From: bui@ee470.ee.mcgill.ca (BUI/DON/MR)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.metal
Subject: Re: Adams & Leppard [decent titles R us] was Re: Doopth (soory, attempt at Homer SImpson)
Date: 31 Jul 92 16:38:55 GMT
Organization: EE Lab, McGill University EE Lab, Montreal

In article <1992Jul30.164245.16918@news.columbia.edu> pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu 
(Philip  Wang) writes:

>How successful is ADrenalize on the charts? I don't pay attention to them
>except to just see if any heavy metal bands ever get on there, and only
>sporadically (I haven't seen a Rolling Stone since March and haven't watched
>MTV since May), so I have no idea if it's selling well or not. I would imagine
>it's doing well, but not like Hysteria.Nevertheless, they have been very
>successful with every album. I think they sold out all of their EPs, OTTN went
>at least gold, and platinum the rest of them increasingly. Actually, you know,
>I find that Def Leppard have never released a truly bad song. Comparatively to
>their other material, yes they have, but if you put them up with other pop 
>metal bands these days they are actually far and above, in my opinion, with
>Adrenalize.

I think Adrenalize is a good record yet all I ever read are posts which 
dismiss it as some pop schlok writeoff.  For pure metal mayhem, yes it is
lacking, but its been over a decade since they could be considered a "metal"
band.  For those who heard Hysteria it should have been pretty obvious an
album like Adrenalize was on the way.  Actually its a wonder they got an 
album out at all considering they lost their guitarist and main songwriter
Steve Clark (RIP).  For melodies and harmonies Def Lep rule (IMO).

I don't keep up with the charts either but I think Adrenalize was #1 on
Bill`bored' the first 5 weeks of its release, maybe more maybe less but 
definitely #1.  

>Then again, I don't like blues, and most pop metal like Cinderella
>and Bon Jovi, and I guess Warrant are bluesy, so maybe that's why I don't get
>into them. DL is influenced at first by blues based bands so blues isn't such
>a big influence, and anyway their solos don't sound bluesy to me.

Cinderella's pretty bluesy, Warrent aren't really (or at all), they're more 
along the Poison - Kiss range.

I don't think the Leps are influenced at all by the blues, considering the
music they're playing.  They're main influences seem to be Queen for their
vocals and the Police for their guitar lines.  The idea for `Pour Some Sugar 
On Me' is obviously from `We Will Rock You' and their song arrangements take 
cues from Queen at every turn.  The now standard Lep guitar intro (see 
`Hysteria' , `Have You Ever ...' etc) is an idea whose seed came from the 
Police (see `Every Breath You Take').

What a great show you guys are getting.  Adams and the Leps on one bill !!
I'm seeing them both separately but within 4 days here in Montreal.  Don't
miss our (Canada's) own Bryan Adams cuz he kicks ass in concert.  ENJOY! 

>philip
>"Washington Boulevard, east-bound. Thirty-three...Can I get a transfer, man?
>Ninety-five cents?! FUCK YOU I'LL SKATE TO THE BEACH, AND I'LL LOOK BETTER
>GETTING THERE!!!" - Faith No More, "Death March"
>e-mail Philip Wang at pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu

                                           
                                                      - Don