Belongs in the trash can.

wait so your basing an opinion on them by there appearance and producingness??? okay they might be rather ****ty band-wise but they make some damn good music

im not a huge 80's fan, but DL did have some good stuff. i really cant name my "favorite" mainly becuase i dont have one. but good band nonetheless

and Night Lamp:

you're right to an extent that producers "make or break" bands in a sense that they make the band sound professional. They make every aspect of that song sound the best that it can. so that when a CD comes out it doesnt sound like a pile of excrement. But producers dont "make hits". the band writes the "hit" and producers are hired to record and master that song. they have no involvement in writing, practicing, or performing. Bands are not a medium by any means. but neither are the producers. becasue it takes both the band and their producer to make a great song/album.

:P shut up, find a better word for producingnessnes

i grew up listening to these guys so of course i love them :)

any good cd or song suggestions?

I think I was in sixth grade when Pyromania came out. I thought it was awesome back then, but I haven't really listen to them since then.

Thin Lizzy > Def Leppard.

Yes I am. The production on Hysteria makes them sound like a pop band with all the effects and overdubs. If you have heard their early stuff then you would know what I mean. Their sound changed radically and not for the better.

Genuine quote from Joe Elliot

'Our first album was us trying to be Judas Priest , our 2nd album was us trying to be AC/DC , it wasn't till pyromania till we found our own sound'.

Makes you wonder why they bothered looking for it really.