#RELEASE DATES BON JOVI INTO THE ECHO PROFESSIONAL#
Another reason for the album’s success was professional songwriter Desmond Child, who the band hired after their first two albums didn’t achieve the expected success. Screw the critics Bon Jovi relied on the voice of the people.
Whereas most artists are highly secretive of their unreleased work, Bon Jovi auditioned the potential tracks for the album in front of New York and New Jersey teenagers, basing the eventual track listing on their opinions. The production process of Slippery When Wet remains interesting and very unique. But the brilliance of the release is its masterful juggling of all these elements, resulting in an anthemic and radio-friendly sound that helps Bon Jovi to echo throughout radio waves to this day. The aggressive rhythmic guitar work, in particular, shows that. Pop and hard-rock were and always are at the forefront for Bon Jovi, but there’s no denying the presence of metal on their debut. The latter style had a difficult time prior entering the mainstream, and Bon Jovi’s third album, Slippery When Wet, propelled it into deserving status. When the era was riddled with cheesy, hair-heavy bands relying too much on falsetto and image to ascend the charts, Bon Jovi released an album in 1986 that wowed critics and fans alike for its commitment to devastating hooks that appealed to the pop, hard-rock, and heavy metal niches. But Bon Jovi are also one of New Jersey’s finest, and one of the most important artists of the ‘80s. Bruce Springsteen will always take the cake as New Jersey’s poster boy for music, and deservedly so.
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