Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet

It is probably true that Bon Jovi's breakthrough success with Slippery When Wet, their third album, had more to do with lead singer Jon Bon Jovi's mop of curls and winning smile than with anything in the grooves of the record. Nevertheless, the album contained competent contemporary pop/rock, from its Eddie Van Halen-inspired guitar solos to the singer's enthusiastic, husky wail (which owed a lot to Bruce Springsteen). Jon Bon Jovi, guitarist Richie Sambora, and songwriter-for-hire Desmond Child had little more on their minds than girls and rock-as-mythology (even the working-class anthem "Livin' on a Prayer" featured a character who was forced to hock his "six string"), but that may only mean they had identified their audience — young white adolescent males — and were targeting it accurately.

	1. Let It Rock
	2. You Give Love A Bad Name
	3. Livin'' On A Prayer
	4. Social Disease
	5. Wanted Dead or Alive
	6. Raise Your Hands
	7. Without Love
	8. I''d Die For You
	9. Never Say Goodbye
	10. Wild In The Streets

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