Def Leppard - Adrenalize
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Free Music Review: Every Def Leppard album is great in it's own way!
Hit: 5 Stars
Well, I can't exactly say that Adrenalize is the best because every single one of their albums are the best in different ways. I picked Adrenalize to review because this one and High n Dry are my favorites, but I love every one of their albums in different ways. I love On Through the Night and High n Dry because I love how much differnet they sounded when they first came out. I love Pyromania because it was one of their first big albums, and I love the songs Photograph, Stagefright, and Rock Rock til You Drop. Hysteria was great because it had many fun songs and they attracted many different kinds of audiences. Almost anyone could like it. There's always at least one song that is liked on there. Adreanalize (the album I'm reviewing) was a very poppy and fun album. There were many songs on it that just made you want to party like Make Love Like A Man, Let's Get Rocked, and I Wanna Touch You. There were also plenty of slow and beautiful songs on it like Tonight, White Lightening, and the ever famous Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad ~~yet again, another song that everyone was able to relate to like Hysteria's Love Bites. Adrenalize is one of my favorite albums because it always lifts my spirits. There's no way I can't smile when I listen to I Wanna Touch You. Retro-Active was really cool because it was a little different of a sound than usual. There were some songs that sounded completely different than usual like Desert Song, Fractured Love and From the Inside. Then there were the songs that had the Lep signature on it like Two Steps Behind, Miss You In a Heartbeat, and Only After Dark. It's definitley an album that had more diversity than the others. Their Greatest Hits album not only had a great mix of everything they did, but also had a beautiful new ballad When Love and Hate Collide. Slang was one album that sounded completely different. It was a much rawer sound like On Through the Night with a ninties rock twist. It wasn't everyone's favorite Lep album, but they still did a good job with songs like Work It Out, Blood Runs Cold, and Where Does Love Go When It Dies. Now their newest album, Euphoria ended up being a beautiful album! This album released in 99 ended up drawing huge crowds. It's a good cross between the Hysteria and Adrenalize days. They finally came back to the signature Lep sound that everyone will always enjoy. As for Adrenalize, prepare to have a smile on your face through every song. You'll be singing to the whole thing! Sorry this ended up being so long, but I wanted to point out how great each and every one of their albums are and how almost anyone can love them. Def Leppard as one of the greatest rock bands ever deserve 5 stars and will always be remembered as an important part of rock and roll. Just remember that whenever you listen to Def Leppard, it will always have a hint of something that will always make you feel good one way or another.Free Music Review: Emerging Storms On The Horizon
Hit: 5 Stars
`Andrenalize' was released 4 years after the mega-successful `Hysteria' and in many ways it is often compared to it's predecessor to it's own detriment. I however can't see why people think less of this album than they do of `Hysteria' because to me it just sounds like `Hysteria' Part II, yet that may be part of the reason. There were great songs on `Adrenalize' from the power ballads of `Heaven Is' and `Have You Ever Wanted Someone So Bad' to hard rockers like ` Tear It Down' and the smutty `Make Love Like A Man' and `Tonight' the socially conscious `White Lightning' to throw away fun like `Let's Get Rocked'. For me Def Leppard represented what rock was supposed to be about: Fun. Def Leppard also had great artwork at the time, something that they seem to have lost sight of (see X) which annoys me terribly because I believe in the whole package.
1992 was a terribly uncertain time for a band like Def Leppard when they released `Adrenalize', the previous year had seen the emergence from the underground of Nirvana with their `Nevermind' album. Seismic changes would be put into effect as a result of the emergence of what would be called alternative rock or grunge. It really difficult to pinpoint exactly why things changed, but the fact remains that 80's style hair metal within a year would become a dirty word. However at the time it was not unusual to see bands like Mr Big and Guns `n' Roses alongside Nirvana and R.E.M. in the charts. Def Leppard would later feel the effect of these changes and alter their sound in a bid for survival. Not only Def Leppard but also colossal giant of thrash metal like Metallica and Megadeth would follow suit and as a result 1994 - 1996 will always for me be the years of sell-outs. What they failed to recognise is that at the time fans would happily listen to Nirvana, Def Leppard, Metallica, Deicide, R.E.M., U2, Ice Cube, Culture Beat, Madonna and Snap all on the same day. It wasn't the fan that brought about the changes but the industry jumping on bandwagons, so don't blame fans for your falling fortunes, blame yourself. 1992 was the year that the buying public began to have more choice when it came to music, music was expanding and fracturing into a myriad of genres and sub genres until what we have to today, where what is in the chart is complete crap because what is bought is bought by the musically lazy with no real interest in music. The good stuff is still there, one just has to look for it and that is why the Internet is a vital tool and Amazon a godsend.
Free Music Review: You'd have to be a deaf leopard not to enjoy this.
Hit: 5 Stars
The masters of commercial hard rock are Def Leppard, and with this album they somehow manage to be at once more pop and more rock than they were on the previous release, Hysteria. It's heavier and louder than Hysteria, but it's slicker, and the songs here, with one exception, are pop ditties with all the big choruses and catchiness you'd expect from Leppard. With more straight power chords and crunching guitars than before, Def Leppard neatly pull the stunt of producing an album of hard rocking pop songs.Showcased here, more than ever before, is the band's sense of humour. Tunes like "Make Love Like a Man", "Personal Property", and "Let's Get Rocked" are often accused of cheesiness but critics fail to see that this is exactly the point. The chauvinism of such pieces is tongue-in-cheek, as much mocking those who right similar songs in all seriousness as much as anything else.
Let's Get Rocked was one of the band's biggest UK hits and to this day graces the band's encore in the live show. It has more overdubs than you could shake your big-haired wig at, Hysteria-style, but this song wouldn't really have gone on Hysteria; it's an evolution of that sound. Heaven Is, meanwhile, has a similar feel to a harder-rocking "Animal". "Make Love Like a Man", aside from being a very funny track, is also among the best things the band has done.
The album covers the bases - lighter pop rockers, louder rockers, a dark-sounding ballad in "Tonight" and a more romantic one in "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad". The icing on the cake here is the most addictive mid-tempo anthem they've done, "I Wanna Touch U", and the long and dark "White Lightning".
Absolutely the dog's..... Well, anyway, yep, this is my favourite Leppard album. Although the highlights are even higher on "Euphoria", this album is a stronger all-rounder to take the tape as my favourite Leppard album. This is better than Hysteria, so there.
Free Music Review: THE FUNNEST AND MOST HUMOROUS DEF LEPPARD ALBUM!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This was one of the most underrated and poorly received albums I have ever known. It leaves me disgusted to see how critical of Leppard's latest efforts. After they established themselves with the mega accomplishments of Pyromania and Hysteria, the band thought that they could relax and just enjoy making albums, but many rigid fans wouldn't let them. If this isn't their greatest masterpiece, it's still one of the best albums I have ever heard, and another great achievement for the Leps. And it's a hell of a lot of fun!! Def Leppard embellished in glam rock to it's purest form, deeply rooted in the sound of Slade. And with this album, they were more than faithful to their philosophy of keeping rock n roll fun, "to put a smile on somebody's face (Joe Elliot)." Music to them was a form of entertainment not to be taken too seriously. They avoided drowning out the excitement of their songs with cynical and perhaps depressing messages about the world's problems, but managed to keep the candle of magic burning in the soul of their music, which I find admirable. You will get a few laughs with songs like HEAVEN IS, PERSONAL PROPERTY, MAKE LOVE LIKE A MAN, WANNA TOUCH YOU, and especially LET'S GET ROCKED. And their trademark multi-layered guitar melodies are at their peek in their beauty and magic. The ballads of TONIGHT, HAVE YOU EVER NEEDED, STAND UP, and the Steve Clark inspired WHITE LIGHTNING are strong examples. And then you have the fast paced energy of TEAR IT DOWN. Perhaps they lost the creative input of the late Steve Clark, but don't let that fool ya. Just sit back, relax, let this make you feel what it wants you to feel, and you will find this album amazing and have a few laughs. Ignore the negativity, stop comparing this one to their earlier efforts (HYSTERIA, PYROMANIA, etc.), and just simply enjoy.Free Music Review: My very first hard rock album!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Up until 1992, I never liked hard rock or metal at all. I was never into it. Then one day I was watching MTV in 1992, Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad came on and I totally fell in love with Def Leppard and the song! I bought the tape and it was my favorite and only hard rock album. After a while, I bought Hysteria which is now my all time favorite hard rock/metal album. But Adrenalize will always be up there with Hysteria. Adrenalize has some of the best rock songs I've ever heard like Let's Get Rocked (awesome video by the way), Make Love Like A Man, Tonight, White Lighting (I totally love all the guitar solos), Stand Up (Kick Love Into Motion), and Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad (My 2nd favorite rock ballad next to Love Bites). But this album got me into other bands but Def Leppard are so unique and don't sound like any other band so they will always be my favorite. Adrenalize is REAL ROCK!!!
Another thing I don't understand is a lot of people keep saying that Def Leppard are not very talented. How can they not be talented when Def Leppard was one of very few hard rock bands from the 80's that had a #1 hit on Billboard with Love Bites? And the fact that Rick Allen lost his arm and didn't just give up like most people would have. I know a lot of people would just quit drumming if they lost an arm but not Rick Allen. He found a way to keep drumming. I think Def Leppard have more talent than many other bands out there. Def Leppard always has these epic songs with long guitar solos like Die Hard The Hunter, White Lightning, Gods Of War, and Paper Sun.
Euphoria was another masterpiece! Def Leppard is very underrated and this album especially is very underrated and it totally sounds Def Leppard to me. They don't sound like Backstreet Boys or New Kids On The Block, they are ROCK people!!!