If Bill and Ted produced a rock album, it would sound like this. Let the haggling begin!īon Jovi's fourth album, 'New Jersey,' was released in the fall of 1988 and went on to sell 7 million copies in the U.S. In honor of the band's current tour, we ranked all the studio albums, not counting Burning Bridges-technically a compilation-or the acoustic rehashes of This Left Feels Right. Sometimes derided as the poor man's Springsteen because of their shared Jersey roots, Bon Jovi deserves respect (no, really!) for combining the Boss's working-dude appeal with hard-rock sleaze and managing to evolve and endure after the '80s faded. Frontman Jon Bon Jovi's gravelly voice and knack for soaring, arena-ready hooks, coupled with the band's reliably bombastic pop-metal riffs, made Bon Jovi into an indelible hit machine. And if you hate Bon Jovi-well, you ought to give them some credit for pissing you off for this many years.īon Jovi's bottomless appetite for crunchy riffs and lovestruck ballads has been documented on 13 studio albums. If you're a Bon Jovi fan, such astonishing longevity is a gift that makes its disciples happy and its singer very rich.

No other artifact from the hair-metal era has shown the same persistence. If the rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey, formed in 1983, were a person, it would be old enough to run for president. 'It's about time,' Jon Bon Jovi said as his band was inducted-finally-into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April.

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