Keep the Faith

Keep The Faith（保持信念）专辑在1992年推出，不论在歌曲内涵或音乐性上的进步都获得乐评和歌迷的一致肯定，而且他们还甩掉以往过度夸张的摇滚饰物与卷长发，以崭新的形象与发型向世界宣告Bon Jovi的新精神：没有虚伪矫饰，只有摇滚！ 因为前两年乐队两位核心人物都推出过个人专辑，Bon Jovi 的活动似乎减少了许多。好在1992年，乐队成员又凑在一起录制并推出了新专辑《Keep the Faith》，专辑标题为《Keep the Faith》展示了乐队在另类音乐风行的90年代的不妥协态度，同时不论是音乐还是装束，此时的 Bon Jovi 都比以前显得更加时髦。低沉中有迷幻、粗犷中见野性正是专辑的特色，同时还带些根源摇滚色彩。乐队知道必须要不断的创新才能更适应时代，他们在音乐题材上也更加严肃，不再像以往局限于男女情爱上，像专辑中艺术摇滚风格的讲述美国土著印第安人悲惨遭遇的长近10分钟的歌曲 “Dry County” 就是很好的例子。凭着出色的《Keep the Faith》专辑， Bon Jovi 又回到了以前辉煌的日子。 by Johnny Loftus Keep the Faith reintroduces Bon Jovi after almost four years of side projects and hiatuses. The musical climate shifted considerably in that time, and this fact hadn't been lost on the band. Faith blatantly brings to the surface the Bruce Springsteen influence that was always lurking in Bon Jovi's sound and uses it to frame Faith's more serious cast of the band's established pop-metal groove. "I Believe" and "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" amp up the blue-collar gospel revivalist feel of Springsteen's "Tunnel of Love," dropping in triumphant power chord changes to ensure arena readiness. But Bon Jovi also took a page from Springsteen's Big Book of Epic Songwriting, padding Faith's center with ambitious balladry and a nearly ten-minute story-song that wouldn't be out of place as a full-album-side, '70s rock experiment. Elsewhere, hit single "Bed of Roses" wisely aims for the verdant adult contemporary pastures pointed to by Bryan Adams with 1991's "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You," instead of gripping stupidly to the Aqua-Netted mane of glam rock power balladry. Later experiments with straightforward hard rock falter, since they don't sizzle like the band's vintage material and fall flat next to more inspired material like "In These Arms." But while miles of open highway separate the songwriting of Jon Bon Jovi and his mates from that of Springsteen, Keep the Faith deserves plenty of points for ambition, and it does succeed in updating the band's sound, even if the replacement parts were bought used.