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Old 01-31-2011, 10:22 AM   #97 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger View Post
It took Def Leppard 3 years to record their Hysteria album.
It took the Sex Pistols a couple of weeks to knock out Never Mind the Bollocks.

Which of those would you say was culturally more significant?
Well, one could argue that Never Mind the Bollocks obviously was a culmination of the Sex Pistol's career up to that point word of development/achievement, and therefore, exhausted what little they had to them.

Time doesn't always mean effort. Maybe those 3 years were spent trying to dumb it down for a mainstream audience(This is Def Leppard we're talking about). Considering how big of a name Def Leppard is, the effort may not have been spent in quality, but in palpability.

Besides, just because the Sex Pistols work was culturally significant it was largely due to timing, and one could argue was riding on the wave of the efforts of punk as a collective to get noticed. One could also argue there are many more effortful works that deserve more recognition.
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