Def Leppard

"I'm back in your face / Like I've never been away," sings Def Leppard's Joe Elliott, and he means it, man. Euphoria is a return to the glory days of Hysteria and Pyromania, two of the band's finest recordings. Arena-sized hooks and riffs a la T-Rex dominate this album, although in true Def Lep style, there are plenty of ballads.

"Demolition Man," the opening track on Euphoria, Def Leppard's seventh studio album, plays
like a typical installment of VH1's rock-bio series Behind the Music: "Let me loose, I just got
back/I was pushed and I got dragged/I tasted mud, I tasted wine/Kissed the life I left
behind." The moral of the tale: Every multimillion-selling hack gets a second chance. These
blue-collar Brits have always been motivated by sales rather than art, so it's little... More >