BEST/MOST "BON JOVI'S NEW JERSEY" ALBUM EVER

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i have a theory that every super popular artist has a "New Jersey" - like Bon Jovi's album New Jersey -- where it's still super popular and even more popular than the albums that preceded it but there's some sense that the gig is up.

― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, August 7, 2012 11:21 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the post that launch a handful of nerds to wikipedia. here's a list of 33 multi-platinum albums from big artists that undeniably did well, possibly even better than the album before it, but turned out to be an obvious sign of decline in hindsight. Explanations for the individual choices and a prolonged discussion of what exactly a NEW JERSEY is can be found here: Every huge artist has their "New Jersey" - a huge event album that ultimately feels a bit hollow & signals a career decline

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Guns'n'Roses, Use Your Illusion I & II (7x platinum each) 15
Michael Jackson, Dangerous (7x platinum) 10
R.E.M., Monster (4x platinum) 7
U2, Rattle & Hum (5x platinum) 5
ZZ Top, Afterburner (5x platinum) 3
Eminem, Encore (4x platinum) 2
Boston, Don't Look Back (7x platinum) 2
Backstreet Boys, Black & Blue (8x platinum) 2
Mariah Carey, Butterfly (5x platinum) 1
Huey Lewis, Fore! (3x platinum) 1
U2, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (3x platinum) 1
AC/DC, For Those About To Rock We Salute You (4x platinum) 1
Def Leppard, Adrenalize (3x platinum) 1
Garth Brooks, Sevens (10x platinum) 1
Billy Joel, River Of Dreams (5x platinum) 1
Bon Jovi, New Jersey (7x platinum) 1
Bob Seger, Against The Wind (5x platinum) 0
New Kids On The Block, Step By Step (3x platinum) 0
Hammer, Too Legit To Quit (3x platinum) 0
Rod Stewart, Blondes Have More Fun (3x platinum) 0
Foreigner, Agent Provocateur (3x platinum) 0
Celine Dion, Let's Talk About Love (10x platinum) 0
Paula Abdul, Spellbound (3x platinum) 0
Eagles, The Long Run (7x platinum) 0
Spice Girls, Spiceworld (4x platinum) 0
Lionel Richie, Dancing On The Ceiling (4x platinum) 0
Creed, Weathered (6x platinum) 0
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, The Art Of War (4x platinum) 0
Phil Collins, ...But Seriously (4x platinum) 0
Limp Bizkit, Chocolate Starfish & The Hot Dog Flavored Water (6x platinum) 0
Journey, Frontiers (6x platinum) 0
50 Cent, The Massacre (5x platinum) 0
Nickelback, Dark Horse (3x platinum) 0


da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:22 (9 months ago) Permalink

Shit, best/most overlap is going to make this HARD.

Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:24 (9 months ago) Permalink

you can vote for best if that's easier or most if that's easier, the point is to follow your heart

da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:24 (9 months ago) Permalink

just think of the general concept, look over the list, and listen to the voice within

da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:25 (9 months ago) Permalink

I'm gonna go "most" moreso, maybe it'll help resolve some of the outstanding question marks from the previous thread about what exactly a NJ feels like. Plus, the more NJ it is, the more it's likely it's not really a great record, although I bet some of these are underrated gems precisely because they've been tagged as the start of the decline or whatever.

At the moment, thinking Use Your Illusion has the steepest drop in CW, from "biggest album in the world" to "bloated mess, sell it back and just get your fix from Appetite." Dangerous also has a bit of that going on, but the ten singles from UYI is hard to get past.

Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:30 (9 months ago) Permalink

I voted Afterburner. Seems to fit the concept the most, and I wouldn't mind hearing it now

Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Friday, 10 August 2012 14:31 (9 months ago) Permalink

Guns 'N' Roses for me. Disappeared up the ass of their ambition and yet still created something that has moments of magic.

EZ Snappin, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:32 (9 months ago) Permalink

personally likely to vote for Monster - I love it and yet the "buyer's remorse" is notorious. Also love Afterburner, The Massacre, Chocolate Starfish and Dangerous.

da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:33 (9 months ago) Permalink

The actual answer, THIRD STAGE, is now gone, so I guess Use Your Illusion or Fore! Will contemplate.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 10 August 2012 14:35 (9 months ago) Permalink

Key posts from the other thread IMO:

I feel like some people aren't getting that a New Jersey isn't a flop, and isn't an album that still makes Best of the Decade lists

― da croupier, Tuesday, August 7, 2012 1:32 PM Bookmark

New Jersey was the first album I ever got (that wasn't e.g. something taped off my Mum's friend's kid or something). IIRC, the local album rock station played the whole thing when it came out. Even then, I think I kind of felt that it was an event yet not quite the same as "You Give Love a Bad Name" and "Livin' on a Prayer".

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, August 7, 2012 3:39 PM Bookmark

For my money, a New Jersey has little to do with subsequent quality drop-off - that is, I don't think it needs the "beginning of the end" clause in the definition...because then we're really just talking about "big albums that weren't as good as the previous one and were better than the ones that followed." What's interesting to me about the NJ phenomenon is the idea of an album that sells huge, spawns SEVERAL hits, and yet kind of disappears from the band's narrative, legacy, canonic list of concert staples, whatever. (...) It's a monster hit album that just had no long-term constituency, no traction in people's hearts, and no hope of making the "best of decade" countdown circuit. (...)

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, August 7, 2012 5:38 PM Bookmark

the New Jersey: a huge event album that's massive by all reasonable standards but is shadowed by the album(s) that ironically are the only reason it was massive, since it was pretty damn shallow on its own merits (i.e. New Jersey, Spellbound, For Those About To Rock, Spirits Having Flown, Afterburner, Fore!, Be Here Now in the UK)

the Fairweather Johnson: a huge event album that still sells better than it should've thanks to the band's previous success, but one could almost immediately sense fortunes going considerably southward even if one was a fan (i.e. Fairweather Johnson, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, Nine Lives, Be Here Now in the US)

― da croupier, Wednesday, August 8, 2012 7:25 PM Bookmark

Worst Summer job ever was working at the Tilly Balloon Co. (the Monster artwork is one of their balloons).
Spending all day "testing" balloons. Put balloon over spigot... send air into balloon... balloon pops in your face 3x outta 10 (no, you DON'T get used to this).

Was still more fun than listening to "Monster" though.

― mr.raffles, Thursday, August 9, 2012 9:38 AM Bookmark

Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:38 (9 months ago) Permalink

while I apologize for my moment of weakness re: third stage, I do like that every one of these albums are like a lame duck presidential term, with U2 as Grover Cleveland

da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:39 (9 months ago) Permalink

The alarming thing is that there is someone's dad, somewhere, whose record collection includes everything on this list, and no other CDs.

Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:42 (9 months ago) Permalink

After all that, Gaga's not even one of the choices?

Eric H., Friday, 10 August 2012 14:45 (9 months ago) Permalink

didn't go 3x platinum, we don't know if it's a clear decline yet

da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:45 (9 months ago) Permalink

Celine Dion and Backstreet Boys seem like the best choices for "most."

Eric H., Friday, 10 August 2012 14:46 (9 months ago) Permalink

g'n'r def had the most epic "go away, go away, oh won't you please go away, why aren't you going away" of the bunch

da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:47 (9 months ago) Permalink

unless we count the entire careers of wings and van hagar

da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:48 (9 months ago) Permalink

Not here, not now...but sooner or later, croup, we're going to have it out over Wings.

Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:51 (9 months ago) Permalink

just realized one arguable absence - a supergroup album that did better than the last albums by their old bands while ironically cementing their future negligibility. An album named Audioslave.

da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:52 (9 months ago) Permalink

Best: Dangerous
Most: Yeah, def Backstreet Boys

Eric H., Friday, 10 August 2012 14:53 (9 months ago) Permalink

xpost though the fact that both groups, esp soundgarden, had already suffered a drop makes it less than a crucial inclusion

da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:53 (9 months ago) Permalink

The alarming thing is that there is someone's dad, somewhere, whose record collection includes everything on this list, and no other CDs.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, August 10, 2012 10:42 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol yes, virtually all of the ones released from 91 to 94 were owned by someone in my household -- Use Your Illusion, River Of Dreams, Too Legit To Quit, Monster, Adrenalize, Dangerous, We Can't Dance, alla dat

Pollopolicía (some dude), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:04 (9 months ago) Permalink

Will probably go with Dangerous, but I won't count out Monster or The Massacre or ....But Seriously

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:10 (9 months ago) Permalink

i'm torn between Use Your Illusion and Chocolate Starfish for terribly entertaining hard rock indulgence

Pollopolicía (some dude), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:11 (9 months ago) Permalink

ben stiller, you are my favorite muthafucka...i told you, didn't i?

da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:14 (9 months ago) Permalink

alice cooper you are my favorite muthafucka!

Pollopolicía (some dude), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:15 (9 months ago) Permalink

"That means you andy secher at hit parader, circus magazine!"

da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:17 (9 months ago) Permalink

YOU WANNA ANTAGONIZE ME? ANTAGONIZE ME, MOTHERFUCKER!

Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:17 (9 months ago) Permalink

seriously, i make "Get In The Ring" references in conversation every few months and nobody ever has the slightest idea what it is i'm doing an impression of

Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:17 (9 months ago) Permalink

Is anyone actually going to vote for New Jersey?

Matt DC, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:18 (9 months ago) Permalink

of course not. which is really what makes it the ultimate archetype of the form.

Pollopolicía (some dude), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:18 (9 months ago) Permalink

seriously, i make "Get In The Ring" references in conversation every few months and nobody ever has the slightest idea what it is i'm doing an impression of

― Doctor Casino, Friday, August 10, 2012 11:17 AM (34 seconds ago) Bookmark

you should be grateful to the friends that stuck with you through all the fuckin' shit

Pollopolicía (some dude), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:19 (9 months ago) Permalink

in 2000 a diamond album had a three-way bj fantasy involving the ICP, and a 5x platinum album had a song about how mad Fred durst was when he saw his face on a plate in the "Starfuckers Inc" video.

da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:21 (9 months ago) Permalink

TS: durst vs axl, which guy was a bigger dick and made you happier when their new jersey sent them unknowingly off into the fields of pathetic irrelevance

Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:23 (9 months ago) Permalink

I mean on personality alone, few things signal "fuck this band" like "Get In The Ring," which aside from making the band look like complete clowns, is also just a boring filler rock track raising the question of why they needed a damned double album.

Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:24 (9 months ago) Permalink

tbf axl sent himself off to more of a degree

da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:25 (9 months ago) Permalink

Axl is a genuine bastard, at this point Fred just seems like an extroverted Smiths fan

Pollopolicía (some dude), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:26 (9 months ago) Permalink

also Doc there was quite a love-in about "Get In The Ring" as a song on a GNR thread recently, that riff slays imo

Pollopolicía (some dude), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:26 (9 months ago) Permalink

in 2003 Fred Durst made videos where he made out with Thora Birch and Halle Berry and America was smart enough to only let it go platinum, while if Axl had brought out some riffs and/or dolphins in the mid-'90s who knows if we would have been strong

da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:27 (9 months ago) Permalink

tbf Axl DID go platinum with an album of New York Dolls and Charles Manson covers

Pollopolicía (some dude), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:29 (9 months ago) Permalink

lol i never realized this but The Spaghetti Incident outsold Chinese Democracy!

Pollopolicía (some dude), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:30 (9 months ago) Permalink

The Spaghetti Incident is the only GNR album I own, and it's great.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 10 August 2012 15:58 (9 months ago) Permalink

also Doc there was quite a love-in about "Get In The Ring" as a song on a GNR thread recently, that riff slays imo

― Pollopolicía (some dude), Friday, August 10, 2012 11:26 AM Bookmark

O_o seriously? Seems like the most by-the-numbers workout to me, but I guess I'm not a GNR fan as such.

Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 August 2012 15:59 (9 months ago) Permalink

Is anyone actually going to vote for New Jersey?
― Matt DC, Friday, August 10, 2012 10:18 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

of course not. which is really what makes it the ultimate archetype of the form.
― Pollopolicía (some dude), Friday, August 10, 2012 10:18 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sooo OTM.

Eric H., Friday, 10 August 2012 16:05 (9 months ago) Permalink

Best album: UYI or Dangerous. Both records are fascinating in part because they're grotesque - periodic fits of grandstanding, incessant superstar whining about victimization at the hands of the media, portentous intros, fades and overdub-city overproduction. All of which signal egos spinning out of control and production budgets pumped beyond all reason by their industry enablers more audibly than almost any music before or since. And even with all that cash the results are still more workmanlike than their breakthrough predecessors. Yet both albums showcase plenty of Good Art that requires no introduction, previous fanship or goodwill on the part of the listener to be appreciated. All of which is maybe why these records are also two of the most Jersey-esque even if they're almost too good for the category. I voted UYI on the grounds that I still listen to it all the time, though if we're talking "best" Dangerous would probably be the more aesthetically defensible answer. There's too much audible strain on Dangerous for me to really enjoy it as much as I'd like to.

mobs of burly teen christgaus (thewufs), Friday, 10 August 2012 18:21 (9 months ago) Permalink

I get what you're saying about Dangerous, but OTOH uh-huh, told you, it ain't to much for me to JAM *breaks glass*

keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 10 August 2012 18:26 (9 months ago) Permalink

One thing that's funny about Monster is how it sounds very New Jersey, campy hard rock bubblegum with ridiculous conceits like "tongue." But REM's Slippery When Wets had mandolins and stream-of-conscious meditations on death and love. Somehow they managed to make a very normal fade-out after a very bizarre success. They thought "let's remind them we're a rock band"...forgetting that rock bands often have a new jersey by the third big hit album.

da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 18:29 (9 months ago) Permalink

djp otm

Pollopolicía (some dude), Friday, 10 August 2012 18:31 (9 months ago) Permalink

all I really remember about Monster is that at the time I really loved "Bang and Blame"

keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 10 August 2012 18:31 (9 months ago) Permalink

worst song by far!

Pollopolicía (some dude), Friday, 10 August 2012 18:32 (9 months ago) Permalink

Wow, damn, didn't realize that.

Sorta gives some lie to the "#1 used CD" story, which kind of implies people buying it, deciding it sucked, and selling it back. You'd think by six months in the word of mouth would be out and people would have stopped buying the thing.

Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 August 2012 19:26 (9 months ago) Permalink

i think it just took a while to happen, Monster being "acceptable in the '90s" and sticking out like a neon orange thumb a couple years later

da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 19:35 (9 months ago) Permalink

voted Rattle & Hum as the most New Jersey album. "Angel of Harlem" remains supremely hollow: list a bunch of names & places, "tonight this city belongs to me". Angel, alright.

the Charles Manson opening

also on one of the singles you have

"Love Rescue Me" (Live from London, 16 October 1988; featuring Ziggy Marley and Keith Richards)

hoping they turn it into a reggae theme!

Euler, Friday, 10 August 2012 19:35 (9 months ago) Permalink

Voted for the only one of these I've ever heard. (Rattle & Hum)

Your sweet bippy is going to hell (WmC), Friday, 10 August 2012 19:39 (9 months ago) Permalink

you should hear Dangerous shamon, told you, uh-huh, it will change your life *breaks another glass*

keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 10 August 2012 19:41 (9 months ago) Permalink

I totally love about half the songs on Dangerous - track-by-track it's clearly, indisputably stronger than UYI II, my pick of the GNR twofer - but somehow it's even harder to get through from beginning to end

It tails off at the end but "Give In To Me" does megalomania/sexual hysteria – not to mention slash guitar actually played by Slash – better than "Dirty Diana."

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 August 2012 19:42 (9 months ago) Permalink

"Who Is It?" is one of my favorite MJ songs

keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 10 August 2012 19:42 (9 months ago) Permalink

it took me a long time to admit dangerous qualified just because i liked so many of the tracks

da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 19:44 (9 months ago) Permalink

"Who Is It" is top ten MJ imo

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 August 2012 19:45 (9 months ago) Permalink

Really convinced Monster is more of a US-style Be Here Now - aside from early sales gigantism, it lacks "event" status

Whoa, it seemed like an event to me but I was a fan. Douglas Coupland's Microserfs (lol 90s) came out the same year and was half a tribute to the release of Monster.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 10 August 2012 19:47 (9 months ago) Permalink

yeah this kind of why i'm rmde every time somebody quibbles about "Event" status - if you're an established artist going multi-platinum, PLENTY of people think it's an event.

da croupier, Friday, 10 August 2012 19:49 (9 months ago) Permalink

I'm sure he's happy and I'm happy he's happy but in song and performance Stipe was the most unconvincing queer. A year after my intense Roxy/Bowie fandom, I really dug the intentions of "Crush With Eyeliner" but it's not as sexy as he thought it was.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 August 2012 19:50 (9 months ago) Permalink

Most: New Jersey or Don't Look Back
Best: Monster

EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 10 August 2012 19:54 (9 months ago) Permalink

Was "Crush with Eyeliner" supposed to be sexy? It makes the most sense to me as a song about a closet case forcing himself to date a woman.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 10 August 2012 19:57 (9 months ago) Permalink

xxxpost hahaha seriously? makes me want to read that book! I didn't get into REM until "Bittersweet Me" so all this is me catching up on things after the fact - pay me no mind.

"Who Is It" definitely one of my fave MJ songs too, but man, this album! Surely this is the point where MJ the megastar begins to be overtaken by MJ the cartoon weirdo? Obviously tons of non-musical events playing into that but it's somehow exactly the kind of record that fits that transformation; preposterously self-confident, the tics and signature moves flying all over the place to constantly assert territory, this "doth protest too much" proclamations of BIGNESS against all comers. "Jam" is nearly six minutes long and never actually becomes a song - it's just state-of-the-art kitchen-sink dance production shuttling loudly along with a bunch of random crap in the mix and MJ periodically squeaking out verses and blurting out the title. Oh and hey here's a faceless rap! Are those sleighbells?! Just a mess. I'm reminded of Ismael's discussion of the "Bad Medicine" listening experience on the other thread. And this is the opening salvo!

Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 August 2012 19:57 (9 months ago) Permalink

Monster was definitely an event, magazine covers galore, biggest band in the world that hadn't toured in literally years getting back on the road. the "Kenneth" video premiere with the delayed reveal of BALD STIPE was a big deal! he even beat Corgan to the headshaving move by like a year and a half.

Pollopolicía (some dude), Friday, 10 August 2012 19:58 (9 months ago) Permalink

plus song about Kurt, health scares, it was a media circus.

Pollopolicía (some dude), Friday, 10 August 2012 20:00 (9 months ago) Permalink

That era produced the best REM interviews imo

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 August 2012 20:02 (9 months ago) Permalink

"Jam" is nearly six minutes long and never actually becomes a song - it's just state-of-the-art kitchen-sink dance production shuttling loudly along with a bunch of random crap in the mix and MJ periodically squeaking out verses and blurting out the title.

just close your eyes and imagine this as a Skinny Puppy or Meat Beat Manifesto track

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 August 2012 20:03 (9 months ago) Permalink

Oh and hey here's a faceless rap!

I didn't think it was possible for me to roll my eyes this hard. If there's one person who was "totally faceless" in the early 90s, it was Heavy D!

keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 10 August 2012 20:07 (9 months ago) Permalink

Oh and hey here's a faceless rap!

are you fucking kidding me

keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 10 August 2012 20:10 (9 months ago) Permalink

yeah this kind of why i'm rmde every time somebody quibbles about "Event" status - if you're an established artist going multi-platinum, PLENTY of people think it's an event.
The 'event' thing is very much to do with how the album is promoted imo, plus how it's covered by critcs/the media, perhaps more than how many people actually end up liking/buying it.

I Shall Be Re-Released (Mr Andy M), Friday, 10 August 2012 20:11 (9 months ago) Permalink

so i take it i should...recognize that guy

Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 August 2012 20:15 (9 months ago) Permalink

voted Rattle & Hum as the most New Jersey album. "Angel of Harlem" remains supremely hollow: list a bunch of names & places, "tonight this city belongs to me". Angel, alright.

the Charles Manson opening

also on one of the singles you have

"Love Rescue Me" (Live from London, 16 October 1988; featuring Ziggy Marley and Keith Richards)

hoping they turn it into a reggae theme!

― Euler

R&H i sincerely believe gets a bum rap if only because the studio tracks are generally quite good or at least fairly interesting, it's the live stuff that seems to bear the brunt of the criticism.

van diemen's land
desire
hawkmoon 269
angel of harlem
love rescue me
when love comes to town
heartland
god pt II
all i want is you

if they'd released those as a 9 track album it probably would have been less of an event, perhaps sold less, but today might be looked upon as even an underrated entry in the catalog as opposed to a bloated mess. the worst songs are probably 'angel of harlem' and 'when love comes to town', mostly because they're clunky and obvious but they're still listenable imo. at least much of the time. they probably should have released the live tracks separately and only to their fan club or something.

omar little, Friday, 10 August 2012 20:19 (9 months ago) Permalink

lol stupid browser didn't refresh for me and I didn't think either of those posts went through

but yes, you should know who Heavy D is

keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 10 August 2012 20:30 (9 months ago) Permalink

he was an overweight lover iirc

Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 August 2012 20:44 (9 months ago) Permalink

After all that, it seemed a bit wrong to not vote for Don't Look Back.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 10 August 2012 21:51 (9 months ago) Permalink

I am nothing if not committed.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 10 August 2012 21:52 (9 months ago) Permalink

Man, I'm listening to Don't Look Back on Spotify and it sure is a trebly mastering. Ouch.

timellison, Friday, 10 August 2012 22:39 (9 months ago) Permalink

that's that classic Rockman (TM) tone, brah

Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 August 2012 22:44 (9 months ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:01 (9 months ago) Permalink

Finally had to toss a coin between UYI and Dangerous, went with the latter on the strength of Heavy D's earth-shaking, instantly iconic guest rap.

Doctor Casino, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:09 (9 months ago) Permalink

went with the former on the strength of Alice Cooper's earth-shaking, instantly iconic guest rap.

some dude, Monday, 20 August 2012 01:34 (9 months ago) Permalink

IT'S GLAD TO KNOW YA

hamlisch kilgour (get bent), Monday, 20 August 2012 01:35 (9 months ago) Permalink

<3

some dude, Monday, 20 August 2012 01:36 (9 months ago) Permalink

I don't think there's much doubt that the most "New Jersey" album on this list is Backstreet Boys. It may even be a better example than "New Jersey" itself.

justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 20 August 2012 14:08 (9 months ago) Permalink

That's what I voted for, after hovering on New Jersey for awhile.

Eric H., Monday, 20 August 2012 14:23 (9 months ago) Permalink

bump medicine is what i need

some dude, Monday, 20 August 2012 23:11 (9 months ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 00:01 (9 months ago) Permalink

finally voted for Dangerous

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 00:10 (9 months ago) Permalink

justice

some dude, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 00:18 (9 months ago) Permalink

(breaks a glass)

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 00:19 (9 months ago) Permalink

i wish i had listened to The Long Run while the poll was open, it has probably the best set of singles of any of these albums

some dude, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 00:53 (9 months ago) Permalink

Michael Jackson, Dangerous (7x platinum) 10
Bon Jovi, New Jersey (7x platinum) 1

ILX, I just don't know about you. Unless those were 10 votes for "best."

Eric H., Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:16 (9 months ago) Permalink

I voted Dangerous for "best".

The Reverend, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:38 (9 months ago) Permalink

In that case, Dangerous gets 11 votes.

Eric H., Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:40 (9 months ago) Permalink

I think I could make a use your illusion 1 disc edit as good as dangerous

Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 12:16 (9 months ago) Permalink

easily

some dude, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 13:31 (9 months ago) Permalink

Can't wait for Drake to put out one of these.

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 13:48 (9 months ago) Permalink

(Probably structurally impossible given the way albums are marketed now, but man, his "Get In The Ring" could be astounding.)

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 13:49 (9 months ago) Permalink


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