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#34 Deep Cuts the Night
| life lessons in Bon Jovi songs

Welcome back, Jovi friends!
Life lessons in Bon Jovi songs continues with Deep Cuts the Night.

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

Deep Cuts the Night was written for Bon Jovi’s third album Slippery When Wet (1986), and recorded at Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver.

Unfamiliar with the song?
🎶🎧 listen here to Deep Cuts the Night

In this video:

1. Welcome to another episode 00:00
Of Life lessons in Bon Jovi songs.
Deep Cuts the Night was never released on the album it was written for, making it one of many OUTTAKES.
But this one was also not released on the 2004 box set either, making it extremely rare.

Not being included in the 2004 box set also means this song is NOT included in this article:
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/bon-jovi-songs-ranked/
(as opposed to the other 359)

But this song WAS brought to the studio in Vancouver, so it was actually recorded properly!
Which is great.

The rarest of rarest outtakes, are the songs which stayed in the basement, where the first demos were recorded.
The “basement tapes”.

So this one is still pretty high up!

2. Deep Cuts the Night 04:45
Since I didn’t have much sources to go on, I started looking around. There was only one source, specifically mentioning this song.
YouTube channel Rock Remastered, made a remaster of the song in 2021, and mentions in the description box:
“It can remind us of “The Hardest Part Is The Night” or “I’d Die For You””
Which was the only mention of this song I could find.

3. A Forgotten Bootleg (from 1995-ish?) 06:36
I found a wonderful collection of songs, still available on cd as well as on YouTube, with numerous outtakes from the first 5 album (so that’s up to 1992)
In chronological order!
That’s pretty impressive, since this is pre-internet and knowledge about material like this was rare.

And the funniest thing is the title of this album:
“We are not unused”

You can listen to it here:
Bon Jovi – We Are Not Unused | 17 Completely Unreleased Tracks | Demos 1986/1992

The description box there, gives all songs, including where they originated.

4. We Are Not Unused 09:52
This rare 20th century outtake-album has a cute title.
Since the songs are now indeed finally “used”, for an album.

5. Double Meaning of Deep Cuts (the Night) 10:40
The song refers to the loneliness of the night, cutting into you. But takes on a second meaning because “Deep cuts” is also a noun:
It means an outtake!
A rare song.
Googling Deep Cuts (the night) and Bon Jovi, will turn up with pages and list about all kinds of rare Bon Jovi songs. All kinds of deep cuts.

6. The Lesson in this Bon Jovi song 12:45
I’m leaving the honor to the title of that rare album, “We are not unused”.
It’s so brilliant, I can see tattoos happening for us there.

And I may need to update the Rolling List of Bon Jovi Outtakes with new songs from this rare album.

Next stop, the sixth outtake song:
Game of the Heart!

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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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