Product Description

'Bounce' is the eighth studio album from arena rock legendsBon Jovi, and the follow up to their 2000 release 'Crush'. Much in the same vein as their previous albums, 'Bounce' features epic rock songs alongside cathartic ballads. Includes the first single from the album 'Everyday'.

Track Listing

1. Undivided
2. Everyday
3. The Distance
4. Joey
5. Misunderstood
6. All About Lovin' You
7. Hook Me Up
8. Right Side Of Wrong
9. Love Me Back To Life
10. You Had Me From Hello
11. Bounce
12. Open All Night
13. EPK

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10514 in Music
• Released on: 2002-09-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Running time: 49 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
As much as Jon Bon Jovi would like to consider himself the next Springsteen, he isn't, and the thought of a Bon Jovi record in any way being influenced by the attacks of September 11 is too horrific a prospect to contemplate. Luckily, on Bounce, the references are kept in the background and the album is neither overtly melancholy nor directly poignant. It follows 2000's disappointing Crush--an album that, with just one single, managed to keep their flame alive in the context of modern rock music by revisiting a style that they'd been trying to get away from since "Livin' on a Prayer". Here, they try to move on from this again, but unlike 1991's Keep the Faith, they can't quite pull it off.

The album has, however, a distinct and deliberately contemporary feel--power chords instead of endless Sambora guitar noodling. The opener, "Undivided", hammers this point home, and "The Distance" and first single "Everyday" tell you that Bon Jovi can compete with the upstarts. The polar opposites of these are old-style tracks--the Jovi/Sambora cowboy partnership of "Right Side of Wrong" and, yes, the token ballads--none of which compare to "Bed of Roses" or "Always". If the band could produce an album as contemporary, slick and just plain good as Jon Bon Jovi's second solo offering, Destination Anywhere, then their future would be assured. More mature, sophisticated and modern than Crush, it will galvanise their slowly declining position for a while longer. It's a disappointment, of course, but a pleasantly surprising one. --Ben Johncock

Customer Reviews

Tremedious BON JOVI Album!!!
I picked this CD up a few weeks ago but only today have i got round to playing it.
I love Bon Jovi and i do own a lot of their albums, one word for me describe's this 2002 release --- Tremedious!.
Rarely would i rate all of the songs on a disc 5/5 but they are so good, beautiful, catchy, awesome and only Bon Jovi could produce such an album. It's a winner and no wonder it did as good as it did on the charts.
If i had to pick my personal favorite songs it would be a difficult task but i do love "Joey", "Undivided", "The Distance", "Everyday" but in fact i'm fond of all the songs and i know that this is an album that i will be playing over and over again for a long time to come.
It's such a strong album and one that i think everybody should own --- simply amazing!

A disappointment
Its predecessor 'Crush', although slated, was a much better album than this. I just can't get into 'Bounce', there are too many mediocre songs on it for my liking. The first track 'Undivided' is superb but it's downhill immediately from there with only 'Love Me Back To Life' picking up the slack - and that comes in at track no.9 !!! The title track 'Bounce' is pretty good and that's it. Three good songs on the album and a whole load of mediocrity. The rest aren't just average songs, they're cheesey and skippable which for a Bon Jovi album is heartbreaking. Sadly the follow-up album 'Have A Nice Day' isn't much better than this.

oohhh la la!
I just, kind of, want to marry this album, i love it that much! fave songs are:

1. 'Joey' love it. words are brill, and it has meaning. a lovely song.
2. 'All about lovin' you' what can i say, so beautiful.
3. 'Open all night' again, beautiful song. opening words are gorgeous.
4. 'You had me from hello' i cant listen to this song enough, i just love it. the title alone is gorgeous.
5. 'Right side of wrong' beautiful song, and it has emotion in it, and it's rocky but in a gorgeous way. just a class song.

Fabulous album. well worth been in your collection!