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Title: Do you think Bon Jovi is a legendary rock band?
Post by: Wayne L. on April 18, 2004, 10:48:43 AM
I don't think Bon Jovi is a legendary rock band at all or are most 80's rock bands while it's ridiculous calling Jon Bon Jovi a rock legend similiar to a Paul McCartney or Steven Tyler because he's so lame as an artist mostly known for his famous 80's haircut even though they have been around for about 20 years with Slippery When Wet being their only great classic rock album but you have to be out of your mind if you think BJ is a legendary rock band similiar to Led Zeppelin & Aerosmith. 
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Post by: Joost on April 18, 2004, 11:05:38 AM
All I want to say about Bon Jovi is that I really hate that band. I really can't stand them.
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Post by: Bruno on April 18, 2004, 01:39:30 PM
I don't know if legendary is correct, but they are a good band and have some good songs. They have sold more than 20 million records so I guess a lot of people like them.
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Post by: on April 18, 2004, 04:30:00 PM
Boy, people really hate that band, and I've never quite understood why.  They were just another big hair rock band of the 80's, maybe a bit more popular but that's all.

Anyway, Bruno's right.  They have a bunch of good singles, arena rock.  No ne claimed they would change the world, just rock n roll.
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Post by: on April 18, 2004, 05:29:34 PM
I admit that I like a few of their songs. I wouldn't say they are the best rock band though.
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Post by: Heather_Michele on April 18, 2004, 05:35:15 PM
I listen to Bon Jovi sometimes, I think I like'em just cuz my mama used to play them all the time when I was younger, to call them a legendary rock band would be a joke, cuz sometimes thats what I think they are, but they had a few good songs.
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Post by: Joost on April 19, 2004, 09:32:09 AM
[quote by=misterchaz link=Blah.pl?b=conversations,m=1082285323,s=3 date=1082305800]Boy, people really hate that band, and I've never quite understood why.
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Post by: Beatle Ed on April 19, 2004, 11:22:30 AM
In their own way, yeah I guess they are.
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Post by: The End on April 19, 2004, 12:34:59 PM
No.
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Post by: Taxgirl on April 19, 2004, 01:02:32 PM
They have many good songs that I love, like You give love a bad name or Always, occasionly I listen to them. But they are not my fave. Yep, they're good in my opinion.
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Post by: Patton on April 19, 2004, 01:09:06 PM
No. The only song i like by them is Aqualung.
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Post by: tkitna on April 19, 2004, 02:29:51 PM
[quote by=patton link=Blah.pl?b=conversations,m=1082285323,s=10 date=1082380146]No. The only song i like by them is Aqualung.[/quote]

Good God! When did Bon Jovi start covering Jethro Tull tunes?

Also, I really cant stomach any Bon Jovi stuff.

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Post by: Crazy Diamond on April 19, 2004, 02:37:59 PM
[quote by=Wayne_L. link=Blah.pl?b=conversations,m=1082285323,s=0 date=1082285323]Aerosmith.
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Post by: John@work on April 19, 2004, 02:42:02 PM
I believe rock and roll died with John Lennon.  That's my opinion, but can anyone mention a really good rock band to come along since he died?.....Ok, perhaps Nirvana, but really, Look at the 60's and 70's with the Police, the Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin...you get the idea...There were a few really good bands in the 80's but not to the caliber of these bands.
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Post by: tkitna on April 19, 2004, 02:44:37 PM
[quote by=Zep_Fan link=Blah.pl?b=conversations,m=1082285323,s=12 date=1082385479]
LOL. :D

No, they suck.[/quote]

Thank you! My thoughts exactly.

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Post by: Crazy Diamond on April 20, 2004, 02:52:12 PM
[quote by=John@work link=Blah.pl?b=conversations,m=1082285323,s=13 date=1082385722]I believe rock and roll died with John Lennon.
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Post by: Joost on April 21, 2004, 08:15:38 PM
Doesn't Bon Jovi have like 64 songs about living your life everyday like there's no tomorrow? It seems like almost every song I've heard by them is about that theme.
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Post by: Ssarah on April 21, 2004, 08:27:22 PM
I totally agree Biscuit! I was thinking something along the same thing.  It's almost like some of those boy bands that the theme is always love. Or the rappers where its always about a HO.
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Post by: Joost on April 21, 2004, 08:37:56 PM
"Everyday":

I
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Post by: Bruno on April 21, 2004, 08:48:29 PM
looks like he enjoys life a lot ;D
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Post by: strutter84 on April 24, 2004, 06:12:06 AM
[quote by=John@work link=Blah.pl?b=conversations,m=1082285323,s=13 date=1082385722]I believe rock and roll died with John Lennon.
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Post by: slick rick on April 25, 2004, 12:52:31 AM
[quote by=strutter84 link=Blah.pl?b=conversations,m=1082285323,s=20 date=1082787126]

I love Pearl Jam.
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Post by: slick rick on April 25, 2004, 12:54:24 AM
how about pimping albums with many different covers?????
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Post by: strutter84 on April 25, 2004, 06:17:10 AM
Mudhoney is good too.  And Soundgarden is another band that I love.  Chris Cornell's got one of those voices that just sends shivers down your spine.  Like Robert Plant kind of, only more hardcore.  But I still like Pearl Jam better than all the others of the time period.  And I guess I wouldn't consider them grunge anyhow, I would call them straight Hard Rock.  I love Eddie Vedders voice too, and i don't care if they are comercialized, that's not what's important to me.  To me it's all about good music, and good shows, and they provide both.  It's just none of those bands speak to me as much as Pearl Jam does.  The Smashing Pumpkins are pretty close, but not as good.  I guess Pearl Jam's music is just more versatile.  It's not always banging your head with them.  They have alot of soft, slow songs that are real tear jerkers.  For me anyhow.  To each his own man.  I'm all about that.
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Post by: AdamD on April 25, 2004, 10:54:07 AM
Aerosmith are OK for their early work but have been inconistent.

Bon Jovi are just pitiful.

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Post by: Wayne L. on April 25, 2004, 01:56:16 PM
Rock & roll died after the 70's with the Van Halen explosion back in 78, Bon Jovi is all about their one great classic rock album Slippery When Wet, the media thinks of JBJ as a rock legend in the same leagues as Paul McCartney, which is pathetic!!!
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Post by: Bruno on April 25, 2004, 02:18:38 PM
Crush is a good album too
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Post by: strutter84 on April 26, 2004, 05:46:39 AM
There's no such thing as a legendary rock band from the 80's.  Or at least none of them deserve to be.  Thank God John didn't live to see the crap that was produced during that decade.  If he had he'd have killed himself anyhow.
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Post by: Bruno on April 26, 2004, 02:27:51 PM
[quote by=strutter84 link=Blah.pl?b=conversations,m=1082285323,s=27 date=1082958399]There's no such thing as a legendary rock band from the 80's.
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Post by: on April 26, 2004, 02:53:10 PM
U2 was a very good rock band to come out of the 80s.
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Post by: on April 26, 2004, 03:39:24 PM
It's all subjective, of course.  But as John was proud of Yoko presaging the B-52's I think he might have kept an ear open for more ideas and things that appealed to his desire to do different things.
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Post by: strutter84 on April 26, 2004, 04:22:45 PM
I like U2, and Guns N' Roses, though I think they closer fit in with the grunge bands than anything else done in the 70's.  AC/DC not so much, but they started in the 70's anyhow so they're not applicable.
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Post by: Wayne L. on May 01, 2004, 02:49:52 PM
Nobody is going to remember Bon Jovi in the next 20 years unlike Elvis & the Beatles while Slippery When Wet is their only great classic rock album besides if JBJ ever wins an Oscar you know it's the end of the world!!!
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Post by: Moogmodule on February 12, 2023, 10:21:41 PM
I wonder if Wayne ever considered that in (almost) 20 years time someone would be able to reply to his comment and point out that, not only is Bon Jovi remembered, it’s still a going concern.  ha2ha
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Post by: nimrod on February 13, 2023, 07:57:16 PM
I wonder if Wayne ever considered that in (almost) 20 years time someone would be able to reply to his comment and point out that, not only is Bon Jovi remembered, it’s still a going concern.  ha2ha

 ha2ha