These Days (Bon Jovi album)

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These Days (English for "Nowadays " ) is the sixth studio album by the American rock band Bon Jovi, which was released in 1995.

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  • 6.2 Notes and references

Background

During the thesis -Days Tour Bon Jovi played 17 times in Germany, as often as never before, and the record they have still not broken. Overall, they played during the tour more than 120 concerts in over 30 different countries.

In the years after this album, the band took a break. During this time, the band members Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Samora and David Bryan focused on their own careers and each brought out a solo album.

Musical Style

Musically, the album differs abundantly from the Previous, because the music is darker, sadder, from time to time been depressed, in contrast to Slippery When Wet or New Jersey, who donated much more good humor and strength. Also, a power ballad, such as Bed of Roses or Always is not to be found in that sense. Even This Is not a Love Song is rather melancholic and resigned as powerful.

The fans are divided on the album. The A appreciate the lyrical sophistication ( at least compared to previous albums) and the mutability of the band, the others keep the album for whiny, too dark, and therefore completely atypical for Bon Jovi, and are therefore disappointed.

Title list

Bonus Tracks

Bonus Tracks Special Edition

On 21 May 2010 the album was released in a tonally revised version that also includes the following live recordings that were recorded during the thesis -Days Tour:

Special Edition Bonus Disc

This is probably the most famous Bonus Disc, published in a Special Edition 2CD set for the European market:

Information about individual songs

The title track These Days are many difficulties that the people of our time to deal with. During the Lost Highway tour therefore often sang the song Richie, because of all the problems he had to live in 2007. The album title also appears outside of the title song more often in rows of individual songs, such as in Hey God and My Guitar Lies Bleeding in My Arms.

From the single This Is not a Love song there is a Spanish version, Como Yo Nadie Te Ha Amado, which was sung by several Latin American artists, the most successful cover is by the Mexican singer Yuridia.

Reception

Much like the fans and the critics were rather negatively surprised by the dark sounds of These Days. The magazine Rock Hard approximately awarded only half of the possible ten points, Thomas Copper justified as follows: " After the incredible success of Crossroad - twelve million worldwide, in Germany alone, 1.5 of them - was expected that Bon Jovi even at sets senem new album on quieter sounds. For well risen is the concept to comprehensively cover the radio stations with ballads. The fact that New Jersey 's Finest implement but after the rather unusual experimental studio album Keep the Faith this idea so dramatic fashion in the act surprised. Cynics will These Days described as successful EP with a plethora of unnecessary bonus tracks - a classification that can leave even after repeated listening to the disc. So really established themselves in the ear canals only the brilliant opener Hey God, which should be known from the newly completed stadium tour, the. To Def Leppard Let's Get Rocked reminiscent Something for the Pain and the somewhat kitschy single from the album This Is not a Love Song After subsequent runs also the related best Springsteen - style title track and the carried My Guitar Lies Bleeding In My Arms go as "good" by, but then? Insignificant Säuselsongs make the rest of the album and present the man whose name is always synonymous with excellent Melodoc stood rock disks, frightening in weak form. If because of the incredible success times is not accompanied by increasing idea loss and lack of creativity. "

The album was much more successful than in the home country of the band, the United States in Europe; there, the album reached only number 9 on the Billboard 200 and charted two singles.

In the U.S., the album was certified platinum, double platinum in Canada and gold in Germany.

Overall, the record sold over 10 million copies worldwide.

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