Album Review: Bon Jovi - New Jersey (Deluxe Edition)

24 June 2014 | 10:20 am | Liz Giuffre

Thin Lizzy cover The Boys Are Back In Town is fun and some of the unreleased originals are hilarious (in the best way).

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Thirty years on and the New Jersey album is remastered so you can listen with the sound you couldn't afford back in the day, along with a collection of demos and B-sides. Thin Lizzy cover The Boys Are Back In Town is fun and some of the unreleased originals are hilarious (in the best way). Backdoor To Heaven could do without its harpsichord synth and slightly dodgy title (double-checking it wasn't a Spinal Tap remake!), while Love Hurts and House Of Fire go as far down the '80s hair-metal path as you'd ever need.