Comments on: Bon Jovi – The Circle (Album Review)

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:43:08 +0000

The Circle is just Brilliant x

By: Liam

Liam — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:39:02 +0000

The Circle!!!!
Well what can i say about it, it’s just amazing the best album Bon Jovi has brought out this century followed closely by Crush.

I have been a huge Bon Jovi fan for a few years now and i’m a massive fan of there album’s:

Bon Jovi, 7800 Farenheit, Slippery When Wet, New Jersey, Keep The Faith and These Days.

We Weren’t Born To Follow great song to sing along to probably my favourite song on the album, but Superman Tonight, Bullet, Thorn In My Side, Brokenpromiseland and Love’s The Only Rule push it very close.

Bullet has got a very unlike bon jovi feel to it but it’s amazing.Brokenpromiseland is very unique it’s also very unlike Bon Jovi. I’m a massive fan of Bon Jovi but especially of their hard rock song’s but Love’s The Only Rule i relly like i would put it up there with In These Arms and Bed Of Roses. I wish there was longer solo’s
But here is my review:

We Weren’t Born To Follow 10/10
When We Were Beutiful 8/10
Work For The Working Man 7/10
Superman Tonight 9/10
Bullet 8/10
Thorn In My Side 9/10
Live Before You Die 6/10
Brokenpromiseland 9/10
Love’s The Only Rule 9/10
Fast Cars 5/10
Happy Now 8/10
Learn To Love 8/10

By: Gallivanter

Gallivanter — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:02:25 +0000

Ted – Cheers!

fred jovi – High five!

By: fred jovi

fred jovi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:21:02 +0000

gud review abt d whole album..bt i still think dat we weren’t born to follow ws quite a good song n probably d 1 of d best 1..i luvd wurk 4 d workin mahn lyk hell..The Album on the whole is amazingly superb..mind-blowin..though it didn’t produced ne big hit bt all d songs were quite consistently good..ain’t lyk ne oder album wer 1 or 2 songs wer lyk helluva n d oder seemd to b fine 1..8 out of 10 is truly correct..AGREED!!!!

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:58:16 +0000

Sweet review on the album Keep rockin

By: Gallivanter

Gallivanter — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:22:39 +0000

gary yeo – It’s certainly one of their best album, especially with the 6 songs that I thoroughly enjoy.

By: gary yeo

gary yeo — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:59:11 +0000

I love this album it rocks. Brokenpromiseland is totally awesome and there are a large number of tunes that really stand out and i could play them over and over again. The album does sound fresh and is very typical of the quality that you come to expect from this fabulous group. It might sound like a biased opinion from a fan but i genuinely like almost every album – this left feels right being the only exception.

By: Gallivanter

Gallivanter — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:54:51 +0000

Jazz Hands – Thanks for your review! I’m not gonna bother with that remix version from Jason Nevins. Sounds like a WTF moment.

Mike – Yeah, they have aged, but judging by the output of this album, like fine wine!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:26:18 +0000

Awesome CD! I can’t wait for the concert at the O2 in June 2010. I only wish they could proper classic songs like “Blood on blood”, “Bad Medicine” etc… Obviously his voice is not as it was all those years ago.

By: Jazz Hands

Jazz Hands — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:10:27 +0000

Well, as a Bon Jovi fan since the early days I was amazed that I had next to no idea this album was even being made until the middle of last week, and in a way I’m glad because it means I haven’t known what to expect. So one quick trip to iTunes and…

Woah!!!

As much as I enjoyed Have a Nice Day and Lost Highway, I thought that the boys were slowly winding themselves down until their retirement, how wrong I was!

This album god-damn ROCKS!!!

I loved We Weren’t Born to Follow the second I heard it, but I agree it’s nowhere near the strongest track on the LP, to me that accolade goes to Superman Tonight, but hell When We Were Beautiful runs it a hell of a close second! Bullet brings back shades of Hey God, in fact a lot of the album reminisces These Days to me, which since that’s my favourite Bon Jovi album is no bad thing.

I’ve listened to this all the way through 4 or 5 times, and not kidding I’m still getting shivers down my spine listening to these tracks!

Bon Jovi the epic stadium rockers are back with a bang and I love it!

Roll on June next year when I’m going to see them at the O2 arena, I was excited before, now I literally cannot wait!

Anyhow, after all that dribble, heres my ratings:

We Weren’t Born to Follow 7/10
When We Were Beautiful 9.5/10
Work For The Working Man 8/10
Superman Tonight 10/10
Bullet 7/10
Thorn in My Side 6/10
Live Before You Die 5/10
Brokenpromiseland 9/10
Love’s The Only Rule 9/10
Fast Cars 7/10
Happy Now 7/10
Learn To Love 9/10
Bonus Track – We Weren’t Born to Follow Jason Nevins Remix 2/10

Overall, 9/10 would be a 10 but that remix thrown in at the end annoys me as I’m sure the singles will have some great unreleased tracks on them that would have worked better as a bonus track.

By: Gallivanter

Gallivanter — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:07:23 +0000

Trepidatious Tyson – Agreed on your views.

By: Trepidatious Tyson

Trepidatious Tyson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:30:23 +0000

Well, that was a pretty good review, I mostly agree with everything I loved When We Were Beautiful, my favorite out of all them and my new favorite song for a while, I think they should have that the main single for sure. The new album rocks my socks! Id say Fast Cars is my least favorite… Its just a no lol but otherwise I agree with your ratings for the most part Within one point anyways Great album and awesome post ;P

By: Gallivanter

Gallivanter — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:32:37 +0000

Thanks for your feedback. I’ve spent the weekend listening to the album, and my ratings remained. 6 superb songs!

By: Daniel Chiam

Daniel Chiam — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:52:40 +0000

well i love bon jovi but not really a worshiper. i cant wait to get my hands on the album and listen to all the tracks myself. haha i bet there’s gonna be one killer love song in there XD Learn to love

By: Tarek

Tarek — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:30:21 +0000

Joey was released for Bounce not crush

good review

By: Granada Network

Granada Network — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:26:16 +0000

This album it’s not hard rock, that’s ok.
This album it’s great, bon jovi has never been a hard rock band, that’s why it’s my favorite band.
Bon Jovi for the next 100 years….

By: MJ-Montreal

MJ-Montreal — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:38:44 +0000

This review dude is too black and white, there is a lot more shades of color on this CD. Its a strong effort, they are perfecting their craft, songs are rich in content and flavour….this is my two cents….buy the CD, buy the DVD, buy the tickets, the guys are at the top of their game…Richie is back, the guitar while it doesn’t have too much individual spotlight is a constant presence on this project and thank God.

Hey Sambora, you kick ass dude! Anytime in Montreal, Pizza at my house!

We Werent Born to Follow: 7/10, great song cmon its catchy and fun and inspirational, good live song.

When We Were Beautiful: Epic and a departure of sorts, doesn’t sound like typical Bon Jovi, great song. 7/10

Work for the Working Man: I love this track, so real and true, the lyrics and the group effort, the power and the feeling, way better than the acoustic version we heard. 8/10

Superman Tonight: Nice track, good familiar type of BJ song. 7/10

Bullet: Talk box, great riff, KTF type song, great in concert I imagine, I love this song. Turn it up review dude, ever blow your speakers? 8/10

Thorn In My Side: Familiar BJ type song, good lyrics and good song, musically strong. 7/10

Live Before You Die: Familiar storytelling, nice track, makes you want to book a vacation or call an ex-gf, again something we expect from the boys, good track. 7/10

Brokenpromiseland: First listen, didnt like it that much, bit different from what I was expecting and from BJ in general, but after one listen, this is one of the strongest tracks on the CD. 9/10

Love’s the Only Rule: Great song, familiar BJ type tune, good music all the way through, toe tapper…all the stuff we expect from the boys from the swamp. 9/10

Fast Cars: Bummer, this title took me to another place, the song is not bad, it does pick up, lyrics make you think a little. 6/10

Happy Now: Great song, good guitar, chuga chuga chuga chuga chuga chuga …would have loved a HUGE guitar solo but didnt happen, the lyrics are inspirational. 9/10

Learn to Love: Departure for Bon Jovi, not a typical BJ song, very nice, you will humm this all day. 8/10

By: wallacejbj

wallacejbj — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:03:54 +0000

Hi Daniel, nice review i’m a huge Bon Jovi and a devoted one at best, i totally agree with you on this album, will probably give a few of the songs with 5′s a bit more though, but the comments on Bullet are my feelings exactly, the solo is not like Richie and it’s something he should be proud off, although the hype of brokenpromiseland is a bit too much i would give this a 8, but my favourite track is Superman Tonight (the should have been single, and there’s still time)

We Weren’t Born To Follow hasn’t got the power of It’s My Life, but is one of the catchiest of the album,

It is definitely one of the better albums they have released, Bounce for me was a weaker cinematic album with a story telling side, this album has a lot of everything, and the comment about the chorus’s being overpowering over the guitar work is spot on. Jon recentely commented that this album is about richie, i don’t know if you had the same impression had but i honestly felt like it was more tico and david, but the solo’s were about Richie.

Rating each track for me

1: We Weren’t Born To Follow 8/10
2: When We Were Beautiful 8/10
3: Work For The Working Man 8/10 (solo could have been better)
4: Superman Tonight 10/10
5: Bullet 9/10 (chorus could have had more umph)
6: Thorn In My Side 7/10
7: Live Before You Die 7/10
8: Brokenpromiseland 8/10
9: Love’s The Only Rule 9/10
10: Fast Cars 8/10
11: Happy Now 6/10 (weakest on the album and i’m sure when demo’s get leaked there would have been a kick ass song which should have taken its place)
12: Learn To Love 10/10

By: ladyviral

ladyviral — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:40:54 +0000

Oh I love Bon Jovi. But I haven’t been listening to their songs for some time now… I have been much outdated in songs lately too. :/

By: Aj

Aj — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:31:25 +0000

i dont know.. i love their early works until These Days album.. but this time i only listen to them becoz their so “pop” on radio. So we can hear them anyway nowadays not like the earlier days.