Powerstars

1. Have A Nice Day
Great title track. Hard rockin', Jon Bon Jovi fiercely questions the listener. It sets a great impression for the rest of the album to stand up too, and it's quite a good track.

2. I Want To Be Loved
Interesting, talk-box guitarish track. It rocks hard, but I'm not entirely sure what to make of the song. It's pretty hard rockin' and quite interesting.

3. Welcome To Wherever You Are
Sweet little ballad. It was issued as a single, but for some reason bombed. I can't say I understand why. It's a cool, sweet, catchy song, that really had potential. As Bon Jovi said, "I thought for sure this was going to be a universal, timeless theme song of unity, diversity." But alas, dreams don't come true. Maybe because rock was starting to do around this time. I don't know.

4. Who Says You Can't Go Home
Pretty decent song. I enjoy it. Jon Bon Jovi said it was written as a thank you to fans and it can certainly be taken that way. Well, Jon, you're welcome and thanks for this song.

5. Last Man Standing
A cool heavy song about being the last rock n' rollers in the world. Sometimes it feels like the boys from Jersey are, and this song reflects the loneliness and anger that come with that. It's quite enjoyable, and probably one of the best songs on the album, it's really grown on me in recent years.

6. Bells Of Freedom
I liked this song before, but now I can see it's fairly generic Bon Jovi ballad fare. Meh, next.

7. Wildflower
And now a good Bon Jovi ballad. It's sweet and really catchy. It's one of the first songs on this album I came back to years later and still recalled all the words. Amazing.

8. Last Cigarette
Eh, it's not a bad song, but it's not that good either. Although during the bridge, I swear I heard the band vocalize "Brian Wilson" in the backing vocals during the bridge, even before I knew a thing about the Beach Boys. I swear, they do.

9. I Am
Really catchy hard rockin' song with (Haven't mentioned this in a while) really sweet dissonance. It gets the emotion flowing, gets in your head and stays kickin' around in there.

10. Complicated
Neat fast-paced song. Kinda catchy, I s'pose.

11. Novocaine
It's one of the few songs on the album that stayed in my head longer than the others when the album seemed to vanish from memory. It still holds up and is quite enjoyable

12. Story Of My Life
It's catchy, it's really cool, and would be a great way to end the album, if not for, oh lord...

13. Who Says You Can't Go Home [Country Version w/ Jennifer Nettles]
The country version of track 4. Now, on it's own, it's pretty okay, Jennifer Nettles's vocals are a bit obnoxious at times, but it's pretty cool as a bonus track...until the single became a success and country became the genre of their whole next album. Ah well, I best not rant on that now.

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