Def Leppard - Slang
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Artist: Def LeppardEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1996-05-14
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
- Truth?
- Turn To Dust
- Slang
- All I Want Is Everything
- Work It Out
- Breathe A Sigh
- Deliver Me
- Gift Of Flesh
- Blood Runs Cold
- Where Does Love Go When It Dies
- Pearl Of Euphoria
Music reviews of Slang
Music Review: Gottabegeddenit!
Rating: 5 Stars
I always considered Deff Leppard the Conway Twitty of hard rock. Conway's songs were always "for the ladies." 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 hear 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.
Description of Slang
Japanese edition of new album features the bonustrack 'Move With Me Slowly', separate English & Japaneselyric booklets, the singles 'Work It Out' & 'Slang' andcomes in a clear tray.***1996 Japanese release.Somewhere along their musical path, Def Leppard shed their raw, youthful rock aggression and became a pop band. Their new direction, beginning with Pyromania and continuing with Hysteria and Adrenalize, was a complete departure from their earlier, stripped-down, AC/DCish approach, and it vaulted them to mega-stardom. Slang is their first record without producer "Mutt" Lange since their debut, On Through the Night. The good news is that it's a much more organic, less overproduced record than they would have made with Lange, but it's still more pop than hard rock. Dance beats and funky riffs, with no shortage of slower power ballads, sum up this record pretty thoroughly. The single "Work It Out" has a nice strong chorus (with almost Sebadoh-like harmonies) and is certainly less bombastic than past hits like "Pour Some Sugar on Me." Def Leppard have long since abandoned their heavy metal roots, but with Slang they've at least moved away from the studio dominance of Lange, and that's a step in the right direction. --Adem Tepedelen
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