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Bon Jovi – ‘100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can’t Be Wrong’ (2004) – (Disc 4 – Part 5 of 6) – Box Set Review (The Bon Jovi Collection Series)

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We are in the year 2004 and Bon Jovi has now been around for 20 Years at this point. To celebrate their 20th Anniversary, they released a really cool box set of mostly unreleased tunes and a lot of little extras titled ‘100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can’t Be Wrong’. The Box Set is a collection of 50 songs spread over 4 CDs, 38 of which had never been released. The others were songs from soundtracks, remixes and/or B-Sides. This was a band dumping everything sitting by the wayside in to one set and I applaud them for that. Us diehard fans love this kind of stuff. And if that wasn’t enough, if you have the Japanese Edition, which i do, you get another CD of B-Sides and Japanese Bonus Tracks. That is another 10 songs. 

This is a lot of music to absorb and we won’t be absorbing it all here. Nope. I’m going to go through each and every CD, track by track over 6 posts. We are now on the fourth disc which had a total of 13 tracks, 10 of which were previously unreleased. So let’s get started and dive into the music as that is why we are really here any way.

We are now to the final disc of music for the original box set. We still have the Japanese Bonus Disc to do and the DVD. This set starts off with two versions of “Love Ain’t Nothing But a Four Letter Word”. A song about domestic violence which is a serious topic for the band. However, the music doesn’t make it feel all that serious. This is an upbeat version with a real R&B, Motown feel to it with the horns and the angelic ladies on the backing vocals. That sound is why they never used it on an album. The other version of this song is Jon’s original demo with I think just him on the song. Some different lyrics and a more rocker feel to it the final studio version.

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Bon Jovi – ‘Target E.P.’ (2003) – Album Review (The Bon Jovi Collection Series)

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In 2003, the band decided to released an E.P. that was exclusive to Target. A giant retailer here in the States (and probably other countries, I don’t know). The CD only release included 8 tracks consisting of demos from both the ‘Crush’ and ‘Bounce’ eras as well as several live tracks from those albums as well. It was only available for a limited time and came in a clear shell with red translucent CD tray as you can see in the pictures below. The back cover had buttons of all the band members and then only little Target shaped button thrown in since it was a Target release. I don’t have a specific date of release, but I do know it was in 2003.

The demos on here were also all on the single to the song “Everyday” from the ‘Bounce’ album. In fact, there were two CD singles released for “Everyday” and on CD 1 you had “Lucky”, “No Regrets” and “Standing” while CD 2 had “We Can Dance” and “Breathe” as well as a couple other tracks. So, you could’ve gotten these tracks before a year earlier, but would’ve had to buy both singles. And that doesn’t count the live tracks that are on here though.

The first track is a demo called “Breathe”. It opens with an acoustic guitar, but the band comes blowing in with drums, maracas and bass. For a demo, it sounds pretty complete in my book. It isn’t over produced which is why I think it sounds so good. It is a little rough around the edges, but I like it a lot. It isn’t a full on ballad as it has a little more pop in its steps. A great track. The song ends up on the box set, ‘100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can’t Be Wrong’ so we will talk about it again later.

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The Top 10 Overused Song Titles

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I was going through my iTunes music library and damn there are a lot of repeat song titles.  Always looking for new post ideas, it hit me.  What are the most over used song titles?  Now I have a post idea and so I am going to bring you the Top 10 Overused Song Titles in music…or at least my musical library.

Now there were several that barely missed the cut.  They were the following titles: “Free”, “Forever”, “Without You”, each with 12 titles in my library.  And several with 11 songs including “Stand Up”, “Someday”, “Scream” and “Save Me”…a lot starting with “S” apparently.

10. “You”:  I have 12 different songs in my library with this title.  The artists are rather varied with The Afters, Black Stone Cherry, Bonnie Raitt, Buckcherry, Candlebox, Collective Soul, Elliott Yamin, Gotthard, Marvin Gaye, Richie Kotzen, Safetysuit and Keith Urban.

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My Sunday Song – “There Will Come A Day” by Faith Hill

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For My Sunday Song #22, my wife has selected “There Will Come A Day” by Faith Hill.  I will now turn it over to my wife…

I will never forget seeing Faith Hill perform this song on television after the 9/11 attacks. She, along with numerous other artists, participated in a fundraising telethon with all net proceeds benefitting the United Way’s September 11th Telethon Fund. The combination of her powerful voice and the message that we can all relate to within the first four lines (especially after watching the evening news from any city) makes this one of my all time favorite songs. This song also paints the perfect picture of that amazing day when we will meet our maker. Regardless of what is going on in our world we can count on the fact that “there will come a day”.  

This song is from her 4th studio album Breathe released in November 1999. Two things about “favorite songs” of mine to keep in mind as you read over the next 8 weeks and get to know me: 1) when I find something I like, I play it over and over and over, and 2) if I’m in the car and I’m alone, I sing really loud and there’s probably some dancing in there too. I’ve always done these two things, they aren’t things that happened with age and nope, I didn’t care then if people saw me singing and dancing in the car and I don’t care now.

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