It's a mystery as old as the track that brought it to life. On the intro to Def Leppard's hit song "Rock of Ages," a slightly accented voice is heard saying "Gunter gleiben glauchen globen." What do the words mean? Why did the band include them in the song? Now, drummer Rick Allen has taken to Twitter to set the record straight. Show
"It was actually (producer) Mutt Lange who came up with that," Allen said via a video posted to the band's official account. "He was getting so tired of saying '1,2,3,4' whenever we counted in. He wanted to inject a bit of humor in there." As for the specific language, Allen says that it was also Lange's creation. "I guess 'Gunter gleiben glauchen globen' is some Germanic-sounding language. I wouldn't put it past Mutt because he actually speaks Dutch." Regardless of the words' meaning, the phrase was instantly catchy. "When it came to mixing the song, everybody decided that we wanted to keep the count on there." Since "Rock of Ages" was released, the four made-up words have taken on a pop-culture life of their own. Poet Michael Robbins used the phrase in his work published in the New Yorker, while the Offspring sampled the intro for their hit song "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)." Still, Allen says the greatest reward is hearing fans react to the phrase at concerts. "It's great because every time we play the song live, Joe (Elliot) gives me the job of saying, 'Gunter gleiben glauchen globen.'" The song begins with a voice that says ""Gunter Glieben Glauten Globen". What does that mean? The answer is it doesn't mean anything. Producer Mutt Lange got tired of counting the band in with "1, 2, 3, 4...," so he started saying this.The boys liked it so they put it in the song. It means so much, it means nothing. Watch them do it in the video.
"Rock of Ages" is a song by Def Leppard from their 1983 album Pyromania. When issued as a single in the United States, the song reached #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #19 on the Cash Box Top 100. It also hit #1 on the Top Tracks Rock chart.[5] In 2012, the band re-recorded the song, along with "Pour Some Sugar on Me", under the title "Rock of Ages 2012". Both were released digitally on 4 June 2012.[6] Lyrics[edit]The song begins with "Gunter glieben glauten globen", a German-like nonsense phrase introduced by Mutt Lange, who is of German descent. According to the official Def Leppard FAQ,
As the song's melody begins, Elliott speaks the lines, "All right/I've got something to say/It's better to burn out/Than to fade away"; the second two lines are a reference to Neil Young's song "Hey Hey, My My (Out of the Blue)".[8] Def Leppard's four-line version was quoted in the 1986 movie Highlander by the film's villain, the Kurgan. Young's line would later become immortalized in rock history when it was used in the suicide note of grunge pioneer Kurt Cobain. During the guitar solo, several vocal phrases were backmasked. When played forward the phrases "Fuck the Russians" and "Brezhnev's got herpes" can be heard.[9] Title[edit]According to the liner notes of the compilation release Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection, the band was at a recording studio when lead vocalist Joe Elliott stumbled upon a hymn book left by a member of a children's choir that had just used the studio. In the book, he saw the words "Rock of Ages", which prompted him to write the lyrics of the song. Reception[edit]Cash Box described it as a powerful rock anthem that "pulls out just about every 'Long live rock ‘n’ roll' cliche there is."[8] Music video[edit]The music video was directed by David Mallet[10] and shot on 8 December 1982 (Guitarist Phil Collen's 25th birthday), in Battersea, London, England. Former Def Leppard co-manager Peter Mensch appears in this video as one of the monks. The song's video was placed on New York Times list of the 15 Essential Hair-Metal Videos.[4] In popular culture[edit]The song features in the climactic scene of the season 5 finale of Supernatural. The song also features in episode 10 of Deutschland 86 during the border crossing of Lenora Rauch and the children of Tina Fischer. The song was featured in 2007 Balls of Fury, starring Dan Fogler. The phrase "Gunter Glieben Glauchen Globen" reappears as the title of a poem by the contemporary American poet Michael Robbins. It was first published in The New Yorker and appears in his second collection of poems, The Second Sex (Penguin Books, 2014). The same sample is used at the beginning of the song "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" by the Offspring, from their 1998 album Americana. The song was also heard at the beginning of the 2012 comedy film That's My Boy, starring Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg. The song featured in fourth season trailer of Netflix series Cobra Kai. Track listing[edit]7": Vertigo / VER6 (812 858-7) (UK)[edit]
12": Vertigo / VERX6 (812 293-1) (UK)[edit]
7": Mercury / 812 604-7 (US)[edit]
Personnel[edit]Def Leppard[edit]
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