Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Listening Post: Bon Jovi - Jon Bongiovi's Blaze of Glory

A side trip on the Bon Jovi retrospective train....



Jon Bon Jovi - Blaze of Glory single - 1990

I know so little about Jon Bon Jovi and his "music". It's all so generic. So derivative. I almost regret deciding to delve into the catalogue.
Fortunately I got to include this little gem from 18 years ago. It's not that I actually forgot about it, per se, it just never seems to get any airplay and the movie was so freaking bad that it came from.
Blaze of Glory takes the quasi-cowboy rock from Wanted: Dead or Alive from 4 years prior and builds on it. It's epic. Big. Sweeping. It does everything that is required of it.
It makes me wonder what Bon Jovi has in store for me as the next album doesn't come for 2 years after this single and that was 2 years after New Jersey.
In the meantime. Revisit this. It's a treat.

Grade A

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