The Circle
| Jon Bon Jovi
The Circle
The Circle is the eleventh studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi. Released on November 10, 2009, the album was produced by John Shanks. The album debuted at #1 in several countries, including the U.S., where it sold 163,000 copies in its first week.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
It does rock — if your idea of rock is Aerosmith doing Diane Warren songs.
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Sputnik music
Bon Jovi have some great points to this album, but try too hard in many places.
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Quixotic
In my opinion, this was the last of Bon Jovi’s best albums. I am going to give a rating of this album
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BBC
Dependable drive-time rock delivered with an admirable straight face.
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The Guardian
The Circle has enough foot-stomping moments to fuel the next few world tours.
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Independent
merely competent.
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Melodic Rock
As far as I can see it, this is a pure Jon Bon Jovi album, with side-kick Richie Sambora relegated to do as he is told alongside the other members of the band (who are they again??).
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mikeladano
They returned from their pop country detour down the Lost Highway and returned to essentially exactly where they were on the previous album, Have A Nice Day.
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Danger Dog
The Circle is pure Bon Jovi with big melodies, big choruses, and big hooks in that ramped up arena rock sound.
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Billboard
"The Circle" rides closer to the New Jersey turnpike than the band's "Highway" run.
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Metal Temple
this is a good album that can find a place in BON JOVI's back catalogue.
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Pop Dose
Bon Jovi has never sounded the least bit fresh, and this album — whose third track, “Work for the Working Man,” recycles “Livin’ on a Prayer” so obviously you’d notice it even if you were listening from the next room — is no different.
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Music Radar
On The Circle, the band,have ditched all traces of their wildly successful forays into country-pop and create the kind of fist-pumping, chest-beating earnest rock
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Scotsman
As with all good brands, Bon Jovi's longevity is down to maintaining the core appeal of the product while modernising the manufacturing process.
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Addicted To Vinyl
There’s nothing at all that makes you take notice of The Circle as a real rocker.
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Huffington Post
The Circle doesn’t overextend or pretend to be anything more than a good Bon Jovi record.
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Cleve Scene
This one goes out to the Camaro owners. Roll down the windows and turn it up.
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Review Fix
Once again Bon Jovi proves why they’ve been around for decades.
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SCMP
Bon Jovi fans will love this album.
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NY Daily News
"The Circle" reads as nothing so much as a finely honed audition tape for induction
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Southern Missourian
In short, Bon Jovi is back.
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