Now I’m down to some tough decisions. I missed out on the run on “hair bands”, but I also noted that my favorite band in (or at least near) the category got skipped over. I’m taking them now:
Def Leppard.
I cut my teeth on these guys when I was a kid, but at the time, I didn’t quite realize how remarkable they were, particularly Hysteria, which charted 7 singles and stayed on the charts for three years. Along with The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Van Halen they are one of only five rock bands to have sold two “Diamond” studio albums (10,000,000 sales) in the U.S. So I now have three of those five bands on my island. And I’ve got some more solid rock and roll.
Years active: 1977-present
Catalog: 9 studio albums, 1 rarities compilation, 1 live album, 1 cover album (11h)
Landmark songs: Bringin’ On The Heartbreak,
Photograph,
Love Bites,
Pour Some Sugar On Me,
Let’s Get Rocked
Songs I keep coming back to: