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Title: Lange = midas touch
Review: Producer Robert John Lange got the midas touch. Working with very different type of artists, he managed to produce three of the best selling albums of all time: AC/DC's Back in Black, Shania Twain's COME ON OVER and, on a lesser scale, Def Leppard's HYSTERIA and PYROMANIA. SO, the guy knows his craft, no doubt about that.But that does not mean that HYSTERIA is such a great album, no way! Much on the contrary, it marked the end of Leppard's "hard rock days", and tranformed them into a totally commercial outfit, full of ballads, cliched love lyrics, all fruit of an totally focused effort to appeal to MTV audience and girls.Also the sound production is terribly glossy, rounded, polished. The drums were the worst part of all (I'm not taking awaya the merits of drummer Rick Allen hard recovery after his accident. I'm talking about the highly reverbed drum sound, not the drummer's technique!)Is imply do not like this album. I prefer their first three albums.
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