Bounce by Bon Jovi

Bounce, Bon Jovi's eighth studio album, came out on Island on October 8, 2002, and it's the band's post-9/11 record. Jon Bon Jovi lived close enough to New York City to feel the attacks up close, and the title is a statement of intent: the city, and the country, bouncing back. Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora produced it at Sanctuary II Studio in New Jersey, with David Bryan's keyboards and Tico Torres' drums completing the core.

The sound picks up where Crush and "It's My Life" left off in 2000: big, crunchy guitars, stadium drums and choruses built for fists in the air, with Sambora's leads cutting through. "Everyday" is pure pep talk in power-chord form. Even the cover aims skyward, a stylized radio telescope dish at the Very Large Array shot by Kevin Westenberg. It debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, the band's best opening yet, though it also became their first album not to go platinum in the US.

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