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52 out of 100

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8.0 out of 10

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  • Summary: The New Jersey rock band releases its latest album produced with John Shanks.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. Billboard.com
    79
    The New Jersey group gets back to the business of rocking on its 11th studio album, The Circle.
  2. Q Magazine
    60
    More than a quarter century down the line, Bon Jovi are still living and selling the rock 'n' roll fantasy on The Circle. Why Not? They've done very nicely out of it. [Jan 2010, p. 126]
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    37
    The Circle shows off Bon Jovi's still-sharp knack for wedding blandly optimistic sentiments to predictably soaring choruses. Unfortunately, it's getting pretty hard to tell one song from the next.

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
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  3. Negative: 1 out of 2
  1. DaveyH.
    7
    While the songs are not bad, by the end they start to sound the same. What Bon Jovi did great in most of his other albums is the variety of different songs throughout the album. In The Circle every song sticks to a classic rocking rhythm, which on it's own is not bad, but the bar has been set and Bon Jovi didn't quite make it.… Expand
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  2. LuisG.
    0
    I used to like Bon Jovi, a lot but what they do nowadays is...so sadly BAD it is not rock, in any way.
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