Advantages: If you like ggood music ou have to listen to Crush - Bon Jovi! Disadvantages: the only disadvantage is that is not that easy to find
...ou have to listen to Crush - Bon Jovi!
The growling, choppy guitar sample that opens the first track here, "It's My Life," is a virtual declaration of intent for the first Bon Jovi album in five years, a statement that they're updating the sound without abandoning the traditional virtues that made them one of the biggest bands on the planet. So make way for a hi-tech parade of smooth-but-gutsy rock anthems, almost any one of which will gladden the ... ...Loving Me." Arguably, everything on Crush is done by the numbers, but with consummate pros like Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora at the helm, these are the kind of numbers you have to take seriously, because by the second time they kick into the chorus of any song it's damn near impossible not to sing along. ...
roxanam 06.03.2009 ·Read full review
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Review of Crush - Bon Jovi
...Your Fist and Yell.
Trash generally focuses on relationships of some kind, whether it be discussing his break up with alcohol (Poison) or the catchy ones geared more at relationships with women (This Maniacs in Love With You, Hell is Living Without You, Only My Heart Talkin', Why Trust You) and then there are the sleazier raunchy type tracks like Bed of Nails, Trash, Spark in the Dark, I'm Your Gun and House of Fire.
All of them rather enjoyable ... ...comes as no surprise that Trash was considered a major comeback for the artist. It doesn't mean that there aren't a few things that could have been improved upon though. This album was largely an experiment though and the production work by Desmond Child (Aerosmith, Bon Jovi) brought a sort of well trashyness to the album, a certain amount of cheesyness however I thought that the snarling vocals and guitar solos, not to mention dodgy yet fun videos ...
Advantages: Great Live Album With 1 New Song Disadvantages: Could Have Been Better Without Rob Zombie
...Fistful Of Alice
This live album was recorded at Sammy Hagars club (Van Halen Guitarist) the Cabo Wabo in Mexico in 1996. This is a brilliant live album and shows Alice in his prime (recorded when he turned 48). He doesn't need backing singers unlike other singers of his grounding now although Rob Zombie duets on Feed My Frankenstein & Elected. Slash from Guns & Roses plays lead guitar on several tracks.
1. Schools Out (Sammy Hagar on Lead)
2. ... ...Sung With Conviction
4. Desperado (Listen To The Flamenco Guitar Work)
5. Lost In America (Slash On Lead)
6. Teenage Lament '74
7. I Never Cry (One Of Alice's Best Ballads)
8. Poison,
9. No More Mr Nice Guy
10. Welcome To My Nightmare
11. Only Women Bleed (Slash On Lead)
12. Feed My Frankenstein (with Rob Zombie), 13. Elected (Slash On Lead with Rob Zombie), 14. Is Anyone Home ? (New Track Written About The Internet). ...
Advantages: Top quality album Disadvantages: Air guitar can damage your health
Hey Stoopid is heavily produced and has a lot going on in tracks, particularly various guitar solos.. take the title track Hey Stoopid - Satriani, Slash on guitars and Ozzy on backing vocals, what a ridiculously talented line-up! The lyrics are catchy if not a bit cheesy at times and a fair amount of the songs fitted to dodgy MTV videos which make me laugh even today! Having fully battled his way back from alcoholism and into the mainlight again, ... ...Trash which marks the bands 2nd peak which started after the singers recovery in 1986 with the Constrictor album.
If the epic line-up from the title track is not good enough, it also features various other rock legends like Steve Vai, Mick Mars, Nicki Sixx and Vinnie Moore. This as you imagine, ensures plenty of insane guitar solos which are fitting to the tracks whether they be the overdrive anthems like "Feed My Frankenstein", "Hurricane Years" ...
Advantages: Short and sweet Disadvantages: Not quite classic Alice
Flush The Fashion which came out in 1980 can be classed as an album that you probably never even knew existed, from an artist that you knew did. Something of a forgotten gem buried in the Coop back catalogue? A dirty diamond even? Not quite, but at a time when what is now called classic rock was dying on its feet, the ever-sussed Mr Furnier managed to touch gloves with hip producer Roy Thomas Baker to update his sound for the New Wavers that were ... ...For Alice it had been a long way down from the theatrical heights of 1975's mulit-platinum Welcome To My Nightmare (and subsequent $5 million grossing tour) as drink problems and a string of relatively poor studio albums caused most to assume his day was over. The man who played golf with Gerald Ford and appeared on cheesy US quiz shows seemed to be becoming a parody of himself. The only chart action coming his way was from the odd ballad hit here ...
Excellent performance, tonnes of steam, ventilated ironing board (*)
