Def Leppard Disgusts Me
Robert Spencer
Without a doubt, their band name is in the Top 100 Worst Ever of the Rock & Metal Eighties Scene.
Cf. (yes, these are/were all real bands who had records pressed, some of whom had music videos in rotation on legit TV): Megadeth, Motley Crue (amusingly, pronounced technically according to spelling as ‘Muttley Crugh’), Enuff Z'Nuff, Cinderella, Helloween, Gwar, Kix, Girlschool, Foreigner, Europe, Bang Tango, Whitesnake, Scorpions, Ratt, W.A.S.P, Britny Fox, Bad English, Damn Yankees, Great White, Shark Island, Prong, The Dogs D’Amour, Extreme, The Quireboys (one for DL), Vicious Rumors (another for DL), Spread Eagle (and another), Chastain (!!!), Dirty Looks (…you get the idea), Forced Entry, Dangerous Toys, Mr. Big, Lord Tracy, Giant, Gorky Park, Laaz Rockit, Beau Nasty, Love/Hate, Autograph, The Big F, Killer Dwarfs, Fiona, Steve Stevens, The Front, Scatterbrain, Cats In Boots, Raging Slab, Princess Pang, Roxx Gang, Sleeze Beez, Salty Dog, Shok Paris, Gothic Slam, Slave Raider, Holy Soldier, Sea Hags, Cro-Mags, Loudness, Bad News, Flotsam & Jetsam, Only Child, Leatherwolf, Sam Kinison, Living Colour, D-A-D, House Of Lords, Slammin’ Watusis, Jailhouse, Overkill, Sick Of It All, Little Caesar, Chiliwack, Childsplay, and my personal favourite and probably yours--Fudge Tunnel.
Also in this rogues’ gallery, some successors of the aforementioned: Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Monster Magnet (no shade, I love them), White Zombie, Stone Temple Pilots, Temple Of The Dog, The Smashing Pumpkins, Queens of the Stone Age, Evanescence, The Goo Goo Dolls (who were originally to be called Sex Maggots…), Nickelback, Weezer, Feeder, Trapt, Reel Big Fish, Good Charlotte, Jimmy Eat World, Bloodhound Gang, Limp Bizkit, Insane Clown Posse, Korn, Alien Ant Farm, Puddle Of Mudd, Papa Roach, Audioslave, Foo Fighters, The Offspring, Staind, Drowning Pool, Saliva, Moist, Mushroomhead, Hoobastank, Less Than Jake, Relient K, Cradle Of Filth, Archers Of Loaf, Bowling For Soup, Alexisonfire, Tokio Hotel, Refused, Taking Back Sunday, Parkway Drive, Billy Talent, Motion City Soundtrack, Streetlight Manifesto, Forever The Sickest Kids, youmeatsix, My Chemical Romance, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Falling In Reverse, Alkaline Trio, The Aquabats!, 3OH!3, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, and Five Finger Death Punch.
To name but a few.