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If you want to learn about the history of Bon Jovi, make sure you check out my 29,000 words on every song for UCR. Don’t get worked up on the numbering b/c there’s a story behind every song.
#BonJovi
#BonJovi40
Updated to include songs from ‘2020’.
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This 9-minute interview R.E.M. gave today to CBS made me *really* emotional.
I had to step away from what I was doing & compose myself.
#REM
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I’m watching the last 35 mins of THE LAST JEDI & this is one of the best overall sequences in any
@starwars
film. The entire Crait sequence (aka the salt planet) is a thrill ride full of tension and excitement. Also,
@HamillHimself
hs never been more bad-ass. Thanks
@rianjohnson
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When The Rolling Stones call it a day, they will never be replaced. No other band will have pushed the rock n’ roll envelope further than they did.
I’m thankful they’re still here.
#TheRollingStones
#soldierfield
#Chicago
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What R.E.M. did in retrospect was brilliant. Retire. No reunion tours, no farewell tour, no new music.
Just building & curating a legacy.
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I’m still processing the 175-minute performance by
@thecure
last night in Chicago.
31 songs were performed. Here’s the final song of the night.
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I will never not smile when I hear “Close to Me” by the Cure. Robert Smith made his was to my side of the stage last night & needless to say, the whole section was all smiles.
#TheCure
#musicsaves
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If you ever wondered where my Twitter handle came from, it’s this song (along with my love for movies) & seeing it performed up close last week shook me.
#thunderroad
#springsteen
#WrigleyField
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Never underestimate the power of playing “Mr Brightside” at a music festival.
#Lolla
#TheKillers
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@perpetua
I saw her in a small club a few weeks ago, & I wish I could have bottled that energy to take with me everywhere I go for the rest of my life.
It is no hyperbole to say it was one of the greatest live performances I’ve ever seen.
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What Robert Smith is doing is nothing short of shaming his contemporaries for taking such blatant advantage of their fans. It’s marvelous.
#Ticketmaster
#TheCure
#RobertSmith
#fans
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Anytime you are able to witness “Burn” by the Cure in concert, you’re living your best life. There’s is a rumbling intensity led by the rhythm section where Smith layers his haunting & howling vocals over the rollicking backbeat.
#TheCure
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Why can’t I dismiss CRYSTAL SKULL outright? Because of shots like this. Spielberg drops *this* during the opening credits.
How he chose the reflections & use of the mirror just staggers me.
#indianajones
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Glen Hansard should automatically be added to every tribute concert & awards show performance henceforth. Seriously, the Recording Academy should put him on the payroll just to do one song every year.
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@PaulStanleyLive
You could have just kept your mouth shut & no one would have ever known how misguided & hateful your thoughts are. You owe the trans community an apology.
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It is INSANE to me that GNR had this 1991 Ritz show, on film no less, & let it sit in a vault for 21 years & then when they did release it, they buried it in a $250-$350 box set.
It’s *the* crown jewel in their live discography & no one can see it.
#GunsNRoses
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A
#ticket
🧵on Springsteen:
In the last 25 years I estimate that I have seen about 700 concerts & well over 1,000 performances.
I’ve written professionally about a slew of these shows, I’ve bought tickets during pre sales, regular on sales, day-of, & in the parking lot. 1/
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A reminder to everyone the best Bon Jovi album is 1995’s THESE DAYS.
My review:
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@1goodtern
I had a co-worker who was in their early 30’s say they never went to wear a mask again & told me “Covid wasn’t that bad, but I still can’t think straight & have severe brain fog, but otherwise it was no big deal”
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
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“I disappeared in you
You disappeared from me
I gave you everything you ever wanted
It wasn't what you wanted”
#SoCruel
#U2UVSPHERE
I spent 31 years chasing this song after missing its final performance in 1992 by one show.
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It was a solo single & a solo album, but when he went on the Oscars everyone was wondering if he would have hired guns or the band. He thankfully had the band &
@TheRealSambora
made everyone forget for a minute that Jeff Beck played the solo on record.
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Here is
#KylieMinogue
rocking out to “Beautiful Day” at the Sphere.
@kylie_charts
@kylie_90s
#U2UVSPHERE
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This is the crowd OUTSIDE Soldier Field tonight for
#taylorswift
#taylorswiftconcerts
#taylorswiftchicago
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@baddestmamajama
I’m still astounded on the first film they (almost) did everything perfectly & for the second, the only thing they really did well was the initial trailer.
My wife is a *huge* WW fan & we were watching it Christmas Day & 1/2 way through she turns to me, “This is *really* bad”
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I don’t think everyone realizes the reason behind Springsteen performing “The Promised Land” with Jon Bon Jovi last night.
JBJ performed it regularly at his shows at the Fastlane in ‘78.
Here is a recording of his band Atlantic City Expressway from ‘78:
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This is from Saturday Night Live in 1995 when they were supporting the CROSS ROAD compilation.
This short clip perfectly encapsulates what made Bon Jovi better than most of their peers; Richie Sambora. He’s the X-Factor that elevated them.
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30 years ago today this aired on MTV. Pre-internet times were fascinating because you had no idea what was going to come next. This is a great document of a band starting their next chapter.
#BonJovi
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I will never ever be able to say a bad word about Wolfgang Van Halen. He doesn’t deserve any scorn whatsoever & if you feel he does, maybe look in a mirror & take a good long & hard look at yourself.
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Thanks to all the KISS fans retweeting my stuff today (even the one with the horrid spelling error), so here is another video from last night at the Allstate Arena just outside of Chicago in Rosemont.
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When Bono sung a snippet of “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” at the end of “All I Want Is You”, I knew
#KylieMinogue
was in the house.
When the lights came up for “Beautiful Day”, there she was.
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It’s wild to see this become my most popular tweet in more than 5 years.
This 9-minute interview R.E.M. gave today to CBS made me *really* emotional.
I had to step away from what I was doing & compose myself.
#REM
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I’m sorry, this is the only X I am concerning myself with.
@DefLeppard
Note: This album is underrated.
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I decided to click through & see what the fees were & for 2 tickets it is $648.61, which is a hell of a lot more than $263.00 x 2.
They added $119.66 in fees.
It needs to be said that this borders on criminal behavior. It’s wrong on every level of decency. 20/
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I constantly hear people say they don't make great movies anymore. They obviously haven't seen
#PersonalShopper
with
#KristenStewart
who leaves a piece of her soul forever embedded in the celluloid.
#movies
@Criterion
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Richie Sambora is underrated. This was 1995 at the height of the grunge scene & as good as “Hey God” is in the studio, the band would transform the songs into exorcisms in concert. Watch this for 90-seconds. It’s the end of the song, but Richie had other plans.
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Sambora was the band’s secret weapon. He was never a shredder & his playing was always more melodic, but it’s hard to watch this guitar solo & not feel like a quarterback just threw a 95 yard touchdown to win the game.
#BonJovi
#RichieSambora
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List of
#MusiCares
performers for tonight’s Jon Bon Jovi event:
-Shania Twain: “Bed of Roses”
-Melissa Etheridge & Larkin Poe: Blaze of Glory
-Jason Isbell: “Wanted”
-Sammy Hagar “You Give Love a Bad Name”
-Marcus King: “Born to Be My Baby”
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#BonJovi
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Let’s make this nationwide.
This November the people of Maine will vote on creating the first state-run public power company.
If the measure passes the state will buy out the assets of the two dominant for-profit power companies and replace them with a new public utility.
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What’s so ironic & profoundly disappointing about this is none of the characters he wrote about on DARKNESS, THE RIVER or NEBRASKA could even begin to think about affording one of these seats. Art should be for everyone, & not just for those with six-figure salaries. 22/
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I do not have words for what I just saw in concert.
Green Day just decimated every expectation one could have for a stadium show.
#wrigleyfield
#GreenDay
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I will say, of the 3 new songs the Cure have played in Chicago tonight, “And Nothing Is Forever” is the one that jumps out, grabs hold on me & puts me in the fetal position.
#TheCure
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Was he the best bass player? No.
Was he essential to their sound? No.
Was he the most rock n’ roll element of the band? Without question.
He’s probably the only guy who could go on a 3-day bender with Lemmy & still be able to hit the stage.
#AlecJohnSuch
#BonJovi
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A declaration of love & dedication isn’t new in the annals of pop music, but few go *this* hard. The penultimate track on Bon Jovi’s THESE DAYS, is elevated by Richie Sambora’s instinctive & melodic guitar work. One of their best.
#BonJovi
#RichieSambora
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The Killers understand the assignment; play the hits & work the crowd at a festival.
They’re slaying it.
#Lolla
#Lollapalooza
#TheKillers
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Thirty-three years ago Bon Jovi played the greatest show of their career at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. My write-up of the show for UCR.
#BonJovi
#RichieSambora
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Listening to the new Apple Music release of Bon Jovi’s NEW JERSEY in Spacial / Dolby Atmos sound.
I could cry.
God damn, Bob Rock is one of the greatest engineers / mixers to ever live.
Bruce Fairbairn was a magic soul to get this music out of these young men.
#BonJovi40
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When I tell a normal person I’ve seen Springsteen 52 times they look at me in some sort of dazed manner like something is wrong with me. When I tell a Springsteen fan I’ve seen him 52 times they call me a light weight. “I saw 52 shows in ONE tour” :-)
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@BryanRolli
I’ve struggled with this chart since the 90s.
It probably never made sense in terms of how they track songs & often metrics seems to change when the major labels wish for it to work in their favor.
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Patti Smith last night at the Salt Shed in Chicago delivered a fiery performance where Smith captured the imagination of the crowd & lifted them with every song. I’ve seen Patti before but not like this, a rock n roll preacher reminding the audience of our collective power.
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Bob Costas was very good at what he did. Whether it’s moments like this or him waxing rhapsodic in Ken Burns BASEBALL, he always he made the games feel bigger than themselves. More than anything…he made the sport feel like it mattered.
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@ambernoelle
It probably would have made $40-million this weekend & $100-million by the first weekend in June based on the word of mouth I am seeing.
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One of my favorite things about
@wearejames
is they opened their Milwaukee show with four new songs and had the crowd completely engaged.
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Someone making $50K a year after insurance & taxes might take home $35K. That $673 a week.
This is what most working Americans make & artists like Springsteen have now made it impossible for these people to see his show. The people who may need that night the most. 19/
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“Now judge, judge I got debts no honest man could pay
The bank was holdin' my mortgage and takin' my house away
Now I ain't sayin' that make me an innocent man
But it was more 'n all this that put that gun in my hand”
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334 Songs covering 38 years. 27,000+ words.
I rank every
@BonJovi
song for
@UltClassicRock
. This was a monumental undertaking and all I can say is I hope you enjoy it & debate it.
@jonbonjovi
#BonJovi
@TheRealSambora
@dbdavidbryan
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Phil X is class. He’s not Richie, but he’s a very good dude, massively talented & a class act.
I’ll never say a disparaging thing about that guy.
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@BryanRolli
I actually think with the vinyl revival that more acts would consider releasing compilations. Granted they’re not selling like it’s 1995, but someone like Rihanna would have an album that sells for a decade.
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For those wondering, there are 14 videos now in HD:
Runaway
She Don’t Know Me
Only Lonely
Prayer
Bad Name
Wanted
Lay Your Hands on Me
Bed of Roses
Always
It’s My Life
Misunderstood
Limitless
Thank You For Loving Me
I’ll Be There for You
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Bon Jovi’s long awaited 40th anniversary documentary will premiere later in 2024 as a 4-part docuseries produced by Religion of Sports.
Religion of Sports is a media company co-founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan and Gotham Chopra.
#BonJovi
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Thirty-four years ago, Bon Jovi played the best show of their career at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. It was a special one-off charity show with Jimmy Page on a song & tons of covers.
I wrote about it for Ultimate Classic Rock:
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My movie of the week:
#PersonalShopper
-
#KristenStewart
delivers Oscar worthy performance. See it on the big screen!
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@ambernoelle
When we were in Iceland I didn’t eat that differently from home in terms of calories & I lost weight after 6 days. I’m 💯 with you on this.
I walked about the same number of steps every day as well.
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I think I would have lost my mind if I had seen this.
U2 performing Two Hearts Beat As One at the Sphere Las Vegas 3/11
#U2UVSphere
🎥: U2Vitória on FB
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THREAD: QueenWillRock &
@adamlambert
is a must-see concert event. You will be surprised how emotional this show will make you.
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Not enough people are talking about the kids who want to see this show. The people who could put down a keyboard or soccer ball & pick up a guitar. Is this audience small? Yes. But that doesn’t mean they’re not important. 18/
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The Top 5 U2 Songs I Need To See Live:
1. Seconds
2. Slow Dancing
3. Drowning Man
4. Hawkmoon 269
5. Tomorrow
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@FurtherFromSky
This is incredibly disappointing because I can’t tell you how much I have been able to get closer to the music I love because someone took the time to do a deep dive on their art.
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Do yourself a favor and rent or buy this beautiful film; PERSONAL SHOPPER.
#KristenStewart
shows grave emotional depth in it and she gets my vote for best performance I've seen in 2017. Available now via the
@Criterion
Collection.
#PersonalShopper
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Retweeting this since the anniversary of this performance is a few days away.
#BonJovi40
This is from Saturday Night Live in 1995 when they were supporting the CROSS ROAD compilation.
This short clip perfectly encapsulates what made Bon Jovi better than most of their peers; Richie Sambora. He’s the X-Factor that elevated them.
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It kills me a little they didn’t have someone perform at least one song from this at MusiCares.
A reminder to everyone the best Bon Jovi album is 1995’s THESE DAYS.
My review:
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Ladies & gentlemen…
@thecure
at the
@UnitedCenter
in Chicago tonight performing “A Night Like This”.
#thecure
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Ethan Hawke explaining why *all* movies are great better than I ever could.
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Not everyone is entitled to the pit or the same seats the band’s friends & families sit in. But they should be entitled to a seat at a *fair* price. $256 for the worse seat in an arena isn’t fair.
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If you look up the word “slay” in the dictionary, it leads you to a link of this Bon Jovi performance of “Hey God” from the MTV Europe VMA’s in November 1995.
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Every single one is magical & special.
My vote for the best Doctor Who Christmas special is THE HUSBANDS OF RIVER SONG from the Peter Capaldi era.
Every single note of its 56-minute run time is pitch perfect.
#DoctorWho
Whovian listeners! Which is the best televised Christmas special?
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While everyone is rightfully complaining about how there was no cap on the Verified Fan sales for the best tickets, I feel as if these cheap seats are being overlooked. Not only are these horrible seats but the price is insulting. 23/
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Peter Gabriel & Jon Bon Jovi at Taylor Swift’s London concert.
Also, Peter Gabriel & Paul McCartney at the same show in the VIP tent.
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It’s all good but I say this to demonstrate how passionate Springsteen fans are & how one show isn’t enough per tour.
But what about that fan who has fallen on hard times & just need to be in the building to feel that magic? 14/
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.
@LivingColour
is a arresting band that helped lead the charge for the alternative movement of the ‘90s. We should talk & write about them more. Such a wildly manic & inventive band whose influence can still be heard today.
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Their greatest album. It’s the culmination of their powers over the previous decade leading up to this release.
I wrote about it for
@dayinrock
My review:
#BonJovi
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Props to the Boss for showing up for the kid he used to hop on stage with in Asbury Park in the ‘70s.
Bon Jovi & Bruce Springsteen perform 'Who Says You Can't Go Home'
Lindablossbaum IG
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I have heard the news that producer Peter Collins died.
Peter produced some of my favorite albums of all time.
He contained multitudes & had a way of bringing out the best in every artist (Queensryche, Bon Jovi, Rush, Indigo Girls) he worked with.
He will be missed.
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I gifted this to a friend today on the hopes they find something to love in it. I can’t stomach much of the last 15-20 years, but this album will always bring me to my knees.
I wrote a ridiculously long piece on this in 2009:
#BonJovi
@TheRealSambora
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