From:           	"Nikki Wiebe" <nwiebe@earthlink.net>
Date sent:      	Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:10:56 -0700
Subject:        	Euphoria Review on UBL

Confession: I wasn't even two minutes into Euphoria before I was singing
along with the opener, "Demolition Man." Like it or not, (Personally, I
resented their powers) the beauty of Def Leppard's heavy-metal-candy sound
is it's frustratingly catchy. One look at Euphoria's ending in i-a title
and it's clear that after tinkering with their sound on Slang, Leppard has
triumphantly returned to the trademark formula that made Pyromania and
Hysteria multi-platinum albums. The glossy chorus of "Promises," the
rave-up melody of "Demolition Man," with its 'Livin Like A Caged Up
Animal' refrain, and the crunchy, indistinguishable wall of guitars on
"Disintegrate" will please longtime Leppard fans. But, whether it's their
VH1 Behind the Music special or the demise of grunge, the group has also
gathered the courage to experiment on this album. "Paper Sun" and "It's
Only Love," for example, dabble faintly with psychadelia, while "To Be
Alive" finds Joe Elliott sounding suspiciously like another famous Brit
singer named Gallagher. After hearing Euphoria, anybody who still has
Leppard's '80s classics on heavy rotation will be, as Elliott sings at one
point, on a "galactic sugar high." ~ Steve Kurutz 

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