Je ne pousserai pas le vice jusqu'à le télécharger pour pouvoir le réécouter. J'avais le souvenir de machines et de sons vaguement (de très loin) indus. Et surtout je me suis ennuyé... Le voir comparer à High & dry (mon préféré) me fait tout drôle.

J'ai trouvé cette chro de Slang sur Metal Archives. Le mec est pire que moi (quoique...) En tout cas j'ai trouvé ça drôle.

Def Leppard has done good hard rock in the 80’s but what happened after that? The guys grew older and they started to record the kind of shit what Slang album is among the other newer releases. This album is not even near to be called metal, I won’t even call it hard rock. Slang is an album full of boring radio pop. There are so many slow songs on the album that it’s irritating even to think of listening to it straight through. Pyromania and Hysteria for example are albums that are from a different planet compared to Slang. In my opinion Joe Elliott is just an average singer. He needs good material to shine. If I put Boyzone album to my stereo (which I don’t want to do) it would sound almost similar to Def Leppard’s Slang. Probably it would be hard to find the differences between newer Leppard and Boyzone. That’s a pity, because I still enjoy when I’m listening to Def Leppard’s High ‘n’ Dry, Pyromania or Hysteria album or some other tracks like Ring Of Fire from Retro Active.

However if you’re into mainstream pop or you’re a big fan of Boyzone or Backstreet Boys, you will probably enjoy this album. Yes, I have heard worse music than what this album contains. I just can’t stand that Def Leppard has done so average and terrible pop album. There are some good hard rock moments in that album but those moments are very rare and hard to find. Don’t purchase this album if you have heard only 80’s or early 90’s Leppard. It will be a huge disappointment as it was for me a couple of years ago. I have warned. You will be bored to dead with this release. My points will be going to Rick Allen, the only one-handed drummer I know.

bon Yeah arrive en avril et dans la foulée, le groupe va préparer un nouvel album, meilleur que X, je l'espere, même si ça sera pas bien difficile

DEF LEPPARD guitarist Vivian Campbell recently spoke to RollingStone.com about the group's upcoming covers album, "Yeah!", tentatively due in April.

"I saw Marc Bolan and T. REX in 1971 on 'Top of the Pops'," Campbell recalled, "and [singer] Joe [Elliott] has the same memory. I was nine years old, and I knew I wanted to play guitar. So most of the songs [on 'Yeah!'] come from the glam era: T. REX, ROXY MUSIC, E.L.O."

While the album will include renditions of E.L.O.'s "10538 Overture" and ROXY MUSIC's "Street Life" — which Campbell said the band recorded "as more of a punk-rock song" — expect more straight-up rockers, like THIN LIZZY's "Don't Believe a Word", as well as some melodic material, like the KINKS classic "Waterloo Sunset". "But we really made it sound like DEF LEPPARD," Campbell says of the KINKS track. "Joe does a great vocal, and we made the guitar parts work."

After a summer tour, likely to launch in June, DEF LEPPARD plan to get to work on a new studio album, due in 2007. "We've really tried to gather ideas on the road this last summer," Campbell explained.

Le choix des morceaux donne envie de donner une chance à la chose. Waterloo Sunset et Street Life, je suis trés curieux d'en entendre des versions modernes et hard. Le probleme c'est que je n'ai aucune confience en Def Lep.

waterloo sunset n'est pas totalement inédite, car elle est déjà incluse dans le Best Of sorti je sais plus quand (il y a 2 ans ?). Donc elle est trouvable assez facilement, au cas où tu voudrais jeter une oreille dessus.

Rémy

pochette :

Ce qui est bien c'est que le tracklisting n'a pas varié d'un iota par rapport à ce qu'il a été possible de trouver sur le net.

Faudra juste voir ce qui change...

Rémy

pour info, la sortie est prévue au 22/05. Quelques dates de festival (Gods od Metal, Sweeden Rock + qques dates en angleterre) sont prévues début juin, puis, à partir du 23, tournée US avec Journey.

Rémy

L'album en streaming là :

http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/def_leppard/1284071/album.jhtml

le single Rock on est ecoutable :

http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/ume/dl/rockonmainmix-1.asx

http://boss.streamos.com/real/ume/dl/rockonmainmix.ram

Pas la peine de se précipiter pour l'acheter apparament il y a 50000 versions différentes avec des titres en + par ci par là...

Du point de vue du con-sommateur, ça ressemble à du pressurage de finances, inutile de dire que ce genre de pratiques incite à des pratiques moins avouables.

En plus, pour ceux qui ont trouvé le moyen de se procurer l'album fin 2005, à ce que j'ai pu lire ci et là, il n'y a pas de différence notable entre les 2 versions...

Du grand n'importe quoi je vous dis...

Rémy

j'ecoute la version que tu avais evoqué en Octobre 2005, ben même si je ne connais aucun des titres originaux a part celui de Thin Lizzy, je dois dire que je suis agreablement surpris, c'est plus rock que tout X réuni et ça sonne assez frais, si ça pouvait les motiver dans le bon sens pour le prochain album studio ça serait sympa

L'album en lui même n'est pas mauvais, loin de là, mais pour moi c'est bien plus du au choix des morceaux de Def Lep qu'à leur intérprétation de ces titres....

Quand on écoute Waterloo Sunset en version originale et la version de Def Lep, là j'applaudis à deux mains car ils ont fait un sarcré travail sur la reprise, sans la dénaturer pour autant.

Malheureusement, beaucoup trop de chansons de Yeah, à mon goût, n'ont pas eu ce travail et sont certes bien intérpétées, mais pas retravaillées comme on aurait pu l'attendre.

C'est pour ça que je reste un peu sur ma faim quand même. D'autant plus que la version "d'octobre 2005" est quasiment identique à celle de juin 2006, et que le groupe a enregistré d'autres titres, qu'il a sorti sur X CD bonus (genre 1 que l'on ne pouvait avoir que chez Walmart, l'autre chez les boucheries Mercel et le 3ème dans un Sex shop gay). Ils ont peut être du respect pour les groupes qu'ils ont repris, mais pour leurs fans, c'est tout autre chose...

Rémy

Un nouvel album en préparation :

Jeb Wright of Classic Rock Revisted recently conducted an interview with DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Classic Rock Revisted: DEF LEPPARD is well known for their live shows. You have a sustained energy on stage. How do you all keep from falling into the trap of just going through the motions?

Phil: "This tour features songs that are very demanding. If you don’t do the songs in the spirit that they were recorded then it would really suck. We have a bit of a new lease on life. We have been trying for many years to have success. Most of our big success was in the 8o’s and early '90s. We are very genuine about our beliefs in this band. When we see our beliefs condoned by the audience then I think you go that extra mile and give it all you’ve got. I am doing something that I dreamed about doing when I was a kid. To be 48 years old and still doing it is just fucking great."

Classic Rock Revisted: What is the biggest difference between this tour and past tours?

Phil: "The biggest difference is the amount of younger people coming to the shows. We are also not apologizing for who we are. There was this big stigma about '80s bands — and quite rightly as there were some awful bands who came after DEF LEPPARD. They kind of changed things and a lot of people thought that the music of the era sucked. We have stayed true to what we do and now it has come full circle. Now, you have 16-year-old kids coming to the show and seeing that our songs are actually really good. There is no longer that '80s stigma attached to it. We play our big hits but we play new songs as well. If you keep putting records out then it means that you are still trying and there is a certain integrity to that."

Classic Rock Revisted: DEF LEPPARD has had a history of inner band turmoil. Is that a problem now or is that something that is in the past?

Phil: "The testosterone in the band just got boosted with the recent hit and there is now a certain type of swagger — a cock strut — within the group. We want everyone to hear our new stuff and we are telling everyone to listen to it and check us out. After a while, it wears you down. The minute people start telling you how great it is, you start strutting your stuff but it is all good. In fact, it is really exciting."

Classic Rock Revisted: The new album is all cover songs. What about new material?

Phil: "We have about eight songs on the go but we have two that are demoed. We are trying the new songs out backstage. We have this thing we call The Sparkle Lounge, which is three little tiny Fender amps and a little bass amp. Rick Allen has this tiny little Roland drum kit. You can fit this stuff in the back of a trailer. We are doing some pre-production and we think we will have at least five or six songs totally produced and ready to go by the time we come off the road. We are going to start recording in January."

Classic Rock Revisted: Can you give us a hint at the sound of the new material?

Phil: "It is very rock. In fact, it is more rock than it has been in a few years. What we have tried to do in the recent past is to make great songs and in doing that we kind of left the edge off and let things get rounded off a little bit. We want the next album to have a rough edge. I think the new album will be a lot more raw."