Burning Bridges (2015)/ Bon Jovi

Een cadeautje voor de echte Bon Jovi-fan: 10 nooit eerder uitgebrachte Bon Jovi-songs die nog op de plank waren blijven liggen. "Labeled not as a new record but a 'fan album', "Burning Bridges" contains, in Jon Bon Jovi's words, "songs that weren't finished, that were finished, a couple of new ones." In a way, it clears the deck for a new incarnation of Bon Jovi, without guitarist Richie Sambora. He gets a co-credit on "Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning," a song dating back to "The Circle" that's easily one of the liveliest things here, rivaled by "I'm Your Man," which punches like it was left over from "New Jersey". For the rest it's pretty clear that this is a contractual obligation album. Just in case you missed the point he lays it all out in the closing title song, singing "After 30 years of loyalty, they let you dig the grave/Now maybe you can learn to sing or even strum along/Well I'll give you half the publishing, you're why I wrote this song. Here's a last song you can sell/Let's call it "Burning Bridges", it's a singalong as well...hope my money and my masters buy a front-row seat in hell."" (AllMusic)