^ if anything that's maybe the best of both worlds- you get to take the moral high ground and disagree with the band's direction, but still pocket the pay cheque.
Hmmm, sounds more like a complete sell-out to me :? . But at a good price. :P
Loved their early stuff - was a big fan of the first 3 albums
New Jersey was pants - trying too hard to be Springsteen
Keep the Faith was good but albums after that had 1 good song each and the rest was dire
They moved too far away from their hard rock roots and lost the edge they had
7800 farenheit was a much better album than people realise but it suffered with poor production
Some really good guitar work on it
Pretty much agreed, but for me the cut-off point was the end of side one of
Slippery.... :
Side 1 (Magic): Let It Rock, You Give Love a Bad Name, Livin' on a Prayer, Social Disease, Wanted Dead or Alive
Side 2 (Tragic): Raise Your Hands, Without Love, I'd Die for You, Never Say Goodbye, Wild in the Streets
Since then they've been uniformly shite.
(I went to see them on the 7800° Fahrenheit tour, 25 years later a friend of mine still accuses me of being "their biggest fan". :| )
