There are a number of albums that he was involved in (e.g. Graham Parker's Heat Treatment, Cars, Boomtown Rats) that are great. No idea why any of those should not have been great with another competent producer though. He may have "enhanced" a number of other artists that I do not care for...he did not succeed to push them onto me, it seems. I would not put him into the league of the really great producers, unless commercial success is a criterion for it.
My top 5 Mutt Lange productions are: Fine Art of Surfacing - Boomtown Rats 18 Til I Die - Bryan Adams 4 - Foreigner Pyromania - Def Leppard Highway To Hell - AC/DC
Waking Up The Neighbours is a fantastic album by Bryan Adams. Featuring the UK's longest number of weeks at number one single, Everything I Do, I Do It For You
I wonder if my fondness for Nickelback as a teen in 2009 had more to do with the crisp robust production and harmonies, and the composition are engineered to be as catchy as possible. I don't really care for random strippers and other cock rock cliches, and all my friends were more into Reggaeton, Emo Pop Punk, Metalcore, or Nu Metal (not that I wasn't) so the lyrics were whatever. The ballads were more relatable since i've always been a romantic person, but Burn It To The Ground i did enjoy. I also loved the song "Misery" by Maroon 5. This was really my introduction to Mutt, though i didnt know until years later about production, real grunge music and Def Leppard.
Love Mutt Lange in the 80s but am not a fan of the 2010s, at least from what I've heard. Dark Horse by Nickelback may well be my least favorite Nickelback album, and there is a lot of competition, somehow he made them even worse. Drones by Muse is a terrible album, took a good band and just sucked the life out. Even You and I by Lady Gaga, great song but really dislike the production, I've heard covers of the song done in a more Elton John style that I like way more.
Ok, I say number two is Pyromania. His best for me is City boy- The day the earth caught fire. Great backing vocals but not overproduced like his later productions.
Quincy Jones & Mutt Lange are my favorite producers My Mutt List This Is Pop song (XTC) Highway To Hell 4(Foreigner) Heartbeat City Loverboy & Get Outta My Dreams songs (Billy Ocean) Come On Over(Shania Twain) Hands All Over (Maroon 5)
The first 3 boomtown rats albums are fantastic, the records self titled and city boy the day the earth caught fire are a few of his very good early work before he became a total perfectionist
I would advise you guys to check out “5-7-0-5” from City Boy! The Mutt Lange production is much different than his ‘80’s production. The style of music is very much in line with Queen and 10cc.
🤠 Fine Art of Surfacing was especially fun. Lots of trickery going on there - a funhouse of twists and turns. It's interesting to contrast it to the Tony Visconti-produced Mondo Bongo, which followed, where that whiz-bang production is swapped out with spaciousness and earthy tones. Two different takes on a flexible band.
It looks like I'm going to be The outlier here because, I'm going to choose Dark Horse by Nickelback, not because it's a great album and it's not necessarily a good one either. However, it is important to give context to it because it has clearly influenced the work of Canadian producer Kevin Churcko, who was a protégé of Mutt and you can hear the Mutt Lange influence on a lot of the albums he has produced by bands like Five Finger Death Punch and Disturbed. Even Ozzy Osbourne worked with him on a couple of albums and you could say that Kevin is a younger version of Mutt, because of how successful Nickelback was with their own album with him as producer. Otherwise, all of the def Leppard and AC/DC albums Mutt had produced are among his best.
1. Come On Over - Shania Twain 2. Highway to Hell - AC/DC 3. Back in Black - AC/DC 4. High 'n' Dry - Def Leppard 5. For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) - AC/DC 6. Foreigner - 4 7. Pyromania - Def Leppard 8. Playin' to Win - Outlaws 9. Heartbeat City - The Cars 10. The Boomtown Rats
1) I would have listed Graham Parker and the Rumour's Heat Treatment. Lange's production is leaner and cleaner than what Nick Lowe did before. Compare Graham Parker and the Rumour's 1976 "Fools Gold" with Springsteen's 1978 "Prove It All Night" and ask yourself, Did Springsteen steal the guitar riff? He would sing on Parker's "Endless Night" a couple of years later. 2) Mutt Lange's production on Foreigner's 4 is muddier that what they had on their earlier albums, especially the first two. Foreigner's early albums are freaking ear candy. They are not cock rock in the mode of Bad Company or Free - they are pastiches of cock rock, just as ELO is a pastiche of Beatles and Hall and Oates is a pastiche of Philly soul. I'm disappointed you're going with Journey over Foreigner.
Listening to this, I'm realizing my three favorite AC/DC albums and three favorite Def Leppard albums were produced by Mutt! Those six albums and Heartbeat City are all perfect or near perfect. Back In Black is PROBABLY my favorite out of those, but also I've listened to it too much. High N Dry is really close to number one. Also, I listened to For Those About To Rock recently, and it's WAY better than I had remembered!
The band's low point for sure. A great band up to that point - and their return in the new millennium is remarkable. But Savage Return is an album to skip...the production did not help, but it may not be the single factor to fail the effort.
Alas, the wonderful original version of "Starry Eyes" is not Mutt Lange, but most of that album is him and is indeed wonderful. PS according to John Wicks (RIP) the last name is pronounced "Laingah"
1. heartbeat city - the cars (#1 by a mile...)
2. heat treatment - graham parker
3. highway to hell - ac/dc
4. 4 - foreigner
5. hysteria - d.l.
There are a number of albums that he was involved in (e.g. Graham Parker's Heat Treatment, Cars, Boomtown Rats) that are great. No idea why any of those should not have been great with another competent producer though.
He may have "enhanced" a number of other artists that I do not care for...he did not succeed to push them onto me, it seems.
I would not put him into the league of the really great producers, unless commercial success is a criterion for it.
The view on Kramzer in this video is a bit weird. It took me a few seconds to realize he was just fondling his own knee. 😉
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Glad I'm not the only one of who thought that
@@tomgarb6302 A dirty mind is a joy forever.😉
1- The Woman In Me by Shania Twain
2- Back In Black by AC ⚡️ DC
3- Pyromania by Def Leppard
4- Come On Over by Shania Twain
5- Hysteria by Def Leppard
The first two City Boy albums are excellent, well worth a listen.
was going to say Day the Earth Caught Fire by same band...
My top 5 Mutt Lange productions are:
Fine Art of Surfacing - Boomtown Rats
18 Til I Die - Bryan Adams
4 - Foreigner
Pyromania - Def Leppard
Highway To Hell - AC/DC
Didn't he cheat on Shania with her best friend??
Yep! So Shania married the former husband of her former best friend. Ah show business. It’s a whole other world.
Likes sands from the hourglass ⌛️ .. so are The Days Of Our Lives ..
Waking Up The Neighbours is a fantastic album by Bryan Adams. Featuring the UK's longest number of weeks at number one single, Everything I Do, I Do It For You
That song is atrociously bad.
Magic 🎩 Production on the song Magic by The Cars 🚗 .. Check out the bass 🔊 sounds like it's in your living room.
I wonder if my fondness for Nickelback as a teen in 2009 had more to do with the crisp robust production and harmonies, and the composition are engineered to be as catchy as possible. I don't really care for random strippers and other cock rock cliches, and all my friends were more into Reggaeton, Emo Pop Punk, Metalcore, or Nu Metal (not that I wasn't) so the lyrics were whatever. The ballads were more relatable since i've always been a romantic person, but Burn It To The Ground i did enjoy. I also loved the song "Misery" by Maroon 5. This was really my introduction to Mutt, though i didnt know until years later about production, real grunge music and Def Leppard.
Love Mutt Lange in the 80s but am not a fan of the 2010s, at least from what I've heard. Dark Horse by Nickelback may well be my least favorite Nickelback album, and there is a lot of competition, somehow he made them even worse. Drones by Muse is a terrible album, took a good band and just sucked the life out. Even You and I by Lady Gaga, great song but really dislike the production, I've heard covers of the song done in a more Elton John style that I like way more.
Ok, I say number two is Pyromania. His best for me is City boy- The day the earth caught fire. Great backing vocals but not overproduced like his later productions.
Highway To Hell, Back in Black, Foreign 4, Pyromania, and The Woman in Me would be my top 5
Listen to Airport by the Motors. Must the best produced/arranged pop song of all time.
Quincy Jones & Mutt Lange are my favorite producers
My Mutt List
This Is Pop song (XTC)
Highway To Hell
4(Foreigner)
Heartbeat City
Loverboy & Get Outta My Dreams songs (Billy Ocean)
Come On Over(Shania Twain)
Hands All Over (Maroon 5)
Well, he did cheat on Shania which helped lead to their divorce. Idiotic, but no one's perfect. Ha
The first 3 boomtown rats albums are fantastic, the records self titled and city boy the day the earth caught fire are a few of his very good early work before he became a total perfectionist
Loving Every Minute Of It by Loverboy sounds like an early version of Pour Some Sugar On Me. Mutt produced that album too!
I would advise you guys to check out “5-7-0-5” from City Boy! The Mutt Lange production is much different than his ‘80’s production. The style of music is very much in line with Queen and 10cc.
Oh shit! You're right!
He did a great job on the first two Boomtown Rats 🐀 albums.
🤠 Fine Art of Surfacing was especially fun. Lots of trickery going on there - a funhouse of twists and turns. It's interesting to contrast it to the Tony Visconti-produced Mondo Bongo, which followed, where that whiz-bang production is swapped out with spaciousness and earthy tones. Two different takes on a flexible band.
It looks like I'm going to be The outlier here because, I'm going to choose Dark Horse by Nickelback, not because it's a great album and it's not necessarily a good one either. However, it is important to give context to it because it has clearly influenced the work of Canadian producer Kevin Churcko, who was a protégé of Mutt and you can hear the Mutt Lange influence on a lot of the albums he has produced by bands like Five Finger Death Punch and Disturbed. Even Ozzy Osbourne worked with him on a couple of albums and you could say that Kevin is a younger version of Mutt, because of how successful Nickelback was with their own album with him as producer. Otherwise, all of the def Leppard and AC/DC albums Mutt had produced are among his best.
1. Come On Over - Shania Twain
2. Highway to Hell - AC/DC
3. Back in Black - AC/DC
4. High 'n' Dry - Def Leppard
5. For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) - AC/DC
6. Foreigner - 4
7. Pyromania - Def Leppard
8. Playin' to Win - Outlaws
9. Heartbeat City - The Cars
10. The Boomtown Rats
1) I would have listed Graham Parker and the Rumour's Heat Treatment. Lange's production is leaner and cleaner than what Nick Lowe did before. Compare Graham Parker and the Rumour's 1976 "Fools Gold" with Springsteen's 1978 "Prove It All Night" and ask yourself, Did Springsteen steal the guitar riff? He would sing on Parker's "Endless Night" a couple of years later.
2) Mutt Lange's production on Foreigner's 4 is muddier that what they had on their earlier albums, especially the first two. Foreigner's early albums are freaking ear candy. They are not cock rock in the mode of Bad Company or Free - they are pastiches of cock rock, just as ELO is a pastiche of Beatles and Hall and Oates is a pastiche of Philly soul. I'm disappointed you're going with Journey over Foreigner.
JOURNEY!!!!!!
As a fan of early Muse I have to agree with Kram on the Drones shade. That album stinks.
Boooo. It’s great. - Joe
He produced local Cleveland legend Michael Stanley's "Cabin Fever", one of their best.
Good call on Shania Twain. On both counts.
Listening to this, I'm realizing my three favorite AC/DC albums and three favorite Def Leppard albums were produced by Mutt! Those six albums and Heartbeat City are all perfect or near perfect. Back In Black is PROBABLY my favorite out of those, but also I've listened to it too much. High N Dry is really close to number one. Also, I listened to For Those About To Rock recently, and it's WAY better than I had remembered!
Maybe I'd like Hysteria better if someone else had produced it.
How. Dare. You!
10CC
God could've produced "Pour Some Sugar on Me" and it would still be crap.
@@independenceltd. The guys name is Todd with a T.
@@roxannewalsh He couldn't have helped either. Roll a turd in sprinkles and all you got is a sparkly turd.
How about Muse and Drones , their last great album and great production from Mutt !
I actually didn’t realize that was Mutt Lange until this video. - Joe
Journey !!
Guys you should listen to savage return by Savoy Brown, 1978
The band's low point for sure. A great band up to that point - and their return in the new millennium is remarkable. But Savage Return is an album to skip...the production did not help, but it may not be the single factor to fail the effort.
In 6 years I will. - Joe
Alas, the wonderful original version of "Starry Eyes" is not Mutt Lange, but most of that album is him and is indeed wonderful. PS according to John Wicks (RIP) the last name is pronounced "Laingah"
Those Hysteria singles are 1st and 2nd grade childhood nostalgia so I can't help but be biased. Heartbeat City is my other favorite.