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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Dec 15, 2017 8:00:40 GMT
People are too hard on Bon Jovi. Underneath the "hair metal" surface they were just good, solid, pop songwriters. I think they've held up better than most every other band from that era and genre. Not sure if I'd consider them a HOF-status band, but I can understand it given their (lasting) popularity. There is a reason they managed to survive the 90s Nirvana/alt-rock onslaught. Never really considered them pop, probably due to how seriously they seem to take themselves. Actually their quality to seriousness ratio seems astonishingly low to me. The band that wrote "I've seen a million faces and I've rocked them all" and Bad Medicine and I'll Sleep When I'm Dead gave you the impression they took themselves seriously?  They were just an amalgam of Springsteen's gospel-sized folksy storytelling and Van Halen's good-times arena party rock with lots of poppy hooks--more power pop than anything else. The only time I thought them remotely serious was on These Days, and that was mostly due to the alt-rock influence. |
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