Bad Medicine (song)

"Bad Medicine"
"Bad Medicine"
Single by Bon Jovi
from the album New Jersey
B-side	"99 in the Shade"
Released	September 3, 1988
Recorded	1988
Genre	Glam metal
Length	5:16 (album version); 3:54 (single version);
Label	Mercury
Songwriter(s)	Jon Bon Jovi; Richie Sambora; Desmond Child;
Producer(s)	Bruce Fairbairn
Bon Jovi singles chronology
Music video
	"Bad Medicine" on YouTube

"Bad Medicine" is a 1988 song by American hard rock band Bon Jovi and is the lead single from their fourth studio album New Jersey. It went to number 1 in the United States and reached the top ten in Australia, Canada, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands and New Zealand.

References

↑ "The Ultimate Hair Metal Party Playlist". Kerrang!. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
↑ Smith, Troy L. (April 4, 2018). "Bon Jovi's 25 greatest songs". Cleveland.com. Retrieved March 4, 2021. If there was a song that showcased just how larger than life Bon Jovi had become by the time "New Jersey" dropped, it was "Bad Medicine." To be clear, the single was in line with the glam metal every rock band was doing in the late 1980s. Bon Jovi was just doing it better.
↑ "The Number Ones: Bon Jovi's "Bad Medicine"". Stereogum. June 9, 2021. Retrieved July 2, 2021. Bon Jovi did something similar when they used New Jersey as the title for their first album after their insanely popular 1986 album Slippery When Wet. With that title, Bon Jovi put their roots front and center, making the implicit point that they weren't one of those Sunset Strip glam metal bands. But for the first single from that album, Bon Jovi dropped maybe the most straight-up Sunset Strip glam metal song of their career.

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[1] "The Ultimate Hair Metal Party Playlist". Kerrang!. Retrieved March 4, 2021.

[2] Smith, Troy L. (April 4, 2018). "Bon Jovi's 25 greatest songs". Cleveland.com. Retrieved March 4, 2021. If there was a song that showcased just how larger than life Bon Jovi had become by the time "New Jersey" dropped, it was "Bad Medicine." To be clear, the single was in line with the glam metal every rock band was doing in the late 1980s. Bon Jovi was just doing it better.

[3] "The Number Ones: Bon Jovi's "Bad Medicine"". Stereogum. June 9, 2021. Retrieved July 2, 2021. Bon Jovi did something similar when they used New Jersey as the title for their first album after their insanely popular 1986 album Slippery When Wet. With that title, Bon Jovi put their roots front and center, making the implicit point that they weren't one of those Sunset Strip glam metal bands. But for the first single from that album, Bon Jovi dropped maybe the most straight-up Sunset Strip glam metal song of their career.

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