Bryan Adams - Waking Up The Neighbours

There was really no escaping Everything I Do (I Do it for you) in 1991 was there?  But what I want to know is there more to this album than that one song? 

 

Joe Elliot described WUTN as Bryan Adams fronting Def Leppard (Bryan Adams hired Mutt Lange – producer of Hysteria – to produce WUTN).  I’m not sure who ends up being more insulted by that comment.  It feels a bit like an own goal if I’m being honest.

 

But it’s not an inaccurate description.  The album is a solid pop-rock album.  The music is tight, there are choruses where you expect choruses, they have verses that set the stage for the big pay offs that come in the chorus.  Overall, it does what it needs to do.  It does feel a bit impersonal though. 

 

I can’t tell if the lyrics for the whole album were written in 10 minutes or if they took hours and weeks to fit in every cliché they could.  Again, I’m not sure which is more insulting…

 

The best I can say about this album that it’s a very consistent album.  But I’m not sure it’s consistently great.