I'll get the good out of the way. The guitars are fun, the album's packed with shredding solos, but there's two problems with this album. First off, it's mostly damned boring. Its all one of two tempos, all the same beat, all the same structure, damn nearly all the same key, all the same whiny trippledup vocal wheezebagging.
Second, it's profoundly uncool: these guys flunk the "would I want to be in this band?" test and their ridiculousness is doubly damning because they seems to think they're fucking RADICAL. That's what Chad Wasser and I used to call being a twonce. Every once in a while you go "hey this is kind of fun!" and the album goes "isn't this fuckin' FUN!!?". Every time you start to accept it as goofy frivolity it reminds you that this is dead serious business.
By the official Def Leppard FAQ's (?) unapologetic admission, songs were made up of dozens and dozens of takes, and it shows. As an album, it's completely overproduced into mediocrity, boring with occasional flashy moments that are mostly undermined by its sub-AC/DC posturing 2/5
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