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All rights reserved.Retro Active - Def Leppard (CD 1993)
| Track Listing 1. Desert Song 2. Fractured Love 3. Action 4. Two Steps Behind - (acoustic version) 5. She's Too Tough 6. Miss You in a Heartbeat 7. Only After Dark 8. Ride Into the Sun 9. From the Inside 10. Ring of Fire 11. I Wanna Be Your Hero 12. Miss You in a Heartbeat - (electric version) 13. Two Steps Behind - (electric version)
Album Notes RETRO ACTIVE is a collection of B-sides, alternate versions and rarities from the Def Leppard vaults. Def Leppard: Joe Elliot (vocals, guitar, piano); Rick Savage (guitar, keyboards, acoustic & electric bass, background vocals); Vivian Campbell, Phil Collen (guitar, background vocals); Steve Clark (guitar); Rick Allen (drums). Additional personnel: Pete Woodroffe (piano); Robert Mutt Lange, P.J. Smith (background vocals). Engineers include: Pete Woodroffe, Ronald Prent, Albert Boekholt. Recorded at Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum, Holland; Rainbow Studios and Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany; Bow Lane Studios and Joe's Garage, Dublin, Ireland. If you spent several years meticulously preparing each release like Def Leppard, you'd have countless unused ditties lying around too. This bounty forms the basis for 1993's RETRO ACTIVE. The collection includes B-sides and rarities that will be familiar to only the most die-hard fans--including such rockers as "She's Too Tough," "Ride Into the Sun," and "Ring of Fire," plus the ballads "Miss You in a Heartbeat," and "Two Steps Behind." Usually such compilations are of variable quality, but RETRO ACTIVE is sequenced so cunningly it's almost comparable to a Def Leppard studio album. Editorial Reviews Entertainment Weekly (10/08/1993) Q (12/01/1993) Rolling Stone (11/25/1993) | Find errors in the product description? Submit a catalog update request now. | ||||||||||||||
Reviews  Super fast delivery. Great seller and great productReview created: 06/04/08 by:  Excellent purchase experience. The item matched the description and condition. Fast delivery. The price as good enough and I will buy again from this seller Review ID: 10000000007402701 Was this review helpful? Report this review PERFECTEVERYTHING WAS JUST RIGHT! GREAT LISTING DESCRIPTION AND COMMUNICATION. THE PRICE WAS COMPETITIVE WITH OTHER AUCTIONS. MEANT TO BE! Review ID: 10000000005770782 Was this review helpful? Report this review   Leppard in RetrospectReview created: 07/30/03 by: jay1051971 -- a member of Epinions Pros: Great rockers. Cons: <i>Action</i> is less than inspiring. Oftentimes, as a band is compiling songs for their albums, there are quite a number of songs that get recorded but don t make the final cut. As a result, some otherwise very good songs never see the light of day. But every now and then, bands will revisit the material that was previously overlooked, and release it under a separate recording effort. Call it laziness or complacency, but when Def Leppard did this very thing with their CD Retro Active, they put out a CD that s almost better than most of their other stuff. Track Listing: 1. Desert Song 2. Fractured Love 3. Action 4. Two Steps... Review ID: 10000000000217151 Def Leppard, Growing UpReview created: 08/17/01 by: Darkmistress -- a member of Epinions Pros: Faultless musicianship and maturing song writing Cons: None I had stopped buying Def Leppard CDs for a while there after Hysteria (there was that embarrassing flirtation with Michael Bolton, what was I thinking?) However, I took a job at an unnamed used CD shoppe which later fired me because they realized that, in the course of all those raises they had given me over the years I had come to earn nearly $2 above minimum wage. I was suddenly too expensive and must go. But in the course of my time there I made out like a bandit in the CD department. I believe when I started I owned a grand total of 5 CD and when I left, that number had mushroomed... Review ID: 10000000000217152  Retro Active Rocks On...Past, Present, and Future!Review created: 05/12/01 by: mystical81 -- a member of Epinions Pros: Excellent album. A good variety of hard and soft rock, classic Lep style! Cons: Too many remixes Whereas their seventh album, Vault, was a collection of greatest hits from 1980 to 1995 (successfully rounding-out the first chapter of the band's as-of-then 16-year career), Def Leppard's sixth LP, Retro Active, is a collection of B-sides and unfinished song ideas from the Pyromania, Hysteria, and Adrenalize recording sessions. Released in 1993, it proved to be a very solid rock album, not only by the band's own traditional standards, but by itself in a heavily-dominated "grunge" market, as well. It had been two years since the death of guitarist and close friend, Steve Clark (1961-1991),... Review ID: 10000000000217154 And WHY was this material tossed off as B-sides?Review created: 12/29/00 by: Matt_Stein -- a member of Epinions Pros: A variety of styles, and the studio excesses are trimmed somewhat. Cons: Too many remixes of the ballads, when more songs could've been fit in. Retroactive, released in 1992, is actually an 'odds and sods' collection of B-sides and rarities from as early as Pyromania up to the Adrenalize sessions. Def Leppard, after the continuing, chart topping success of albums like Adrenalize, Hysteria, and Pyromania, were in somewhat of a rut after 1991. Adrenalize was riding high, but a changing of the guard was looming with Nirvana taking hold of the music scene. Their founding guitarist Steve Clark had died during the recording of Adrenalize, and they were looking to change their direction somewhat. In order to do that, however, they felt... Review ID: 10000000000217153 Rare stuff and b-sides to keep you busyReview created: 05/05/03 by: ninelives353 -- a member of Epinions Pros: Intriguing collection of out-takes and covers. Cons: Nothing here that will shake the foundation of rock music. After playing the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley in 1992, and adding ex-Dio and Whitesnake guitarist, Vivian Campbell, into the lineup as a replacement for the Steve Clarke, the band released a stop-gap album in 1993. "Retro Active" was a collection of b-sides and rareties - a mix of ballads, raucous hard-edged rock and interesting cover-versions. The first couple of tracks are from the "Hysteria" sessions, but were not completed until much later on. The gritty 'Desert Song' is a well-arranged rocker, 'Fractured Love' similarly is a well-produced rock-number that would have... Review ID: 10000000000217155 Epinions.com ratings are not included in the item's average rating. Links in this review may have been removed. |
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