That’s what Robert John “Mutt” Lang did for to Def Leppard.
1 (“On Through The Night”) was amazing, but a bit rough around the edges.
2 (“High N Dry”) was sheer perfection.
3 (“Pyromania”) already started that over-reverbed slow plodding style, and 4+ got even worse and all sounded the same.
Thanks for the tip. Just gave it a listen.
The only Def Leopard album I’ve got is Vault: Greatest Hits (1980–1995). It a more-than-decent compilation, but it only has two tracks from High ‘n’ Dry, and nothing from On Through The Night !
Just goggled that. Bringing/Switch are essentially one extended song. Can’t really include one without the other.
But yeah, all the other ones I recognised are that same plodding reverbed style that made them, as the ai mentions, a huge commercial success.
What sells ain’t what’s good. That’s why maple-scented HFCS is so popular and cheap, while real maple syrup is pricey and harder to find.
Thankfully I load up on real maple syrup when it goes on sale. But what’s commercially successful is that accursed HFCS.
Hallelujah to that!
There’s a YouTube channel I always skip these days that makes that mistake. The guy wears a fedora, and generally does his homework. His measure of musical success, however, is Billboard rankings. WTF?
His number one inspiration in the biz is not a musician, rather, it is Casey Kasem, a Los Angeles DJ who had a nationally syndicated radio show doing a top 40 countdown. Kasem pushed AM radio singles at a time when the world had switched to FM, and album oriented rock. No wonder Doc Fedora likes Billboard so much.
And if that’s not enough to keep folks away, this YouTuber always uses clickbait titles for his videos, titles that don’t tell you the name of the band, or the songs they feature. No, thank you, I’ll stay away.
I just spent almost two hours and forty minutes watching the whole show. Great stuff. Well worth the watch.
I think I know who that is. That irritating clown with titles like “This song caused thousands of teens to commit suicide!!”, you’re all “wtf??”, so make the mistake of watching the entire video waiting for The Great Reveal, get to the end, are all like “did I miss it??”, and it turns out that 18min into a 21min video he mentions some little 5sec blurb about Evanescence having depressing lyrics.
Dr Rock or something. Can’t stand that bozo.
Youtube has turned into an effing joke.
Crammed full of Ai BS and then any of those clickbait titles like, “Best solo ever?” or
Janis Joplin with Santana, unseen footage?
Or the dozens of Bruce Lee"got baited into this fight with a 8 foot Swiss wrestler"
Also sick of reviews with ?? marks and stupid bait titles.
Sad times.
If the video hs been produced in the last 6 months that is an automatic full pass.
“Angel from Montgomery” was written by John Prine, for his debut album, in 1971. It was Bonnie Raitt, however, who catapulted the song into widespread fame, when she covered it for her 1974 release Streetlights. The tune became one of Raitt’s signature songs, and has been in her repertoire ever since.
In the video below, Bonnie performs “Angel” for a 1976 broadcast of the Old Grey Whistle Test.
If dreams were lightning, and thunder were desire
This old house would have burnt down a long time ago
...
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go
– Lyrics to "Angel from Montgomery"
According to Wikipedia, Prine was intrigued by the idea of “a song about a middle-aged woman who feels older than she is…[Eventually] I had this really vivid picture of this woman standing over the dishwater with soap in her hands… She wanted to get out of her house and her marriage and everything. She just wanted an angel to come to take her away from all this.”
Wood Brothers - Luckiest Man
