Track Listing

1. Go
2. Nine Lives - Def Leppard, Ronan McHugh, Tim McGraw, Joe Elliott, Rick Allen, Rick Savage, Phil Collen, Vivian Campbell, Ger McDonnell, Preson Pope, Bob Ludwig
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
12. Love

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32085 in Music
• Released on: 2008-05-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 44 minutes

CD 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.

Customer Reviews

Strongest album for 20 years?
After "X", and Euphoria to a lesser extent, I was a little apprehensive about a new album, and was worried about the likely direction. I couldn't be more wrong though.

This album is great. The guitars, which have been missing for ten years are finally back in a big way. The album is a mixture of influences, from different bands, and there is something in there for any Leppard fan.

Some of the highlights are the opener, Go, probably the hardest song the band have done, C'mon C'mon, which cannot do anything but grow on you, Bad Actress, a fun song which could be right off Hysteria, and Love, which although a ballad, the only one, is almost haunting. It is also not a typical ballad in any sense. The weakest track is probably Gotta Let it Go, simply because it just doesn't catch me like every other song on the CD.

So definitely the best album the band have done for a long time. The best since Hysteria? Quite possible, but time will tell.

Better than a lot of reviews give it credit for
I am a long time def leppard fan and have been very pleased with this album. The one thing I can't understand is why people constantly compare all leppard albums to Hysteria. Yes it was brilliant but it was also 21 years ago and the band have moved on since so why can't everyone else? I feel they are writing some excellent material now and it shows on this album.

Quite unusually for Leppard there isn't a lot of collaborative writing on this album - only two of the songs. The rest are all individual compositions. This in itself I feel shows how much the band have matured as writers. And yes there are a few fillers but every album has these - even the great hysteria. The stand out tracks are those written by Rick Savage - Cmon Cmon and love. The first has that real classic leppard arena sound and the second is a beautiful ballad with an almost classical feel and arrangement to it. The real surprise for me was the strength of the songs offered by Vivian Campbell. With the possible exception of only the good die young, his songs are amongst the strongest here and I feel that with this album, he has really contributed on the writing side. Well done Viv. The one thing I don't understand is the highly publicised collaboration with Tim McGraw on Nine lives - he sings four lines at the start. This appears to be a stunt to boost sales in America and the song is really strong enough to stand on it's own without this gimmick.

This is a strong collection of songs and is head and shoulders above most of the muck being realeased at the minute. For those of you still hung up on Hysteria, do yourselves a favour and move on. No it won't sell as much as Hysteria did but NO album nowadays does - appreciate this for what it is: A great rock album from a band still delivering the goods after 30 years, and how many can claim the same?

Not disappointed
I read a review on here before I purchased the album which said it wasn't very good so I was a bit worried about buying it but did anyway as I am a big Leppard fan and goin to see them next month so thought it would be a good idea to listen to the new album before that and I have to say I'm pleased with it. Much better than X on which I only liked a few songs. A lot more of the classic Leppard guitar sounds - instantly recognisable as them, and I don't agree with some comments I've read about Joe's voice...of course it's going to sound different from Hysteria...that was however many years ago now. But I think they're sounding great. Particularly love Tomorrow. I feel that they've matured with their age...yes, a lot of their older fans want them to stay the same but they are going to change, and some of the songs sound as if they have been influenced by some of the cover songs on Yeah ("Only the good die young" has some "Waterloo Sunset" moments in it for example) but this is no bad thing. Keep it up guys!