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Def Leppard - Slang Audio CD

A fair review of the Def Leppard "Slang" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Def Leppard reviews here, or go back to the Def Leppard tabs.

Def Leppard Band: Def Leppard
Title: Slang
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Release Date: 1996-05-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Truth? 2: Turn to Dust 3: Slang 4: All I Want Is Everything 5: Work It Out 6: Breathe a Sigh 7: Deliver Me 8: Gift of Flesh 9: Blood Runs Cold 10: Where Does Love Go When It Dies 11: Pearl of Euphoria

Gottabegeddenit!
Conway's songs were always "for the ladies. I always considered Deff Leppard the Conway Twitty of hard rock. " And what's wrong with that? Well Deff Leppard seemed to have that same effect with Hysteria and Adrenlize. But before that they were throwing down crazy hard rock like No, No, No, Me and My Wine, On Through the Night and the almost metal-like Answer to the Master. Then Pour Some Sugar On Me shows up and it seems all their songs are"for the ladies. " Again, if there is a better reason, don't bother, I don't want to here it. The title track Hysteria, Animal, Love Bites, and Armegeddonet only added to it. But here comes the problem, Deff Leppard is notorious,even back then, actually especially back then for long breaks between albums. So after Hysteria we all wait patiently knowing the penchant for loooooong concert tours and the perfectionistic attitude of making sure everything is right. Well they fire back with Adrenalize with songs like Do Ya Wanna get Rocked, Have You Ever Needed Someone so Bad, and i think Kick Love Into Motion got some play, and the ladies swooned again. Now I ain't hatin but we waited all that time to get what literally sounded like the songs that didn't make Hysteria. I really like Deff Leppard, seriously, but that was BS.

So Slang comes out and as far as I am concerned, makes up for everything. As important as Hysteria was to the band's success and as great as it still is to this day, Slang is what we were headed for before Hysteria and Adrenalize. A lot of people claim this was DefLep trying for grunge, but I hear no grunge thank the rock gods. They self admittingly were trying to do some new things and see if their fans would allow them the same creative flexability as the fans of bands like U2 and Chilli Peppers. No one gets mad when they do something different. But hard rock fans tend to want their bands to just stick with what got them there and never change. I have seen only 1 hard rock band actually pull that off over an entire career and still be as strong today as they were when they started. ACDC stuck to the same recipe album after album after album. Problem is very few bands can pull of the things ACDC can.

Slang brings the rock in a lot of different ways but it is unmistakable rock. It is dark, not metal, but ballsy all the same. All bands will eventually grow artistically as there success does but most will eventually come back to a sound much like they did when they initially won over all their fans. But Slang was not as much reaching out as it was coming back around. It didn't sell well so the band since then has strived for more Hysteria type material. Unfortunate, can't be too mad though, the chicks dig it.


I recently saw them in concert, it was good to see they still got it, the concert was great. Their showmanship and live ability is still top notch. Its good to see bands from this era showing new bands how it is done as well as the grunge bands that made them so unpopular for a while and are still trying to figure out how its done.

Get Slang and turn your open mindedeness knob as well as the volume knob to 12. .


Def Leppard's Slang
The different direction of styles and songwriting was outstanding! Songs like Deliver Me, Work It Out, and Blood Runs cold will show you that this cd stands out from the rest of them. In all honesty, this is one of my favorite Def Leppard cd's. Every song is an A+, and everyone who says otherwise is either a hater of Def Leppard's music, or still stuck in the 80's. Don't get me wrong, Hysteria is and will always be my favorite Leppard album, but to compare the 2, well, that ain't right. Just because they are sooo different in style.


Only three songs worth a listen..............
This is from a guy who likes their early work and doesn't like their change to grunge. In my never so humble opinion, "Turn To Dust", "All I Want Is Everything" and "Deliver Me" are the only tunes on Slang worth having.


Their best
The went backwards with Eurphoria. I love Hysteria - but this album was their natural progression and they admitted this is the music they wanted to write and play, and damn it, they still should be. They should have stuck to their guns and played what they wanted, thats when you get peoples best, not when they are trying to write what they think people want. This was the road away from "80's pop band", and unfortunatly they turned around after this. .


Great Departure From the Formula
They could have just done what every other band out there did and go Grunge but instead they brought in several influences. Def Leppard had gotten stale and they knew no one would buy another Adrenalize. They do have some 90's downer rock in "Deliver Me" but they also have R&B in "Breathe a Sigh". They have the funky rock of "Slang" and the more subtle "Where Does Love Go When It Dies". The pinnacle of the album however is "Work It Out" which oddly enough was Vivian Campbell's first songwriting credit. Overall this was a great breath of fresh air for the band and fans alike and it still stands up today.


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