[Zakatar]

Originally Posted by jon-flp

I have to strongly disagree on this Becky. NSG is not among their best ballads IMO, but it can't not be compared with anything in THINFS. Just can't be.

I agree with the most part of the list. Although some I strongly disagree, It demanded a very hard work from the person who made it. I apreciated it.

See I have always preferred Silent Night to NSG. I wish it was ranked higher on this list.

[Zakatar]

My top 15 would probably look like this:

15. I'd Die For You
14. Satellite
13. Keep the Faith
12. I Will Drive You Home
11. Superman Tonight
10. Without Love
09. Something to Believe in
08. Bells of Freedom
07. Silent Night
06. These Days
05. Bed of Roses
04. Welcome to Wherever You Are
03. These Open Arms
02. Dry County
01. Livin' on a Prayer

And my bottom 15 would probably look like this (with comments explaining why I hate each of these songs):
15. Seat Next to You (extremely boring, ruined by female vocals)
14. I Get a Rush (see comment on Taking it Back)
13. Complicated (basically a teen pop / disney song sung by an old man instead of a young girl)
12. Taking it Back (don't know why I hate this one, I just do)
11. Color Me In (extremely boring)
10. King of the Mountain (way too cheesy)
09. Fear (by far the worst BJ song from the '90s)
08. Captain Crash & the Beauty Queen From Mars (boring and overplayed)
07. God Bless This Mess (basically a carbon copy of THINFS, should not have been on the album. Goodnight NY should've been in its place)
06. Ain't No Cure for Love (totally boring and uninteresting)
05. Last Cigarette (some of the most disgusting lyrics in any BJ song)
04. We Got it Going on (stop f***ing playing this song at every g*****n show! The lyrics are terrible!)
03. I Love This Town (annoying and overplayed. Studio version is OK I guess)
02. Social Disease (wtf is that stupid intro!?)
01. Bad Medicine (just f*** awful in my opinion, especially live)

[polevka]

Originally Posted by Zakatar

My top 15 would probably look like this:

15. I'd Die For You
14. Satellite
13. Keep the Faith
12. I Will Drive You Home
11. Superman Tonight
10. Without Love
09. Something to Believe in
08. Bells of Freedom
07. Silent Night
06. These Days
05. Bed of Roses
04. Welcome to Wherever You Are
03. These Open Arms
02. Dry County
01. Livin' on a Prayer

And my bottom 15 would probably look like this (with comments explaining why I hate each of these songs):
15. Seat Next to You (extremely boring, ruined by female vocals)
14. I Get a Rush (see comment on Taking it Back)
13. Complicated (basically a teen pop / disney song sung by an old man instead of a young girl)
12. Taking it Back (don't know why I hate this one, I just do)
11. Color Me In (extremely boring)
10. King of the Mountain (way too cheesy)
09. Fear (by far the worst BJ song from the '90s)
08. Captain Crash & the Beauty Queen From Mars (boring and overplayed)
07. God Bless This Mess (basically a carbon copy of THINFS, should not have been on the album. Goodnight NY should've been in its place)
06. Ain't No Cure for Love (totally boring and uninteresting)
05. Last Cigarette (some of the most disgusting lyrics in any BJ song)
04. We Got it Going on (stop f***ing playing this song at every g*****n show! The lyrics are terrible!)
03. I Love This Town (annoying and overplayed. Studio version is OK I guess)
02. Social Disease (wtf is that stupid intro!?)
01. Bad Medicine (just f*** awful in my opinion, especially live)

Interesting perspective.
Nice to see Without Love so high. Underrated song.

[RonJovi]

Broadly speaking I agree with the list although there are some individual choices I don’t agree with. The fact he put so much effort in, I’m not really going to quibble although some of the songs off the last two albums should be higher.

A few things from the comments:

1. He says Ringo Starr co wrote Naked. As far as I’m aware he didn’t.
2. I didn’t realise how much of a rip off of Stay Young that Captain Crash is. I suppose they’re getting Oasis back for ripping WDOA on Fade In Out.
3. Surprised to hear that Jon wrote very little of Runaway. I hadn’t heard the comments by George Karak before saying he basically had the song written before Jon got involved.
4. It’s all opinions but I enjoy NSG much more than Reunion. The lyrics are awful but it’s Bon Jovi are their brilliant cheesy best.

Fair play to the guy who did the list. He’ll have a certain bias like the rest of us but it was a fascinating read.

[steel_horse75]

Ive downloaded a list of every Bon Jovi Song. 263 songs.
This doesn't include solo projects (but I have listed Blaze as BJ played it) or powerstation years.
ive put it in alphabetical order so if anyone wants to list it in their fav order here is it

"(I Don't Wanna Fall) To the Fire"
"(It's Hard) Letting You Go"
"(You Want To) Make a Memory"
"99 in the Shade"
"A Teardrop to the Sea"
"Ain't No Cure For Love"
"Alive"
"All About Lovin' You"
"All Hail the King"
"All I Wanna Do is You"
"All I Want is Everything"
"Always Run to You"
"Always"
"Amen"
"Another Reason to Believe"
"Any Other Day"
"Army of One"
"Backdoor to Heaven"
"Bad Medicine"
"Beautiful World"
"Because We Can"
"Bed of Roses"
"Bells of Freedom"
"Billy"
"Bitter Wine"
"Blame It on the Love of Rock & Roll"
"Blaze of Glory"
"Blind Love"
"Blood on Blood"
"Borderline"
"Born Again Tomorrow"
"Born to Be My Baby"
"Bounce"
"Breakout"
"Breathe"
"Brokenpromiseland"
"Bullet"
"Burning Bridges"
"Burning for Love"
"Cama de Rosas"
"Captain Crash and the Beauty Queen from Mars"
"Color Me In"
"Come Back"
"Come on Up to Our House"
"Como Yo Nadie Te Ha Amado"
"Complicated"
"Crazy Love"
"Damned"
"Diamond Ring"
"Dirty Little Secret"
"Does Anybody Really Fall in Love Anymore?"
"Dry County"
"Edge of a Broken Heart"
"Every Beat of My Heart"
"Everybody's Broken"
"Everyday"
"Fast Cars"
"Fear"
"Fields of Fire"
"Fingerprints"
"Flesh and Bone"
"Full Moon High"
"Garageland"
"Get Ready"
"God Bless This Mess"
"Good Guys Don't Always Wear White"
"Goodnight New York"
"Gotta Have a Reason"
"Growin' Up the Hard Way"
"Happy Now"
"Have a Nice Day"
"Hearts Breaking Even"
"Hey God"
"Homebound Train"
"Hook Me Up"
"Hush"
"I Am"
"I Believe"
"I Could Make a Living Out of Lovin' You"
"I Don't Want to Live Forever"
"I Get a Rush"
"I Got the Girl"
"I Just Want to Be Your Man"
"I Love This Town"
"I Want To Be Loved"
"I Want You"
"I Will Drive You Home"
"I Wish Everyday Could Be Like Christmas"
"I'd Die For You"
"If I Can't Have Your Love"
"If I Was Your Mother"
"If That's What It takes"
"I'll Be There For You"
"I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"
"I'm With You"
"I'm Your Man"
"In and Out of Love"
"In These Arms"
"Into the Echo"
"It's My Life"
"Joey"
"Judgement Day"
"Just Older"
"Keep the Faith"
"Kidnap an Angel"
"King of the Mountain"
"Knockout"
"Labor of Love"
"Last Chance Train"
"Last Cigarette"
"Last Man Standing"
"Lay Your Hands on Me"
"Learn to Love"
"Let It Rock"
"Let's Make it Baby"
"Letter to a Friend"
"Lie to Me"
"Life is Beautiful"
"Little Bit of Soul"
"Live Before You Die"
"Livin' On A Prayer"
"Living in Sin"
"Living With the Ghost"
"Lonely at the Top"
"Lonely"
"Lost Highway"
"Love Ain't Nothing But a Four Letter Word"
"Love for Sale"
"Love Hurts"
"Love is War"
"Love Lies"
"Love Me Back to Life"
"Love's the Only Rule"
"Lucky"
"Maybe Someday"
"Memphis Lives in Me"
"Miss Fourth of July"
"Misunderstood"
"My Guitar Lies Bleeding in My Arms"
"Mystery Train"
"Neurotica"
"Never Say Goodbye"
"New Year's Day"
"Next 100 Years"
"No Apologies"
"No Regrets"
"Nobody's Hero"
"Novocaine"
"Now and Forever"
"One Step Closer"
"One Wild Night"
"Only in My Dreams"
"Only Lonely"
"Open All Night (#2)"
"Open All Night"
"Ordinary People"
"Out of Bounds"
"Outlaws of Love"
"Pictures of You"
"Postcards from the Wasteland"
"Prostitute"
"Put the Boy Back in Cowboy"
"Queen of New Orleans"
"Raise Your Hands"
"Real Life"
"Real Love"
"Reunion"
"Rich Man Living in a Poor Man's House"
"Ride Cowboy Ride"
"Right Side of Wrong"
"Roller Coaster"
"Room at the End of the World"
"Roulette"
"Runaway"
"Satellite"
"Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning"
"Save a Prayer"
"Save the World"
"Say It Isn't So"
"Scars on This Guitar"
"Seat Next to You"
"Secret Dreams"
"She Don't Know Me"
"She's a Mystery"
"Shot Through the Heart"
"Shut Up and Kiss Me"
"Silent Night"
"Social Disease"
"Someday I'll Be Saturday Night"
"Someday Just Might Be Tonight"
"Something for the Pain"
"Something to Believe In"
"Standing"
"Starting All Over Again"
"Stay"
"Stick to Your Guns"
"Story of My Life"
"Summertime"
"Superman Tonight"
"Take Back the Night"
"Taking it Back"
"Temptation"
"Thank You for Loving Me"
"That's What the Water Made Me"
"The Devil's in the Temple"
"The Distance"
"The End"
"The Fighter"
"The Fire Inside"
"The Hardest Part Is the Night"
"The Last Night"
"The More Things Change"
"The One That Got Away"
"The Price of Love"
"The Radio Saved My Life Tonight"
"These Arms Are Open All Night"
"These Days"
"These Open Arms"
"Thick as Thieves"
"Thief of Hearts"
"This Ain't a Love Song"
"This House Is Not for Sale"
"This is Love, This is Life"
"This is Our House"
"Thorn in My Side"
"Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore"
"Tokyo Road"
"Too Much of a Good Thing"
"Touch of Grey"
"Two Story Town"
"Unbreakable"
"Undivided"
"Walk Like a Man"
"Walls"[Unreleased]
"We All Fall Down"
"We Can Dance"
"We Don't Run"
"We Got It Going On"
"We Rule The Night"
"We Weren't Born to Follow"
"Wedding Day"
"Welcome to the Good Times"
"Welcome to Wherever You Are"
"What About Now"
"What Do You Got?"
"What's Left of Me"
"When She Comes"
"When We Were Beautiful"
"Who Says You Can't Go Home"
"Who Would You Die For"
"Whole Lot of Leavin'"
"Why Aren't You Dead?"
"Wild in the Streets"
"Wild is the Wind"
"Wildflower"
"With These Two Hands"
"Without Love"
"Woman in Love"
"Work for the Working Man"
"You Can Sleep While I Dream"
"You Can't Lose at Love"
"You Give Love a Bad Name"
"You Had Me from Hello"

[Jeeper]

Originally Posted by Zakatar

My top 15 would probably look like this:



15. I'd Die For You

14. Satellite

13. Keep the Faith

12. I Will Drive You Home

11. Superman Tonight

10. Without Love

09. Something to Believe in

08. Bells of Freedom

07. Silent Night

06. These Days

05. Bed of Roses

04. Welcome to Wherever You Are

03. These Open Arms

02. Dry County

01. Livin' on a Prayer



And my bottom 15 would probably look like this (with comments explaining why I hate each of these songs):

15. Seat Next to You (extremely boring, ruined by female vocals)

14. I Get a Rush (see comment on Taking it Back)

13. Complicated (basically a teen pop / disney song sung by an old man instead of a young girl)

12. Taking it Back (don't know why I hate this one, I just do)

11. Color Me In (extremely boring)

10. King of the Mountain (way too cheesy)

09. Fear (by far the worst BJ song from the '90s)

08. Captain Crash & the Beauty Queen From Mars (boring and overplayed)

07. God Bless This Mess (basically a carbon copy of THINFS, should not have been on the album. Goodnight NY should've been in its place)

06. Ain't No Cure for Love (totally boring and uninteresting)

05. Last Cigarette (some of the most disgusting lyrics in any BJ song)

04. We Got it Going on (stop f***ing playing this song at every g*****n show! The lyrics are terrible!)

03. I Love This Town (annoying and overplayed. Studio version is OK I guess)

02. Social Disease (wtf is that stupid intro!?)

01. Bad Medicine (just f*** awful in my opinion, especially live)

Fear is one my favourite songs, full stop. Great vocals, some cool guitar parts and a different lyrical approach. Weird how people see things so differently! (I’m generalising not meaning you in particular - us all!)


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[symbeline]

Originally Posted by Zakatar

See I have always preferred Silent Night to NSG. I wish it was ranked higher on this list.

Silent Night is my favorite 80s love ballad. Yes, above IBTFY. There's something about its simplicity, a certain innocence, and the lyrics are very touching.

Power ballads are awesome but they are also crafted to evoke that big feeling. That's why TAALS and Memory are such great love songs.

[steel_horse75]

I cant be arsed to do this entire list.

But here is my top 20

Stick to Your Guns
Dry County
Wild is the Wind
Wanted (Dead or Alive)
Born to Be My Baby
Borderline
Edge of a Broken Heart
Love is War
Love Hurts
I'd Die For You
Runaway
Good Guys Don't Always Wear White
Livin In Sin
Keep the Faith
The Radio Saved My Life Tonight
The Price of Love
Hey God
The Hardest Part Is the Night
Always
Wild In The Streets

[symbeline]

Originally Posted by Zakatar

My top 15 would probably look like this:

15. I'd Die For You
14. Satellite
13. Keep the Faith
12. I Will Drive You Home
11. Superman Tonight
10. Without Love
09. Something to Believe in
08. Bells of Freedom
07. Silent Night
06. These Days
05. Bed of Roses
04. Welcome to Wherever You Are
03. These Open Arms
02. Dry County
01. Livin' on a Prayer

And my bottom 15 would probably look like this (with comments explaining why I hate each of these songs):
15. Seat Next to You (extremely boring, ruined by female vocals)
14. I Get a Rush (see comment on Taking it Back)
13. Complicated (basically a teen pop / disney song sung by an old man instead of a young girl)
12. Taking it Back (don't know why I hate this one, I just do)
11. Color Me In (extremely boring)
10. King of the Mountain (way too cheesy)
09. Fear (by far the worst BJ song from the '90s)
08. Captain Crash & the Beauty Queen From Mars (boring and overplayed)
07. God Bless This Mess (basically a carbon copy of THINFS, should not have been on the album. Goodnight NY should've been in its place)
06. Ain't No Cure for Love (totally boring and uninteresting)
05. Last Cigarette (some of the most disgusting lyrics in any BJ song)
04. We Got it Going on (stop f***ing playing this song at every g*****n show! The lyrics are terrible!)
03. I Love This Town (annoying and overplayed. Studio version is OK I guess)
02. Social Disease (wtf is that stupid intro!?)
01. Bad Medicine (just f*** awful in my opinion, especially live)

Interesting. I'd swap half of your favorites for half of your most hated ones and it be closer to what I like

When choosing the worst I take into account when the song was written. King Of The Mountain was not their worst even then, I'd rather have a fun song meant to be easy to listen to and perfect for a live show in the 80s than shitty trying-way-too-hard-to-sound-cool WGIGO written by grown ass men in their 40s and meant to be funny now.

"You lost more than that in my backseat" or "The sweat on this old collar, that's my Phd" sounds like poetry compared to "The space between us is getting wider, we need the spark to light the fire". I cringed so hard when I first hear that part.

[symbeline]

Originally Posted by steel_horse75

I cant be arsed to do this entire list.

But here is my top 20

Stick to Your Guns
Dry County
Wild is the Wind
Wanted (Dead or Alive)
Born to Be My Baby
Borderline
Edge of a Broken Heart
Love is War
Love Hurts
I'd Die For You
Runaway
Good Guys Don't Always Wear White
Livin In Sin
Outlaws of Love
The Radio Saved My Life Tonight
The Price of Love
Hey God
The Hardest Part Is the Night
Always
Wild In The Streets

Wild In The Streets is often overlooked. That's what pure 80s BJ is to me, without the finishing touches of external writers. Get Ready, Tokyo Road, Raise Your Hands... I do like other songs better, but there's also something about those rawer songs that sounds genuine.