Pyromania

Not at all my cup of tea.

Cliched and bland.

These poor guys just came here to rock! Are you all ready to rock?! Has anyone here ever heard of something called rock music?! I absolutely despise music like this. It's overly sanitized, completely lacking in depth, and the lyrics are ridiculous. I hate this narrative that "rock" is always close to death - it wasn't in 1983 and it isn't now either. Bands like this just pushed rock into the underground in the late 80s/90s, probably for the better. It's probably marginally better than the other Def Leopard on this list, but I'm so offended that they have 2 albums in the book that it gets 1 star.

tedious

60/1001. File under hard rock. I don't know a situation where I would voluntary listen to this album. Wait a minute, I just did? What was the purpose of this project: to expand musical horizons, to go out of one's comfort zone? Was it worth it? No, not really.

'All I've got is a photograph / I wanna touch you.' They probably know that they're dumb, but this is such an unimaginative venture into rock vapidity that any semblance of self-awareness salvages nada. When it's theatrical, as it is on 'Too Late For Love' and 'Die Hard The Hunter,' it's as superfluous as Queen; when it's straight-up rock, it's emptier than AC/DC. 'Is anybody out there, anybody there? / Does anybody wonder, anybody care?' I don't care, for one. It starts off on the wrong foot, since rock music that's about rock music seldom hits, unless it's rock-n-roll in its earliest incarnations. Joe Elliott can hold a note, but not my attention. Rick Allen, who had yet to lose his arm, can pound but can't drum. Stagefright: wish they had some.

This sounds like a single 45 minute long song that explores no new ideas at risk of sounding possibly offensive to someone. And at the expense of trying to sound so inoffensive it is possibly the most offensive thing my ears have had to hear along this musical journey this far.

1980’s Rock, big guitars, layered chorus, strained vocal continued in the footsteps as zeppelin but not as good.

Unbearable, overblown, pretentious, corny party-rock. Bands like Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, and almost all the hair metal bands are devoid of the authentic coolness and style that the hard rock bands of the late 60s and early 70s had. The MTV era saw rock and pop turn into a gross, garish, glitzy, and overindulgent spectacle. Also: few things in music are more cringeworthy than a song in which a “rock” band sings about how hard they’re “gonna rock you” lol.

No, just no. So bad I just can't take them seriously. All these years later I still can't decide who was worse, these or Whitesnake?

What the? Thank god rock improved over the coming decades, it seems like a lot of people regressed in this period. I can’t explain it but there was such a fine line between this and Bon Jovi. Similar style but Bon Jovi sell me on every aspect that Def Leppard don’t.

No thank you. I would rather set my ears on fire.

I remember when this came out. I was very confused. I was deeply into 'real metal' (lol) Having spent time in any number of friend's basements whose older brothers were serious metal heads I was under the belief that Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Ratt, Grim Reaper, &c. all the way to Quiet Riot and Motley Crew were REAL METAL. And this thing came out... I bought it. We didn't have a lot of metal playing on the radio then so I had little idea what would be on it. I can clearly recall a first listen of this. It sounded....weak. Fluffy. The hairiest of the hair metal. And worse of all, an imitation of REAL METAL. These guys were just copy cats. I have to say, my opinion has not changed after a listen all these years later. This is a shitty album. Horrible lyrics. Songs hung on single licks. Just....bad all around. But in re-listening I was left to consider that these guys likely had the time of their lives in the 1980s.

Ugh

Not great

Felt like listening to plastic. overall grating and disinteresting

The true downfall of western civilization.

snore inducing

Complete shite. The worst kind of rock and roll ever. Far too much spandex, hairspray and a vague impression they have an unhealthy obsession with their own balls. I am also sure that this is the band spinal tap are based on. However, despite the satire, Tap are still 100 times better than this The songs are crap, the playing is mediocre at best and I wish I had back the time I wasted listening to this

I tried….made it a few songs in Some songs sounded like AC/DC and others were power ballads Not my thing. Maybe I’ll give it another go later as I do like some of their other stuff

Trash

Too Late For Love has to be one of the most annoying fucking songs of all time. It sounds like a South Park song written to be intentionally cheesy and awful. This band is so bad, dude. The vocals are the definition of "try hard", and nobody brings anything good to the table. Every single song on this album sounds satirical, Team America: World Police - esque. I don't understand how Def Leppard was as successful as they were. There were other metal bands in this era that did it way better.

Hey did you know the drummer only has one arm?.....man this sucked. Big ups for the cowbell on 'Foolin' though.

Hair metal is my least favorite subgenre of rock music — where the singer is telling me how hard I need to ROCK!!!!, where every snare drum hit sounds like a cannon blast. Seriously, I can’t imagine what kind of chaos would ensue if the drummer ever did a drum roll on his snare. This came out early enough in the 80s where I don’t know if this is the grandfather of hair metal, so it gets 1 star for either creating such a terrible (bowel) movement or being a filthy copycat. Lone soft spot: “Photograph”

I wish I could rate this less than 1 star.

I don’t like hair

Lät som ett "vanligt" rockband från 80-talet. Inget stack ut för mig direkt.

Pyromania sounds like my kind of thing. While I’ve definitely known about them for a long time, I’ve never really listened to Def Leppard. Reminds me of childhood WWF.

Nope. J'avais définitivement pas besoin d'entendre ça.

Boring. Every song sounds the same.

So boring

This sound is emblematic of every shitty 80s song I have come to hate over the years. Loud for no reason, stupid themes like “danger in the air”. Just really nothing to enjoy here. I will say this though, it’s always impressive to learn that their drummer has one arm. That’s amazing.

It's not really fair for me to review this album as I have an intense dislike for Def Leppard. When people say that the 80s was the worst decade for music, a sentiment that disagree with, it's this band and their ilk that might lead me to think that. Worthless crap. 1 star

i really don't like being a negative nancy but really this is music that i genuinely hate listening to. for years boomers have told me that 1970s pop music like the carpenters or barry manilow was schlocky, cheesy, drivel that was not worth listening to. and yet, i find that music more compelling and genuine than this. this era of pop metal has dominated classic rock radio for the last couple of decades and really killed my love for the radio format that had an absolute grip on me as a teenager. this shit is so corny and so uncool to me and always has been. it doesn't sound cool, it doesn't give a compelling reason to listen to it. it just assumes you will think it is cool by listening to it. well i don't subscribe to that. hard pass

Awful

I'm sick and tired of people pretending like these guys and their contemporaries weren't just the Nickelbacks and Creeds of the 80's. Absolutely nothing redeeming about this bullshit. 0.5/5

Marketed like metal but this is insipid soft rock and I never want to hear it again.

Ugh. Hair metal.

Cringen mestarit, erityisesti mitä tulee lyriikoihin, harmonioihin ja taustalauluihin. Onneksi ideat tuntuvat jossain vaiheessa vähän loppuvan. Harmittomuus ei kuitenkaan pelasta tätä levyä. Paras raita: Foolin'.

I was quite looking forward to this as I've never given Def Leppard the time and I am a bit of a fan of Pour Some Sugar... but sadly I think that's their only good song if this album is anything to go by. If you're going to listen to glam rock, there is so so so much better than this. Don't waste your time.

Having this album on the same day Trump gets elected is just cruel.

80s Rock needs removing. What were people thinking? I know the limitations, but the drums are beyond bad. Only overshadowed by the rest of this trollop

I listened to pretty fly for a white guy 1 million times when it came out and only now decades later have the origin story of the intro sound clip. Does this come up in the Rock of Ages musical? How many other knowledge gaps in my brain could be filled simply by listening to more hair metal? Going to leave that a mystery, because of how bad this music sounds.

Def Leppard is not my jam. I don't like any of their hits, their vibes, their singer's voice, the topics of their songs, the simplicity of their drums or guitars (simple can be good but not here), or the way they do their vocal harmonies.

Not for me!!!

No me gusta el heavy

You hear one track and you've heard them all. This is just another 90ies hear rock band using the same pattern over and over again. Dull and boring.

For an album that clearly had some great guitar and drums I found this enormously boring and samey

Not my vibe!!

sounds like poop

Blergh Bastaaaa dad rock

I’m sure lots of people love this, but not for me

Theme tune for the first wave of Mullets should be called 'absolute arse'

Dreadful cock rock. Put some more hairspray on it and burn it.

I wish I was "def" after listening to them. So boring and dated. I just can't do this classic rock kinda stuff. Never could.

Do the hair bands represent the nadir of good music? This album makes a strong case for such proposition.

No sé quién pensó que el pelo cargado y las voces agudas eran lo mejor para el heavy metal.

Nice

forgettable forgettable forgetable I want my time back Jesus this was so boring and I have no idea what legacy this record has I know it is acclaimed but this is just 80s music but it is so like washed there is no edge I hate it. I never want to listen ever again this would be a 0/10 if i could.

Didn't care for this.

I was pretty reluctant to listen to another Dusty album so soon, but it was a lot better than the last. Definitely listenable.

Grant’s favorite genre of hair band. Recognizable songs that I liked some but otherwise don’t love this kind of music

Boring uninspired generic hair metal/ glam rock: a genre I realized I hated by always being repulsed by the Sirius xm channel.

At my most objective, I suppose this joins some dots between older UK metal and the kind of more fun rock thing which US bands like Bon Jovi did a bit later on? Maybe? But it's already apparent that whoever picked 1001 albums is a bit too interested in a particular aspect of the route that involves men and guitars. As important and cool as that route has been, I'm not convinced that we need to listen to every single nuanced step along the way. This is a solid rock album, but doesn't feel very important to me.

What is this?

I really didn't like this album. Bad voice, bad riffs, boring rhythms. Shitty cock rock. Will I listen to again: 0%

was not feelin' it. 1.5

soulless and ass

bad pop rock

Kansitaidetta myöten aikamoinen vitsi.

No. Just no.

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.

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!

Crappy radio “hard-rock”

Nah

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…

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.

Never getting that time back.

Poser bullshit

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.......

Absolutely awful at the time and it’s not aged well.

I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS

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.

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.

It won't play on Spotify thankfully.

American poodle permed overproduced cock rock. Except they are from my home city of Sheffield in Yorkshire. Painfully awful. Utter shite. 1

D'un banal et d'un manque d'originalité...

PREFS : ??? MOINS PREF : Def Leppard

LOL nah, no thanks.

C H E E S S Y

Straight-up awful, even accounting for the irresistible "Photograph." Records like give rock a bad name. Embarrassing.

Junk

Def Leppard sucks

tasapaksua.. kyl se ny yks biisin maistuu muttei albumi...

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.

Klyschiga sångstrukturer, pop-metal utan coola pop-melodier, hemska lyrics, solisten låter som att fimpa cigaretter på min kuk och ballar... Den här skivan kändes dubbelt längre än vad den är. Inte min jam!

Only listened to a couple of the songs before turning it off. Not my cup of tea.

Cliche after cliche, power ballads and all that. Sticks like superglue to the poodle rock formula.

I honestly cannot imagine a more boring and uninteresting record from a musical and production standpoint. This is not for me, this just plain sucks.

Jezus. 3 tracks is enough.

No! Boring it is….

Rock music for people who don't like rock? Or just: fodder.

Tercer álbum de la banda británica de hard rock, la cual alcanzó su popularidad masiva con este trabajo, e hizo del boom que representaba esta música en los 80s, su carrera completa. Mezclando el hard rock, con el heavy metal y el glam metal, hacen que cada sonido suene similar entre sí, las canciones en ocasiones pierdan su sentido, y hasta ni siquiera se pueda diferenciar sencillamente entre los tracks. Resulta aburrido y medio sin sentido este género que se presenta en bandas como esta, la cuál su música no se conoce para dónde va. No se distingue si quieren sonar potentes, o pomposos; y la creatividad a la hora de componer, tampoco es muy sobresaliente. Lo que es a destacar, es la gran virtud de los músicos, el cuál interpretan solos que te alucinan, y la virtud vocal de Joe Elliot, que deslumbra.

Wat een vreselijk gedateerde hardrock. Boe!

Zo gedateerd en zo pathetisch. Stoerdoenerij door de sukkeltjes uit de klas.

Really dull

This album is like Theon Greyjoy. It looks tough, it fights tough, but it's all rock and literally no cock. Imagine a Pitbull emasculated ten years ago with molten gums for teeth, dwarfed legs, eating a steady diet of nutritious kibble. It's bark is so loud it resonates wholly within... then whimpers out as a metallic fart.

Meh - Not for me.

Lucky leppard.

That voice... haha. I dont know if I like that style of singing. This reminds me of Warrant or Kiss... 80s was a weird time for Rock. I feel like there is a lot of talking about rocking in 80s rock. Like self-referencing and writing songs just about rock. I think a lot of Disco songs are like this, talking about dancing or talking about music. A song about itself is pretty funny.

I hate Def Leppard. Always have. While there’s no denying the high quality of the production it’s really a case of putting lipstick on a pig. The music just sounds like a group that’s nowhere as good as AC/DC trying (and failing) to recreate the AC/DC sound. While AC/DC songs have similar content, they at least seem to be smacking and grinning about the lascivious jokes they make. Def Leppard either doesn’t get the joke or actually takes themselves seriously. Either way it’s shit.

To call this dad rock would be an insult to dad rock everywhere. To call this suburban mom who used to be quite wild back in the day rock would be an insult to Queen.

Seriously, of all the albums ever released, why on earth does anyone need to listen to this drivel before they die? I had the misfortune to see Def Leppard live around the time of their first album. They were crap then and this is worse.

Save yourself some trouble, just listen to the greatest hits album. All filler one killer.

dårlig og slitsomt

Got a minute in and bailed. I really don’t understand this kind of band. Repetitive and clichéd.

This was grim. It was hard work getting to the end. Metal is shit. 80's power metal doubly so.

Who listens to this garbage? Maybe I hate fun. But I feel like rock music is cheesy enough without being concentrated and fermented into this kind of super-cheese. 1.5*

Just not a fan.

not a fan

The mixdown is an incoherant mess, and the vocals are awful.