Yeah!
| Yeah! | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio album by Def Leppard | ||||
|
Publication |
May 22, 2006 |
|||
| Label (s) | Universal | |||
|
Format (s) |
||||
| occupation | ||||
|
Studio (s) |
Joe's Garage, Dublin (Ireland) |
|||
|
||||
Yeah! is the ninth studio album by British hard rock band Def Leppard . It only contains cover versions of songs by other performers, primarily those that have influenced the members of Def Leppard musically.
background
The album was in the private studio of singer Joe Elliott, "Joe's Garage", taken up by Ronan McHugh produced . The title Kick Out the Jams ( MC5 ) and Roxanne ( The Police ) were recorded but not published.
Yeah! appeared in different versions. While only one version was published in Europe , various additional titles appeared in the USA , which were dependent on the respective distribution partner . The album was distributed in the US through iTunes as well as Best Buy , Target and Walmart . Walmart offered the album with an additional CD which, in addition to the bonus tracks, also contained interview segments. It was not possible to get all the songs on offer on one CD; in Europe the additional titles were not offered at all, in Japan Yeah! with two bonus tracks .
layout
The booklet contains photos of the group members recreating motifs from record covers from the 1970s:
- Rick Savage as Freddie Mercury from the Queen album Queen II
- Vivian Campbell as Marc Bolan from the T. Rex album Electric Warrior
- Joe Elliott as David Bowie from the back cover of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
- Rick Allen as Lou Reed , Transformer
- Phil Collen as Iggy Pop , Raw Power
There are also four group photos in the booklet. The inside of the back cover below the CD tray shows a picture of the original triangular Def-Leppard logo, as it was used on the album On Through the Night , which breaks a beam of light as a prism and reproduces it as a rainbow, as is also shown on the cover for Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon was shown.
|
Chart positions Explanation of the data |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Albums | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Track list
- 20 th Century Boy ( Marc Bolan ) - 3:41 (Original Artist: T. Rex )
- Rock On (David Essex) - 2:53 (Original artist : David Essex )
- Hanging on the Telephone ( Jack Lee ) - 2:23 (Original artist : Blondie )
- Waterloo Sunset ( Ray Davies ) - 3:38 (Original artist : The Kinks )
- Hell Raiser ( Nicky Chinn , Mike Chapman ) - 3:20 (Original artist : The Sweet )
- 10538 Overture ( Jeff Lynne ) - 4:31 (Original artist : Electric Light Orchestra )
- Street Life ( Bryan Ferry ) - 3:26 (Original artist : Roxy Music )
- Drive-In Saturday ( David Bowie ) - 4:07 (Original artist : David Bowie)
- Little Bit of Love ( Paul Rodgers , Andy Fraser , Paul Kossoff , Simon Kirke ) - 2:34 (Original artist : Free )
- The Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll ( Ian Hunter ) - 3:28 (Original artist : Mott the Hoople )
- No Matter What ( Pete Ham ) - 2:57 (Original artist : Badfinger )
- He's Gonna Step on You Again ( John Kongos ) - 4:05 (Original artist : John Kongos)
- Don't Believe a Word ( Phil Lynott ) - 2:19 (Original artist : Thin Lizzy )
- Stay with Me ( Rod Stewart , Ron Wood ) - 4:30 (Original artist : The Faces )
Bonus tracks (Japan)
- American Girl (Tom Petty) - 3:34 (Original artist : Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
- Search and Destroy (Iggy Popp, James Williamson) - 3:27 (Original artist : The Stooges)
iTunes (USA)
- How Does It Feel (Noddy Holder, Jim Lea) - 5:20 (Original artist : Slade)
Target (USA)
- Action Live 2005 (Brian Connolly, Andy Scott, Steve Priest, Mick Tucker) - 4:03 (Original artist : Sweet)
- When I'm Dead and Gone (Benny Gallagher, Graham Lyle) - 3:17 (Original artist : McGuinness Flint)
Best Buy Edition
- No Matter What Live 2005 (Pete Ham) - 2:58 (Original artist: Badfinger)
- Winter Song ( Alan Hull ) - 4:35 (Original artist : Lindisfarne)
Wal-Mart Bonus CD
- American Girl (Tom Petty) - 3:34 (Original artist : Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
- Backstage interview 1 - 3:12
- Search and Destroy (Iggy Popp, James Williamson) - 3:27 (Original artist : The Stooges)
- Backstage Interview 2 - 2:01
- Space Oddity (David Bowie) - 3:27 (Original artist : David Bowie)
- Backstage Interview 3 - 2:43
- Dear Friends (Brian May) - 1:28 (Original artist : Queen)
- Heartbeat (Jobriath Boone) - 2:45 (Original artist: Jobriath)
reception
The album reached number 73 on the charts in Germany and number 52 in Great Britain. It was only able to last for one week on both charts, while it reached number 16 on the American Billboard 200 and stayed in the album charts for 11 weeks.
Michael Rensen ( Rock Hard ) wrote about this album:
“Nice thing, such a musical journey back to your own youth. You dig out your first bought (or stolen) LP, remember the soundtrack for the first kiss and the background noise of the first bar fight. In the case of Def Leppard, the socialization soundtracks (except for the '67 Kinks goosebumps Waterloo Station ) are from the 1970s and from acts like T. Rex, David Bowie, the Faces and Mott The Hoople. Sheffield's Finest thankfully did without the usual sucked evergreens, instead they surprise with many wrongly forgotten pearls that are thundered out as raw, earthy and in a good mood as one would have wished for the last regular Leppard albums. Check out tips for the all-round successful disc: the aforementioned Waterloo Sunset , Hellraiser (Sweet), No Matter What (Badfinger), Little Bit of Love (Free) and Don't Believe a Word (Thin Lizzy). "
swell
Web links