Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Wanted Dead Or Alive
2. Livin' On A Prayer
3. Bad Medicine
4. It's My Life
5. Lay Your Hands On Me
6. You Give Love A Bad Name
7. Bed Of Roses
8. Everyday
9. Born To Be My Baby
10. Keep The Faith
11. I'll Be There For You
12. Always
13. Distance (Bonus track)
14. Have A Little Faith In Me (Bonus track)
15. Joey (Bonus track)

Disc 2:

1. Love For Sale (Live AOL Sessions)
2. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night (Live AOL Sessions)
3. Joey (Live AOL Sessions)
4. Misunderstood (Live AOL Sessions)
5. Diamond Ring (Live AOL Sessions)
6. Blood On Blood (Live AOL Sessions)
7. In These Arms (Live from Yokohama - Bonus)
8. Hereos (Live from Yokohama - Bonus)
9. Montage of the making of "Wright Side Of Wrong"

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #360113 in Music
• Released on: 2003-12-15
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Enhanced, Import

Amazon.co.uk Review
First of all, hats off to Bon Jovi for trying something different with This Left Feels Right--a selective collection of their most popular songs with a twist. That twist isn't a purely acoustic reworking, MTV unplugged style--anybody looking for that experience will be sorely disappointed by what's on offer. What Bon Jovi have done is re-record these songs in a completely different way while maintaining the original lyrics, melody and song structure. What's different then? Well, quite a bit actually. Check out the almost trip-hop beat and distorted vocal of "Wanted Dead or Alive", or the lazy soul of "Livin' on a Prayer". "It's My Life" is a beautiful piano-only standout, almost worth having the whole album for.

The tracklisting isn't perfect, concentrating largely on their 1980s period (there's nothing from These Days, for instance). As such, the venture works as an effective cheese-extraction exercise, keeping the elements that made the originals so great, but removing shouty, hairspray-fuelled "whoa-yeahs". What we get is something that is closer to Jon Bon Jovi's last solo offering--the criminally underrated Destination Anyway. It doesn't always work ("Bed of Roses" just sounds like a warbling cover of the powerful original and by the time they reach "Always" it's obvious they've run out of new twists), and no doubt there will be legions of bemulleted faithfuls who will denounce this as blasphemy of the highest order. Sure, it's probably just record-company filler, but it's a worthwhile investment and you won't be embarrassed to have it on when your mates come round. --Cortman Virtue

Customer Reviews

Pas trop bon
I am glad I was bought this as a present and didn't spend my own money on it. I like Bon Jovi's music normally but I just didn't like hearing all my favourite tracks performed at what seemed to be half tempo. Nice try lads but don't do it again.

THIS LEFT DEFINATLEY FEELS RIGHT!
On viewing the cover for this new album I thought it was another greatest hits album just in time for christmas. However I was completley amazed at the sounds and concept of these songs. These are songs that i have grown up with and have become part of my life, never could i imagine how amazing, fresh and new could they sound. Bon Jovi have proved yet again that they are able to produce such quality music and how tunes that are nearly twenty years old can sill quite eaisly hold there own and offer a new perception and depth to already fantastic lyrics.
If you are a Bon Jovi fan than there is no doubt that you will love this album and if you have never owned a Bon Jovi album nows your chance, I am certain it will blow your mind.

release: November 3rd
BON JOVI are set to release THIS LEFT FEELS RIGHT on NOVEMBER 4, 2003. Co-produced by PAT LEONARD, JON BON JOVI and RICHIE SAMBORA, THIS LEFT FEELS RIGHT is a showcase of the bands greatest hits, each completely reworked from an acoustic base with new arrangements and various styles. (In addition to the Bon Jovi hits, which include Born To Be My Baby, Keep The Faith, It's My Life and Wanted Dead or Alive, the band has included two new songs, Last Man Standing and Thief of Hearts.) THIS LEFT FEELS RIGHT is not the band performing their most popular songs with two acoustic guitars. Each song has been broken down to its core elements, re-discovered and re-crafted, constructing an album that takes the songs you thought you knew in a whole new direction.

We went into the studio thinking we were making an acoustic record, says Jon Bon Jovi. We had a definite idea of the record we were going to make. But once we began experimenting with the songs and trying out new ideas we created a very different, unique album. We made a complete left turn and took the project down a different road.

The band joined forces with veteran producer PAT LEONARD (Madonna, Rod Stewart, Elton John) and began the process of choosing which of the many hits the team would rework. Large rock anthems became jazzy riffs. Songs sung aloud to crowds of 80,000 morphed into intimate serenades. Tempos and instrumentations, phrasings and arrangements have been revamped and each track is as if it were a brand new song. The long hours in the studio have been some of the most creative and productive the band have ever experienced.

I am having the most fun I've ever had working on this album, elates Richie Sambora. I'm so excited - I literally cannot wait to get into the studio everyday and get to work.

The concept of stripping the songs down to their basic elements and performing them acoustically is nothing new for Bon Jovi. Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora made history when they took to the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1989 and performed Livin' On A Prayer and Wanted Dead or Alive with just two guitars. That monumental performance inspired the UnPlugged TV series and the UnPlugged movement in music. That watershed moment was voted the #4 All Time Greatest MTV VMA Performance.

Since that time, Bon Jovi have performed busks all over the world, in cities as diverse as Moscow, London, Barcelona and Sydney, in front of thousands and thousands of fans who gather to witness the acoustic public concerts. In 2001, Jon and Richie gave a stirring performance of Livin' On A Prayer at the America: A Tribute To Heroes telethon. Later that year, the duo performed a poignant rendition of Here Comes The Sun as a tribute to George Harrison at the MY VH-1 Awards. In January 2003, the band decided to take the acoustic setting even further and performed an entire concert acoustically in Yokohama, Japan. The band then hand-picked several cities on their Bounce tour and designated them as shows which would open with a one-hour acoustic set before performing the remainder of the concert plugged in. These shows were a thrill for the band, the fans and the critics alike. The St. Paul Pioneer Press wrote, Even unplugged, Bon Jovi rules! Once the tour had ended, Bon Jovi took that enthusiasm and headed right into the studio to work on the acoustic record.