I could not believe my eyes….
All 102 tracks on the original playlist, as created January 2021, were all still there.

And for anybody who ever tried to keep a playlist alive on YouTube, you know how easy it is for videos to fall out. Something which is indicated when it will say something like “videos which are no longer available have been hidden”

Listen to the original playlist here:
Bon Jovi 1985 – 2020 Hidden Gems In Chronological Order

When I clicked this 2021 playlist with 102 Bon Jovi gems, and this message did not show up?
I just couldn’t believe my eyes.
Surely, this could not be true. Somewhere along the list things must have gone missing.
So I printed the 2021 blogpost where I wrote out a list of all songs, and checked them one by one.

Yeah!
All there!
The original playlist is in mint condition.

In the description box I did find a 2022 note, about 5 missing songs which I had replaced at the time. But apparently after that, it had all held up.

So what I’m going to do the upcoming years, is to use this original list as the basis;
But then finetune it further.
Listing the entire catalog of rare Bon Jovi songs.

Obviously, we’re gonna add songs I found or which were brought to my attention since then.
There are actually several extra playlists on my channel already, where I collected quite a few, but it’s going to be a messy process. Did not keep any of it updated, but it’s a start.
And even this step of attending to what I collected, new songs wise, will require time to sort out.

But there is also at least one very principle choice I need to attend to;
Do I still want covers on this list, or not?

In the original list there were a few covers, but I could go without them to be honest.
But I also found new covers which I am dying to add… so I’m unsure which route to take!
Go purist and only have original material?
Or include Bon Jovi’s covers? Usually in the form of live recordings.

I called this blogpost, and the new list on YouTube “Codename: The List” which is a reference to the movie Atomic Blonde (2017).

In this movie (a fictional setting of London England and Berlin in the weeks around the fall of the wall in 1989) there is a referral at MI6 headquarters to a watch which contains a list of all spies/ operatives on all sides and all their shady deals, as having:
“Codename, The List.”

Which made a YouTube channel who had looked up all flaws in this movie, wonder why you would give something a codename that was the exact representation of what it actually was.
In other words “The List” is not really a codename for something that is an actual list.

In the same way codename The List is of course a bit silly for a list of rare and unknown Bon Jovi songs.
But in our defense;
We no longer want these songs to be a secret.

In the upcoming decade, through these blogposts as well as my YouTube (Life lessons in Bon Jovi songs);
Let’s find out who these songs are.
Learn their correct names.
Bring them out of anonymity.
To these improvised Rock Star Writer headquarters.

And offer them a chance to tell their story.
And shine.

 

~Suzanne Beenackers
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THE NEW list, which is starting out 29th January 2025 as a copy of the old, can be found here:
Rolling List of Hidden Bon Jovi Gems 1985 – current day

Foundational post (2021):
102 Hidden Bon Jovi Gems 1985 – 2020