The Circle (Bonus Track Version)
Bon Jovi
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| 1 | We Weren't Born to Follow | Bon Jovi | 4:03 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | When We Were Beautiful | Bon Jovi | 5:18 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Work for the Working Man | Bon Jovi | 4:04 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Superman Tonight | Bon Jovi | 5:12 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Bullet | Bon Jovi | 3:50 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Thorn In My Side | Bon Jovi | 4:05 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Live Before You Die | Bon Jovi | 4:17 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Brokenpromiseland | Bon Jovi | 4:57 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 9 | Love's the Only Rule | Bon Jovi | 4:38 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 10 | Fast Cars | Bon Jovi | 3:16 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 11 | Happy Now | Bon Jovi | 4:21 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 12 | Learn to Love | Bon Jovi | 4:39 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 13 | Video We Weren't Born to Follow (Bonus Track) | Bon Jovi | 4:03 | $1.49 | View In iTunes |
| Booklet Digital Booklet - The Circle | Bon Jovi | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| Total: 14 Items |
iTunes Review
Jon Bon Jovi may be getting older, his voice weathered by age, but he isn’t backing down from the anthemic rock of his youth. “We Weren’t Born to Follow” continues in his “rock as defiance” stance, while offering up a comfortable, conventional arena-rock anthem with a singalong chorus. “Work for the Working Man” shades towards the populism of John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen with its Sam Cooke chain-gang grunts backing a lush, modern-rock production. “Brokenpromiseland” continues in this worldview, where the deep recession of the new century is omnipresent. “When We Were Beautiful,” “Superman Tonight,” the slow unwind of “Fast Cars,” among the highlights, elicit the echo chambers of U2, evoking their deep seriousness, even as Bon Jovi himself sounds like a teenager in love. “Live Before You Die” has a Tim McGraw-like mortality tale hitched to its Jersey Camaro. The straightforward drive of “Thorn In My Side” is compressed into a wall of tension. The band settle in behind, offering grand harmonies while their veteran arrangements sound like second nature by now.
Recent Customer Reviews
Cheesy
by Slayer VI Six 6I remember back in the 80's hearing You Give Love a Bad Name and thinking this band gives metal a bad name. They are still putting out nonsense garbage fighting for liberal causes despite living in a country of far left types running it. Do yourself and go get some Slayer so you can truly understand what fighting the system is all about.
U2 & Bon Jovi's kid?
by JerrydpaoliI typed a review on Nov. 11th. I have listened to this album quite a bit since then and the more I listen to it the more it sounds like Bon Jovi & U2 had a kid and it was this album. And here is another food for thought, Bon Jovi's tour is called "The Circle tour" and they have a Circle going around their stage. And U2's tour is called "360 Tour" also with a circle going around their stage.......hhmmmm, and U2 has had a Circle going around their stage for the last two tours (counting this current one). Probably just coincidence, and I am a bigger Bon Jovi fan than U2, but also Jovi is a little more political on this album which is also a trend of U2.
Ok now the one thing I have read on here is how people are saying it is classic Bon Jovi. Have you ever listened to any classic Bon Jovi and for the sake of argument we will go with the first 4 albums: Bon Jovi, 7800 (degrees) Fahrenheit, Slippery When Wet, & New Jersey. I would say this is classic Bon Jovi, MAYBE even Keep the Faith, but that was their 2nd evolution in my opinion. You have the first two albums Bon Jovi & 7800, they then evolved to Slippery and Jersey, then to Keep the Faith (2 new Crossroads songs) and These Days, then 5 years later we get a modern Bon Jovi with a very classic Bon Jovi feel Crush, then we get Bounce which was a good hard rock album, then the TLTFR not bad but a fun twist to their classics, then HAND with in my opinion a softer version of Crush, maybe 3 good songs and not, who says you can't go home. Lost Highway was not bad either had some fun rock tunes on it. Then we come to The Circle. Once crush came in every album they made is its own thing, which is fine, but they evolve with every album now or change with every album now as opposed to "classic" Bon Jovi with every two.
But let me say this actually go and listen to songs from the first album which is so underrated it is a great rock album, songs from Bon Jovi: Get Ready, Roulette, Love Lies, Shot Through The Heart (not to be confused with You Give Love A Bad Name). Next we have 7800: Price of Love, Always Run To You, The Hardest Part Is The Night, Only Lonely. Slippery: Social Disease, Let It Rock, I'd Die For You. Jersey: Homebound Train, Stick To Your Guns, Wild Is The Wind, even 99 In The Shade is fun to drive to when you are going to the beach.
So my question is are you comparing this album to classic Bon Jovi hits, or the albums as a whole, because either way this does not sound like classic Bon Jovi. This is more similar to Have A Nice Day Album than anything else. But if you really know their music and their entire catalog you will here repeats from KTF all the way to Lost Highway. For instance on Bullet the second half of Richie's solo is the solo from Keep the Faith the song's tone belongs on Bounce, We Weren't born to follow is a less excitable version (same chord progression) as Born to Be My Baby, Superman tonight (same chord progression) Just older, Thorn In My Side (same chorus chords and melody) Neurotica (Bonus track on Crush). Live Before You DIe a hybrid of Right Side of Wrong/Last Cigarette/These Arms Are Open All Night.
All I am saying is "classic" does not mean regurgitated and presented differently. Also with the exception of Richie's solo in Bullet and We Weren't Born to Follow being the same as Born To Be My Baby there is nothing close to "Classic Bon Jovi'.
But I think that instead of staying with this every two year formula they have been on where an album is released in Oct/Nov, and sell tickets before the Holidays with a lot of TV promo work throughout Nov, Dec, and then lighten up in Jan of the following year because the end of Jan beginning of Feb is the tour. They could have taken a little more time to with the songs, even take some songs from the Box Set that were never released and made those into something, they wrote those songs when they were hungry and had something to prove. And everyone is at their best when they are hungry because they have something to gain, something they worked their hearts out for to achieve. I am not saying use all those songs but if they really do write 30 songs per album they have a catalog they can release. What about a fan concert favorite only released in demo form The Radio Saved My Life Tonight?
I don't think this album will capture a new audience but it defiantly an album fans can enjoy to listen to.
Bon Jovi, you're not cool anymore.
by courtney ninja (:You were God in the 80's. Face it: You're old. You can't sing no more. In a month we'll forget this album even came out!
Biography
Formed: 1983 in Sayreville, NJ
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s
Top Albums and Songs by Bon Jovi
| Name | Album | Time | Price | ||
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| 1 | Livin' on a Prayer | Slippery When Wet | 4:09 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Wanted Dead or Alive | Slippery When Wet | 5:08 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | You Give Love a Bad Name | Slippery When Wet | 3:42 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Who Says You Can't Go Home (Featuring Jennifer Nettles) | Have a Nice Day | 3:50 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | We Weren't Born to Follow | The Circle (Bonus Track Version) | 4:03 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
