Def Leppard - High & Dry
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Free Music Review: Raw, innovative, unbridled
Hit: 5 Stars
What can be said about this album that hasn't been said before. At the cusp of being a teenager, my friend found some cassettes at a park. He gave me this album and heard it. Then I heard it again. And again. I was hypnotized. I didn't know it at the time, but I was listening to one of the top hard rock albums of all time. For almost all rock bands, for reasons I shall not get into, their first or second albums are their greatest work. Most rock critics like to use the tired phrase "their early work was best" to describe most band's output. But in this case, it is absolutely undisputed. Their second album is undeniably raw and engaging. Their riffs on Switch 625 are practically unparallelled. This was a piece of work where band members where clearly trying to please themselves. At the time, this was a band that was clearly not trying to turn their work into a commercial success. This is what you get before you get discovered. Even the album Pyormania was excellent, but was not as raw as this album. Pyromania was much more refined. What do you get when you get a garage band and put them into a studio, all the while telling them that this work will never be heard by anyone else? You get "High and Dry". Enjoy.Free Music Review: a fabulous blend of youth and maturity
Hit: 5 Stars
I agree that high & dry did mark a transition period for def leppard, but the rawness of the guitar on this recording combined with the early production of mutt lange create one of British heavy metals finest works. From the opening riff of "let it go" this album will probably please listeners who enjoy 80's iron maiden, judas priest, ac/dc and early ozzy. I personaly find much in common with ac/dc's back in black - another fine mutt lange recording. The lead guitar work of Pete Willis is strongly blues based yet aggressive and quite appropriate for this record. Also, if you enjoy Joe Elliot's vocal timbre and melodies then you should have a degree of comfort with high & dry. A bit of caution. If you expect high & dry to sound like the richly crafted hysteria, it does not. The massive ooh-ahh vocals which became a def leppard trademark on later albums had not fully developed at the time of this recording. Nor do samples and lushly layered effects color high & dry's songs to the degree of later works. In conclusion, high & dry is a personal favorite; well recorded, good composition and unique vocal stylizations marking a period in def leppard's histoy just before they became hugely successful.Free Music Review: Def Lep before all the "-IA" albums
Hit: 5 Stars
Before PYROMANIA, HYSTERIA, and EUPHORIA there was HIGH N DRY, their 2nd album from 1981. This is one of my all time favorite albums. This is the "heavy metal" Def Leppard before PYROMANIA and HYSTERIA. It is is 22 years later and I still consider this their best album. If you only know the band by their "hit" CDs, then this CD will not sound like the same band to you. I like the other albums but this one is without a doubt, their most rockin'. Songs like "Another Hit And Run", "You Got Me Runnin'" and "Let It Go" are up tempo guitar heavy tracks and "Switch 625" is a very cool short instrumental. The band tried another instrumental years later on the "Euphoria" CD but it wasn't that good to be honest. A must buy for any Def Lep fan old and new. A NWOBHM(new wave of british heavy metal) classic. Also check out "Screaming For Vengeance" by Judas Priest and "Killers" by Iron Maiden. These 3 bands, in my opinion, defined british rock in the early and mid-80's.Free Music Review: AWESOME !
Hit: 5 Stars
LET IT GO ! KICKS THINGS OFF HERE ON THIS EPIC DEF LEP MASTERPIECE !...ITS IN REALITY PROBOBLY BETTER...YEAH IT IS...OVER THAT DANCE HIP HOP ALBUM PRODUCED BY MUTT LANGE AFTER IT...I FERGET WHUT ITS CALLED..PYRO-SOMETHING...ANYWAY...THIS IS THE REAL LEP !!! RIGHT HERE...WHEN THE DRUMMER HAD TWO ARMS AND THEY KICKED EVERY OTHER ARENA BANDS A$$....I THINK MUTT PRODUCED THIS ONE TOO....AND JUST LIKE AC / DC, IT KNOWS WHAT IT IS DOING...IT'S GOT 'BRINGIN' ON THE HEARTBREAK' THAT BIG HIT...BUT I LIKE THIS ALBUM FOR ALL THE ENERGY THATS ALL OVER IT AND ALL THE TEEN ANGST (AND ALL THE SONGWRITING)......I REMEMBER 1982 AN 1983 BACK AT SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL IN TORRANCE ...AN' I REMEMBER THE LEPS !!!!!!!!! I WENT TO THEIR SHOW AT THE FORUM IN 83' AN' IT FRICKIN' ROCKED MY 18 YEAR OLD WORLD...I HAD TO GET INTO MUSIC AFTER SEEIN' THESE GUYS LIVE !! "NO NO NO" IS THE CLIMAX AT THE END...BUT ITS GOT OTHER GOOD STUFF TOO LIKE LADY STRANGE...REALLY MELODIC AND GOOD ...BUY IT --- KLAUSE GE.Free Music Review: If I was smarter...
Hit: 5 Stars
younger, and in college, I would write my college thesis about this album. It frickin rocks after all of these years, and either I am stupid and just love listening to the same crap all the time, or there is something really cool about this record. Basically, it's the best Def Leppard album ever! No question. Ranks up there with any Bon Scott AC/DC record. This is the epitome of rock and roll. Right here, and right now. It will always be 1983 for me, I live in 1983. What year is it anyway? Gotta go, nobody is paying me for my stupid opinion. Just listen to this over and over like I do, because I am stupid and it's always new to me. Now, I have to go drink a 12 pack and smash my head through my window, because I love the way it feels when glass breaks on my head, and it sounds cool too. Then I'll probably through up, and do it all over again the next day. Goddamn it, where is the key? Then I wouldn't have to smash the window. Cheers, Yeah!!!!