| Product Summary | | Label: Uni/island | | UPC: 00731454247429 | | Release Date: 6/13/2000 | | Buy.com Sku: 60414862 | | Item#: MRS365 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 | Format:  CD |
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(P) 2000 The Island Def Jam Music Group
(C) 2000 The Island Def Jam Music Group
| BON JOVI's history is, of course, familiar to any rock fan who hasn't been living in a closet for the past decade. In brief, a few Jersey-based musicians build a local following with radiantly charismatic live shows, then come to national attention with the single "Runaway," then conquer the world with two of the most successful albums of the late eighties - Slippery When Wet and New Jersey. A period of re-assessment follows, allowing for solo projects and eventually producing Keep The Faith, an experimental album that finds the band breaking new ground musically and thematically. Looking back now, Jon says, "We've been through, everything and back again together, and we've always had that kind of us-against-the-world feeling about what it meant to be in a band." Lately the world seems to be under BON JOVI's thumb once again. 1994 brought the release of Cross Road, a greatest-hits collection that would reestablish the group as among Rock's top international acts. Cross Road also went on to sell over 12 million copies worldwide and yield a new smash single "Always". This time around, though, the guys are taking their triumph in stride.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Bon Jovi: Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, David Bryan, Tico Torres. | | Additional personnel: Hugh McDonald (bass); Michael Dearchin, Melissa Russo, Meredith Russo (background vocals). | | Producers: Luke Ebbin, Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora. | | Recorded at Sanctuary II Studio, New Jersey. | | CRUSH was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album and "It's My Life" was nominated for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. | | Personnel: Jon Bon Jovi (vocals); Richie Sambora (guitar); Michael Dearchin (background vocals). | | Audio Mixer: Bob Clearmountain. | | Recording information: Sanctuary II, NJ. | | Photographer: Olaf Heine. | | When Jon Bon Jovi went into the studio to record his band's seventh studio album, he went from budding actor to Jersey rocker to remind the world where his bread-and-butter was. After the initial plan to team up hard-rock production gods Bob Rock and Bruce Fairbairn fell through due to the latter's death, an audition process was set up with alt-rock engineer Luke Ebbin (Splender) winning the job. The choice was a fortuitous one as here Bon Jovi updates its sound with a smattering of loops and impressive arrangements, without losing the pop crunch of its heyday. | | Along the way, Bon Jovi tips its collective hat to the teen brigade invading the charts and the glory days of "Livin' On a Prayer" (the talk-box laden, Max Martin co-written single "It's My Life"), while still writing songs about blue-collar characters full of optimism (the Springsteen-flavored "Two Story Town"). CRUSH also contains the requisite power ballads for Bon Jovi's starry-eyed female fans ("Thank You for Loving Me," "Save the World") along with glam (the Elton John-inspired "Captain Crash & The Beauty Queen From Mars") and grimy ("One Wild Night") rockers. |
Engineer: Joe Chiccarelli; Obie O'Brien |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 06/13/2000 | | Original Release Date : 2000 | | Catalog ID : 542474 | | Label : Mercury | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Live | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00731454247429 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (7/20/00, p.142)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Jon does a fine job of shaking his Bon-Bon to the blow-dried, rockish tunes...especially...'It's My Life' which sounds like a Britney track shot through the heart with Ritchie Sambora's voice-box guitar..."Entertainment Weekly (6/16/00, p.90)
- "...CRUSH - for all its sappy ballads and suburban pop fairy tales - is classic Bon Jovi. And that's not an oxymoron." - Rating: B' |
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