I'm not here tonight to defend Def Leppard, whose music was often derivative and soulless, and whose schtick was simply KISS dialed down to 80% opacity. But nor am I going to deny that they had at least one catchy tune that I used to crank up on my way to school back in the 80's. That tune? "Pour Some Sugar On Me."

Flash forward to the present day. A vapid, talentless and, sadly, not altogether attractive boy band named "The Townsend Boys" has, in one master stroke, attempted to obliterate both music and the music video from our culture. Their cover of P.S.S.O.M. is a violent affront to good taste, and the video lacks even the integrity to convincingly peddle young man-flesh to the pimply teenagers who must be the target audience here. Instead, it insults us with its references not only to Def Leppard, but to The Beatles, Robert Palmer and others, before finally succumbing to a fast-motion chase scene that disgraces even the lowbrow Benny Hill Show from which it's stolen. It's an unforgivable tragedy.



Pour not sugar, but rather tar and feathers, on them.