I have LICE!!!!!

Metal is in my blood Number of posts : 3004 Age : 55

Not really. But, it has always been a head-scratcher to me that there are peeps, peeps right here on this board, that think post-Pyromania Lep is better than the first three. So, just calling you out. Please post your preference so I know whom's homes to place a pox upon.... Thank you and God Bless Heath Miller and the FlopHousers.

Subject: Re: I have LICE!!!!! Thu Jan 16, 2020 8:53 pm

Heath........now there’s a name I haven’t heard forever. Lol!

The first 3 any day!

King Of Kaiju Number of posts : 30892 Age : 64

Seriously? There are people here who think the post-Pyromania albums are better than the band's first three?

Name them!! Instant ban!!!! just kidding

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Metal is my Life Number of posts : 26675 Age : 55

No one should ever ever believe post-Pyro Def Leppard is any good!!

Metal is my Life Number of posts : 12815 Age : 49

tohostudios wrote:: Seriously? There are people here who think the post-Pyromania albums are better than the band's first three?

Name them!! Instant ban!!!!

Me, bitch. Hysteria is the greatest album of all time.

King Of Kaiju Number of posts : 30892 Age : 64

I'll give a pass on Hysteria; IMO that was the "transitional album" where Def Leppard went from GREAT to "We're going to put out lightweight pop-metal crap from now on".

Hysteria isn't horrible but it's definitely the beginning of the end of a once-great band for me.

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Metal is my Life Number of posts : 40910 Age : 56

I think Hysteria was the last great Def Leppard album. Everything I've heard after that was pretty mundane stuff.

Subject: Re: I have LICE!!!!! Fri Jan 17, 2020 7:12 am

Arguably my least favorite metal band.

Heart of Metal Number of posts : 2348 Age : 46

First 3 are essential, but I do like Hysteria and Adrenalize too.

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 9428 Age : 50

ZombieHavoc wrote:: First 3 are essential, but I do like Hysteria and Adrenalize too.

My exact sentiments. I was lost when "Slang" came out. That first impression is hard to get over. It's happened to me with VH and "OU812" and Metallica with the "Load" and "Reload" releases too.

Metal is my Life Number of posts : 12815 Age : 49

tohostudios wrote:: I'll give a pass on Hysteria; IMO that was the "transitional album" where Def Leppard went from GREAT to "We're going to put out lightweight pop-metal crap from now on".

Hysteria isn't horrible but it's definitely the beginning of the end of a once-great band for me.

It was the first album I ever bought, so obviously my opinion is biased as hell. I do, however, think it's a fantastic album regardless. Yeah, quite a leap from the first three, but from a purely objective standpoint, as a poppy hard rock album, it's pretty much perfect from start to finish.

Metal is my Life Number of posts : 12815 Age : 49

the sentinel wrote:

ZombieHavoc wrote:: First 3 are essential, but I do like Hysteria and Adrenalize too.

My exact sentiments. I was lost when "Slang" came out. That first impression is hard to get over. It's happened to me with VH and "OU812" and Metallica with the "Load" and "Reload" releases too.

Slang didn't make much sense when it came out, but over time I've grown to like it quite a bit. For the most part, it's just Def Leppard stripped down without all the gloss, but there are some pretty cool songs where they kind of stepped outside of what they're known for. The biggest example being "Pearl of Euphoria."

Road Warrior Number of posts : 17180 Age : 48

I don’t like anything they’ve done since Hysteria. It was bad enough when Pete Willis left... but when Steve Clark died, they lost that classic songwriting style and musicianship.

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 7059 Age : 44

Eh, I like most of them in equal measure.

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 9948 Age : 49

Stopped caring about them after they decided to embrace a pop sound.

Metal master Number of posts : 924 Age : 56

On Through The Night & High N Dry only for me please and thank you, with the nod to High N Dry.

High N Dry with Me and My Wine and minus the extra keyboard version of Bringin' On The Heartache.

There are some "good" songs on later albums up to point but the productions and layers upon layers upon layers got to much for me.

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 9428 Age : 50

Eyesore wrote:

the sentinel wrote:

ZombieHavoc wrote:: First 3 are essential, but I do like Hysteria and Adrenalize too.

My exact sentiments. I was lost when "Slang" came out. That first impression is hard to get over. It's happened to me with VH and "OU812" and Metallica with the "Load" and "Reload" releases too.

Slang didn't make much sense when it came out, but over time I've grown to like it quite a bit. For the most part, it's just Def Leppard stripped down without all the gloss, but there are some pretty cool songs where they kind of stepped outside of what they're known for. The biggest example being "Pearl of Euphoria."

You know, Ken, I don't think it's so much that I don't like the mid 1990's albums from some of my all time fave bands, it has more to do with the state of heavy music at that time. I felt like "my" favorite music was pushed to the side in favor of Grunge and Nu Metal and Alternative. I always held out hope that Hard Rock and Metal would make a comeback behind strong albums from genre stalwarts and mega sellers like Metallica, Motley, Jovi, and Leppard. But as the decade wore on, each seemed to just keep disappointing me with seemingly phoned in, watered down offerings.

Metal is my Life Number of posts : 12815 Age : 49

Gilbert wrote:: Stopped caring about them after they decided to embrace a pop sound.

They always had a pop sound.

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the sentinel wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

the sentinel wrote:

ZombieHavoc wrote:: First 3 are essential, but I do like Hysteria and Adrenalize too.

My exact sentiments. I was lost when "Slang" came out. That first impression is hard to get over. It's happened to me with VH and "OU812" and Metallica with the "Load" and "Reload" releases too.

Slang didn't make much sense when it came out, but over time I've grown to like it quite a bit. For the most part, it's just Def Leppard stripped down without all the gloss, but there are some pretty cool songs where they kind of stepped outside of what they're known for. The biggest example being "Pearl of Euphoria."

You know, Ken, I don't think it's so much that I don't like the mid 1990's albums from some of my all time fave bands, it has more to do with the state of heavy music at that time. I felt like "my" favorite music was pushed to the side in favor of Grunge and Nu Metal and Alternative. I always held out hope that Hard Rock and Metal would make a comeback behind strong albums from genre stalwarts and mega sellers like Metallica, Motley, Jovi, and Leppard. But as the decade wore on, each seemed to just keep disappointing me with seemingly phoned in, watered down offerings.

Can't say I disagree with that. Most of my favorite albums from that period are not hard rock or heavy metal albums. Too many of those bands were just confused.

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 7234 Age : 53

The first three by a mile but I'm not crazy about them either!

Pour Some Sugar On Me makes me feel violently ill! sick

Metal is in my blood Number of posts : 3325 Age : 53

Eyesore wrote:

the sentinel wrote:

ZombieHavoc wrote:: First 3 are essential, but I do like Hysteria and Adrenalize too.

My exact sentiments. I was lost when "Slang" came out. That first impression is hard to get over. It's happened to me with VH and "OU812" and Metallica with the "Load" and "Reload" releases too.

Slang didn't make much sense when it came out, but over time I've grown to like it quite a bit. For the most part, it's just Def Leppard stripped down without all the gloss, but there are some pretty cool songs where they kind of stepped outside of what they're known for. The biggest example being "Pearl of Euphoria."

I don't remember when it was that I first gave "Slang" a chance? It was probably a little over ten years ago. Here was the problem with that album...the first three singles were "Slang", "Work It Out" and "All I Want Is Everything", which are some of the worst songs on the album! I remember Joe Elliott having this fascination with Boyz II Men and stating something to the effect of wanting to write something more in the vain of that stylistically than what they had previously. When I heard that, I was more or less good riddance. I didn't mind Boyz II Men, but you're Def Leppard and no offense, but you need to sound something like Def Leppard. It must have been some time in 2008 or 2009 that someone on these boards talked about giving that whole album a listen...and it wasn't you.

...and duh, the first three.

I remembered hearing the first three singles and absolutely loathing them. But, then I heard "Truth?" and "Turn To Dust" and thought this is something I could get on board with. It wasn't classic Def Leppard, but at least it wasn't lowering oneself to the lowest common denominator. I thought those songs were pretty decent, but I was shocked with the latter half of the album and in particular "Deliver Me", "Gift of Flesh" and their fourth best song post "Retro Active", is "Pearl of Euphoria." What I thought was an unlistenable album, was now pretty good for all intents and purposes. "Slang" as an album is both awful and great.