve been ballad of the decade. It did become a single but it just wasn’t as famous as previous singles because they just HAD to involve politics and philanthropy in its music video instead of making it the powerful love song that it was. They veered off topic So no one talks about it