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Pour Some Sugar on Me

from Lavatory by Sam Pocker

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Talk about a song that everyone has some sort of memories of.

It was released when I was in middle school and for some reason every time I hear it I think of being in what was called "wood shop" a class where presumably you were to learn how to use tools to make things out of wood. The only thing I remember from wood shop was that the teacher was kind of brain damaged and we had to make models of bridges using popsicle sticks and hot glue.

I remember hearing the song in the back seat of a red car that the older person in charge of my dorm in boarding school was driving on the way to Six Flags in Agawam, Massachusetts on our way to a Paula Abdul concert.

I remember bribing someone $25 to let me be the first person in the door at Irving Plaza so that I could be in the front row when Def Leppard came out of retirement in 2002.

I remember being in the back seat of a car on the way to a Def Leppard concert at Jones Beach that a friend had arranged with some of his friends who were all high on coke and I thought for sure they were going to get in an accident. They threw around a football in the parking lot. That's the only time I've ever been to an event with anyone who even had a football in their car, let alone would think this was a remotely acceptable activity.

I remember going to a Def Leppard show at the Beacon Theater and almost falling asleep.

I remember thinking that Shania Twain's "Come On Over" was essentially the next record that Def Leppard should have made.

I remember seeing the music video for "Let's Get Rocked" with it's early CGI and thinking how ridiculous it was that they were pandering to a different demographic.

I hate most of the lyrics but I can't stop singing them. It's hook city. They are just the masters of hooks. Try listening to "Photograph" once and not singing it all day.

My favorite Def Leppard video is the CMT Crossroads show that they did with Taylor Swift. That was just the perfect accident. I've seen it way more times than I will ever admit to in public.

It's strange that this music persists, that as I type this they have a successful arena tour lined up, this should very much have been left to the past, but I suppose the lesson here is that a great hook can really persist for a very long time.

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from Lavatory, released March 2, 2018
By Richard Allen, Stephen Clark, Philip Collen, Joseph Elliott, Robert Lange, and Richard Savage
Copyright Bludgeon Riffola Ltd. And Out-Of-Pocket-Prod. Ltd.

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Sam Pocker Los Angeles, California

Sam Pocker is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and musician. Pocker’s songwriting catalog covers over 8 albums worth of material, released by his bands The Pretty Colors, The Pregnant Vegans, and The Agoura Hills PTA. His most recent book “Where Do Incorrect Ideas Come From?” was released in January 2020. ... more

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