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Slippery When Wet is the third studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi. It was released on August 18, 1986 by Mercury Records in North America and Vertigo Records internationally. It was produced by Bruce Fairbairn, with recording sessions between January and July 1986 at Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Slippery When Wet was an instant commercial success. Its songs are considered Bon Jovi's best known, including "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Livin' on a Prayer", Wild In The Streets, "Never Say Goodbye" and "Wanted Dead or Alive".

Background[]

Upon its 1985 release, 7800° Fahrenheit achieved moderate success, but Bon Jovi had not yet become superstars. The band changed its approach for the next album, with a more mainstream sound than the heavier first two albums. Hiring Desmond Child as a collaborator, the band wrote 30 songs and auditioned them for local New Jersey (including recording artist and Phantom's Opera vocalist Colie Brice) and New York teenagers, basing the album's running order on their opinions. Bruce Fairbairn was chosen as the main producer for the album, with Bob Rock as the mixer. The 1985 album Without Love which Fairbairn produced for the Irish hard rock band Thin Lizzy, attracted Jon Bon Jovi with its sound quality, and he immediately sought out the producer.

Writing and composition[]

Much of the album was written by Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, whereas "You Give Love a Bad Name", "Livin' on a Prayer", "Without Love", and "I'd Die For You" were co-written with Desmond Child, and "Wild in the Streets" was by Bon Jovi alone. This was the first time Child worked with Jon and Richie. He came to New Jersey, where they worked on the four songs in Sambora's mother's basement.

Jon Bon Jovi explained, "I liked what Bryan Adams and Led Zeppelin had done with The Cure so I suggested we do something similar: I write a song for someone like her, and then we do the song together. But that got changed, and our A&R guy came up with Desmond's name ... He hasn't tried to change what we are, but to refine it slightly; to suggest extra ways that we could wring a bit more out of what we had."

Bon Jovi was initially reluctant to include "Livin' on a Prayer", believing it was not good enough. Sambora convinced him it was a hit in the making, and so the band rerecorded it, releasing the second version on the album. It is Bon Jovi's signature song.

Title and artwork[]

The album's name was changed during its inception, including Wanted Dead Or Alive. A proposed cover with the band dressed as cowboys[11] was later used for the single release of the track of the same name.

According to Bon Jovi, the band named the album Slippery When Wet after visiting The No.5 Orange strip club in Vancouver, British Columbia. According to Sambora, "This woman descended from the ceiling on a pole and proceeded to take all her clothes off. When she got in a shower and soaped herself up, we just about lost our tongues. We just sat there and said, 'We will be here every day.' That energized us through the whole project. Our testosterone was at a very high level back then."

The cover consists of a wet black garbage bag with the words "Slippery When Wet" traced in the water. "So simple, and not very impressive", said Sambora. The album originally was to feature a busty woman in a wet yellow T-shirt with the album name on the front of the shirt. This was swapped for the plastic bag cover just prior to release. The reasons given for the switch were record executives' fears that dominant record store chains at the time would have refused to carry the album with a sexist cover, and Jon Bon Jovi's dislike of the bright pink border around the photograph the band submitted.[14][15] Sambora said, "Our label freaked out a bit when they saw what we'd done. They thought it would be banned by American stores, so we had to come up with something else – fast."

In Japan, most releases of the album included the original cover art.


Track listing[]

Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Let It Rock"   5:26
2. "You Give Love a Bad Name"   3:43
3. "Livin' on a Prayer"   4:09
4. "Social Disease"   4:18
5. "Wanted Dead or Alive"   5:09


Side two
No. Title Length
6. "Raise Your Hands"   4:17
7. "Without Love"   3:31
8. "I'd Die for You"   4:31
9. "Never Say Goodbye"   4:49
10. "Wild in the Streets"   3:56




Charts[]


Weekly charts[]

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Chart (1986–2011) Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[1] 1
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[2] 1
Japanese Albums Chart[3] 10
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[4] 19


Year-end charts[]

Chart (1986) Position
Canadian Albums Chart[5] 58
Chart (1987) Position
Australian Albums Chart[6] 3
Austrian Albums Chart[7] 10
Canadian Albums Chart[8] 2
Dutch Albums Chart[9] 22
Swiss Albums Chart[10] 4
US Billboard 200 1
Chart (1988) Position
US Billboard 200 98

Decade-end charts[]

Chart (1980–89) Position
Australian Albums Chart[6] 25
  1. ↑ Thompson, Bronwyn (January 29, 2008). On A Steel Horse Bon Jovi Rides To Top Of The Charts (en). “Slippery When Wet reached No. 1 in Australia when it was originally released and went on to sell six times platinum. It has sold 28 million copies worldwide.”
  2. ↑ Sisältää hitin - Finnish Chart Archive. Retrieved on November 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005. Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9.
  4. ↑ Los discos más vendidos (Spanish). ABC (11 November 1987). Retrieved on August 19, 2012.
  5. ↑ Template:Cite magazine
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  7. ↑ Austriancharts.at – Jahreshitparade 1987. Hung Medien. Retrieved on November 17, 2011.
  8. ↑ Template:Cite magazine
  9. ↑ Dutch charts jaaroverzichten 1987 (Dutch). Dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved on May 1, 2014.
  10. ↑ Hitparade.ch – Schweizer Jahreshitparade 1987. Hung Medien. Retrieved on November 17, 2011.
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