Def Leppard - High & Dry
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Free Music Notes for High & Dry
Free Music Review: A hard rock/metal primer - this is how its done!
Hit: 5 Stars
Perhaps the best hard rock album ever made... Not a wasted track.
Leppard hit their stride here and never duplicated it. "Pyromania" is
OK, but everything after is wretched. It seems they tried to make dance
tracks for the girls and "reach" a wider audience, which I guess worked,
but I can't listen to any of it. These songs capture a young man's
outlook on life. They have been around the block, but they admittedly
don't know everything. Life depicted here is booze, girls, music, and
more booze and girls, but there is an edge to these songs and things (as
in life) don't always work out - but they will take what's comin' to them!
And, I'll take this disc over just about anything else in the genre.
Free Music Review: Greatest Def Leppard Album of All Time
Hit: 5 Stars
Pyromania comes in at a close second, but High N' Dry is one of those hidden gems you just don't hear much about.
High N' Dry captures the early rawness of Def Leppard in their growing stage, and in their most exciting form. All of the guitars are raw, defined, and heavy. The solos cut through like a hot knife through butter, and with each snap of the snare drum, you're tempted to get up and bang your head to the music.
John Robert "Mutt" Lange did such a stellar job on producing and engineering this album. It's too bad that Def Leppard had to change their musical style to the pop-candy rock that you hear on the radio so often these days.
This is the Def Leppard you don't hear anymore. Pick this album up now.
Free Music Review: More Hooks than a Alabama Bass Fishin Tournament!
Hit: 5 Stars
This Mutt Lange produced album is the roughest album beside "On Through The Night",yet it is the most melodic and hard rocking Def Lep offering and shows that Joe Elliots' singing was not just studio trickery. He has a strange growl to his voice that I don't hear on the other albums. Steve Clark and Bruce Willis's dual guitar riffs are reminiscent of Thin Lizzy and Riot. The opening riffs of "Let It Go', "Bringin on the Heartbreak" "Lady Strange" and "Mirror Mirror" will instantly be embedded into your memory bank. "High and Dry" was voted on VH1's Rockshow to be the best drinking song of all time and I must agree. This is an excellent place to start of you are a new Def Lep fan.Free Music Review: Absolutely Phenomenal
Hit: 5 Stars
This is Def Leppard's BEST album by far! right from the getgo to the end this has some of the best hard rock songs ever. "Another Hit and Run" "On Through the Night" and "Switch 624" are some of my favorites.
what they did in this album that they later regressed on in Hysteria is go truly hard rock. there is a passion and intensity felt in these songs. they grab you, shake you and dont let you go until you finally have to say "No NO NO NO NO NO!" NO-more! :)
It's unfortunate that this is a forgotten album as most just stick with Pyromania and Hysteria--which are great albums in their own way, but they lag behind this one in intensity, complexity and passion.
Free Music Review: Their best?
Hit: 5 Stars
High N' Dry is the forgotten Def Leppard CD. Most people immediately skip to Pyromania because that's when the band broke big. But High N' Dry is an amazing hard rock CD with top notch songs. Not only does it have Lep standard "Bringin' on the Heartbreak", but the title track, Let it Go, Another Hit and Run (possibly my favorite Lep song of all), Switch 625 and You Got Me Runnin'. It's a shame the Leps don't play more of these songs in concert. During the Slang tour they played them and the place was rockin'. I never grow tired of High 'N Dry. It's heavier than Pyromania, less produced than Hysteria, and that means it's pure, hard rockin' Def Leppard. Don't miss this one.