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Track Listings
| 1. Pour Some Sugar On Me |
| 2. Photograph |
| 3. Love Bites |
| 4. Let's Get Rocked |
| 5. Two Steps Behind |
| 6. Animal |
| 7. Foolin' |
| 8. Rocket |
| 9. When Love & Hate Collide |
| 10. Armageddon It |
| 11. Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad? |
| 12. Rock Of Ages |
| 13. Hysteria |
| 14. Miss You In A Heartbeat |
| 15. Bringin' On The Heartbreak |
Product Description
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To have resisted Def Leppard's radio power in their heyday, you'd have to have been a critic--and even some of us could hardly argue with the likes of "Photograph," "Animal," and "Bringin' on the Heartbreak." Vault covers a decade and a half of hits by the one-time wonder boys of the new wave of British metal, but perhaps inevitably concentrates on singles from the multiplatinum Pyromania and Hysteria. It offers little meaning beyond fun fun fun, but there are hooks here that Noel Gallagher would punch a paparazzo for. --Rickey Wright
Album Description
Japanese pressing includes an exclusive bonus track. Mercury. 2006.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
This band had some great singles.,
By D. Mok (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 1980-1995 Vault Greatest Hit (Audio CD)
And Vault, despite what rock purists may say about greatest-hits collections (ie. the songs should be considered in the context of their albums, etc.), is a great example of a greatest-hits album putting the music in better light than ever before.Def Leppard albums tended to have their share of filler material, so a collection of their best songs works remarkably well. Critics from Rolling Stone have on numerous occasions mentioned, quite accurately, that Def Leppard's strength lies in songcraft, arrangement and studio detail. And it was on individual pop-metal gems like "Love Bites" (aided greatly by a stinging lead guitar that lends strength to the ballad, as with "Bringin' on the Heartbreak"), "Rocket" (thankfully, the wasteful "Whole Lotta Love"-ish middle section, the product of producer R.J. "Mutt" Lange's noodling, is excised; here the song appears in its single version); "Hysteria", "Foolin'", "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad" and "Photograph". It is unfortunate that a) Joe Elliott's vocals did sound progressively like Bryan Adams over Def Leppard's career, and not in a good way; b) though drummer Rick Allen admirably carried on after the loss of his arm, his drumbeats post-Pyromania sound stiff and can never go beyond a techno-drone mid-tempo; and c) "White Lightning", the band's 1992 tribute to late guitarist Steve Clark and one of the band's strongest '90s songs, was not included on Vault. In the '90s, Def Leppard does sound dated and almost a little overproduced. Still, at its peak, the band's songcraft was catchy and its energy infectious.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Too much Hysteria and little else,
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This review is from: 1980-1995 Vault Greatest Hit (Audio CD)
Released in 1995, Vault: Def Leppard Greatest Hits 1980-1995 was U.K. band Def Leppard's first official compilation. The band was without a doubt one of the biggest rock bands of the 1980's, it's hard to forget some of their biggest hits like "Pour Some Sugar On Me", "Rock of Ages" and other great songs. Vault attempts to reunite on a single disc collection the best of Def Leppard, and while that may have been fine in 1995 the reality is that in 2011 with better "Best of" collections released since then, Vault pales in comparison. The songs are great there is no denying that but it focuses way too much on Hysteria, the band's most successful album and offers little else. For those who only want a few of Def Leppard's hits (and mostly material from Hysteria) this is fine but those looking for a better and comprehensive compilations which follows a bigger portion of their career, Rock of Ages is the way to go. In fact the two disc collection Rock of Ages puts Vault to shame, it has the band's hits but also goes into the band's early years which this one barely does with only one song from the band's first two albums, ("Bringin' On The Heartbreak") and also goes into their more experimental years, up until 2002's "X". Vault may have been a standard compilation in 1995 but hits collections now are much more complete and overall, better. ). Vault had a new song "When Love and Hate Collide" and interestingly two acoustic songs.For some, those 15 songs will be all the Leppard they need and for the most part, that's just fine because the songs on Vault are excellent but as a compilation it lacks. You would be better off with Rock of Ages which will give you all the Leppard you need and more for barely $ 4 more. I really wish Vault would've had earlier Def Leppard, those years are often forgotten to their more successful years (greatest hits often ignore band's early material in order to have more place to the more commercial stuff unfortunately). The big problem with Vault is that it over-glorifies Hysteria over other albums and includes very little else. For what it is I can't give it more than three stars, there are better ways to get into Def Leppard.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but incomplete,
By HeadbangerDuh (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 1980-1995 Vault Greatest Hit (Audio CD)
Although this is a very good starter CD for one of the bands that put metal in the mainstream in the 1980's, it's missing a little bit. It could have included at least one song from their debut, and at least two more from High n Dry. But the songs they did put on here are really good, and are their best. Let's Get Rocked is sort of reminiscent of an account I had involving a friend who listened to classical music. In short, this is a good collection for a great band, but it could have been better.
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