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Originally Posted by Skaligojurah
Well, one could argue that Never Mind the Bollocks obviously was a culmination of the Sex Pistol's career up to that point word of development/achievement, and therefore, exhausted what little they had to them.
Time doesn't always mean effort. Maybe those 3 years were spent trying to dumb it down for a mainstream audience(This is Def Leppard we're talking about). Considering how big of a name Def Leppard is, the effort may not have been spent in quality, but in palpability.
Besides, just because the Sex Pistols work was culturally significant it was largely due to timing, and one could argue was riding on the wave of the efforts of punk as a collective to get noticed. One could also argue there are many more effortful works that deserve more recognition.
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You know it's interesting because I chose Def Leppard's Hysteria album for a reason. I expected it to get treated like mid 80s fluff and dismissed and you did exactly that.
Even though that album contains some of the most complex & intricate recording techniques & a use of technology totally unheard of on rock albums at the time. In fact it's commercial success wasn't guaranteed at all. They'd been away for 4 years which was a lifetime in the 80s when bands put out albums every year. And there was no assurances people would go for this new sound either.
So in Def Leppard's case time certainly did mean effort. The record sold something like 10 million copies. So it's ground breaking and it sold well commercially, which is the music industry is pretty rare.
It basically covers all your criteria for a worthwhile album, and yet it isn't.