Def Leppard - "Let's Get Rocked"

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I hated this song from the first time I heard it when it came out. But seeing the video for the first time tonight on the Power Hour's Def Leppard exclusive, it started to make a perverse kind of sense, actually a better song/video package than any of the Hysteria stuff. (Although did they go swimming in tuxedos in "Hysteria"? I remember something like that. They didn't play that one, I don't think.) The 3-D computerized "average everyday ordinary kid" and his wacky adventures are really done quite well and somehow lend an idiotically stupendous sense of purpose to the stupendously idiotic lyrics. I did like the surprising absence of a girlfriend in his car during the verse where he talks about how he's trying to make a move on her but she wants to put on classical music, which makes him want to scream. I was disappointed that the band members weren't also done all 3-D and computerized like in the Simpsons episode where Homer slipped into the third dimension but it's pretty great all the same.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 21 February 2004 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The 3-D computerized "average everyday ordinary kid" and his wacky adventures are really done quite well

I beg to differ on that point. My face is still recovering from the cringes that video insprired.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 08:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Hearing this song for the first time was one of the most depressing experiences of my life. What a feeling of disillusionment. Up there with whatever that crappy single was from Iron Maiden's Somewhere In Time.

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 21 February 2004 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Right there with ya, Broheems. I knew the Def Leppard whose previous two albums I'd adored (never though much of the first one, though) were gone for good.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The archetypal early-90s computerized video stupidity somehow works with the sub-archetypal rock lyric stupidity to make it the most watchable post-Pyromania video they played. It's hard to explain. I mean, about 1:30 in, it did start to sink in that I was listening to "Let's Get Rocked" but it was the best experience I've ever had of that song.

(Don't listen to it though. It's really bad.)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 21 February 2004 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

'Hot Dog...The Movie'! As opposed to 'Hot Dog...The Opera'? WTF?

― dave q, Saturday, 21 February 2004 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's get the rock out of here!

My memories of this song are so horrific that while I'll admit the videos for Hysteria are weak (it was almost as if the songs were so techno'd up that the band felt the need to dress down to prove they weren't droids), that doesn't change the fact that "Let's Get Rocked," you know, is total ass. Besides, if we're going to talk about Def Lep song/video packages, everything pales after "Photograph" and "Rock Of Ages." The little seen "Me & My Wine" video is classic as well - I'm SO pissed I don't have that on tape.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 21 February 2004 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Using the word "rock" in a song or album title as a music/sex/drugs/general debauchery term has no place in music after around 1970, Kiss notwithstanding. It's the song title equivalent of bands that do videos featuring a giant mosh pit (which is the ultimate sign of laziness since such videos haven't been the least bit edgy since the grunge era).
Thus, I hated "Let's Get Rocked" before I even heard it.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 21 February 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Using the word "rock" in a song or album title as a music/sex/drugs/general debauchery term has no place in music after around 1970

Thus no "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" = no Joan Jett hit cover version = MY YOUTH RUINED.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 February 2004 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, I'm willing to make some exceptions. Joan Jett is one of them. Elton can be pardoned for "Crocodile Rock" too, since that was meant to be a throwback.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 21 February 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"I suppose a rock's out of the question?"

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 21 February 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Using the word "rock" in a song or album title as a music/sex/drugs/general debauchery term has no place in music after around 1970, Kiss notwithstanding.

Gah!, Thanks God you qualified that. Had you not allowed Kiss in there, my cranium would've detonated.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

But what about AC/DC?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, how about I change the rule to "after 1975, with all bands that started before 1975 receiving career exemptions". That should cover most of the bases.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 22 February 2004 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

and any punk song with the word "punk" in the lyrics is automatically bad, right?

i hate rules.

― billstevejim, Sunday, 22 February 2004 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

But Barry, surely an exception can be made if you take the bold stance of asserting rock's supremacy over classical music???

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 22 February 2004 06:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i was SO into this song when I was 11?

i love how they kept doing album titles/artwork reminiscent of PYROMANIA/HYSTERIA? what was that one called? HYPOTHERMIA?

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 22 February 2004 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

that first statement should not have a question mark. I was most assuredly all about the Leps at 11.

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 22 February 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

terrible song, terrible video. though 'make love like a man' was arguably worse in both respects.

a good recent leps song and video: 'now'. love the chorus and the theme of the video

― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 15 April 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

ten years pass...

let's get... let's get... let's get...

― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 19:15 (eight years ago)

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWW-*fist in the air*-WWWWWWWWWWWKKKKKEEEEEEEDDDDDDD!

― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 19:16 (eight years ago)

a friend and I used to say "let's get the rock out of here" ironically when we were leaving someplace so much it became pretty much an unconscious habit after awhile

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 19:25 (eight years ago)

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