Crush by Bon Jovi

Crush, Bon Jovi's seventh studio album, landed on Island in the US on June 13, 2000, after a late-May release on Mercury in Britain, and it ended the longest wait between Bon Jovi records: five years since These Days. The plan had been to team up with Bruce Fairbairn, but his death a year earlier ended that, so Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora brought in Luke Ebbin to freshen up the sound and produced it alongside him.

The Jersey veterans came out sounding younger than they had in years: sleek, radio-ready pop-rock with stadium-sized choruses, Sambora's guitar gleaming, David Bryan's keyboards and Tico Torres's drums punching it along. "It's My Life" did the heavy lifting, a fist-in-the-air comeback that won the band a whole new generation of fans and a Grammy nomination, while the album itself was nominated for Best Rock Album and went double platinum in the States.

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