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Most Embarassing Song on Your Playlist...

Started by Mofo Rising, August 28, 2011, 03:20:01 AM

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voltron

Def Leppard's "Hysteria". I totally love High And Dry and Pyromania, but they really went down the s**tter with the Hysteria album. I'm not sure why I like that song so much.... :question: ...my friends would kick my ass for that one.  :teddyr:
"Nothin' out there but God's little creatures - more scared of you than you are of them"  - Warren, "Just Before Dawn"

Psycho Circus

Quote from: voltron on September 05, 2011, 01:53:33 AM
Def Leppard's "Hysteria". I totally love High And Dry and Pyromania, but they really went down the s**tter with the Hysteria album. I'm not sure why I like that song so much.... :question: ...my friends would kick my ass for that one.  :teddyr:

I think they went down the s**tter after Hysteria (not too far a leap from "Photograph" to "Animal"), because they had gone more commercial and achieved success, so they got stuck trying to constantly repeat the trick whilst staying current. My fave album is Pyromania, but I still believe Hysteria to be the greatest produced album of all time.

voltron

Quote from: Circus Circus on September 05, 2011, 04:02:01 AM
Quote from: voltron on September 05, 2011, 01:53:33 AM
Def Leppard's "Hysteria". I totally love High And Dry and Pyromania, but they really went down the s**tter with the Hysteria album. I'm not sure why I like that song so much.... :question: ...my friends would kick my ass for that one.  :teddyr:

I think they went down the s**tter after Hysteria (not too far a leap from "Photograph" to "Animal"), because they had gone more commercial and achieved success, so they got stuck trying to constantly repeat the trick whilst staying current. My fave album is Pyromania, but I still believe Hysteria to be the greatest produced album of all time.

Yeah Circus, Hysteria has excellent production, but to my ears, it's overprduced up the yin yang and that's not a good thing. I think this really ruined the band for me. They spent like, what four years making that one, but that kinda left the songwriting on the backburner trying to create this "perfect" sound. And the Adrenalize album is utterly pathetic in that regard. Sickeningly overproduced with practically zero effort on the songwriting itself. See "Let's Get Rocked" - a pitiful excuse for a "rock" song if there ever was. You're just bombarded with all this fancypants production trickery which tries to hide the fact that the actual "songs" are a joke. Mutt Lange is an idiot and so are Leppard for equating success with the number of albums they've sold.
"Nothin' out there but God's little creatures - more scared of you than you are of them"  - Warren, "Just Before Dawn"

Psycho Circus

Quote from: voltron on September 05, 2011, 01:24:31 PM
Quote from: Circus Circus on September 05, 2011, 04:02:01 AM
Quote from: voltron on September 05, 2011, 01:53:33 AM
Def Leppard's "Hysteria". I totally love High And Dry and Pyromania, but they really went down the s**tter with the Hysteria album. I'm not sure why I like that song so much.... :question: ...my friends would kick my ass for that one.  :teddyr:

I think they went down the s**tter after Hysteria (not too far a leap from "Photograph" to "Animal"), because they had gone more commercial and achieved success, so they got stuck trying to constantly repeat the trick whilst staying current. My fave album is Pyromania, but I still believe Hysteria to be the greatest produced album of all time.

Yeah Circus, Hysteria has excellent production, but to my ears, it's overprduced up the yin yang and that's not a good thing. I think this really ruined the band for me. They spent like, what four years making that one, but that kinda left the songwriting on the backburner trying to create this "perfect" sound. And the Adrenalize album is utterly pathetic in that regard. Sickeningly overproduced with practically zero effort on the songwriting itself. See "Let's Get Rocked" - a pitiful excuse for a "rock" song if there ever was. You're just bombarded with all this fancypants production trickery which tries to hide the fact that the actual "songs" are a joke. Mutt Lange is an idiot and so are Leppard for equating success with the number of albums they've sold.

I have to stick up for one song on Adrenalize and that's "White Lightning", that was a tribute to Steve Clark. Fantastic track.