![]() Lange was a maestro of the power ballad (what else would you expect from a man who’d steered the immaculate sounds of The Cars and Foreigner) and here he took the essential formula and constructed Def Leppard’s edgier version. That gloriously memorable ascent from verse (‘Hey, but are you getting it…’) to bridge (‘gimme all of your lovin’) to punning chorus line (‘Armageddon it’) is pure gold, a synthesis of all that Leppard were about, from shimmering guitar arpeggios to flat-out bludgeon riffola. ![]() The chorus is supreme, easily an equal melodically to Armageddon It or Pour Some Sugar…, yet Lange, perhaps conscious of the overall dynamic of the record, chooses to accent it differently, a tonal change that adds a classic, cooler touch. Strange that a song of such quality sits only in the middle of the pack, but such are the delights remaining that Gods Of War often gets lost in the shuffle. Led Zeppelin IV: every song ranked from worst to best. ![]() The Thursday Death Match: Pyromania versus Hysteria.Every song on Queen's Greatest Hits, ranked from worst to best.Hysteria began to head into stone-cold classic territory with ‘Rocket’, a song designed for radio with its giant gang-vocal chorus, made superior by the beauty of the sound – everything from Rick Allen’s drums on the intro to the multi-tracked vocal that renders the line ‘I’ll be your satellite of love’ as a single mellifluous word, is chillingly perfect. That objection aside, as a sonic statement of intent Lange throws everything at the album’s first minute or so, the digital crunch of the guitars harmonised perfectly with deep, subtle synths and layer upon layer of back-notes. Some of the record’s punning and wordplay works terrifically well, but ‘women, women, lots of pretty women/men, men we can’t live without them’ is more Dana Strum than Def Leppard. It was one of the most successful tours of the year.What’s wrong with being sexy? The aforementioned Nigel Tufnel’s immortal question haunts Women, Hysteria’s opener. Motley Crue embarked on its first major tour in seven years in the summer of 2022, co-headlining The Stadium Tour with Def Leppard. On March 22, 2019, the band released The Dirt soundtrack and Netflix biopic based on their New York Times best-selling autobiography of the same name. Motley Crue announced in 2018 that they were reuniting to work on new material. Many other releases would follow with a Farewell tour being announced in January of 2014. The compilation Decade of Decadence was released in 1991. ![]() Feelgood would become Motley Crue’s most successful album spending 114 weeks on the charts and selling over 6 million copies in the U.S. They released their breakthrough album Shout at The Devil in 1983, followed by Theater of Pain in 1985, Girls, Girls, Girls in 1987, and Dr. Motley Crue released their self-recorded debut Too Fast For Love in 1981 on their own label and would re-release the album after signing with Elektra Records. The band has sold over 100 million albums worldwide, including 25 million in the US alone. in 1981 with bassist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, singer Vince Neil and guitarist Mick Mars. By an overwhelming number of votes in this poll, Motley Crue placed number 1 as the top favorite 80's hair band according to the Hudson Valley.
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