Bryan Adams....

[Chippa]

That's catchy. Sounds like a Wilbury song.

Here's the official press release from Jeff's Facebook page.

Official News Release
Bryan Adams Returns With New Studio Album, "Get Up," Produced By ELO Frontman Jeff Lynne
GET UP RELEASING OCTOBER 16TH - AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW
First Single, "Brand New Day" Available September 7th
Multi-platinum recording artist Bryan Adams is set to release his thirteenth studio album, Get Up (UMe), on October 16th. Produced by famed ELO frontman Jeff Lynne and co-written with his long-time collaborator Jim Vallance, the album features nine new songs and four acoustic versions, tracklisting below. Get Up is available for pre-order now via all digital partners and includes instant-grat track "You Belong To Me," followed by lead track "Brand New Day" available September 7, and the final early download, "Don't Even Try" prior to street date.
Preorder link: smarturl.it/BryanAdamsGetUp.
A performance clip will be released to accompany the first download "You Belong To Me," and fans can look forward to the official music video for "Brand New Day" directed by Adams featuring BAFTA Award-winning actress, Helena Bonham Carter, and musician Theo Hutchcraft from acclaimed synth-pop duo Hurts.
Get Up is a solid collection of beautifully-crafted rock songs, from the fast and furious up-tempo tracks such as lead song "Brand New Day," "You Belong To Me" and "Thunderbolt," to the gentler songs such as "Don't Even Try" and "We Did It All," plus the alternative Adams-produced acoustic versions, highlighting Adams' unique voice and depth..
Get Up is a body of work that Adams is truly proud of and with multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer Jeff Lynne - whose credits include The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Randy Newman and Tom Petty, as well as being the co-founder, producer and member of the Traveling Wilburys - at the helm shaping the record, Get Up will sit nicely alongside Adams' earlier classics.
"It came together quite organically," recalls Adams, "song by song, working with Jeff producing over the past couple of years whenever he had time. It was a great partnership as it gave me plenty of time to write the songs, most of which are a collaboration with Jim Vallance. We all worked primarily over the internet from Canada, Europe and LA, sending demos and parts of songs until we got it right."
"I've always been a big fan of Bryan so getting to work with him was a great pleasure," says Jeff Lynne. "Bryan would send me a demo across the internet, then I would play most of the instruments to make a finished backing track and send it back to him in England. There he would put the lead vocal on to the song and send it back to me in California, 5,400 miles apart! And it's turned out to be a rockin' album!"
"There is a carefree feeling about this album," adds Adams,"and in many ways it is the album I wish I'd been able to make 25 years ago."
Adams continues to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of his critically-acclaimed album Reckless last year, with a sold-out global headlining tour - upcoming North American dates below. This summer, Adams will be co-headlining with Rod Stewart at BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park Festival on September 13th.
www.bryanadams.com
Get Up Tracklisting:
You Belong To Me
Go Down Rockin'
We Did It All
That's Rock and Roll
Don't Even Try
Do What Ya Gotta Do
Thunderbolt
Yesterday Was Just A Dream
Brand New Day
Don't Even Try - Acoustic
We Did It All - Acoustic
You Belong To Me - Acoustic
Brand New Day - Acoustic

[88keys]

So they never worked together in the studio? Interesting.

[skyclad1904]

"you belong to me" sounds like Jeff is in rockabilly mood again...
To me it sounds like a mix of "out of luck", "big weekend" and a little bit of "heartbreak radio", I really like it...what I don't like is the length of the new Bryan Adams album, the regular tracks are running even shorter than "long wave"...

[Deleted]

I wonder if Jeff and Bryan got to know each other back when they did the 1987 Prince's Trust Concert?

[Buttler]

I must confess, I don't like it at all

Brian has aged tremendously...

[bhabs]

I love it! Sounds so Jeff Lynne right from the first second. I'm really looking forward to this now.

[BSJ]

I don't get it. So far, from the style of the song "You Belong To Me", and the last 4 songs are (filler) acoustic, why didn't Jeff just put this album out? Now very curious about the rest of the songs.

[billwebster]

Just 9 songs and a running time of under 30 minutes for an album is a missed opportunity for any artist in getting a noticeable amount of good songs released in this day and age. Back in the 60s when artists released several albums a year, that was OK, but now, with one album of new material being released just every 4 years, it is not enough.

Also, in the teaser song "You Belong To Me", it shows that Bryan Adams and Jeff Lynne have not worked together in the same place on songs but instead, have worked separately. I'm afraid now that this album might sound just like demos which still need a final vocal overdub from Bryan. With this song, he literally seems to have "phoned in" his part and let his producer Jeff Lynne do the rest. There does not seem to be any participation from his guitarist Keith Scott, either, which is sad because Jeff could have used Keith's work in the same kind of capacity on this record as he did with Mike Campbell's guitar playing on Tom Petty's "Highway Companion".

As an admirer of Jeff's work, I don't mind if "Get Up" has more of Jeff Lynne than Bryan Adams. But I have several albums by Bryan Adams, too, from the 90s and 00s and a hits collection from previous years, and from this perspective, I'm now a bit afraid that there might not be enough Bryan on this album.

I guess Bryan Adams surely won't "oversaturate the market" with this record - if such a thing still exists in this day and age.

Here's hoping the album turns out to be better than its leadoff track. The fact that a different song was chosen as the single comes across as a hint that it will.

[dillwyn]

maybe it is because I have just come back from holiday and in a good mood but IMHO this is excellent piece of work. If the rest of the album is close to this i will be glad to purchase my first BA album. Interesting to see the other producer credit i assume for the vocal recordings

[Chippa]

Another song from "Get Up".....

[bhabs]

Man. Every song I hear from his new album, I'm just like, "Oh hello Jeff" from the very first second. It's like we're getting two albums of Jeff Lynne material within a month of each other That being said, I've really enjoyed each song he's released so far! I can't wait for the whole thing - even though it's going to be insanely short.

[radaget]

The Bryan Adams album is starting to remind me of Del Shannons Rock On! Very similar sound. But then Lynne played most of that too I think.

[thewordsofaaron]

for me the album, what ive heard of it, is good....dont know what everyones moaning about....Jeff has moved on from loads of stuff, revisted stuff...its up to him how he wants things to sound i guess....but ive ordered the album....its album of the week on radio 2....and jeffs when i was a boy is single of the week...
they emailed bits to each other, modern world, bryan seems to spend a lot of time in the uk though ive noticed he has played a huge amount of gigs and has plenty in the pipeline....maybe jeff should tag along here and there on that one and get some decent exposure to thousands and thousands of fans...reckon with his production of bryans new album he would go down a storm....

[dillwyn]

blogs.vancouversun.com/2015/10/08/unedited-podcast-7-bryan-adams-new-album-get-up-jeff-lynne/

interesting to hear this didn't set out to be an album

[tedblight]

Really enjoying this album and I've already got my tickets to see him live next year! 

I've done another track breakdown video. Enjoy!