It kicked off a long-delayed deep dive in to Lee Perry. But also it left me feeling hollow enough that by the time T5B came out, I didn’t feel the need to explore. I’d have been happy if they just released instro jams like The Mix Up after that, collab’ing with Tommy Guerrero and the like. Like, the idea that there’s some kind of objective universal rule that can be derived from Bon Jovi’s 1988 album New Jersey (which I would probably rate as highly as Slippery When Wet fwiw) is more absurd than people talking about albums that felt a bit hollow to them.

Innervisions and Talking Book are much better records. I don’t think anyone listened to Key of Life even years later and thought, “Well, this sounds hollow and his popularity will start to sag.” He won three Album of the Year Grammys; the dude was due for a fall. Have we talked about Prince and Stevie Wonder already ? I’m not sure they had a NJ, actually, which is surprising for such major stars with such a long career and that many albums.

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Or maybe even Welcome To The Pleasuredome, I remember the expectation around the album was huge but it seemed like a Grand Statement that fell pretty flat. I would say it’s probably Dangerous, that was MJ’s first CD-length album and clearly was meant to be the start of a new era, free from QJ, on to a different sound, etc. etc. And there were a ton of singles from it but compared to Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad, only maybe one of them is still ubiquitous today (and that one is one of his most routinely mocked). There are many reasons to choose this site over the other casinos listed here, such as payment methods or promotions.

The album also debuted at No. 1 in the UK and was the band’s first UK No. 1 album. There was basically no momentum to speak of with “keeps gettin’ better” — it was technically a top ten ‘hit’ on the strength of first-week download sales (i.e. her diehard fans), but it tumbled off the charts shortly after. I barely heard it on the radio at the time and naturally have never heard it since then. Aren’t New Jerseys supposed to become apparent only after a certain amount of time has passed? I mean Bon Jovi was still hugely popular around the time of New Jersey. It’s only in retrospect that people realize that this wasn’t quite as good as previous efforts and its effects show up in the sales of the post-New Jersey album.

• I remain convinced Tattoo You qualifies in the outlines, even if it did not mean people stopped buying subsequent Rolling Stones records.
• In other words I think it ticked that ‘this’ll be the one to make him a long-term concern’ category, it debuted at number one and spent a few months in the top 20.
• It still amazes me that Carter 4 managed to sell well over half of what Carter 3 sold, nobody’s going to remember any of those songs within a couple years.
• 360 deals became the norm when album sales fell off a cliff.
• Well, the huge hit was their first Top 40 hit since 1987 and the album sales matched Ill Communication’s.

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MTV was doing a “man on the street” segment where they gave fans a copy of the album and everybody’s reaction was “yeah cool pretty good” but not like the fervor around the first two. I feel like Yield was after the sheen had worn off. “Given to Fly” and “In Hiding” got radio play but excitement about them was muted, other than people whining that G2F was a “Going to California” jack. Last time I heard Vitalogy I was actually surprised by how un-New Jersey it sounded. I also recall about half of the album received heavy to medium FM rotation. An old one, but Deep Purple’s Who Do We Think We Are?

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I feel like that’s the magic element, an emptiness born of mass delusion, that turns a mere Agent Provocateur into a full-blown Use Your Illusion. Pretty sure a lot of those albums have never left people’s disc-changers, let alone gotten sold back to the store or forgotten about. But I haven’t followed his career with any attention at all so there could be one that’s thought of as more of a dud, I guess. Yeah i guess hammer even more so….he’s more comparable to garth because he had multiple successful albums….vanilla ice was destined to be more of a one hit wonder and those guys can’t really new jersey by definition.

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Human Touch-Lucky Town flopped and didn’t produce any big singles either. He spent the rest of the nineties after “Streets of Philadelphia” going purposefully low key. If PJ has one it’s probably No Code, but i feel like they pulled a Sting and managed to shift into emeritus status without a real “why do I own this?” moment – admittedly in part because few bought it. Since it was the first album I got, I know the damn thing inside out. Have really vivid memories of the liner notes, even.

I can think of a few huge plummets from albums one to two, like Duffy and Emeli Sandé, that go beyond even Fairweather Johnson territory. Whereas, say, Dido’s earlier plummet was after her second album (her second album is very NJ-ish, not incidentally). I wonder if bands that appeal to people who don’t really follow music (Hootie, etc) are especially vulnerable to this phenomenon. “Breathless” was their only UK number one and their biggest hit in Ireland, as well as finally giving the band a hit in the US where they were strangely never as big as they could have been. I have fond memories – G&R were very enmeshed in my high school years, and I think I was consciously enjoying it as our version of an overblown 70s rock experience- Dazed and Confused had just come out maybe?

The most successful later outings had at most one single that really made an impact (e.g. “got your money”). I wasn’t listening to rap radio or BET super regularly in the late 90s/early 00s but i have the vague sense that the genre was going through shifts comparable to rock radio in the late 90s/early 00s, that may have left acts like the wu a little out of step? One of those “the genre/audience changed out from under them” scenarios, common to many NJ’s. Also the numbers are there – iirc, up to that point, killa beez had sold fifty gold, sixty platinum.