This took me a little while to hunt down. Apparently, almost all of Def Leppard's back catalogue is out of print. At least I couldn't find it on Spotify, iTunes or Amazon. I ultimately found a used copy in pretty good condition in a used record store. It's pretty much as I remember it, which is to say ear candy. My friends and I were listening to a lot of Slayer, Metallica and Sepultura at the time, and regarded Def Leppard as more or less insubstantial hair rock. But as pop it clearly worked, the thing sold 20 million copies. And of course, the record was a considerable achievement for Rick Allen, who had to completely re-work his drumming technique after losing his left arm in a car accident.
Some other thoughts:
#466, Hole's Live Through This: I'm not going to say anything about the circumstances surrounding Kurt Cobain's death here, because I don't want any hit-men sent after me. I will say this: "Violet" is a pretty good leading track. The rest of the record is hit or miss for me.
#465, The Drifters' Golden Hits: Something you may not have noticed: That song from the '60s, "Let's Live for Today," as in "La-la la-la-la-Let's live for today," initially recorded by the Rokes in 1966 and later made famous by the Grass Roots... The melody of the chorus was lifted directly from the Drifters' "I Count the Tears." Just thought you should know.
#464, Jay-Z's The Blueprint: Listenable. The jury's still out on Jay-Z as far as I'm concerned, but he makes good use of samples.
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