Def Leppard's Pyromania: Klassique or Dud?

too late (for love) is a near-perfect rock song.

Super classik!!!!!! Rock of Ages, FuhFuhFuhFooolin, Photograph, Too Late...love that whole album top ta bottom. Hysteria's great, I love it, but Pyromania feels a bit more genuine, a little less plastic than Hysteria . (but Mirror Mirror off High n Dry will always and forever be my jam. )

I have really come to love High and Dry in recent years, but Pyromania is the one that hit me in elementary school. That at Metal Health were certainly essential in my development. Killer songs and production. And the artwork--you obviously couldn't get a major to release that in this day and age.

Foolin has it all: the opening acoustic guitar minor key arpeggios, left turns into IS ANYBODY OUT THERE???, ascends into the sky with OH, I JUST GOTTA KNOW...then gets slugged in the jaw with some AC/DC riffage

it completely rules

also Daniel esq otm

SOMEWHERE IN THE DISTANCE, I HEAR THE BELLS RING

Pyromania's more brooding deep cuts are so underrated. "Too Late" among them!

They should have quit with this album, as everything that came after it was garbage.

“rocket” is so not garbage

Hysteria is perfect.

every time i play a song from this album i immediately just want to go play any song from hysteria instead. except for photograph, which is a perfect monument unto itself.

I like Hysteria a lot but Pyromania is their Sistine Chapel to me.

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Two very different beasts for sure.

Pyromania is an exercise in balancing aggression and sensitivity, two extremes. Hysteria is less bipolar, more about nuance, even when it's silly.