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- Summary: The New Jersey rock band releases its latest album produced with John Shanks.
- Record Label: Island
- Genre(s): Rock
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Superman Tonight | |
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There's something about you I wanna rescue I don't even know you so what does that mean Maybe I'm cynical, painfully logical You're tragic and... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 1 out of 10
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Mixed: 8 out of 10
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Negative: 1 out of 10
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The New Jersey group gets back to the business of rocking on its 11th studio album, The Circle.
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Predictable and immaculately produced, these arena-shakers offer a familiar brand of Jersey cheese, but where Jon Bon Jovi once was kind of quixotic ('Livin' on a Prayer'), he's more contemplative than ever, turning out meditations like 'Live Before You Die' ("There'll come a day when you have to say hello to goodbye").
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But even while Mr. Bon Jovi is sympathizing with the common man, the scrape in his voice is never wrenching. And while the arrangements are mildly darker than on the group’s previous albums, this group is still drawn magnetically to swelling choruses, its ambition of scale still grander than its ambition of import.
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Between cliches and Jon's strained voice, The Circle just feels tired.
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A knack for oversized choruses remains hardwired in Bon Jovi, but in this gloomy context, they act as reminders that they once sounded like they were a working band for working men instead of rich men fretting about a world they've long left behind.
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Slick production and beer-ad bombast grease these 12 tracks. Singer Jon Bon Jovi has yet to meet a cliche he can’t work into a song.
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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.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 10
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Mixed: 0 out of 10
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Negative: 1 out of 10
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Dec 26, 2014
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May 25, 2013This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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May 11, 2016
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Jan 6, 2016A Great Album,Very superior to U2 weak album No Line On The Horizon... And was underrated for critics,and The Circle is one of best albums of 2009...
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Apr 4, 2016
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Apr 8, 2016
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LuisG.Nov 11, 2009I 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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