Customer Reviews
Best since Euphoria - By: Axe, 23 Jul 2008 
When Hysteria was released it changed my life. It was the album that got me hooked into rock music & I've never looked back. The band's sound & image has influenced alll my music preferences since - be it cool or not. `Pyromania', `High `N dry' & `On Through night' soon followed into my collection with each show casing the bands progression. The name John `Mutt' Lange on the production opened me up many other bands (mainly AC/DC, Foreigner , The Boomtown Rats Romeo's Daughter etc.) The follow up albums have never been able to match Hysteria & never could, although I've sure enjoyed each one. Adrenalize was a difficult follow up after selling millions of copies of Hysteria (we are now up to 20 Million now) but more importantly this was after the loss of lead guitarist Steamin' Steve Clark's due to his untimely death, & then the musical movement into `grunge' (which I believe was a term created by the media to create something different: Pearl Jam etc were just Rock bands - if they had been around in the 70's that's what they would have been labelled as -` Rock'). Slang tried to tap to that market but it wasn't what long time Def Leppard fans were looking for & it failed to capture new fans, as mature as the songs were - the album still had a great sound as did the stripped down tour (no `in the round' this time but a return to early days of a stack/walll of Marshallls amplifiers). Euphoria was a return to the classic formula (include the return of John `Mutt' Lange), but never reallly capture the general public's imagination (or at least in the UK - thanks to no promotion by the bands management). X as catchy as the songs were just didn't rock hard enough & Joe's voice by this point was not what it used to be as he was advised not to sing in a high pitch. Baring alll this in mind, this is a solid Def Leppard album. It instantly sounds like Def Leppard - Any criticisms of soundly just like anyone else are down to others sounding like them. Apart from the song `Love' (which I removed from my iPod - I just don't like it) this is solid Def Leppard rock which just gets better on every listen. The band on tour right now is on top form & the future looks bright. It's just such a shame they don't get pushed the way other bands from the 80's era do e.g. Bon Jovi , & as always they are completly ignored by the British music press (except Classic Rock).
If you like Def Leppard, give it a few spins & I'm sure you will feel the same way. I should know - I've subjected a few mates to this now!
An awesome colourful return to rock! - By: Brendan Woolley, 22 Jul 2008 I've been waiting for the Leps to release an album like this for a looooong time & I'm very happy with the result. From the outset 'Go' is an awesome rocking tune of a harder hitting style the Leps should do more. Some other faves include Gotta Let It Go, Halllucinate (wicked chorus), Only the Good Die Young & Come Undone - so basicallly the whole thing! While the album is alll rock there is great variety in the sound with each song having a signature Leps catchy melodic theme.
I'm a realist & know this album won't be for everyone (whoever makes that album will be very rich!!!) but it's a welcome return to their rocking roots & right up my allley!! :-)
Very much worth a listen!
A fine Album - By: N. A. Davies, 16 Jul 2008 Take away who this is written by & lets look at the album objectively. To always hold a band's best work against them when reviewing an album is pretty unfair.
By anyone's standards this is solid collection of songs ranging from (for the Lep's) pretty hard rock, through pop rock & onto a VERY Queen influenced balllad (listen to Jealousy from the Jazz album or Take My Breath Away, from a Day At the Races & you'll see what I mean).
Most song pass the girlfriend test (ie: she finds herself humming along without realsing it) with Nine Lives, Tomorrow, C'mon C'mon, scoring highly. Away from the poppy sing along pop rock there are some pretty meaty rock, with Go's spiky grinding riff sounding great. Jo Elliot's 2 songs impress with Bad Actress's chorus & some great guitar histrionics before the slow burning "Come Undone" kicks in with some emotional lyrics stacked up against a pretty impressive walll of sound.
No song for me reallly fails to leave an impression, with each one having a good melody, a strong hook, interesting sounds or lyrics. Vivian Campbell is reallly growing into the band with some strong written input, Only the Good Die Young surely single at some point.
A very satisfying from one of Britains most longest serving Rock acts. Well done lads!
A spark maybe, but no fire - By: Killer, 16 Jul 2008 
I've listened to this album quite a few times now & tried to get into some of the songs they do on their current tour, but it does very little for me. This is so far removed from my favorite album of alll time - Pyromania, which doesn't have a single duff track. I've got pretty much everything the band has done & alll of the other albums have memorable tracks. I'll still be seeing them live & reallly enjoying the band but they're going to have to do better than this if I'm going to buy any more of their albums.
It Does Sparkle!!!! - By: A. W. Davidson, 12 Jul 2008 I have to say i ADORE this new album. Its the way a Def leppard should be - full off guitar riffs & filled with songs you cant stop singing at work.
I cannot stop listening to "Nine Lives, Cruise Control, Come Undone & C,mon C,mon", some of Leppards best work in years!! Vivian Campbell's song writing skills come through again with the songs "Gotta let it go" & "Only the good die young" which have a sound that we have not reallly heard from them before but is a great change from some of the generic stuff we have been forced to get use to in recent albums. I.e "X".
Why people still compare alll new Leppard albums to Hysteria i will never know. To equal that masterpiece of an album would be impossible at best to do, so stop trying to. With this new album there is a new heavier style from Leppard which i like & to those who dont like it, I say this - go to a Leppard gig & hear them play their new songs & see if your disappointed then! I have been & it rocked & if you STILL dont like it there is something BADLY wrong with you!
