DEF LEPPARD – Vault: Def Leppard Greatest Hits

Def Leppard – Vault: Def Leppard Greatest Hits (1995, Mercury Records)

Track Listing:
1. “Pour Some Sugar on Me” – 4:52
2. “Photograph” – 4:08
3. “Love Bites” – 5:46
4. “Let’s Get Rocked” – 4:55
5. “Two Steps Behind” [Acoustic Version] – 4:19
6. “Animal” – 4:03
7. “Foolin’” – 4:34
8. “Rocket” – 4:07
9. “When Love & Hate Collide” – 4:17
10. “Armageddon It” – 5:22
11. “Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad” – 5:19
12. “Rock of Ages” – 4:08
13. “Hysteria” – 5:56
14. “Miss You in a Heartbeat” [Acoustic Version] – 4:05
15. “Bringin’ on the Heartbreak” – 4:32

This album’s title says it all: “greatest hits”. Certainly, it’s not a “best of” because there’s a few songs here I could’ve done without and few songs I feel should’ve been added (the absence of “Too Late for Love”, which was a hit, is particularly glaring), but I played the heck out of this CD when I first bought it and it inspired me to check out the whole Def Leppard catalog. Funny that they included a brand new song for this comp, “When Love & Hate Collide”, because it wasn’t a “greatest hit” for them at all here in the U.S.

At the time, this was a good compilation, but it has been easily surpassed by the Rock of Ages collection that was released in 2005.

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