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Although many music fans were convinced that Def Leppard would become hard rock's next big band, few could have predicted the massive across-the-boards success that its third record, 1983's PYROMANIA, achieved. Many wondered why it was taking the group so long to release a follow-up to 1981's HIGH 'N' DRY, but the finished product was well worth the wait. Not only did it become one of the year's best-selling albums and made the band instant U.S. arena headliners, but it has remained a consistent seller ever since (by 1994, it had reached nine million units in the U.S. alone).
The songwriting and overall sound was more streamlined and succinct this time around--while there are guitar riffs galore, the songs have more of a pop feel. Founding guitarist Pete Willis left during the recording, replaced by Phil Collen, who fit in perfectly with the band. The album features such mega-hits as "Photograph," "Rock of Ages," and "Foolin'," as well as a couple of other tracks that could have easily been singles as well, "Rock Rock (Till You Drop)" and "Too Late for Love." PYROMANIA remains one of the best and most popular hard-rock recordings of the '80s.
Additional Tracks; Deluxe Edition
Recorded at Park Gates Studios, Battle, Sussex, England and Battery Studios, London, England.
Def Leppard: Joe Elliot (vocals); Steve "Steamin" Clark, Phil Collen, Pete Willis (guitar); Rick Savage (bass); Rick Allen (drums).
Def Leppard: Joe Elliot (vocals); Steve "Steamin'" Clark, Phil Collen, Pete Willis (guitar); Rick Savage (bass); Rick Allen (drums).
Additional personnel: John Kongos, Booker T. Boffin, Charlie (keyboards); The Leppardettes (background vocals).
Additional personnel: John Kongos, Booker T. Roffin, Charile (keyboards); The Leppardettes (background vocals).
Rolling Stone (11/89) - Ranked #62 in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Albums Of The Eighties survey.
Spin (p.105) - "[T]hey sweeten the sound, mating AC/DC riffs to Journey mall drama, battle-march mythos to lovelorn mooning over photo albums."
Magnet (p.114) - "[O]ne of the biggest, most anthemic albums of an era marked by huge, anthemic albums."
CMJ (1/5/04, p.12) - Ranked #19 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1983".
Record Collector (magazine) (p.80) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "'Photograph' became a signature for the hair metal masses, with its rich harmonies and sweet melody, while the lighters were aloft for the likes of 'Too Late For Love.'" Purchase Pyromania CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Boston CD (1976) Reissue; Remastered
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The first solo album from Fleetwood Mac singer/songwriter Daniel David Kirwan has the future producer for Human League and Buzzcocks, Martin Rushent, utilizing those skills here, as well as engineering. The sound is crystal clear, and a feather in the cap for Rushent as well as Kirwan. It starts off with an uncharacteristic "Ram Jam City," which has more Lindsey Buckingham sounds than one would expect, especially since the two guitarists come from two different musical worlds. "Odds and Ends" is more lighthearted, the kind of music Paul McCartney toyed with on The White Album's "Rocky Raccoon." What Second Chapter immediately sets forth is the importance of Kirwan as a pop artist, and how, despite Fleetwood Mac's success after he left, his sounds could still have been beneficial to that supergroup. "Hot Summers Day" is a fine example of that, a beautiful song that could offset Buckingham's gritty ramblings. It would have made a nice counterpoint as Stevie Nicks complemented Christine McVie's ...
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I still hate those cookie-cutter bios everybody seems to use. "We're ever so wonderful. All your favorite bands put together? That's us, except we're better. Everybody loves us, we are skilled and talented." What ever happened to artists who were honest? Solo artists are talking in third person and in plurals so that they sound like professionals, but it's disingenuous and dreadfully devoid of intrigue. To me it's as if these formerly-independent artists get a chance to make a buck on CDBaby and all of a sudden they want to sound exactly like everybody else. Why are you trying to emulate the business end of the corporate music establishment? There's a difference between making uncommercial music for a reason, and being an unsigned artist who makes corporate music. What happened to unsigned artists who had something more to offer than just pop-minded songs that've been rejected by the major labels?I've been told that this album is too brutal for drugs, but I don't think that's true if you're a heavy tripper like me. I like to listen to this album with earphones while staring at the white fuzz on scrambled TV channels. It gives really great visuals. And it really tickles the brain, induces insanity, at least in me. It's not the kind of album you'd probably put on for your friends at a party... unless your friends enjoy staring into space and transversing parallel dimensions. The main influences for this are Burzum and an obscure noise artist named Zharth. Some secondary influences would be Darkthrone and Nokturnal Mortum. I pretty much wanted to combine my utter hatred for society with my taste for altered states of consciousness.In average bombast, this album's sound could be described as a vague haze of fierce crushing simmering discordian black metal exploding into or boiling over into volcanoes of subtle brain-shaking noise, leading reluctantly into gloriously fist-pound-prone dark sludge metal riffs and ambient shoegaze, then repeating in various patterns of absolute hatred for all society's conventions. I don't believe in love or friends and spend my time in a white noise fog behind a closed door. To be perfectly honest, some sort of 'altered state-of-mind' may be necessary to see what makes this album so damn satisfying for me. I listen to it daily. a word on "Reversing the Third Wave""Reversing the Third Wave" is a song I did because I felt that black metal had really lost its way after the second wave. Bands like Burzum and Darkthrone had such a raw rebelliousness, a nihilistic abandon, and an inclination towards ambient sound experiment. Black metal bands today are too cut and dry, playing big beefy, chorusey symphonic or smooth ambient "black metal" sounding as if they think black metal is ...
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