Def Leppard haven't been relevant since Steve Steamin' died.

That said, Def Leppard >>> Poison

/was groovin' to High 'n' Dry this weekend

I gotta say, I never would have thought I'd see the day where Hanoi Rocks or Mike Monroe got mentioned on Fark.

Finding Michael Monroe pretty doesn't make you gay.

Wycked Septre!

The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm!
The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm!
The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm!
The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm!
The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm!
The drummer Joe Elliott's ghey only got one arm!

elvisbloom: Wycked Septre!

Well AWWWWWWWL RIIIIIIIIGHT

Courtney Cox-Zucker: Finding Michael Monroe pretty doesn't make you gay.

It doesn't help.

boritom:

I think that exact refrain every time I hear "Def Leppard" now, too.

Thank you, Jimmy Pop.

Give them a hand, folks!

elvisbloom: Wycked Septre!

"Gettin' the shaft again,
Gettin' it in the end!"

Supposedly, a reporter actually asked DefLep's drummer if he was right handed. Before he could answer, somebody in the band said "Well, he is now!".

/still don't like anything after from Pyromania on

Love the Lep, but, with the exception of Euphoria, everything they've put out for the past 15 yrs has sucked. I've seen them live each of the past two summers and while the music sounds great, Joe's voice is beyond gone. Their mix man has to be the hardest working man in rock.

Def Leppard lyrics really make you think about things, and stuff:


Are you gettin' it? Really gettin' it?
Yes, are you gettin' it, really gettin' it?
Oh, come get it from me

Gimme all of you lovin' - ev'ry little bit
Gimme all that you got - ev'ry bit of it
Ev'ry bit of your lovin' - Oh come on live a bit
Never want it to stop - Oh, are you getting it?
Gimme all of your lovin' - Ooh really gettin' it?
Gimme all that you got - Oh are you getting it?
Gimme all of your lovin' - Oh live a bit
Gimme all that you got - Whoa, live a bit

You've got to live it - gimme all of your lovin'
Ooh baby live it - gimme all that you got
C'mon and give it - ev'ry bit of your lovin'
Oh come on and give it - Never want it to stop
Oh are you gettin' it? - Gimme all of your lovin'
Ooh really gettin' it? - Gimme all that you got
Oh are you gettin' it? - Ev'ry bit of your lovin'
Oh live a bit - Never want it to stop

Def Leppard's time came and went years ago, the fact is they suck. But, let's get one thing perfectly straight.....they are f***ing LED GODDAMN ZEPPELIN compared to the music that is Poison.

Back in the days when I did radio, Michael Monroe was probably the second best interview I did (Ace Frehley was the best). He's intelligent, funny, and didn't seem at all bitter about the course his career took after Nicholas Dingley was killed. Guns 'n Roses were basically a Hanoi Rocks tribute band. There's no telling what might have happened to Hanoi Rocks if their drummer hadn't died just as their music was being introduced in the States.

CheddarPants: Back in the days when I did radio, Michael Monroe was probably the second best interview I did (Ace Frehley was the best). He's intelligent, funny, and didn't seem at all bitter about the course his career took after Nicholas Dingley was killed. Guns 'n Roses were basically a Hanoi Rocks tribute band. There's no telling what might have happened to Hanoi Rocks if their drummer hadn't died just as their music was being introduced in the States.

hanoi rocks got back together with mike , andy and some of the guys from the electric boys back in 2002 and are releasing albums again. i got the 1st 1 released called "12 shots on the rocks" but havent got the latest 1 yet (with the exception of 1 song that is on a compilation i got)

CheddarPants: Back in the days when I did radio, Michael Monroe was probably the second best interview I did (Ace Frehley was the best). He's intelligent, funny, and didn't seem at all bitter about the course his career took after Nicholas Dingley was killed. Guns 'n Roses were basically a Hanoi Rocks tribute band. There's no telling what might have happened to Hanoi Rocks if their drummer hadn't died just as their music was being introduced in the States.

Most of your post was true. I was at the last ever Hanoi Rocks show, which was in some shiathole club in Syracuse in '84. There might have been 100 people in the club. It was during "Up Around The Bend" that Mike jumped way high and came down on the wedge, trashing his ankle. They had to carry him offstage and into a car.

If that hadn't happened they wouldn't have been off for so long and the accident might not have occurred.

After the show I was in the dressing room and Andy McCoy was telling me how they were pals with Motley Crue and were going to see them in California. The Razzle burst into the room and grabbed the chemical fire extinguisher off the wall and sprayed the entire room -- band, fans, radio people, deli platter -- everything -- covered in white. It was a true moment of rawk abandon and many were pissed but I found it hysterical.

...and you know the rest of the story...

Where you are wrong is in saying that GnR was a HR tribute band. They were both New York Dolls tribute bands.

/ and def leppard sucks worse than Poison
// subby

Courtney Cox-Zucker: Finding Michael Monroe pretty doesn't make you gay.

That looks like Scarlett Johansson's ugly twin brother, or Chris Crocker. The dude just looks creepy.

What about Sweetwater?

If i can parapphrase Dave Mustaine for a sec. "GLAM..we use to say he stood for Gay L A Metal."

i agree

The Dynamite Monkey: C
/ and def leppard sucks worse than Poison


I gotta tell ya, TDM, in my book, nothing in the history of recorded music sucks as bad as Poison.

I never felt a single American band, besides Metallica at the time, could hold a candle to the NWOBHM.

The Dynamite Monkey: Where you are wrong is in saying that GnR was a HR tribute band. They were both New York Dolls tribute bands.

I still maintain that Hanoi Rocks were more of a direct influence on Guns 'n Roses than the New York Dolls were. You're absolutely right about HR being a Dolls tribute band, though.

Courtney Cox-Zucker: Finding Michael Monroe pretty doesn't make you gay.

Hell no, that chick is HOT!

kanesays: I gotta tell ya, TDM, in my book, nothing in the history of recorded music sucks as bad as Poison.

I know where you are coming from. But the difference to me was Poison never pretended they were good. Just read one interview from CC about his guitar playing. He knew they sucked!

No, I do not care for their songs (except "Talk Dirty To Me" which I think is wicked fun) but to me they are far better to have around then pretentious "we are artists" farks like Def Leppard -- or even The Police, for that matter.

It's Only Rock and Roll.

kanesays: I never felt a single American band, besides Metallica at the time, could hold a candle to the NWOBHM.

Well, if you are a metal fan, I guess I can see how you would say that, but to me DL was always pretentious overproduced crap. I liked their first record (and my high school punk rock band even covered "Wasted") but I hear those drum tracks and I just think of a giant mound of nuclear green pulsating dog shiat so sucky there isn't a bag big enough.

As for NWOBHM, there is Priest and Maiden. DL is not in their league.

CheddarPants: I still maintain that Hanoi Rocks were more of a direct influence on Guns 'n Roses than the New York Dolls were.

While I disagree it is a legitimate opinion. I don't think any of those bands would exist in the same way without the Dolls. Andy McCoy and Slash were all about Johnny Thunders.

Nestea Plunge: What has 7 arms and sucks?

9 arms actually, but yes.

t rex is glam. t rex is great.

the-meter-man: Hell no, that chick is HOT!

Ugh...Courtney Love wannabee.

Def Leppard alaways got lumped in with the L.A. hairband crowd by many people because Def Leppard were popular on Headbanger's Ball too.

All of the kids that were getting into Poison and Warrant thought Def Leppard were from the same crowd. It still pisses Joe Elliot off. I heard him talking about it on XM just the other day.

Been listening to Def Leppard since their NWOBHM roots. Hysteria was a fun pop record, and most of the stuff after that has been forgettable.

Def Leppard were no more Glam than Loverboy.

That said, they both sucked.



/Poison too
//or three

The guy from Def Leppard is whining about bands being all big hair and no songwriting chops?

/head explodes
//Sorry, but Mr. Monroe is way out of your league, loser
//Seriously, Def Leppard sucked at least as much as Poison or Warrant

You wanna get cocked?

The Dynamite Monkey: / and def leppard sucks worse than Poison
// subby

You're an idiot. Poison was a sucky glam band, leppard was a great 80s hard rock band.

/comparing poison to def leppard is idiocy at its finest
//poison was a farking horrible band

Dreadstar: I gotta say, I never would have thought I'd see the day where Hanoi Rocks or Mike Monroe got mentioned on Fark.

Exactly! It's a great day in Farkistan...

Hanoi Rocks were hugely influenced by the Dolls/Iggy/Stiv Bators. They may have had the "glam" image, but the music is always what mattered most to those guys, and they certainly have the chops to back it up. Check out their newer stuff since their rebirth in 2002 - most of it is outstanding...

/By the time you're 40 you'll have the face that you deserve!

I like Joe Elliott, but he always seems to say something extremely retarded every 10 years or so.

But anyhow, throw in the drummer for Enuff Znuff with the dude from Hanoi Rocks and you could have the start of the prettiest band evar.

steamingpile: You're an idiot. Poison was a sucky glam band, leppard was a great 80s hard rock band.

Sorry, Fanboy. I agree that Poison was a sucky glam rock band -- but nothing about Def Leppard is "great" IMHO. I think they are the nadir of lousy, vapid, overproduced ghostwritten 80's schlock. Nothing great about them.

And if you read the thread, and the article, you would have known that it was Def Leppard that compared themselves to Poison, and not me. Thus making the discussion of DL and Poison in the thread somewhat relevant, and not really idiotic in any sense.

Also, I don't think having a particular opinion on music makes anyone an idiot.

However, commenting on things without reading them might.

Farkomatic: drummer for Enuff Znuff

ahh Enuff Znuff, Chicago's one entry into 80s hair band mayhem.

I always feel for Def Leppard, because they are a very good band with really good songs. They do things that are pretty spiffy, yet do it so you don't even notice. Anyone can write a song with key changes, it takes real talent to write one where the key change isn't even noticable, just goes perfectly with the flow of the song.

Farkomatic: I like Joe Elliott, but he always seems to say something extremely retarded every 10 years or so.

But anyhow, throw in the drummer for Enuff Znuff with the dude from Hanoi Rocks and you could have the start of the prettiest band evar.

I'm willing to bet he says retarded stuff more frequently, but, given how far their star has fallen, he can only find an outlet to repeat it every 10 years or so.

Also another thing, it's interesting that save for Bowie most of the bands that influenced Def Leppard were never very big at all in the US. So there's never much talk about how Def Leppard is in comparison to the bands they like, like T. Rex, Mott the Hoople and others. Irony is that Def Leppard, a band influenced most heavily by glam rock, was never itself a glam band or as it became in the US in the 80's, a hair band.

The Dynamite Monkey:

Where you are wrong is in saying that GnR was a HR tribute band. They were both New York Dolls tribute bands.


sami yaffa , former bassist for hanoi rocks is now bassist for new york dolls

Being in a known band and knocking other bands is never a good idea. It makes one look petty and foolish. Be more respectful of your elders Joe...like David Bowie for example.

Enjoyed most of Def Leppard from "Pyromania" to "Adrenalize." Not so much after that. Did like some of the cover tunes on "Yeah."

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steamingpile: The Dynamite Monkey: / and def leppard sucks worse than Poison
// subby

You're an idiot. Poison was a sucky glam band, leppard was a great 80s hard rock band.

/comparing poison to def leppard is idiocy at its finest
//poison was a farking horrible band

Hahaha, you like Def Leppard. Nothing I could ever say will be as bad as that.

Joe Elliot is god!


Their new CD is actually pretty damned good.

AgentOrangeDrink: Nestea Plunge: What has 7 arms and sucks?

9 arms actually, but yes.

What has five arms and likes women?

The Indigo Girls with Rick Allen on drums.

And Poison sucks.

I said it at the time, and I'll say it again: Poison is the reason KISS took off their makeup

jesuspants: t rex is glam. t rex is great.

Quoting this

That was hardly a slam on Bowie. Joe and Phil Collen did an album and tour with Bowie's Spiders From Mars rhythm section consisting of Ziggy-era Bowie tunes, literally a tribute band.

Def Leppard is unfairly lumped in with no-talent hacks like Poison, they aren't the bestest band evar, but they don't get the credit they deserve.

There's a reason Bret is on "reality" TV, and Def Leppard is still making music, they have talent if no longer mega-success, he doesn't.

tabula_rasta: I said it at the time, and I'll say it again: Poison is the reason KISS took off their makeup

WRONG . . FAIL , KISS took off the makeup in 1983 for the release of the lick it up album, poisons first album look what the cat dragged in didnt come out til 86 3 YEARS LATER , poison wasnt even a band til 85,and they werent even signed then, only a local band in hollywood and 85 is 2 YEARS AFTER KISS TOOK OFF THE MAKEUP

The new Def Leppard CD blows big time. The new Whitesnake and Motley Crue are both 10X as better.

Pyromania might be the best album ever though!

But believe it or not, Poison owns them in total arms.

Know what has 9 arms and sucks?

Def Leppard.

/that old gag, had to break it out.

I think Poison has a lot of good songs...

"Every Rose..."
"Something to believe in"
"Nothin but a good time"
"Talk Dirty..."

These are good, simple rock and roll songs. The ballads are actually quite moving.

DL are good too, but they keep trying to remake hysteria instead of trying different shiat.