Album Info

Retro Active

Hard Rock - 1993

This post-Adrenalize compilation bookends guitarist Steve Clark’s brilliant tenure with Def Leppard after his tragic death in 1991, and offers... more

Tracklist

1

Desert Song

5:18 min
2

Fractured Love

5:08 min
3

Action (Revised Version)

3:40 min
4

Two Steps Behind (String/Acoustic Version)

4:16 min
5

She's Too Tough (Revised Version)

3:40 min
6

Miss You In a Heartbeat (Revised Version)

4:04 min
7

Only After Dark (Revised Version)

3:52 min
8

Ride Into the Sun (Revised Version)

3:11 min
9

From the Inside (feat. The Acoustic Hippies from Hell)

4:16 min
10

Ring of Fire (Revised Version)

4:41 min
11

I Wanna Be Your Hero (Revised Version)

4:29 min
12

Miss You In a Heartbeat (Electric Version)

4:56 min
13

Two Steps Behind (Electric Version)

4:30 min
14

Miss You In a Heartbeat (Acoustic Version)

4:07 min

About Retro Active

This post-Adrenalize compilation bookends guitarist Steve Clark’s brilliant tenure with Def Leppard after his tragic death in 1991, and offers a fascinating alternate glimpse of a band at their commercial peak. “Desert Song” and “Fractured Love” are sultry Hysteria outtakes. There are foot-stomping covers of The Sweet’s “Action” and Bowie guitarist Mick Ronson’s “Only After Dark.” And there's also a soaring Adrenalize B-side (“She’s Too Tough”) and a supercharged re-recording of “Ride Into the Sun” from the Lepp’s 1979 debut EP.