Bon Jovi’s “New Jersey” Gets The 30th Anniversary Treatment

The seminal Bon Jovi album New Jersey is being rereleased in a remastered 1-CD and digital edition, a 2-CD and digital Deluxe Edition, and a 3-disc (2-CD/1-DVD) Super Deluxe Edition. More 30th Anniversary commemorative titles, including newly-compiled collections of studio and live recordings, are scheduled for release this year also.

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Released in September 1988, New Jersey spent four straight weeks at No. 1 in the U.S. and spawned five Top 10 singles (“Bad Medicine;” “Born To Be My Baby;” “I’ll Be There For You;” “Living In Sin;” and “Lay Your Hands On Me” – the only rock album ever with that many Top 10 hits. The album is multi-platinum in the U.S. and has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.

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Bon Jovi originally envisioned the New Jersey project as a double-LP, using the working title Sons Of Beaches. But in the end, Mercury Records released the album as a 12-track single LP and the band renamed it simply New Jersey, in honor of their home state. With the new Deluxe and Super Deluxe editions, the New Jersey originally imagined by Bon Jovi will finally be shared with fans.

The 2-CD Deluxe Edition, which will also be available digitally, includes the remastered original album, plus three bonus tracks which were originally released as B-sides or CD-single bonus tracks. The Deluxe Edition’s second CD features the 13 Sons Of Beaches demos: more than an hour of previously unreleased demos from the New Jersey recording sessions, remixed exclusively for this project. Also included is a 32-page booklet with rare images of the band from the New Jersey era, including never-before-seen photos from the making of the album; images and memorabilia from the mammoth 16-month, 26-country, 267-show New Jersey world tour; insider commentary on the bonus tracks and much more.

The 3-disc (2-CD/1-DVD) Super Deluxe Edition also features the remastered original album and all of the bonus audio tracks included on the Deluxe version, plus a DVD with the behind-the-scenes documentary ‘ACCESS ALL AREAS: A ROCK & ROLL ODYSSEY.’ Groundbreaking, highly-acclaimed director Wayne Isham, who also directed the music videos for Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet and New Jersey singles, followed the band around the globe with a documentary film crew to chronicle the entire New Jersey tour, including Bon Jovi’s Homecoming concert at Giants Stadium, the band’s history-making concert at Lenin Stadium in Moscow, and their visits to iconic landmarks and historic concert venues around the world. The extensive footage was edited for 88-minute film released in 1990 on VHS, but never before available on DVD in North America. Also included on the set’s DVD are the seven official music videos commissioned from Isham for the New Jersey album. The Super Deluxe Edition will be housed in a special DVD-sized digipak with a 60-page softcover book including rare photos and memorabilia.

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BON JOVI: New Jersey [CD, digital]

1. Lay Your Hands On Me

2. Bad Medicine

3. Born To Be My Baby

4. Living In Sin

5. Blood On Blood

6. Homebound Train

7. Wild Is The Wind

8. Ride Cowboy Ride

9. Stick To Your Guns

10. I’ll Be There For You

11. 99 In The Shade

12. Love For Sale

 

BON JOVI: New Jersey (Deluxe Edition) [2CD, digital]

DISC 1: NEW JERSEY (original album, remastered) + bonus tracks

1. Lay Your Hands On Me

2. Bad Medicine

3. Born To Be My Baby

4. Living In Sin

5. Blood On Blood

6. Homebound Train

7. Wild Is The Wind

8. Ride Cowboy Ride

9. Stick To Your Guns

10. I’ll Be There For You

11. 99 In The Shade

12. Love For Sale

Bonus Tracks:

13. The Boys Are Back In Town (Cover of the Thin Lizzy classic; previously released on Stairway To Heaven/Highway To Hell compilation; released in the U.K. as a 12” single B-side)

14. Love Is War (B-side from Living In Sin single)

15. Born To Be My Baby (Acoustic Version; previously released as a b-side in Japan)

DISC 2: The ‘SONS OF BEACHES’ Demos

(** All tracks on DISC 2 are previously unreleased)

1. Homebound Train

2. Judgment Day

3. Full Moon High

4. Growin’ Up The Hard Way

5. Let’s Make It Baby

6. Love Hurts

7. Backdoor To Heaven

8. Now And Forever

9. Wild Is The Wind

10. Stick To Your Guns

11. House Of Fire

12. Does Anybody Really Fall In Love Anymore?

13. Diamond Ring

 

BON JOVI: New Jersey (Super Deluxe Edition) [boxed 2CD/DVD]

DISC 1: NEW JERSEY (original album, remastered) + bonus tracks

DISC 2: The ‘SONS OF BEACHES’ Demos (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)

DISC 3 (DVD):

1. ‘ACCESS ALL AREAS: A ROCK & ROLL ODYSSEY’

Directed by Wayne Isham.

The original 1990 88-minute documentary of the band’s epic 16-month world tour in support of the NEW JERSEY album; includes rare backstage, on-the-road, and live concert footage.

First time released in the U.S. on DVD format

2. MUSIC VIDEOS From the NEW JERSEY album

All directed by Wayne Isham

– Bad Medicine (1st Version)

– Born To Be My Baby

– I’ll Be There For You

– Lay Your Hands On Me

– Living In Sin

– Blood On Blood

– Bad Medicine (2nd Version)

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How to enter the contest – read this! You can win a Bon Jovi Deluxe Edition music prize. Enter now – just answer a question – What is your favorite Bon Jovi song? This next part is important: Put your answer in the “Message” field of the online entry form! If you don’t do that, you won’t win. Click on this sentence to enter the contest. Contest ends on August 16, 2014.

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