Best Of

Artist: Def Leppard
Label: Universal Japan
Category: Music

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Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 602498685112
EAN: 0602498685112
ASIN: B00035W096

Release Date: 2005-01-11

Best Of

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Tracks:

Pour Some Sugar On Me
Photograph
Love Bites
Let's Get Rocked
Two Steps Behind
Animal
Heaven Is
Rocket
When Love & Hate Collide
Action
Long Long Way To Go
Make Love Like A Man
Armageddon It
Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad
Rock Of Ages
Hysteria
Bringin' On The Heartbreak

Tracks:

Rock Rock (Till You Drop)
Waterloo Sunset
Promises
Slang
Foolin'
Now
Rock Brigade
Women
Let It Go
Too Late For Love
High 'N' Dry (Saturday Night)
Work It Out
Billy's Got A Gun
Another Hit & Gun
Stand Up (Kick Love Into Motion)
Wasted
Die Hard The Hunter

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Album Description

This is an exclusive UK limited edition best-of double-disc from Def Leppard. The first disc (same as the International pressing) features 17 of the band's biggest hits such as 'Animal', 'Pour Some Sugar on Me', 'Let's Get Rocked', 'When Love and Hate Collide' and many more. The bonus disc features an additional 17 tracks including a brand new and previously unreleased song, a cover of the Kinks 'Waterloo Sunset'. Mercury. 2004.

Album Details

This Edition Includes Four Songs Not on the USA Version; "Action", "Long Way to Go", "Make Love Like a Man" and the Group's Cover of the Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset" which Are Not Found on the USA Equivalent.

Customer Reviews:

Best of Def Leppard.......2006-07-27

The product was delivered on time at the price agreed on. I would do business with this person again.

Best of the Def Leppard compilations released to date.......2006-06-27

As of June 2006, Def Leppard has released 3 compilations: "Vault", "Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection", and this set, the "Best Of". (If you want to inlcude the hard-to-find "Rock Vault", which includes Vault and a seperate disc of previously released tracks, then it would be 4 compilations). And in my opinion, this one is their best so far, but not by much.

Why? What makes this collection better than "Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection"?

It's true that both this set and "ROA" have almost the same set of songs, including the usual suspects, like "Photograph", "Bringing On The Heartbreak" and "Pour Some Sugar On Me".

It's the songs that one contains that the other one doesn't, that really makes the difference for me, regardless of the price.

The songs on "Best Of" that are not on "ROA" are:
"Action", "Long, Long Way To Go", "Make Love Like A Man", "Waterloo Sunset"

The songs on "ROA" that are not on "Best Of" are:
"Miss You In A Heartbeat", "Switch 625", "No Matter What", "Mirror, Mirror (In My Eyes)", "Paper Sun"

Also, there are edited versions of "Rocket" and "Pour Some Sugar On Me" on "ROA" as opposed to the album versions that are on "Best Of". But "ROA" has a total of 35 tracks as opposed to "Best Of" which has 34. And "ROA" costs about $10 USD less than "Best Of".

My preference is "Best Of". But, which one should YOU buy? It all depends on which one has the tracks you really want and how much you want to spend? But, hey, you can always buy both, right?

Here is what I have to say about "Best Of".......2005-09-17

I have been reading what others have been putting as pros and cons, well now I'm another Def Leppard fan, here is what I have to say about Vault, Best Of and Rock Of Ages.

I live in the USA so here it is...

I bout Vault ions ago on cassette I like the album. Now the later 2 albums are also known as Super Vault, here is what I'm doing. I downloaded Can't Keep Away From The Fire (which is the bonus track on the Japanese release of Vault). I am putting togther the 2 CD version of Best of with the remaining songs on Rock of Ages. Then I have Can't Keep...finally I just the other day purchased on here the box set version of Vault which comes with the bonus live disc, I am also including that so after all of that I will have all the versions of Vaut, all the versions of Best of and Rock of Ages together as one "Super Vault" collection. I know some people will say that is still not enough, but hey, it's a more complete verion of Vault. I am not doing this because I think they are lacking I'm doing this beacuse I can listen to all of them with changing the cds less.

Def Leppard still rocks!.......2005-09-03

This is a great CD with old and current music! I just love it! There music is still great after all these years

Very Good Def Leppard Collection, But "Rock Of Ages" Is Better.......2005-07-07

Def Leppard is my favorite band ever. I love pretty much everything these guys do. I loved these guys since I got a copy of 1995's greatest hits "Vault". That 15 song collection was a very good starting point for Leppard fans like myself, but when I finished listening to it, I immediately knew I was missing out on a lot of other great stuff.

Well, now there are two single disc Def Leppard collections out on the market. One is the American release "Rock Of Ages: The Definitive Collection" and the other in is simply titles "Best Of". Now, I only have the American release of this album, which save for a few tracks, the sequencing on disc two and a much better cover, is identical to the import version. Which one should you by? Here's my review.

If you're a beginning Leppard fan, than either of these collections should suit you fine. Either way you slice it, you're going to get all time rock classics like "Pour Some Sugar On Me", "Armageddon It" and "Photograph". You're also going to get a second disc of lesser known gems like "Let It Go", "Die Hard The Hunter" and "Billy's Got A Gun", plus one new song (The Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset" on this version, Badfinger's "No Matter What" on the other.

However, while both are excellent, "Rock Of Ages" has the advantage. Here are a few reasons why:

1)This cd does not include the unedited version of "Bringin' On The Heartbreak" that leads into "Switch 625", and "ROA" does. These two songs belon together. Plain and simple.
2)"ROA" has "Mirror Mirror" and "Miss You In A Heartbeat" on it. These songs are amongst their most underrated work, and they belong on any Lep collection
3) Better cover art! The one on here looks like dull, but "ROA's" screamd Def Leppard!

So in conclusion, this is good, but I'd recommend "Rock Of Ages" instead.

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