hey, new poster. Been a Jovi and Lepp fan for a long time, since 86. Here's my review of SL.

got this album today early from a buddy that works at walmart, and all i have to say is WOW. WHAT AN ALBUM! Being this is a Jovi forum, i don't want to piss off anyone, but this thing completely blows away any recent release by Jovi. I was struck at how organic and rocking this thing is.

truly the most satisfying and varied album leppard has released since hysteria, i'm honest here. Go and Bad Actress are just two fist pumping metal tracks that you can't help but headbang and play air guitar to. I didn't think Lepp had these songs left in them.

the guitars are heavy and upfront, Rick Allen's drumming is superb. Just a great sound they have on here.

To bad Jovi have never or will never make a song as heavy or dark as Go, that one just absolutley kicked my ass. Leppard stuck to their guns on this album, I hope Jovi follows suit and gets back to more rocking instead of this easy listening country/pop stuff they've been doing. They've lost their balls on the studio stuff. But i still love em live.

to all thinking that the lyrics are pointless fun, FAR FROM IT. Cruise Control, Tomorrow, Go, Only the Good Die Young, Gotta Let it Go, and Love all have terrific meaningful lyrics. Go is about hatred of government(We look to our leaders but the lies they try to feed us, like a knife they try to bleed us and they cut us real slow) Vivian Campbell and Phil Collen absolutely tear it up on the solo's and have lots of trade off's.

Cruise Control is about suicide from a terrorist's point of view, OTGDY is about fallen hero's and premature death, Tomorrow was written by Phil Collen while his father was dieing of cancer, and is a truly beautifal uplifting song.

Point is, Leppard have released just an absolute kick ass hard rock album, filled with so many great songs, not 1 weak track among the bunch. To all of you who have only listened to the 20 SECOND clips on amazon, get off your butts and listen to this thing when it comes out. If you've only heard 20 seconds of a song, you haven't heard it at all, and your making VERY false judgements.

final rating: 9.5/10