The cover consists of a wet black garbage bag with the words "Slippery When Wet" traced in the water. Our testosterone was at a very high level back then." We just sat there and said, 'We will be here every day.' That energized us through the whole project. When she got in a shower and soaped herself up, we just about lost our tongues. According to Sambora, "This woman descended from the ceiling on a pole and proceeded to take all her clothes off. A proposed cover with the band dressed as cowboys was later used for the single release of the track of the same name.Īccording to Bon Jovi, the band named the album Slippery When Wet after visiting The No.5 Orange strip club in Vancouver, British Columbia. The album's name was changed during its inception, including Wanted Dead or Alive. It would be ideal for them, but they're not having it, because it's even better for us." Title and artwork In 1986, Bon Jovi said "There's a song called 'Love Is A Social Disease' that Aerosmith were keen to get hold of. The song has never been performed live by the band, though a fan favorite.
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Here's my formal apology." Featured on the soundtrack to the 1987 movie Disorderlies, it has since been released on the 2-CD edition of Cross Road, the box set 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong and the B-side for the Livin' on a Prayer single album. Bon Jovi has since said it should have been included: "It was absolutely appropriate for the Slippery record-coulda, shoulda, woulda been on Slippery had cooler minds prevailed. One of the songs written during the making of the album, " Edge of a Broken Heart", is not on the final release. Sambora convinced him it was a hit in the making, and so the band rerecorded it, releasing the second version on the album. He hasn't tried to change what we are, but to refine it slightly to suggest extra ways that we could wring a bit more out of what we had." īon Jovi was initially reluctant to include "Livin' on a Prayer", believing it was not good enough. But that got changed, and our A&R guy came up with Desmond's name . Jon Bon Jovi explained, "I liked what Bryan Adams had done with Tina Turner so I suggested we do something similar: I write a song for someone like her, and then we do the song together. He came to New Jersey, where they worked on the four songs in Sambora's mother's basement. This was the first time Child worked with Jon and Richie.
Much of the album was written by Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, whereas " You Give Love a Bad Name", " Livin' on a Prayer", "Without Love", and "I'd Die For You" were co-written with Desmond Child, and "Wild in the Streets" was by Bon Jovi alone.
The 1985 album Without Love which Fairbairn produced for the heavy metal band Black 'n Blue, attracted Jon Bon Jovi with its sound quality, and he immediately sought out the producer. Bruce Fairbairn was chosen as the main producer for the album, with Bob Rock as the mixer. Hiring Desmond Child as a collaborator, the band wrote 30 songs and auditioned them for local New Jersey (including recording artist and Phantom's Opera vocalist Colie Brice) and New York teenagers, basing the album's running order on their opinions. The band changed its approach for the next album, with a more mainstream sound than the heavier first two albums. Upon its 1985 release, 7800° Fahrenheit achieved moderate success, but Bon Jovi had not yet become superstars. Slippery When Wet is Bon Jovi's best-selling album to date, with an RIAA certification of 12× Platinum, making it one of the top 100 best-selling albums in the United States. Billboard 200 chart and was named by Billboard as the top-selling album of 1987. Slippery When Wet was an instant commercial success, spending eight weeks at No. The album has been called the album that " heavy metal into a radio-friendly pop format", and is also commonly seen as "a breakthrough for hair metal". The album features many of Bon Jovi's best-known songs, including " You Give Love a Bad Name", " Livin' on a Prayer", and " Wanted Dead or Alive". It was produced by Bruce Fairbairn, with recording sessions between January and July 1986 at Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was released on August 18, 1986, by Mercury Records in North America and Vertigo Records internationally. Slippery When Wet is the third studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi.
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