![]() ![]() ![]() Definitive proof that Bon Jovi listens to Bob Mould? We may never know, but the tune’s Exhibit A. And what a riff, one of the rare instances of Bon Jovi verses trumping the refrain. Maybe they were deflated by the fact Bon Jovi of all people perfected its jangle-metal sound a few years earlier with the Gin Blossoms-on-steroids anthem “Have a Nice Day,” which doesn’t sound crazily different from “It’s My Life” and features a far less memorable chorus, but may be more satisfying in its overall power and groundswell. Released in 2008, Accelerate was R.E.M.’s most aggressive album in years, and it was nice to hear one of the best rock bands of all-time so furious and amped-up again, but not a ton of its songs stuck beyond the rush of the sound itself. ![]() And someone better call Dashboard Confessional about the bridge: “Your clothes are still scattered all over our room / This whole place still smells like your cheap perfume.” ![]() “Baby I want you, like the roses want the rain!” Jon Bon Jovi shrieks, for what won’t be the last instance of rose imagery on 1992’s Keep the Faith, and he follows it with an even more emo killer: “You know I need you / Like a poet needs the pain!” And if you thought it couldn’t get even more skyward from there, in crashes the chorus built on the same chord progression as “Don’t Stop Believin’” (to which Bon Jovi winks, maybe unknowingly, “I still believe” at one point). ![]()
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