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by phaemon
2351 days ago
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This is the theme of Bon Jovi's ill-fated concept album "Dark When Wet", the followup to their smash hit "Slippery When Wet". Such commercial success must have gone to their heads to attempt such an audacious second project as a sequel based on Quantum Electrodynamics. It was doomed to failure. Re-interpretations of their classics, such as "Wanted, Dead or Alive - Schrödinger Redux" failed to capture the live animal energy of the original, and "Livin' on a Fermion", with lyrics such as "Pauli used to work on the docks/That's not even wrong/He'd have fallen right through/It's tough" left not only their core audience baffled, but indeed all sentient beings. Hardly surprising that Mercury Record buried all mention of the album (and will deny it to this day). They returned to more familiar ground with "Jersey Shore", but lament the death of the Concept Album with this last, brave attempt. |
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