Slippery When Wet

Fun at times, but mostly just trite and corny.

Ålreit, så får jeg stå fram som Bon Jovi-fan. Har alltid likt både SWW og New Jersey. Lenge før jeg oppdaga Bob Dylan og Beatles var det metal og hardrock fra 80-tallet som gjaldt for meg. Mye pga foreldrene mine, og sikkert litt pga V-Rock i Vice City også ("Let It Rock" burde 100 prosent vært med)

Men ja, Bon Jovi er harry, men faen som de kan skrive låter! Jeg vil nesten kalle de gruppemedlemmene som har gitt plata 1 for feige, som ikke kan anerkjenne the might of "You Give Love A Bad Name" og "Livin' On A Prayer".

For å være fair så er det ikke alle låtene som har blitt tidløse klassikere og har tålt tidens tann. "Social Disease" virker veldig utdatert pga den rævva blåsersynthen feks. "Raise Your Hands" er litt i grenseland pga sin synth, men fortsatt en bop. En låt hvor 80-tallssynthen fremdeles funker er "I'd Die For You"

Ja, også vrir det seg litt når de synger "I'm a cowboy" på "Wanted Dead or Alive", men låta i seg selv er fet (Shoutout til Richie Sambora).

Slippery When Wet gir meg lyst til å ta lappen. Det er kjørerock. Eventuelt GTA-rock, om det får være en egen sjanger. Hadde jeg vurdert plata i 1986 hadde den sikkert fått full score fra meg, og jeg hadde ønsket meg "Never Say Goodbye" som klinelåt på skoleballet. Men som nevnt har den fått noe wear gjennom årene. Men fortsatt et godt bidrag til glam/hair metal som sjanger.

"OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH We're halfway thè-ere" En dan nog twee maal: "OOOOOOOOOOOOOH-HOOOOOOOOO". Effe serieus, dit is toch gewoon het Baila de gasolina van de '80's? Toegegeven, de tekst is heel wat meer serieus. Maar de truc is toch om op een heel toegankelijke en (voor de tijd) moderne muziek het volledige publiek uit volle borst mee te laten brullen. En ja, dat is zeker een kunst. Dus wie weet, horen jullie me ooit nog eens uit volle borst meebrullen.

I've definitely heard this whole album before, but not since I was a kid, and the non-hits are memories that aren't exactly clear.

Obviously this one's got a majority of Bon Jovi's biggest and greatest hits. Being able to sit down and listen to this with a more critical ear, the songs are solid, but Jon Bon Jovi kind of oversings things a bit. It's a little tiring. I always loved Richie Sambora though, both as a lead guitarist and background singer. The songs where he's ripping on either of those are hard to deny. And there's definitely something to be said about Tico Torres' drumming. It makes for a good primer for anthemic rock drums.

Far too much synth to open an album with a track titled ‘Let it Rock’ for my liking. It does however descend into hair metal by numbers, which feels very dated and almost a parody.
you give love a bad name continues the dated feel, but at least brings the semblance of a good tune and a sing along chorus.
Livin on a prayer is undeniably a eighties classic and maintains the good vibes from the previous track.
Social disease is frankly horrendous. Wanted dead or alive brings some welcome relief before we go back to generic 80s hair rock.
The majority of this album follows a very generic formula, which unfortunately is one i dont like

The high: Wanted Dead or Alive is probably my favourite Bon Jovi song.

The low: The start of Social Distortion made me want to crawl into a little ball (urrrgghh), and somehow it being sandwiched between two massive hit singles made it even worse.

However, I do not care that this album is dated and cheesy and possibly the least cool album on this 1001 Album list, I (mostly) had a good time listening to it. It's so unbelievably 80s, I felt like I should be wearing leg warmers and sporting a fresh perm.

Fun. Should be 3.5, but in a half starless world, it's getting:

3/5

(Side note: Classifying this as "hard rock" is absolutely laughable)

Better than Coldplay

Bon Jovi is just too basic. This is exactly what I think about when I think of rock. And I mean it's good, but I want something more. Just a little disappointed, not my favorite album.

Fun times … I liked it 👍

I refuse

Supongo que aún siendo el "heavy" más comercial de esa época no se puede negar que tiene al menos un par de buenas canciones. Me guardo «You Give Love a Bad Name» y «Livin' on a Prayer».

2.9

Whoever picked the singles got it exactly right. Everything else is forgettable.

The good is great and the bad is pretty dreary.

So many all time classics. The quintessential rock album.

I like “livin on a prayer.” It does a disservice to too many drunken college nights to pretend otherwise. But I won’t say any of these songs are good.

I wonder if I could learn the guitar parts to this entire album in a day. Oh, maybe not: I see a couple scattered measures in some of the guitar solos that would be tricky for me. I couldn’t play the “raise your hands” riff, especially that harmonic run. Maybe I could get to 90% in a day.

I mean this sincerely: in “wanted dead or alive,” is he a cowboy or a rock star? If he’s a rock star, nobody wants him dead. If he’s a cowboy, he doesn’t ride a steel horse. A steel horse is, I assume, a tour bus. I would guess he’d say he’s both a metaphorical cowboy *and* a real rock star, but then the writing is full of mixed metaphors and it’s just bad. A loaded six-string isn’t a thing. What makes you say you might not make it back? Sir, we are talking about a Wednesday night at an arena in Minneapolis, not the OK Corral. What about being on the road makes you a cowboy? When the best explanation for a song’s lyrics is “we didn’t think about it for longer than about five seconds,” that’s not great.

I know “raise your hands” from a movie. What movie, Google? Oh, it’s Spaceballs. I kinda thought that was a fake bad song they made up for the movie. Guess not! It is a real bad song Bon Jovi made up and then voluntarily chose to include on an actual album people paid money for.

Between a 1 and a 2. On the one hand, there’s no artistic merit to any of this and my “crass sellout” alarms are blaring. On the other, how many times have I screamed “whoa-oh” in my life because of this album? That’s worth something.

Okay, so I wrote that last paragraph with about four songs to go on the album. And those songs sucked. I’m going to give this a 1, add “livin on a prayer” to my ongoing playlist for this project, and note that my nostalgia for that song is very strong and the 1 rating is not a reflection of good times had at parties and weddings. It is a reflection that Bon Jovi fucking sucks.

Is it high art? Not really. It doesn't really push any boundaries or really do anything new.

But it's really fun and I had a much better time listening to this than I did a lot of the albums on the list.

A dangerously combustible mix of hair spray, pure cocaine, industrial cynicism, and half remembered Springsteen songs. I've known this album as anything other than a corny joke to bellow along with when it the hits come on the radio - three singalong karaoke mega jams that are undeniably fun despite being way overplayed and incredibly crap. Listening through in full I realize that even the hits are way too long and the joke wears off after the first chorus, but the song keeps going, and goooooooooing. The rest is 80s pop metal filler with an emphasis on the pop - the metal is exclusively the palm muted riffs and squealing pinch harmonics on the guitar. It sucks at such a deeply fundamental it's almost good. Almost...

There is nothing about this style that I relate or react positively to. Whatever extremely valid reasons people may have for enjoying this type of music - it's "fun", "badass", hooky, nostalgic, etc. - are not reasons that I personally find agreeable or applicable. There is nothing on a musical, lyrical, or production level that moves, intrigues, or excites me in any way whatsoever. I like so many artists, albums, and songs for so many different reasons - for instance, I think some of them are fun, badass, hooky, nostalgic, etc. But when I consider every element that has ever brought me enjoyment in any given song, album, or genre, I don't hear any of them present in music like this.

0.5/5

Tale of two albums on this record. You have the absolutely monumental classics like Livin' On A Prayer, You Give Love A Bad Name, and Wanted Dead Or Alive, then the rest of the album is just lukewarm reheats of songs from bands like Van Halen and Def Leppard, or like if Bruce Springsteen made glam metal.

Good Bon Jovi songs have this specific vibe (It's My Life and Have A Nice Day also have that vibe), and other than the singles I listed, nothing hits that vibe.

Giving it a 3 based on the strength of the hits, but otherwise a pretty tepid record.