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Originally Posted by JoviForever
I hate Slang. There is only one good song on it which is 'All I want is Everything', the rest of it is unlistenable. I think this was the album that ruined it for Leppard. They tried to go 'grunge' and turned off alot of their fans for going to far in the wrong direction. They then tried to revert back to the waythey were, by which time alot of the fans had lost interest.
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How did they try to go Grunge? Name the grunge songs.
You might as well save it though, cuz you won't be able to. The album responsible for ruining it for Def Leppard was Adrenalize. Not Slang. You are only as good as your last album. Slang was the album that should have been released in 1992, not the parody that they did.
By 1995, Def Leppard were considered has-beens. A joke. Why? You can thank songs like Let's Get Rocked and Make Love Like A Man coming out at a time when that was the stupidest thing that could be done at that point. You can thank an album that sought to be a sequel to Hysteria, introducing nothing new and offering up a parody of themselves. When Hysteria was done, it was cutting edge. When Adrenalize was done, it was a laugh. They had the spotlight when Adrenalize came out due to their status, they used that spot light time poorly. So when Slang came out...no one gave a sh*t. No one heard it either, so trying to blame the album doesn't fly. But plenty heard Adrenalize, enjoyed it as a last gasp and guffaw of the 80s, and wrote the band off.
You first need to realize that until Adrenalize, the band stayed cutting edge and set trends. They had never done a sequel or repeated themselves. Adrenalize was pure formula and it showed. The quality was not of caliber that is expected from Def Leppard.
Slang, on the other hand, as much as you have difficulty grasping it, is exactly what Def Leppard is. It was cutting edge and trend setting. It simply did not take off due to their past. They knew that just about anything they did was not going to be perceived well. Another album in the vein of Hysteria/Adrenalize would have only helped to pile the sh*t up higher. For Def Leppard to release an album like Adrenalize in 1995 would be the same as Bon Jovi releasing an album like Slippery When Wet in 1995, it would be suicide and it would be formula, not creativity.
Slang was Def Leppard being themselves, allowing their artistic juices to flow. If you think that Def Leppard is being themselves by doing Hysteria re-treads, then you are sadly mistaken. Anytime they do do this, it's for those people who are stuck in that period and can't get it into their heads that it's over. They are simply throwing a bone. Modern Leppard is found in songs like Deliver Me, Where Does Love Go When It Dies, Day After Day, and Paper Sun....not in I Wanna Touch You. X has points here and there, but it was largely in exercise in going after the teen market. There is a reason Phil Collins and Vivan Campbell are branching off into their own progressive band where he can actually let his creativity flow instead of having to satiate the dumb-ass red necks who think it's 1989. Once upon a time, Def Leppard was allowed to be progressive. Now they are cursed with playing Pour Some Sugar On Me for the rest of their lives.
Because you think the band is your own personal nostalgia trip, you've helped nail their creative coffin.
07-31-2005, 04:59 AM
