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Bon Jovi – ‘100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can’t Be Wrong’ (2004) – (Disc 5 & 6 – Part 6 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 fifth disc which is the DVD and then the sixth disc which is the Japanese Bonus Disc, 10 tracks, but they are all previously released. So let’s get started and dive into the music as that is why we are really here any way.

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Bon Jovi – “Keep the Faith” (1992) – CD Maxi Single (The Bon Jovi Collection Series)

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The lead single off the album of the same name was “Keep the Faith’. It was released on October 7, 1992 almost a full month prior the album release. The song went straight to #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart and all the way to #29 on the Billboard Hot 100 giving the band another Top 40 hit. It had major success around the world going Top 10 in over 9 countries including the UK which is where you would find the single we are showing off today. This is one of two CD singles released in the UK for this song. I don’t have the other one, so I will need to work on that one day.

“Keep the Faith” is a very inspiring song about faith and holding on throughout any troubles or adversities that come your way. Be strong and push your way through it and have a little faith that you will make it out the other side. The song for me is about hope and inner strength and why it is a personal favorite of mine.

The single, “Keep the Faith”, opens with a killer bass line then Tico’s drum beat settles in a blistering groove. The song is uplifting and almost happy without being cheesy. It drives forward like a marching army and I think actually outdoes the opening track on the album for inspiration. The guitar solo on this one sees Richie slay with those fingers as they fly over the frets. One of his best on the album. There is a funky groove throughout from Hugh McDonald and we get aggressive vocals from Jon which gives us a solid rocker of a song. Jon actually speaks a portion of the vocals which adds to the impact of the song and I think gives it a little something extra special. The song on this single is the album version and not a radio edit.

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Bon Jovi – “Please Come Home For Christmas” (1994) – CD SINGLE (The Bon Jovi Collection Series)

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In 1992, Jon Bon Jovi did a cover of the Charles Brown song “Please Come Home For Christmas”. It was released on the Christmas album ‘A Very Special Christmas 2’ of that same year. Two years later, the band re-released the song as a charity single in Europe for the Specal Olympics. This time, they branded the song under the Bon Jovi label rather than as a Jon solo release even though no other Bon Jovi member was on this song. The CD Single was released on December 5, 1994 and the single did reach #7 on the UK Chart where it went Silver selling over 200,000 copies.

The version I have is the European version with a wonderful picture of Cindy Crawford and Jon on the cover for which a video was made with her as well. The CD Single also had two other Christmas songs from the band including “I Wish Everyday Could Be Like Christmas” and the other was “Back Door Santa”.

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