Sparkle Lounge is quite far from the worst thing they've ever released. I rank it much higher than say Adrenalize or X. And it's also a bit unfair to compare one 38 minute album to the last four Bon Jovi albums. Atrotious is a little strong a word, but hey-ho, your opinion. And whilst it's far from their best, itt certainly rocks a hell of a lot more than Crush/Bounce/Have A Nice Day/Lost Highway put together. (Note to Jon: this is what a riff rock record is )

Played it recently myself and my opinion hasn't changed since last year. A couple of good/great songs. Go is an absolute beast of a song and one hell of an album opener. It only wish the rest of the album followed suit to this kind of song. This song is exactly how Def Leppard should have sound in 2008. Nine Lives is ok, didn't blow me away first off, but grows on you and becomes just as infectious as any classic Leppard song. Tomorrow is another favourite of mine, great souring melody.

I totally agree with Gotta Let It Go ripping off Have A Nice Day, but who cares.

The downside to this album is, first of all, it's mostly stuff we've heard many a time before, the songs are very disjointed and causes the album to be uneven and unsure of itself. It's like the songs were just thrown together. Personally, I was just hoping for a whole lot more. I was thinking nows the chance for the bad to really modernise themselves with a loud, heavy ballsy hard rock album thats still very Def Leppard. Instead we got another Hysteria-ish throwback. Not that that's a bad thing as far as the album is concerned, but it just shows they've not really got any inspiration anymore. Then again, I suppose after a 6 year gap since the last album and another greatest hits album, they couldn't release anything "risky" so to speak.