From: sross@cdc001.austin.ibm.com (Stacey Ross)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
Subject: Re: Def Leppard
Date: 10 Apr 92 14:01:46 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin, TX

> 
> We Def Leppard fans are supporting their new album because we know that it is

> a quality album that has recieved a lot of unneeded bad reviews just because 
> some people don't like their "Hysteria" style. "Make Love Like A Man" and 
> "Let's Get Rocked" blow the shit out of a LOT of the garbage that gets played

> on the radio around here. 

First of all, I *liked* the Hysteria style. Note the tense of that statement:
past tense. I'm hearing stuff from this album that seems just like Hysteria II
to me, and I realize that I just can't like it anymore. "Let's Get Rocked" is
the most cliche, early-80's "I don't wanna listen to my parents" Quiet Riot
Twisted Sister rebel-for-no-particular-reason song I've heard in a long time.
Let's get let's get let's get let's get rocked. Quality lyrics there. I suppose
the music's okay if you still listen to Hysteria a lot.

>
[Some more paranoid blather deleted]
> And quit ripping on a band that has been to hell and back and
> still has balls enough to lick their wounds and keep recording despite both
> death and dismemberment. 

Very admirable of them. Sorry, sympathy is just not enough reason to buy a
deficient album. 

> Hysteria was an excellent album, and Adrenalize makes
> an excellent sequel to that album. I don't think I've ever heard of a drummer
> besides Rick Allen who lost a ligament and can still play drums as good as he
> does. And I think Phil Collen did an outstanding job on the guitar parts; 
> sure, it's not as good as when both he and Steve Clark wrote the parts, but 
> that was when they had two guitarists, not just one.

Okay, here you're starting to talk some sense. (Other than the fact that Rick
Allen lost considerably more than a ligament. He also lost a few tendons, maybe
a muscle or two, and not to mention his whole limb) A one-armed drummer who
turns out stuff with the general skill that he does is something to be marveled
at, with or without electronic assistance. And I agree that Phil Collen had to
pretty much overachieve to fill in the gaps that Clark left. But, as I said
before, Adrenalize isn't a sequel to Hysteria, it's just another chapter that
they left out somewhere.

> Then just listen to the stuff you like from them, and don't waste bandwidth
> telling us how much you like their old stuff but hate their new stuff. Go
> ahead and flame me for this; I need something to laugh at.
> 
> By the way, you are right; you just showed everyone who reads the stuff on
> this net that oral defacation IS possible. How about that!

No flaming coming from my direction. It's only proper, however, that you asked
for something to laugh at; the least we could do is repay the favor that you did
for the rest of the net.

> Brian at Penn State University   Internet: BMK112@psuvm.psu.edu

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