Today I received my cd and I totally love it! The new packing is very beautiful with new pictures of the band, especially of Jon and Richie! The two live tracks are amazing!!!! The best part of this edition is that you have access to "The official Bon Jovi Live Vault" that have a wonderful live version of "Hey God" and many pictures from the era! I never get tired to hear this cd, one of my favorite Bon Jovi's albums! I'm a huge fan and if you are too, you must have this edition! One more observation: on my cd it's written that the live version of "Something for the pain" is also included, but when you hear the whole cd this track isn't included. I thought this very strange, does anybody note that too?

These days may be the best album from Bon Jovi, this coming from a fan from the days of Runaway as a single on WAPP prior to their first album. The material on this release is darker than any other album/disc of theirs and I think the band benefits tremendously from it. After huge success they were going through issues with their original bass player, popularity was waning and who knows what other issues they may have been individually and collectively battling, the bottom line is a collection of introspective songs, dark themes and one great song after another, and it ROCKS!!. This is back in the days when JBJ was still singing "loaded 6 string on my back" live instead of the more PC "guitar", c'mon we KNOW the words and they work better in the original form!!!!!! They hadn't yet added a slew of other support musicians on stage, hell they were still a rock band fighting their way through what was a down period commercially before the resurgence that was CRUSH. It all adds up to my favorite studio release of theirs. Unheralded but that don't mean its not their best work.

I had this album previously on mp3. But it's a sh...t. Buy it in special edition mode! My favourite is Diamond ring, so you can hear acoustic guitar so good as Richie Sambora is sitting near you.

Bon Jovi released their sixth record "These Days" in 1995. By this time, Bon Jovi's brand of party metal was no longer the rage, and Bon Jovi adopted a more mature look and sound for the new decade of the 90's.

While I wouldn't call this album an all-out grunge record, it definitely has a decidedly alt-rock vibe about it. It definitely would sound closer to a grunge record than it would to "Slippery When Wet" or "New Jersey," that's for sure. While Bon Jovi was able to change their sound and image to remain relevant in the 90's, I feel like this album suffered some. The songs on this album never really caught me like previous Bon Jovi albums. I know many Bon Jovi diehards that tell me: You've got to give it quite a few listens. Trust me folks, I have, and it hasn't changed my opinion. I do like songs like "Hey God," "Something For The Pain," "These Days" and "Damned," but the rest sort of fell by the wayside.

If you like Bon Jovi you'll naturally want to check this album out. I can't say how you''l like it of course, but for me, i'll stick with their earlier releases.