Def Leppard: Rocket
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JimSuperSix said:
Bought their Vault CD again a few weeks ago having lost my first copy 
...excellent thrash-the-car music IMHO.
That's Iron Maiden / Can I Play With Matches. ...excellent thrash-the-car music IMHO.Def Lepp are fantastic! If you think they're too "hair metal"y have a listen to an early album like On Through The Night - it might surprise you, proper NWOBHM.
Hard rock by numbers, even Pyromania was exhibiting signs.
By Hysteria it wasn't just death by peroxide asphyxiation but mind numbing, uber Transatlantic, overproduced fodder from the sort of people punk originally (and understandably) wanted to kill (hippies, that is.)
Planet Rock is 'a good thing' but whenever this kind of corporate junk sullies the heavy moshing landscape, there is little choice but to flick back onto the CD changer and engage some real musak.
Even Jazz Odyssey by D Smalls is preferable. By a long chalk.
Fair play to Metallica who, under the same management, 'sold out' but retained, more or less, full attack credentials.
By Hysteria it wasn't just death by peroxide asphyxiation but mind numbing, uber Transatlantic, overproduced fodder from the sort of people punk originally (and understandably) wanted to kill (hippies, that is.)
Planet Rock is 'a good thing' but whenever this kind of corporate junk sullies the heavy moshing landscape, there is little choice but to flick back onto the CD changer and engage some real musak.
Even Jazz Odyssey by D Smalls is preferable. By a long chalk.
Fair play to Metallica who, under the same management, 'sold out' but retained, more or less, full attack credentials.
derestrictor said:
Hard rock by numbers, even Pyromania was exhibiting signs.
By Hysteria it wasn't just death by peroxide asphyxiation but mind numbing, uber Transatlantic, overproduced fodder from the sort of people punk originally (and understandably) wanted to kill (hippies, that is.)
Planet Rock is 'a good thing' but whenever this kind of corporate junk sullies the heavy moshing landscape, there is little choice but to flick back onto the CD changer and engage some real musak.
Even Jazz Odyssey by D Smalls is preferable. By a long chalk.
Fair play to Metallica who, under the same management, 'sold out' but retained, more or less, full attack credentials.
Have you heard any of their more recent stuff though, post-Slang?By Hysteria it wasn't just death by peroxide asphyxiation but mind numbing, uber Transatlantic, overproduced fodder from the sort of people punk originally (and understandably) wanted to kill (hippies, that is.)
Planet Rock is 'a good thing' but whenever this kind of corporate junk sullies the heavy moshing landscape, there is little choice but to flick back onto the CD changer and engage some real musak.
Even Jazz Odyssey by D Smalls is preferable. By a long chalk.
Fair play to Metallica who, under the same management, 'sold out' but retained, more or less, full attack credentials.
I am thinking of X and Euphoria - good stuff. I have a lot of time for Def Leppard. Yes, they had their cheesy hair metal period, but so did a lot of other great bands. I'm a big early Whitesnake fan, but some of their 80s stuff is a bit questionable. And even the venerable Led Zeppelin lost their way a bit towards the end (has anybody listened to Coda more than once?)
And a band that I rediscovered recently - Ratt - fantastic 80s rock, stick on their best of in the car with the hood down on a sunny day!
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