J'enlève Hysteria que je peux pas blairer, et je rajoute On Through The Night !! Les trois premiers albums sont énormes !
Si on m'avait dit, il y a dix ans, qu'un jour j'apprécierais des albums de Def Leppard...
J'enlève Hysteria que je peux pas blairer, et je rajoute On Through The Night !! Les trois premiers albums sont énormes !
Si on m'avait dit, il y a dix ans, qu'un jour j'apprécierais des albums de Def Leppard...
toi t'es copain ! d'ailleurs je me rappelle avoir vu le On Through dans le van au Metal Forces de l'année dernière !
Encore un bon groupe des 80" qui revient avec un nouvel album ?
Je ne peux que saluer l'initiative
Pyromania c'est peut-être plus commercial mais c'est mélodieux au moins,ce n'est pas du bruit sans intérêt comme certains groupes évoqués parfois sur ce form
Tiens Cillian,moi aussi j'ai "Visualize"
Bobmaurane,defender of the eighties
I hear her voice in the night
Cries of joy
We were good... good...good...
Je situerai ce nouveau disque dans la lignée d'Euphoria. En tout cas, ça fait du bien d'entendre un disque comme ça après un X mou du genou. L'album de reprises Yeah! a aussi fait du bien au groupe. On est loin de ce que faisait le groupe à l'époque d'Hysteria, mais c'est un bon album. Je vais attendre d'avoir plus de recul pour me prononcer définitivement.
Bon, alors premier avis après trop peu d'écoutes, et en qualité de fan "die hard" du groupe :
En interview le groupe avait annoncé un retour au source en citant "High & Dry", mais aussi en faisant un parallelle entre leur nouvel album et les premiers AC/DC ...
Et bien après les quelques écoutes je ne vois aucun rapport avec les albums pré-cités ! Mais l'album n'est pas mauvais pour autant, les leps ont fait un grand pas en arrière, et c'est ce qu'ils pouvaient faire de mieux. L'enjambée les raméne vers "Adrenalize" pour pas mal de plans et de sonorités, Joe Elliott chante merveilleusement bien !!!
Je pense que c'est ce que le groupe peut faire de mieux musicalement. Je suis un peu dur, mais il ne faut pas en attendre plus de leur part, l'enjambée n'aurait pas pu les ramener à "Hysteria" ni à "Pyromania" pour deux raisons simples :
- Steve Clarck est mort
- Les Leps semblent vouloir rester musicalement dans un pop/rock Bonjovien depuis le milieu des années 90.
On va pas se plaindre, cet album est ce qu'ils ont fait de mieux depuis 12 ans (pour moi Slang est un grand album, expérimental mais excellent).
Encore quelques écoutes et je m'attaque à une vraie chronique.
J'ai réécouté Adrenalize hier, et on y trouve encore quelques chansons plus fouillées, comme sur Hysteria (White lightning,...). Def Leppard a aujourd'hui un style beaucoup plus simple, plus rock, même si le son reste le son Def Leppard.
Vu qu'ils passent au Graspop et que ça fait des années que j'ai pas écouté ce groupe, bah on m'a passé une copie du dernier...
J'adore les 3 premiers comme la plupart de ceux qui ont connus le groupe à leur début, après pour moi c'est parti en vrille...
comme disai un certain Coluche, euh... ils le vendent ça !!!! franchement c'est pas terrible... un son hyper moderne... sur certains morceaux grosse guitares style néo, orchestration symphoniques et tout le bordel... C'est tout sauf du Def Leppard ça ! le seul morceau qui sonne Def, c'est Hallucinate, morceau qui aurai pu figurer sans problème sur Pyromania... et je parle pas de la ballade "love"... un désastre ! Par contre c'est vrai Elliot assure niveau chant.
Vassil Varbanov of Bulgaria's Tangra Mega Rock recently conducted an interview with DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow.
Tangra Mega Rock: Do you feel something like a clash between the younger rock generations and you guys I mean in terms of musicians, not the crowd?
Elliott: No. I don't ever feel competitiveness it's thrown at me by the media. The media are always trying to make you competitive. I've been asked so many times whether we're in competition with WHITESNAKE. No, we're not! Now we're going out on a co-headlining tour as allies. It's as ridiculous as saying the British army is in competition with the American army in Iraq! They're working together for a common goal. What we are trying to achieve is 1 and 1 makes 3. We are a big band, they are a big band, and if we get together, we are bigger. This makes it more of a spectacle. It should be obvious to people that with the state of music business right now, which is just dying on its ass, the only thing that's surviving is live. We've been doing co-headlining tours for four years in the States BRYAN ADAMS, JOURNEY in 2005-2006 it worked brilliantly both for us and for those guys. To do it with a British band in Britain and now in Europe was a logical thing to do. You'll see over the next 4-5 years loads of people doing this. We were just the first to do it here. We did it, because in 2004 our booking agency in America had this brainwave to put BOB DYLAN and WILLIE NELSON on the same bill. What happens is that when the baseball season is closed, these massive fields do nothing, so they just suggest, "How about renting them out to the rock'n'roll industry?" This way they get something, and we get to use these fields, which cost a lot less money, so everybody's happy. So BOB DYLAN and WILLIE NELSON did it, and I saw that BOB DYLAN BOB Fuckin' DYLAN! is going as an opening act for WILLIE NELSON! And he's ok with this! That's brilliant! That removed all ego from the situation. So then, when we got off with BRYAN ADAMS, we played at baseball stadiums in front of 23-24 thousand people. When we went out with JOURNEY, it was a similar thing. And the same thing last year, with STYX and REO SPEEDWAGON and FOREIGNER. With this one, for the British shows we were going out last. Tonight we'll also be last, but last night in Albania we were first. There's no ego, no competition. I want everybody to be successful! This is not the Olympics! I would love to see the charts full of rock bands again. Back in 1988 there was a little period in the summer in America where any given week there was either us or GUNS N' ROSES or VAN HALEN, and we were keeping people like MARIAH CAREY and WHITNEY HOUSTON out of the charts! I'd be more interested in getting together with these people. If you have to be competitive, try to get rid of rap and R&B, which I don't have anything against, but the way that the industry has tried to shove rock aside only makes it stronger. So I don't feel any competition with any of these bands. The only time that I will say something negative about a band is when I'm just being pissy, because they say something negative about me. If Ronnie James Dio as he did said on that YouTube piece when somebody mentioned Vivian [Campbell, DEF LEPPARD guitarist], "I hope he fuckin' dies!" I would just say, "Ronnie James Dio, go fuck yourself!" So if somebody says, "DEF LEPPARD suck!", then I'll just back the ball like in tennis and say, "No, you suck, man!", but generally speaking, I don't have these problems. When people meet me, they normally see something beyond "Let's Get Rocked". Once they get to know us, people start to think differently about us, not just seeing what's on the surface. It's just a matter of communication, and that's the biggest problem this entire planet has the lack of it.
Tangra Mega Rock: I believe people respect you at least for one thing back then, after that accident with your drummer, you didn't fire him but went on with him, despite the fact that he lost his arm. I think this is probably the biggest gesture in rock'n'roll history.
Elliott: We can't take too much credit for it. We are a family unit you don't kick a brother or a sister out after a car accident. Plus the fact that we were too scared to kick him out, ha-ha! He's got so much will power! He probably wouldn't have gone if we had fired him. Our whole attitude towards Rick's accident was that it's his choice. If he can't make it, he'll know and he won't wanna be below what it was before, so he would have quit and we wouldn't have to fire him. That's why he is still in the band. Rick is not an excuse to like this band. I'd respect the fact if somebody says that we suck more than if somebody's sorry for us. I don't want people to feel sorry for us.
Tangra Mega Rock: Back in the '80s, bands were more like a family unit, while now some of them are a lot more like a corporation...
Elliott: Oh, absolutely. Take WHITESNAKE for example excluding David, there's probably been like 37 people in this band. It's really David Coverdale. WHITESNAKE is more like David Bowie than a real band. It's basically David Coverdale, but the name WHITESNAKE is a franchise that's gonna work. David Bowie has probably worked with more musicians than WHITESNAKE, but he doesn't get criticized for it, because he's David Bowie. This is where the solo artist always wins over a band... Everybody in the music business knows that we're good guys, we're ego-free, we don't carry security, we don't have ring of guys pushing the fans away, we go with the fans when it's raining and sign autographs... unless I'm sick like I was in Canada, ha-ha! We communicate with people in the best way we can. When somebody knows that and then they say, "Alright, but I hate their music," then I'm fine, I don't have a problem with that. I don't expect people to like our music because of us being nice people. I expect them to like our music because they like our music. These are two separate issues to me, and I don't lose sleep over either of them. It's just business. Once you put yourself in the fiery line, half the world will want to kiss you and the other half will want to kill you.
Read the entire interview from Tangra Mega Rock.
GANDALF
"Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost
It's empty and cold without you here, too many people to ache over"
