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Jeremy Riggs


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Rolling Stone sayeth:

A perfect balance of melodic hooks and metal:  Before he met Shania Twain, producer Mutt Lange crammed an arena-ready sound and stacks of choruses onto PYROMANIA.  "The choruses on things like 'ROCK OF AGES' were enormous" said singer Joe Elliott.  The band was written off by critics, but the kids understood.

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While Def Leppard had obviously wanted to write big-sounding anthems on their previous records, Pyromania was where the band's vision coalesced and gelled into something more. More than ever before, the band's songs on Pyromania are driven by catchy, shiny melodic hooks instead of heavy guitar riffs, although the latter do pop up once in a while. But it wasn't just this newly intensified focus on melody and consistent songwriting (and heavy MTV exposure) that made Pyromania a massive success -- and the catalyst for the '80s pop-metal movement. Robert John "Mutt" Lange's buffed-to-a-sheen production -- polished drum and guitar sounds, multi-tracked layers of vocal harmonies, a general sanding of any and all musical rough edges, and a perfectionistic attention to detail -- set the style for much of the melodic hard rock that followed. It wasn't a raw or spontaneous sound, but the performances were still energetic and committed. Leppard's quest for huge, transcendent hard rock perfection on Pyromania was surprisingly successful; their reach never exceeded their grasp, which makes the album an enduring (and massively influential) classic.

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    1 Listen Now! Rock Rock ('Til You Drop) Clark, Elliott, Lange, Savage 3:52
AMG Review AMG Pick 2 Listen Now! Photograph Clark, Elliott, Lange, Savage ... 4:12



 
    3 Listen Now! Stagefright Elliott, Lange, Savage 3:46
    4 Listen Now! Too Late for Love Clark, Elliott, Lange, Savage ... 4:30
  
    5 Listen Now! Die Hard the Hunter Clark, Elliott, Lange, Savage 6:17
  AMG Pick 6 Listen Now! Foolin' Clark, Elliott, Lange 4:32
AMG Review AMG Pick 7 Listen Now! Rock of Ages Clark, Elliott, Lange 4:09
    8 Listen Now! Comin' Under Fire Clark, Elliott, Lange, Willis 4:20
    9 Listen Now! Action! Not Words Clark, Elliott, Lange 3:52
    10 Listen Now! Billy's Got a Gun Clark, Elliott, Lange, Savage ... 5:27


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Jeremy Riggs


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I have warm memories of this one smile.gif

Although I was late to the party, I didn't find this album until about 1985, but Def Leppard became one of my favorites of the genre.

Always cool album covers and titles too!

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Although not as good as its predecessor, this is my 2nd fave DL album. And one of my all-time favorite rock albums.

The first album after Pete Willis left the band. cry.gif That made me very sad, but he was still a big part of the album, because of the songs he wrote, and the fact that he had some guitar tracks on it. After he left, DL was never the same.

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Yay, the first one I own! Well actually, I think I own this on tape, but that counts, right?

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MzHartz wrote:

Yay, the first one I own! Well actually, I think I own this on tape, but that counts, right?



 Sure MZ, we'll give you credit for a cassette.  Afterall, when this came out the cassette was the preferred format smile.gif



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Jeremy Riggs wrote:

MzHartz wrote:

Yay, the first one I own! Well actually, I think I own this on tape, but that counts, right?



 Sure MZ, we'll give you credit for a cassette.  Afterall, when this came out the cassette was the preferred format smile.gif





As I recall, this was the first album in which the cassette waaay outsold the vinyl version. It made the news, and we were officially in the "cassette age." bleh.gif

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If they would have never come out with another album after this, that would have been just fine with me. Really liked them up thru this album.

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I didn't have this one, buy my tech school roommate did. We listened to it a lot.



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JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

If they would have never come out with another album after this, that would have been just fine with me. Really liked them up thru this album.





Yep. Things totally went downhill when Pete left.

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Has anyone been to Target and seen the wood grain stereo that you can record your vinyl to cd? This is awesome! Now if I only had $199.00!

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Sparky wrote:

Has anyone been to Target and seen the wood grain stereo that you can record your vinyl to cd? This is awesome! Now if I only had $199.00!





My Mom's friend got that & she really likes it.

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