Frontiers\/BAM<\/p>\n
Once spearheading the NWOBHM movement in Sheffield DEF LEPPARD chose a more commercial path around 1982\/83. The ensuing album, \u201cPyromania\u201d secured their success as much as the hiatus following drummer Rick Allen\u00b4s car crash and loss of an arm cost them betwixt 1984-87. Those years also included three massive years in the studio creating another success, \u201cHysteria\u201d. Another massive set back was the suicide of guitarist Steve Clark in 1991. Since 1992 the band has consisted of Joe Elliott, vocals, guitarists Phil Collen and Viv Campbell (ex. SWEET SAVAGE, ex. DIO, RIVERDOGS), bass man Rick Savage, and one-armed drummer Rick Allen. This disc has also been sort of delayed, being the first ever live outing from the band.<\/p>\n
The most part of the album is made up of songs from their softer halcyon years 1983-1992. The focus may be on their almost poppy blockbusters like \u201c\u201dRocket\u201d, \u201cAnimal\u201d, \u201cLet\u00b4s Get Rocked\u201d and similar, but the audience seem to sound more when real classics like \u201cFoolin\u00b4\u201d, \u201cBringin\u00b4 On the Heartbreak\u201d and \u201cPhotograph\u201d are delivered. The band seems to have fun, and the audience is very active in belting out every old chestnut. The odd choices; the cover of SWEET`S \u201cAction\u201d, and later songs like 2008\u00b4s \u201cNine Lives\u201d and the very odd closing track \u201cBad Acress\u201d from the same quite ok (but no more) \u201cSongs From the Sparkle Lounge\u201d don\u00b4t quite bring down the house. As a whole the live debut on disc by this always in some kind of fashion band is very enjoyable. I understand that they feel the need to play something newer than \u201cPoor Some Sugar On Me\u201d, but fate and the audience wants them to perform the classics and nothing more. After all they have a plethora of enviable hits to choose from! The three new songs are a mixed bag. \u201cUndefeated\u201d gives me goose bumps. It is exactly what DEF LEPPARD is all about to me; the intro, the chorus, the refrain etc. An album of that kind of material would boost sales. I say almost exactly the same about \u201cIt\u00b4s All about Believing\u201d, which is only a percentage weaker. But \u201cKings of the World\u201d is another story. If made by whoever makes up the numbers in QUEEN these days it would have been rightfully hailed and cheered. But why DEF LEPPARD makes a carbon copy of another major English music export I can\u00b4t understand. I hope it\u00b4s a playful little game they play, and not a hint of the future. Anyway, there is a lot to rejoice about on this disc, and I believe it will bring a smile to more faces than mine.<\/p>\n
Track List
\nCD1
\nRock Rock (Till You Drop)
\nRocket
\nAnimal
\nC\u00b4mon C\u00b4mon
\nMake Love Like a Man
\nToo Late for Love
\nFoolin\u00b4
\nNine Lives
\nLove Bites
\nRock On<\/p>\n
CD2
\nTwo Steps Behind
\nBringin\u00b4 On the Heartbreak
\nSwitch 625
\nHysteria
\nArmageddon It
\nPhotograph
\nPour Some Sugar On Me
\nRock of Ages
\nLet\u00b4s Get Rocked
\nAction
\nBad Actress<\/p>\n
Undefeated
\nKings of the World
\nIt\u00b4s All About Believing<\/p>\n
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