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#32 Edge Of A Broken Heart
| life lessons in Bon Jovi songs

Welcome back, Jovi friends!
Life lessons in Bon Jovi songs continues with Edge of a Broken Heart.

This is the third “outtake”;
A song that was never included on the album.

Edge of a Broken Heart was written for Bon Jovi’s third album Slippery When Wet (1986).

Not familiar?
🎶🎧 listen here to Edge of a Broken Heart

Edge of a Broken Heart wasn’t officially released until 2004, on the box set 100.000.000 Bon Jovi fans can’t be wrong. 

In this video:

1. Welcome to another episode 00:00
Of Life lessons in Bon Jovi songs.
This channel has been quiet, as I was figuring out how to keep creating content.
But I now have everything sorted, and we’re back!

2. What’s an outtake? 01:44
A song that was never released on a regular studio album.
But very often, as was the case with Edge of a Broken Heart, they were released in a different way.
The most common ways for outtakes to be released in on a B-side or on Bon Jovi’s 2004 box set.

3. Edge of a Broken Heart 02:45
Written for their biggie, Slippery When Wet (1986) Edge of a Broken Heart was not released until 1994, as a B-side to Always.
And on special edition(s) of their 1994 Best of album Cross Road.
But it is best known from the 2004 4-cd-box set “100.000.000 Bon Jovi fans can’t be wrong”

The song was also already given to the movie Disorderlies in the 80s.

4. Top 3 Best Bon Jovi songs ever 05:10
The most notable thing about this song, is that it was put at number 3 in the juggernaut piece “All Bon Jovi songs ranked” by Tony Kuzminski
Number 3!
For a song that is not even on a real album, and in an article that meticulously lists out all 359 songs.

Tony gives a voice to many fans for whom Edge of a Broken Heart is “the song that got away”.

5. The Underdog Position 07:27
What is notable about this song, is that it is so clearly written from the viewpoint of a man who lost his woman, who is not a Don Juan, or maybe he was but now he was discarded.

It is here where there is a fork in the fanbase road;
Because my take on Edge of a Broken Heart is that men will like it, and women will not.

6. My personal take on this song 08:42
There are two reasons I don’t like this song.

The first reason is neutral and simple;
I simply don’t like pop.
And Edge of a Broken Heart is a pop song and not a rock song.

The second reason I don’t like the song is because of the lyrics.
I think it is problematic how the protagonist behaves towards a woman who has clearly given him her No.
In the first verse you still give him the benefit of the doubt, but this changes near the end when it becomes clear he has been stalking her.

I think the song is difficult for women to enjoy because we all know what it’s like when our No is ignored.

7. The first song they wrote with Desmond Child 14.00
Edge of a Broken Heart was the first song they wrote with Desmond Child with whom Bon Jovi would wrote their biggest hits.

My take is that Edge of a Broken Heart is like the first Dutch pancake:
It’s a mess, but some love it!

Next stop, the fourth outtake song:
Out of Bounds!

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THIS SERIES
All videos, of Life lessons in Bon Jovi songs (playlist):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiGoDE3C06SeCKg4jvR2EoVHBOfXzHm_R

SOURCES for this series:

1. OUTTAKES
Handmade list with rare Bon Jovi songs
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiGoDE3C06SfkAr0Ll4wz-GlGnZJNZDYh
Rolling List of Hidden Bon Jovi Gems 1985 – current day

2. RANKED
My favorite Bon Jovi article and indispensable for this series:
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/bon-jovi-songs-ranked/
By Tony Kuzminski.
List also covers any outtakes from the 2004 box set.

3. QUOTES
https://twostorytown.com/slippery-when-wet-quotes
full page of quotes EVERYTHING anybody ever said about the 3rd Bon Jovi album:

4. BJ TOURS
https://bjtours.jimdofree.com/the-albums/1986-slippery-when-wet/

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