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Tarfumes.com - Slang
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List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $10.97
Your Save: $ 3.01 ( 22% )
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Manufacturer: Island / Mercury
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731453248625
Label: Island / Mercury
Manufacturer: Island / Mercury
Number Of Discs: 1
Publication Date: 1996
Publisher: Island / Mercury
Release Date: 1996-05-14
Studio: Island / Mercury
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Japanese edition of new album features the bonus track 'Move With Me Slowly', separate English & Japanese lyric booklets, the singles 'Work It Out' & 'Slang' and comes in a clear tray. ***1996 Japanese release.
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Summary: Only three songs worth a listen..............
Comment: In my never so humble opinion, "Turn To Dust", "All I Want Is Everything" and "Deliver Me" are the only tunes on Slang worth having. This is from a guy who likes their early work and doesn't like their change to grunge.
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Summary: Their best
Comment: I love Hysteria - but this album was their natural progression and they admitted this is the music they wanted to write and play, and damn it, they still should be. The went backwards with Eurphoria. They should have stuck to their guns and played what they wanted, thats when you get peoples best, not when they are trying to write what they think people want. This was the road away from "80's pop band", and unfortunatly they turned around after this.
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Summary: Great Departure From the Formula
Comment: Def Leppard had gotten stale and they knew no one would buy another Adrenalize. They could have just done what every other band out there did and go Grunge but instead they brought in several influences. They do have some 90's downer rock in "Deliver Me" but they also have R&B in "Breathe a Sigh". They have the funky rock of "Slang" and the more subtle "Where Does Love Go When It Dies". The pinnacle of the album however is "Work It Out" which oddly enough was Vivian Campbell's first songwriting credit. Overall this was a great breath of fresh air for the band and fans alike and it still stands up today.
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Summary: We must all grow up!
Comment: I know that this album does not sound like pyromania or hysteria, but we must all know when to grow up and move on. Def Leppard did with this album and they showed that singing about adult stuff is much more interesting than "having you dad tell you to mow the lawn"! This album is emotional and deep when it comes to writing of the lyrics. Yes, this album does not have the crunch crunch of pyromania or High n dry, but the lyrics do pack a serious punch. It was time for them to change because Adrenalize was a big mistake and even if that album did sell 6 million copies and had five hits, it was still a bad album. Slang is a must for any DL collection or if your into emo music, this would be right up that alley.
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Summary: Lets get, lets get, lets get, lets get grunge....
Comment: By this stage of their illustrious career Def Leppard were bandwagon jumpers of the worst kind, that being that instead of merely genre jumping they were genre jumping and doing the new genre badly. Not only does this album betray a band desperately trying to stave off irrelevance to the hard rock world but also a band with precious few ideas at this point.
It's not all bad news however and in fairness there are some high points. So in point form;
- Flagship cut/title track/lead single Slang is an excellent piece of hard rock fluff. Top stuff from a band of hard rock veterans who showed their fun side in teh video for the same song, which was unfairly ignored by MTV due to grunge and alterna-rock swamping the airwaves.
- Gutless ballads like All I Want is Everything generally do the band no favours. It's not a band song in itself, but is the best example of what was otherwise wrong with this band circa '96.
- Semi alternative, muddied arrangements, conversely produced cleanly (no I can't explain that). But the issue is that this album is seeped in pointless affectations doubly stupid given that by '96 grunge was already merely a genre with the hard rock world (though the majors were still in denial over this) and trying to put out an album so heavily influenced by such a sub genre was a painfully bad thing to do.
- This album cam with some limited edition attachments in some territories. Mine has some acoustic versions of various Lep tunes. Except for mega hardcored completists these acoustic tracks don't add up to much.
All up a disappointing addition to the often sparkling Lep catalogue, leaving their legacy looking fairly shaky and embarrassing.
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