Chef: Bruce Fairbairn
Cook: Bob Rock
Restaurant: Little Mountain, Vancouver B.C.
Year: 1986
Main ingredients: You Give Love A Bad Name, Livin’ On A Prayer, Wanted Dead Or Alive, Never Say Goodbye
A fine dish best served wild... in the streets. The blend of ingredients is at its utmost in Livin’ On A Prayer, where the tangy zest of the song is only surpassed by its mild aftertaste of total “hitdom”. The pièce de résistance, undoubtedly, is the main dish, Wanted Dead Or Alive, where every taste in the rock palette of flavors is put to good use in order to create one of the best hard rock songs of the 80’s.
The year 1986 brought us one of the decades most enduring dishes, Slippery When Wet, by Bon Jovi. The third album of their career was about to become one of the biggest sellers of the decade. Having done well and built a loyal following, extremely hairy-chested lead singer Jon Bon Jovi – together with guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres (for those of you politically correct, he’s of Cuban descent), and bassist Alec John Such – made a concoction in the city of Vancouver that was about to have tough, Iron Maiden-album-buying boys, first, accompany their girlfriends to check out their new idol, and then see themselves as they pumped their fists in studded leather glory for the whole world to see in the band’s videos.
From power ballads (Wanted Dead Or Alive, Never Say Goodbye), to straight-ahead rock (Living On A Prayer, You Give Love A Bad Name, Wild In The Streets, Raise Your Hands), this album's got it ALL. Slippery When Wet was followed by a massive tour with headliners Cinderella. It spawned three massive hits (Bad Name, Prayer, Wanted), put Bon Jovi in the record books, created a whole onslaught of copy-cat bands (some of whom were actually pretty good), and made the band a staple in the face of Mtv.
Reasons you should own this album:
1) History in a CD.
2) Amazing production value with a nice, crisp sound that actually holds up to today's standards more than albums of, say, 10 years ago.
3) Great hits like Prayer and Bad Name will make you the center of attention at pretty much any 80's-themed party.
4) The opening acoustic guitar notes of Wanted Dead Or Alive are worth the price alone.
The year 1986 rolled along and showed to the world that Bon Jovi were about to become the biggest act in the land, selling millions of albums, this time surpassing even the wildest expectations of company execs.
Next up: Did the clothes really have something to do with the rock?
From power ballads (Wanted Dead Or Alive, Never Say Goodbye), to straight-ahead rock (Living On A Prayer, You Give Love A Bad Name, Wild In The Streets, Raise Your Hands), this album's got it ALL. Slippery When Wet was followed by a massive tour with headliners Cinderella. It spawned three massive hits (Bad Name, Prayer, Wanted), put Bon Jovi in the record books, created a whole onslaught of copy-cat bands (some of whom were actually pretty good), and made the band a staple in the face of Mtv.
Reasons you should own this album:
1) History in a CD.
2) Amazing production value with a nice, crisp sound that actually holds up to today's standards more than albums of, say, 10 years ago.
3) Great hits like Prayer and Bad Name will make you the center of attention at pretty much any 80's-themed party.
4) The opening acoustic guitar notes of Wanted Dead Or Alive are worth the price alone.
The year 1986 rolled along and showed to the world that Bon Jovi were about to become the biggest act in the land, selling millions of albums, this time surpassing even the wildest expectations of company execs.
Next up: Did the clothes really have something to do with the rock?
2 comments:
A very good recommendation.
I love this album too.
"Never say goodbye" sure brings me back some old memories...
Slippery When Wet...........Un Clasico!
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