This is my favourite TVC appearance to date. Thank you so much Tim for inviting me to do this. I hope it comes across in the video: we don’t enjoy bashing this album. We love this band. But we can be discerning, and that’s OK. We encourage you to check out the music and decide for yourself. It seems a few viewers agreed with us…
Consider this my official review of Drastic Symphonies by Def Leppard
2/5 stars
Additional notes:
- Check out the squirrel at 22:52 of the video, over my left shoulder (screen right).
- Beautiful Grab A Stack of Rock coffee mug available at teepublic.com (where you can also buy your own Tim’s Vinyl Confessions merch).
- Cameo by Darth Sideous
Thanks again to Tim for making this episode happen!
- The Early Years Disc One – On Through the Night
- The Early Years Disc Two – High N’ Dry
- The Early Years Disc Three – When The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Live at the New Theater Oxford – 1980
- The Early Years Disc Four – Too Many Jitterbugs – EP, singles & unreleased
- The Early Years Disc 5 – Raw – Early BBC Recordings
- The Early Years 79-81 (Summary)
- Pyromania
- Pyromania Live – L.A. Forum, 11 September 1983
- Hysteria
- Soundtrack From the Video Historia – Record Store Tales
- In The Round In Your Face DVD
- “Let’s Get Rocked” – The Wait for Adrenalize – Record Store Tales
- Adrenalize
- Live at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert
- Retro-Active
- Visualize
- Vault: Def Leppard’s Greatest Hits / Limited Edition Live CD
- Video Archive
- “Slang” CD single
- Slang
- I Got A Bad Feeling About This: Euphoria – Record Store Tales
- Euphoria
- Rarities 2
- Rarities 3
- Rarities 4
- Cybernauts – Live
- Cybernauts – The Further Adventures of the Cybernauts (bonus disc)
- X
- Best Of (UK)
- Rock Of Ages: The Definitive Collection
- Yeah!
- Yeah! Bonus CD With Backstage Interviews
- Yeah…Nah! (Record Store Tales)
- Songs From the Sparkle Lounge
- “C’Mon C’Mon” (picture disc)
- Taylor Swift & Def Leppard – CMT Crossroads (DVD)
- B.Sides
- Yeah! II
- Yeah! Live
- Mirror Ball: Live & More (Japan bonus track)
- iTunes Re-recordings
- Viva! Hysteria (CD 1 & DVD)
- Viva! Hysteria (CD 2 & bonus features)
- Viva! Hysteria (Japanese bonus track)
- Slang (2014 deluxe edition bonus tracks)
- “Helen Wheels” (from The Art of McCartney)
- Def Leppard (2015 – all versions)
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This was great. I agree on the good songs, liked some you didn’t, but hated Animal and Pour Some Sugar on me like you guys. They were horrible. And the fact they just added symphony to old mixes on a lot of song totally sucks. As you said, a lazy album…but I did like it a little more than you too…but not much.
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Thanks John. We had a blast doing this. WE were not lazy even if Leppard were!
But my favourite part was this.
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Yeah, I noticed that little guy in the background as well. Pretty funny.
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No Diamond Star Halos review?
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I can barely make it through the whole album. I could review it, but it won;t come quick, just because I find it a slog to finish, and it’s long. Once you include all 4 bonus tracks, which I do, it’s long.
Mr. Big review goes up Aug 11.
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I know what u mean. That slbum start okey but then I forget yhat it’s even playing.
Hope to hear good things with Mr Big..Just ordered Ten myself.
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Spoiler alert: I like it. So did Tim. I hope you enjoy the review! There is also a TVC episode to go with the review.
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