Used CD in EXCELLENT playing condition!!!
No Skips, No Freeze ups!!!
No Scratches, No Scuff Marks!!!
CD and all artwork included.
CD and Inserts are in Excellent
and in Like New condition.
Jewel Case has normal wear.
Surprisingly, this is truly a great album, even though it is regarded as
a unreleased/b-sides collection, the material on here is worthy of
being called top-notch album quality. If you took all the great songs
from all rest of Def Leps 1990's albums, you still couldn't accumulate
enough to surpass this one. Only 2 good songs are on Adrenalize, maybe
2 on Slang, and 6 on Euphoria, you still can't touch Retro Active's 11
song that are all excellent. Most of the material on here is from the
Hysteria sessions, and the rest come from Adrenalize sessions, being
cover songs and canned material. There is 1 or 2 songs on here that
were recorded for this CD. Steve Clark,R.I.P., appears on a handful of
tracks, and newcomer Vivian is on a few as well. This CD has a ton of
rockers like Desert Song, Fractured Love, Action, She's Too Tough,
and Ring Of Fire, among others. But the standouts are the two ballads,
Two Steps Behind and Miss You In A Heartbeat, both presented in
electric and acoustic versions. All-in-all a superb album, that should
be considered a regular album, and by far the best one since Hysteria.
Track
listing
1. Desert Song
2. Fractured
Love
3. Action
4. Two Steps Behind -
(acoustic version)
5. She's Too Tough
6. Miss
You in a Heartbeat
7. Only After Dark
8. Ride
Into the Sun
9. From the Inside
10. Ring of
Fire
11. I Wanna Be Your Hero
12. Miss You
in a Heartbeat - (electric version)
13. Two Steps Behind -
(electric version)
Product Details
- Audio CD (October 5, 1993)
- Original Release Date: October 5, 1993
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Island / Mercury
Def Leppard Biography
Def Leppard, in many ways, was the definitive hard rock band of the
'80s. There were many bands that rocked harder (and were more dangerous)
than the Sheffield-based quintet, but few others captured the spirit of
the times quite as well. Emerging in the late '70s as part of the New
Wave of British Heavy Metal, the group actually owed more to the glam
rock and metal of the early '70s, as their sound was equal parts T. Rex,
Mott the Hoople, Queen, and Led Zeppelin. By toning down their heavy
riffs and emphasizing melody, Def Leppard was poised for crossover
success by 1983's Pyromania, and skillfully used the fledgling MTV
network to their advantage. The musicians were already blessed with
photogenic good looks, but they also crafted a series of innovative,
exciting videos that made them into stars. They intended to follow
Pyromania quickly but were derailed when their drummer lost an arm in a
car accident, the first of many problems that plagued the group's
career. Def Leppard managed to pull through such tragedies, and they
even expanded their large audience with 1987's blockbuster Hysteria. As
the '90s began, mainstream hard rock shifted away from Leppard's
signature pop-metal and toward edgier, louder bands, yet the group
maintained a sizable audience into the late '90s and were one of only a
handful of '80s metal groups to survive the decade more or less intact.
Def
Leppard had their origins in a Sheffield-based group that teenagers
Rick Savage (bass) and Pete Willis (guitar) formed in 1977. Vocalist Joe
Elliott, a fanatic follower of Mott the Hoople and T. Rex, joined the
band several months later, bringing the name Deaf Leopard with him.
After a spelling change, the trio, augmented by a now-forgotten drummer,
began playing local Sheffield pubs, and within a year they had added
guitarist Steve Clark to the lineup, as well as a new drummer. Later in
1978, they recorded their debut EP, Getcha Rocks Off, and released it on
their own label, Bludgeon Riffola. The EP became a word-of-mouth
success, earning airplay on the BBC. The group members were still in
their teens.
Following the release of Getcha Rocks Off, Rick Allen
was added as the band's permanent drummer, and Def Leppard quickly
became the subject of the British music weeklies. They soon signed with
AC/DC's manager, Petter Mensch, who helped them secure a contract with
Mercury Records. On Through the Night, the band's full-length debut, was
released in 1980 and instantly became a hit in the U.K., also earning
significant airplay in the U.S., where it reached number 51 on the
charts. Over the course of the year, Def Leppard relentlessly toured
Britain and America, playing their own shows while also opening concerts
for Ozzy Osbourne, Sammy Hagar, and Judas Priest. High 'n' Dry followed
in 1981 and became the group's first platinum album in the U.S., thanks
to MTV's strong rotation of "Bringin' on the Heartbreak." MTV would be
vital to the band's success in the '80s.
As the band recorded the
follow-up to High 'n' Dry with producer Mutt Lange, Pete Willis was
fired from the band for alcoholism, and Phil Collen, a former guitarist
for Girl, was hired to replace him. The resulting album, 1983's
Pyromania, became an unexpected blockbuster, due not only to Def
Leppard's skillful, melodic metal, but also to MTV's relentless airing
of "Photograph" and "Rock of Ages." Pyromania went on to sell ten
million copies, establishing Def Leppard as one of the most popular
bands in the world. Despite their success, the band was about to enter a
trying time for their career. Following an extensive international
tour, the group re-entered the studio to record the follow-up, but
producer Lange was unavailable, so they began sessions with Jim
Steinman, the man responsible for Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell. The
pairing turned out to be ill-advised, so the group turned to their
former engineer, Nigel Green. One month into recording, Allen lost his
left arm in a New Year's Eve car accident. The arm was reattached, but
it had to be amputated once an infection set in.
Def Leppard's
future looked cloudy without a drummer, but by the spring of 1985 --
just a few months after his accident -- Allen began learning to play a
custom-made electronic kit assembled for him by Simmons. The band soon
resumed recording, and within a few months Lange was back on board,
having judged all the existing tapes inferior and ordered the band to
begin work all over again. Recording sessions continued throughout 1986,
and that summer, the group returned to the stage for the European
Monsters of Rock tour. Def Leppard finally completed their fourth album,
now titled Hysteria, early in 1987. The record was released that spring
to lukewarm reviews, with many critics claiming that the album
compromised Leppard's metal roots for sweet pop flourishes. Accordingly,
Hysteria was slow out of the starting gates -- "Women," the first
single, failed to really take hold -- but the release of "Animal" helped
the album gather steam. The song became Def Leppard's first Top 40 hit
in the U.K., but more importantly, it launched a string of six straight
Top 20 hits in the U.S., which also included "Hysteria," "Pour Some
Sugar on Me," "Love Bites," "Armageddon It," and "Rocket," the latter of
which arrived in 1989, a full two years after the release of Hysteria.
During those two years, Def Leppard's presence was unavoidable -- they
were the kings of high-school metal, ruling the pop charts and MTV, and
teenagers and bands alike replicated their teased hair and ripped jeans,
even when the grimy hard rock of Guns N' Roses took hold in 1988.
Hysteria
proved to be the peak of Leppard's popularity, yet their follow-up
remained eagerly awaited in the early '90s, as the band took a break
from the road and set to work on a new record. During the recording
process, however, Steve Clark died from an overdose of alcohol and
drugs. Clark had historically battled with alcohol, and following the
Hysteria heyday, his bandmates forced him to take a sabbatical. Although
he did enter rehab, Clark's habits continued, and his abuse was so
crippling that Collen began recording the majority of the band's guitar
leads. Following Clark's death, Def Leppard resolved to finish their
forthcoming album as a quartet, releasing Adrenalize in the spring of
1992. Adrenalize was greeted with mixed reviews, and even though the
album debuted at number one and contained several successful singles,
including the Top 20 hits "Let's Get Rocked" and "Have You Ever Needed
Someone So Bad," the record was a commercial disappointment in the wake
of Pyromania and Hysteria. After its release, the group added former
Whitesnake guitarist Vivian Campbell to the lineup, thus resuming Def
Leppard's two-guitar attack.
In 1993, Def Leppard released the
rarities collection Retro Active, which yielded another Top 20 hit with
the acoustic ballad "Two Steps Behind." Two years later, the group
released the greatest-hits collection Vault while preparing for their
their sixth album. Slang arrived in the spring of 1996, and while it
proved more adventurous than its predecessor, it was greeted with
indifference, indicating that Leppard's heyday had indeed passed and
they were now simply a very popular cult band. Undaunted, Leppard
soldiered on, returning to their patented pop-metal sound for Euphoria,
which was released in June of 1999. Despite the success of "Promises,"
the record failed to produce any additional hits, resulting in a return
to adult pop balladry on 2002's X. The two-disc Rock of Ages: The
Definitive Collection arrived in 2005, followed in 2006 by Yeah!, a
strong collection of covers. In 2008, the band released their ninth
studio album, Songs from the Sparkle Lounge, which debuted at number
five and was supported by a lucrative summer tour.
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