Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
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Artist: Bon JoviBrand: Bon
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-02-09
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
- Let It Rock
- You Give Love A Bad Name
- Livin' On A Prayer
- Social Disease
- Wanted Dead Or Alive
- Raise Your Hands
- Without Love
- I'd Die For You
- Never Say Goodbye
- Wild In The Streets
Music reviews of Slippery When Wet
Music Review: Not as good as New Jersey, perhaps no even their best, but sales say otherwise
Rating: 4 Stars
Bon Jovi is a band that may not be the best one (the best one's were Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones or Pink Floyd), but their record-sales say otherwise. There is perhaps a grain of truth in the notion that half of their audience were teenagers and women and their sucess was soemwhat overrated, as well as that they went big on Jon Bon Jovi's coiffeur and outlook, though.
Nonetheless, I think they truly deserved their overwhealming breakthrough from the 80's offering people catchy, competent and well-ctrafted pop-rock-metal tunes played on and on by the MTV. All in all, that's how metal sounded in the mid-80's (just take Whitesnake or Def Leppard). Personally, I have always been an advocate of this band, turning a blind eye on what other narrow-minded people kept saying about it. Yes, Bon Jovi has made couple of cheesy songs ("Always") and some both cheesy and too commercial as well ("It's my life"). "It's my life" was a cheap trial to break to the pop-charts, but, if there are any open-minded music passionates there, you will notice that other bands had it as well (Van Halen had "Jump", KISS had "I was made for loving you").
One has to take the band as a whole, and simply can't deny the skillful and well-crafted musicanship of albums like "New Jersey" or "Keep the faith". So, if you are too narrow-minded to rate this, you simply have no right to proclaim yourself a music-passionate or music-knower. Please, don't get me wrong, Bon Jovi WAS a commercial band, and there's no use in comparing them to Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd. But in what they did, they were the best.
"Slippery when wet" sold 18 million copies worldwide up to this date and it speaks for itself - no comment. But it is true that it is neither their best album, not even as good as "New Jersey" or "Keep the faith". I, a self-proclaimed Bon Jovi fan (and an open-minded music passionate as general) who peruses BJ's career for years, claim here that Bon Jovi's incredible breakthrough should have come with their previous LP, namely "7800 Fahrenheit" (which is, don't know why, forsaken and forelorn by everyone including the band). But, after very intermediate success of that perhaps least commercial one in their entire career (which nonetheless sold and reached gold-status) Jon, Richie and songwriter for hire Desmond Child took the plunge for something else. Namely, they wrote a pile of songs and examined the reaction of teenagers on them in a local pizzeria to find out which meet with enthusiastic reaction of the listeners. That entailed fierce criticism and they were immediately wrote off by the critics. Well, not neccesairly righteously, becasue musics aim is to entertain and deliver fun. History shows there were very good bands (like Alan Parson's Project, for that instance) which didn't sell well becasue they aimed at a very thin circle of audience. One can argue, which way is better, though.
Bon Jovi phenommenon started to exist when their first no.1 hit-single, the heavy-metal "You give love a bad name" hit the charts. Both this one's, and "Living on a prayer's" success of course as well, were much propelled by the vidoes played in then-starting MTV - this changed their lives and catapulted them into international mega-stars.
Anyway, this one is a very good one indeed, but it arguably does have perhaps 2 fillers: "Wild in the streets" and "Without love".These tracks are OK, but nothing else. Perhaps it would have been better if they had included "We rule the night" instead (which was a cut from that sessions and appeared recently on "100,000,000 Fans"). "Rise your hands" is also only a good song. Yet, indeed, the rest is really great - so, again Bon Jovi at their peak. I mean, apart from those blockbusters who everyone knows (and perhaps wants to get this album only for these songs; "Wanted", "Love" and "Prayer") there are minor gems like for instance "Let it rock", which is a classic BJ-rocker with catchy chorus, nice percussion, great and long guitar-solo by Richie (one of his bests) and well-crafted intro on keyboards by David Bryan. "Social disease" is exactly such a good one as well. Finally, in my humble opinion thier best power-ballad ever, "Never say goodbye" which was released on a single in Europe and was a big hit also here in Poland.
As far as the lyrical content is concerned, they are blissfully
untouched with political or religious content or other intricate innuendos. Honest, directly from heart, drenched with love, sex, and not very deep or elaborate in fact. But this is the magic of this album. But whooah! these boys were 21-25 of age! They were wild and manifested it in their songs! If one would like to peruse how BJ matured in terms of lyirics, I would recommend here "These days" form 1995.
Overall, Bon Jovi has produced a leveled, well-skilled, powerful, passionate, catchy and entertaing album which was indeed quite commercial, yet manged to appeal to a very wide and diverse public. That openness help BJ to sell this one in spades. Unfortunately critics didn't like it, but anyway - who are critics??? They are people, just as we all are, and they judge according to their own taste as everybody else.
All in all, this is a very good album, but I would like a newcomer to prod him/her towards the "New Jersey" from 1988.
Please read my other, REAL Bon Jovi reviews.
Description of Slippery When Wet
Japanese edition of their smash second album from 1986 withthe cover art that was banned in the U.S., of a photo of awoman wearing a ripped up wet yellow t-shirt that says'Slippery When Wet' in black letters. The album, which hassold over 11 million copies and spent eight consecutiveweeks at #1 in the Billboard Top 200 when released, featuresall of the same 10 tracks as the U.S. edition, including the#1 hits 'You Give Love A Bad Name' & 'Livin' On A Prayer',plus the top 10 'Wanted Dead Or Alive' and the FM radio hit'I'd Die For You'. A Mercury release.Slippery When Wet transformed Bon Jovi from minor-league poodle rockers to global superstars on the back of hit singles "You Give Love a Bad Name," "Never Say Goodbye," and, of course, "Living on a Prayer." From the scantily clad car-wash girls on the inner sleeve to the "You lost more than that in my back seat / Yeah!" lyrics, the album is blissfully untouched by irony and subtlety, which actually adds to its charm. With guitarist Richie Sambora and songwriter Desmond Child, Jon Bon Jovi has produced a slew of consistently memorable tunes, and this album contains its fair share of them. Slippery When Wet won't change your world, but it will, undoubtedly, rock it. --Ronita Dutta
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