For the record Stuart Copeland is one of the best drummers of all time

Def leppard have sold more than Metallica. You don't hear me claiming that they are they are more influential than Metallica.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But when someone states that Metallica made better albums than the Police, from that point on, their opinion instantly becomes worth its own weight in dog shit.
It should be dually noted that this is a one way system. One never can recover a modicum of worth in said opinion after such an outrageously flawed comment. :thumbup:

1984 Most Over-rated and derivative piece of shit ever! How that album eclipsed Pyromania I will never know.  In my opinion Pyromania set the template for an 80s rock album. Certain bands then went and "glamed up" the music and presentation. Before you knew it even the guys who had laid the foundations had to "glam up" themselves just yo compete in the MTV video stakes....sickening. I completely forgive Def Leppard for their Fashion blunders and misgivings of their Image in the 80s.
Because:
1.They created some world class albums in that decade.
2. They quickly went back to their old Image from the Pyromania, High and Dry days after 1991. Most bands of their ilk were donning grungey torn jeans and flannel shirts in an attempt to fit in with the new seen (see Bon jovi circa These Days album in 1994).

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Image-wise Leppard went back to the way they were before all the Glam stuff took off. Musically they moved forward to release Slang,  one of the most underrated albums of the 90s. Leppard fans didn't like it because it was such a departure from their last few albums.  Mainstream rock (which was in the throws of grunge) didn't like it because Def Leppard had been the Archetypical type band that they were replacing in the music scene and they never gave the album a second thought, because at that point Leppard just wasn't trendy enough. They had less comercial appeal the their anti-commercialist grunge contemporaries.
I started to listen to Def Leppard when Slang came out . Slang was my first Leppard album so I didn't have the prejudices that one would no doubt have developed had I been a fan of their previous 2 proper albums. It is in my opinion their best album and an under rated gem that fell by the wayside due to the musical climate in shich it was released. Ironically I think that if Pearl Jam had put out Slang it would be lauded to this day as a masterpiece.  The fact that it had the Def Leppard label on the cover meant that grunge fans wouldn't touch it; as I said earlier Leppard fans were too shocked at such a huge departure from their now established sound.
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Shotgun blues?
Love every second of it always have