DEF LEPPARD - Slang Deluxe Edition Album Sampler
February 10, 2014, 10 years ago
On February 11th, DEF LEPPARD issue a Deluxe Edition of their 1996 album Slang. This collection features the original release re-mastered, as well as bonus material including five unreleased songs and 14 rare versions of demos and various mixes. The double CD includes a 26 page booklet with photos and liner notes from vocalist Joe Elliott, which gives insight into the band during this '94 - '95 time period. A preview trailer is available below:
Guitarist Phil Collen spoke with Gary Graff from Billboard about the Deluxe Edition release of their 1996 album Slang. "Y'know, I think we could've put out Sgt. Pepper's or Dark Side Of The Moon and I think it would have been the same because it was Def Leppard and we had gotten lumped in with all the crap metal bands of the '80s that were kind of pale versions of us," Collen explains. "NIRVANA had come along and everything had changed. What was very interesting was people said they didn't like it so much because it didn't sound like us, but we set up in a villa in southern Spain and pretty much recorded live, so it was actually closer to the mark than the other albums where we didn't play live and did the usual studio thing of putting one thing on at a time and building it from there."
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