Bad Medicine (song)
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| "Bad Medicine" | ||||
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| Single by Bon Jovi | ||||
| from the album New Jersey | ||||
| B-side | "99 in the Shade" | |||
| Released | September 12, 1988 | |||
| Genre | Glam metal[1][2][3] | |||
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| Label | Mercury | |||
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| Producer | Bruce Fairbairn | |||
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| "Bad Medicine" on YouTube | ||||
"Bad Medicine" is a song by American rock band Bon Jovi. It was written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, and Desmond Child, and was released on September 12, 1988 by Mercury Records, as the lead single from the band's fourth album, New Jersey (1988). The song, produced by Bruce Fairbairn, reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, Bon Jovi's third single to do so, and became a top-10 hit in Australia, Canada, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. Two different music videos were released to accompany the song.
Cash Box magazine said that "producer Bruce Fairbairn and Jon Bon Jovi fashion gang harmonies around a typically monumental guitar sound."[4] Jonh Wilde from Melody Maker described the song as "hard rocking stuff". He added, "Most of you are more concerned with the singer's crotch I'm sure. It grinds like hard rocking records have grinded since way back".[5]
Music video
There are two videos for the song, one with the band live in concert, and a more well-known live video which begins with a crowd of young people waiting in line to get into the video shoot. Before they are let in, one of the security guards asks if there are any questions, and Sam Kinison asks if the video will "be the same of video slop that we get from these glam rock pretty boys". When he answers "yes", Kinison rallies the crowd to hijack the cameras and "make a better Bon Jovi video than these guys can." The members of the crowd are given hand-held cameras and invited onstage to help shoot the video. In an alternate cut of this video, Kinison has photos of various celebrities with their mouths cut for him to impersonate them while promoting the band.[6]
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