Pyromania

Can't believe this is considered metal. I would consider it stadium rock. All in all a good album but probably not something I will seek to buy. 3/5

18.04.23. Вполне себе сносный глэм-метал для больших стадионов. Довольно приятная музыка, сделанная в духе своего времени.

100% agree with Jacob on this one. Even though I do still like this more than I once expected, and think it is certainly better than a lot of music by Def Leppard's peers of the era, Pyromania just doesn't quite hit for me (with a few exceptions.) They just hadn't quite refined the balance yet that they'd achieve on Hysteria. Nothing I found distasteful necessarily, just found songs blending together and not quite grabbing my attention. A solid 3.0.

I had slightly less fun with this Def Leppard album than the last Def Leppard album we got. Something about this one felt 40% more cheesy, and 40% more “normal?” than the other one. There were some classics though. “Photograph” is amazing, and that’s the kind of thing I want all their songs to me. “Too Late for Love” is so hilariously cheesy in the beginning with “somewhere in the distance….” intro. And yet. I love it! There’s just less of that in this album. For my money I’d listen to their next album more, but the energy is there, the fun is there, I just know what they’re capable of. 3/5.

Nesten parodisk generisk pop-rock. Men det funker jo (litt?)

Def Leppard is not a terribly original band, and seem to typify the melodic pop metal genre of the mid to late 80s. However, they do have a somewhat unique and recognizable sound even if it’s derived largely from the hard rock greats of the 70s. This album does have quite a few memorable hits and though I don’t find this album particularly phenomenal, it was a fun listen.

Not a Def Leppard fan. Lot of popular songs I recognized but just nothing I'd put on myself but I aint complaining if it comes on.

Extremely accessible, somewhat mindless, quite energizing.

Not as fun as expected. Photigraph rips but the rest was forgettable.

Unashamedly soft rock/hair metal. Standard rather than stand out. I enjoyed it for was the fun romp it is

dad rock

Meh

1983. Photograph, Foolin', Rock of Ages

Just sounds like 80s credit music. There are gems in here though

Great guitar sounds and production. Honestly I love everything except the vocals. Just can't do it.

Not as good as I hoped

Loved the singles when I was younger but I feel like I’ve outgrown this.

Basic 80s rock

Du hard rock FM assez idiot et rigolo tellement c'est kitsch et daté. Cliché à tous les étages, ça s'écoute sans déplaisir, mais avec un plaisir plutôt coupable.

Gym metal. Something to make you throw up devil horns on the stairmaster.

Fun classic rock. It really my style. High 3.

A lot of this was, frankly, pretty awesome. Some a bit forgettable. Joe sings in that weird distorted head voice that was popular in the 80s. The singles are great, they were the most well known to me. Also, Billy's Got a Gun - great song to end the album with.

I really love the beginning of Foolin’. Also, Photograph, Too Late for Love and Rock of Ages are seared into my memory because of MTV.

I understand why this album is on the list. I approached it with trepidation and already decided on my rating prior to listening. Somedays this project is work and adding a listening task to my daily to-dos overwhelms me. So what do I say about Pyromania? I get why metal folks dig this. Can't deny that Rock of Ages had my toe a tapping. I really admire the band's commitment to playing together after the accident. I liked hearing Andre share some of the production minutia and commitment to details the band brings to their art. "Gunter gleiben glauchen globen" helped up this Deutschophile's cool factor even though it's not German and I readily shared that with the hot guys who would sing it when I brought up my love of German. But at the end of the day...I simply do not enjoy metal. It's an effort. But I'll pump up another star from my bad attitude going into this.

I don't know why I remember this story (if it deserves that moniker) but way backnin the early 90s one summer I often found myself sitting in a study carrel in the science library of a large Midwestern university, aimlessly reading the graffiti when I got bogged down in whatever I was reading. I used to write down samples I found particularly noteworthy, on of which was "Def Leppard sold out!!!" At the time I thought it was wild someone would feel inspired to make that announcement in like 1993 or whatever, it occurred to me while listening to this that they probably wrote it about this album when it came out and it just never got cleaned. Anyway, it's hair metal, competent fast rock with, like, super dude-bro lyrics sung in that particular way. Fine, would not seek it out.

So, this is their radio friendly album huh? Well nothing really stood out for me.

Eh, hair metal - I never cultivated a taste for it. This didn't actively piss me off, I guess. Fave track - "Photograph" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Glam metal. Blandito.

Solid

Def Leppard is like McDonalds. It isn’t fine dining, but you know exactly what you’re gonna get and sometimes, that’s exactly what you need.

Probably an important step between dad rock in the late 70s to cock rock in the mid 80s. But I like dad rock and think cock rock is a bit silly , so this is not really much of an evolution to me. Not unpleasant though.

I don’t think I’m the demographic for this album but it was good

Not really my thing but it was enjoyable while it was on

To quote Maxwell Smart, "The old patented Mutt Lange big anthemic chorus trick". He's a bit of pop genius the old Mutt (wouldn't you love to go through life known as"Mutt") everything from AccaDacca to Shania Twain! I love the Def, they were up for it, knew their audience and gave them what they wanted. I knew a guy who saw them at an outdoor gig in the early 90's, maybe BDO, and he said it was a brilliant show. I watched a couple of the videos while listening to this, all soft focus 80's and lots of stud belts/guitar straps, they were like a Pommy lads take on Van Halen. This is pretty good stuff, not my cup of rock but so what; good song writing, some very good twin guitar attack and a whole lot of fun. I loved the story on Phil Lynnott from the Lizz, he knew the Def could do what they could not, this record shows that.

Def Leppard is by no means big art. But it sure is helluva catchy and it leaves you smiling. Imagine putting on Side B for the first time and “Foolin’” is the first thing on? Good times! Pyromania is also the birthplace of the legendary Gunter Glieben Glauchen Globen. So there’s also that.

I've been watching a lot of 80s movies recently, this album definitely fits that theme.

Rockin’

This was pretty fun to listen to

Rock, rock, and more rock

Yeaahh babyyy sista albumet!

Pretty decent if u ask me 🤠

Again it's not for me

I wonder if younger me would have loved this given I enjoyed Guns n Roses so much. I mean I did quite enjoy a few of these, perhaps in a slightly ironic way. It's just cringey isn't it.

stock hair pop hair metal album

Enjoyed this way more than I expected. Feel like I’ve said that a lot since starting this. I usually find the whole NWOBHM / 1980s rock very cheesey, but I thought this was canny. Quite a few songs started off sounding a bit cheesey but ended up surprisingly melodic. I’ll definitely return to this for a bit background music

More rawk, this time very ACDCish. Was alright. My dad liked Def Leppard but didn't recognise any of this, think my mam got control of the music most of the time. They put out an album this year which is impressive longevity.

Probably wouldn't listen again but I found it pretty reasonable. Reminded me of a lot of Classic Rock of the same era, of which I think there are better examples.

Album has an interesting mix of glam and the classic 80s rock sound. Overall thought it was decent album, might get an extra star with more listens. Was interesting to learn "Gunter glieben glauchen globen" came from "Rock Of Ages" because I always thought it was a weird way for The Offspring to start off "Pretty Fly For A White Guy". Highlights were "Rock Of Ages", "Rock Rock Till You Drop" and "Too Late For Love".

I liked this more than I thought I would

An average hard rock/metal album, with a sort of Judas Priest-like vocal, some interesting and hard to execute guitar solos and very unsophisticated drums, that can make you nauseous after 40 minutes of this album. In general, nothing special or extraordinary, probably one of the first albums of this type, but with almost no listening values nowadays.

I will give this credit for being what it is and not trying to be anything else - not that I will listen to it again

I'm not what you'd call a Def Leppard superfan, but I enjoyed listening to this yesterday. If you're a glam rock / hair metal fan at all, this stuff rises above the rest. It feels like it's in its own realm, and two or three songs here grab me. The rest have a nostalgic feel to them. The album art is pretty great. A fun listen.

Well at least we know where Cinderella got the blueprint for 'Night Songs' from. This is like eating a greasy old burger from a van outside a sports event - it's bad for you, bits of it even look poorly executed but it's got enough in terms of its elements to keep you masticating away merrily. A fair bit of 'el rocko generico' here, but when the Lep boys hit the mark - 'Photograph', 'Rock of Ages', 'Die Hard the Hunter' - it's pretty damn fun. The rather plasticky production and sappy harmony vocals date this, but also grant the listener the gift of instant time travel. You can almost smell the Aquanet. Mildly addictive, despite its excesses.

The hits hold up. “Photograph” and “Rock of Ages” are bangers no matter how you cut it. The rest didn’t move me and mostly I was struck by how over produced this all is. The gang vocals in every chorus sound like they’ve been auto-tuned and that didn’t even exist back then. How did they do that? There’s like six guys singing different harmonies but it all comes out sounding like one guy yelling at the end of a hallway in perfect pitch? It’s so weird and when you focus on it that’s all you hear. I bet it would’ve been cool to see this band live in a club setting back in the day. It was probably the last time they sounded human.

Sounds like a classic, but not really my thing

A few standout songs here. Really just the singles I’ve always known. None of the others stuck with me. The leading track is laughably bad songwriting, imo. Enjoyed the nostalgia of 80s hair metal, but this album isn’t something I’ll come back often, if at all.

I had a similar experience with this record as with Hysteria. I don't think it's bad by any means, but I don't think it has aged too well in terms of complexity. When this was released in the 80's if I were a high school or college student I think I'd jam hard to this, but now if feels a little one-dimensional. 5/10

When someone tells you “think of the average car” and a 4 door sedan pops into your head. When someone tells you “think of an average rock group” and Def Leppard pops into your head. I like Def Leppard a lot, but they are definitely a sedan that has a sporty vibe to it, like a Honda Accord. Dependable rock

Good band of hard-rock.

The songs that were released to the radio are awesome. The rest barely qualify as music. That's not a knock against DL, I think it's just how they did business. They kept recording knowing that roughly every fourth song they wrote would be a hit. Not a bad way to get rich.

Meh. 2.5

Really not my type, but there's a few hits and it'S part of the pop rock culture.

Slick 80s hard rock with the melody always at the forefront. Very much of its time, but still enjoyable today. Rating: 3/5 Playlist track: Photograph Date listened: 14/10/22

Nostalgia thy name is Def Leppard. I can't rate this album, I can only rate how much I liked junior high school. Or more accurately, how much I like channeling teenage me. Actually *being* a teenager isn't an experience I would wish on anyone.

Absolute cheesy metal gold. Good for aiding productive work and smiling to. Corniest, 80s-est, best-est. 8 year old me would have lost my mind over it. It's not a work of art but it's the perfect representation of what it is

Very enjoyable, listened to this album driving to the airport and made for great driving music..not sure if it's good music ??? I have no idea. Each song was fun

Fun songs and good energy but nothing too special in my mind

Maybe better than most hair metal of the era but this is still “plastic” rock and roll.

I view Def Leppard as the band closest to the border of “good” vs “bad” classic rock, but on the bad side (I think Van Halen is closest to this border on the good side). Some of these songs are fun to listen to, but a lot of it is too over the top for me and I’d rather just hear AC/DC. They do bring some welcome melody to this type of music, but it all feels so dated and corny.

Good at the beginning, went a little boring at the end, not too hard rock

At first you love it but it all gets a bit samey by the time you get 3/4’s through. Still an enjoyable listen in moderation.

Easy listening, Good sound, however vett generic

College!

Solid album by def Lep. I feel like pour some sugar on me is their quintessential song but I liked the sound of this album more than that song. This one had a good mix of arena rock/classic rock that was upbeat and easy to listen to. 6.9/10

This was very rock and roll...its fine

3/5 Best song: Photograph

Ok album, only listened twice, but definitely felt like I was in a mid-80’s action movie

Def Leppard sound relatively generic here, but all ten tracks are gimmick-free, competent hair metal and I like hair metal.

Nothing exciting

Def Leppard is just alright

Big old glitzy riffs

While I would consider Hysteria their best album, this is a pretty good album. The highlights for me were "Photograph", "Too Late For Love", and "Rock Of Ages" the middle being my personal favorite.

Some of this album is too pop for me, but some is pretty good, it's somewhere between a 3 and a 4 for me, I enjoyed most of it, and even the tracks I didn't like weren't bad, just not my thing.

More fun than I expected. But then spotify played similar tracks and they were so much better

Liked about half of it

British hair farmers, let me ask you a question... "Do your amps go up to eleven...?" Listening to this album is like watching the Hallmark Channel in surroundsound for 24-straight hours. There's so much drama and you really don't care about any of it.

The story of Rick Allen losing his arm and continuing to be a drum legend is the main thing I knew about Def Leppard before listening to this album. (That, and that they must be lousy spellers. Though, as it turns out, not as bad at spelling as an increasing number of modern bands I've encountered recently and had to really roll my eyes at the hip, edgy, alternative spelling of things.) Anyway, UK and Irish country roads are terrifying, and I don't know why anyone would drive their Corvette really fast on those nightmares. Glad Allen survived and adapted though. But like many other hair metal bands, I couldn't have told you which band sang which song. Maybe if pressed I could have correctly guessed "Photograph." That song, along with the other singles ("Rock of Ages," "Foolin'," and "Too Late for Love") really carry the album. That's a pretty high percentage of stellar hard rock songs from that era/style. In the end though, that era/style isn't my favorite. I enjoy the hits, but it isn't really something I seek out and come back to. Pretty much that whole genre is the definition of 3-star music for me.

I’m cruising through town in my Pontiac Firebird Trans Am with the windows down and this album blasting of course. Joe Elliott wails “There’s danger in the air” (Billy’s Got A Gun). God damn right and the danger is me. At a stop light, I glance in the rear view to comb my mullet and adjust my black leather jacket. I turn to the babe in the waiting car next me and wink. I just made her day. -Billy Madison…maybe -break- Rock Of Ages has two tie ins to other songs I know in the first 20 seconds which is fun: First, the “Gunter glieben glauchen globen” is also used by The Offspring in Pretty Fly (For A White Guy). The phrase is gibberish according to Def Leppard. Second “It’s better to burn out…yeah, then fade away” is a direct lift from Neil Young’s 1979 song My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue). An interesting homage from this glam/hair rock band to Mr. Young. If I were of the impressionable musical age in 1983, I’m sure this album would have a great deal of nostalgia. Lacking that experience, I could’ve definitely pump my fist to this at 1230am at the pub, except I would have gone to bed 2 hours earlier.

Somewhere between hair metal and butt rock, and can’t make up its mind. Hiring Mutt Lange is a deal with the devil - he will get you some hits, but you’ll have to sacrifice your edge for commerciality.

Go klassisk hårdrock

seems a bit slick and overproduced, not as good as I remembered, but typically 80's fare.

Fun album for what it is. Kind of all you need from that glammy, hair metal, arena rock era. Lots of radio hits – other than that, "Stagefright" was a fun one. I think this genre, as whole, hasn't aged very well. Probably won't be returning to this album any time soon.

Plus ou moins ce à quoi je m'attendais

ptit def leppard entre deux albums de simon & garfunkel tu connais

There will be no hair-metal slander in my house!

Better to burn out with Pyromania than fade away like Def Leppard.

only true boy task band i’ve liked so far. just some boys who want to rock. maybe “liked” is a stretch, but still, huge props

I've never listened to Def Leppard before and this is my first exposure. If you asked me to name an 80s metal sound, this would be it. It just sounds so 80s. In short doses it is okay but 45 minutes is too much for me. 2.5/5

Enjoyable if a little repetitive sounding. A high 3* maybe.

I mean like whatever

I like Photograph and a few others were good listens.

Poppy rock with killer guitar lines.

Du bon rock. Je connais le rock ''commercial'' ou ''glam'' de Def Leppard. je ne déteste pas, meme que ca s'écoute très bien. Cependant, ca manque un petit quelque de mon côté. 3.5

This is very nostalgic, though I was a much bigger fan of Hysteria. This still brings everything you expect from Def Leppard though, sometimes they veer a little too much towards AC/DC'ness for my liking, but in general it's a fun listen.

Pretty straightforward hair metal, direct and to the point. Nothing especially fancy or artistic happening here. Enjoyable but not a "stand out of the crowd" type of record. Props to Def Leppard for being one of the first bands to popularize this sound. Fave tracks: Photograph, Too Late for Love, Rock of Ages

Still not my thing

Some great songs here, both in the singles and deep album cuts, but overall it is less consistent than the album it precedes; that inconsistently really brings it down.

Some of the songs are really good. These guys are seen as heavy metal gods but they sound like a classic hair metal band. There are other metal bands which are far more dark or metal.

Middling hair metal. The best song is probably 'photograph", but I prefer the Santana version of that as well. I was surprised to hear the sample from "pretty fly for a white guy" at the start of "rock of ages", but mostly because there is not other obvious influence on The Offspring by Def Leppard

Vähän pliisua menoa, mutta ihan soivaa rockia silti.

Ihan vänkä ja tasavahva levykokonaisuus

this was rock music

Can't deny that it's great stuff. A bit tired of it tho

sounds like guns n' roses

Rock ochentero, de película de los 80s, instituto.

Identifying Def Leppard : it’s Def Leppard

I don't know. When there is a band like this--borderline at best to be among the albums you have to hear before you die-- and the album on the list doesn't have their most famous song on it, it makes worried that there are multiple albums by this band on the list. When, again, this one already seemed like a questionable inclusion.

These guys spent a lot of time telling everyone how much they want to 'Rock' and despite no objections from anyone, they kept saying it anyway. No one is stopping you, guys. Feel free to Rock as much as you like but maybe do it over there, okay? One of my first records in the early 90s was a Def Lep album and shortly after I discovered punk and forgot all about them. Listening to this today, I made the right choice.

Boring, didn't touch the sides.

Slightly better than Hysteria in that it was shorter. Otherwise it is similarly bleh. I just don’t care for this type of hard rock. I could be listening to AC/DC instead. Foolin’ is an alright song.

There's more than one??? This was actually slightly better than I thought it would be, probably due to the slick production.

"The Gods of high-school metal" the book says. Well, we know the likelihood I like it. The reality? I will never understand. The 80s can keep it.

Look what you've done to this rock 'n' roll clown. This album has more vocal tracks than a Beach Boys record.

Quite cheesy but some good guitar tones Faves: Photograph

Makes me want to crash a Trans AM into a tree

Mid

A lot of people like this style of cheese rock. I do not.

Today, music like this sounds like a parody of itself. I'm completely serious when I say that I can't actually tell if this is serious or not. It's not bad it's just totally bland. Kind of like if Guns N' Roses didn't have Slash, AC/DC didn't have Angus Young, and Rolling Stones didn't have heroin 1.9

Vsf roque

Not for me

A few fun standouts drowned in a wall of generic filler

I'd rather Listen to ACDC

boo

good for buttrock breakfast, meh for everything else.

--Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)...I can tell already this is not my thing. the dreaded butt rock --Photograph...heavy rotation on classic rock radio. it's fine --Stagefright...fun guitar solo. the production is nice --Too Late for Love...the super serious track --Die Hard the Hunter...what a title. cool riff once it gets going. head bopper --Foolin'...dammit this LP is slowly winning me over. I usually like my rockers to be a little more raw sounding but the clean production works for this group --Rock of Ages...it's not complicated but these guys do tap into something primal/instinctual --Comin' Under Fire...starting to repeat themselves --Action! Not Words...see above --Billy's Got a Gun...nice bass chug. it's decent but it's too long on an already long LP. and what is with the weird outro?

Not for me but still pretty fun

This one is a Nissan Z with the legendary T-top roof from the 80s. Was it a great car? No. But if your parents owned one, and mine did, you’ll probably remember it and smile. It was so of its era. Completely absurd now.

Struggled with this - all a bit naff - feels very teenage bedroom stuff and very American for a Sheffield band - not awful, just meh!

Every song sounded like it was going to break into Livin’ on a Prayer

it started and then it finished

I have very little interest in glam metal. This will sound gatekeepery but it removes what sets metal apart in having a bit of bite, watering that down into pretty standard melodic rock. I'm not trying to knock commercial appeal because I think other bands have done it well without doing this (Metallica, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, System of a Down) There are some pretty good riffs though. 2.5 Highlights: Stagefright

Typical Mutt Lange sound somewhere between AC/DC and Bryan Adams. It's a strange thing about that whole Hair "Metal" era, that they use these wild aesthetics while basically playing smooth pop with a pseudo rough production. Def Leopard rally takes the cake in that department with absolutely ridiculous lyrics with no trace of substance and music without the slightest rough edge, passion or even innovation. Deeply commercial and superficial the entrance of even a second album in this list is as ridiculous as their music, even though their guitar pop is kind of okay on the radio and doesn't stick out in between, say, Journey or the Eagles.

Domme, matige jaren 80 pop vermomd als metal om in te cashen op het snel groeiende genre. Een soort Imagine Dragons van begin jaren 80 dit. Er zit gelukkig hier en daar nog een catchy refreintje tussen.

Goofy pop lyrics disguised as heavy metal. No thanks. Rock rock till you drop. Oy vey

We probably didn't need two Def Leppard albums on this list. Still, it is a fun, low-stakes time to listen two, although I think I preferred Hysteria a bit more. Just something to turn off your brain to, not really the pinnacle of art. Key tracks: Photograph

I've been hearing tracks from this album on the radio since I was a child. There's a certain amount of suspicion in my mind that Def Leppard is one of the bands that led my young self to believe that I just didn't like much music. I suspect I'm going to blame Mutt Lange, producer (and man who singularly did not deserve Shania Twain) for a lot of this, but let's see, shall we? First up: Joe Elliott sounds like a half-assed version of Brian Johnson, with that sort of high falsetto growl that hair metal bands from this period all displayed. Everything sounds thin and tinny, like they were trying to make room for the kick drum and the bass, which both disappear in the mix anyway. I looked it up and learned that Def Leppard had three guitars on this record (not simultaneously; Pete Willis was fired for substance abuse and replaced by Phil Collen; Steve Clark is also present) but the guitars are all so high-timbred that I'm beginning to understand that late-90's obsession with 7- and 8-stringed down-tuned guitars that some of the numetal guys had. Allegedly, a man named Rick Savage plays bass on this record. Rick Allen (famously one-armed, having lost the other in an accident) plays drums. The old joke goes, "What has nine arms and sucks? Def Leppard." It's not Allen's fault, though -- he's fine. The album does contain vocal hooks (variously boring and overly saccharine), competent guitar solos (flimsy imitations of Thin Lizzy and Boston, eventually outshone profoundly by Metallica; always outdone by Bon Jovi's Ritchie Sambora) and gang vocal harmonies but a lot of it is lost in the swirling flanger effects that infest the rhythm guitar tracks, the reverb that undermines the guts of the lead singing and the drums and whatever they did to the bass recordings. It's possible there's a decent album in here -- a big concession for me. Some of this sounds like things I like in other bands but it feels insubstantial and/or overproduced. 'Stagefright' has a pretty good drive to it (I won't call it a groove) and 'Too Late For Love' almost gets a mid-tempo Van Halen thing going (but doesn't). And yet, some people revere this band. It feels hollow, soft and robotic. It has all the trappings of interesting music -- we've got your wailing singer, call-and-response, key changes, breakdowns, stomp-clap beats, furious sweep-picking and (somewhere, a Rick plays on) a bass player! It just doesn't gel. It sounds like wallpaper, digitized and pixelated -- but not quite enough to have a cool, lo-fi sound. The backing vocals sound like a synth pad. The guitars sound like someone recorded the amps through a telephone. The drums, as this album is from 1983, sound like horseshit sitting on hot asphalt, stomped on by several pipe and drum bands. There is also a synth here that seriously fucks up the gang vocals ('Die Hard The Hunter' features that synth mirroring their melodies and it is not helping.) Holy fuck the drums sound terrible -- and not for lack of skill. That snare sound is awful. Rick Allen taught himself to play his drums predominantly with his feet and this is how you treat him? I think Mutt Lange ruined this band. The record sounds like it was mastered by taping it off an AM radio station. Listen to some Metallica or Van Halen or Iron Maiden from this era instead. I'll go as far as saying this is better than either 2010's numb-indie or (*spits on the ground*) the Smiths. It's a toss-up whether I'd rather listen to this or that one Kid Rock album again. I'd probably take The Cure instead. I bet these guys sounded good live, though, once they got away from Lange. 2/5, though you should probably eat these vegetables once before you die: this was all over the radio from its release in 1983 right through till the early 2000's and it really pushed the music industry. Some people imitated it (Bryan Adams really sounds like this; another Mutt Lange production) and I think it's clear that there's a backlash to this that happens. Grunge is the opposite -- no Spandex, no perms, simpler production, deeper timbres and grooves (some baritone singers!) and a pretty different lyrical focus (opposite Diamond Dave).

80s rock is so meh

this band is well edgy. rock til you drop, edgy as fuck. look at that artwork. edgy as fuck. listen to those guitar solos, edgy as fuck

"Kih-kuh-kuh YUYEEEAHHHH I'M DOCTOR ROCKZO! THE ROCK AND ROLL CLOWN 🤡 I DO COCAAAAINE!" I swear to god if you think "fun" is a strong defense for dogshit hair metal, then you can't be trusted with anything of critical importance. You could be listening to Priest or Iron Maiden. Hell, even the thrashers are making records. I hate this so much.

It was alright some big hits, but felt like a lot of filler.

I was never a fan of this band, but I had no idea how cheesy Def Leppard was until this listen. And it hits you in the face like a brick of Velveeta right out of the gate: rock, rock till you drop! Rock, rock never stop! Woof. That's a rough opener. It's got their breakout hit, Photograph, and zero substance as one would expect from pop-hair-metal. When it can fairly be said that bands like Ratt, Poison, and Cinderella have more musical and artistic depth than your band, your band sucks. This is a 2* album. I have discovered another crime committed by the author/editors: Weezer (The Blue Album) from Weezer is not on the list. Pyromania should get the boot to be replaced by Weezer (The Blue Album), which is a no-brainer 5*.

Ya know. As classic rock goes. It isn't the worst.

On a scale of black sabbath to steel panther, how much can you be a parody of your own shtick? It is dumb fun yes but all things that make hair metal good have been done better by other bands. This voice was done better by ac/dc, drums were beter on Judas Priest and the guitar work greatly surpassed by Van Halen. This kind of music is what would spur a counterculture in rock music to rise up and dethrone this corpo metal.

Dit is echt van die zwaar overdreven, veel te strakke broeken hair metal. Soms best prima, maar na 2 nummers weet ik wel al: een heel album is gewoon te lang hier van. De zang is overdreven, in de hoek van AC/DC en de muziek is snel, maar toch ook nog een beetje poppy ofzo? Ik denk dat het komt doordat de productie echt super slick is. Dan voelt de muziek al snel wat meer pop ondanks de scheurende gitaren. Maar jezus, wat een zit is dit zeg. Ik ben nu al rock n roll moe en ik ben pas op nummer 5 van de 10. Het is niet slecht perse, het is gewoon zo ontzettend nietszeggend. Ik kan me gewoon niet echt voorstellen dat iemand boven de 14 dit echt goed vind en dan een heel album lang... Bizar eigenlijk, dat deze gasten een heel album hebben kunnen vullen met het zelfde nummer en dat er dan ook nog eens blijkbaar genoeg variatie in zat dat men dit als invloedrijk zag. Heb sterk het idee dat ik dit allemaal al eens heb gehoord, maar dat kan mijn beperkte hairglammetal kennis zijn. Ben in elk geval blij dat ik nu richting het einde van het album ga, want wat een lange zit was dit. Klote om te zien dat er nog een Def Leppard album op de lijst staat, wie weet proberen ze dan eens iets nieuws..? FAVO: Stagefright

Nah. Did not last

it's the rock music that followed the greatest rock era...

I’ve never really taken Def Leppard seriously. Beyond respecting the band for sticking with their drummer after he lost an arm, their music has always felt like the kind of polished arena rock that never quite connected with me. Listening to Pyromania, I can hear why it was such a massive album, but I also found myself wondering if I was missing something. Outside of “Photograph,” which is a deserved classic, the first half mostly blends together into a parade of pop-metal clichés and interchangeable riffs. Songs like “Stagefright,” “Too Late for Love,” and “Die Hard the Hunter” never really left an impression. The second half is stronger, with “Rock of Ages” delivering a genuinely catchy anthem and “Comin’ Under Fire” hinting at something closer to the hard rock I enjoy. “Billy’s Got a Gun” has an interesting structure too, even if it overstays its welcome. The real star of the album might be producer Mutt Lange. The production is huge, polished, and influential. In fact, I think that influence is part of why Pyromania doesn’t land as hard for me today. This album laid the blueprint for countless ’80s pop-metal bands, and after decades of hearing those ideas copied and recycled, a first listen in 2026 feels less groundbreaking and more familiar. It’s a solid album, but not one I see myself returning to often. That said, I’m still curious to hear where they took the formula on Hysteria. 3.5/10

4/10

Im sorry to my local boys but I do not like this.

These dudes have a hard-on for rock and roll! Call that cock and roll. Hahaha. Anyway, this is just endless 104.3 core - in one ear, out the other.

Rating: 2.5/5 Playlist track: Photograph Date listened: 11/06/26 Listen when: - Too metal-ly for me unfortunately but can appreciate the attempt to make it more consumable for the masses. But attempt it remains.

Njae

A bit naff

Not particularly remarkable

I thought maybe they deserved 1 album on this list. This wasn't that album.

Fairly samey , hmmm

It’s just nowhere near as fun as the follow up is it. Lacking any really catchy songs or the over the top production which made them them.

After 1984 this felt meh.

This is pure 80's cheesy hard-rock. Very dated. Only for die-hard fans of the genre or former long-haired men who are now balding from the front.

It's not total dog shit, but I will just never get this band.

kjedelig og repetitivt

Honestly just dad rock -- if I hear this in a radio station, it's an instant skip. The voice is annoying, and every song sounds the same. 2*

O que estraga são os vocais. Voz chata demais. O resto é ok, são canções pesadas mas legais. O estilo de produção e de instrumentalização é bem característico do seu período de criação, mas eu gosto disso. Gosto dessas bateria que parecem ter sido gravadas de outra sala totalmente separada do resto dos instrumentos. Mas é, os vocais machucam muito minha impressão do disco. 2.5

I can hear a lot of the guitar influences in the 90’s bands I like e.g. smashing pumpkins, offspring, maybe blink. Not a huge fan of the synthesized chorus voice harmonies…seems too digitized or…something. Really like the guitars and seem to be really good recording quality. 2.5 stars

Listened twice because it was forgettable, to my ears

Oh fuck. I was so sure this was going to be a 5. I was absolutely the prime age when this came out - 13, all hopped up on MTV and hormones. I found “Photograph” to be the most achingly romantic song I’d ever heard. “Rock of Ages” with its vaguely medieval gobbedly gook at the opening and of course the iconic video, spoke to me of mysticism and danger. “Pyromania” was just a head-banging epic, also dangerously suggesting that thrilling diversion. I am so sorry to find that this record is not a thing of perfection, but so stupid and hackneyed it’s barely endurable. Oh man is it lame. I give it up to the producer who made all these into earworms with irresistible hooks and whoever fashioned Def Leppard into a safely defanged and video-ready version of much more genuine heavy metal. The saving grace for me is “Foolin’,” still a rocker, and one I’ve been singing for days.

A solid rock record but nothing revolutionary. I like the opening 2 songs and rock of ages was a banger but I felt myself drifting off with other songs. Wouldn’t be against more Def Leppard but won’t be back to this very often

Iets te glammy voor mij

Album cover en titel moet insinueren dat je je vast moet houden, want het wordt vuurwerk. De helft van de nummers spreekt over rock and roll. Wat je krijgt is commerciële sell-out pop. Het is geen mega slecht album maar het mist volledig authenticiteit en diepgang. Wel een beetje kenmerkend voor hair en glam metal. Maar dan nog is dit uitermate oninteressant.

Cock rock hair metal. Two stars

I’m not immune to Mutt’s mix of pop melodies and hard rock and the gang vocal effects, but the hard rock filler here is just...so boilerplate. I love Photograph and the similar title song on Hysteria, but Stagefright is the only thing here that comes close. Rock! Rock! starts off on a promising note and then immediately goes to their safe place, which worked at the time.

Man, I was very impressed by the first track. And Photograph is an all-time great song. But after those first two tracks, I just felt like I was listening to the same song over and over. And those songs weren’t all that interesting. I came in knowing (and loving) Photograph and knowing Rock of Ages. But was pretty unimpressed with everything else except Rock Rock Rock. To be fair, I’m not a big Def Leppard fan to begin with

This is too dull, and same sounding. I kept thinking of a thousands different bands in terms of sound, and the lyrics are cliché to an absurd degree.

music brought to you by a guy who sounds like dr rockso the rock and roll clown

meh

Meh

This is 100% not my cup of tea.

Def straight up stole American glam rock and watered it down worse. But Photograph is always gonna be an iconic banger. Not intolerable, but i don't like it.

Heard of them. Not a big fan but an OK album.

There was absolutely nothing even remotely appealing about this. Just straight hair rock. I thought there might be some sentimental song i remember from the 80s, but nope, that was only for Hysteria. Not even remotely going to listen to this again. 2 stars

p504. 1983. 2 stars. Inexplicably popular generic 80s stadium rock with no standout tunes. This is what you get if you splice the DNA of AC/DC and Bon Jovi. Nothing here that hasn't been done bigger and better by the Aussies.

Pretty much exactly as one would expect a Def Leppard album to be Standout songs: Photograph Die Hard the Hunter

Only good thing kid rock ever said was Def Leppard sucks. The first half is decent but it falls pretty hard in the second half.

I really don't care for this style of music. I tried to listen to this album but I kept fast-forwarding tracks after I couldn't take anymore.

I mean, yea the band had two absolute smash hit albums in the 80s, but both are wank, so we really only needed one album to appear. Think of the many, many, much better artists who didn't get a single entry. To their credit, one of the songs (forgotten the name already) is an underrated power ballad, and some of them have decent riffs...only for the resulting songs to be balls.

Don't like def leppard

Cheese and glam… but also a little nostalgia. Not the worst of the 80s arena rock but not that great either. This bubblegum “hard” rock music and its ilk didn’t appeal to me then and I still think it sucks.

Although I rather enjoyed the vocals on this record, I personally just could not get in to it. My listen made it feel as if every song was meddling together. It feels like an album I will eventually give a second chance to but as of right now I can not muster much praise for it.

Just not for me.

Kind of liked maybe 2 songs. 2.51

I really don't like this band, really don't like this album. There's some nice guitar work here and there, and it's got a strong arena rock sound, though things like the drum sounds sound so compressed and dull. I have to give it a 2 because 1 would imply that there is zero appeal which I don't feel. Is Photograph a decent pop rock song for its time? Sure. But as an album this has no business being here.

hmmm

I've never liked Def Leppard, so when Pyromania popped up, I put it off for later. I have to admit that despite sounding like self-parody, there's some decent melody in a few songs. Others are too cheesy for it to matter. The hits, "Photograph", "Foolin'", and "Rock of Ages" are at least inoffensive. I'll also have to hand it to Mutt Lange, whose production is kind of incredible. Pyromania is what it is. It introduced some version of metal to the masses, and unfortunately that was Def Leppard. How dumb the music is vs how great the record sounds.

I listened to half of it. Certified Home Depot Radio Dad Rock album that I don't care much for tbh sry. They do have some ear worms which is why they're so popular but not for me. 35-40/100

Sure it might have had a big influence, for hair metal and whatnot. It is so screamingly mediocre, I never want to hear it again. 2/5

Just ok, never was a fan and this go around isn't no different, fun rock to drive to and that's about it to my ears

Yep, those vocals are very 80s heavy rock coded. Not for me. Favourite Track(s): Photograph Least Favourite Track(s): Comin' Under Fire, Billy's Got A Gun

lowk boring sorry

Honestly I'm just not the biggest fan of 80's hair metal, and this doesn't have the hits their previous album had. Occasionally this had some energy but overall this was too much hair metal for me. 4/10

Did not like

Hair metal still sucks

Everything that had me not liking metal. This was insipid. I get the appeal for the 12 year old male, or some of them, anyway. Just not for me.

Very generic hair metal. Nothing that really stood out for me.

Getting this a few days after 'Hysteria', my first reaction to this was 'seriously, there are two Def Leppard albums on this list?' This is so generic it feels the like the result of an AI prompt for '80's rock with no real content other than how much they like to rock'.

Used to love this album when I was younger and wanted to hang out with my sister and her friends because I thought they were cool. Over forty years later, it doesn’t hold up for me musically anymore. Rock Of Ages is still a banger, though.

Apparently I was getting Def Leppard confused with another band because I didn't recognize hardly any of these songs. I know they were instrumental in forming that 80's hair metal sound and at the time it was a new thing but now this album almost sounds like a caricature of the genre. It isn't bad but I guess I don't like this type of rock/metal as much as I thought I did.

2.5

Drunk mom rock (who tried cocaine once).

I absolutely cannot believe that there are two Def Leppard albums on this list. I have already heard Hysteria, surely that's enough Def Leppard for anyone. Interesting that Rock of Ages began "Gunter, glieben, glauten, Globen", same as the Offspring's Pretty Fly For a White Guy. That's where the Offspring got it from, but does it mean anything? I have just looked it up and the answer is no, the Offspring just thought it was funny and wanted to use the sample. That's the only item of interest I found in this whole album. It's fine, but Hysteria was more enjoyable for me. Pyromania can be left on the cutting room floor.

2.25 - Better than expected, but still not my jam.

J’ai mis pour courir, ça fait le taf mais pas ma came

Not their peak.

I'm sorry. I just can't take cock rock seriously. I grew up with it. Everyone around me loved it. While there are some bangers, probably because I'm incessant 90s Classic Rock overplay, for the most part I still think it's the equivalent of bad 8th grade poetry couple with tight jeans. Went into this wanting to like it more than I thought I would. I didn't.

classic rock, not bad

no me gusta

Ok

Hey, I know "Mutt" Lange! I didn't know he was the innovator of "Gunter glieben glauten globen", though. What a legacy... This album was less enjoyable than I expected. More noisy, more guitars. 'Photograph' sounds like 'More Than A Feeling', but worse. It's probably hard to be a musician named 'Phil Collen'. It's confusing that 'Rock of Ages' is a musical with no Def Leppard songs in it. This doesn't seem bad enough for a 2, but if a 3 is "decent"... Highlight: 'Foolin' (ballad-y)

I just hate glam rock. I hate the hits more than I hate the deep cuts that didn't get pummeled on the radio. Voice is strained and unpleasant. Studio production is thin and compressed. Synths are 80's bad synthetic, after they lost the 70's analog warmth and before they got good again. Drum sounds are just artificial and out of balance. It's rock without energy, pop without danceability, corporate rock for the masses. I can't go to 1 but no chance this hits 3.

2/5 and this is my favorite Def Leppard album

So this is Rock of Ages huh

okay so the album art is super awesome but the music sucks ass

I’d say these are a lot of fun live, but nothing exciting on this studio album. Feels like they’re almost a parody of themselves

By the time Def Leppard make Pyromania, any lingering romance about bands as gangs is already museum culture. Even the idea of the band as jobbing musicians putting up with each other is old hat. Queen were edging toward corporate theatre as early as 1972. There were touring groups in the 60s that existed in name alone. But Kiss understood instantly that the band didn’t even need the name, they could simply be the logo. By Def Leppard, the transition is complete: the band is a vessel, a container for a product, its members less important to the public imagination than the typography on the sleeve. Perhaps that’s too strong. There is a sense of a gang in Def Leppard: when Rick Allen loses his arm, they gather round him. Although it is telling that the most visible member of Def Leppard becomes visible through absence. Even on the record, there are glimpses of a real living breathing band in the verses, more thoughtfully arranged than the choruses. However, it is the choruses where it all goes to Hell, where everything the focus group circled in red - anthemic, uplifting, memorable - is smooshed together. The choruses come in, not like attack jets of precision, but as the spoon-as-airplane motion where the band feeds the audience their mush. They excuse the sub-Judas Priest of what preceded by not being Judas Priest at all. When the Offspring cribbed the start of Rock of Ages for Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) were they commenting on the risible populist cool of their protagonist or their own attempt at novelty hit-making? It’s the same thing, Def Leppard selling out hard rock for radio-friendly gloss, selling out their verses to their choruses. But, perhaps, that is just what rock looks like when stops pretending it isn’t pop. 2 This was a miserable listen. We’d be here all day enumerating all the different elements which make Pyromania an objectively terrible album. Instead let’s focus on the positives. Rick Allen lost an arm after this record in a car accident and the band stood by their chum! Fair play. Theirs was one of the most inspirational VH1 Behind the Musics I ever watched. Easily earns them an extra half mark every time, even for the two-armed drumming records. 1.5/5

This was definitely corny but it is fun at times. I didn’t hate this but I can’t give it more than a 2. They get on a roll here or there but a couple good moments does not make a great album.

Didn’t need more than one Def Leppard record on this lost and this one isn’t as good as the other.

Good fun, metal for the masses. The longer you listen, the more it all blends into one bland monolith.

2/4

La décennie 80 est bien celle de la mort du rock.

Well, sorry mom, I hate this. Divorced dad has better music taste

don’t love the 80s glam rock vibe, had a few bops.

Okay, the haters have a point, and high school me would sneer, and every other song on the album really is kinda lame, but Rock of Ages is a feakin' masterpiece.

Dumb poodle hair 80's soft rock! yeah! Rock! I love Rock! lets Rock! All the songs sound the same and appear to all be about the same thing (Rock!) - but its inoffensive and well produced and quite fun to drive to.

What a terrible album cover. Music for A-Team fans. Give it a star for the start of '80s glam-metal and Photograph is a classic '80s rock song, but anyone liking this is pure nostalgia. ACDC's softer little brother. Hysteria the better album for full on cheesy '80s accessible-manly-glam-pop-rock-metal-roar-ness.

OK, this was essential listening when I was a nine-year-old hesher, and I am a little ashamed to admit I still know every song on this album. That being said, it lost its shine for me LONG ago. I can make a pretty good argument that this was the Prometheus of metal (at least in mainstream circles) becoming a toothless caricature of itself. There are defiantly a few riffs left here reminiscent of Judas Priest, but for the most part this is watered down and polished for popular consumption. Great for DF because this album certainly made them a household name but tis is background music for me.

Still dislike.

Yeah, not good. This is everything wrong with glam. It's just run of the mill cheesiness, with nothing interesting or special musically or lyrically. It's worst sin is that it's antithetical to everything metal should be. This is pop music posturing as metal / hard rock, and it's a shame it took the spotlight off of some actually talented metal bands of the era. 1.5/5.0: Bad

Decent. I like photograph and some of the other tracks like the opener and rock n roll are good too. There’s some definite mid on here. Im gonna give it a 2 because they couldve put so many other albums on this list and they chose this one

Metal and Pop, can, and do, mix. Neither of these things happened here.

this is a rock song!

I think hair metal had its place and time, but that has surely long passed. This record sounds like a parody of 80s metal. Stupid lyrics, simple and cheesy music, fantastic sounding and really well played guitars. It's like they wanted to make a more radio friendly metal but lost all of what made heavier music good by slapping so much makeup on it. I feel like this kind of music still has its fans but they are all the same fans that were there in the 80s going to see these bands every weekend. I would be very surprised if there were many new fans of this kind of music. I suppose this era of rock has to be represented on this list and this is as good an album for that as any - half of these songs are playing on countless classic rock radio stations right now. But I would guess there are quite a few of these records on the list, and I think there's even another from Def Leppard which is fully unnecessary. 2.25/5

None of the songs stood out to me, most interesting thing about the album is the intro sample to pretty fly for a white guy

Def Leppard were on track to be a massive part of the NWOBHM in the 80s, then said "nah, we wanna make crap."

Well produced, but not to my taste

I like this rock more than the others but still not my thing give me winehouse or Beyone something pls maybe

I’ve never intentionally listened to Def Leppard before today, and yet I “knew” three songs from this (photograph, too late for love, rock of ages). Pretty impressive staying power for DL. And I even liked one song (photograph)!

01) Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop) - 6,5 02) Photograph - 6,5 03) Stagefright - 5,5 04) Too Late for Love - 6,0 05) Die Hard the Hunter - 5,5 06) Foolin' - 6,0 07) Rock of Ages - 6,5 08) Comin' Under Fire - 5,5 09) Action! Not Words - 5,0 10) Billy's Got a Gun - 5,5 TOTAL: 5,85 (59/100) Current ranking: 641/785

There are occasional moments of cheesy fun in here but overall it is very bland and repetitive hair metal.

Местами это неплохо, я не против стадионного хард-рока, но песни звучат практически одинаково. Альбом мог бы быть вдвое короче. Лучшая песня: Comin` Under Fire

This started off with such a bang and then just tapered off into mediocrity. Disappointing.

A última linha da resenha do livro resume bem o disco: "Deus do metal para adolescentes". Bem fraquinho!

Coupl'a bangers but I'm glad this is on the list so I can say definitely that I don't like Def Lep 2/5

I’ve never listened to a Def Leppard album. And now I understand why. I get that hair metal had its time and place. Just not in my headphones. The band is solid so I can’t say they aren’t good at their craft.

Meh

Not into this style

Fav: Stagefright Least Fav: Rock Of Ages I’m now halfway through the list! Not really a memorable album to mark the occasion but oh well

Generic bordering misogynistic

I just can't get into this. I understand this is the musical equivalent to something like a Fast and the Furious movie, i.e. I should turn off my brain and enjoy the fun, but even from a cheesy nostalgic angle, it's not doing it for me. However, "Photograph" is a great song.

Trying to put myself in the mindset of how it was received when it first dropped, and if it was groundbreaking? It sounds cohesive, but it blends together quite a bit. God I really hate Janie’s Got a Gun too, a big ol stinker album for me

I don’t get it. It’s cheesy at best, boring at worst.

This sounds like commercial hard rock. I was excited to listen to a band on so many people's T-shirts, but I'm feeling indifferent with anything they might've inspired after this. Maybe this is what's been copied by rebel ballad singers for the next few decades. It's not the worst rock I've ever heard but I don't want it near my speakers. 1.7/5

Dumb poodle hair 80's soft rock! yeah! Rock! I love Rock! lets Rock! All the songs sound the same and appear to all be about the same thing (Rock!) - but its inoffensive and well produced and quite fun to drive to.

Pyromania Photograph and Rock of Ages are dumb, but great fun 80s glam-metal-pop dumb. The rest of it is mostly just not very good dumb. A bit like Dre and the proliferation of dick sucking, they sing about rock and rock’n’roll constantly, to the point where you wonder about their insecurities. I do have a soft spot for Mutt Lange’s production on this sort of thing, he really does know how to make this 80s rock sound spacious and stadium filling, it’s just there aren’t really many good songs on here, with nothing outside of Photograph and Rock of Ages and possibly Action! Not Words eliciting much of a response, so it all feels a bit wasted. Definitely not the worst album, so it’s not a 1, but I can’t imagine coming back to it, ergo a 2. 🔥🔥

This has the sort of 80s soft-rock feel that makes you think shit MTV videos, spandex one-pieces, and flammable hair. Leaving behind harder rock roots, which I've never heard and so can't compare, this seems a cynical move to mimic AC/DC, ZZ Top and Kiss. However the first track 'Rock! Rock! (Til You Drop!)', which is pure AC/DC, ain't half bad. A rollicking riff. 'Photograph' has a chorus that transports one to an 80s high school comedy film, sounding like any soft rocker you care to mention, but it certainly has a radio-friendly melody. It all gets a bit turgid after that. Like wading through 80s treacle (Tate & Lyle). My favourite bit of this album was realising that the beginning of 'Pretty Fly' by Offspring is a sample. I had read 'Rock of Ages' was a single so assumed it'd have some redeeming features - but the treacle just got a hell of a lot thicker.

lmao

boring

Simple pleasures, I guess, and if I'd had a lobotomy I'd maybe find some enjoyment in it. But just can't forgive it anyway for being so samey and dull. 1.5

god i hate this dude’s voice

Average '80 melodic rock/metal. Not into it as a genre, none of the tracks stuck. Well-executed and smartly written, but that's about all.

Really? I'll admit up front that I have never liked what I heard from Def Leppard. Granted, I've judged this book by its cover for a long time. The name always seemed dumb. The era and genre combo they hail from (80's and rock) has rarely if ever been a combination I've enjoyed. And to throw on top of that - it's hair metal. I cannot stand hair metal. Hair metal bands present as more style than substance to me, and it always confused me when you'd see them in videos. The music comes across as hyper-masculine, but then they present as more feminine than what you'd expect. Nothing wrong with that, but it makes me wonder just how much thought was put into their image. So when I already see them style over substance, and then I see the style doesn't make sense, I just don't go out of my way to investigate. There have been many instances during the course of this project where I have had my expectations defied, where I've been surprised by a band I previously had little patience for. This was not one of those experiences. I did not enjoy this. It seems like they have three kinds of songs, and they cycle through all three over the course of this album. None of them feel particularly original or interesting, and they don't do or say anything new. I really don't understand why this album made the list when plenty of more culturally relevant and important albums were left off. Two stars. Standout Tracks: Die Hard the Hunter

A couple decent songs (the singles) but really didn’t dig the rest. I like some hard rock (Zeppelin, Rush, Ozzy) but hair band albums are a hard sell outside their hits.

Nothing to see here.

Sorry, för töntigt.. även för den tidens rock

I bangered my head somewhat gently.

Not really my thing, but at least it's fun and doesn't take itself too seriously.

This is the most generic, boring rock I've ever heard. One of the songs is even called Rock! Rock! No wonder they're able to get by with a one armed drummer, every beat is exactly the same.

Preposterous soft-metal

80s. Cool man.

God dillerrock, I guess.

Pretty kitsch.

Way too commercialized

Not for me, bordering on hair metal. Some fun elements to it but just not my thing.

This album is incredibly repetitive. The songs are all 25% too long. There’s some fun moments in some of the fun singles, but they’re buried under unnecessary riffs and awful singing.

Dated and underwhelming

If I were young I would think this album was very good, especially if I was young in the 80s. The album has a polished sound to sell.

This sounds like a parody or TV rock.

I wonder if people in the 80's went "You know how in the last 20 years we had some of the best music of all time that kids even 50 years from now will like and listen to? Lets do the opposite of that!"

Extremely mid arena rock

This would probably sound better live, rather than in an empty pub

I wonder what montages they envisioned while recording...super hokey.

The first song is actually terrible, didn’t hate photograph. The rest kind of felt like a parody? Maybe it just reminded me of Spinal Tap.