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Cross Road: The Best of Bon Jovi

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While Bon Jovi managed to stick a couple of killer album tracks onto all of their records, their main strength had always been writing singles. Released in 1994, Cross Road collects all of their biggest hits, adding a couple of new songs (including the international smash "Always," which helped the album go platinum in multiple countries) and Jon Bon Jovi's solo hit, "Blaze of Glory," for good measure. Even the band's detractors may not be able to resist the constant flow of big guitars, bigger hooks, and sweet melodies that pour out on Cross Road. After all, this is what state-of-the-art mainstream hard rock was all about in the late '80s.
 


I've been experimenting with different size styli for mono playback. There is a belief that every mono record produced after 1958 was cut with a .7mil cutting head but this simply isn't true. The shift from 1mil cutting heads to .7mil heads for mono was gradual between 1958-1968 when mono was eventually phased out completely. This 1964 recording for instance is best played back with my Ortofon Concorde w/1mil stylus.
 
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