SHOT THROUGH THE HEART
IT'S ALL PART
OF THE
GAME THAT
WE CALL LOVE
NOTES :
I Started With
The
1998 Special Edition
With The Bonus Tracks
Then Added The
2010 Special Edition
Then The
2024 Deluxe Edition
Bonus Tracks
AND ADDED
A BONUS CD
OF
RARE DEMOS
WiTH
UNRELEASED SONGS
ENJOY !!!
is the third
studio album
by American
Rock band
It was produced by
Bruce Fairbairn,
with recording sessions
taking place between
January and July 1986
at Little Mountain
Sound Studios
in Vancouver.
The album features many
of
Bon Jovi's
best-known songs,
including
"You Give Love a Bad Name",
"Livin' on a Prayer",
and
"Wanted Dead or Alive".
Resulting in the first
glam metal album
to have 3
top 10 hits
on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart.
To promote the album,
Bon Jovi
embarked on the
Slippery When Wet Tour,
which ran from
July 1986 to
October 1987.
Slippery When Wet
was an instant
commercial success,
spending eight weeks
at No. 1
on the
U.S. Billboard 200 chart
and was named by
Billboard as the
top-selling album of 1987.
Slippery When Wet
is Bon Jovi's
best-selling album
to date,
with a
Recording Industry
Association of America
(RIAA)
certification of
15× Platinum,
making it one
of the top
100 best-selling albums
in the United States
. The album has been called
the album that turned
"heavy metal into a
radio-friendly pop format",
and is also
commonly seen as
"a breakthrough for hair metal".
Background
Upon its 1985 release,
7800° Fahrenheit
achieved moderate success,
but Bon Jovi
had not yet become superstars.
The band changed
its approach for
the next album,
with a more
mainstream sound
than the heavier
first two albums.
Hiring
Desmond Child
as a collaborator,
the band wrote
30 songs
and auditioned them
for local
New Jersey
and
New York teenagers,
basing the album's
running order
on their opinions.
Bruce Fairbairn
was chosen as
the producer
for the album,
with
Bob Rock
as the mixer. T
he 1985 album
Without Love
which Fairbairn
produced for
the heavy metal band
Black 'n Blue,
attracted
Jon Bon Jovi
with its
sound quality,
and he immediately
sought out the producer.
Writing and Composition
Much of the album
was written by
Jon Bon Jovi
and
Richie Sambora,
whereas
"You Give Love a Bad Name",
"Livin' on a Prayer",
"Without Love",
and
"I'd Die For You"
were co-written
with
Desmond Child,
and
"Wild in the Streets"
was by
Bon Jovi alone.
This was the first time
Child worked with
Jon and Richie.
He came to
New Jersey,
where they worked on
the four songs in
Sambora's
mother's basement.
Jon Bon Jovi explained,
"I liked what
Bryan Adams had done
with
Tina Turner
so I suggested we do
something similar
Bon Jovi was
initially reluctant to include
"Livin' on a Prayer",
believing it was
not good enough.
Sambora convinced him
it was a hit in the making,
and so the band
re -recorded it,
releasing the
second version
on the album.
It is Bon Jovi's signature song.
* The first version of
"Livin' on a Prayer"
that was recorded was
included as a
hidden track
at the end of one
of the CDs
in the box set
100,000,000
Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong.
* (INCLUDED HERE)
One of the songs
written during the
making of the album,
"Edge of a Broken Heart",
is not on the final release.
Bon Jovi has since said it
should have been included.
In the booklet that came with
100,000,000
Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong,
Jon Bon Jovi said,
"It was absolutely appropriate for
the Slippery record
coulda, shoulda, woulda been on
Slippery had
cooler minds prevailed.
Here's my formal apology
." Featured on the soundtrack
to the
1987 movie
Disorderlies,
it has since been released
as the B-side
for the
Livin' on a Prayer
single album,
on the
2-CD edition of
Cross Road,
and on
100,000,000
Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong.
The song has never been
performed live
by the band,
though a fan favorite.
In 1986,
Bon Jovi said
"There's a song called
'Love Is A Social Disease'
that Aerosmith
were keen to get hold of.
It would be ideal for them,
but they're not having it,
because it's even
better for us."
Title and Artwork
The album's name
was changed during
its inception,
including
Wanted Dead or Alive.
A proposed cover
with the band dressed as
cowboys
was later used
for the single release of
the track of
the same name.
According to Bon Jovi,
the band named
the album
Slippery When Wet
after visiting
The No.5
Orange strip club
in Vancouver,
British Columbia.
According to Sambora,
"This woman descended from
the ceiling on a pole
and proceeded to
take all her clothes off.
When she got in
a shower and
soaped herself up,
we just about
lost our tongues.
We just sat there
and said,
'We will be here every day.'
That energized us through
the whole project.
Our testosterone was
at a very
high level back then."
The cover consists of a
wet black garbage bag
with the words
"Slippery When Wet"
traced in the water.
"So simple, and not very impressive",
said Sambora.
The album originally was to
feature a busty woman
in a wet
yellow T-shirt
with the album name
on the front of the shirt.
This was swapped
for the plastic bag cover
just prior to release.
The reasons given for
the switch were
record executives'
fears that dominant
record store chains
at the time
would have refused
to carry the album
with a sexist cover,
and
Jon Bon Jovi's
dislike of the
bright pink border
around the photograph
the band submitted.
Sambora said,
"Our label freaked out a
bit when they saw
what we'd done.
They thought it would be
banned by American stores,
so we had to come up with
something else – fast."
In Japan,
most releases
of the album
included the
original cover art.
TRACK LIST
Let It Rock
You Give Love A Bad Name
Livin' On A Prayer
Social Disease
Wanted Dead Or Alive
Raise Your Hands
Without Love
I'd Die For You
Never Say Goodbye
Wild In The Streets
Borderline
(studio outtake)
Edge Of A Broken Heart
(studio outtake)
Livin' On A Prayer
(Original Version)
(Hidden Track)
Wanted Dead Or Alive
(Acoustic Version)
Livin On A Prayer
(Live)
You Give Love A Bad Name
(Live)
Wanted Dead Or Alive
(Live Version)
CD 2
Livin' On A Prayer
(Thank You Goodnight Mix)
Raise Your Hands
(Extended Obie O'Brien Mix)
Wanted Dead Or Alive
(Remix)
Livin' On A Prayer
(Guitar Rich Remix)
I'd Die For You
(Just Vocals)
Never Say Goodbye
(Live Acoustic)
Wanted Dead Or Alive
(Live Wembley)
Wild In The Streets
(Wembley 1st night 1995)
Livin' On A Prayer
(Live At Cobo Arena, Detroit, March 11, 1987)
Wanted Dead Or Alive
(Live At Cobo Arena, Detroit, March 11, 1987)
Wild In The Streets
(Live At Cincinnati Gardens, March 18, 1987)
Let It Rock
(Live At Nassau Coliseum, April 7, 1987)
CD 3
(DEMOS)
You Give Love A Bad Name
(Demo)
Without Love (Demo)
Wild In The Streets
(Demo)
Wanted Dead Or Alive
(Demo)
Raise Your Hands
(Demo)
Never Enough
(Demo)
Edge Of A Broken Heart
(Demo)
Game Of The Heart
(Demo)
Let It Rock
(Demo)
Social Disease
(Demo)
Lonely Is The Night
(Demo)
Deep Cuts The Knife
(Demo)
Never Say Goodbye
(Demo)
I'd Die For You
(Demo)
Borderline
(Demo)
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