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| | Slang | | | Music Artist : | | Def Leppard | | Music Style : | | Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | | Record Label : | | Island / Mercury | | Release Date : | | 1996-05-14 | | Store Price : | | $13.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Truth?
2. Turn To Dust
3. Slang
4. All I Want Is Everything
5. Work It Out
6. Breathe A Sigh
7. Deliver Me
8. Gift Of Flesh
9. Blood Runs Cold
10. Where Does Love Go When It Dies
11. Pearl Of Euphoria
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Great CD, albeit in a different direction
Submitted on: 2010-07-25 |
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| Let me start off by saying this is one of my favorite Def Leppard CDs, but if you are looking for "Pour Some Sugar On Me" "Rocket" or "Photograph" look elsewhere because you won't find it on this CD. With that said, the music on this CD is far more though provoking and well written than other Def Leppard albums. "Work It Out" is probably the most radio accessible song on the album and was a minor hit at radio, but is not by far the best song on the CD. In my opinion the best songs on the CD are "Breathe A Sigh" "All I Want Is Everything" and my personal favorite "Blood Runs Cold". Overall, I would recommend this CD to anyone that likes Def Leppard but hated the over-production of "Mutt" Lange. |
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 Dark, Moody, Mature and Boring
Submitted on: 2010-06-15 |
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| Despite selling three million copies in the US alone, Adrenalize was a huge disappointment. I know, any recording artist today would gladly give up his right arm in exchange of those numbers, but let's not forget that Pyromania sold more than ten million copies and Hysteria more than twelve million. As I mentioned in a previous review, Adrenalize followed Hysteria's overproduced pop metal formula to a tee, a move that proved fatal in the midst of the grunge explosion. So, after Adrenalize's underwhelming performance, our beleaguered pop metallers from Sheffield decided to follow the steps of countless hair farmers before them and adapted their sound in an effort to court the 90s alterna-rock audience. Unlike Mötley Crüe, Poison or Warrant, who completely revamped their sound, the Leps decided to stay within a reasonable pop metal idiom despite ditching their signature multilayered production and adding some trendy industrial rock touches here and there. The main change came in the songwriting: this time around, the songs lack the melodic, in-your-face hooks and choruses that defined the band in previous albums, and the overall vibe, with the sole exception of the somewhat infectious title track, is dark, moody and reflective with much more personal and mature lyrics. Being this a Def Leppard album, really good songwriting is almost mandatory, and the band does deliver it with tracks All I Want is Everything, Work it Out and Slang. That said, I really can't find a real point in this album because a big part of the Lep's appeal was the good times summertime tone present in their music, and since it's almost completely absent here, the songs sound extremely forced and uncomfortable, as if the band members were struggling to work with a musical and lyrical identity that's not really their own. This album was ultimately a big gamble that didn't pay off, since after earning a gold certification it just died commercially and cemented the band's future status as a nostalgia act. |
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 SLANG WITH ME
Submitted on: 2009-12-10 |
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| This album certainly is a break from the normal Lep albums, but who wants every album to sound the same? I've already bought HYSTERIA, why do I want HYSTERIA 2? I think that change is good, unlike some people who stopped listening after PYROMANIA. "They don't rock anymore." What? Look at "Truth?" and "Turn to Dust," "Work It Out" is a great song to blast with the sun roof open screaming down the highway. Real Lep fans see this album as a great undertaking for a band forever labeled as an 80's band. "Slang" is a band not recording the same thing over and over.actually like "Slang" much more than their trying to recapture their old sound "Sparkle Lounge" album |
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Gottabegeddenit!
Submitted on: 2009-10-18 |
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I always considered Deff Leppard the Conway Twitty of hard rock. Conway's songs were always "for the ladies." And what's wrong with that? Well Deff Leppard seemed to have that same effect with Hysteria and Adrenlize. But before that they were throwing down crazy hard rock like No, No, No, Me and My Wine, On Through the Night and the almost metal-like Answer to the Master. Then Pour Some Sugar On Me shows up and it seems all their songs are"for the ladies." Again, if there is a better reason, don't bother, I don't want to hear it. The title track Hysteria, Animal, Love Bites, and Armegeddonet only added to it. But here comes the problem, Deff Leppard is notorious,even back then, actually especially back then for long breaks between albums. So after Hysteria we all wait patiently knowing the penchant for loooooong concert tours and the perfectionistic attitude of making sure everything is right. Well they fire back with Adrenalize with songs like Do Ya Wanna get Rocked, Have You Ever Needed Someone so Bad, and i think Kick Love Into Motion got some play, and the ladies swooned again. Now I ain't hatin but we waited all that time to get what literally sounded like the songs that didn't make Hysteria. I really like Deff Leppard, seriously, but that was BS.
So Slang comes out and as far as I am concerned, makes up for everything. As important as Hysteria was to the band's success and as great as it still is to this day, Slang is what we were headed for before Hysteria and Adrenalize. A lot of people claim this was DefLep trying for grunge, but I hear no grunge thank the rock gods. They self admittingly were trying to do some new things and see if their fans would allow them the same creative flexability as the fans of bands like U2 and Chilli Peppers. No one gets mad when they do something different. But hard rock fans tend to want their bands to just stick with what got them there and never change. I have seen only 1 hard rock band actually pull that off over an entire career and still be as strong today as they were when they started. ACDC stuck to the same recipe album after album after album. Problem is very few bands can pull of the things ACDC can.
Slang brings the rock in a lot of different ways but it is unmistakable rock. It is dark, not metal, but ballsy all the same. All bands will eventually grow artistically as there success does but most will eventually come back to a sound much like they did when they initially won over all their fans. But Slang was not as much reaching out as it was coming back around. It didn't sell well so the band since then has strived for more Hysteria type material. Unfortunate, can't be too mad though, the chicks dig it.
I recently saw them in concert, it was good to see they still got it, the concert was great. Their showmanship and live ability is still top notch. Its good to see bands from this era showing new bands how it is done as well as the grunge bands that made them so unpopular for a while and are still trying to figure out how its done.
Get Slang and turn your open mindedeness knob as well as the volume knob to 12. |
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Def Leppard's Slang
Submitted on: 2009-06-08 |
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| In all honesty, this is one of my favorite Def Leppard cd's. The different direction of styles and songwriting was outstanding! Songs like Deliver Me, Work It Out, and Blood Runs cold will show you that this cd stands out from the rest of them. Every song is an A+, and everyone who says otherwise is either a hater of Def Leppard's music, or still stuck in the 80's. Don't get me wrong, Hysteria is and will always be my favorite Leppard album, but to compare the 2, well, that ain't right. Just because they are sooo different in style. |
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