Greatest Hits

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World-renowned music icons Bon Jovi are releasing a career-spanning greatest hits compilation November 9th on Island Records. Bon Jovi GREATEST HITS will transport listeners back in time through Bon Jovi's worldwide monster hits of the past and offer a bridge to the future with the debut of four brand new tracks.

"Music marks milestones in all our lives," notes frontman Jon Bon Jovi. "These songs have stood the test of time and they remind us all where we came from, even as we keep our eyes towards the future."

Bon Jovi GREATEST HITS will be a 16-song single disc chock full of the band's biggest chart-toppers including "Livin' On A Prayer," "Always," "It's My Life," "Wanted Dead or Alive," and "Who Says You Can't Go Home." Two new songs, including lead single "What Do You Got," round out the tracklisting. "What Do You Got?" will hit radio airwaves globally at the end of August.

The four new songs ("The More Things Change," "No Apologies," "This Is Love, This Is Life" and the first single, "What Do You Got?") were written specifically for inclusion in this compilation.

01 Livin' On A Prayer
02 You Give Love A Bad Name
03 Runaway
04 Bad Medicine
05 Born To Be My Baby
06 I'll Be There For You
07 Lay Your Hands On Me
08 It's My Life
09 Always
10 Wanted Dead Or Alive
11 Blaze Of Glory
12 Who Says You Can't Go Home
13 Have A Nice Day
14 We Weren't Born To Follow
15 What Do You Got? [New Track]
16 No Apologies [New Track]

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Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection

Product Description
World-renowned music icons Bon Jovi are releasing a career-spanning greatest hits compilation November 9th on Island Records. Bon Jovi GREATEST HITS will transport listeners back in time through Bon Jovi's worldwide monster hits of the past and offer a bridge to the future with the debut of four brand new tracks.

"Music marks milestones in all our lives," notes frontman Jon Bon Jovi. "These songs have stood the test of time and they remind us all where we came from, even as we keep our eyes towards the future."

Bon Jovi GREATEST HITS will be a 16-song single disc chock full of the band's biggest chart-toppers including "Livin' On A Prayer," "Always," "It's My Life," "Wanted Dead or Alive," and "Who Says You Can't Go Home." Two new songs, including lead single "What Do You Got," round out the tracklisting. "What Do You Got?" will hit radio airwaves globally at the end of August.

The four new songs ("The More Things Change," "No Apologies," "This Is Love, This Is Life" and the first single, "What Do You Got?") were written specifically for inclusion in this compilation.

CD 1
01 Livin' On A Prayer
02 You Give Love A Bad Name
03 Runaway
04 Bad Medicine
05 Born To Be My Baby
06 I'll Be There For You
07 Lay Your Hands On Me
08 It's My Life
09 Always
10 Wanted Dead Or Alive
11 Blaze Of Glory
12 Who Says You Can't Go Home
13 Have A Nice Day
14 We Weren't Born To Follow
15 What Do You Got? [New Track]
16 No Apologies [New Track]

CD 2
01 In These Arms
02 Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
03 Lost Highway
04 Keep The Faith
05 When We Were Beautiful
06 Bed Of Roses
07 This Ain't A Love Song
08 These Days
09 (You Want To) Make A Memory
10 Blood On Blood
11 This Is Love, This Is Life [New Track]
12 The More Things Change [New Track]

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From FMQB.com, via Jamie Starr ...

I'll be very surprised if this set has "She Don't Know Me", my favorite Bon Jovi song of all.

It's about time Bon Jovi has a career-spanning set! With only 28 tracks, however it's certain that a few fan favorites will be missing.

Hah-my favorite song too! Brings back memories of the summer of '84 for me-love that song. We saw them open for Scorpions in Philly at the Spectrum that summer as well. They better include that but they won't and if they don't I'd be less inclined to pick it up.
I'm not a huge fan, but if thsi 2CD best of is done right it will be worth it. I was wondering when they'd ever get around to a 2CD comp.
I'd also hope it includes "On The Edge Of A Broken Heart" which holds the distinction of being the first song to reach the Top 40 on airplay only in 1987. I think it was from the soundtrack of some terrible movie like Disorderlies or something. I'm sure this comp will be missing plenty of songs though-they always do.

Same here. Either the group hates that song or they don't want Mark Avsec to have any more royalties!

Thanks for posting Linda. I count 23 songs at the most that could be considered "greatest hits". It's not entitled "anthology" or "best of", so that's why i guess these would be on the 2 CD version. I know I've probably missed a couple, but here's the list...

Runaway
She Don't Know Me
In & Out Of Love
Only Lonely
You Give Love A Bad Name
Livin' On A Prayer
Wanted Dead Or Alive
Never Say Goodbye
Bad Medicine
Born To Be My Baby
Lay Your Hands On Me
I''ll Be There For You
Living In SIn
Keep The Faith
Bed Of Roses
This Ain't A Love Song
Always
It's My Life
Who Says You Can't Go Home
Have A Nice Day
You Want To Make A Memory
Blaze Of Glory (maybe)
Edge Of A Brokenn Heart (maybe)

Hopefully this compilation will be chronological, because it would be sacriligious to follow up a song like "You Give Love a Bad Name" with some lite-country number like "Who Says You Can't Go Home."

Crossroads has 13 songs that will likely end up on this compilation-maybe 12 if you knock out Blaze of Glory. Throw in the 4 new tracks and you're left with 11 or 12 spots between the 6 (These Days, Crush, Bounce, HAND, Lost Highway and The Circle) discs that have come out since Crossroads. My guess would be that leave us with the following:

This Aint A Love Song
Something for the Pain
Its My Life
Just Older
Everyday
Misunderstood
HAND
Who Says
Lost Highway
You Want to Make A Memory
We Weren't Born to Follow
When We Were Beautiful

Blaze of Glory will absolutely be included - I'd be very surprised if it wasn't.

Also, weren't there two versions of Wanted Dead or Alive? (not counting the one from the 2000s acoustic disc). I'd guess they'd pick the popular one.

The band does, in fact, disown "She Don't Know Me" as a something forced on them, so it's nice to see the song make it onto a best-of comp. And, as many agree, it's certainly their best hit.

All I've read is speculation on the tracklist -- there's no confirmation anywhere in this thread that "She Don't Know Me" will be included in the released product.

"She Don't Me" is a GREAT song that should have been a huge hit. Allmusic.com says it peaked at #48 on the Billboard Hot 100. Surely it was played heavily in New Jersey in 1984. Right? I do hope it makes the tracklist.

Yes, it is a great song and yes, it did not reach the Top 40 somehow. Here in NJ/Philly it was played a lot (but limped only to #44 on the AOR charts), and it was also played constantly on MTV-chest hair included.
Yet, I know it will not be on this comp which will prevent me from buying it.

Okay, now I'm gonna have to find a way to hear "She Don't Know Me" because of all the raves it's gotten here. Honestly, the first Bon Jovi song I ever liked was "It's My Life" and I still don't like any of their songs from the 80s and 90s, but I am curious.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omLgJe9cnCw[/youtube]

Whether one likes it or not, IMO "She Don't Know Me" is pretty generic stuff... there's not much here that's indicative of, say, the band's more signature Slippery-era sound.

And "You Give Love A Bad name" isn't generic?

Thanks for posting that, Linda . I'm not gonna rush out and buy it, but it's not as horrible as most of the Bon Jovi hits.

The hits got worse as they went. I don't really like "Bed of Roses" because of the ridiculous lyrics. "I wanna be as close as / the Holy Ghost is"?

Not saying that it isn't, but I think the latter is instantly recognizable as Bon Jovi whereas I wouldn't have been able to identify the artist behind "She Don't Know Me" if I didn't already know that information...

"She Don't Know Me" is very similar to the Franke & The Knockouts track, "You Don't Want Me". In fact Tico Torres played the same drum pattern on both songs!