Moreover, and at this point there are many fans who have already dropped the group permanently. They found that a group that had once released albums such as On Through The Night (1980), the terrible High'N'Dry (1981), or the already highly acclaimed (in its time) Pyromania (1983), leered now too openly toward the FM band.
Not false! If not exact. Especially as what would follow would only confirm this fact: DEF LEPPARD now clothe strong hints Pop.
And Pop, provided it is done to his taste (needless to say), well I'm not at all against me! Except that here, openness to still also its limits. The group seems to have forgotten that such fame, he had built first and foremost in a single chapel, that of Hard.
Slang: The album heads and tails.
Believe it or not, SLANG is a good album as a whole (I actually hesitated between 3 and 4 on my notation).
His only real fault ultimately is that it constantly navigates between two waters. Hard securities are thus opposed to other more openly Pop. And as successful as they are, each in their field, it is necessarily difficult to maintain the intensity and therefore our attention at a constant level throughout the disc with such an approach? And that is a fact, too often SLANG the splits of a beach to another, that's all.
Freed from their ways and customs of yesterday, the English even dared to venture into new playgrounds. Eastern Sounds (in the image of its cover) on both pieces of introduction, new rhythmic finds, voice of Joe Elliott far more nuanced, and his hyper dynamic production, still very modern, also more for a natural return (even and especially for the battery; fans will understand)!, variety of climates (well here I do not know if I ought to speak for good or bad). Anyway, and listening to SLANG, if one thing we could not fault the group is to live on its achievements.
SLANG by definition, is the Hard by location (Heavy, Groovy and even though wild, the time of a "Gift of Flesh" not bitten worms), as the most environmentally with the intoxicating "Blood runs Cold" and " Where Does Love Go When It Dies "always beautiful guitars, and some" trifles "that could also attract a few thousand Teens in earlier times.
Anyway, the success of the disc has not been frankly with go. Then we can talk about first big disappointment on the part of one who, in the mid 80 ', was one of the biggest sellers of the planet discs. All styles. And the discs then publish the group does not reverse this trend.
This significant decline in sales does not yet seem to have jeopardized the future of the group, since Joe, Phil, and both Rick Vivian roam always enough daily routes worldwide (almost) by not focusing it is true their directory as 3 or 4 of their greatest discographic success, as attested there is still little the set list of their live album Mirrorball Live & More.
Coming back to the album. SLANG disk is a bastard, that's true. Will you try to tame anyway? Or instead, will you continue to ignore and remain deaf to his advances? It is as always to everyone to decide. SLANG is certainly one of those discs that still happens to me out from time to time. Which even today is not always the case with other albums I've worn on my plate yet in their time and that I would be unable to come out of their cases today. And it is not for lack of trying ...
14/20
