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Def Leppard - Pyromania Audio CD

A fair review of the Def Leppard "Pyromania" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Def Leppard reviews here, or go back to the Def Leppard tabs.

Def Leppard Band: Def Leppard
Title: Pyromania
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Release Date: 1989-06-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Rock Rock ('Til You Drop) 2: Photograph 3: Stagefright 4: Too Late for Love 5: Die Hard the Hunter 6: Foolin' 7: Rock of Ages 8: Comin' Under Fire 9: Action! Not Words 10: Billy's Got a Gun

AC/DC lite.
Producer Mutt Lange deserves much of the credit here, engineering the multi-layered vocals and thundering guitar atmospherics that saturate the record. Quite possibly the most radio-friendly metal album ever made, "Pyromania" is a prime example of 80's pop metal (not to mention "AC/DC lite"): strong melodies, catchy riffs, and a lead singer who echoes Bon Scott. Includes the classics "Rock of Ages" and of course "Photograph", both staples of rock radio. The cover art is now perhaps questionable in our post 9/11 world, although it perfectly reflects the album's contents and attitude. An 80's classic.


excellent album - time capsule of early 80s
In my opinion, this too rock and rock production to a new level. This was a big album with some huge, arena rock hits. For me, it is also the soundtrack of my life at the time. This album was made before all of the tragedies this band experienced and you can really tell these guys were young and hungry. Also, even though Mutt Lange did some great work with AC/DC and had had some success prior to this, he was in the same place. It is one of his best as well.

On a related note, I saw Def Leppard recently, in front of 10,000+ other people, and these songs still hold up today. Not only are the recordings here good, the songs are good as well, even when taken out of the context of this album.


I saw DL in concert....
Still love this cd! Saw these gents in concert at the Worcester Centrum and this brings it all back. . .


"I got something to say..."
It sounds a bit more polished. Third of many albums in the Leppard discography that proves they are truly the greatest ROCK band in the whole world. . . but it's still got the same raw energy as High n Dry. Not one bad song to be found on the album. . . But if you don't wanna pay for it, come June 23 you can have the copy I got now for free when I buy the deluxe edition coming out. . . . heh heh heh . . . . do yourself a favor and get this album. . . you'll be held accountable for it if you don't come judgement day I promise you.


The first and best pop metal album
Granted, there were years during the 80's that had much stiffer competition than 1983, but Pyromania did have its fair share of classics to go against: Metallica's Kill Em All, U2's War, Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombones, and The Police's Synchronicity just to name a few. Def Leppard's Pyromania is my pick for best album of 1983. Pyromania pretty much started pop metal. It wasn't the first metal album to be a chart hit. Judas Priest and Black Sabbath did that with their radio hits already. But when one considers Poison, Bon Jovi, Ratt, Warrant, and the other hair metal bands of the day, all fingers point directly to Pyromania as the start of the stereotype. Which is a shame because Pyromania showed that pop metal had potential, but instead it turned out to be downhill from there. Pyromania sacrifices aggression for melody and on the surface, that sounds like a problem (on Hysteria, it does turn out to be a problem, but that's another story). However, if you go into the album with an open mind, knowing that you won't hear harsh death metal vocal-shredding, you might enjoy this. As it turns out, this album just so happens to be a treat. Why? Pyromania is a focused, confident, and technically sound album. Nearly every song has guitar solos and harmonizing of some kind and it adds to the songs BIG TIME. There are two reasons why this is the first pop metal album: 1)the catchy choruses and 2)four, you heard right FOUR, hit singles from the album. What's great about Pyromania is that the album cuts are just as good as the hits (except for "Action! Not Words" anyway). "Comin' Under Fire" in particular captures the magic that the band was capable of conjuring up and ranks as one of the best, not to mention underrated, rock songs of the early 80's. "Rock of Ages" is cheesy as all hell, but you just cannot deny how catchy the chorus is. The chorus on "Die Hard the Hunter" is pretty inventive. The backup singers sing "die hard" and then there's a cool drumroll and then they sing "hunter" (surely this had to be Mutt Lange's idea). The only subpar moment on the album is "Action! Not Words", but I'll take it over the filler on Hysteria any day. There are ten songs on Pyromania and they last about four minutes apiece. The album goes by fast because it is so easy and fun to listen to. Not much aggression, but the catchy choruses, cool guitar solos, and dynamic band chemistry more than compensate. Pyromania is the quintessential Def Leppard album. If you don't like Pyromania, you probably won't like Def Leppard. A .


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