Slang - Album Review

Slang is often considered the worst Def Leppard record. I agree, it's not their best work. But it's not a bad album. Not their worst anyway. Retro Active, in my opinion, would be their worst record. Slang is actually pretty good. I can understand fans thinking that it's a bit odd to hear a Def Leppard album that tried to settle in with the 90's music scene, rather than another party, hair metal record. But I, as a Leppard fan, do not see how other fans hated this album. I have friends that hate this album. In fact, a good friend of mine passed away in 2007, and the last conversation I had with him before he died, was about how terrible Slang is (From his point of view of course). But this really is a good album. So here's my review, of my favorite band's 7th album, Slang.



This album has some great songs on it, such as Truth, Work it out, All I want is everything, Deliver me, Breathe a sigh, Turn to dust and Slang. Work it out is one of my favorites. It was Vivian's first song writing contribution to Def Leppard. Slang is an awesome popy, hard rock song and I also love Truth, which is the opening track. Those would have to be my top favorites.
Not every song is great. I'm not crazy about Blood runs cold, Where does love go when it dies or Pearl of Euphoria. But, Over all, I think the good songs out way the bad ones.

Over all, Yes it's different, but it's a great record. I like to hear new sounds from my favorite bands as long as it's not to far off of their style. And I enjoyed hearing Joe sing in a lower register. It was cool.

So Slang gets 3 stars

The Next Karate Kid - Review

This may be the most unnecessary movie sequel ever. Coming in second, only to Jason Takes Manhattan. But seriously, who wants to see Mr. Miyagi train another karate kid? And a girl at that? But all in all, it's actually a petty good movie. Nothing special, but another movie about a teenager being taught karate by an old Asian man who beats up young people that underestimate him because he's old. It's fantastic stuff. So lets talk about it.

In this 4th installment in the Karate kid series, Mr. Miyagi, while visiting an old friend, notices that her daughter Juli , played by a young Hilary Swank, is going through some rough times. So he decides to teach her karate! That's all ways a good way to help someone right? Well, anyway. Juli's the average punky teenager. She's got a bad, snotty attitude. It seems to be do to the death of her parents, as well as her troubles at school. You really hate her at first. But through out her training, we see her change into a nice, happy, like able character.

As always, the most unrealistic part of the film, is the fight scenes. Not the fighting it's self, but how the fights are ser up. Why is everyone out to get Miyagi and Juli? Seriously? Everywhere they go, someone wants to beat them up. There was a scene where where the guy at the gas station tries to beat up Miyagi because he pet his dog, for God's sake!

The fighting is entertaining as always. But these must be the cheesiest looking fight scenes in the series. The gas station fight, as well as the final FRACAS between the gang leader and Juli just didint do it for me.

Over all, it's an ok film. I always loved it when I was little. But now as I'm getting older I'm not as amussed by a lot of the cheesy fighting.

3 1/2 stars for the Next Karate kid