The Circle

The debut single off this album, "We Weren't Born To Follow" is classic Bon Jovi and will have you singing along to the catchy chorus every time! Can't wait to hear the rest of the album. Oh and despite what XxLucyDXx says, Bon Jovi never fail to impress! Or always fail to disappoint. Whichever. x

Right guys and gals. This is the album we have been waiting for from the boys.

Forget Lost Highway and all that rubbish. It is clear that all that was filler while they spent those 14 years since These Days writing this masterpiece.

Also, forget the single, We Weren't Born To Follow. It's a decent song but in the end it's another It's My Life clone and certainly do not use it as an indicator of the sheer quality of the work on this record.

I've heard the leak (knowing full well that I will be buying on release day) and songs like When We Were Beautiful, Work For The Working Man, Superman Tonight, Bullet, and Love's The Only Rule will be instant classics. The rest of the tracks are also brilliant work and far better than the album tracks on the other albums released this decade.

I will highlight these songs however because When We Were Beautiful is the perfect Keep The Faith-style growing meaningful anthem; Work For The Working Man is the Slippery When Wet-style raunchy rocker for the modern day. Bullet completely took me by surprise- Richie is absolutely on fire in this song with his guitar work (and makes similar contributions throughout the album), it's grungy and the talkbox is on full display, you want to be shouting this song out with 30,000 others in a stadium.

Superman Tonight is the best, absolute best Bon Jovi ballad in a long time. And I'm talking POWER on this one, absolutely brilliant.

Love's The Only Rule is my surprise favourite song so far (hard as it is to choose a favourite). I will not spoil this one for you, but when I got to track 9 and this is what I found I remembered what I really love about this band.

On previous 2000s records Bon Jovi have shown they can still write good songs, in 2009 Bon Jovi show they can still write an absolutely kicking album that you will never want to stop listening to.

The superb songwriting is matched by excellent production. You can distinctly hear the contribution of each band member and the drums and bass in particular are very powerful and contribute to the mix being pretty much the perfect marriage of the Bon Jovi style with 2000s production.

I cannot wait to see the band tour this album (I won't be paying the O2 ticket prices though!). Seriously buy this and get Bon Jovi back to number 1 in the UK, this album more than deserves it.

The first album I brought was Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet back in 1986 and I was only eight years old at the time. When Bon Jovi released the album Crush in the year 2000 I was crushed by it being a bit naff when compared to their other great work. Bon Jovi have be slowly bouncing back to form since then and for me The Circle is Bon Jovi back at their best. They sound like they are enjoying themselves again and Richie Sambora's guitar playing and Jon Bon Jovi's voice are really shining. My favourite tracks are "We Weren't Born To Follow", "Work For The Working Man", "Live Before You Die" and "Fast Cars" at the moment. For all you people that like the 80's and 90's Bon Jovi best like myself then you really need this album too it's wonderful stuff indeed.

after listening to the album a few times to get a proper feel for it i bet you can't listen to it without singing along to most of these songs, yes bon jovi still rock at the top !!!!!

I have been a huge jovi fans since first hearing slippery when wet - awsome! Ignore what the last reviewer said that they have spent 14 years writting this and everything up until thien was rubbish - complete igronance - nothing bon jovi do is rubbish, every album rocks and so does this - i heard a complete review of the album on youtube which sampled every track & had to order str8 away - cant wait for this one another masterpeice!!! If you are a bon jovi fan then this is a must have!!! This hovers over everthying they have done & then takes you beyond!!! There are even a few sounds in there that the bonj havent done b4!!!