Slippery When Wet
Studio album by Bon Jovi
Released	August 18, 1986
Recorded	Little Mountain, Vancouver, BC
Genre	Hard rock Glam Metal
Length	43:42
Label	Mercury 830 264
Producer(s)	Bruce Fairbairn
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Bon Jovi chronology
7800° Fahrenheit (1985) Slippery When Wet (1986) New Jersey (1988)
Alternate cover
Original banned wet T-shirt cover
Singles from Slippery When Wet
"You Give Love a Bad Name" Released: 1986 "Livin' on a Prayer" Released: 1986 " Wanted Dead or Alive" Released: 1987 "Never Say Goodbye" Released: 1987

Slippery When Wet is the third studio album by Bon Jovi released on August 18, 1986 (see 1986 in music). It is the band's most commercially successful album, selling over 12 million copies in the U.S.. Today it stands as one of the six best selling hard rock albums ever, and spawned two #1 singles, "You Give Love a Bad Name" and "Livin' on a Prayer". Making Bon Jovi the first Hard Rock band to have 2 consecutive #1 hit singles. The third single "Wanted Dead or Alive" was a Top 10 hit, reaching #7 on the Billboard Hot 100. The fourth single, "Never Say Goodbye", the album's signature ballad, reached #28 on the strength of airplay alone. Slippery When Wet stayed at #1 for 8 weeks, the record for a hard rock album on the Billboard 200. The album is the band's biggest selling album in the USA and the world, having sold over 26 million albums worldwide, featured in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". Cover of the Bon Jovi album Slippery When Wet. ... 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Background

The album went through various name changes during its inception, with Slippery When Wet being the final title conceived. According to Jon Bon Jovi in a DVD interview on the box set 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong, the album's original title was Wanted Dead or Alive, until Bon Jovi read a newspaper about a Los Angeles band that were gaining publicity and becoming famous around the city. Bon Jovi saw the name of the band and immediately thought it was a great name for an album. This meant that for a while during the development of the album the record was going to be called Guns N' Roses (the name of that band, for which Bon Jovi had similar success to in the late-80s, whose Appetite for Destruction album was similarly successful to this album). 100 Million Bon Jovi Fans Cant Be Wrong is box set by Bon Jovi, released in 2004 (see 2004 in music) on Island Records. ... Guns N Roses (abbreviated as GNR) is a nine-piece American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. ... Alternate cover The original, banned cover of Appetite for Destruction. ...

Jon Bon Jovi was initially reluctant to include "Livin' on a Prayer" on the album, believing that it was not a good enough song. Richie Sambora was convinced it was a hit single in the making, and so the band re-recorded it, releasing the second version on the final album. Ironically, it became the band's most popular and well-known song, and was the #1 song of 1987. The song is referred to in Bon Jovi's 2000 single "It's My Life" among other songs. The original demo, which Jon Bon Jovi thought was not good enough for the album, can be found as a hidden track on the band's box set. Its My Life is Bon Jovis first single off of the album Crush. ... In the field of recorded music, a hidden track is a piece of music which has been placed on a Compact Disc, audio cassette, vinyl record or other recorded medium in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener. ... 100 Million Bon Jovi Fans Cant Be Wrong is box set by Bon Jovi, released in 2004 (see 2004 in music) on Island Records. ...

With this album's singles, Bon Jovi was the first hard rock band to ever have two consecutive #1 Hot 100 chart hits. The Billboard Hot 100 is the main singles chart used by Billboard magazine. ...

Slippery When Wet was the first hard rock album to spawn three Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 hits. The band would go on to break this record with New Jersey, which spawned five. The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ... Bon Jovis fourth album, New Jersey was released on September 13, 1988. ...

With Slippery When Wet, the band twice had the #1 single and the #1 album simultaneously, another hard rock first.

The track "Raise Your Hands" was featured in the 1987 motion picture Spaceballs. "Raise Your Hands" also remains a staple in Bon Jovi's live shows, being a stalwart on their recent Have a Nice Day Tour. Spaceballs is a 1987 science fiction parody film written, directed, and starring Mel Brooks. ... The Have A Nice Day Tour was a concert tour by American rock Band Bon Jovi. ...

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"Wanted Dead or Alive" is currently the theme song to the television show Wanted, Dog The Bounty Hunter,and a short section for the opening theme of Deadliest Catch and was in the 1991 film Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. Wanted is a 2005 primetime police drama television series broadcast on the TNT network. ... Dog the Bounty Hunter is a reality television show, chronicling Duane Dog Chapmans operations in his bounty hunting firm, Da Kine Bail Bonds in Honolulu, Hawaii. ... Deadliest Catch is a documentary-style television series that documents the events aboard fishing boats in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab and Opilio crab fishing seasons. ...

"Wanted Dead or Alive" is credited with spawning the very popular "MTV Unplugged" series when Bon Jovi and Sambora appeared on the MTV Music Video Awards with just acoustic guitars and preformed it in front of the live audience.

The cover consists of a wet black bin liner with the words "Slippery When Wet" traced in the water. The album originally was to feature a woman in a wet yellow tee shirt with the album name on the front of the shirt. This original version of the cover was swapped for the wet plastic bag cover just prior to release, mainly due to the fact that Bon Jovi hated the "Pink" edging to the cover. The exception is in Japan where most releases of the album do include the original cover art. A bin bag (Commonwealth English) or garbage bag (American English) is a bag used to line the insides of waste receptacles such as trash cans to prevent the insides of the container from becoming coated in produce or liquids. ...

A DualDisc version of Slippery When Wet was released on September 20, 2005, featuring the album remixed in 5.1 surround sound and the music videos for "You Give Love a Bad Name," "Livin' on a Prayer", "Wanted Dead or Alive", "Never Say Goodbye" and "Wild in the Streets". DualDisc is a type of double-sided optical disc product developed by a group of record companies including EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and 5. ... is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Edge of a Broken Heart

One of the songs written during the making of the album was "Edge of a Broken Heart", which did not feature on the final version of the album but appeared on the soundtrack of Disorderlies. It became a Billboard Top 40 hit on airplay alone, and has since become a fan favourite, with the band receiving numerous requests to play the song live at their concerts. It has since been released on the band's box set, and featured on the special 2CD edition of Cross Road. Disorderlies is a 1987 comedy film starring the rap group, The Fat Boys, and Ralph Bellamy. ... 100 Million Bon Jovi Fans Cant Be Wrong is box set by Bon Jovi, released in 2004 (see 2004 in music) on Island Records. ... Cross Road is a greatest hits record released by the American band Bon Jovi in 1994. ...

Track listing

1. "Let It Rock" (Bon Jovi, Sambora) – 5:25
2. "You Give Love a Bad Name" (Bon Jovi, Sambora, Child) – 3:44
3. "Livin' on a Prayer" (Bon Jovi, Sambora, Child) – 4:09
4. "Social Disease" (Bon Jovi, Sambora) – 4:18
5. "Wanted Dead or Alive" (Bon Jovi, Sambora) – 5:08
6. "Raise Your Hands" (Bon Jovi, Sambora) – 4:16
7. "Without Love" (Bon Jovi, Sambora, Child) – 3:30
8. "I'd Die For You" (Bon Jovi, Sambora) – 4:30
9. "Never Say Goodbye", (Bon Jovi, Sambora) – 4:48
10. "Wild In The Streets" (Bon Jovi) – 3:54

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Samples

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Personnel

• Jon Bon Jovi – vocals
• David Bryan – keyboards, vocals
• Richie Sambora – guitars, vocals, talk box, guitar synth
• Alec John Such – bass, background vocals
• Tico Torres – percussion, drums
• Bruce Fairbairn – percussion, horn, producer
• Bob Rock – engineer / mixer
• Tim Crich – assistant engineer
• Tom Keenlyside – horn
• Bill Levy – artwork
• George Marino – digital remastering engineer
• Hugh McDonald – bass guitar
• Lema Moon – horn
• Mark Weiss – photography

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Singles

1. "You Give Love a Bad Name" / "Raise Your Hands"
2. "Livin' on a Prayer" / "Wild in the Streets"
3. "Wanted Dead or Alive" / "I'd Die for You"
4. "Never Say Goodbye" / "Social Disease"

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