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#29 Wild In The Streets
| life lessons in Bon Jovi songs

Welcome back, Jovi friends!
Life lessons in Bon Jovi songs continues with Wild in the Streets.

It is the 10th song of the album Slippery When Wet (1986), and the final track.

If you’re not familiar with the song – or simply long to be taken back to 1987 when this video was created – you can listen here, to the official video.

It turned out this was a song that had a lot of storytelling attached to it. So much that I even forgot to mention that the innerest of inner circles of Bon Jovi fans may jokingly refer to it as “Wild Industries”, because there once was a bootleg that incorrectly listed this track as such.

And it surely lives up to its name.
Wild Industries it is!

In this video:

1. Welcome to another episode 00:00
Of Life lessons in Bon Jovi songs.
And a turbulent week where I have cut out a lot of channels through which I worked.
This series will stay on!
But if you want to know more about the 4 blogs and YouTube channel I did end, you can check my farewell video to that era here:
https://youtu.be/pMHJTSKlYqc

2. A change! 01:13
We are going to include the rare Bon Jovi songs, after all.
Rare songs are songs that were recorded but never made it to the album.
Listen to find out how they will be weaved into this series.
Starting with the next one!

3. Initially lukewarm 04:55
I was not looking forward to covering this song!
And for at least semi-good reasons, I’d say.
But I warmed up to it fast!

With thanks to a biography of this album:
“Let it Rock” by Neil Daniels
Who hailed it as the perfect ending to this album.

4. Was BON JOVI BIGGEST ALBUM, actually SUMMONED?! 10:20
( source quote Jon Bon Jovi: https://twostorytown.com/wild-in-the-streets )
Sit back for this story about brotherly love and the bigger context of guitars that brought their owners success;
With help from the other side 😈

Reference to Sinners (2025) and The Devil At The Crossroads (2019)

5. Here’s your recap 18:45
1 minute on why Wild In The Streets is probably the best song of the album, simply by its backstory alone.

6. Wrapping up the Slippery When Wet album.
And before we move on to the album that probably could have been a triple album, that’s how much material they had (New Jersey, 1988) ;
We’re going to do something entirely new!

We’re going back to the beginning, and start picking up all rare tracks or outtakes, that never made it onto the first three albums.

Check the full playlist with rare songs here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiGoDE3C06SfkAr0Ll4wz-GlGnZJNZDYh&si=x3mA6MQtkafEfI9I
Rolling List of Hidden Bon Jovi Gems 1985 – current day

Next stop, the first outtake:
We Rule The Night!

~Suzanne Beenackers
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