kristoffer-witt
Yeah I'll pass. Sure I'll sing along to Pour Some Sugar On Me while I'm shitfaced at a rock bar but glam just does nothing for me whatsoever.
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Yeah I'll pass. Sure I'll sing along to Pour Some Sugar On Me while I'm shitfaced at a rock bar but glam just does nothing for me whatsoever.
-Rocket is a boring tune -I actively loathe Pour Some Sugar One Me -Love Bites is the least powerful power ballad I've ever heard For one of the best-selling rock albums of all time, this feels remarkably edge-less in hindsight This album is in a weird grey zone between hair metal and pop rock where it doesn't really commit to either one enough. Makes me just want to listen to Dokken. Best songs: Woman, Armageddon It
I loathe Def Leppard.
Eh. I got bored of this pretty quick. Every song sounds basically the same. It's like ACDC.
I used to lump hair metal in with nu metal and pop punk for lame mainstream/pop styles of rock that I had no use for. And while there have been exceptions for all three, I’ve gravitated more towards glam metal towards the other two. There’s no pretension in most of these bands, just good times and solid hooks. That said, it took a while for me to get into Hysteria the album. I much preferred the Lep’s harder rocking earlier stuff, and while I still do, I dig most of this now. This is 80’s production excess at its highest caliber, and the levels Mutt Lange went to is insane. The title track is especially a favorite, probably their best song. I feel like Billy Corgan has spent his entire career trying to write a melody like this, but hasn’t come close. B
So bland. Something about the "huge" production of this record just saps it of all dynamics for me, so it loses my interest if I listen to more than a few songs in a row. Piecemeal it's alright, but the album as a whole is kind of tiresome to listen to.