nodeerforamonth

Well they started out as a ROCK band, not a "pop metal" band.

I wouldn't say a "staple". Check out "High 'n Dry" and "On Through The Night". Ballads were the exception on those albums, not the norm. I will point out that "Bringing On The Heartbreak" is a good song. For a ballad.

More songs like "Saturday Night", "Wasted", "Rock Brigade", and "Let It Go" are songs they should be doing if they want to be respected in the rock world. Songs like what I've heard from the new album like "Love" are just too wimpy.

The Cow

The Steve Clark and Pete Willis influence on the band are loooooooong gone.

GuessWho

"Love" is not the ballad the Amazon clip would have you believe. The song builds as it goes.

GuessWho

The 29th (album release date)

GuessWho

The guitar picks that come with the CD

An4h0ny

steve clark is turning over in his fckin grave, mate

leppard, you are dead to me

FuQ

Just saw them in San Diego on Saturday. It was a great show and they played the new song and it wasn't that bad. Styx and REO Speedwagon opened. It was a fun time and the place was sold out. I would say about 3,000 people, it is a smaller venue but more intimate and state of the art. I've seen the Chili Peppers there and STP. Great Venue. Cricket Wireless Amphitheater.

SuperBatMan

Care to explain why?

big whoppa

Heads up--On Dancing tonight.

Obey The D

What a great performance on Dancing With The Stars! Pour Some Sugar On Me sounded so good I thought for a minute that they just threw in a Hysteria cd and pretended to play along....oh wait

An4h0ny

everything they've done in the last ten years

no explanation necessary

nodeerforamonth

I agree.

If you have to ask, you were never there in the early days. When they were a ROCK band.

malnar

Yawn. I was there in the early days, but I don't see the need to feel personally offended. Bands change and your tastes didn't. Move on. Listen to what you loved and forget about whatever doesn't interest you. Why carry a grudge for bands you used to love? Even if they put out something like what they did in the 80s, it would be called a sellout rather than a return to form. It will never feel or be the same. They're just doing now whatever they need to do to stay interested - if "staying interested" means making a dent in the charts by being pop-oriented, so be it. Register your feelings by not being interested - don't buy.

As for me, I'm torn on whether to invest or not. I don't hold a grudge against the band - they can change any way they want. I may go along for the ride, I might not. (I'm one of the few that saw Slang as a mature, challenging new direction for them.) I'm not sure I'm interested in what I've heard so far - this sounds pretty slick, like overly slick, even for Def Leppard.

GuessWho

I think they're trying to go along the path of some of their influences. First with Yeah and now influence-based originals.

For ex, "Love" could easily be a Queen song.

Shamus McAnally

On first listen, I really wasn't too crazy, but after a few more spins, it's started to grow on me a bit.

There are definitely more than enough duds, but a few songs I'm really digging are C'mon C'mon, Tomorrow, Hallucinate, and even Bad Actress.

(I picked up the new Whitesnake the same day and I was pretty impressed with the only spin I've given that so far.)

nodeerforamonth

I did. About 19 years ago. Talk about the new album having "no ballads" and being a "return to form" sparked my interest. Most of the song clips I heard, didn't.

Relax. I hold no "grudges" against Def Leppard. I've haven't even thought of them more than once or twice in the past 19 years. There's PLENTY of other bands out there that know how to ROCK. However, "High 'n Dry" will most likely always remain in my top 20 list of albums of all time.

Rocketdog2000

First listen didn't really do much for me, either - unlike the new Whitesnake, which was quite good on initial spin.

Gonna have to give the Leppard some more time. Maybe it will still impress me.