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Taking Fucking Sides: "No One Like You" by das Scorpionz vs. "Bringing On the Heartbreak" by Def Leppard

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Stupidly already posted on ILE. What do you expect after I've already had four beers?

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Anthems of soiled love by early 80's metal mainstays. I have a sneaking suspicion which of these will win, but they are completely linked in my addled would-be brain that I cannot choose. Well, that's not true, I can, really, but I often lump them together. Oddly the band with the German sounding name is not German.

Das Scorps have the edge with the Alcatraz video, tho'.

WEIGH IN, METALNOGGINS!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 9 July 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

Bringing On The Heartbreak by a country mile. Throw in the 12" version on 45rpm and I'll take it over all tracks by M.I.A.

― Camp Megellan, Saturday, 9 July 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

Boy do the Lepps look like hapless dinks in that pic (especially in contrast to the "overcome by rock" shot of the Scorps).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 9 July 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

Well, the Leppard song isn't half bad, as it happens. Haven't heard the Scorpions one.

― Hydrochloric Shaved Weirds (Bimble...), Saturday, 9 July 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

The Scorpions were "overcome by rock" way, way before "No One Like You." Check the pics of from the live album in Tokyo. Technically, they were pretty much "overcome by rock" by the time of "Fly to the Rainbow." There's more thud in "No One Like You" than "Bringing On the Heartbreak." It's the Teutonic guitar chomps that signal it.

― George Smith, Saturday, 9 July 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

Damn, that's a tough, tough choice. Both are KEY after a few beers, one a jubilant declaration of lust, the other a glorious howl at the moon for the heartbroken...

Jesus Alex, I don't think I *can* choose. Fuck it.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 July 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

FWIW, Mr Vegemite says it's unequivocably "Bringin On The Heartbreak". He loves the Scorps, but he says to choose between the two you've got to acknowledge that they're a parody, and they're basically a party band, and the song itself a cardboard cutout...but Def Lep's single is complex, progressive...etc. He actually waxed pretty lyrical this time. I'm still on the fence.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 July 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

Love 'em both, but I don't even have to think about this one: "Bringing On The Heartbreak."

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 10 July 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

Well, as usual, George "Metal" Smith's insights caused me to rethink my opinion somewhat, but not to the point of changing it. Partly 'cause the Scorps track is way-overplayed at the office radio station, but I still like "Bringin On The Heartbreak" more - it's everything a power ballad SHOULD be, which means it doesn't neglect the power. (Relevent since both bands in question largely ruined their credibility by recording too many of 'em, power ballads that is.)

Oh, and I'm referring to the ORIGINAL "Heartbreak", not the too-slick remixed one which epitomizes everything about the suckage of post-'84 Lep.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 10 July 2005 05:16 (twenty years ago)

After careful consideration, I started to re-think the query...wondering if mayhaps I should've pitted the original Lep standard (agreed, the remix was gawdawful) against "Still Loving You" by the Scorps (specifically the live version, which rocks so hard it that it practically invades Poland).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 10 July 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

rocks so hard it that it practically invades Poland

Hahahahahahaaaaaaa

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 10 July 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

yikes.

Tough one, I gotta go Leppard.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 10 July 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

Never liked Def Leppard. Not even when Pyromania came out, when I was twelve. Gotta go with the Scorpions, and I don't even need to pull the guilt-by-association card to make my choice (Mariah Carey never covered "Still Loving You," now did she?).

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 10 July 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

"Still Loving You" is a much tougher contender. Apparently, this debate has been raging since The Dawn Of Time:

vis the post below, from: Best Power Ballad?

"Bringing on the Heartbreak" has to be a contender. The chunky guitars that pop in during the pre-chorus are so jarring (Radiohead stole this idea for "Creep"), and Joe Elliot's accent on the "taking all the best of me" line is amazing; all the refinement is stripped away and he just sounds like a pathetic lout. And then he takes it up an octave for the chorus...he's like, "fuck it, I'll SING my way through this" -- it's a power ballad with all sorts of personality! Also "Still Loving You" by the Scorpions, a song that seems to go on for 3 years before getting to the part everyone remembers -- the tension/release is amazing!
-- Kris (branch_ricke...), April 27th, 2002 6:00 PM.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)


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