If you were young during the late 1980's odds are that you were listening to Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction and Def Leppard's Hysteria all the time. I remember buying them both in August of 1988 with money I got for my 12th birthday. I played these two albums like crazy and even now, 17 years later, I still listen to both quite often...as I'm sure many others do. The question is, which one is your favorite? This is a tough question because both of them are favorites, but I think Hysteria wins out by a small margin.

both albums are classic, but I give Hysteria the upper hand because it was the first hard rock album I owned. Plus, I consider it the peak of Dep Lep's career while I think GNR got even better with Use Your Illusion

Guns N Roses all the way

sometimes I wonder if Def Lep's statement in Rock Of Ages was true.

"It's better to burn out (GNR) than fade away (Def Lep)". GNR vanished when on top of the world, Spaghetti Incident was a huge disapointment but I think they all knew that they had peaked. Def Leppard on the other hand were great in the 80's and still had it in the early 90's, but by the time of Slang, they were irrelevant and almost embarassing that it was the same band who were so great not even 10 years earlier.

I think part of the GNR mystique is that it's been 12 years since they've had an album, it's always a "what could've been" thing with them, and I think the legend of the group in their heyday has gotten massive for that reason. While Def Leppard has continued to press on even though they haven't been the same since maybe the Adrenalize album.

sometimes I wonder if Def Lep's statement in Rock Of Ages was true.

"It's better to burn out (GNR) than fade away (Def Lep)". GNR vanished when on top of the world, Spaghetti Incident was a huge disapointment but I think they all knew that they had peaked. Def Leppard on the other hand were great in the 80's and still had it in the early 90's, but by the time of Slang, they were irrelevant and almost embarassing that it was the same band who were so great not even 10 years earlier.

I think part of the GNR mystique is that it's been 12 years since they've had an album, it's always a "what could've been" thing with them, and I think the legend of the group in their heyday has gotten massive for that reason. While Def Leppard has continued to press on even though they haven't been the same since maybe the Adrenalize album.

Actually "It's better to burn out then to fade away" was a statement first used by Neil Young in 1978's "Hey, Hey, My, My (Into the Black)" :cool:

sometimes I wonder if Def Lep's statement in Rock Of Ages was true.

"It's better to burn out (GNR) than fade away (Def Lep)". GNR vanished when on top of the world, Spaghetti Incident was a huge disapointment but I think they all knew that they had peaked. Def Leppard on the other hand were great in the 80's and still had it in the early 90's, but by the time of Slang, they were irrelevant and almost embarassing that it was the same band who were so great not even 10 years earlier.

I think part of the GNR mystique is that it's been 12 years since they've had an album, it's always a "what could've been" thing with them, and I think the legend of the group in their heyday has gotten massive for that reason. While Def Leppard has continued to press on even though they haven't been the same since maybe the Adrenalize album.

I totally agree with you.