During one of Malcolm's recent trivia quizzes over at Pop Culture Dish, I was mentally forced to replay every Def Leppard video in my head. (Go ahead, make a "torture" joke. Whatever. I like Def Leppard, so there.) I was amazed that I could still remember them all, although I do still seem to splice the videos for "Foolin'" and the remake of "Bringin' on the Heartbreak" together in my head. I guess because they're both great songs with fairly ridiculous "concepts."
Anyway, the video still in the quiz showed the band performing in what looked like someone's living room, so I immediately thought it was "Me & My Wine." However, since Joe Elliott was rockin' the Hysteria-era mullet, I knew that couldn't have been it since the video came out in 1984 (as a bonus track on the reissue of 1981's High 'n' Dry). But still, that got me thinking about this song and vid because I always liked it a lot when I was younger. I had kind of a weird crush on Joe, so I probably wouldn't have minded walking into my bathroom one day to find him screeching in the tub.
By the way, I didn't get the video question right. Malcolm is a big ol' cheater. Or, maybe he's not a cheater, but he's sneaky. He had to resort to using videos from across the pond to trip me up. Tsk tsk tsk.
Anyway, the video still in the quiz showed the band performing in what looked like someone's living room, so I immediately thought it was "Me & My Wine." However, since Joe Elliott was rockin' the Hysteria-era mullet, I knew that couldn't have been it since the video came out in 1984 (as a bonus track on the reissue of 1981's High 'n' Dry). But still, that got me thinking about this song and vid because I always liked it a lot when I was younger. I had kind of a weird crush on Joe, so I probably wouldn't have minded walking into my bathroom one day to find him screeching in the tub.
By the way, I didn't get the video question right. Malcolm is a big ol' cheater. Or, maybe he's not a cheater, but he's sneaky. He had to resort to using videos from across the pond to trip me up. Tsk tsk tsk.
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Oh and by the way BeckEye, you need to quit lying to your readers. :-)
You and I both know that I don't have to pull out a video made for the U.K. market to stump you. The last time I checked, both the videos for Maxi Priest's "Close To You" and Elton John's "The Club At the End of the Street" got played in the States. Heh heh heh!!
I'll have to check, but I think Pete Willis was still the guitarist with Def Leppard during High-n-Dry (a most excellent record) yet the vid has douchey Phil Colon playing his parts. The first DL records blow away anything they've done since.
On my first trip to Atlanta, I went to meet an old friend at a bar down here who introduced me to bunch of guys in a band that were playing the club that night. As I shook the guitar players hand, he offered me this riddle, "What has nine arms and sucks?"
I laughed for alnight at that one...
And this, Your Honor, is why BeckEye has a pop culture blog and I do not.
Love your unabashed declarations