Adrenalize

Product Information

Def Leppard News – The Story of Def Leppard's ADRENALIZE Album (Released 25 Years Ago)". Def Leppard Tour History . Retrieved 15 May 2021. adrenalize | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 15 May 2021. This song has it all, huge riff, impactful solo, a bad ass "Def Leppard chorus", and tons of energy. I always envisioned this song was the epicenter of what it meant to be Def Leppard - the bridge between all the songs written prior and all those that followed. Tear It Down represents the changing of the guard from Steve Steamin' Clark to Vivian Campbell (an amazing guitar player in his own right).

So much emotion went into White Lightning. “By the time we put it to bed it was like we’d done group therapy,” Elliott recalls. “After that we needed something completely ridiculous.” American album certifications – Def Leppard – Adrenalize". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved 24 April 2019. Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 1987−1998" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2011 . Retrieved 21 July 2022. The music contained in Adrenalize is the aural equivalent of a Hollywood beach movie where the main character is constantly pulling down his sunglasses and mouthing "Baby!" at smoking hot bikini babes, but the audio is pitched way down to Yello proportions. It's absolutely oblivious to the mud wave coming in from the Northwest, about to ruin the summer fun in the sun.

Credits

Taylor Swift’s album 1989 is called 1989 because that was the year she was born. Throughout 1988 she heard our music in her mother’s womb, non-stop. Her parents are big Def Leppard fans. Someone came up with a laptop to us and say, ‘Have you read this interview?’ It was with Taylor who, even then, was pretty big. She had been asked, ‘Would you ever consider working with another band?’ She said, ‘There’s only one band I would ever work with – and that’s Def Leppard’. Offiziellecharts.de – Def Leppard – Adrenalize" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 2 April 2019. Generally speaking, it’s time to worry when the term long-awaited gets appended to an album. Long-awaited doesn’t just mean that the band in question took its sweet time delivering the disc; usually, it’s industry code for “bloated and overblown.” Sounds silly, but Def Leppard were very influenced by punk. I’d watched these bands and thought, ‘Well if they can do it, I can’ — Joe Elliott Had such a great time last night! It was a great show and the band more than delivered making it well worth the long drive.” – Chelle M.

Tear It Down" is a re-recording of a song written during a recording session following the completion of the Hysteria album, and released as B-side for the Hysteria single Women in 1987. The song received radio airplay and was performed by the band live at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards. It was in January 1978 that Steve Clark joined Def Leppard, five months after the band formed in Sheffield. At his audition, he played the end solo from Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Free Bird. It was so good that Elliott said, without hesitation: “He’s in.” That’s typical of Def Leppard, though. From the first, this was a band that gloried in the power of heavy metal’s musical gestures — the towering majesty of a power riff, the momentary freedom of a guitar break, the exhilaration of a singer’s scream — and as the group has grown, its ability to manipulate that vocabulary has expanded to the point that its songs have become mini-masterpieces of aural impact. Japanese album certifications – Def Leppard – Adrenalize" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan . Retrieved 24 April 2019. Select 1992年5月 on the drop-down menu And there are hooks of every sort on Adrenalize, from broad strokes like the gloriously harmonized chorus of “Heaven Is” to ear-catching details like the little yodel Elliott slips into “Personal Property.” Adrenalize is so relentlessly catchy that it almost seems as if the band is about to abandon its heavy-metal roots for the greener fields of hard pop. That’s not to say the album is any softer than its predecessors — certainly the crunchy guitars of “Tear It Down” or “Make Love Like a Man” are proof to the contrary — just that it’s not as noisily aggressive.We’re not the same. Of course we’re not the same. The Rolling Stones aren’t the same. They’re still The Rolling Stones. I have fantastic and fond memories of Steve. He was an incredibly creative soul. There isn’t a day he doesn’t come into our consciousness. He’s either on a retro T-shirt design I have to approve, or I walk past a poster that’s got his face on it.” NWOBHM, as Elliott has long pointed out, wasn’t necessarily a natural fit for Def Leppard. Even in their early days, their songs had a pop sparkle that set them apart from the hard-core moshers. Plus, Def Leppard saw themselves as DIY to their boots. “We were actually quite annoyed when we got lumped in with it, because once we started hearing these bands we thought most of them were shit,” the singer once stated. We closed the 2009 Country Awards with Taylor doing Pour Some Sugar On Me. We love to do things that aren’t what everyone expects — Joe Elliott Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott on stage with the group: 'It’s the same guys for the last 32 years. We know each other. We know how it works.' Photograph: Per Ole Hagen/Redferns

The chorus pedal'd clean guitars are staples of the Def Leppard sound, almost as much as the heavy synth drums and the "Def Leppard Chorus". Decent tune. Fluttery guitar solo from Collen's magic fingers. Elliot name drops Stairway To Heaven. Bold choice.

Release

Nor is Adrenalize, with its insistence on intensely tuneful, unrepentantly frivolous material, likely to change that. There’s no overriding concept to the album, no sense of the group’s confronting its demons or wrestling with the problems of the world; instead, what we get is a seemingly unending string of energetic, hook-heavy, gosh-we-luv-’em songs about girls. A perfect Def Leppard album, in other words. Adrenalize was released on March 31, 1992. In Rolling Stone, JD Considine wrote: “There’s no overriding concept to the album, no sense of the group confronting its demons or wrestling with the problems of the world; instead, what we get is an unending string of energetic, hook-heavy, gosh-we-luv-’em songs about girls. A perfect Def Leppard album, in other words.” Behind schedule, matters were not made any better when longtime producer “Mutt” Lange was then unavailable to work on the album (due to being booked to produce Bryan Adams’ ‘Waking Up The Neighbours’). Duties were eventually passed on to Lange’s engineer Mike Shipley and after a near five year wait, ‘Adrenalize’ was finally unleashed upon the waiting public! Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1992". Billboard. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021 . Retrieved 25 January 2022.