Track Listing

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. The Distance (Live UK bonus track)
14. Joey (Live UK bonus track)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5183 in Music
• Released on: 2003-10-31
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .23 pounds
• Running time: 62 minutes

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

CD Description
Soft-rock heroes re-record some of their best known songs in an "unplugged" acoustic format. Features classics like 'Wanted Dead Or Alive', 'You Give Love A Bad Name' and 'Keep The Faith' totally stripped down and rearranged with even someof the lyrics rewritten. Already garnering mass kudos from within the Bon Jovi fanbase.

Customer Reviews

Leave your preconceptions at the door
Until laying my hands on "This Left Feels Right", I had only one Bon Jovi album...that being "Crossroads", and even that had sat in a shoebox for several years. I bought the acoustic (not really, however) CD out of sheer curiosity, despite the rather thrashing reviews of this album on Amazon.com.

Have you ever wished Bon Jovi played just for you and ONLY you (not a zillion-headed crowd)? This CD is as close as you will probably get to having BJ play for you (unless, of course, you're personally associated with the band). The sound and the songs on the CD are intimate, personal...almost as if they are playing in your room, with you being the sole audience.

First of all, the new, stripped-down versions of the songs most of the fans know by heart from first "yeah" to last "whoa" bring out the substance of these songs...you can REALLY hear all lyrics (some of which are slightly altered from their original versions). The very introspective "It's My Life" is a true gem...

Second, the arrangement of, say, "Bad Medicine" or "Wanted Dead or Alive" let Richie's guitar skill shine through, giving these songs a funky/blues sound. Even such ballads as the "Bed of Roses" or "Always", having been stripped of the original pathos, have not lost a single pinch of emotion.

Bon Jovi have yet again proved their versatiliy and longevity. There's more to their songs than screeching guitars, catchy tunes. It's hard not to appreciate this grossly underrated album. It's definitely a keeper. I'd take it on a deserted island with me, just to motivate me to survive. ;)

Elevator Music
I am generally a big fan of Bon Jovi especially their acoustic work, but I was disappointed by this offering, especially the mess that they have made of 'Wanted'. The whole album fades into nothing more than background elevator music.

If you are a fan and must buy it, then make sure you get the special edition with the free DVD. This contains some better tunes, with 'Love for Sale' being the best track.

SERIOUSLY under rated
I don't normally write reviews, but this had to be done. So many people, particularly on the US version of this site have slated this album. In my opinion it's awesome.

Yes, some fans of "80s Bon Jovi" maybe won't get it. Personally, I was not a fan of Bon Jovi in those days, but my sister is, and it's through her that I got into Bon Jovi. This album really does a lot to show case the SONGS. Yes, Jon has an amazing vocal range. Yes, Richie is capable of some absolutely insane guitar pyrotechnics which are enough to make me cry. In this stripped down format though the songs really do shine through.

I have a fair few other Bon Jovi albums and I have to rate this as my favourite. They took a chance. It would have been so easy to just do an "MTV Unplugged" but instead they really went for it. The only song I'm not too sold on is, believe it or not, Bed Of Roses, purely for the fact that I'm used to hearing it in 12/8 and it sounds kinda weird to me in 4/4.

After getting this album, I got hold of Slippery When Wet and New Jersey and yes, I can see why people would miss the anthemic sing alongs of songs like Lay Your Hands On Me. However, had it not been for the rootsy approach on this album the chances of me bothering with "80s hair metal" albums would have been fairly slim.

One gripe... Where's These Days?!