From: pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Philip  Wang)
Subject: Re: Adams & Leppard [decent titles R us] was Re: Doopth (soory, attempt at Homer SImpson)
Reply-To: pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Philip  Wang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:10:43 GMT

>>It's not that I don't like Bryan Adams, but it's just that his chosen music
>>style is too similar to Def Leppard's these days (which is really weird since
>>neither band has anything to do with each other at all),
>
>Not directly, but Bryan Adams' current album Waking Up The Neighbours was
>produced by Adams and Robert John 'Mutt' Lange.  Who produced for
>Def Leppard between High 'n' Dry and Hysteria and co-wrote the songs on
>the new album.

Mutt also co-wrote stuff on HYSTERIA and was executive producer (whatever that
means) on the new one. Do you think Mutt is significantly influential to DL's
music? On the first two albums the only mushy ballads were "Sorrow Is A Woman"
and "Bringin' On The Heartbreak" and only HIGH'N'DRY had any raunchy rockers
(ie "No No No", "You Got Me Running") but there were two on both HYSTERIA and
PYROMANIA and a whole bunch on ADRENALIZE, so I was wondering if the DL guys
actually intended these ballads to be what they were. I mean, most of them are
married now, so I don't see why they should be doing those kinds of songs.
While we're on that, how about the Scorpions? They're all maried I guess, for
more than ten years or something? Hows come all they Jabs albums have so many
mushy songs or sex songs? I'm sure Klaus Meine's wife would appreciate "Tease
Me, Please Me" or "Don't Believe Her." Oh, well. THey still have interesting
riffs, so that almost compensates for it. (Has Matthias Jabs written anything
for the Scorpions? I don't remember him doing so except maybe some lyrics on
CRAZY WORLD.) 
>
>Like Vartan I have seen both recently separately.  Adams is very different
>live to the Mutt Lange spit and polish, and spit and polish and polish and
>polish finely refined high quality highly produced production sound of the
>record...

...and spit and polished some more, polished again, spit all over it, dunk it 
in detergent and rinse it all off, polish a few more times, do it all over
again until the day before the deadlines, postpone the deadlines and polish
it a few more times, etc. They're so insane. Have you heard how "Photograph"
was recorded? Collen and Clark plucked ONE NOTE at a time, and the chords you
hear are overlapping tracks of one note. And "Rock Of Ages" had about two 
hundred vocal tracks on just the chorus! Now that's precision. 

  The only other Adams album I have at present is Reckless which is
>much closer to the sound he and the band do live.  Leppard do there best
>at getting ``the'' sound live and do a good job, but as its live you don't
>care too much about the fact its only close.

I have Reckless somewhere. Yeah, it's a great album. Very energetic, more
than I expected. I either don't like the Robin Hood soundtrack or I just
get sick of people singing it in the halls or blasting it on their stereos all
the time. I do find the ever increasing song title length amusing, though.

>I would recommend that if you haven't seen them then go and see them.  There
>are a number of bands I have only got into through seeing them live, Extreme
>who supported Adams being a case in point.
>
I may be able to get tickets, although the show is next week. Hmm. I'll see.

philip
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