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Slang Album Song By Song Part 2

Saturday, 25th January 2014





Slang Deluxe Edition 2014.

Def Leppard will release the Slang Deluxe Edition in February and in 1996 Phil Collen told the story of the 11 original album tracks.

In May 1996 Phil went through each song giving a brief explanation of them.

In part two Phil talks about the songs 'Slang' and 'All I Want Is Everything'. Also added in is an interesting extra description of the second song by Sav.

Slang Song 3 - Slang

Phil - "Contrary to popular belief this song is not about shagging! In fact, it's more of a safe sex anthem (avoiding contact and the like). We wanted to blend metal guitars with an almost James Brown kind of thing over a modern dance track then add some Latin percussion and stuff. It's very hard to make those hybrid or fusion type songs work, but we really nailed it!"

Slang Song 4 - All I Want Is Everything

Phil - "Joe's original demo almost sounded country and western. The first band version sounded like a mellow GNR, anyway we changed all of that. The weird thing about the album version was that while recording, we were still learning the song so it was very live and unrehearsed. After listening back to it the next day, we realized it had a certain magic and groove that we couldn't have improved on if we'd have spent five years on it. So we left it and added minimal overdubs. This approach was not used on every song of the album. In fact every song was its own little project. You know "horses for courses and all of that."

Sav - "It's actually about a man dying of AIDS. I can understand the interruption of broken relationships. The connotation is much wider than that. He knows he's going to die and wanting to change everything that got him into that situation."

All previous updates on this release and new music can be found in the Album News section.

  • Buy 2CD Album @ - Amazon.com - 11th February 2014
  • Buy Double Vinyl Album @ - Amazon.com - 11th February 2014
  • Buy MP3 @ - Amazon.com - 11th February 2014
  • Buy 2CD Album @ - Amazon.co.uk - 11th February 2014 (Import)
  • Buy Double Vinyl Album @ - Amazon.co.uk - 11th February 2014 (Import)
  • Buy MP3 @ - Amazon.co.uk - 11th February 2014





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