Comments on: Et Tu, Def Leppard, Or: What Hard Rock Band <i>Doesn’t</i> Want To Be On CMT These Days? http://idolator.com/383036/et-tu-def-leppard-or-what-hard-rock-band-idoesnti-want-to-be-on-cmt-these-days Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:57:17 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: AcidReign http://idolator.com/383036/et-tu-def-leppard-or-what-hard-rock-band-idoesnti-want-to-be-on-cmt-these-days/comment-page-1#comment-542812 AcidReign Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:55:09 +0000 d35c046384bf754390e94c2d30fa804a#comment-542812 <p>    Tim McGraw's just a sales gimmick. He's irrelevant to the song.</p> <p>    Def Leppard arranges the guitar parts SO well... Why have they not had the hits, since "Hysteria?" It's the drums. The playing's fine, and that's saying something, seeing as how the drummer's missing two limbs. But, wow. What a crappy-sounding kit! You can get more bang out of hitting a pencil on the table, than that snare. I can't even hear the kick drum.</p> <p>    Def Leppard sold themselves in the 1980s by being a mainstream rocker-type band with a pronounced, dance-able, huge drum sound. With cardboard percussion, not so much...</p> <p>    Joe Elliot sounds a lot smoother, now, too. Where's that edge? Where's that shimmer in the mix?</p> <p>    Vivian Campbell, how you torment us! Cool upper-dissonance lick, grating on our ears. Nice tone. But on your solo... it's like cruising along, under the speed limit, in a 25 MPH zone. Now, I'm going to have to break out "Rainbow in the Dark," to get that out of my system!</p>     Tim McGraw’s just a sales gimmick. He’s irrelevant to the song.

    Def Leppard arranges the guitar parts SO well… Why have they not had the hits, since “Hysteria?” It’s the drums. The playing’s fine, and that’s saying something, seeing as how the drummer’s missing two limbs. But, wow. What a crappy-sounding kit! You can get more bang out of hitting a pencil on the table, than that snare. I can’t even hear the kick drum.

    Def Leppard sold themselves in the 1980s by being a mainstream rocker-type band with a pronounced, dance-able, huge drum sound. With cardboard percussion, not so much…

    Joe Elliot sounds a lot smoother, now, too. Where’s that edge? Where’s that shimmer in the mix?

    Vivian Campbell, how you torment us! Cool upper-dissonance lick, grating on our ears. Nice tone. But on your solo… it’s like cruising along, under the speed limit, in a 25 MPH zone. Now, I’m going to have to break out “Rainbow in the Dark,” to get that out of my system!

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/383036/et-tu-def-leppard-or-what-hard-rock-band-idoesnti-want-to-be-on-cmt-these-days/comment-page-1#comment-542822 Anonymous Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:10:44 +0000 d35c046384bf754390e94c2d30fa804a#comment-542822 <p>Wow, Joe Elliott is starting to look like my Nanna, too.</p> Wow, Joe Elliott is starting to look like my Nanna, too.

]]> By: Thierry http://idolator.com/383036/et-tu-def-leppard-or-what-hard-rock-band-idoesnti-want-to-be-on-cmt-these-days/comment-page-1#comment-542832 Thierry Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:20:32 +0000 d35c046384bf754390e94c2d30fa804a#comment-542832 <p>@<a href="#c5332127">The Notorious T</a>: He has, but it's not like DL radically changed their sound after he left...</p> @The Notorious T: He has, but it’s not like DL radically changed their sound after he left…

]]> By: tigerpop http://idolator.com/383036/et-tu-def-leppard-or-what-hard-rock-band-idoesnti-want-to-be-on-cmt-these-days/comment-page-1#comment-542842 tigerpop Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:36:43 +0000 d35c046384bf754390e94c2d30fa804a#comment-542842 <p>@<a href="#c5332596">Sniffle</a>: That's not entirely true. You're forgetting "Let's Get Rocked." If that's not a bold step forward, I don't know what is. Viva Vivian Campbell!</p> @Sniffle: That’s not entirely true. You’re forgetting “Let’s Get Rocked.” If that’s not a bold step forward, I don’t know what is. Viva Vivian Campbell!

]]> By: Sniffle http://idolator.com/383036/et-tu-def-leppard-or-what-hard-rock-band-idoesnti-want-to-be-on-cmt-these-days/comment-page-1#comment-542852 Sniffle Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:00:23 +0000 d35c046384bf754390e94c2d30fa804a#comment-542852 <P>I would normally say, "my how Def Leppard has fallen", but the truth is they haven't left the same spot since 1987.</P> I would normally say, “my how Def Leppard has fallen”, but the truth is they haven’t left the same spot since 1987.

]]> By: The Notorious T http://idolator.com/383036/et-tu-def-leppard-or-what-hard-rock-band-idoesnti-want-to-be-on-cmt-these-days/comment-page-1#comment-542862 The Notorious T Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:42:54 +0000 d35c046384bf754390e94c2d30fa804a#comment-542862 <P>@<A href="http://idolator.com/383036/et-tu-def-leppard-or-what-hard-rock-band-doesnt-want-to-be-on-cmt-these-days#c5331234">Thierry</A>: I thought Mutt Lange had long since washed his hands of Def Leppard. I could be wrong, though.</P> <P>I have to admit that "Pour Some Sugar On Me" has always sounded more like the title of a country-western ballad (or 70s soul song, for that matter) than a hair metal classic.</P> @Thierry: I thought Mutt Lange had long since washed his hands of Def Leppard. I could be wrong, though.

I have to admit that “Pour Some Sugar On Me” has always sounded more like the title of a country-western ballad (or 70s soul song, for that matter) than a hair metal classic.

]]> By: Thierry http://idolator.com/383036/et-tu-def-leppard-or-what-hard-rock-band-idoesnti-want-to-be-on-cmt-these-days/comment-page-1#comment-542872 Thierry Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:59:18 +0000 d35c046384bf754390e94c2d30fa804a#comment-542872 <p>So it's basically Shania Twain with a male singer, then.</p> <p>Bryan Adams?</p> So it’s basically Shania Twain with a male singer, then.

Bryan Adams?

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