Pyromania

I didn't hear anything here that stood out at all. 2 stars or D+.

Blaring Freshman year, didn't like it then or now, ACDC rejects, wasn't Journey doing this, beginner lyricist Photograph Foolin Rock of ages

Dated, disposable cock rock by numbers.

Cock. Rock.

This album sounded like wannabe Van Halen crossed with Ac/Dc. It just didn’t deliver, though the musicians were pretty good

Well well well. We’ve arrived at Def Leppard. Truly, I. Never. Listened. To. This. Before. I mean, I’ve heard the music of course - out there floating around in the [hands waving about] cultural air - but did I ever LISTEN to this? No. And wow….what a 1983 ‘wild and free’ ride! Like burning house of pure ‘American Rock & Roll 1983’ energy. Strike a match and watch it go…what is the worst that can happen? Answer: A LOT of BIG HAIR STAGE PRESENCE, and BIG 80’s EMOTIONALLY EXPRESSIVE DUDE ENERGY! I will likely never listen to this again just because it is not at all my calling, or dharma as you say. But credit where it’s due - they absolutely did what they came here to do. As an artistic expression if their own, they nailed it…really crossed the finish line on their aesthetic of big hair, big riffs, and stage struts. Maybe I was a decade late. It just isn’t my vibe.

Gunter, glieben, glauchen, globen... What do the editors of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and that girl Denise from my 8th grade middle school class have in common? They both clearly think Pyromania is THE SHIT. Only Denise merely demonstrated her abundant love by putting "Rock, Rock, Rock Till You Drop" as a quote under her photo in the yearbook). You go, Denise... (or Jenny, or Rachel, or Tiffany, whatever your name was). Before I got full-on into metal and punk, I dabbled in what I called "Butt Rock Summer" in 1988. I was like 12 or 13 and went to see Warrant live coz my best friend won free tix on Pirate Radio 100.3 in LA (RIP). So that summer, I built a small collection of cassettes of these pop/hair metal bands. (In those days, being an isolated suburban kid with no money, you just kinda tried to like whatever came your way). Also, my first girlfriend when I was 12 years old put "Animal" from Hysteria on a mixtape for me. Cherchez la femme. Anyhow, Def Leppard featured prominently in this small seasonal collection—but it was the aforementioned Hysteria, not Pyromania. Of all the shitty music I listened to that summer, Def Leppard is still one band I come back to every once in a while as an adult. Although, as a kid I was so excited to hear anything with distorted guitars after growing up with a lot of radio pop and early hip-hop; in hindsight it's pretty clear Def Leppard plays the metal equivalent of easy listening. It's nostalgic, safe, fun, and fairly accessible. Listening to Def Leppard is a lot like playing with sparklers on July 4th while the cool kids wearing black jeans and sleeveless t-shirts are down the street setting off M-1000s and exploding aerials. They are metal for teenage white girls wearing scrunchees, chewing bubblegum in white Jeep Wranglers with beige ragtops, on their way to buy acid-washed jeans at ESPIRIT in the mall. Okay, so if you didn't grow up in LA as I did (specifically The Valley), Def Leppard are also primarily for white girls with Aquanetted frosted-tipped hair ratted out 6 inches high, wearing bandanas around their necks and cut off jean shorts, running around the midway and drinking Boone's Farm getting fingerblasted at the county fair. (Both of these kinda girls have a TON of shit on their keychains, by the way). And all of that is just fine. It totally has its rightful place. It's clear this band have never taken themselves super seriously (see the very first sentence above). They have always seemed to have a lot of fun just being a pretty boy hard rock band with pop sensibilities. Pyromania is alright, but I maintain that it is not worth including in this list, the only real standouts being "Photograph," "Stagefright," and "Rock of Ages." The latter being a track that still holds up as a total fucking banger and was apparently worthy to title a major Broadway rock musical. Plus, you're gonna want that COWBELL. Hysteria is still an objectively superior record, and that's not just because it sold 20M copies and had like 7 hit singles (but that helps, yeah). I actually listen to it annually to remind myself of that mythical summer in the LA suburban foothills chasing ice cream trucks, crushing on girls way out of my league, riding skateboards, and being a total fucking pre-teen poser. One star for each iconic track, and minus one for some other more important album this one egregiously kicked off the list, like Band of Gypsies by Taraf de Haidouks.

Album number 89 and it’s my second Def Leppard?!?! Will there be Bon Jovi too? This is the 80’s music I most despised-supposed hard rock that wasn’t hard at all. It rocked, I guess, in the most generic way possible. I will say I tolerate it better than “Hysteria” but not by much.

Rock Rock till you drop baby. This album feels like a parody. I have to admit that it's kinda fun. Pop rock anthems that your grandma can chant along to if she doesn't think it's satanic. There are some fun riffs. Hate the vocals, and the drumming is so simple that your grandma could play along. This album reminds me of my dad because he has a few songs from this album on his trusty mountain biking playlist.

I think every generation of rock music has tried to defy and one up the last. This is no different with Def Leppard, except that Def Leppard is awful. I cannot stand this band. Every time I have tried to listen to this band / album, I just want it to be over. I don't know if its the over emphasis on blues guitar, but played super simplistically. Its like appropriation in the worst kind of way. Its like they want to play blues guitar, without ever listening to the blues. They heard a few songs by The Who and decided to try that but in a shitty way. I hate the way he sings, screechy and silly but somehow serious? And the lyrics are dumb. I do not like this band. Part of me thought that I don't like them because all of the older men in my youth were huge Def Leppard fans, but I tried to listen to this objectively and I freakin hate it.

All kind of started sounding the same after a while. I liked photograph and stagefright. Would I listen on repeat: No Favorites: Stagefright and photograph Genre: 80s dad rock Rating: 3/10 not my thing

Super generic and by the numbers rock music. It avoids being a 1 star because it's competently played, but it really doesn't move me in any way at all.

I really thought I’d already gotten the genre-defining, Mutt Lange-produced, 80s British hairband album… Wonder what I’m thinking of. I definitely preferred that one.

I've had Def Leppard. This list does not need two Def Leppards. This is "Hysteria" again, somewhat less megalomaniac but still equally clownish, in retrospect at least. And this album has to do without my nostalgia bonus. I'm now at the Glieben Glaufen Globen song and I think I've done my work here. This music had its place in time, but that's not now.

The kind of 80s I dont fuck with

I don't like Def Leppard and this didn't change that perception. Was really struggling with how much I dislike this album or whether I secretly like it a bit. But I don't. The entire thing sounds like the predecessor to everything awful that came with late 80's popular Rock, which it is. Some songs are ok, some are kind of kind in an ironic way and some, like Rock of Ages, are godawful atrocities of music. I will say that I really like the ''look what you've done to this rock & roll clown'' part in Photograph.

This is so 80s rock. It's ok, it partly quite nice, but I really don't like the way they play. I wasn't a fan in the 80s and I am not a fan today.

It's... Glam metal from the 1980s, there are some parts when the chords and sounds reminded me of the 80s era of post-punk and new wave but I guess I choke that up to be the era where this sort of things were popular than Def Leppard themselves being particularly inspired by that stuff. Outside of that... I really didn't find much in this album that was interesting to me, it was perfectly serviceable but not something I care for

Elliots voice were way worse than I remember. Some ok songs, but terrible production.

Hair metal sucks

pas mon genre

Cheese.

Thought Photograph wasn't bad. The rest of the album has all the worst excesses of this genre. If you didn't like hair metal going in, this album will not change your mind.

Was contemplating a possible 1 star during the first track and dreading the rest of the album. Fortunately there were some better moments spread throughout and I made it out alive. 2.5.

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I want to like Def Leppard, I really do.

Patiently listened to the whole thing. Did not care for it. It was just... silly. No substance. I was thinking this was almost surely one of the albums I heard the counsellors playing at summer camp when I was 11 or 12.

Quick story of an encounter with Def Leppard, I used to live across the street from a racetrack, and there would be concerts there several times a year, my wife and I would sit in the front yard and listen to the shows often, even if we didn’t care for the artist(s) (we were close enough to hear the music and see the lights, but far enough that we could chat quietly while hanging). DL played there one time and we sat there and had a blast, it was mainly for the people watching - this was roughly 2013 and all the people who peaked 30 years earlier super stoked to see Def Leppard live was enjoyable. But, the show was solid for a bunch of aging rockers. This album had some moments where it is entertaining. It is never down right awful, but there are some pretty low points as well. I honestly don’t know what to think of this album. It is peak 80s glam/hair metal, a genre just pretty crappy in my opinion, but the reason this album is on here is because it is the definition of this genre. Is it almost a meme is it so comically glam rock / hair metal. Listening to this I can hear so many shitty 80s bands that were just carbon copies of each other; White Snake, Poison, Motley Crue, Ratt and so many others. For that reason, it belongs on the list, as a record for a sound that opened the airwaves of suburia for pretty much a decade. Thankfully a decade I am to young to fully remember, but 4.8/10 #63/1001

Beetje te

There are a few Def Leppard tracks I love (growing up in the 80s! However I couldn't find any of them on this album.

Ok, but doesn't light my fire - which I would expect it to given the title.

One arm drumming

Would be a lot cooler if I was 10 years older... or at an 80s themed party

Hairmetal eller Puddelrock? Det er set fra 2025 svært at betegne det som metal, men i samtiden har det været alt for hårdt til at blive betegnet som rock. Det er 100% kliché med kliché på.

Has some pretty good songs. Has some pretty dumb songs. Not a big fan of 'Rock of Ages'. Not even the gleeben globen part at the beginning.

Big, dumb and very cheesy, about the best you can say. Pop metal heading/grasping for that radio friendly mass market. As they sit on their millions guess they don’t give a damn, but originally when you claim to be influenced by Bowie, Zep etc and end up famous for this sugar crock cock pop metal? This is the leppard album thought I could actually listen to before they fully fell into that barrel of saccharine turgid shit, and if this is here it’s follow up hysteria is gonna be and that is where Mutt Lange took it head first into said barrel to make everyone many more millions and still heard here and there today, and that’s a sound I hated from the first listen of the first single, but guess that’s another day down the line. Pyromania is ok I thought for a bit of dumb fun but looking back it really has the same shit, there are couple of good pop songs early on, photograph and too late, then the laying on of lots of rock n roll cliches and heavy production, which are fine but too much will rot your teeth if you’re not careful, and it gets a bit much very quickly. Started off being generous 3 Star, but it outstayed if’s welcome with the cliches and syrup by time got to the end - 2 Star. Don’t care how popular this was, 1 album would be enough to represent this sound. This over hysteria personally. And to the top reviewer of this yes, personally would swap any Uncle Tupelo album onto the list for this shit. Wasn’t expecting to be so damning of this but with hindsight hasn’t rock of aged well at all, falls into albums I am now embarrassed I once actually it some point owned.

Photograph rules but everything else is shite.

The drummer from Def Leppard has only got one arm. If there is a second Leppard album on this list I'm done and am making my own.

Felt like Johnny Lawrence listening to this.. fun in small doses but unbelievably overwrought and corny. Photograph is a fantastic song though

Trött på skiten

Ok so 80s hair metal is another genre that might be overrepresented on this list. I’ve gotten a lot of them fairly recently and it’s not an era that, looking back, is particularly known for its quality. Case in point, Def Leppard is a fun band but probably didn’t need two of their albums on this list. This is essentially just a worse retread of their first one, with less hits on it.

In a nutshell: heavy metal's made-for-radio cousin. It is what it is: a formulaic AF "rock on" music. Some good riffs though. Overall: 3/10

#561. I find Def Leppard's music to be grating and don't really understand why people find it to be interesting. 2/5: not it

Not my genre, but not bad. Makes you want to play instruments you don’t know how to. 2.5

Because of this project, I’ve learned that Def Leppard is purely derivative of Judas Priest. In some ways they might be better than the original because their hooks are better. But it’s pretty simple music with juvenile themes. Three of the songs are bangers, but the rest miss (particularly the first track). As an album, it fails.

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Before listening to this I couldn’t name a Leppard song. I still can’t. And I couldn’t pick Leppard out of Whitesnake, Poison, Crue, or whoever else. This is some interchangeable music. But man, I’m having a tough time hating this one. This well-done hair metal just makes me think of turning on the radio in the summer and letting it play. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not good music exactly. The production is terrible, vocals are an indistinct mess. But on a hot day with a beer in my hand, I’d leave this station on. I’d probably wax my Camaro too.

It's big and hairy, no real hits that I recalled. Of its time. High 2s

Definitely excessive to have more than 1 album here. My 9yo reckoned it was a 3 star and I think along with album art it probably had appeal to that sort of younger demographic. Influencial from an entry point for young listeners perhaps? Not for me, skipped the last few songs

Just perfectly servicable dad rock - not essential by any means, pretty sure this their second entry here? That feels excessive

Hair rock, not the best.

Not my thing

Eh, I recognized the singles from this album, but I wasn’t blown away by anything. I didn’t hate it, but it’s not going to be something I go back to.

no. I tried and no.

Das dritte Studioalbum der britischen Rockband Def Leppard und gilt als einer der Meilensteine des 80er-Jahre Hard Rock. Die Band, die zu dieser Zeit aus den Mitgliedern Joe Elliott (Gesang), Rick Allen (Schlagzeug), Steve Clark (Gitarre), Phil Collen (Gitarre) und Rick Savage (Bass) bestand, arbeitete für dieses Album mit dem renommierten Produzenten Robert John "Mutt" Lange zusammen, der bereits mit AC/DC und anderen bekannten Acts gearbeitet hatte. Die Aufnahmen fanden in den Pathway Studios in London sowie in den Voorhees Studios in New Jersey statt. Lange beeinflusste die Klanggestaltung maßgeblich, indem er ein sauberes und poliertes Soundbild erzeugte, das für die Band neu war und ihren kommerziellen Erfolg förderte. Einige herausragende Songs auf Pyromania sind „Photograph“, „Rock of Ages“ und „Foolin'“. „Photograph“ wurde zum größten Hit des Albums und trug maßgeblich dazu bei, die Popularität von Def Leppard in Nordamerika zu steigern. „Rock of Ages“ wurde ebenfalls ein Klassiker, der den typischen Sound der Band verkörpert, der sich durch eingängige Melodien und markante Gitarrenriffs auszeichnet. Insgesamt zeigt Pyromania eine Band, die ihren Stil weiterentwickelt und dabei den kommerziellen Erfolg nicht aus den Augen verliert. Das Album war ein Wendepunkt für Def Leppard, da es ihnen half, international größere Anerkennung zu finden. Trotz der eher klassischen Hard-Rock-Elemente wird es durch die Produktion und den Songaufbau auch einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich. Pyromania ist ein prägendes Rock-Album, das sowohl die Stärke von Def Leppard als Songwriter als auch ihre Fähigkeit, ein breites Publikum zu erreichen, zeigt. Es bleibt ein fundamentales Werk der 80er-Jahre Rockmusik.

It’s fine but I just didn’t engage with it at all when listening to it.

What has 9 arms and sucks.

White Trash arena rock from the 80’s, now playing at a tribal casino near you.

Pre-listening thoughts: Def Leppard is known for having a one armed drummer. Well he still had two arms when this album dropped so like what am I supposed to be impressed by Post/during listening thoughts: in my brain this is like Van Halen meets AC/DC. But they’re lacking the technical flair of Eddie Van Halen and they’re lacking the iconic-ness of AC/DC. Let me know in the comments if I’m right and like and subscribe for more awesome album reviews. In the next review, hopefully I’ll get a better album. 3/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: no Fav tracks: Photograph, the intro to Rock of Ages 😭 Least fav tracks: Too Late for Love, Die Hard the Hunter

Nice safe pop rock

Forgettable. Not a fan of this genre and this hasn’t changed my mind. None of the songs had any distinguishing variation from any other.

I feel like an old man saying this, but this album was just too noisy.

top album als je van hair metal houdt... perfecte popsongs als je van de top40 houdt....geweldig als je van bedekte vuile praat houdt (let's get rocked = let's get fucked,...) helaas behoor ik tot geen enkele van deze categorieën...

Fav song: Photograph Really not my favourite type of music! But still, at least it's well produced.

Hair metal 🤢

As far as big, dumb albums go, this was pretty big and plenty dumb.

My husband, overhearing the album of the day: 'AC/DC?' No. 'Motley Cru?' No. 'Whitesnake? Def Leppard.' The last one. 'Knew it was some hair metal bullshit.'

Not my thing at all Photograph is good The whole thing is incredibly cheesy. Every single element of it. There are a few times when the chorus flips to major and everyone is singing and it's fun A lot of it sounds like its either ripping something else off, or it's been ripped off

Let’s be honest, sometimes the music of the 80s was as cheesy as a British summer garden party. Picture the scene: those plastic trays laden with tiny cubes of mild cheeses, laid out for everyone to nibble on between sips of warm Pimm’s. Easy to enjoy at first, but after a while, you start wondering if there’s something more interesting on the table. It’s tasty, it hits the spot, but by now it’s the same thing you’ve had hundreds of times before. That’s Pyromania—familiar, easy, and crowd-pleasing, but lacking any true excitement or unexpected flavours. The production is like a wedge of Edam: meticulously crafted, but lacking the depth of a truly aged cheese. Every sound is surgically precise, engineered for perfection rather than allowed to breathe. Tracks like “Photograph” and “Rock of Ages” are undeniably catchy, offering massive hooks that stick with you long after they’ve ended. “Photograph” is a masterclass in crafting an anthem—big, bold, and bursting with youthful energy. “Rock of Ages,” with its bombastic production and larger-than-life choruses, is pure 80s adrenaline, guaranteed to get your head banging. But, while these songs are exhilarating, their overblown grandeur borders on the ridiculous, like those wild cheese-rolling competitions—entertaining, but hard to take seriously. I can’t deny that Pyromania has its musical moments. The guitar solos are proper showstoppers—sharp, intricate, and as satisfying as a well-aged Cheddar. The lyrics? Just like those cheese strips you give your kids to shut them up—simple, familiar and predictable, but undeniably effective in the moment. There’s an instant comfort in their straightforwardness, making it easy for listeners to sing along. Leppard tap into timeless themes of heartache and yearning, hitting the emotional sweet spot with their straightforward delivery. They may not be profound, but they’re relatable—offering up just enough emotional content to engage without demanding much thought. Yet, the simplicity betrays a lack of real depth. “Too Late for Love” attempts to deliver an emotional punch, but instead, it feels more like the sort of awkward, over-earnest lines you’d hear at a drunken pub poetry night—romantic on paper, but cringeworthy in execution. The attempt to bring any sense of real vulnerability or exploration into the song’s lyrics doesn’t land, leaving the listener with a hollow, superficial sentiment, keeping the experience comfortably familiar but never pushing any boundaries. Still, I can’t dismiss the album’s cultural significance. It peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200 (second only to Thriller) and “Photograph” dethroned “Beat It” as MTV’s most requested video. . Somehow, it captured the spirit of the era, full of glossy hooks and anthemic energy. This sound resonated deeply in its time, even if it feels overly familiar today. This was the rock equivalent of fondue night—melting everything into an irresistibly gooey concoction that brought people together When compared to their peers, this album feels less refined. Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast was raw and sharp like a tangy Stilton, Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet was more like a comforting mozzarella, while Van Halen’s 1984 offered a daring Roquefort. But Pyromania? It’s inoffensive, widely loved, but maybe a bit too safe—like a dependable block of Cheddar: ubiquitous, polished, and undeniably popular, but lacking that true bite. This album paved the way for Hysteria, which took the same glossy template and somehow made it even more indulgent, and I mean that in a good way. Pyromania might not be essential listening, but it’s hard to resist the big riffs and unapologetic silliness that define this album. Whether it’s a classic depends entirely on your appetite for 1980s excess. Did/Do I own this release? No Does this release belong on the list? One Def Leppard album would have sufficed. Would this release make my personal list? No. Will I be listening to it again? Not really.

I’m a little conflicted by this. On the one hand, they are a Sheffield band with a proper rags to riches story but on the other hand this is very much transitional album between their heavy roots and their monster pop metal sound of the late 80s. I was quite surprised by just how much they sounded like AC/DC in places here and there’s not much that really stands out, except for Die Hard the Hunter which includes air raid sirens, helicopters and gun sounds.

Metal is probably the genre I listen to the most, but I've always been bored by heavy metal and the likes. This is an honest album of the genre -- I guess? -- but nothing too memorable for me.

I hated this music in high school And nothing has changed 40 years later.

Aika salonkikelpoista, ei ravistele tai ravisuta. Tulee vähän sellanen olo, että rokkenroll on heidän duuninsa. Eivät he sitä intohimottomasti tee, mutta suunnitelmallisesti ja ilman suuria tunteenpurkauksia.

Too 80s

Another band where I only really know one song- Pour Some Sugar on Me is a banger. I find it quite interesting that they’re from Sheffield, because there’s something so American about their whole old man sports bar attitude. There’s nothing on here anywhere near as fun as Pour Some Sugar on Me. I liked Too Late for Love for being so terribly dramatic, but everything on this sounded the same to me. Other highlights were Photograph and Action! Not Words because it felt like these had a slightly distinct lyrical subject matter- the whole album is about starting a fire and rock and rolling, and it’s just a bit boring. I think hair metal is very much not my thing- after listening to Black Sabbath I thought maybe I’d be open to more metal, but I really didn’t care a jot about this and will never put it on again. 1.5 rounded to 2 because someday there might be an actual 1.

2/5. A glam metal album that has hints of progressiveness and just plain rock. It is hype and does have an energy of excitedness but unlike Kiss it's not as catchy and unlike AC/DC it's not as cool. It kind of feels like, despite the confidence, they were still experimenting. I wanted to like this more, I'm not above heavy hair metal, but I don't think this album did it for me. It wasn't bad but nothing to write home about. Best Song: Photograph, Foolin', Rock Of Ages

I mean it’s fine. Has some bangers but most of it just sorta washes over me.

War ok

Really not worth listening to a whole album of these dudes

It was okay

Jag tycker Def Leppard är jättedåliga, fast lite musikaliskt kanske det är.

Been a while I listened to this and out the output that I have heard I prefer Hysteria About as 80s glam metal as you can get.

Soooooo lame.

Me aburrió rápidamente. Algunas cosas nunca debieron salir de los 80.

Not very good

I sort of wanted to like this more and having Photograph second almost did the trick. But it's just too cheesy for me and I'm not a fan of Joe Elliott's voice. He sounds both loud and slightly strangulated at the same time somehow. Rock music is filled with bad fake American accents but something about his is particularly unconvincing. Makes me wonder how Americans took to this band so much. As a Scot it feels like it would be like being really into a group fronted by Groundskeeper Willie.

Weird placement on this list, Photograph is a pretty iconic song that reminds me of being a child and getting up at the crack of dawn to play hockey out of town while my dad cycled between AM and FM radio on the way. Good memory but its just goofy past-your-prime highschool hero rock.

Why is this on here? Photograph and Rock of Ages are fun radio hits but the rest is just boring dad butt rock. You can definitely die before hearing this. In fact… I wish you would!

2 stars. doo doo

couple decent songs but blehhhh

- glam.. yeah - ist und bleibt nicht meins - mag die klassische Stimmenlage auch einfach gar nicht

Too much

All hail butt rock i guess

Like Whitesnake, but a bit more glam and worse.

Iconic, not my sound though.

Bastante normal, entiendo que el cambio al pop comercial podría haber sido una razón

I wanted to hate this even more than I already do because this is aesthetically against everything I value in guitar music. I really hate hard rock and prog rock and hair metal with a burning passion. I did like two songs from this, Too Late For Love and Foolin’. The rest was still actually painful to sit through. The kind of slop you only like if your formative years were in this era and you just have nostalgia from making out with a girl to it in a drive in or something.

Not sure this is a must hear before ya die album… Photograph and Foolin’ were (overplayed) hits that really aren’t that good. Rest of the album is mediocre. Pyromania does not light a fire for me (2.4*s)

More glam rock pop ballads that I could never really take seriously. This album didn't impress me. The only memorable part was realizing that Offspring's intro on "Pretty Fly" is actually from "Rock of Ages" (and is completely made up words).

Some more bad hair band. Mutt Lang German count in on "Rock of Ages" gets this album on the list but little else. Not enough air guitar. This is a genre I can't ever say is good but I can make fun of it and (fake) rock out to it. How a bunch of dudes dressed as women playing half ass music can get popular is beyond. Guess all you need is a bit of shred, long hair, screech, and sexual innuendos for days."You got me coming.................under fire"...1.6.

Turns out I've heard more Def Leppard songs than I'd thought.

Albumi #36, 02.09.2024 Def Leppard on ainakin sanoitusten puolesta ollut vähän junttia brittiheviä, mutta kieltämättä jotain kiehtovaa näissä biiseissä kuitenkin on. Pyromania ei yllä ihan seuraajansa Hysterian tasolle, mutta tälläkin on hetkensä.

Not a big Def Leppard guy. Some of the songs are okay, but most of the time I'd rather be listening to something else.

A pretty flawless example of a genre that just isn’t for me. Mega compressed production, catchy guitar riffs, flashy solos, big anthemy guitar riffs, provocative chanty riffs. Just sits so well in a big stadium, but from the production to the vocals and lyrics to the composition (mostly) there’s just no depth for me.

Could it really be a hard rock album from the 80s if the only 2 lyrical themes weren’t: a) rock b) sex That said, this album is a least more instrumentally interesting than Back In Black Fave tracks: Photograph Foolin’

Cheesy 80's metal just isn't for me. 2/5

Favourite song - photograph

Nothing exciting here.

a little too rowdy for me

Not as good as its successor and sort of feel like once you've heard one track, you've heard it all.

All due respect, shit was ass

Really fun.

Def Leppard is mid. They are to 80s rock what Cheap Trick was to 70s rock. Cheap Trick might be generous...Journey might be better than this. There are a lot of hits on this album, Photograph, Foolin', Rock of Ages. I have always hated the German at the beginning of Rock of Ages. Actually, I hate Rock of Ages.

There were some moments I found tolerable - the chorus of "Stagefright"; the last minute of the last track, Billy's Got a Gun. But overall I really struggle to take this seriously. The song titles, the power chords, its all too much. It took me 3 sittings to get through the 11 track album - as I listened there was something disheartening knowing that the album just wasn't going to go anywhere interesting. 2.2/5

This is pretty damn cheesy and poppy. The didn’t fund this particularly interesting nor did it rock as hard as I hoped it would.

Lots of energy for something quite so dull and repetitive.

Things I realized listening to this album -i don't like Def Leppard very much -if you are going to make songs about rocking, they can't be overproduced.

My dad had this album on cassette. The ultimate dad rock record. Have you listened to a Def Leppard song back to back? It sucks. His voice is interesting when it pops on the radio after hearing Coldplay or something. But the same shrieking over and over and over again is rough.

It did not transcend the time it was made in, unfortunately. There’s more unique and identifiable arena rock out there, if you ask me. Photograph on here even kinda just passes by as it’s hit song

I'm not really a fan of glam metal of the 1980s, to me it is too superficious, shallow, simplistic rock music which isn't really interesting musically. This album wasn't unbearable to listen to but it was kind of boring overall, just like most glam metal from that era.

Pretty irredeemable hair metal nonsense. Almost gave it a 3 for nostalgia, probably would have if it had pour some sugar on me on it, but alas.

Það eru element í þessu sem ég fíla en lagasmíðin heillar ekki alveg.

In all it’s 80s glory it’s not memorable.

Like a lesser version of 80’s ozzy.

Band was excellent but I am not of fan of screaming in place of singing. Never was a fan.

1. rock till you drop - 1 2. photo - 2 3. fright - 1.5 4. too late - 1.5 5. the hunter - 1 6. foolin - 1.5 7. rock of agez - 1 8. under fire - 1 9. action - 1 10. billy - 0

Photograph Die Hard the Hunter Foolin’ I don’t understand and find it cringy to make songs about loving rock and roll and wanting more of it. Imagine if Taylor swift was like “pop pop till you drop. We want more pop. We love pop” average old rock band

Bit sick of boring 80s heavy metal. Not much more to say

Pretty bland.

I can't quite figure out why there are 2 Def Leppard albums in the 1001, surely Hysteria was enough to cover the 80s hair metal quota!! That said, I didn't hate it, just felt dated and pointless. 2.5

I wanted to just enjoy it for what it is and have fun with it but it's all the worst lyrics of hard rock with none of the skill.

Not as bad as some of the other 80s glam rock/metal on this list, because some of the hooks kinda pop, but this still does absolutely nothing for me. Give me 70s glam over this shit any day.

Honestly this always had a ceiling of like 3 stars.

Good for what it is.

High 2, doesn't warrant 3* 52/100

Strange to hear the offspring referenced this

abbastanza ripetitivo

Didn’t like it much. Doesn’t do anything for me.

Kind of boring. Didn’t have any standout songs. Not a huge fan of glam/hair rock, but this wasn’t at least fun like some others. 2/5 Won’t listen again

Sorry, heavy metal fans. The combination of screamy vocals and heavy metal with a hint of blues(?) just didn't work for me.

Wasn’t terrible but I wasn’t blown away

It doesn't sound as bad as they look. But seriously, the drummer sounded one-handed when he had two arms. Decent riffs, but over produced. The less said about the solos the better. There is nothing as bad as lame and long.

Best left in the 80s

I absolutely despise this genre of rock as I grow older. Younger me would’ve ate this up like laffy taffy. What is bro growling about? This sounds like all those hair metal tracks of this era, so I wanna know why this is a stand out. Like genuinely most of this record just sounds like one really long song, and yeah this shit was probably hard in the 80’s but today? Just gross to me and doesn’t do it. I wish Samuel wasn’t fraudulent and came here to defend this, cause I need boomer thoughts

I think it’s cool not mindblowing tho

I now know why my parents had so many “greatest hits” albums by 80s bands… because every song sounds identical here

Replacement level power rock, but fine enough. I don’t understand why bands from this era write songs about how much they need to rock

Bit torn here. Having ripped into appetite for destruction on Monday can I praise this? Probably not, although I did like it more. It is mostly just 80s cock rock though which I always mostly disliked with the odd exception sometimes enjoyed unironically. Perhaps I'll save my praise for the follow up which contains the one Def Leppard song I know and like. Depends what else is on it though. Obviously this isn't really metal, I'd argue Hair Metal isn't even a sub genre of metal as it's so far removed, but whatever. This was ok. I completely tuned out after a few tracks. 2.

This would be awesome if I put this on while I was banging a girl named Debbie after I drank 10 Schlitz beers. Sadly, I just listened to it while I walked my dog, so 2/5.

As a card-carrying hater of all things metal, I have to say I rather liked this. Expecting to enjoy Hysteria even more so am saving a 3 star for that….

Felt exhausted before I’d started listening. The first 20 seconds of the first track was promising but then it all felt quite leaden. But then it is heavy metal. Man.

Just not my style.

What's got 9 arms and sucks?

Thinking back, this album was probably my gateway to metal. On relisten didn't hate it like I thought I would. Hysteria leaves me cold, this still has knuckles, Mutt polished them out of Hysteria. Still, the worst of the NWOBHM bands

Never was my jam.

Fuzzy

I quite enjoyed Hysteria when that came up earlier. This was more of the same but just seemed even more uninspired and impotent. Just not for me at all

It's not awful but I really didn't care for it. Kind of like bubblegum pop hard rock

i found it very hard to take this album seriously. i recognize logically that def leppard is probably the target sound for every tv commercial or show that wants 80s rock-sounding incidental music, but the whole album sounded like that.

I think that the way many people felt about the AC/DC album is how I feel about this album. Every song was the same song except a little different. All of them were what would be playing if you went to your friend's house in high school and their dad came in from the garage, no shirt and acid washed jeans on, music still blasting on the boombox, and got a beer and then offered you one and laughed his head off when you looked panicked. Somehow after every single verse I expected "f-f-f-foolin'" to be sung except I also didn't even notice when Foolin DID play.

Familiar, fine, but forgettable for me.

A decent rock album but I have to confess I've never been a fan of Def Leopard, listening to them again after all these years has nothing to convince me otherwise. They just seem to lack "something".

Not a fan of boomer rock

This was not as bad as I feared it would be, as I was expecting more metal, but it’s still not my jam. Photograph was the high point and not great. Slightly curious to know if I was wrong about Def Leppard being harder or if this was a weird time for them.

Belangloser 80 Rock.

💯 would rather listen to Steel Panther. Glad this junk didn’t poison my music taste back in the day.

Ihan sillee hauska levy, mut pop-metalli ei genrenä kauheesti kiinnosta ja ennen pitkää alkaa lehmänkellon takominen rasauttaa. 2/5

Teenage rock - not for me.

Happy xmas eve

Never been a fan of hair metal. This confirms it once again. Utterly forgettable.

Let’s get this over with. Pyromania is the most generic 80s pop rock hair metal band you can get. I firmly believe they are all talented musicians, but they are making awful music. The production is alright, but the writing is atrocious, the songs go on way too long, the vocals are obnoxious in a way only a coked out frat boy from the 80s could enjoy, and there is little to no range on this project and it all blends together. It’d be difficult to try and tell these songs apart. On the positive, though, they have a unique and immediately identifiable sound. However, this just makes it more easier and quicker to change the channel when I hear them come on. In a word: obnoxious. 2/5

Hairable. 2 stars for Foolin’. Foolin’ me into listening to this.

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

a fine listen, theyre less singing than screaming at the highest octave they could, very boomer rock but still fine

The most butt of all butt rock. 2/5

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

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 guess I see why it’s on the list, but it’s not for me.

eh

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Nope - and I don't like the real Van Halen either. Hair metal.

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.

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.

Pretty terrible

fordómar mínir fyrir 15 ára svíum í denimvestu, skeggbrodda og lummu í gúlanum verða til þess að þessi fær 2,5

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.

Good meme potential. Drummer has 1 arm and that’s impressive

100% 80s pop-metal clichés. Bonus star for being sincere.

Uninspired

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

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

- 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

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.

2.5

"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.

Normally like big and silly and dumb, however this does nothing for me.

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

Passable hair rock, nothing amazing.

Rock out with your cock out. This is so not my jam.

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

Not my kind of music

not my jam

Very enjoyable 4 But that it's in any way considered related to metal is hard to believe 3 2

this album is definitely not their best. It was a lackluster set that relied on Photograph to do the heavy lifting.

Almost every song became a hit, but they all remind me of my dad. So this gets a 2/5

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.

Not for me

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

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.

Nope

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 like Photograph, sure, but overall this is pretty meh.

I’d be fine never having listened to this album. Few recognizable tracks, eh.

Generic 80s rock album All very similar Uninspiring Forgettable

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.)

Fun enough, but hard to listen to with a straight face. Some nice pop tunes though.

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.

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

I not a fan neither of a new metal nor of the pop metal. “Photograph” is the best here.

Don't like

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

Granddad rock

I have to admit I didn't listen to all of this... I have catching up to do and I was feeling motion sickness on a bus and stressed about other things and had no patience for this album haha. I think if I had more time for it I'd appreciate how cheesy it is and get into it I guess... not my vibe though.

Just another dad rock album, couldn't really find anything exciting about it.

Not sure about this. Was quite enjoying it initially but it got old fast. Was waiting for pour some sugar on me and it never came.... Wasn't as stadium rock as I was expecting

I do like some cheesy metal, but this is a bit lame. It's lacking the musical interest and catchy riffs

Not my preferred music genre.

Generic hard rock at peak mediocrity. Only one decent song (Rock of Ages) and it’s only alright.

Nä, det här var inte alls för mg

A horrible reminder why I disliked most commercial radio from 80's. More pop than metal, this pseudo-metal hair band's crappy album and "hit" songs got played needlessly on "rock" radio that obviously left an impression on young female listeners and wannabee Def-boys. Clean, dumb fun, I guess, especially if you've ever drawn their logo on your jean jacket vest and school books.

Not the biggest fan

Starts off really well with first 2 songs then, ironically, just fades away.

A few decent riffs and jam-packed with a load of filler.

No me termina de gustar este rock duro o heavy. Me ha parecido un disco normalito y salvaría la canción "Action not words".

Meh. I’ve never really been into the 80s hair band sound. I just don’t find myself vibin’.

So, I hated Hysteria when it came up. It felt like Poundland Bon Jovi. Now, this is still not a high water mark of hard rock, but at least sounds like B&M Bargains AC/DC or Aerosmith, which is much better. I still will almost certainly never listen to it again, but it was a pleasurable meh, rather than an offensive mess!

like tommy's class again. 2 or 3?

hahaha

45 minutes of generic and boring rock made with verses only and no hook or chorus. This is a hard ride, not hard rock.

Bland

This is not for me. The overall sound just epitomizes that 'hair metal' genre of the 1980's to a nauseating degree.

Pretty bad, right?

Lista wystawia na ciezka probe, bo kolejny dzien z metalowym popowaniem, ale przynajmniej tym razem cos czego nie slyszalem wczesniej, pyromania z 83 od wyspiarskiej bandy def leppard, o ktorej na cale szczescie pierwsze slysze, ale jednak cos od nich juz znalem, chodzi o intro do rock of ages, ktore jest offspringowego white guya, podobna energia w obu banadach, ale wracajac do dzisiejszej plyty, to jest to potezny upgrade po wczorajszym bon jovi, ale nadal na 45 minutach materialu ciezko na czyms zawiesic ucho, bo brzmi on zwyczajnie generycznie, jak przystalo na popowy metal, czy byc moze glamowy, zdecydowanie wiecej tutaj ostrzejszych gitarowych partii, ktore znowu sa nekane przez chorkowe wystepy grupy zcreditowanej jako the leppardettes, dodac do tego liryke o niczym, bo glownym motywem jest samo rokowanie, wiec sluchalny krazek, ale poza tym offspringowym easter eggiem raczej nie zostawi duzo po sobie, chociaz gdybym chcial odtworzyc radio X z san andreaski, to wiem gdzie szukalbym inspiracji, bo wlasnie tego typu granie dominuje na pyromanii, liczy sie jebniecie gitarkowo basowe i mocne drumy, do tego chwytliwe chorkowanie i neutralna liryka wpadajaca w ucha i wylatujaca kolejnym, na plejke dodam openingowego rock rock till you drop

Beetje te blije rock

Die jaren 80 metal stemmen blijven gewoon klote! Muzikaal en qua productie vond ik het nog wel te doen.

nah

This record was ok. Nothing really stood out to me. I'm not sure if I'm biased against it because it feels so old, or because it just reminds me of dad music, since this is my dads music. I wasn't really digging most of it, it felt very commercial and uninspired, which I did not expect from a band so highly praised and followed. However that could just be the result of bands following what they did and making it more commercial. Overall the album seemed to mush together. Favorite Track: Fooling Least Favorite Track: Most of the songs tbh.

I was ready to rock out at the start of this one, and by the end I was just bored. Very stereotypical 80s metal and every song sounded the same.

"Skin on skin, let the love begin... women!" Wow, this album is worse than I remembered. Aged like milk.

Hard rock stereotipico (lo hanno inventato loro o lo scimmiottano?). Fatto bene, ma scivola attraverso senza lasciare nulla.

I will just never like Def Leppard. I generally despise the hair bands of the 70’s/80’s anyways. I can barely stomach Pour Some Sugar on Me (barely), and that’s not even on this album. I would give them 1 star, but I do admit that their drummer losing his arm in a motorcycle accident and then coming back to continue playing as a 1-armed drummer is as metal as it gets, so I’ll give them an extra stars just for that.

Another spinal tap wannabe band

Given my expectations from the last Leppard LP, I was pleasantly surprised to learn the band had taken the time to write actual bridges and unique verses on this album instead of beating the same chorus to death for three minutes at a time.

Structure and rhythm are a bit too standard for my liking, but I guess it does what it does well.

Sigh. I really struggle with the 80s stadium rock stuff. It sounds so terribly fake and insincere. I get it's fun, but this doesn't stir anything in me. I would give it 1.5 but I'm being generous.

Where’s the incentive to listen if it doesn’t have Animal or Pour Some Sugar On Me on it??

between pop and a hard place

yet more Hair Rock. No thanks

Oh boy, vraiment pas un fan de hard rock de ce genre. La production est beaucoup trop léchée pour moi. Le drum sonne vraiment comme une grosse caricature de ces années là. Les backs vocaux me font vraiment pas tripper. Je dois par contre admettre que Photograph est vraiment efficace et bien construite. Elle reste dans la tête. Par contre j'aime plus le début de Stagefright jusqu'au refrain. J'ai beaucoup aimé et trouvé bien drôle le band 3 Inches Of Blood et j'ai l'impression que c'est une caricature en partie de cette époque. Ça a peut-être amené des gens un peu plus proche du métal, mais ce n'est pas du métal. À connaître pour le groupe et la chanson Photograph, mais on passe à autre chose.

I mean... This album isn't bad, but imo it's pretty boring. Super standard 80s hair metal/pop rock. Couple of stone cold classics on here that get their fair rotation on any Dad rock station. Other than that I see nothing particularly progressive, influential or noteworthy. Not sure this really deserves a spot on a list of must listen to albums, throw a dart at a wall full of 80s hair metal bands and you'll get more or less the same effect. Fav Tracks: Photograph, Rock of Ages

Some hits and some shits. Typical Def Leppard. It’s either a single or it’s in the trash.

I've nothing against this. It's just not me. 80s MOR rock made for Mid-west radio stations. Personally I prefer Black Sabbath or Motorhead. Nothing wrong with it, just not me.

Never was a fan, then or now

Täysin yhdentekevää kasarihardrockia. Rock of Ages ja Photograph oli ennakkoon tuttuja biisejä, joskaan ei kuitenkaan kauhean hyviä. Tässä vaiheessa rumpalillakin taisi olla vielä kaksi kättä. Annetaan tähti per käsi.

Glam rock, hård rock på 80 talet är ganska så trist

I don't think this album could be relevant,

Can't really hear lyrics that well, leading to all the songs feeling similar. All songs appear to be based off the word or phrase in the name of the song. Didn't know the song changed once lmao. Spotify autoplayed Pour Some Sugar on Me and the difference was night and day.

I will keep an open mind for this ...*gags*... classic rock. But alas, there is just no way that I was going to like this. It is the complete epitome of classic rock. All the tropes are here.

When I first saw this recommendation I thought: "This is going to be horrible, isn't it?". It is indeed horrible. The two times I listened to this while working gave me actually low-level anxiety, and the third one, regardless of being in a calmed environment when I heard it, I couldn't stand how absurdly corny this is. It has some terrible vocals that feel like a knockoff of Brian Johnson from AC/DC, guitar solos that are there just because, dated synths, over the top production, very artificial sounding drums, cheesy riffs, melodies and choruses... The only positive I can think about it is that they sound genuine and passionate in their performances, yet, the overall product sound is far from making me appreciate them. If I didn't make it clear, this album is an awful experience, at least personally, as I have a clear prejudice against this style of hard rock. Albums like these make me wish for the end of the list to come as soon as possible...

mhh was war das erster metall? cooles cover. c