Hit Parade: The You Give Rock a Bad Name Edition

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4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Bon Jovi are many things: platinum-selling, chart-topping and now, Hall of Fame–inducted. That angers music critics, who have been slagging off this band of hard-rock prom kings since the 1980s. Among the haters is Hit Parade host Chris Molanphy, who has loathed Bon Jovi since high school. But even he can’t deny it: Bon Jovi are hugely influential. In the wake of their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, Chris puts aside his animus to explain how the biggest band in hair metal have remained strangely relevant—thanks to their deathless hits, their album sales and, more recently, their influence on a certain hair-metal-loving Swedish pop producer. Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart history from Slate magazine about the hits from coast to
0:14.5	coast. I'm Chris Malanthi, chart analyst pop critic, and writer of Slate's Why is
0:19.6	the Song Number One series. On today's show, this month in Cleveland, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
0:26.1	will add more than a half dozen artists to its permanent roster. This year's class of
0:31.4	inductees includes such luminaries as Sister Rosetta Tharp, the Moody Blues,
0:36.8	Nina Simone, Dyer Straits, and the Cars.
0:40.8	But one act on the roster, the most controversial of this year's nominees, let alone
0:45.6	inductees, has outgrossed all of these other acts, maybe even combined when
0:51.3	you include their live tour grosses. They are beloved by rock fans the world
0:56.3	over and have scored number one hits on the... They are living legends who have influenced generations of...
1:05.0	Crisper Rubet just play these jerks already.
1:10.0	Shout through the heart and you're too late,
1:13.5	darling you give love a bad name.
1:19.5	That, God help me, is you give love a bad name, the 1986 number one hit by those hair metal prom
1:27.0	kings Bon Jovi.
1:29.0	Folks, full disclosure. This podcast does not solely reflect the tastes of your humble host.
1:36.0	However, this is our 12th episode of Hit Parade.
1:38.9	Happy first birthday to us, by the way. And up to now, I have been fond of virtually all of the music we've covered. Yes, even stuff as goofy as U.B. 40's Red Red Wine, or as schlockey as do they know it's Christmas, or as decadent as MC Hammers, you can't touch this.
1:57.2	And artists like The Beatles, Donna Summer, George Michael, Tom Petty, Prince, and Madonna, are all beloved legends as far as I'm concerned.
2:06.0	That is certainly not the case with Bon Jovi.
2:09.4	I am publicly on record loathing this band.
2:13.3	In 2012, in a Village Voice series called First Worst
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