Cinderella & Def Leppard with Elana Levin

CrossFade: The Dueling Album Review Show

Like the bodacious ‘dos from which the sound gets its name, “hair metal” can be a hard genre to pin down! Luckily, we’ve got writer/podcaster/critic/organizer and hair metal fan Elana Levin to run through two genre classics to help set some things straight!

Matt and Elana cover Def Leppard’s “Hysteria” (the one with “Pour Some Sugar On Me” on it) and “Long Cold Winter” by Cinderella (one of the bands featured in HBO’s Peacemaker TV series). In this episode, they chat about what makes hair metal so special and popular, what role Peacemaker played in popularizing some under-heard hair metal bangers, and why neither of them like “Pour Some Sugar On Me” very much.

Follow Elana on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Elana_Brooklyn/

Listen to Elana’s podcast, Graphic Policy Radio, at https://graphicpolicy.com/radio/ or wherever you get podcasts

• Junk Filter Podcast: Hair Metal with Elana Levin https://anchor.fm/jesse-hawken/episodes/107-Hair-Metal-with-Elana-Levin-e1p26dv

• “There’s No Wrong Time To Rock: A Peacemaker-Inspired Playlist” by Elana Levin https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2022/02/theres-no-wrong-time-to-rock-a-peacemaker-inspired-playlist/

• • The playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3qfBE3suas4Hggga4asQZW?si=GLBR0LmjQr6fySX6AjbxNA

• “Tom Keifer talks the Blues, Cinderella and the Music Industry” - American Blues Scene https://www.americanbluesscene.com/2014/03/tom-keifer-talks-the-blues-cinderella-and-the-music-industry/

• “Notes on Camp: on David Lee Roth” https://medium.com/@Elana_Levin/notes-on-camp-on-david-lee-roth-ad286df3cd10

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Our theme song is “The Lights” by Maps Of Norway from their 2008 record, “Die Off Songbird”: https://open.spotify.com/album/7tNrjnRB1f1oQizkkAePrI

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Timestamps

0:00 - Def Leppard & Cinderella with Elana Levin

0:51 - A bit about hair metal as a genre

11:01 - Cinderella - "Long Cold Winter"

14:33 - Gypsy Road

20:43 - The Last Mile

23:56 - Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)

30:00 - Coming Home

32:46 - Fire and Ice

34:34 - Second Wind

37:07 - Bad Seamstress Blues / Fallin’ Apart

42:22 - Def Leppard - “Hysteria”

49:53 - Animal

55:35 - Gods of War

1:01:04 - Rocket

1:08:18 - Women

1:12:39 - Pour Some Sugar On Me

1:17:16 - Hysteria

1:20:40 - Love Bites

1:23:44 - Run Riot

1:26:18 - Community Questions

1:48:11 - Alvvays - “Archie, Marry Me” (suggested by MinnMax supporter Bob Buel)