Bon Jovi / “New Jersey”: anniversary deluxe editions on the way

Bon Jovi are working on an extensive 30th anniversary reissue campaign programme which launches this July when their 1988 album New Jersey is re-released across two different physical formats, including a 2CD+DVD ‘super deluxe’ set.

The album was originally conceived as a double-LP with the working title Sons Of Beaches, although that plan was eventually abandoned and Mercury Records chose to issue the familiar 12-track version retitled as New Jersey. 

As well as a remastered New Jersey, the forthcoming two-CD deluxe and 2CD+DVD editions both feature the 13 Sons Of Beaches demos which have been remixed exclusively for this project. This adds up to over an hour of previously unreleased music. The first disc in both sets also appends a small selection of rare B-sides to the album proper.

The three-disc ‘super deluxe’ edition adds a DVD which features the behind-the-scenes documentary Access All Areas: A Rock & Roll Odyssey (receiving its North American debut on DVD). The film’s director, Wayne Isham, also directed all the music videos for the New Jersey singles and they all feature here, including two versions of Bad Medicine.

More 30th anniversary commemorative titles, including newly-compiled collections of studio and live recordings, will also be released this year. Until then, these deluxe editions of New Jersey are out on 1 July 2014.

2CD+DVD ‘Super Deluxe’

• • UK Pre-order: New Jersey (Super Deluxe Edition box set)
• • USA Pre-order: New Jersey (Super Deluxe Edition box set)
• • GERMANY Pre-order: New Jersey (Super Deluxe Edition,Limited)
• • FRANCE Pre-order: New Jersey (Super Deluxe Edition,Limited)

2CD Deluxe Edition

• • UK Pre-order: New Jersey (2CD Deluxe Edition)
• • USA Pre-order: New Jersey Deluxe Edition (2CD)
• • GERMANY Pre-order: New Jersey (2cd Deluxe Edition)
• • FRANCE Pre-order: New Jersey (2cd Deluxe Edition)

Track listings

BON JOVI:  New Jersey – 2CD Deluxe Edition

DISC 1:  NEW JERSEY (original album, remastered) + bonus tracks

1.  Lay Your Hands On Me
2. Bad Medicine
3. Born To Be My Baby
4. Living In Sin
5. Blood On Blood
6. Homebound Train
7. Wild Is The Wind
8. Ride Cowboy Ride
9. Stick To Your Guns
10. I’ll Be There For You
11. 99 In The Shade
12. Love For Sale

Bonus Tracks:

1. The Boys Are Back In Town (Cover of the Thin Lizzy classic; previously released on Stairway To Heaven/Highway To Hell compilation; released in the U.K. as a 12” single B-side)
2. Love Is War (B-side from Living In Sin single)
3. Born To Be My Baby (Acoustic Version; previously released as a b-side in Japan)

DISC 2: The ‘SONS OF BEACHES’ Demos

(** All tracks on DISC 2 are previously unreleased)

1. Homebound Train
2. Judgment Day
3. Full Moon High
4. Growin’ Up The Hard Way
5. Let’s Make It Baby
6. Love Hurts
7. Backdoor To Heaven
8. Now And Forever
9. Wild Is The Wind
10. Stick To Your Guns
11. House Of Fire
12. Does Anybody Really Fall In Love Anymore?
13. Diamond Ring

BON JOVI:  New Jersey – 2CD+DVD ‘Super Deluxe Edition’

DISC 1:  NEW JERSEY (original album, remastered) + bonus tracks

DISC 2: The ‘SONS OF BEACHES’ Demos (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)

DISC 3 (DVD):

• ‘ACCESS ALL AREAS: A ROCK & ROLL ODYSSEY’

Directed by Wayne Isham. The original 1990 88-minute documentary of the band’s epic 16-month world tour in support of the NEW JERSEY album; includes rare backstage, on-the-road, and live concert footage. (First time released in the U.S. on DVD)

1.  MUSIC VIDEOS From the NEW JERSEY album (All directed by Wayne Isham)

• Bad Medicine (1^st Version)
• Born To Be My Baby
• I’ll Be There For You
• Lay Your Hands On Me
• Living In Sin
• Blood On Blood
• Bad Medicine (2^nd Version)

Original audio produced by Bruce Fairbairn; engineered and mixed by Bob Rock