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Universal acclaim- based on 22 Ratings

  • Summary: The 14th studio album for the rock band features Tim McGraw on one track.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 8
  2. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. It's a partially successful successor to "Yeah!," following through on some of the overall feel and punch but lacking enough songs to truly bring it across the goal line.
  2. 60
    A true, if guilty pleasure. [june 2008, p.103]
  3. While they must know they won’t be reinventing the wheel any time soon, Sparkle Lounge is their most upbeat music in a while.
  4. 20
    Metal has teken giant evolutionary strides these past few years but, like mammoths frozen in ice, Def Leppard remain perfectly preserved in their own oblivion to them. [July 2008, p.91]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. AnthonyC
    10
    A rockin good cd with alot of really tight songs.Leppard keeps rockin into the 200's and beyond.
  2. adamh.
    8
    This album is outstanding. It is in most ways a logical follow up to Yeah! in that they go for a lot of the same sounds in this album. Elliot's voice is cool and gritty. I hear the Beatles on "Only the Good Die Young," and "C'mon Cmon" is the kind of feel-good hooky arena rock one would expect. But "Go" is raw and political, "Bad Actress" is sweet fun straight hard rock, "Love" is a perfect ballad, and there is so much more. A no filler album! This band understands music better than anyone in their genre. If they stay on this track they will become one of the most regarded bands in rock's history. Expand
  3. PerfectApproach
    7
    It's the best effort I've seen since Euphoria (1999) at a genuine rock album. Like Euphoria, it misses the mark ever so slightly, but just enough to be forgetful. Songs like "Go" and "Bad Actress" are great guitar-driven rockers that would push Leppard onto the billboard charts. "Nine Lives" is bluesy, catchy, and will do ok. It's not the "Pour Some Sugar On Me" that I was hoping for though. The rest of the album simply isn't memorable. The single solitary love song on the album, "Love" is atrocious. The only redeeming quality is the beginning acoustic riff. The rest of the song sounds like Queen leftovers. The next single that is tentatively scheduled to be "C'mon C'mon," is destined for Minor League Hockey stadiums and college basketball arenas across America. Expand
  4. BitBurn
    4
    Nowhere near close to the glory days of Pyromania and Hysteria. Def Leppard without Mutt Lange is like bread without butter. They should stop wasting their time making records and focus exclusively on touring. Expand

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