Customer Reviews

Crush

5 star:		(127)
4 star:		(77)
3 star:		(30)
2 star:		(8)
1 star:		(20)

 

 

this cd isnt what i expected. dont get me wrong its a pretty good album but not one of my favourites. bon jovi is an awsome band i got 4 of ther albums and i gotta say my fav 1 is slippery when wet but i also got this 1 crush and have a nice day. there all pretty good. im hopping 2 get there self titled 1 but bon jovi rocks. i had a chance 2 see them in toronto but i couldnt go :( neway rock on bon jovi u guys rules!

I love this CD of course I love Bon Jovi but none the less I love this CD

Having just made some of the best music of all time, with the "Keep the Faith" era musical creativity blooming in the minds of Jon, Richie, and David, a worrisome questionmark was felt with the still-solid release of "These Days." Sadly in the music industry, if you're out of the limelight more than 2 years, you need a "comeback", even if you are a 100 million seller.

Hence a distraction from your artistic endeavors, and a preoccupation with getting a catchy hook broadcast through mass-media. This album's commercial success was an incredible fluke with the lucky homerun of "It's My Life." That's the only song that sold the album. For no reason that I can fathom, Richie started underplaying, the epic musical ventures of only a few years back seemed suddenly forgotten to Jon, and the band got a little safe, and dare I say, a bit bland for the otherwise very popular release, "Crush."

Bon Jovi? Bland? Blasphemous. Still, 60% of the album lacks real musical muscle and creativity. That's not just the conclusion derived from comparing the album to the past, God knows we need our band to evolve in order to stay relevant, and thank God with "Bounce," and the experimental (though in a safe way) "This Left Feels Right," we're a little more back on track now - if not the place on the track we were in 1989, atleast it's the same FORWARD moving railway. Nonetheless, "Crush" worried me a bit. Even though they still maintained the "Bon Jovi sound," the Bon Jovi sound began getting a little shy and wanting to blend in with what all the uninspired acts of the day tirelessly churn out to our abused ears. A comeback? NO! They were always there. A return to their roots? NO! This album is way too conservative for that. That said, allow me to praise some of the highlights.

1) "It's My Life" - Too short and undeveloped, thus wears out sooner than desired - but a quick punch of a song filled with emotion and great thematic preachings, catchy and strong. A good song, but its success was a fluke.

2) "Next 100 Years" The ONLY sample of Richie going off on the whole album, so this song is the lifeline of the album for all of the REAL Jovi fans out there. Still, the song is affected by the mildness of the album. Too much plain strumming, and the solo is undermixed!!!! Nevertheless, the doubletime at the end is the moment of shining on the album.

3) "Just Older" - a sequel to "Blood on Blood", and weaker than the original. Still good, though. The anthem on the album, helped by the fact that Jon feels very personal with this song and doesn't have to try too hard to sell the performance's sincerity.

4) "One Wild Night" - again, conservative soloing and no riff other than the chords themselves - but rocks pretty hard and the spirit is quite rocking.

I LOVE Bon Jovi ballads, but for the first time of their career, they put out an album where the ballads just don't tug at my heart strings. Not special like "I'll be There for You" or the great hidden gem "I Want You", etc.

In the end, a band you really support for the long haul deserves to make an artistically lacking album or two. And even the worst Bon Jovi album will never be anything less than the best thing out there at the moment! But we all know this band is capable of both commercial AND musical Godliness. Play the game of the music industry, but for God's sake, 100 million albums later, NOW is not the time to sell your soul to mediocrity! I don't recommend avoiding this album, but you better have "Bounce!" In the end, the latter album will still be in your cd player 10 years from now and "Crush" will just get the occasional dusting off, ESPECIALLY after "It's My Life" is available on the next Hits package somewhere in the future. Bon Jovi is in it for the long haul, an honest-to-God career that evolves and develops. So look at the big picture. We can still look for many great years ahead!!!

Argh, what the heck - if you're a Bon Jovi fan, you'll love this album.

My fave tracks:

It's my life - I like this track alot, but the fact that Max Martin ( the Backstreet Boys song writer) worked on it with the band leaves me with an un-easy feeling.

Say it isn't so - another good track

Two Story Town - CLASSIC!

Captain Crash & The Beauty Queen from Mars - More goodness

One Wild Night - Another Classic!

the rest of the album's great too, but these track really stand out to me.

After two decades, Jon and company still have it. This is a great record. "Its My Life" and "Just Older" stand up to almost any other Bon Jovi song. These guys just get better with time.

This is one of the most amazing ablums, Bon Jovi have brought out. This would be one of my favourties,closely behind, 'Crossroads.' If anyone thinks this is one of the worst, they need to listen to it more. Although 'Crossraods' will remain my all time fave, this is my second and will always be!

Contrary to some of the other reviews and their immense vocabulary of negative put-downs, I thought this was a great CD. Bon Jovi has once again come through with an album that you can listen to clear through without skipping tracks that you don't like. No, not all of them may be ones that you'll consider a favorite, but they are catchy. Perhaps that's the style of music I prefer, but I feel that this is simply a solid album. I thought Bon Jovi was great when they first came onto the scene and I still think they are great. They also put on an excellent stage show. For the record, I DID like Captain Crash and the Beauty Queen from Mars. No, it isn't a normal song, but I've heard LOTS that have sounded worse than it. I've never regretted purchasing this CD, and I don't think if you're a fan of them, you will be either.

Having just made some of the best music of all time, with the "Keep the Faith" era musical creativity blooming in the minds of Jon, Richie, and David, a worrisome questionmark was felt with the still-solid release of "These Days." Sadly in the music industry, if you're out of the limelight more than 2 years, you need a "comeback", even if you are a 100 million seller.

Hence a distraction from your artistic endeavors, and a preoccupation with getting a catchy hook broadcast through mass-media. This album's commercial success was an incredible fluke with the lucky homerun of "It's My Life." That's the only song that sold the album. For no reason that I can fathom, Richie started underplaying, the epic musical ventures of only a few years back seemed suddenly forgotten to Jon, and the band got a little safe, and dare I say, a bit bland for the otherwise very popular release, "Crush."

Bon Jovi? Bland? Blasphemous. Still, 60% of the album lacks real musical muscle and creativity. That's not just the conclusion derived from comparing the album to the past, God knows we need our band to evolve in order to stay relevant, and thank God with "Bounce," and the experimental (though in a safe way) "This Left Feels Right," we're a little more back on track now - if not the place on the track we were in 1989, atleast it's the same FORWARD moving railway. Nonetheless, "Crush" worried me a bit. Even though they still maintained the "Bon Jovi sound," the Bon Jovi sound began getting a little shy and wanting to blend in with what all the uninspired acts of the day tirelessly churn out to our abused ears. A comeback? NO! They were always there. A return to their roots? NO! This album is way too conservative for that. That said, allow me to praise some of the highlights.

1) "It's My Life" - Too short and undeveloped, thus wears out sooner than desired - but a quick punch of a song filled with emotion and great thematic preachings, catchy and strong. A good song, but its success was a fluke.

2) "Next 100 Years" The ONLY sample of Richie going off on the whole album, so this song is the lifeline of the album for all of the REAL Jovi fans out there. Still, the song is affected by the mildness of the album. Too much plain strumming, and the solo is undermixed!!!! Nevertheless, the doubletime at the end is the moment of shining on the album.

3) "Just Older" - a sequel to "Blood on Blood", and weaker than the original. Still good, though. The anthem on the album, helped by the fact that Jon feels very personal with this song and doesn't have to try too hard to sell the performance's sincerity.

4) "One Wild Night" - again, conservative soloing and no riff other than the chords themselves - but rocks pretty hard and the spirit is quite rocking.

I LOVE Bon Jovi ballads, but for the first time of their career, they put out an album where the ballads just don't tug at my heart strings. Not special like "I'll be There for You" or the great hidden gem "I Want You", etc.

In the end, a band you really support for the long haul deserves to make an artistically lacking album or two. And even the worst Bon Jovi album will never be anything less than the best thing out there at the moment! But we all know this band is capable of both commercial AND musical Godliness. Play the game of the music industry, but for God's sake, 100 million albums later, NOW is not the time to sell your soul to mediocrity! I don't recommend avoiding this album, but you better have "Bounce!" In the end, the latter album will still be in your cd player 10 years from now and "Crush" will just get the occasional dusting off, ESPECIALLY after "It's My Life" is available on the next Hits package somewhere in the future. Bon Jovi is in it for the long haul, an honest-to-God career that evolves and develops. So look at the big picture. We can still look for many great years ahead!!!

What's changed since Bon Hoki sped up his voice to hit the high notes on Livin' On a Prayer in 1986? Well, the lad and his band are using new haircare products, all posey like Reservoir Dogs with hundred dollar bouffants and holstered water pistols. Pinch yourself if you expected Crush would be anything other than Slippery When Wet, Version 8.1 - underachieving teeny-bop pop metal with heavy investments in dream date posturing and a bit of moldered bread crust for lyrical and musical development. Rife with simpleton observations (It's My Life, Just Older) and grade school rhyme schemes scotch-taped with a hamfist, this is negligent evolution at it's most patronizingly ignorable. The harmonies are a study in gobbledy vocal tricks, a wad of gimped and fussed-over enthusiasm for a textbook of unabashed chintz sentiments nicked arrantly from a Barbie colouring book (Thank You For Loving Me, I Got the Girl, She's a Mystery). The rest is just-add-water puff rock; imagineless chungling boom bam for everyone but dreamy-eyed, teddy bear-hugging Teen Beat girlies and beer-blitzed white boys cruising in Billy Joe Jim Bob's bondo'ed Trans Am on Main Street, Popcorntown, U.S.A. Give the trophy though to Captain Crash and the Beauty Queen From Mars, now officially the stupidest song title in the history of rock.

It's Okay For the Hard-Core Bon Jovi Fans!!. Although I waited three Years To Get This Cd Because I Did'nt Have the Money To get it. It's Kind of a Dis-apointment. The Only Song I Like is "It's My Life". Anyways thats All