*First pressing.
Contains 10 tracks total.
Country: U.S.A.Genre: Hard Rock
Label Number: 830 264-2 M-1
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© 1986 Mercury RecordsAllMusic Review by Andrew Leahey
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 Mötley Crüe 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.
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