Album Reviews: 'The Circle' by Bon Jovi, 'From the Hut, to the Projects, to the Mansion' by Wyclef Jeanpublished Mon, Nov 09 2009 23:00 GMT
Bon Jovi circles back to blue-collar platitudes
Bon Jovi, 'The Circle' * 1/2 (out of four) "Who's gonna work for the working man?" wonders Jon Bon Jovi on the new album by the long-running outfit that bears his name. Well, Bon Jovi is up to the job: On "The Circle" (Island), this band of Jersey boys makes a recession-appropriate return (after appealing forays into pop and country) to its old blue-collar arena-rock style; "Work for the Working Man" even recycles the pumping talk-box groove from the band's 1986 smash "Livin' on a Prayer," and lifts the factory-floor sound effects from Billy Joel's "Allentown" for good measure.
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