Def Leppard – X

Sounds alright, standard DL Repress quality but the art sucks very badly on this, like it's impossible to tell which side is which unless you look at the runout

Okay, I'll leave a review as a lifelong Def Leppard fan warning anyone who, like me, wonders all these years later, Did I give this album a fair shake? You did. It's terrible. A cringe-worthy, desperate, weepy ballad fest by a hard rock band who watched another hard rock band hit #1 and make jillions on a Diane Warren weeper called I Don't Want to Miss a Thing, and wanted some of that sweet action. Look what happens: outside songwriters, including then-hot hitmakers Max Martin and Marti Frederiksen, removing anything that has the remote whiff of hard rock and leaving behind record of Backstreet Boys B-sides. Even the 8 or so tracks written just by the band have been overproduced with embarrassing sound effects and then-modern "beats" that have no business near a Def Leppard album. It's no better or worse than Scorpions' nightmarish Eye II Eye effort--and if you know how grotesque that hip-hop hybrid was, then you've no one to blame but yourself for playing this misfire. Steve Clark rolled in his grave.

The sound quality is just awful. Labels on the vinyl are switched. Poorly done from DL. :( Avoid.

Ok sounds better than sparkle lounge (released at same time). Noticeable drop in volume towards end of Scar (due to number of track crammed into a single disk). Some dynamics in the pressing but still digital/flat sounding. Like the Sparkle Lounge pressing, the disk was dirty and needed a clean before playing. Cover and inner well reproduced. Again the price is ok for what you get.

I have the version of this CD but printed in Korea. have 14 songs including Kiss the Day as a bonus track. The Barcode is 8 808678 222791 and the Label code is DU8397

A year before the release, the band announced that they were working on a new album. This time the tenth album was expected with great interest. Fans waited from a band more hits, more succesfull continuation of the ideas of "Euphoria" ... And it was happened - "X" became the same original euphoric-alternative mix, with a lot of ballads and with more solid sound. The music contains a bit more acoustics in conjunction with all the same alternative rhythmic parts that we already heard on the previous album. Among the tracks most memorable are the hit "You're So Beautiful", "Four Letter Word", power ballad "Torn To Shreds" and filled with classic riffs "Scar" - the best song on the album. The result is a very good album, but it's inferior to the classical albums of the band.

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