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Posted: 8/2/2024 7:45:44 PM EST

First to last song an incredible album with one of the best instrumental rock tracks.

Def Leppard - Switch 625 (In Memorie Of Steve Clark)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS70QWFns8s

Posted: 8/2/2024 7:51:07 PM EST

[#1]

I knew what it was before I clicked.

Peak Def Leppard for sure.

Willis and Clark still had the raw sound. Better than the Collen Clark polished sound.

The songs were fantastic, no skips necessary.

I still listen to it complete and in order every couple weeks for the past 40 years. Never gets old.

Posted: 8/2/2024 7:58:12 PM EST

[#2]

It was one of the all time best albums when it came out. Gritty and new sound for the time and before Mutt Lang got involved. I wore out two cassettes and then got the CD.

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:03:17 PM EST

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I still have a Fidelity Labs Gold disc of Pyromania. Another great offering. They were actually a damn good band.

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:05:09 PM EST

[#4]

Finally someone agrees with me. I’ve been saying this for years.

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:05:50 PM EST

[#5]

Peak hard rock DL.

Pyromania is DL mainstream rock.

Hysteria is Pop/Rock.

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:06:20 PM EST

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It was one of the all time best albums when it came out. Gritty and new sound for the time and before Mutt Lang got involved. I wore out two cassettes and then got the CD.

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Mutt should be beaten for what he did to DL. So much potential wasted.

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:08:04 PM EST

[#7]

This song has always done something to me.

Def Leppard - Bringin' On The Heartbreak (Version 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_X5A-BYjO8

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:09:33 PM EST

[#8]

What has 7 arms and sucks?

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:10:46 PM EST

[#9]

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Posted: 8/2/2024 8:11:21 PM EST

[#10]

What has 9 arms and sucks?

JK - some of their stuff is okay.

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:11:45 PM EST

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Posted: 8/2/2024 8:16:53 PM EST

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Ahhh .....memories of drinking Mickeys "Big Mouths" in the back seat of my friend's mom's Olds 98 Diesel on the way to see this tour at the Lee County Civic Center ......

We made the same trek for Dokken, Ratt, and Poison

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:18:05 PM EST

[#13]

Pyromania is my favorite

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:18:39 PM EST

[#14]

Just saw them with Cheap Trick and Journey in Cleveland Tuesday night.

Good show.

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:18:59 PM EST

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Posted: 8/2/2024 8:21:29 PM EST

[#16]

their best album

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:24:40 PM EST

[#17]

I have it and On Through The Night in my library. Don’t care enough about the other albums to get them.

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:27:18 PM EST

[#18]

There are so many epic guitar riffs on that album it's crazy.

So many great songs - love this one especially:

Lady Strange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYt0w8ZRXYA

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:30:17 PM EST

[#19]

Pyromania was my first rock album (cassette). Cranked it on my boom box in Jr. High.

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:32:51 PM EST

[#20]

Def Leppard was pretty good

Blind Melon was okay

But Paraplegic Carrot really rocks!

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:33:18 PM EST

[#21]

They were an okay band. I saw them in a high-school gym in early 80s. So close you could smell the old spice.

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:34:19 PM EST

[#22]

I think from On through the night to the first side of High n Dry Def Leppard sounded like the hungriest band in the world. Absolutely hitting on all cylinders.

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:35:02 PM EST

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Posted: 8/2/2024 8:38:22 PM EST

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I miss the days when every track on an album was worth listening to.

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:38:35 PM EST

[#25]

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First to last song an incredible album with one of the best instrumental rock tracks.

https://i.imgur.com/HEtbtDf.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS70QWFns8s

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I always preferred Pyromania. But, this one came out a bit before I started buying cassettes so was a "discovered later" kind of thing.

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:38:55 PM EST

[#26]

Their Live in the Round concert is a favorite of mine. This is a great cover of Hysteria and a tribute to Steve (RIP).

Def Leppard - Hysteria - Live 'In The Round' (Steve Clark - Guitar Cover)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9AsqXRGpKI

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:39:16 PM EST

[#27]

Not proud but it's my era....

DEF LEPPARD - "Women" (Official Music Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HR0P3sIb80

"Not proud" does not mean it's not awesome.

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:39:37 PM EST

[#28]

Have almost all the tapes and cds.

Got me through school homework listening to them.

Posted: 8/2/2024 8:49:37 PM EST

[#29]

One of the many parts of the soundtrack of my youth.

Posted: 8/2/2024 11:49:35 PM EST

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I think from On through the night to the first side of High n Dry Def Leppard sounded like the hungriest band in the world. Absolutely hitting on all cylinders.

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i had it on 8-track....
click

Posted: 8/3/2024 2:09:39 AM EST

[#31]

On Through the Night, High and Dry, Pyromania. All great albums. Hysteria had four great songs, the first three, all of the songs were great. I went to see them twice in Charlotte NC, the High and Dry and the Pyromania tours.

At the Pyromania concert, Tesla opened. Tesla blew them away. Tesla was the hungry rock band at that show. Def Leppard was great, but Tesla was crazy good.

Posted: 8/3/2024 3:57:27 AM EST

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This song has always done something to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_X5A-BYjO8

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Regrettable I never saw them with Willis and Clark but did limp down and snagged some prime seats for the 2019/20 Stadium Tour . I tend to agree with those who feel this song is their best. Big difference in creating and performing but the current lineup absolutely slayed it live and the Band knew it. At the end Vivian Campbell walked over to Phil Collen and said something. Even my friends who were really there to see Motley Fools realized what they had just witnessed.

Posted: 8/3/2024 6:38:49 AM EST

[#33]

My favorite Def Leppard album is High n Dry. It's a masterpiece not a clinker on it.

Posted: 8/3/2024 6:44:20 AM EST

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Pyromania was my first rock album (cassette). Cranked it on my boom box in Jr. High.

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Same. I bought High and Dry after and it's my favorite from the band but I know almost every song on Pyromania word for word.

I currently have On Through the Night, High and Dry, and Pyromania on vinyl. They all have a regular spot in the rotation.

Posted: 8/3/2024 8:23:22 AM EST

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Their Live in the Round concert is a favorite of mine. This is a great cover of Hysteria and a tribute to Steve (RIP).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9AsqXRGpKI

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absolutely on the best performances on film.
Live in the Round is amazing.

Posted: 8/3/2024 8:26:49 AM EST

[#36]

It’s (by far) their best. Every time they play or think about recording another album, they should be forced to listen to High ‘n’ Dry for 48 hours first.

One of the best albums of the 80s, and it was a great decade for music.

When I saw the title, my first thought was “HnD… if he says ‘Hysteria’, I’m going to lose my shit.”

Posted: 8/3/2024 8:33:08 AM EST

[#37]

Pyromania will always be one of my favorite "coming of age" albums. Turned twelve or so that year and all the cool older kids were rocking it at the beach that summer. Good memories. I even admit to wearing out Hysteria on cassette a few years later in my first car on my rockin' Sparkomatic lol.

Posted: 8/3/2024 8:35:25 AM EST

[#38]

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Ahhh .....memories of drinking Mickeys "Big Mouths" in the back seat of my friend's mom's Olds 98 Diesel on the way to see this tour at the Lee County Civic Center ......

We made the same trek for Dokken, Ratt, and Poison

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Haha, thanks for reminding me of my buddy vomiting all over his bedroom floor pounding Mickey wide mouths at a highschool party in 1977. Memories! I can still smell the reek.

Posted: 8/3/2024 8:46:57 AM EST

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What has 7 arms and sucks?

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What has 9 arms and sucks?

JK - some of their stuff is okay.

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I saw them in Germany with an even number of arms right before the Pyromania release and they put on a great show.

Posted: 8/3/2024 8:49:18 AM EST

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Not proud but it's my era....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HR0P3sIb80

"Not proud" does not mean it's not awesome.

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The '80s electronic arena drums aren't my favorite, but there was some GREAT guitar playing on this song and album! One of their great moments was the original raw version of Tear It Down around this time. They always had such great, crisp, modern guitar sounds. Peak Jackson + Les Paul combo.

Posted: 8/3/2024 8:53:19 AM EST

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On Through the Night, High and Dry, Pyromania. All great albums. Hysteria had four great songs, the first three, all of the songs were great. I went to see them twice in Charlotte NC, the High and Dry and the Pyromania tours.

At the Pyromania concert, Tesla opened. Tesla blew them away. Tesla was the hungry rock band at that show. Def Leppard was great, but Tesla was crazy good.

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I think you saw Tesla open for them on the Hysteria tour. ~~The guys in Tesla were probably in high school when Pyromania came out~~.

Edit for correction. Tesla guys are as old or older than Def Leppard guys, but Leppard has been a band for much longer than Tesla.

Posted: 8/3/2024 8:54:51 AM EST

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There are so many epic guitar riffs on that album it's crazy.

So many great songs - love this one especially:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYt0w8ZRXYA

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My favorite song on the album as well. This was always in heavy rotation on my turntable or the tape deck when it came out.

Posted: 8/3/2024 9:14:05 AM EST

[#43]

Op is correct. I listen to that album often and have been for 40 years.

Posted: 8/3/2024 9:14:53 AM EST

[#44]

Especially SIDE ONE!

Posted: 8/3/2024 9:20:15 AM EST

[#45]

High N Dry was my first exposure to Def Leppard. I bought it on LP. Pyromania hadn't come out yet, which I also got that on LP when it was released.

Back in those days you got the LP, recorded it on cassette and then played the cassette on your huge Boom Box, which you bungied to your bicycle. Invariably the Boom Box would eat said cassette which is why you didn't just buy it on cassette in the first place. Plus the LP sounded better on the home stereo (using huge hard wired head phones if the parents were home).

Hysteria was my very first CD.

High N dry was always my favorite album of theirs. I got On Through the Night on LP somewhere along the way, but never warmed up to that album, though a couple songs were pretty good.

Posted: 8/3/2024 9:21:29 AM EST

[#46]

I knew what is was before I clicked. I blasted that album out of my bicycle Bluetooth speaker last time my wife and I went on a ride around the neighborhood. Even she was like, “who is this?” And I’m like “Def freaking Leppard!”, because all she knows from them is Love Bites and Pour Some Stupid On Me.

Posted: 8/3/2024 9:57:52 AM EST

[#47]

I have it and On Through The Night in my library. Don’t care enough about the other albums to get them.

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This.

Posted: 8/3/2024 10:02:51 AM EST

[#48]

I never cared for "Deaf Leppers."

My brother played Hysteria incessantly in high school.

Posted: 8/3/2024 10:46:00 AM EST

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It’s (by far) their best. Every time they play or think about recording another album, they should be forced to listen to High ‘n’ Dry for 48 hours first.

One of the best albums of the 80s, and it was a great decade for music.

When I saw the title, my first thought was “HnD… if he says ‘Hysteria’, I’m going to lose my shit.”

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My exact thoughts too...