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I can respect any band that has a one armed drummer.
Yes, but he wasn't one armed for this album.
He wasnt one armed for this LP. The accident happened after Pyromania became a huge hit. I bought this new and probably 3 more times after wearing out cassettes. LOL.
@@tucoramirez8397 duh thanks captain obvious
Facts
I remember studying Quantum Mechanics as an undergrad to Def Leppard
Well, you've got to do "Photograph," now. Also, "Bringing On The Heartbreak," "Foolin'," "Too Late For Love" and "Pour Some Sugar On Me" for starters.
All great songs!
Too late is a true sleeper. One of my favorite .
Big vote for Photograph.
I don’t disagree with your list. High and Dry and Pyromania are their best albums hands down. Honestly though, the lesser known songs are truly some of their best! Let It Rock and Switch 625 (recently on Cobra Kai though) off of High and Dry are phenomenal, among Def Leppard’s very best! From Pyromania, mad respect if you listen to Billy’s Got a Gun, Too Late for Love, Comin Under Fire, and Die Hard The Hunter! Photograph is my favorite Def Leppard song, but these 6 songs from High and Dry are their best IMHO. Of course Mirror Mirror, Bringing on the Heartbreak, Rock of Ages, Foolin’, Rock Rock ‘til You Drop, Gods of War, Armageddon It, Animal, Rocket, Women, and Hysteria are all worthwhile.
And they need to feel the raw less produced power of Rock Brigade too.
Def Leppard have so many good tunes. "Foolin", "Pour Some Sugar On Me", "Armageddon" and "Love Bites", just to name a few. "Bringin' On The Heartbreak" is one of my personal faves. Great band. Seen them twice. Thanks for finally hitting them.
"Rocket" is one of my favourites, and one that doesn't get a ton of attention compared to "Photograph" and the stuff you listed.
Their lesser known hits are KILLER too. ”Mirror, Mirror”, ”Wasted”, and “Die Hard the Hunter” are so good
@@TehFrenchy29 Rocket is great, as is Animal.
Love "Foolin'"
Foolin is my fave!
The Lep was a hit machine back in the 80s. Solid song writing team. Couldn't be denied.
Probably the best of the “Hair Metal” bands.
@@jayburdification Actually Lep is considered part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. That included bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Motorhead, etc. Cheers.
@@MrDevtun True, but I always group them in with hair metal bands because I distinctly remember their stuff getting airplay on top 40 stations. Maiden, Judas Priest, Mötorhead not so much. But I agree their stuff is on par with those guys. Just a little shinier.
@@jayburdificationYou can blame that polish or “shine” on Mutt Lang, their record producer for most of the 80’s.
When I was in college in the dorms in the early 80's, there was no other album better than this one to fire everybody up to head out and party. No other.
"Lunatic Fringe" by Red Rider
good song LUNATIC FRINGE
Tommy Cochran - 'Life is a Highway' Saw him back in the day at the Bijou Theatre in DC and Fringe was his encore- brought the fucking club's roof down! Wow it was great!!!
"Gunter Glieben Glauchin Globin" at the beginning of the song sounds like German but it is actually gibberish, spoken by producer Mutt Lange, who grew tired of starting a song by saying "one, two, three..." Everybody liked the way it sounded, so it was left in the song.
and it is nicely echoed by The Offspring in "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)" :D
I wondered!!
Back in the day, that was my warning to change the station.
At Valley Head High School in beautiful Valley Head, Alabama, everyone in 1983 said it was in fact German for "We Love to Rock and Roll!" :)
That was the hook that caught my ear right off the bat. Didn't know what it meant, but it sounded cool.
I’ll be one to say that High ‘n’ Dry is absolutely my favorite Def Leppard album. It’s got hints of their upcoming pop rock sound on Pyromania, but is also a lot heavier and sounds more like hard rock. Not to mention songs such as “Bringing on the Heartbreak”, “Mirror Mirror”, and “Lady Strange”. Pyromania is pretty good too though, but I honestly never enjoyed Hysteria despite its popularity, too much pop for my taste. Still, I absolutely respect the band for supporting drummer Rick Allen during that time and it’s impressive what he was able to do!
sure right, much harder rock
Let It Rock was my first taste of them then Bringin on the Heartbreak Bangers!!!!
yep - loved all their albums, for sure, and if you listen to them in order they are great for illustrating just how quickly they grew and adapted to their ever-increasing fame. "Bringin' on the Heartbreak/Switch 625" is just fantastic.
High 'n' Dry is a rock masterpiece, one of the best rock albums ever made
Great album. I would just add "Let It Go," another great song from High n' Dry.
1983--This Album was HUGE-drinking a beer when I was only 13 riding around in a trans am with t-tops!🎸🎸
I’m seeing a pinball machine and a tastee freeze in there somewhere
Same here!!!
We must have been in the same town lol.
You must nailed my teenage years!
You sound fun
The producer is Mutt Lange who also produced AC/DC's Back In Black. He is known as a perfectionist and would make Joe Eliot do take over take over take to get the perfect vocal. He once said his desire was to produce a record without any human faults in it (paraphrased).
And now they can do that…..snd it’s sterile. No way for Mutt to foresee the consequences of taking the human out of produced music. Now we know.
He also produced one of my all time favorites that doesn’t get much attention, The Day The Earth Caught Fire by City Boy. It was a Prog concept album made at the height of the Disco era. Talk about bad timing, but you can hear Lange’s fingerprints all over it.
@@Nightrelic Thought you were going to say Shania Twain.
He was also the producer of the Cars and Bryan Adams.
And the background vocals were multi-multi-multi-multi-MULTI-tracked. For background vocals, each singer would record no less than eight tracks. They would fill all 32 channels with nothing but octupled backing vocals, then bounce each part down to one track. That's why Def Leppard's backing vocals always sound so thick - because it's actually 32 singers, not four.
Wow, you guys really nailed this analysis -- "pop-rock anthemic ear candy." That IS Def Leppard.
Pyromania is certainly an 80s rock juggernaut, so many great tracks on it!
I thought it was their last nearly hard rock album.
@@michaelgarcia2050 Yeah I agree, Hysteria just went a bit too far on the poppy side
While the Pyromania album made Def Leppard huge, I listen to their High’ N’ Dry album much more. Bringin’ on the Heartbreak is the peak of that album
I still love "Pyromania", but I'll take "Bringin' On The Heartbreak" and "High 'n' Dry (Saturday Night)" over any other Def Leppard tracks.
Bringing on the Heartbreak if fantastic! However I like Switch 625 and Let It Rock better off of High and Dry.
Best album they had from top to bottom.
I agree. I've always had a "Thing" for "No, No, No, No, No." The insanity of it and the driving hard rockin pace it's done at is kick a$$! IMHO.
I liked your honesty in referring to it as pop/stadium rock. That's what it is. Never quite my cup of tea, but I can appreciate that they do the genre very, very well.
Probably the next logical track to hit from Def Leppard is "Photograph", but if you want your Leppard to rock a little harder, I'd suggest "Let It Go" or "Wasted".
Or other bangers, Rock Brigade or Saturday Night High n Dry.
I love wasted. And hello America too.
Let It Go is criminally underrated.
@@dougman23 Let It Go is soooo damn good!!!!
@@dougman23 My favorite banger of DL!
You guys asked who produced it, it was Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who produced "Back In Black" for AC/DC!
Back in Black's a better album, but this is Mutt Lange's finest hour as a producer - you guys nailed, it's pop rock that uses its rock to hide its pop and that's all Lange (DL's earlier albums are also great, but more bar band, rough around the edges rock). When I was 15 this was everything.
Very well-said!
So you like AC/DC better?
High and dry is my favourite album by them. Hard rocking and so catchy
Both albums are bangers all the way thru. Mutt is amazing.
@@guitar_player_bernie I do, but Def Leppard are great, and Pyromania is an album I'll always have time for!
HIGH AND DRY IS A GREAT ALBUM.... TITLE TRACK.... Thanks for hitting them they grow on you Alex..✌✌✌✌👌
Mutt Lange produced this album. He also produced ACDC's "Back in Black" and "For Those About to Rock" as well as Def Leppard's follow up to this album (Hysteria). Very bombastic, anthemic sound to his production. Great epitome of 80s rock sound.
Fun fact: Mutt Lange also produced, among others, Shania Twain...ex wife.
Don't forget his true masterpiece....Shania Twain.
@@elmoomle4565 Whoops..you beat me too it.
Mutt produced High N Dry as well
This album pretty much made Mutt Lange one of the most sought after producers in the industry.
Mutt lang had already produced Highway to Hell and Back in Black before this, those albums were the reason everyone wanted Mutt to produce them...if they had the stamina for the merciless bootcamp Mutt put everyone through.
@@markgrant1302 He had also done Foreigner 4 I think, fwiw.
Stopped working with them to work with Shania Twain...that whole sad thing....
The whole Pyromania album is fantastic... The second album I ever learned lyrics wise front to back. Billy's Got a Gun is Joe Elliott at his best.
Maybe it's the subsequent radio overexposure, but the non-singles from "Pyromania" - particularly "Billy's Got a Gun" and of course "Too Late for Love" are the ones that still resonate with me after all this time.
@@jamie4993 I feel like the song Photograph is underrated, for the same reason, too much airplay at the time. Too Late for Love is criminally underrated, though.
@@jamie4993 "Too Late For Love" got a decent amount of airplay here in central Wisconsin.
@@MrDeathpilot yeah, it got some AOR airplay at the time. But it was never released as a single. So it's still going to be "under the radar" for most people not familiar with the band.
The singer Joe Elliot consistently gives some of the most thoughtful, insightful interviews in rock music, it's really quite amazing. Somehow in their sound they flush the toilet on the 70s hard rock sound bit are still indebted to it.
Wasn’t he interviewed by Brian Johnson?
Joe Elliott is a walking encyclopedia of rock/pop music. I love it when he and Sav are interviewed together. Both of them are very intelligent and insightful. They are the founding members of Def Leppard and they balance one another so well.
Your next Def Leppard song HAS to be "Photograph"!!!
agreed
Great song ❤✌🎵
Yes, no question!
You might enjoy this re-enactment of them writing the song with Mutt Lange in the studio: czcams.com/video/FEHaEuiN3CA/video.html
Gotta hit Foolin', Photograph, and Too Late from the same album
Their earlier stuff is heavier than everything after this. I recommend "Another Hit and Run" and "Wasted" for more of a heavy garage feeling. Everything on Pyromania is awesome.
My sister's favorite band forever. I bought front row seats for us to see them a couple of years ago. I went there liking them and left a total fan. They blew the freaking roof off!!! There is a live video and you can see us rocking out.
Awesome Def Leppard song!!!🤘🤘🤘
Thanks for doing this song
Saw Def Leppard in '83 open for Billy Squire. Just before they broke big,more than half the audience left after Leppard played their set,it was hilarious! Very soon after the show they started touring as a headliner.
Saw them in 1981 on their High n Dry tour. They were the second set of a 3 band concert, with Kix as the opener and Blackfoot as the headliner. Def Leppard blew a fuse and knocked out the power to the arena near the end of their set, ending their portion of the concert. It was really strange, everyone was jamming out, then suddenly everything went dark and all you could hear was Rick Allen on the drums.
OMG! A&A COVERING DEF LEPPARD!
This just made my whole day! ❤✌🎵
lol
Leppard’s harder rocking stuff is their earlier recordings. High n Dry is all bangers!! The title track (Saturday Night High n Dry) sings of whiskey.and women. Let it Go is awesome! The biggest hit, Bringing on the Heartbreak must be played with Switch 625 at the end, which adds a few minutes of jamming. So cool when they play them live together! This album is worthy of a Patreon reaction!!
"Photograph" and "Too Late for Love" are the prime Leppard for me.
Love that you finally hit Def Leppard! Thanks for listening to the fans and taking the plunge. Btw this was produced by the legendary Mutt Lange. Next up Foolin' or Bringing On The Heartbreak.
I call Def Leppard Pop-Metal. Their best album is HIGH'N'DRY. Definitely an S album. I think you Gentlemen would love it.
I forget which HnD song they did on the livestream but I do remember Alex loved it.
@@scottingram7634 I think it was "Let it Go".
Let it Go is their best song. It is one of my all-time favorite songs, perhaps in the top 5-10
@@scottingram7634 it wasn't Let it go, I think it was Photograph
@@tswanstrom2000 Photograph isn't on High'n'Dry.
Pyromania was the album that turned Def Leppard into superstars. A multi-platinum phenomenon so huge that only Michael Jackson’s Thriller, prevented it from reaching No.1 in America
GOOOOOOOD MORNING A&A FAMILY!!!
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Hey, @John H! ☺️
Interesting to me that they quoted Neil Young in the intro: 'Better to burn out than to fade away'. Not really a huge Def Lep fan, but I did like Pyromania and this song quite a bit.
Y'all should check out more Def Leppard. Hysteria is my favorite album by them. So many great songs: the title track, Animal, Armageddon It, Rocket, Love Bites, Pour Some Sugar On Me, etc.
And those are just some of the hits, lol! HYSTERIA should be a full album reaction; as far as I'm concerned, it's their masterpiece...I don't care what anyone says!
Hysteria is exactly the kind of album Alex would hate. He would wonder where the real rock went.
You guys definitely need to see this band in concert. Still filling arenas and open venues to maximum capacity. High energy from the time they hit the stage to the Encore. They keep the crowd on their feet and rocking.
Never though you would hit def leppard lol. This is one of their good songs. Photograph and rocket is another good song
Can't say it's their best, but I love Rocket and I don't think it gets the love it deserves.
@@thmanwithnoname yeah i agree
Produced by Mutt Lange who also produced...AC/DC.'s Back in Black and Highway to Hell...his "low points":Maroon 5, Lady Gaga, Celine Dion, and Britney Spears....his other high points Bryan Adams and Foreigner
It’s wild to me that Lange didn’t start producing Bryan Adams until the ‘90s, but Adams’ 1984 album “Reckless” could easily pass for a Lange-produced album.
Totally Love, love Def Leppard! Pyromania is amazing start to finish. Reminder... You do have the original issue in your collection.
I think you'll be quite surprised by them if you choose to hit 'em again. So happy that you enjoyed this snapshot into the 80s rock scene. Have a great week fellas! 💞✌😊👋
The first line " it's better to burn out than to fade away" is from Neil Young song Hey Hey My My
This song, with only a few others, pretty much defines the phrase "stadium rock anthem." Def Leppard is best listened to at about 100dB with about 50,000 of your closest friends.
So many hits!!! Always loved this band!!! ANIMAL is my fav song but seriously love all they do. Read the story about the drummer…..( Rick Allen) respect to the whole band for waiting for him to be able to drum with one arm. Great guys
When I saw them live Animal was the highlight!
One of my favorite Def Leppard songs. The video got huge air play on MTV. I believe this is the one Joe Elliot was wielding a broadsword.
The album was produced by Mutt Lange.
Just the facts sir. Lol!😎
Besides his work with AC/DC and Def Lep, Mutt Lange also produced Foreigner 4 and The Cars' Heartbeat City. The guy shit platinum records for six or seven years straight
Radio killed this song for me! I bet I've heard it 500 times lol. 501 now!
Radio killed Photograph even worse for me than this one.
It was so much fun watching how much you enjoyed this song! I couldn’t play this album enough when it came out. This album, “Pyromania,” strongly validated Producer Mutt Lange’s reputation as a hitmaker. Lange also produced Foreigner’s album “4,” some of which you’ve heard already. Would love to see more reactions to both Def Leppard and Foreigner.
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“Let it Go” is the best jam. Pure banger.
Def Leppard and Van Halen helped pull me back from pop to rock back in the early 80s. Rock's been a part of the soundtrack of my life since then.
I'm shocked you guys have never done Def Leppard. Just assumed there were some mixed in. They were HUGE in the 80's, literally everywhere. Have never understood the pop
ock label, it's completely guitar heavy and quite a bit of their stuff is hard af. Obligatory song recommendations, "Photograph", "Foolin", "Bringing on the Hearbreak", "Animal", "Hysteria"..
Rock and roll divergence. You’d never mistake this for the 70s. Something’s missing.
I think it's the attempt to remove the human element. Have you ever watched any of the videos where they time correct 70's rock songs. I watched on where they did it to Running With The Devil and it removes all the character and soul from Eddie's playing and Dave's ad lib vocal stylings.
It's the production element more than the music composition. Through the 70's they "perfected" studio processes, and by the time of the 80's they could were so good they took way too far. I had not heard this tune in a while. I remember liking it back in the day, but hearing it today, the only thing I could think is how flat the sound is. Totally lacking any balls.
Synthy drums and reverby drums make it clearly 80’s
@@fidoz2370 Agreed. Removing the human element was pretty much the hallmark of the 80s.
Snd that’s why grunge emerged. It reclaimed “that something” I’m glad some bands still tour with @that something” too…,,,Foo Fighters as example
Thank you for not coming down on my teen years! This was an ANTHEM!!💙💙🤘🏼✌️
Oh man, does this song take me back to the summer of 83. Like a freaking rabbit hole of fun. Just got my driver's license, starting senior year of HS in the fall, driving my friends around in my '70 Chevelle SS396, blasting this gem on the Sparkomatic AM/FM cassette with 6x9 speakers in the rear deck shelf (terrible distortion!). Back then, I had the bad-ass car in Catholic school. Not the most expensive by far, just no one else had a big block with headers, cowl induction hood, posi rear with 3.73 gears, etc. I worked my tail off to afford that car and I wouldn't change anything. We had so much fun that you cannot put a price on it. I feel so blessed to have been able to enjoy those days. Great review guys, love your facial reactions, and once again, thanks for letting me feel like I am 17 again!
I think this was still before Rick Allen (the drummer) lost his arm in a car wreck, right? I remember it was new year's eve....so maybe this record was from the year prior? Anyway, it was a big thing at the time, because he KEPT being their drummer, with one arm (with help and modified sets and such) afterwards, which I always thought spoke really well of these guys and their commitment to each other.
Yeah Pyromania came out in early 1983 and Rick lost his arm New years Eve 1984. Hysteria was first album he played with only one arm...
At first the rumor was that he was dead, which FREAKED out everyohe in my high school.
@@loosilu I remember the death rumours as well
Shocked Alex liked this lol. There's a lot of Def Leppard songs I prefer over this one - Photograph, Bringing on the Heartbreak, Hysteria, Love Bites... would love to see you guys react to those.
Def Leppard is legendary for a reason. As far as I'm concerned, their harmonies are second only to Queen's in terms of really setting them apart and making their tracks instantly recognizable as being THEM.
There was a docudrama/biopic that came out like, 20 years ago, where Mutt Lang sort of introduces them to their sound. Not sure how true that story is, but they really are a very unique band of extremely talented musicians who are also just really great people (they're still together, with the exception of a guitarist who passed away, I believe.) No substitutions, just a bunch of guys who are skilled and loyal to their sound and their bandmates. I love them.
They also don't forget their roots. "Rocket" is pure homage to other Brit rock greats.
With a HUGE 100 million records sold worldwide, Def Leppard are one of only five rock bands to have two of their original studio albums (‘Pyromania’ and ‘Hysteria’) achieve RIAA Diamond (10 x Platinum) certification. Def Leppard hold a Guinness Book of World Record for performing three concerts on three continents in one day, playing shows in Morocco, London and Vancouver on 23rd October 1994! Def Leppard's status as one of the most important forces in rock music has been recognised through countless award nominations, with the band winning two American Music Awards’ for ‘Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Artist’ and ‘Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Album’, two Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards for ‘Classic Album’ and ‘Album of the Year’, as well as Metal Hammer’s ‘Legends Award’ and Planet Rock’s ‘The Brick Wall Award’. They've also just been nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!
Give "Photograph", "Pour Some Sugar On Me", "Foolin'", "Armageddon It", and "Hysteria" a listen and you won't be disappointed. The have probably a dozen more worth checking out
Song of my teens!! Love it!! 🔥🔥 Thanks guys!! ❤
This record was so important to me at 13 years old. Still sounds just as good.
I’m quite literally screaming on the inside for you guys to hear “photograph”. Not only my favorite leppard song, but my favorite song of all time.
Their harmony sound is so iconic. Pour Some Sugar on Me was (I think?) their biggest hit and a top tier stadium song. Some of their slow jams are epic with those same meaty production values - Photograph, Bringin' on the Heartbreak, Love Bites.
So many mullets, swaying in the wind
I thoroughly enjoyed this reaction and Andy's TED Talk. lol 😸This is a solid tune. Even the song's beginning, "Gunter glieben glausen globen" -which is just gibberish, was cool. 😻
FYI it was a Mutt Lange production which explains the polished sound
This was one of your best. Satisfying to watch, and great identification and comparison by Andy as to what he was looking for. Made sense out here..
Thank you, Adam! 😀
Photograph next?
The intro to this song breaks me up Every. Single. Time. Was never a big fan of theirs but that anthemic production level always caught my ear. Very '80s-ish wouldn't you say boys? 🙄😜
Yes, since I don't speak German, I've always wondered what he's saying at the beginning right before the first note.
@@dunhill1 oh... For some reason I always thought it was Swedish. LOL
@@flubblert Very well could be Swedish, another language I don't understand. Do you remember the Swedish Chef from the Muppets? Growing up I always wondered what he was saying and I've never met a Sweed so that I could play those clips and have him interpret them for me. He may have been cussing at all of us kids. LOL
@@dunhill1 I have a feeling it's more about the funny accent than anything he may or may not be actually saying.
Def Leppard was the first live concert i ever went to. ROCK ON!
This drummer only has ONE ARM!!! TOP THAT*** HE was in a horrible accident. He came back to play just as if it never happened.Now that is a TRUE DRUMMER!🇺🇸💜
Mutt Lange produced this album and he touched a lot of great albums. Got this for Christmas 1982 I believe at 12 and was blown away. Still holds up today. Solid album with a lot of great catchy rock songs. Staying with this album "foolin", "die hard the hunter" "too late for love" "photograph" really any song off this album is a banger
FINALLY!!! Some Def Leppard. They’re next album, Hysteria, while heavily produced, is absolutely phenomenal! Steven Clark is an all-time great riff writer.
Their songs are so well produced, its hard to get tired of them even after listening for 30+ years! Foolin', Photograph, and Hysteria are all bangers as well.
Ugh, and Rocket!
Rise up, gather round, rock this place to the ground... ALWAYS gets me pumped up and singing along automatically!!
Praise Jimmy Hendrix and thanks be to The Gods of Rock! Finally some Def Leppard!! Mutt Lange was the producer on this and it is front to back one of the greatest albums in rock! A staple of every 80s teenager.. That cassette was literally worn out…..and repurchased again! 🤘🏼🇬🇧❤️
From the High 'N' Dry album the first track starts fast and hard, Let It Go is a definite banger with a stank face fade out! Another Hit and Run shows Joe's great vocal range and great guitar work. The title track High 'N' Dry is another banger. Bringing On the Heartbreak is a classic banger and fan favorite. Switch 625 is a quick 3 minute jam, no vocals and still a banger. This was side 1 of the LP or cassette and I must admit I didn't listen to side 2 enough to really state an opinion on those songs. Mirror, Mirror (Look Into My Eyes) and No No No for the fade out alone, possible bangers. In the USMC, early '80's in my '74 Cougar blasting it around J'ville, NC...good times!
Oh man I'd forgotten how truly magnificent this song is....was at my friend's house and she had just gotten the album 🕊️💗
Def Leppard was good radio rock. They got the job done for a 16 year old kid for sure, but it was easy to move on from them and not look back. B+ song for me.
I used to love this song in high school, and it was so popular. Now that I've listened to it a few times in 2021-22, it's still a fun song but not as great as I remember it. I guess it was more about being a teenager during that time. I agree with Andy's A rating.
Their second album "High 'n' Dry" is my favorite. Check out "Let It Go" and "Switch 625" (instrumental)" and "Bringin' On the Heartbreak". All first rate Def Leppard.
Just finished Cobra Kai’s new season and the last episode ends with Swtch 625!! I was blown away!!
This is only the beginning of the discovery for you guys of this band. So many more great songs. Hope you go down the rabbit hole with this band.
Of all the rock bands of the 80's Def Leopard is the band i have the most respect for. When the drummer lost his arm in a car accident, the band could've moved on without him. Instead they stood by him. He had to heal, he had to relearn drum using one arm and feet. Def Leopard allowed their music to evolve into a style he could play and believe me, in my honest opinion it became better in many ways. The man can do things on a drum set that a two armed drummer would struggle with. Highest respect to him for not letting the loss of his arm, take away his dreams, and to the band for showing thr true meaning of Loyalty and Friendship and Family!! Check out Pour Some Sugar on Me, Animal, Lets Get Rocked, Armageddon it, Foolin, virtually anything of theirs is fantastic.
Pyromania is an unreal album. All Killer No Filler. ”Photograph”, “Foolin”, “Love Bites” are very popular but awesome tracks, while more under the radar songs like ”Comin’ Under Fire”, Die Hard the Hunter”, “Mirror Mirror” and my favourite ”Gods of War” are SO good 🤘🏻
Isn’t Love Bites from Hysteria?
@@karenglenn6707 yeah it is, I was just listing some of their catalogue and not specifically from Pyromania
@@bradsimpson9396 no worries. I misunderstood. My apologies.
I first heard Def Leppard... in the mid 70's... High - n - Dry was an excellent listen.
Their first album came out in 1980. It’s ok though, at my age, dates get messed up all the time. Lol!
You two are constantly improving your song breakdowns and descriptions. You both are so young , so I am looking forward to your channel for years to come ! Bravo ! Steve Hooker(64) Raleigh , NC
"Let's Get Rocked" is the most fun song they do, and I love the guitar solo at the break!
"Pour some sugar on me" is pretty fun as well.
Their 1981 High ‘n’ Dry album & 1983 Pyromania album are vintage rock for Def Leppard🤘🏼
Unfortunately with their 1987 album Hysteria, they started becoming more pop-rock and would eventually turn into Bon Jovi for the rest of their career👎🏼
But definitely up until 1986, they rocked👍🏼
So happy you're doing some Def Leppard. Foolin, and Let it Go are two songs I think you both would like.
Def Leppard was the first concert I ever went to. It was their first huge tour and I had never heard of them. They were just starting to blow up. They started as a harder band and were part of a small group of British hard rock/metal bands that included Iron Maiden that were starting to get noticed. Then they went to a more pop direction and became huge.
You should have started with the High 'N' Dry album..... it sets up their subsequent albums... and really highlights Mutt Lange's production and Mike Shipley's engineering (RIP Shipshape)
The problem I have with this song, and yes I have a good sound system, is the bass. That early digital mixing really killed bass guitar frequencies, and there is a LOT of room for more bass line in this song. The resolution Andy wants from the guitar riff isn't the guitar itself causing the problem imo. The bassist never resolves to a lower riff to compliment the guitar going higher at the same time. The digital sound space was so lack luster for certain tonal frequencies in its early adoptive phase in the industry that bands were composing the music to play around those frequencies so you hear a bass tone with a ton of compression and synth properties because the mix would've sounded like trash if they didn't. It doesn't have that boom in your chest feel. The cannon shot snare though, that's ALWAYS a welcome sound imo. One of the big traits of 80's metal/hard rock.
Great comment
This was recorded to analog tape.
If I'm not mistaken, wasn't the bass sequenced through a Fairlight CMI, same as the drums? Mutt loved that damn thing and used it as much as possible in the mid-80's. The frequencies sucked though which is why the drums sound like shit.
@@-Ricky_Spanish- All the drums except the cymbals are the Fairlight. Don't know about the bass.
@@frankmarsh1159 through a digital mixing board instead of an analog board.
One of the best rock bands of the 80s -- and they sound just as good live!
Quick story about Def Leppard. Back in the early 2000s when CDs where the main format I would sometimes stop at the used CD store with friends and browse the shelves. I ran across Vault which is a greatest hits album from Def Leppard covering 1980 to 1995. I grabbed it off the shelf and took it to the counter to buy it. My friend ribbed me about getting the album. I told him "everyone is a Def Leppard fan" to which he scoffed. Later at my house as the 6th or 7th track spun up and my friend had sung along to every track before that he looked at me and said, I guess everyone is a Leppard fan.
The band's music as you correctly identified has a pop vibe and are catchy and fun to listen to. Add that to the heavy rotation on all the rock radio stations (even during the grunge era Def Leppard held down slots in the rotation) and a large number of generation x can probably sing the words to most of the band's hits.
The Broadway musical Rock of Ages was named after this song. It is satirical look at 80’s rock music and the general mind set of the time. Funny thing is, Def Leppard refused to let them use any of their songs. It’s still a great show though. (David Coverdale’s hilarious intro czcams.com/video/AxyPfoubgSA/video.html)
Probably the biggest band from Sheffield, England...until the Arctic Monkeys hit the scene 🤗 Great reaction and A is a fair rating. ✌💜🎶
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Pulp too, with some great support acts, Human League, Heaven 17, ABC, The Longpigs and Joe Cocker to also headline.
@@murraybozinsky7067 Nice info thanks! 🎶
Just straight up, no frills, hard driving, badass lyrics, ROCK n ROLL!
In the 80s this band was one of those bands everyone loved or at least liked. A very safe play during parties.
Def Leppard songs on my playlist (alphabetical order)
(Songs with * are rockers)
Animal
Armageddon It*
Bringin' On the Heartbreak*
Foolin'*
Hysteria
Let's Get Rocked*
Love Bites
Miss You In a Heartbeat
Photograph*
Pour Some Sugar On Me*
Rock of Ages*
Rocket*
Too Late For Love*
Two Steps Behind
Women*
I actually like "Photograph" a little better than this one. "Bringin' on the Heartbreak" is really good, too.