Track Listing

1. Lay Your Hands on Me
2. Bad Medicine
3. Born to Be My Baby
4. Living in Sin
5. Blood on Blood
6. Homebound Train
7. Wild Is the Wind
8. Ride Cowboy Ride
9. Stick to Your Guns
10. I'll Be There for You
11. 99 in the Shade
12. Love for Sale

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #98929 in Music
• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Format: Enhanced

Album Description
Digitally remastered & enhanced reissue of their huge 1988 album with the CD-ROM video to 'Lay Your Hands On Me' added as a bonus track, for a total of 13 cuts. 1998 Mercury Records release.

Amazon.com
Full of hooky anthems and catchy riffs, New Jersey is Bon Jovi doing what they did best: pop metal meets Bruce Springsteen. It's oddly appealing, if somewhat dated nowadays, as the generation of adolescents that loved "Born to Be My Baby" and "Living in Sin" grew up and were replaced by a teen set with distinctly different tastes. Bon Jovi's more-than-passing flirtation with spaghetti-western imagery that ends with the hero riding off into the sunset is evident on songs like "Stick to Your Guns," "Ride Cowboy Ride," and "Wild Is the Wind." Stadium anthems like "Bad Medicine" and "Lay Your Hands on Me" showed that the band still knew how to have a good time. Oddly enough, the song that best stands the test of time is the understated (and humorous) "Love for Sale." --Genevieve Williams

Customer Reviews

"Dated?" Not!
I was 14 when "New Jersey" was released in 1990 and remember being bowled over by how much Bon Jovi had matured in their sound from "Slippery When Wet" and thinking, "These guys are here to stay."

"Slippery When Wet" sounds more dated than "New Jersey" as sounds change in nannoseconds in the music industry, never mind four years. John and the Boys wrote and recorded some great ballads, "I'll Be There For You" and "Living In Sin," and created feel-good tunes such as "Bad Medicine."

While watching some Bon Jovi videos recently on cable, I smiled when I thought about a time when you could turn on TV and watch a video and not a glorified porno short (if that sounds patronizing, my apologies, but there's no other way I can put it). Those guys never age!

"New Jersey" was quite the departure from the group's previous albums. It represented a change for the 1990's and beyond.

Two thumbs up ... and then some!

Excellent
Bon Jovi continued their excellent 80s run at rock and roll with this great offering. It has some great songs such as Bad Medicine and Born to Be My Baby, both of which show Bon Jovi's intensity and love of singing.

One of the best rock albums of the 1980�s
»New Jersey« is by far Bon Jovi's best album ever. The very album where the band has gotten far enough away from the poodle rock and before it faded into softcore poprock.

The album has the best moments of rock the band can offer. Catchy songs like »Bad Medicine« and »Stick To Your Guns«, the more sensitive »Living In Sin« and »I'll Be There For You«, and my personal favourite »Wild Is The Wind«.

A great album offering splendid 1980's rock!