This is the band’s second album, and is a slight change in style compared to their hard riffing debut, Vices. This is a much more slick commercial sounding record, and whether this was the record company giving them advice or not I’m not sure, but the album after this (Rock The World) was back to the metal and riffs.
Anyway, it doesn’t detract away from what is a still a fun record and very typical rock record of the time (when Def Leppard were riding high). Highlights for me are Feels Good Don’t Stop, which has a large dose of the Leppard formula, the stomp grooves of Make Your Move, and the only real metal sounding track on the album, Too Loud Too Old – this is the direction the album should have gone in.
It sucks when bands are maneuvered to do things that aren’t necessarily are in their best interests. By the time they recorded the next album, all the momentum they hard worked hard to build up had gone.
8/10 from The Grooveman.
