{"id":1171,"date":"2008-01-28T00:18:31","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T05:18:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-28T00:18:31","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T00:18:31","slug":"rock-s-longest-unbroken-streak-of-incons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-s-longest-unbroken-streak-of-incons\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock&#8217;s Longest Unbroken Streak of Inconsequential Mediocrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T5kMiYrWsXY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nBy virtue of it having been in a supporting spot on another artist&#8217;s fine song, the <strong>above clip<\/strong> is the closest thing I could find to a &#8220;good&#8221; performance by <strong>Bon Jovi<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve not come to bury Bon Jovi, however, but to celebrate what might be their unique mark of distinction.<!--more--> Beside that &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen a million faces\/And I&#8217;ve rocked them all&#8221; line from <strong>&#8220;Dead or Alive&#8221;<\/strong> and the beginning of the chorus of <strong>&#8220;Living on a Prayer&#8221;<\/strong>, I couldn&#8217;t hum a measure of anything this band has done in its 25 years in existence. That&#8217;s right, <em>25 years of Bon Jovi&#8217;s unbroken streak of inconsequential mediocrity<\/em>! <\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mMDLBznEA-Y?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nUnlike dozens of long-running bands we might agree on as being &#8220;mediocre&#8221; in an inconsequential way &#8211;  <strong>Chicago<\/strong> comes to mind &#8211; Bon Jovi hasn&#8217;t produced a worthwhile song by mistake, have they? You&#8217;d think over 25 years they&#8217;d have a song that anyone who wasn&#8217;t a 14-year-old girl at some point in the &#8217;80s would consider &#8220;memorable&#8221; in some way. Take Chicago: whether you like even one Chicago song or not, at least you pause to consider the opening riff and guitar tone of <strong>Terry Kath<\/strong> on &#8220;25 or 6 to 4&#8221; or their earlier <strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m a Man&#8221;<\/strong>? I think not. Bon Jovi has flown under the radar of both Suck and Good for 25 years and running. See, it&#8217;s not just that Bon Jovi has never done anything good; their music is so inconsequential that it&#8217;s hard to tell if any of it&#8217;s even bad. <em>Has anyone come close to this streak of inconsequential mediocrity?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By virtue of it having been in a supporting spot on another artist&#8217;s fine song, the above clip is the closest thing I could find to a &#8220;good&#8221; performance by Bon Jovi. I&#8217;ve not come to bury Bon Jovi, however, but to celebrate what might be their unique mark of distinction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}