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Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet (Vinyl) Original Japanese Pressing With Obi
Mercury Records (1986)

5.00 out of 5 based on 1 customer rating
(1 customer review )

$125.00

Super Rare Japanese First Pressing With Original Cover & Complete With Highly Collectable Obi Strip! Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics. Features “You Give Love A Bad Name”, “Livin’ On A Prayer”, “Wanted Dead Or Alive” & More!

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SKU: 28PP-1025 OBI Categories: Japanese Pressings, Pop, Rarities, Rock Tag: Bon Jovi
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Super Rare High Quality 1986 Japanese First Pressing With Original Cover & Complete With Highly Collectable Obi Strip! Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics In English & Japanese. Labels Are Clean.

A Special Edition Of The Smash Hit LP By Bon Jovi… Issued Only In Japan, This Alternate Cover To ‘Slippery When Wet’ Was A Lot More Up Front Than The One That Was On General Release! Superior Sound Too.

Features “You Give Love A Bad Name”, “Livin’ On A Prayer”, “Wanted Dead Or Alive”, “Raise Your Hands” & More!

Condition – Vinyl: VERY GOOD PLUS! Surface shows two or three small blemishes, but they do not affect the GREAT sound at all. Vinyl looks VG+ / Plays EX!

Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Minor corner / edge wear.

Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Nicet condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.

Side 1:
Let It Rock
You Give Love A Bad Name
Livin’ On A Prayer
Social Disease
Wanted Dead Or Alive

Side 2:
Raise Your Hands
Without Love
I’d Die For You
Never Say Goodbye
Wild In The Streets

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Japan

Condition

VG+ / EX

Format

LP

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1 review for Bon Jovi – Slippery When Wet (Vinyl) Original Japanese Pressing With Obi
Mercury Records (1986)

  1. geoffofdunnlirium@hotmail.com
    5 out of 5

    AMG – June 6, 2021

    Featuring the teenage anthems “Living on a Prayer” and “You Give Love a Bad Name”, Slippery When Wet presented a streamlined combination of pop, hard rock, and metal that appealed to everyone -- especially girls. Slippery When Wet wasn't just a breakthrough album for Bon Jovi; it was a breakthrough for hair metal in general, marking the point where the genre officially entered the mainstream. Released in 1986, it presented a streamlined combination of pop, hard rock, and metal that appealed to everyone -- especially girls, whom traditional heavy metal often ignored. Slippery When Wet was more indebted to pop than metal, though, and the band made no attempt to hide its commercial ambition, even hiring an outside songwriter to co-write two of the album's biggest singles. The trick paid off as Slippery When Wet became the best-selling album of 1987, beating out contenders like Appetite for Destruction, The Joshua Tree, and Michael Jackson's Bad. Part of the album's success could be attributed to Desmond Child, a behind-the-scenes songwriter who went on to write hits for Aerosmith, Michael Bolton, and Ricky Martin. With Child's help, Bon Jovi penned a pair of songs that would eventually define their career -- “Living on a Prayer” and “You Give Love a Bad Name” -- two teenage anthems that mixed Springsteen's blue-collar narratives with straightforward, guitar-driven hooks. The band's characters may have been down on their luck -- they worked dead-end jobs, pined for dangerous women, and occasionally rode steel horses -- but Bon Jovi never presented a problem that couldn’t be cured by a good chorus, every one of which seemed to celebrate a glass-half-full mentality. Elsewhere, the group turned to nostalgia, using songs like “Never Say Goodbye” and “Wild in the Streets” to re-create (or fabricate) an untamed, sex-filled youth that undoubtedly appealed to the band’s teen audience. Bon Jovi wasn't nearly as hard-edged as Mötley Crüe or technically proficient as Van Halen, but the guys smartly played to their strengths, shunning the extremes for an accessible, middle-of-the-road approach that wound up appealing to more fans than most of their peers. “It’s alright if you have a good time,” Jon Bon Jovi sang on Slippery When Wet’s first track, “Let It Rock,” and those words essentially served as a mantra for the entire hair metal genre, whose carefree, party-heavy attitude became the soundtrack for the rest of the ‘80s.

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