Bounce
by Bon Jovi
  • Record Label: Island
  • Release Date: Oct 8, 2002
Metascore
61

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. CDNow
    40
    Bon Jovi's best one-two album kickoff punch since Slippery When Wet's "Let it Rock" and "You Give Love a Bad Name." But unfortunately, it's downhill from there.
  2. Blender
    60
    Bounce may sound flat in a few years, but by then its job--to see another million people, and rock them all--will be done. [#11, p.128]
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  3. Launch.com
    60
    In reality Bounce is the next chapter in an incredibly successful non-descript novel about love won and lost in times of turmoil, with plenty of songs that even a championship soccer team could sing.
  5. PopMatters
    60
    The rock hardly rocks, the ballads are flat, and the efforts at mature storytelling are sadly uninspired, and, often, utterly cheeseball.... [B]ut regardless of its flaws, it's a welcome addition to the Bon Jovi collection.
  6. Q Magazine
    60
    Bounce is the sound of a group who know what they're good at and why. [Nov 2002, p.97]
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  7. E! Online
    58
    The ballads sound more mawkish than ever and the rockers sound, well, a lot like bad Bruce Springsteen rip-offs.
  8. Billboard
    70
    Minor flaws aside, these Jersey boys have paid a tribute to their neighboring city befitting that famous New York attitude.
  9. Rolling Stone
    60
    The title Bounce is meant to be an exhortation to America after 9/11, and if it doesn't exactly offer poetic catharsis, the existence of the eighth Bon Jovi record is reassurance of a different kind: Life goes on.

Awards & Rankings

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#69 Most Discussed Album of 2002

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User Score
7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 27 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 27
  3. Negative: 3 out of 27
  1. Charlyrockstar
    Apr 1, 2014
    10
    the great album, I got nothing to say more of this great album,includes greatest songs like Misunderstood, all about loving you, everyday, thethe great album, I got nothing to say more of this great album,includes greatest songs like Misunderstood, all about loving you, everyday, the distance, bounce,between another great songs… Full Review »
  2. clinteastwoo
    May 11, 2016
    10
    ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Very good album… Full Review »
  3. LoRevisor
    Apr 8, 2016
    10
    ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Great Album… Full Review »
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