Pour Some Sugar On Me (2012)

Def Leppard | Format: MP3 Music

Product Details

• Original Release Date: June 4, 2012
• Label: Bludgeon Riffola/Mailboat Records
• Total Length: 4:21
• Genres:
  • Rock
• ASIN: B008593MIU
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,097 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a re-recording, not a remix. See the Associated Press interview excerpt below. June 18, 2012

By Ray

Format:MP3 Music

AP: Why did you decide to release re-recorded versions of "Rock of Ages" and "Pour Some Sugar on Me" this summer?

Joe Elliott: Our work is not available on any digital domain, except for the last album, the "Mirrorball" album, because it's a catalog issue with the record label, so we just wanted studio versions of those songs available for this summer because of the film coming out.

AP: What was it like re-recording those classics?

Joe Elliott: We had to be really careful that we actually studied them, literally like forgeries. It's like Donald Pleasence in "The Great Escape" doing passports. It's got to be exactly the same to fool the old German guard. That's the same thing with these songs. We wanted them to have the same energy, that youthful exuberance we had in '83 and '87, so people that are sympathetic to our cause listen to them and say, "Wow, they've still got it. They can perform the songs the way they did back then."

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Thank you! June 4, 2012

By ms.mama

Format:MP3 Music

It may not be the original, but it still sounds great! Glad to have in my collection, thank you guys!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Nowhere near the same as the original releases December 27, 2012

By Michelle ZH

Format:MP3 Music

I think it is such a crock that Def Leppard studied their old stuff to try to recreate it - the 2012 versions are NOTHING like the originals that us original fans have enjoyed for the past 25 years! Stop being greedy, DL, and let us be able to download the old sounds - there is nothing like them!!! Like another reviewer posted, it is nothing better than a tribute album sung by someone else - it may as well be someone else, because you guys are 25 years older and it SHOWS in the re-recordings. No sense in trying to bury the original versions because I seriously doubt you will make anywhere near the same royalties with these skimpy versions, as you would with the old versions and the old label taking their cut. You signed on with that label and they are the ones who helped you make it in the music industry - why are you trying to cut out the label now, and releasing tired, second-hand sounds in order to do so?!?!?!?!?!