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- Summary: The 14th studio album for the rock band features Tim McGraw on one track.
- Record Label: Mercury
- Genre(s): Rock
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Positive: 0 out of 8
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Mixed: 7 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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While they must know they won’t be reinventing the wheel any time soon, Sparkle Lounge is their most upbeat music in a while.
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The band's first new set since 2002 is full of these well-intentioned attempts to recapture some of that '80s pyromania (or in the case of the absurdly large power ballad 'Love,' herculean '70s prog-rock balladry), but without producer Robert "Mutt" Lange, who left for the much more profitable world of country years ago, the results are solid if unspectacular.
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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.
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Def Leppard show signs of life on the headbanging 'Bad Actress,' which takes on the Lindsay Lohans of the world, but it’s clear they’re missing their old producer.
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A few bright spots don't make up for the album's general lack of immediacy or memorable hooks.
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Fans looking for an air-guitar gurning masterclass may be disappointed.
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UncutMetal 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]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 16
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Mixed: 4 out of 16
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Negative: 0 out of 16
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AnthonyCFeb 6, 2009A rockin good cd with alot of really tight songs.Leppard keeps rockin into the 200's and beyond.
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ShazaliSMay 18, 2008
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andream.Jun 29, 2008
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JazMay 21, 2008
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adamh.Aug 30, 2009
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MislavMay 16, 2008
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BitBurnMay 20, 2008
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