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Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Gods Of War (page 1/1) ------ performed by Def Leppard extremeblast@verizon.net | Reviewer: Mary J. | 4/29/2007 I just want to state that I have always loved Def Leppard and always will. GODS OF WAR is one of my favorites, with all the sound effects towards the end of the song and Ronald Reagan's speeches sends chills down my spine everytime. I have to admit I am not one that follows what goes on everyday in this world, but what I do hear and see I know things need to change, and we need another Ronald Reagan for our President!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!! Is this review helpful to you?     Yes      No see my note | Reviewer: kelmar0803@yahoo.com | 4/11/2005 I am just writing this note to say if you've not ever listened to the song you wouldn't know that it has sound bytes of Ronald Reagan's famous speeches about not giving in to terrorism and the wrong assumption of the terrorists and terrorist states to think that they could get us to do what they wanted us to do by the methods of terrorism, in the context of Omar Qaddafi. In light of the present it holds a much more significant context. Listen to the song and they are excellent quotes. I know that the song was more or less written as a rant against what we as America was doing against terrorism, but with the soldiers I went to basic training with, it didn't turn out that way. I went to basic training in 1988 and this album came out just prior to that in the end of the summer of 1987. We wrote "gods of war" on our helmets like Matthew Modine had on his helmet in FULL METAL JACKET as others in Vietnam conflict surely did in real life. But, our use of its was that in hopes we too would become superior over any enemy of America as we had all hoped to do at that point over communism. Terrorism as a problem for America was just in its infancy stage. Yet, we had a great president to set a precedent to deal with it(no pun intended in the wordplay there). Thank GOD we did have Ronald Reagan. I think Def Leppard's producer Robert "Mutt" Lange(who now produces and is married to Shania Twain) probably added the sound bytes as his own idea so as to do exactly as the song is intended to do, incite a hatred yet a respect for war in this new fashion of terrorism [to us young Americans anyway for whom he was trying to marketize to] as the world was dealing with in its view of Omar Qaddafi. {{just a sidenote: if you listen to any of Shania Twain's music since Lange has been producing her albums, you can identify Def Leppardish sound distinctly on all tracks pretty much instantly.}} Oh, by the way, I'm writing this while on military duty in Iraq just north of Baghdad in Al Taji, at US Army military base CAMP COOKE. I don't actually listen to rock music anymore but thought I'd look up the lyrics to this song to try and find what speeches it was in which Ronald Reagan made the statements about dealing with terrorism. It was a pretty neat effect in the song to use the speeches and special effects of helicopters and booms and machine gun fire to get the blood going and mind thinking through the adrenal rush the song incited in me, as a teenager who as many soldiers join the military dream of, to get me to join the military and fight our enemies in the world. If only Lange and the Leps new. I'm sure they'd've left the song off the album. It was my favorite for sure. I was introduced to Def Leppard while at basic training. I'd never heard them before then. So, you see the impact of those lyrics are important to this song. You must find out and include them. It's important. Is this review helpful to you?     Yes      No Add Your New Review About The Song