Product Description

Tenth album from the Sheffield hard rockers, the follow-up to 2006's covers set 'Yeah' and their first album of original material since 2002's 'X'. Named for the backstage area where they wrote most of the material, this is allegedly a return to their hard-rocking roots after the toned-down adult pop sound of 'X', containing no ballads. Produced by the band's long-standing engineer Ronan McHugh, it includes the single 'Nine Lives' which features a guest appearance from country star Tim McGraw.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Go
2. Nine Lives - Def Leppard, Tim McGraw
3. C'mon C'mon
4. Love
5. Tomorrow
6. Cruise Control
7. Hallucinate
8. Only The Good Die Young
9. Bad Actress
10. Come Undone
11. Gotta Let It Go

Disc 2:

1. Behind The Curtain
2. The Sparkle Lounge Commentary
3. Nine Lives - Def Leppard, Tim McGraw

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9472 in Music
• Released on: 2008-05-05
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: CD+DVD, Enhanced
• Running time: 85 minutes

Customer Reviews

LOVE this Album but feel ripped off
Purchased this album and as usuall I buy everything they've done since i got into them around the hysteria time, got the deluxe edition expecting all the goodies, but when i got home, opened it wheres song no 12 (Love -acoustic). There is no tracklisting on back of cover on deluxe edition, now i will have to wait till itunes have it for download which last time i checked they hadn't. Its on the cheap version.

not as good as X or SLANG!
don't get me wrong i love the leps but listening to this record it seemed stripped right down and quickmade! but i don't understand why it took so long since X to surface if it was to be this type of quick record? when i listen to SLANG i can hear the depth and time gone into it and X is as tho each song has been given all due attention to be perfect in deliverence. i expected more this time but this record reminds me of EUPHORIA some good moments but no contintuence in the music, like starts and stops and starts and stop again.it has good moments but not as many as X and phil you don't need to keep your guitar notes going to a scream all the time just let the note flow and step of the sustain dude i can feel you in my teeth ha ha. all in all its still a very good def leppard record and worth having i give it 4 out of 5.

A decent enough album but not a 5 star classic.
The first few songs here lead you to think this could be close to being another Hysteria. "Go" is a storming opening track and "Nine Lives" and the superbly faultless "C'Mon,C'Mon" keep the pace up before a great ballad "Love" slows it down.
After that it largely gets by but never gets back to the level of the opening tracks, Hallucinate and Bad Actress as well as the closing track Gotta Let It Go stood out amongst the remaining tracks for me. There are no really bad tracks though.
As for the DVD there is an interesting documentary with Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell talking about the band and the making of the album going through the writing of the individual tracks and illuminating some of the tracks that I had dismissed earlier, this was important and gave a fresh perspective on them, well done lads their commentary will certainly help on the next few plays.
They even say how important the lyrics on certain songs were to them, which I wholeheartedly agree with. I bought this "Deluxe Edition" as I wanted the ultimate Def Leppard package and although it looks good I have one main grumble, there are no printed lyrics, and I do not count the 6 post-it style notes as such. C'Mon,C'Mon there was room for 2 pages of thank you's and 5 pages taken up by small photos of the band that would have fitted onto one page. Surely some bright spark must have suggested that idea at some stage.
All in all a pretty decent package but compared to Hysteria and Pyromania it does not reach those 5 star heights. Notwithstanding that I cannot wait to see them on tour in June, welcome back Leppard.