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Label: Mercury – B0021968-01, UMe – B0021968-01
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, 180 Gram
Country: US
Released: 2014
Genre: Rock
Style: Hard Rock, Arena Rock

Tracklist
A1 Let It Rock
A2 You Give Love A Bad Name
A3 Livin' On A Prayer
A4 Social Disease
A5 Wanted Dead Or Alive
B1 Raise Your Hands
B2 Without Love
B3 I'd Die For You
B4 Never Say Goodbye
B5 Wild In The Streets

Lacquer Cut At – Sterling Sound
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Mercury Records
Copyright © – Mercury Records
Distributed By – Universal Music Distribution
Lacquer Cut At – Sterling Sound
Acoustic Guitar [Acoustic Guitars], Electric Guitar [Electric Guitars], Synthesizer [Ivl Guitar Synths], Effects [Talk Box], Backing Vocals – Richie Sambora
Art Direction – Bill Levy
Bass, Backing Vocals – Alec John Such
Design – George Corsillo
Drums, Percussion – Tico Torres
Engineer [Assistant] – Tim Crich
Engineer, Mixed By – Bob Rock
Keyboards [All], Noises [Various Noises], Backing Vocals – Dave Bryan*
Lacquer Cut By – RJ*
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Jon Bon Jovi
Management – Doc McGhee
Mastered By [Originally] – George Marino
Photography By – Mark "Weissguy" Weiss*
Producer – Bruce Fairbairn
Words By, Music By – Desmond Child (tracks: 2, 3, 7, 8), Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora (tracks: 1 to 9)
180 Gram
Mercury Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. 1755 Broadway, New York, NY 10019 - U.S.A.
Distributed by Universal Music Distribution. All Rights Reserved B002196801
Back To Black download card included.
Barcode: 602547029218

Bon Jovi: Jon Bon Jovi (vocals); Richie Sambora (acoustic & electric guitars, guitar synthesizer, talk box, background vocals); Dave Bryan (keyboards, background vocals); Hugh McDonald (bass, background vocals); Tico Torres (drums, percussion). Recorded at Little Mountain, Vancouver, British Columbia. All tracks have been digitally remastered using 20-bit technology by George Marino (Summer 1998, Sterling Sound, New York, New York). This video compilation includes interviews of the band. Slippery When Wet wasn't just a breakthrough album for Bon Jovi; it was a breakthrough for hair metal in general, marking the point where the genre officially entered the mainstream. Released in 1986, it presented a streamlined combination of pop, hard rock, and metal that appealed to everyone -- especially girls, whom traditional heavy metal often ignored. Slippery When Wet was more indebted to pop than metal, though, and the band made no attempt to hide its commercial ambition, even hiring an outside songwriter to co-write two of the album's biggest singles. The trick paid off as Slippery When Wet became the best-selling album of 1987, beating out contenders like Appetite for Destruction, The Joshua Tree, and Michael Jackson's Bad. Part of the album's success could be attributed to Desmond Child, a behind-the-scenes songwriter who went on to write hits for Aerosmith, Michael Bolton, and Ricky Martin. With Child's help, Bon Jovi penned a pair of songs that would eventually define their career -- "Living on a Prayer" and "You Give Love a Bad Name" -- two teenage anthems that mixed Springsteen's blue-collar narratives with straightforward, guitar-driven hooks. The band's characters may have been down on their luck -- they worked dead-end jobs, pined for dangerous women, and occasionally rode steel horses -- but Bon Jovi never presented a problem that couldn't be cured by a good chorus, every one of which seemed to celebrate a glass-half-full mentality. Elsewhere, the group turned to nostalgia, using songs like "Never Say Goodbye" and "Wild in the Streets" to re-create (or fabricate) an untamed, sex-filled youth that undoubtedly appealed to the band's teen audience. Bon Jovi wasn't nearly as hard-edged as M?tley Cr?e or technically proficient as Van Halen, but the guys smartly played to their strengths, shunning the extremes for an accessible, middle-of-the-road approach that wound up appealing to more fans than most of their peers. "It's alright if you have a good time," Jon Bon Jovi sang on Slippery When Wet's first track, "Let It Rock," and those words essentially served as a mantra for the entire hair metal genre, whose carefree, party-heavy attitude became the soundtrack for the rest of the '80s. ~ Andrew Leahey

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: ROCK
• RSD Date: DDD
• Format Type: LP
• Released: 11/04/2016