A GREAT collection of Leppard

This is an incredible collection of Def Leppard songs and it's nice to put in and go through 25 years of Def Leppard with just this double cd set....there's a lot of people saying it's missing this song or that song, but in order for it to have every song everyone wants, you would just have to put all of their songs on it. I am very happy with the list of songs on it and if you want the "Best Of" Def Leppard, then this is the cd to buy! If you're a hardcore Def Leppard fan, then this is a MUST BUY! It's a waaaaay better version of "Vault", and an updated version at that. Not only do you have very early songs such as "wasted" and "let it go" but you also get some of their newer ones like "Long Long Way To Go" (a personal favorite of mine), "Slang", "Promises", and even a BRAND NEW never before released song called "Waterloo Sunset" ( a cover of The Kinks song), which is a VERY good song. I think anyone that likes Def Leppard, will LOVE this album!

Missing some tracks, includes others we could do without!

Okay, okay, I know this is a matter of personal taste, but geez!



No Lady Strange, Mirror Mirror, Me And My Wine, I Wanna Be Your Hero or Tonight? Yet Two Steps Behind, When Love And Hate Collide, and Long Long Way To Go made the cut?! Now is a barely tolerable inclusion from X, but Scar or Gravity would have been far better choices than LLWTG.



Now that I have stopped whining about track choice, I would like to acknowledge that no band will ever release a greatest hits album that satisfies all fans, and this is generally a great album. I am very happy that some of the fantastic older material is represented here (yes, Hysteria was my favourite album too, but that didn't mean Vault should have been Hysteria plus a few bonus tracks).



Is it worth buying just for Waterloo Sunset (the only new release here, which, if you can wait, will also be on the covers album to be released later this year)? Probably not, unless this is a first Def Leppard purchase, or your Def Leppard collection is limited. But I am a sucker, a die hard fan who has all the other albums and just had to have this one too.

Not a review, but some info on the impending U.S. release.

Well, if I had some extra money, I'd buy this version as well, but I'm waiting for the U.S. version which will be titled ROCK OF AGES: The Definative Collection, which is due out May 17th. Go to the band's website if you want to see the cover art, which is MUCH better then this version! Here are other differences between the 2



Action, Long Long Way To Go & Make Love Like A Man will not be on this version, the latter one baffles me because MLLAM was actually a hit here in the U.S.



However, Switch 625, Miss You In A Heartbeat, Mirror Mirror & Paper Sun WILL be on this version!



Foolin' is on disc 1 instead of disc 2, given that it was a much bigger hit here in the U.S.



The tracks on disc 2 are in a different order.



There will be a different cover song on this version, a cover of Badfinger's "No Matter What"



I'm definately looking forward to getting this to hear what the older tracks sound like remastered, as well as having all of these great songs on 2 cds!.