ZZ Top - Eliminator vs Def Leppard - Pyromania

I can't think of any 70s rock act that ever embraced New Wave better than ZZ Top (and Bill Ham) did with Eliminator. It's really unique.

i started a thread on this, though centered on 1981 as the year that 70s rockers tried out new wave. there are quite a few parallel examples, though perhaps none so commercial successful and seamless in their synthesis as zz top.

1981 = year of 70s dino rockers w modren/wavo comeback LPs

^excellent, was just about to ask if there were any good threads on that stuff. might have to start one on dystopian future (blues) rock/metal as well eventually

I'm not sure what would count as hard rock if not early-80s Def Leppard!

pre-pyromania stuff is for sure, iirc

Def Leppard sounded like hard rock at the time. It's pure hard rock candy in retrospect.

Voted for ZZT, for the WTFness of that album when it came out.

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^^^that's fuckin right

what about: Afterburner vs Hysteria

Hysteria by an infinite distance.

imo, Pyromania was a practice run at Hysteria, but Afterburner was the residue from Eliminator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h_OZ1F1BjQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoP1Q93Ja1g