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#35 Game of the Heart
| life lessons in Bon Jovi songs

Welcome back, Jovi friends!
Life lessons in Bon Jovi songs continues with Game of the Heart.

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

Game of the Heart was written for Bon Jovi’s third album Slippery When Wet (1986).

Unfamiliar with the song?
🎶🎧 listen here to Game of the Heart

In this video:

1. Welcome to another episode 00:00
Of Life lessons in Bon Jovi songs.

Quick warning that in the next video, we’ll need to break the chronological pattern!
Because I found a rare outtake from the previous Bon Jovi album, called “Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die”. So the next Life lesson in Bon Jovi songs, will about a song that’s one year older.

You can find all these rare songs (outtakes) on this chronological playlist:
Rolling List of Bon Jovi Outtakes

2. Game of the Heart 01:46
Was written for their 1986 breakthrough album Slippery When Wet.

If you were a song in 1986, you had 3 chances of ending up on an album:
1- On Slippery When Wet
Which this song didn’t, making it one of many OUTTAKES.
2- On the 4-disc box set 100.000.000 Bon Jovi Fans Can’t Be Wrong (2004)
But this one was also not released there, making it extremely rare.
or
3- Being included in a very rare bootleg compilation called “We Are Not Unused”
You can listen to this excellent “album” here:
Bon Jovi – We Are Not Unused | 17 Completely Unreleased Tracks | Demos 1986/1992

Game of the Heart was included in that bootleg compilation.

3. Two YouTubers chipping in 04:54
Outtakes are notoriously poor documented, but I did find 2 YouTubers who made uploads that are worth mentioning.

In 2020, FighterBJ made a combination of Game of the Heart and a Social Disease demo with alternative lyrics :
Bon Jovi – Game Of The Heart / Social Disease | Studio Demos

And in 2021 Jesper provided a great addition, adding another layer of electric guitar to the original recording!
Game of the Heart – Bon Jovi (Guitar cover by Jesper)

I have given both of these videos a spot on the Rolling List of Bon Jovi outtakes.
Rolling List of Bon Jovi Outtakes

4. Striking gold 06:52
There I was, ploughing through the few things I could find on this song hoping to get inspired and coming up with nothing.
Until I studied the lyrics, and OMG!

This is a song about what has got to be one of my favorite topics to talk about!
Even though it’s lofty, abstract, and I have NO CLUE how to express or go about this.
So let’s go!
😅
Illustrated with Jon Bon Jovi as a yellow highlighter and the femme in this story is a hot pink stress ball.

Next stop, the 7th outtake;
Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die!

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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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