Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet

Slippery When Wet transformed Bon Jovi from minor-league poodle rockers to global superstars on the back of hit singles "You Give Love a Bad Name," "Never Say Goodbye," and, of course, "Living on a Prayer." From the scantily clad car-wash girls on the inner sleeve to the "You lost more than that in my back seat / Yeah!" lyrics, the album is blissfully untouched by irony and subtlety, which actually adds to its charm. With guitarist Richie Sambora and songwriter Desmond Child, Jon Bon Jovi has produced a slew of consistently memorable tunes, and this album contains its fair share of them. Slippery When Wet won't change your world, but it will, undoubtedly, rock it. --Ronita Dutta Amazon.com

A True, Timeless Classic!

The mid to late 80's, 1986-87 in particular, was a great time for music. This album came along at just the right time for me, age 11-12, just when I was really starting to get ''into'' music. I love almost all of the music from this time period, and this album is no exception. A friend of mine had the cassette, and when I would go over to visit we would listen to the tape from start to finish. At the same time, take the liner notes and work on memorizing all the lyrics. I now have the newly remastered CD, and when I pop this in the player, I still listen from start to finish. The new remaster is great, this album sounds better than ever. This is pop-metal at it's finest. From start to finish, all songs are great. To listen, brings back great memories, and is still great today, in my book. 'Wanted Dead Or Alive', 'You Give Love A Bad Name', 'Livin On A Prayer', Never Say Goodbye', many great classics are here. For me, there's nothing else I can add, just let the music do the rest of the talking. Buy it, listen, and rock on! April 17, 2008

Great CD! Awesome Tunes late 80's Band!

This music is really great if you are an 80's and 90's hair band lover! Great Tunes!! March 29, 2008

The Bad Side of 1980s Musical Output

The 1980s were certainly a very eclectic time for output in popular music. Especially for those of us who came of age during that decade. On the positive side, we had timeless albums such as The Joshua Tree, Moving Pictures, Master of Puppets and Remain in Light, among others.
Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet represents the bad side of the 80s - generic songs; a soulless processed drum sound; and over-produced "anthems." Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Poison, all members of a shallow, talentless club. January 26, 2008

Teen dreams par excellence

Bon Jovi have copped heaps of flak over the years and their seeming decision to rely utterly on their sales figures as a defence is perhaps indicative itself of some of their limitations but lets stop the nit-picking for a moment and give credit where it is due because this is a great AOR-bordering-on-hard-rock album.

The production by Bruce Fairbairn and the entire feel of the record are huger than huge. The songs are catchy and melodic yet still utilise the full band sound typical of hard rock bands despite many of the sentiments put forth are teeny AOR in the extreme. Somehow with this album the uplifting buoyancy of proceedings sounds unmatched by just about any other record in this sphere, the brainless good times just washing over the listener with frontman and namesake Jon as circus master, leading you through a journey of boisterous yet playfully G rated rockers like the massive hits You Give Love A Bad Name and Livin' On A Prayer, songs that still sound good today.

Other rockers are also pretty darn handy as opener Let It Rock pronounces that yes this band is an animal that still remembers the jungles planet bar band. Social Disease is both tongue in cheek and serious all at once, walking a fine line and I recall side one (in the old money) finishing with one of the crowning achievements of the entire BJ catalogue in the form of Wanted Dead or Alive. This is an exellent song full of more genuine emotion than any two or three more traditional BJ ballads and is deservedly more remembered than any of them.

As side two - as it was called when this thing originally came out, rolled along it was obvious that the good time rockin' was very much part of the very heartbeat of this band with numbers like Raise Your Hands with massive production values that made much else of what was around sound very very yesterdays news. Ditto for Wild in the Streets as long as you can get over the idea of Bon Jovi being genuinely wild. Alas for side two there are the blights of three ballads in a row but for the times they were pretty spot on. The tryptych does make me think twice about giving this ablum five stars and perhaps I'm being generous, but I figure my gut feeling is the right one here as despite this thing being very calculated indeed, why not? I mean if you take yourself seriously as this mob have steadfastly done then why not calculate your albums?

Anyway, that's my two cents worth regarding this quintessential party rock album that all these years later is probably still the main album this band is known for. January 18, 2008

Come on it's Bon Jovi

I had this one on tape and decided it was time for CD. I absolutely love this album and it brings back so many memories of being a teenager. Their songs will always be timeless. They are just a great band!!! December 12, 2007

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