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Bon Jovi “Lost Highway” First came salsa from New York City; now, country music from New Jersey. Stop the insanity! Last year, Bon Jovi — singer Jon Bon Jovi, guitarist Richie Sambora, bassist Hugh McDonald, keyboardist Daniel Bryan and drummer Tico Torres — scored a No. 1 country hit with “Who Says You Can’t Go Home.” That surprise smash (featuring Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland) paved the way for “Lost Highway,” an album that hopes to cash in and exploit the band’s newfound country clout. Featuring a dozen tracks (six by the band’s regular producer John Shanks and six by Nashville producer Dann Huff), “Lost Highway” is not a dramatic departure for the New Jersey rockers. If anything, it’s the kissing cousin of “Keep the Faith” with more of a country twang. Responsible for producing more pop confections than a cotton candy vendor on the Fourth of July, Bon Jovi (now referring to singer Jon Bon Jovi) declares, “Farewell to mediocrity” on the title track, “Lost Highway.” And not only does he do the opposite, Bon Jovi embraces mediocrity. “Lost Highway,” which has nothing to do with the Leon Payne-written/Hank Williams-sung classic of the same name, opens this middle-of-the-road, faux-country disc. Bon Jovi’s warm, raspy voice is appealing, but his insanely catchy but inane lyrics that aspire for Springsteenesque grandeur are throwaways at best. Furthermore, Bon Jovi surrounds himself with a pedal steel guitar and twangy fiddle arrangement lifted out of the John Mellencamp playbook. In the end, the song is likable enough pop drivel but it does put the car song back 30 years. The New Jersey rockers want to be this year’s boys of summer with “Summertime.” The song starts with a little rock ’n’ roll bombast with a strutty blend of crunchy power chords and booming drum beats, before shifting to chimy guitars and clanky drums for Bon Jovi to get confectionary and lovey-dovey. Bon Jovi croons, “Feels something like summertime/Like that first slow dance and that first long kiss/There ain’t nothing baby better than this/it’s like a beach blanket and a bottle of wine/It feels something like summertime.” Bon Jovi is certainly a smoothie and knows what to say to make the girlies swoon on the stripped-down love ballad “(You Want to) Make a Memory.” Despite being overly earnest and obvious, Bon Jovi warmly gushes, “You want to make a memory?/You want to steal a piece of time?/You can sing the melody too/And I could write a couple lines.” To its credit, “(You Want to) Make a Memory” is a well-crafted pop song that’s not afraid to be gooey and sentimental. With cushiony orchestration interspersed with sparkling guitar notes, the song builds gradually in its intensity and seductive charm. Bon Jovi joins forces with country-western buffoons (oops, I mean artists) Big Kenny Alphin and John Rich (aka Big & Rich) on the dumb arena anthem “We Got It Going On.” Bon Jovi declares, “We’ll be bangin’ and sangin’ just like the Rolling Stones/We’re gonna shake up your souls/We’re come to rattle your bones/’Cause we got it going on.” Yikes! With its thumping bass line, voice box guitar and cavalcade of tail-gating clichés, this annoying ditty is a lame attempt to replace Hank William Jr.’s “Monday Night Football” theme. On the acoustic-tinged adult lullaby “Everybody’s Broken,” Bon Jovi tenderly aches, “It’s OK to be a little broken/Everybody’s broken in this life/It’s OK to feel a little broken/Everybody’s broken.” Apparently, it’s OK to be a broken record. The album’s best bid for a legitimate country song is “Till We Ain’t Strangers Anymore.” This honky-tonk heartbreaker featuring Leann Rimes builds an emotional wallop. Rimes brings a maturity and an emotional richness that most of the songs on “Lost Highway” lack. In turn, the two singers share strong chemistry and play off each other’s strengths. “I Love This Town” (which could have easily been called “Place the Name of Your Hometown Here”) is shameless pandering to the Nashville crowd. In what sounds like a cross between “The Andy Griffith Show” and “The Dukes of Hazzard” set to music, Bon Jovi describes an all-American small town in which the good ol’ boys are getting noisy and drunk and the down-and-out street musicians are cute and cuddly as Muppets.

Velvets can't shoot down Bon Jovi Velvet Revolver Rock 'n roll baddies Velvet Revolver shot up the Canadian charts this week, but couldn't pierce the No. 1 spot in the land. The band's sophomore CD "Libertad" debuted at No. 2 with 11,000 in sales, behind Bon Jovi's "Lost Highway" (16,000), which remained at No. 1 for a third consecutive week. Velvet Revolver failed to match the successful debut of their first album, "Contraband," which checked in at No. 1 back in June of 2004, according to Nielsen SoundScan data. Unfortunately, it was the same story down south for the Velvets. "Libertad" checked in at No. 5 in the U.S. with 92,000 in sales, far from the No. 1 debut of "Contraband," which had 256,000 in first week sales, according to Billboard.com. Back in Canada, Claude Dubois' "Duos Dubois" and Rihanna's "Good Girl Gone Bad" both climbed up one position to No. 3 and No. 4, respectively, while the White Stripes' "Icky Thump" was bumped from No. 3 to No. 5. After premiering at No. 2 last week, Kelly Clarkson's latest disc "My December" went cold, sinking four spots to No. 6, while rapper T.I.'s "T.I. vs. T.I.P." had the second biggest entry at No. 7. Michael Buble's "Call Me Irresponsible" dropped from No. 6 to No. 8, likewise for Avril Lavigne's "The Best Damn Thing," which slipped from No. 7 to No. 9, and Linkin Park rounded out the top 10 at No. 10. Other notable debuts included Silverstein's "Arrivals & Departure" at No. 25, the "Transformers" soundtrack at No. 27, and the Chemical Brothers' "We Are the Night" at No. 39. In the U.S., T.I. came in at No. 1, followed by Miley Cyrus' double disc "Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus" in second, Kelly Clarkson in third, and Bon Jovi in fourth

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Thanks dean for posting these great clips > :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: now i klnow why i like them so much

:unsure: :unsure: :unsure: :unsure: :unsure: Maybe you couldt give us a clue ...................please please please

night night peeps see you all soon :wub: :wub:

bye bye sparkie see you soon i need to go to bed in a bit working again tomorow

thanks mayte will try that

nite nite mayte :wub:

I know and i'm doing that but it still isn't working i don't get it i'm not doing anything else then before

see it don't work and i really take the image button

http://s63.photobucket.com/albums/h141/wh7...;current=55.jpg

I saw that t-shirt too .........and i have to admit sparkie i thought you where going there too :blush:

maybe we just have to call him and tell him we want a private concert just the 3 of us :lol: :w00t: :kink: ssssssssssssssssssttttttttttttttttt don't tell any one ok

ja dank je wel gaat goed komen hoor

me to i really need to see him again :wub: :wub: :wub:

ja goed hoor ......morgen weer werken ben eigenlijk de hele week ziek geweest

we got it going on

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr i really don't get this evertime i tri to post a pic i only get the link and not the picture it makes me crazy http://www.cosgan.net/images/smilie/konfus/a050.gif

i will here it is http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h141/wh75/serios51bp6.jpg

you lucky girl i wish i couldt go too

Just send me a pic and i will ;) :D

hallo hoe is het hier ????