Bon Jovi are an easy band to like, but they’re really hard to love. I wouldn’t say that they absolutely define the term “Corporate Rock Band” but you’d have to go a long way to find a better example of one.
I have mixed feelings about this album. There are some good songs - I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, In These Arms, Dry County are all good. But then you have some forgettable songs and you have Bed of Roses, which is a song I’ve always thought was an overblown pastiche of November Rain. Which, in itself, is an overblown rock ballad. So it’s a copy of a song I don’t like. It’s fair to say that there’s both good and bad on this album.
I will say, in the albums defence, that I’ve always had a soft spot for the title track. For a bit of mindless “fists in the air - screaming out a chorus” type song, you could certainly do worse.
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