Slang

Slang

SLANG is DEF LEPPARD'S sixth studio album released May 14, 1996. The album charted at #14 on U.S. Billboard and #5 on the UK Albums Chart.

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Additional Information

Additional Musicians: Gloria Flores (Spanish voice on "Slang") / Ram Naravan (intro sarangi sample on "Turn to Dust") / Craig Pruess (string and percussion arranging and conducting on "Turn to Dust") / Av Singh (dohl on "Turn to Dust") / Shyam Vatish (outré sarangi sample on "Turn to Dust") / Pete Woodroffe (piano on "Blood Runs Cold", keyboard strings on "Where Does Love Go When It Dies") / Gavyn Wright (string leader on "Turn to Dust")
Producer: Def Leppard & Pete Woodroffe
Recording Location: Marbella, Spain / Bow Lane Studios (Dublin, Ireland)

Comments

VeronicaLeppard 06/17/11 2011 07:39:50 AM

why so many fans of the group do not like this album, take at least a song All I Want Is Everything, and Blood Runs Cold is a great song that many people say the album is too many slow songs but in the music needs to be a soul.
I love this album and who is not you did not get the music to end.
Rylee Strange 07/27/11 2011 06:51:36 PM

Def Leppard’s most underrated album, and a true turning point in my childhood.

It was 1998 and i had just caught VH1’s Behind the Music episode of Def Leppard. I loved their sound, loved their story, but oddly it took me years to really get their 80s stuff, like Pyromania (which is still probably my least-favourite record of theirs) and (Hysteria, one of my all time favourites, now).

Slang (1996) was the one that really caught my attention. Lying somewhere between Sting and Queen, with Nine Inch Nails affectations thrown in. It’s a mix of hard rock, great harmonies, industrial beats and world music. Not to mention some real funky elements and Def Lep’s greatest ballads ever.

I remember getting this CD christmas day of 1998. And then spending the rest of the year of 1999 listening to it, until their next record, Euphoria, came out that year. It’s still a staple on my itunes. A brilliant record that still makes my stomach knot up when i hear it.

PS—Dig that killer album cover!

DefLeppardManiac1987 11/10/11 2011 04:57:38 AM

I love this album and I love All I Want Is Everything! i wish they would put their music up on Itunes for purchase, I would love to to be able to buy just the main songs that I want indiividually without having to buy the whole cd not that they have any bad song just so i could focus on the main ones that I want.
Stacey A Stephens Lenington 12/04/11 2011 12:29:55 AM

Love this!! It's My favorite Album!!

Hysterika 07/19/12 2012 02:16:23 PM

Deliver Me! Love it so much!!!

Dolphin61 07/22/12 2012 04:35:10 PM

I just listened to this CD, "I love it", my favorites are Work It Out & Blood Runs Cold, but of course everything they do is great.

steveclarkfan1990 11/10/12 2012 03:42:17 AM

beautiful and a definetly underrated album. the saong, blood runs cold reminds me of steve clark!
Sharrie Butler 11/15/12 2012 09:39:29 AM

I have been a fan of Def for many years. This album is one of their finer pieces of work. Good job guys.

rayho333 03/13/13 2013 05:42:55 AM

I had this album for years. Every once in a while I would pull it out and force myself to listen to it. I wanted to like it so bad, and I just didn't. I grew up on a steady diet of Def Leppard. High & Dry, Pyromania, and Hysteria were like mother's milk to me. I was so disappointed with this album, I could barely listen to it. I remember the long wait for Hysteria. I had that album the day it was released. I felt like a little kid buying a new baseball glove.

When this album came out, man I thought the boys had lost it. Funny thing happened though. Probably seven or eight years after the release of this album I was digging around in my old CD's and pulled Slang out. I put it in my car on a lark, and I loved it. After a few listens I couldn't get enough.

This album has a different sound than probably any other Leppard album. Today, I count this album among my favorites of all time. Not just Def Lep albums but all albums. This music might have been too drastic a change for me at first. I don't think that I am alone in thinking that either, but I would encourage all fans to give it another listen.