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Joa net so schlecht. 3 Sterne. Wenn ich 2.5 geben könnte würde ich das hier tun.
No. Just no.
topen
Not usually my sort of rock but this is a pretty fun and not dumb album as you might expect. Photograph and Stagefright are the standouts
Never been much of a fan of a lot of 80’s “hard rock,” the late 60’s- 70’s are just so much better. Usually change the station when a Def Leppard song came on, not sure why. This album wasn’t bad and I didn’t feel the compulsive urge to turn it off like in the past. Not sure if it’s bad enough for a 2 star, maybe 3 is better? Very cool that they have a one-armed drummer.
This one is good but a little generic. It seems like all rock artists of this time have a similar voice, ac dc, led zepplin, def leppard. I think I prefer Led Zepplin over Def Leppard. Its 3.5 stars but its closer to 4
Classic hair metal. "Photograph" was the best, most popular song on the album. Not as strong as Hysteria but I'm a sucker for hair metal. 7/10.
I didn’t know drums could be that bland.
I've always seen Def Leopard a s kind of a joke band, like SUPER stereotypical. I finally get the joke
Only like 4 good songs on the whole album. The rest just sound like noise.
a fine listen, theyre less singing than screaming at the highest octave they could, very boomer rock but still fine
2.5/5. Pretty generic and boring 80s rock. It's not bad, but like I said, it's boring.
Awful, insufferable listen. Billy's got a Gun had it's moments of genuinely good song writing, the rest of the album is utter horseshit.
Sounded like a trash compactor exhaust retracting, where all the bin bags are popping and the hiss of air fizzes and the fetid juices spray and the clatter and scrape of tin cans seem to ring out from your brain rather than your ears. The group vocals were good. Fave track: Billy's Got a Gun
A snoozer for me. Bland music and lyrics I couldn’t click with much at all.
Xlassic
I think we never have enough Def Leppard, but I guess I would enjoy it much more if I had listened to it some years ago.
It's a very fun album, and I find that I've been enjoying listening to these classic rock bands in standalone album form. I've heard them so much on the radio as a kid, that it can take a different context to engage more with the music as more than just background noise.
It’s exactly what I expected. Doesn’t make it bad though!
Favorite Tracks: Foolin’ Rock of Ages Photograph Too Late For Love
Pretty classic classic rock.
This an amazing Hardrock album, almost complete despite some not so good songs!
I will never not laugh at the joke, “what has 9 arms and sucks? Def Leppard” it’s just cynical and snide enough that it brings a smile to my face. This album, on the other hand, is really good! Found myself rating most songs 4-5⭐️s. Catchy vocals, great guitars and fantastic use of the cowbell. Some of the lyrics are a little trite but it’s pop rock, what do you expect?
i can hear the influences on 80s hair metal all throughout the album, but its not exactly its zenith
The most butt of all butt rock. 2/5
Why did we, as a society, let Glam Metal happen. AC/DC already sucks - why would you ever want to emulate their sound? All of these albums sound like they were mass-produced in a Chinese factory by unpaid child labor. So unbelievably bland and mind-numbingly boring. Plus the cheese. Jesus Christ, the C H E E S E. I'm talking Swiss Fondue levels of cheese. Not even "Photograph" can save this from being a 1/5 from me, sorry!
Here it is. The 50th album. And on Thanksgiving too! I'm genuinely shocked that I've managed to have the dedication to doing this for 50 whole days. So, is Def Leppard's Pyromania fitting for an occasion like this? Not really. This is a very basic rock album. The writing is fairly simple, the riffs are made to be catchy, and it's a very accessible album as a whole. Does this mean that the album is bad? I wouldn't say so. I enjoyed listening to this album. I just don't think it's anything too special. Bands like this thrive more on their standalone big hits than their full-fledged albums. Overall, this album does its job of being an accessible metal album and that's about it. It's fun and cheesy, but not exactly a masterpiece. High 3/5.
Hard rocking. Very powerful vocal/chorus parts. Stylish. 3.5/5.
I like Def Leppard and I didn't hate this album, but I feel like I've heard this exact album a dozen other times by other bands
chock full of classic rock radio staples. solid album that just falls of a cliff at the end, the last three songs are absolute filler. highlights: “rock! rock! (til you drop)”, “stagefright”, “foolin’ “…
Crappy radio “hard-rock”
Nah
C'est sympa mais c'est du hard rock totalement générique, un clone parfait d'AC/DC pour les premières chansons, ça évolue un peu après mais bon, rien d'extraordinaire
Little to ignite interest here. Standard rock album of the period. Awful vocals. There are rare guitar thrills though.
I liked it. Several familiar songs. British hard rock but still good. Not every day, but good occasionally.
I guess I see why it’s on the list, but it’s not for me.
Just rocks. Photograph, Rock of Ages, Foolin, and Too Late for Love make this album great. Try listening to the opening riff of Too Late for Love.
eh
Lyder lidt som en parodi på 80’er rock, men det er fedt nok
I gave Hysteria 2.5 stars and I'll have to do the same here. Stick the best hits from both (like Photograph, in this case) onto one album and you've got yourself a 4-star guilty pleasure. But as it is there's too much plodding 80s rock and cringey frontman schtick to wade through on each before you find those sweet choruses.
There was a time when I would have considered this to be heavy metal and not my kind of thing, I was into chart pop. Of course, I hadn’t at that time heard what Metallica or Slayer were putting out. This… just isn’t very good is it? Be honest… take away your nostalgia and rose tints,people, this is indescribably poor…
Some really good sounding music on this album. Some of Def Leppard's most famous songs, but also some very forgettable songs at the same time. Sometimes can sound repetitive. "Photograph" and "Rock of Ages" are classics, but not exactly an unskippable album.
This is actually enjoyable, would listen again
I've always felt this album sounds overproduced and too clean, and I hate the sound on the snare drum. Regardless the songs are catchy, and this and Hysteria will always be fun listens.
Rock ochentero, de película de los 80s, instituto.
The music is fun albeit dated and corny now, but the instant this man started singing I wanted to give him a swirlie and tell him to shut up. Why did we let guys do this voice in the 80s? Smh my head.
Oh, look what you've done to this rock n' roll clown! Ninja Sex Party did it better. Two stars.
An absolute joke that this 80s-strip-club-stereo piece of shit band is on this list with MULTIPLE ALBUMS. Let out a audible "Ewww" when i saw this lot popping up on the page again. If you gave this a 5/5 you probably work in IT and have a hard time getting with women. Would rate 0/5 if i could.
so much fun.... i could not do it every day, and its no background music..... but it certainly is pretty great stuff.
extremely 80s glam rock with synthy cheesy goodness. kind of overstays its welcome, but I can see this being the bee's knees back in the day
Started out with songs you could imagine a band with better taste playing well, then got worse. Did not finish listening. Maybe a great metaphor for the miserable day I just had. music: hated. (⌐■_■)
This has all the trappings of something that rocks, but it does not rock.
Classic 80s hair metal album. It reminds me of a (sort of) serious version of Spinal Tap. Some of the sounds are very reminiscent of regular 80s pop music, particularly the drums. However, given that this is an album from 1983, it's pretty ahead of its time. There are definitely elements of metal here that definitely influenced the power metal scene of the 90s (like Hammerfall, Helloween, etc.) Like most bands that are ahead of their time, their music sounds cliche to the modern ear. There weren't any songs that were too catchy. The chord progressions were predictable, mainly I-IV-V. Song composition is not particularly impressive. I'm guessing this album is highly ranked for being a pioneer for metal in general, but to my ears, I've heard this kind of thing a million times before.
80s mainstream rock with the usual bland attempts at writing lyrics. Move on, nothing to see here. 2/5
Not their best but fun enough.
Feels almost like a pisstake of itself, very much leans into the stereotype of whatever you call this genre of 80s OTT melodramatic rock. Photograph is the one track that is tolerable (but still on the edge). Hysteria was plenty better than this, this strips out any semblance of metal and edge and goes full poppy. 2/5.
It's Def Leppard innit. It's the bollocks. Photograph and stage fright are bangers. \m/
Can this be the last Def Leppard album please
I just wasn't in the mood for 80s hair metal today. It does it competently but too much slick screechiness for me.
TBH the cover is fire, it kinda rules. This is the kind of 80s rock I don't like, why do all the 80s cock rock vocalists sing the same way? Photograph isn't too bad I can't lie but this isn't something I'd listen to willingly.
really enjoyed this one. a lot of the songs were hits.
Surprisingly good
Hard rock, lille metal ting, men stadig for folket
Not as bad as the first Def Leppard I got on this list but definitely not that good, I kind of actually enjoyed hating it in a weird way. Really overstays it's welcome after about half an hour though.
Best Song: Photograph. The "sitcom theme song" style of rock. Worst Song: Die Hard The Hunter. Is there anything worse than someone doing something so dumb when you can tell they think they're doing something really cool? Overall: I fucking hate Def Leppard. I hate everything they stand for. There's no humility, no self-awareness. All their songs seem like they were written with the presumption that they'd be played in stadiums. Can you imagine them trying to play to - and connect with - a small, intimate crowd? Impossible. The worst band is metal's worst genre.
Kjedelig:/
Absolute garbage. Dull and uninspired.
This was a fun listen. I haven't heard some of these songs in decades. Fun 'turn back the clock' listen
Classic 80s rock. A few that still play on the radio. 7/10
Nope - and I don't like the real Van Halen either. Hair metal.
3.5/5
I didn’t need to listen to this one, as I listened to everyday when I was in 8th grade
Another great Def Leppard album, although I think Hysteria slightly beats this one. An excellent glam metal sugar rush though! Favourite: Foolin'
Did I just become a fan of Def Leppard!? "Is anybody out therrrre!! Anybody therrrre!!"
Consistent excellence. But not quite 5.
Never getting that time back.
Aged but still a solid album. 3.5/5
2.5/5
I always had an authenticity issue with Def Leppard, a Sheffield band presenting as Yankee hair metal. Listening to their earlier albums, I don't mind them pretending to be AC/DC as much as this. Disposable pop rock.
I hate this band so much. I hate that I still hear their corny ass songs here and there. I pretty much summed up all my dislike for this band on my review of the other piece of trash album. So I just want to say: Fuck this band. Fuck them in their stupid asses.
Favourite tracks: photograph; rock of ages
This is nothing like as bad as Hysteria. Helped by the fact that it does not have four singles that I have an extreme allergic reaction to. But it's still overproduced and in Joe Elliot an extremely annoying (to me) vocalist. So, it gains a star by being one step back. By that calculus if their debut makes it onto the list it's be four stars.
Second DL Album for me and it wasn't quite as great a surprise as the last one, this one started to slide towards more what I expected. Still a decent cheesefest.
3.5/5
One of the best examples of 80s hair metal out there. Photograph, Rock of Ages, and Foolin' were big hits off this album. It definelty sounds dated listening to it now, but at the time it was huge. It was ok
Poser bullshit
Not to my personal taste.
A few good parts every so often but this aged pretty badly
Fucking gold
Wait a minute: he's not saying "all night, French Fries"? Difficult to believe this was a third album (see?) and not a debut. Even more difficult to believe that Joe Elliot would be a heavy metal guy. You really don't see that many metal guys with those golden curly locks and dashing good looks... My one criticism is that they should have started with Rock of Ages. But maybe that's like exposing the killer at the beginning of the murder mystery?
I absolutely love this album. Maybe Stagefright is a little weak, but otherwise this album is an amazing hard rock masterpiece with pop sensabilities. I enjoy the darker broody pieces most (Billy's Got a Gun, Too Late for Love), but it is such an enjoyable full listen.
Amazing album. First Def Leppard album I owned. All the songs are bangers. Especially liked hearing some of the great songs that are rarely played on the radio today.
They're from my part of the world, one of them even supports my team (Sheffield Wednesday). I've never met any of them but I know they're all top blokes who haven't let success or worldwide fame go to their heads. So, I'm really sorry to do this chaps, but this really, really isn't my thing.......
Cat: some songs are classic, heavy, dancey, poppy. But I didn’t realize the singer could be so Angus Young screechy. Great guitar work. AJ: PHOTOGRAPH!!!
Not adventurous on any level but solid, prototypical, 80's hair band metal here.
Outstanding. A true classic of its era. A Ton of great songs. 4.5/5
pretty good overall. i wasn't born when def leppard were popular but I don't understand why they seem to get way more hate than other similar bands from the time. this album has a few classics and I didn't hate any of the tracks, so I guess that's notable for some of these 1001 albums. i'd definitely revisit this, which is why I'm giving it 4 stars (it's honestly a 3.5 like so many others to me) favorites: foolin', rock of ages
Cool rock album but songs don’t sound unique after halfway through
Pretty terrible
Better than I thought it would be. Not original but well executed
A really great album. Just terrific rock!
Absolutely awful at the time and it’s not aged well.
fordómar mínir fyrir 15 ára svíum í denimvestu, skeggbrodda og lummu í gúlanum verða til þess að þessi fær 2,5
Solid album, very cool, nothing spectacular but a really good listen!
Seems like a good influential album
After the first three songs (Rock Rock, Stagefright, Photograph) I was about to start several paragraphs on here about why in the world this generic 13-in-a-dozen rock by numbers pop-rock was on the 1001 Album list. Luckily I persisted with the album and from 'Too Late For Love' onwards it really does get a little better. Not great, but not terrible. They play a bit more with the standard chorus-refrain-bridge and even the riffs seem a bit more thought out. I guess I just really like a different kind of rock. This isn't it.
Their best album, but that's just me. I like my lead guitarists to be alcoholics and my drummers to have two arms. Three monster hits, but almost any song here could have been released as a single and would have exploded on radio at the time. Maybe that's why I prefer this over Hysteria. The hits - and album tracks - on this album hold up much better.
I think everybody has that one genre where they instantly drop any kind of critical lens and just fucking have fun with it. That's hard rock for me, and this album certainly delivers on the fun elements. The guitar work is phenomenal, and the vocals work kind of like a harder version of AC/DC. This will definitely be in the rotation going forward. Favorite track: Rock of Ages
This album was such a juggernaut when it first came out. Pyromania was everywhere for years, and Def Leppard really changed the way rock music sounded for much of the 1980s. It's practically a perfect album in a number of ways, with tight arrangements, slick production values, and an innate melodicism and pop sensibility that you rarely see in metal. Not to mention, this album simply rocks hard. It's an album full of big, swaggering, take no prisoners anthems that are also incredibly fun to listen to. That's incredibly hard to do and DL makes it seem so effortless. A high 4, not quite a 5. Fave Songs (All songs, from most to least favorite): Photograph, Too Late for Love, Foolin', Rock of Ages, Billy's Got a Gun, Comin' Under Fire, Die Hard the Hunter, Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop), Stagefright, Action! Not Words
standard issue butt rock but I won’t lie, was fully in by Rock of Ages
Good meme potential. Drummer has 1 arm and that’s impressive
Ahhh hair metal. Def Leppard during this time were basically one of the most well known ones, and they really did do a damn good job of representing this genre. There's a lot of good riffs and a nice mix of pop and hard rock all over this album, the only thing I'd say is that is all blends together a little too well. Photograph slaps though.
Some songs are too much on the heavy metal side for me, but I like the guitar sound of Phil Collen.
100% 80s pop-metal clichés. Bonus star for being sincere.
Quite nice accessible hard rock
Not too special, was over before I knew. Nice sample though
Uninspired
Very unbritish rock. Joe's voice is better in later LPS. About 5 superior songs including standout "Photograph". High 3.
I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS
5 one-armed stars!
def leppard funker bra
Very radio friendly 80's soft rock. Ok, but Hysteria was better.
Photograph was my favorite. while I don't have any real complaints, I listened twice and didn't leave with a desire to come back to any of these
Not my thing
Heard this one before. It's the typical 80s pop glam metal. Not really my taste but nonetheless it's a good album. I'm still sticking with my opinion that it's pop that's trying to hard to be heavy. I rather listen to heavy metal like Iron Maiden or thrash metal like Metallica from this era. The album cover is heavier than the songs.
Fun
Enjoyed it much more than I was expecting. Will definitely listen to this again.
Rocktastic.
The filling of this musical sandwich needed for spice. Tasted very similar to other rock/pop rock albums of the time. Plus what is that albums cover straight from Duke Nukem
Meh
Heavy metal. Ningún megahit. Un 4.
Much more fun than i thought it was gonna be
not a particularly inventive album but does the 80s hair metal thing as well as anyone
My favorite Def Leppard album with my favorite song of theirs. There are a few great tracks, and it's in that sweet spot between the rougher previous work (High n Dry) and more poppy later work (Hysteria). I really enjoyed giving this a listen again after all these years.
Rock of ages!! 😎 fun listen but all the songs sound the same in my head.
I think I heard one good one. I’m just here for the recommendations
Def Leppard at the time they were still trying to imitate AC/DC, and coming up short as a result. Some of the vocal lines are incredibly grating. And the guitar solos are hackneyed and trite, obviously. Bland, sterile, low-brow, unimaginative, you take your pick. As for production values, they're on their way to the synth-enhanced hair-metal cheesiness of *Hysteria* here. I gave a 1/5 grade to the latter, but it was honestly a bit tough on my part. Some of the silly tracks on it can be endearing in a tongue-in-cheek way. Which is not even really the case for *Pyromania*. For general musicianship I'll give 5 points to this album, to which I will add one point for the "professional" production values, typical of the eighties. A 6/10 grade, then. Which, obviously translates to a 1/5 mark for the quite *different* purposes of this list of "essential" albums. Next, please. Number of albums left to review: 547 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 218 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 105 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 132 (including this one)
I gave it a try, but still, No. I didn't like them back in the 80s when they were popular, so I was ready to give them a brand new shot decades later, which is one of the many things I like so much about this project. I gave it a listen, and it just doesn't do it for me.
Classic
This is a tough one. I do not like Def Leppard. The best Def Leppard album is still Def Leppard. However, I could see what they were doing, and it was successful. Adding a star for the last few songs. Removing a star because it’s still Def Leppard.
Se você gosta de letras superficiais, riffs sem inspiração e solos de guitarra que não empolgam nem mesmo a sua avó, então "Pyromania" pode ser o álbum para você. Uma tentativa patética de parecer metal, mas que acaba sendo nada mais do que um monte de músicas pop. Parabéns por sua imensa popularidade, Def Leppard, mas a verdade é que este álbum não passa de uma grande decepção para quem procura por autenticidade no gênero.
- Your standard 80s rock, but honestly this shit bangs - Good music to headbang and drink a beer to - Loses some steam in the second half, 3.5 but I'll round up - Too Late For Love, Photograph, Rock Rock
- I generally don’t enjoy this era of hair rock - Photograph is an all time banger - Good for what it is, classic rock is just missing that edge for me
Ok
So many really great tracks on this album!
Meh. Some good songs but mostly bland. With a lot of listening to catch up on, I got bored and gave up part way through.
A real 80's soundtrack, with a sound that could slip into any classic 80's movie
Classic
I think I enjoyed this more than Hysteria. That being said, I did lose a bit of interest over the course of the album. Some songs are a bit too similar to each other. I like two songs on here, and the rest aren't bad, but I am indifferent to them. My favourite song was Rock of Ages.
2.5
Cheesy pop metal from the 80s? Yes. But such a guilty pleasure
this is awesome it's like acdc but better would definitely listen again
Great 80's hair metal album. Mostly hits, some misses. Overall really good.
Pretty cool.
ok
I never listened to Def Leppard before because I didn't really think they'd be my thing. I was wrong. They're not just \"not my thing.\" This is easily one of the most shitty things I've ever heard. I'm straight up stunned at the moment. This is the raw chicken that got microwaved for 45 minutes of music (with Pop-Rock seasoning). Just when I thought I had passed the worst of it, I was hit with another insipid verse from that \"voice\" (I hate it), or another endlessly noodly and annoying guitar solo (hate it)... And the ballads. The ballads are WORSE. jfc Honestly, I could probably tolerate some of these songs if they got mixed into a playlist at low ratio. But if this doesn't deserve a 1, I don't know what does. Wow that sucked.
"Photograph" towers over the rest of this album for me, one of my favorite (perhaps my #1 favorite?) "glam metal," or whatever you want to call it, single from the 80s. What an incredible song. "Stagefright" is probably the only one of the album cuts I can truly say I liked. The last three songs especially really let this album down in the home stretch. "Rock of Ages" has a real good chorus but I'm not so into everything else. So, despite loving "Photograph," I was pretty let down by this one front-to-back unfortunately.
ALBUM RATING: 4.0 ALBUM GRADE: B+ TRACK RATINGS: 1. Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop) - 4.0 2. Photograph - 4.0 3. Stagefright - 3.5 4. Too Late for Love - 4.0 5. Die Hard the Hunter - 4.0 6. Foolin’ - 4.5 7. Rock of Ages - 4.0 8. Comin’ Under Fire - 4.0 9. Action! Not Words - 3.5 10. Billy’s Got a Gun - 4.0
I'd say 3.444. Just not quite a 4. But its got something.
Normally like big and silly and dumb, however this does nothing for me.
Fantastic! Melodic and energetic hard rock. Super catchy, you can dance to it, it is fun from start to end. A model hard rock album. Very reminiscent of Highway to Hell album.
Fun album! Like a mix of Iron Maiden and Bon Jovi! Entertaining and catchy songs, however overall not as great as Hysteria
I remember when I first getting this. It was one of a bunch I got from the Columbia House Records & Tapes club. (You remember the Columbia House Club, right folks?). It had to be around 1985 or so. I liken this album to Rush's Permanent Waves. It was the stepping stone to their next album which became their biggest album of all time. (I was never a big fan of "Pour Some Sugar On Me," but I think it was just overplayed.). I don't think I have listened to the album since I was a teenager. So hearing it again made the years roll back to that time. I mean yeah, "Photograph", "Rock of Ages" and "Foolin' " are well-known hits for the band. Hard to believe that this was only their third album. I kinda feel that this album was the precursor to "Hair" metal (ugh, I hate the name). Probably one of the songs that is really underrated is "Stage Fright". Wow, I forgot how much I liked that piece. And "Billy's Got A Gun" had its own little bonus track. The expanded edition has a great concert to it as well. Maybe it's just me being nostalgic, I really enjoyed the album and going back to that time. But I can see how others may not be big into it.
So what should I be more embarrassed about? My love of hair/glam metal or my love of emo rock. Both I am willing to rock out on my own but damned if I let anyone catch me doing it. Although, rocking out to hair metal via karaoke seems to be acceptable and widespread, so I guess Def Leppard goes in the less embarrassing category. I still think Hysteria is the superior album and I gave that one a 4 so this one can't come in above it. But it was almost as fun. Some fun tracks that I didn't really know well beforehand are Rock! Rock! (good opener), Stagefright, and Die Hard the Hunter. Never loved Foolin or Rock of Ages as much as others (still fine) but Photograph slays every time.
4.0 - Def Leppard experienced considerable backlash along with most hair metal/arena rock acts that preceded grunge rock. However, I think DL was unfairly lumped in with a slew of lesser bands like Ratt and Stryper. It's clear that their output transcended their milieu and I'm happy to still hear "Pour Some Sugar On Me" played frequently on the radio. I like all the elements on this record, particularly the intricate guitar work that help elevate songs like "Photograph", another radio mainstay from their catalog. There are also big, glam-y choruses throughout (e.g. "Too Late For Love") that make this record so listenable and catchy.
This one is a little more metal than Hysteria. Still fun and still interesting to listen to but not as many songs worth a repeat listen. 3.5 stars
Det var faktisk bedre end jeg regnede med!
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
Groaned as soon as I saw this. I'm REALLY not into hair metal. But who knows? Will Deff Leppard join Motley Crue as one of the bands that I looked back on with disdain but actually found unexpectedly fun upon giving another chance all these years later? nope lol
18.04.23. Вполне себе сносный глэм-метал для больших стадионов. Довольно приятная музыка, сделанная в духе своего времени.
Really liked it, many great songs, especially great Rock'n Roll.
Passable hair rock, nothing amazing.
I actually really liked this one. Photograph is fantastic and the whole things got a lotta energy.
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?)
Rock out with your cock out. This is so not my jam.
Classic 80s rock.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Honestly this album just helped guide rock music into a fantastic direction, also it slaps.
sanan toisto poppia...heh KAPPALEEN NIMI..toistuu...ja toistuu...ja toistuu...ja toistuu...ja toistuu...ja toistuu...ja toistuu...ja toistuu...no annetaan kakkonen... ihan ookoo hetkittäin... ideoita.. siroteltu... sinne tänne..... billys got a gun
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.
Of all the albums I felt the need to defend, Def Leppard's Pyromania shouldn't be one of them. Yet the slaughter of poor reviews of this album need to be corrected. Pyromania is a monster. What it did in 1983 and paved the way for is probably invisible from most of the reviewers here who probably don't realize they were possibly conceived to this album. Did Def Leppard overstay their welcome? Yes. Is 1983's Pyromania Def Leppard's peak? No, that would come with Hysteria, the actual album that has the one-armed drummer. Rick Allen had both of his arms on this one. 4/5.
- I like Too Late for Love - Listening to it without the culture and other influences of the 80s in concert makes it difficult to appreciate the overall album, I think. Everything I listen to these days is so different than 80's rock I think it's tough for me to compare the impact of this album to something I'm more aligned to. I definitely need to be in a mood in order to appreciate it.
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.
Absolute ripper. Will go back time and time again.
Extremely accessible, somewhat mindless, quite energizing.
Great glam metal hard rock album, has all the riffs and wailing and chorus back up singing you could want. Can see why they were so popular and it had me tapping away the whole time, nearly no dull spots here, its balls to the wall from soup to nuts.
Not my kind of music
loud and proud of it
Just about gets a 4. It's good but outside of the hits it's kinda dated generic 80s rock. The hits are very good tho gotta say
That was banging
Guilty pleasure of mine...kind of love the pop metal sound. Foolin, Photograph, absolute bangers. 3.5/5
not my jam
Very enjoyable 4 But that it's in any way considered related to metal is hard to believe 3 2
It won't play on Spotify thankfully.
Not as fun as expected. Photigraph rips but the rest was forgettable.
American poodle permed overproduced cock rock. Except they are from my home city of Sheffield in Yorkshire. Painfully awful. Utter shite. 1
I LOVE THIS ALBUM, DEF LEOPARD IS ALWAYS AMAZING
A little bit of a downer
this album is definitely not their best. It was a lackluster set that relied on Photograph to do the heavy lifting.
Unashamedly soft rock/hair metal. Standard rather than stand out. I enjoyed it for was the fun romp it is
Disco de rock ochentero, clásico, sin grandes alardes. Buena voz y buenas guitarras. Alguna canción bastante conocida
Almost every song became a hit, but they all remind me of my dad. So this gets a 2/5
bro this is just the quintessential 80s glam rock idc what anyone says it's good as hell
dad rock
Pretty good. A little too glam pop metal for my tastes (they did more or less define the genre), but I still liked it. Was good enough to make me listen to some of their older albums, which I did not enjoy. Possibly some of their work after this one will be decent.
Meh
1983. Photograph, Foolin', Rock of Ages
Just sounds like 80s credit music. There are gems in here though
The J-LO of butt rock, would listen to again!
Artist #411 on last.fm but never heard this record Some classic tunes here! Nothing wrong with a bit of Leppard!
Great guitar sounds and production. Honestly I love everything except the vocals. Just can't do it.
A lot of fun. Love the vocal harmonies.
Not as good as I hoped
just a whole bunch of meh. every song sounds the same. not repulsive or awful, just boring and stagnent
Loved the singles when I was younger but I feel like I’ve outgrown this.
All the songs are pretty samey. Not too bad, but not my cup of tea.
It’s alright I guess but so cheesy. Rhythmically it’s all very stiff and straight feels kind of boring after a while. I like the pop metal thing but this is a little too clean and sterile sounding for me and it takes away from the rockness of it. Foolin is a catchy chorus. It was a relief to get a break from the strainy screaming after 5 songs. Van Halen’s early 80’s albums are 10,00x better than this
Idk bands like Def Leppard are kind of lame IMO, like the songs all suck and it’s just shreddy guitars and screamy vocals and cheap thrills that record companies were churning out to fill the void of Led Zeppelin. It all kind of sounds the same to me. I like moody clean guitars in photograph and there was some fun shredding throughout Crazy that the guitarist was fired and replaced in the middle of making this record. I like enormous 80’s drums but this drum sound was not really doing it for me.
God this is so dramatic but great. Favorites were photograph and Billy’s got a gun. Least favorite was rock of ages. 😘
Not for me
Starting to show its age but still a lot of fun to be had.
Basic 80s rock
Thank god that's over. Just awful. Giving it two stars only because I did find my feet tapping occasionally, and I thought a couple of the guitar solos were interesting. Overall though I absolutely hate this type of music.
- Never listened to a Def Leppard album before - Not my thing - Thought Photograph was quite good but the rest was a bit samey
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.
D'un banal et d'un manque d'originalité...
PREFS : ??? MOINS PREF : Def Leppard
nakatomi plaza getting it from the leppards.
As a prolific pyromaniac myself, I must say that this record is appalling and really misrepresents us fire Lords. Shame on them.
Never go full 80s rock
The cover is cool but alas it is boring hair metal. Sigh.
The whole album is the bright side of hair metal def worth a listen
Could listen to this all day but even then it falls short of Hysteria
Gym metal. Something to make you throw up devil horns on the stairmaster.
Fun classic rock. It really my style. High 3.
Never listened to this before but it’s pretty good!
Not as fun as the other one. Best track: Photograph
Nope
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'm not really sure if this qualifies as heavy metal and maybe that's why I enjoyed it so much. It feels more like pop-rock wanting to be heavy which actually works well.
Unfortunately, this was not the morning for Def Leppard. I already had a headache and knew this would make it worse. I tried my best, I took the tablets, put the volume down to one and tried to listen to the melodies and guitar rather than listen to that horrible voice. But frankly, the end couldn’t come soon enough. And the headache hasn’t shifted.
This is a fun album. Well produced and good head banging for young teens. It's a bit repetitious in style but great for radio or a DJ picking out a few tunes at an event. I rank this between 3 and 4. It's very commercial and easily accessible to the masses. So I give it 4 for being a smart production. "Foolin'" is my favorite as it was always a crowd pleaser at school dances back in the day.
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.
Apart from "Photograph," which has a discernible story in the lyric that's actually pretty well done, this band has created an empire on songs about nothing in particular. And still, somehow, a lot of them are really pretty good. They certainly sold a lot of albums and half of these songs are embedded in our music brain. "Rock of Ages" stands as this album's "Pour Some Sugar On Me" in its free-word-association, to hell with a narrative attitude. "Rock on (rock on!), drive me crazy, yeah! No serenade, no fire brigade, just a pyromania! Come on!" Made for arenas, every recorded note meticulously pored over by Mutt Lange and the band, using synth drums (kinda) in a hard rock band (and this was before Rick Allen's loss of an arm and impossible return to playing), this was a deliberate effort to take over the radio (and video) and it worked. In the process, there are a host of legitimately great songs, and a handful of less impressive ones, but damned if the band actually has anything to say. They have a sound, and they work it over and over and over. I was a bit preoccupied by the lyrical content on this listen, and in the last tune, had to ponder whether Joe Elliott and co. think "danger" is an emotion. "Can you feel it in the air? (There's danger in the air) / Danger (such a strange emotion)." Whatever. I don't think making sense is on the list of things this band cares about. Rock on.
Photograph isn't a half bad pop song. The rest is almost a self-parody with all the stupid cliches. Plus, if you're mentioning the words "rock and roll" in half your songs you're just pandering too hard. And my god that guy's voice. I will say, Mutt Lange did a stellar job producing this trash. And the band doesn't have a terrible sense of melody. If they actually had something to say and a singer who didn't sound like a Spinal Tap reject, this might've been a 2 or even a 3. I just noticed that there are TWO Def Leppard albums on here. TWO. There's no Heart, Ween, MF DOOM, Glen Campbell, Les Paul, Deftones, Laurie Anderson, Weezer, Shawn Colvin, Of Montreal, Joe Jackson, King's X, Hank Williams, Neutral Milk Hotel, or Uncle Tupelo, but there are TWO goddamn Def Leppard albums on here? You know what? Bring it on, motherfuckers. Y'all are just making me stronger.
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.
Un album que suena como una réplica de todos los grupos pegados de rock de alguna época. Guns, aerosmith, bon jovi, etc. Podría estar media hora nombrando grupos a los que les saca cosas pero no sumaría nada. Un disco que no suena mal, pero que no es la gran cosa, solo cumple y listo 5/10.
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.
What great sound! None of the melodies in this one blew me away, but I completely understand the draw
LOL nah, no thanks.
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.
C H E E S S Y
Solid
It might just be because I’m in a different mood but I didn’t find this as good as hysteria and thought it was closer to the lame dad rock Def Leppard music is stigmatized as. That being said it’s still fun and songs like photograph and rock of ages were fun so there epic streak of good albums continues. I was also surprised to hear the pretty fly for a white guy intro sound effect on here.
hell yeah rock on
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.
Straight-up awful, even accounting for the irresistible "Photograph." Records like give rock a bad name. Embarrassing.
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 like Photograph, sure, but overall this is pretty meh.
I’d be fine never having listened to this album. Few recognizable tracks, eh.
Is it just me or does it sound like the drumming is missing something?
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
This is a nice fun album
Junk
Def Leppard sucks
Generic 80s rock album All very similar Uninspiring Forgettable
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.
Yeah, nah. Sounded ok at first but woefully bad songwriting.
Must have been all about the hair, because the music is bog ordinary. How did this sell millions? I got as far as Track 8, then pulled the plug. Lange’s production is predictably polished, straight from doing 3 AC/DC albums in a row. But the music does nothing for me. It was good to find out that Offspring got their intro to Pretty Fly from Rock Of Ages. Who knew? I guess all the dudes who shelled out for this mediocre album.
This is probably the most perfect pop-metal album ever made. And that is not a good thing. Polished within an inch of its life, this is just bloodless and over-long to me. Steve Albini was right when he said if you assemble perfect parts together, it doesn't make a sexy rock record. "Perfection" really doesn't do it for me. I know it sold a bazillion copies, and I am glad it exists, if only to prove why this approach doesn't work. It is charming enough not to be loathsome, but I really don't need to listen this again. although sitting through 45 minutes of this is boring and slightly nauseating, like eating an entire cheesecake. A single piece is a tasty treat, two is too much, and a whole cheesecake will make you want to vomit and never eat cheesecake again. I can't believe that there is ANOTHER Def Leppard album on this list. Why two, for god's sake? What else do they have to offer? (Note: this is the same review that I gave to Def Leppard's Hysteria album. They are, for the purposes of this list, interchangeable records.)
tasapaksua.. kyl se ny yks biisin maistuu muttei albumi...
Fun enough, but hard to listen to with a straight face. Some nice pop tunes though.
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.
No notes!
Rockin’
Gosh... maybe I would like this if I heard it when I was 13. But I didn't so I don't.
The sons of AC/DC. I found this harder and harder to listen to as the album wore on. The cover looks like it was designed by a 13 year old boy, which makes sense, as that's probably the target demographic for this music.
I think this may be one of the worse bands in this genre, absolutely boring AF.
good stuff. reminds me of coheed.
Bought this album in basic training. So many great classics. It was the pinnacle of 80's hair metal. Likely it's demise as well as it spawned bands like Firehouse, Steelheart, and Gypsy Rose. As Sarah Lynn would say, "That's too much, man!"
This was pretty fun to listen to
This album was alright. There was no individual song that made me pog, but overall it was a vibe. Seemed like classic rock and rock to me. Favorite Tracks were Track 1: Rock Rock (Till You Drop) and Track 7: Rock of Ages.
This is like a bad rip off of Boston. If I wanted Boston, I would listen to Boston. They have a better sound and feel more cohesive than this. This album feels like really generic rock and roll, so if that’s your thing then you will probably like this. However, there are better bands that do both the original genres and this Boston-esque genre better. That being said, their sound isn’t terrible, it’s just generic. All the songs sound pretty much exactly the same, and it’s difficult to differentiate between them. Favorite track: Too Late for Love
This is going to very pretentious. In my eyes (probably due to my father and mother's influence), Def Leppard has always been the poser's arena rock band. This ruins any enjoyment I may get out of their albums.
Def Leppard's appeal is rapidly diminishing. They're AC/DC-light, zero sense of irony, utterly inane and puerile.
I not a fan neither of a new metal nor of the pop metal. “Photograph” is the best here.
Rock, rock, and more rock
Don't like
Award winning, Grammy nominated, shop tunes album
Haven't listened to Def Leppard in a while. Weak 4
Decent for what it was. Just background tunes to blast while you do other stuff. Soft 4 from me
Fantastic album. Photograph is a hit.
Absolute banger from beginning to end.
sonzeira, rockzao classico diferenciado
Näääää, tråkigt!! Inte så dåligt att de tar ont att lyssna men sämre än mid, ett par helt trevliga hooks men inget jag skulle vilja höra på nytt. Jag hatar att ha roligt!!!!! Och jag blev lite illamående av rock rock