The success of the debut album, ‘Bon Jovi’, the band was out on the road a lot opening for Scorpions in the United States and with Kiss in Europe…two very solid bands to help you get noticed. As a result, the band only had about six weeks to record the new album. Things didn’t go well as they had trouble with producer Lance Quinn and their personal lives were also a little messed up. The band were not happy with the results as they hated sound of the album and have pretty much ignored this album when they finally blew up in to superstar status.
But for fans, such as myself, we actually love this album. Yes, it didn’t sell as much as the debut, but I think there are some really great songs on here. The band even started writing more together as four of the band members had writing credits, even Tico Torres has one which is rare. The only member without a credit is Alec John Such.
The title of the album is ‘7800° Fahrenheit’ which is actually the melting point of rock. SInce this is a ‘rock’ album, they felt it was a great title. Being the U.S. is probably the only country that uses ‘Fahrenheit’ as measure of temperature, it made the album very American. In Celsius, the temperature is 4313° if you were curious. And one other fact, this it the first album with the Bon Jovi logo that adorned all their biggest albums. Okay, enough already. On to the music.
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