It turns out that this article, written by one Steven Hyden, will be one of seven:
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Originally Posted by http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8821559/the-winners-history-rock-roll-part-1-led-zeppelin
...I'm going to be writing about...Led Zeppelin, Kiss, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Metallica, Linkin Park, and the Black Keys...I picked these bands because they rank among the most popular of their respective eras, and...they also represent turning points in rock history that haven't always been appreciated or remarked upon all that much...I'd argue that these bands are important in ways that few other rock bands in the 21st century — even the ones I adore and passionately push on people at parties — seem to be.
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I give Hyden credit for seeing that Metallica and Bon Jovi have played important roles in rock history -- after all, I came to the same conclusion twenty years earlier, LOL!
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Originally Posted by High Voltage, 1993
I am a Bon Jovi fan...I know that's a terrible thing for a "serious" rock writer to say...
Though Slippery When Wet sold at the rate of 100,000 copies a week, and Richie won a couple of guitar magazine's reader's polls, their success was still condemned as yet another triumph of sex appeal over talent. But Bon Jovi has done a lot to give rock a good name...most important, exposing hard rock and metal to an audience who thought they feared it. Can you imagine Poison, Slaughter, Whitesnake, Guns N Roses and especially Metallica getting a shot a multiplatinum status if Slippery When Wet hadn't done what it did? The fact is, Bon Jovi may be more influential than some bands would want to admit.
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And ten years earlier:
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Originally Posted by rocknation
I think Slippery is one of the two MOST IMPORTANT rock albums of the 80's because it opened the door for all the other non-commercial hard/heavy rock bands. I think the other album is Master Of Puppets, because it blew that door off its hinges!
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