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Artist: Def Leppard

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CD Title: Diamond Star Halos

 

Category: Melodic Rock

Year: 2022

Label: UMe

Catalog Number: 3894511

Personnel

Joe Elliott lead & backing vocals
Rick Savage bass guitar, backing vocals
Rick Allen drums
Vivian Campbell guitars, backing vocals
Phil Collen guitars, backing vocals

Tracks

1.	Take What You Want
2.	Kick
3.	Fire It Up
4.	This Guitar featuring Alison Krauss
5.	SOS Emergency
6.	Liquid Dust
7.	U Rok Mi
8.	Goodbye For Good This Time
9.	All We Need
10.	Open Your Eyes
11.	Gimme A Kiss
12.	Angels (Can't Help You Now)
13.	Lifeless featuring Alison Krauss
14.	Unbreakable
15.	From Here To Eternity
16.	Goodbye For Good This Time Digipak Bonus Track / Avant-garde Mix
17.	Lifeless Digipak Bonus Track - Joe Only Version

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Existing comments about this CD

From: MetalllianStallion

Date: June 1, 2022 at 9:59

Def Lep's 7 year itch since their last self titled album comes in way too long (17 tracks),and way too light (ballads central) for my taste. The opening track "Take What You Want' gave me a little hope, with some vintage riffage but that quickly dissipated, the deeper I got into the album. The poor man's pour some sugar "Fire It Up" and 'Kick' are pretty generic as the first 2 released tracks. I definitely won't be paying for this summer's D.L.,Crue tour, as like many bands I choose to remember them as they were in their prime. For me that would be the DL 83' headliner tour playing many High N Dry, and Pyro deeper tracks. Exhibit A: DEf Leppard 1983 Forum (Live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPYnqsDRKfQ

From: Doghouse Reilly	Date: June 1, 2022 at 19:59
Yeah, that's the way I feel too. Def Leppard are trapped in amber for me at this point. When they try to recreate the past, it falls flat; these "stadium anthems" they crow about like "Kick" just try so hard. But when they try to do something "different," it's dull beyond belief.

From: Doug	Date: June 2, 2022 at 23:27
Respectfully disagree with initial comments, I think this album is pretty solid. And I predict will be a commercial success for them, well at least in the context of today's music business.

From: Doghouse Reilly	Date: June 2, 2022 at 23:41
You're welcome to it, Doug, but I guess the real test will come after the novelty wears off. I thought Euphoria was "solid" too in the summer of '99, but have probably listened to it a half-dozen times in the 21st century.

From: Yiro

Date: June 30, 2022 at 15:13

What a dissapointment this album is. I`m a Def Leppard die hard fan and I always try to dig deep everytime a new Leppard album comes up in order to discover new tracks worthy to be remembered by but in this sad ocassion not a single song stands out. The only tracks that I care for are "kick", "open your eyes" and maybe "take what you want" and "from here to eternity"(the beatlesque-kinda pinkfloyd part, ´cos the verse is very weak). The rest of the album is something I wish would never come out ever. You won´t find any song that can sound at least a little bit like in their glorious days. This record is a blend of the previous album (which was kinda dissapointing by the way), songs from the sparkle lounge and yeah. Those country ballads are really weak, the worst leppard ballads i have ever heard, that "liquid dust" sounds a lot like some smashing pumpkins song. "U rok me" is a second hand "slang". Even the production in my opinion sounds saturated mostly on the guitars.

From: 123charpenay

Date: September 19, 2022 at 17:41

receive last week(in japan import) the last def leppard s realise.i can understand the negative comments cause there is on this record ............NINE fillers.(tracks 4.6.8.10.12.13.15.16.17.).!!!!!these songs are soft,very very average,even mediocre and boring.but it s stay eight excellents songs.these songs are varied,catchy and have the typical trademarks of the glory days of hysteria or adrenalize.the production is great and joe elliot sing always like a god.i ll keep this record in my collection,cause like always when i listen a cd i listen only the goods songs that i ve select.ok the eight songs that i ve picked on "diamond star halos" represent only 30 minutes.i reconize that s it s a little light for a so talented band than def leppard.my fav song is track 14 "unbreakable".

From: Auslander

Date: January 17, 2023 at 23:14

The Lepps have that millstone of their mid 80s albums around their necks. It means every subsequent release is judged against that impeccable high bar. So I will instead judge this album on its own merits. Is it a classic - No. Is it solid - Yes. There are some misfires (cough duets with Krauss). There are some real highlights, Take What You Want is one of the best songs of 2022, and Kick is a nostalgic 70s glam stomper. Deep cut Unbreakable is also tasty. It is a good album. Don't believe the overly negative hype. I grade it a solid C+.

From: Doghouse Reilly

Date: January 18, 2023 at 13:14

I just think it's well past time to let go of this band and others like them, whose best days are long gone and who've wallowed in mediocrity for decades now as they rely on nostalgia to maintain their status. When you say a new Def Leppard release is "solid," you've pretty much told the tale, and there's always that whiff of relief—whew! it's not terrible! It's solid—so what? Simply being Def Leppard—or Tesla or Jackyl, to name two other old favorites with whom I've run out of patience—is not good enough. I don't have time in my life to listen to music that is just adequate but happens to be a familiar name. And that's not necessarily anything to do with age, but quality of song. I'm tired of us all working so goddamn hard to find something to like about a new release, and continuing to prop up bands like this. Joe Elliott said something in the late '90's about not wanting to be part of some package tour of "four hair bands playing a bowling alley." But that's just where he belongs ba

From: Doghouse Reilly

Date: January 18, 2023 at 13:25

... based on his band's output over the last 25-plus years. I don't see Pyromania and Hysteria as a millstone around their neck; those two albums are what keeps them in stadiums when they no longer deserve it. Younger bands who play music we like struggle to get a foothold, especially in America, partly because these dinosaurs won't go the fuck away. It's like at my job, and probably yours too, where top leadership stay on well into their 60's (and beyond in some cases), and nobody has a chance to move up and so they quit trying. And when those people finally do start retiring, there's nobody capable of replacing them.

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