People can rip on Adrenalize all they want. However, the fact remains it spent 5 straight weeks at #1, went triple-platinum in the U.S. alone, and produced 4 Top 40 hits during the height of the grunge era. Very impressive.
Another great rankings video on one of my favourite bands. I've been a fan of the show for several months now and always look forward to a new one. Cheers, Russ from Sydney, Australia 😎🤘
Thanks, Brother, and we will! These have been a lot of fun to do. Did you see the Tesla Roundtable on the Rock Resurgence Radio channel? Let me know what you thought!
Great discussion fellas. Def Leppard was always a band on my peripheral and it wasn’t until the last couple years I started to notice how many really great songs I like that just so happened to be written by Leppard. Been checking them out a little more here lately. Love the channel.
This is James Anthony another great video my ranking for the albums are High N Dry Pyromania On Through The Night Hysteria Adrenalize Keep on rockin my brother your videos never disappoint
great discussion guys. here are my top 5 (noting that I love them all, but mine are based on least listened to up to most listened to). 5. On Through The Night 4. High N Dry 3. Adrenalize 2. Pyromania 1. Hysteria
I lived in West Germany from 1980-85. I partied with Def Leppard in a night club in Belgium before our American High School Football game as they walked into the club after they had their Pyromania Tour concert. We played our high school football game the next morning and we were all throwing up from drinking all night.
This is good discussion to all of your opinions on Def Leppard albums. As for Adrenalize surprised nobody has mentioned White lightning & Tonight. Two of the best tracks in my opinion. I can listen to all 5 albums. Agree with you on Retro Active. Good album RATT n Roll 🤘🏻nice shirt
Thank you all for another great watch !! I think everybody's list was right. All good stuff, just a matter of preference. Mine would be: 5. Adrenalize 4. On Through The Night 3. Hysteria 2. Pyromania 1. High N' Dry Looking forward to next show & take care my friend !!
Another great panel discussion! My ranking from 80-92: 1) Pyromania 2) High 'n' Dry 3) On Through the Night 4) Hysteria 5) Adrenalize Even though I have Hysteria at 4, I still really love that album. Those first 4 albums are some of my favorite in the genre. I like Adrenalize, but songs like "Make Love Like a Man" are the reason it's my least favorite of the 5 . Just saw Def Leppard last month and they were excellent
Thanks, Matt! I saw Def Leppard in 2022 and still phenomenal. And I'm right with you with Pyro and High N Dry at 1 and 2! Thanks for your support, Brother!
If it’s worth anything, Joe Elliot in an interview once said he didn’t care about lyrics, just what the words sounded like together. He referenced Let It Go’s opening verse, specifically the last line “Get ready for the big C”. He said that line is just a line that seemed to fit. Might explain their lack of growth in that area.
Great show guys. Hey GURU. I'm also a ballad fan. after putting together a 10 hour + metal ballad mix. i discovered Def Leppard's, bringin' on the heartbreak is the first metal power ballad. Every band since it's release has copied the blue print. Correct me if I'm wrong bud. Cheers from Australia
id take slang…truly a unique record that they put all the creative effort into. a lot of complaints about the lack of serious lyrics to adrenalize…check out slang…
If you asked me in 1988 it goes: 1. Hysteria. 2. Pyromania. 3. High N Dry 4. On through the night. If you ask me today it is: 1. Pyromania 2. Hysteria. 3. High N Dry 4. On through the night 5. Adrenalize. If Slang had came out in 1992 instead of Adrenalize it would have fit perfectly in the new music scene of the early 90s. Now it came out a bit too late. A decent album though.
The only band I have been lucky enough to see twice (28th June 2013 w/ Whitesnake and Europe and 24th June 2023 w/ Crüe). Pete Willis also released an EP called I Will Be There with his supergroup Gomagog 3/5s of Iron Maiden and the bassist of Whitesnake Neil Murray. I know Adrenalize is 5 and On Through the Night is 4 but those other 3 completely flip flop.
... And the dissing of Love Bites continues! I understand what the lefties mean now by the term 'triggered'! 5. Adrenalize - Terrible, like the group has mentioned, atrocious childish songs, I don't even think it was great musically. The times were changing and styles change. They left behind the 80s. Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad is too sickly, power ballads should have some 'oompf', far too sickly. My first Lepp gig though (1992?) as I didn't have older adult siblings who would have took me to the tours for Hysteria and Pyro with me being under 16 at those times. Luckily they played the main songs from Hysteria and Pyro, so it was great all in! Even though PSSOM isn't one of my faves these days it was an incredible show opener and it's an experience I will remember all my life! 4. On Through The Night - A bit before my time as a rocker. Just because I'm English doesn't mean I was into the NWOBHM scene. I'm a US LA scene hair metal rocker! 3. High N Dry - Bringin' On The Heartbreak and the glorious Lady Strange! They called Clark and Collen the 'Terror Twins' but Steve and Pete were something else on that album!!!! 2. Hysteria - I have to be objective here as I can't think with my heart! The first albums I got from these monster bands back then mean a lot to me, my first steps into the genre I love so much! Slippery and Hysteria are nothing less than holy icons. but, yes, from my vantage point in the future, yes Hysteria is very poppy and over produced now... A full 3rd of the album I can take or leave and a few of the songs are too childishly silly for me with some gobbledygook lyrics to match, looking at you Rocket, Pour Some Sugar On Me and Armageddon It, (even though I still enjoy them somewhat nowadays, but not like I did back then)... But... What are you guys saying there! WOMEN and Love Bites are shit songs! Get out of town yeah! WOMEN is the perfect rockers song! Why did these guys like Motley and Poison and Ratt start bands?!?!? to get the girls!!! WOMEN is an iconic song in rock history! Love Bites! Jeebus! It doesn't matter how many times we've heard these songs, which is a lot coz we were there when they came out! A perfect power ballad is a perfect power ballad! WOMEN and Animal are my top 2 and 3 Lepp songs! But, yeah, Hysteria hasn't stood the test of time on a sound/tone standpoint, sure! 1. The might Pyromania!!!!! Some of the greatest songs in rock history here! The incredible Photograph, My fave Lepp song! The Lepp's greatest song and one of rocks most iconic songs of all time! Foolin', Too Late For Love, Comin' Under Fire! Thank The Emperor this music has been a part of my life for all 52 trips round the sun I've been on! Billy's Got A Gun is prob the only track on the album I'm not keen on... Very nearly a flawless album! Steve and Pete's playing is beyond question some of the best!!! Thanks for another great discussion Guru! You lot get better looking by the day! The female viewing figures must be going through the roof by now!! The great Steve 'Steamin' Clark.... Gone but never, ever, fuckin' forgotten!!!
Appreciate you watching man. Ranking them all would've taken forever--we only did 5 albums and the video is almost an hour and a half. And, I'll be honest, you're statement that everything is better after 1992? Yikes. Haha. Thanks again, man.
1. High N Dry, 2. Pyromania a great two album run like AC/DC Highway and Back In Black or Aerosmith Rock and Toys 3.On Through the Night only has bad production. I love Saxon 4. Hysteria great time of my life, women loved this album 5 Adrenalize- I wanted to like it but it was a major let down. Retroactive was better. Only better than Slang and X
It is funny cause today Lets Get Rocked came on my Spotify and it was the first time i heard it since i was 18 or 19. Nd i loved that song back then it was one of my favorite songs of all time. Hearing it today at 33 i cant stand that song. SUCKS ASS!!! WTF was wrong with 18yo me? Im scared to listen to the rest of the album now based on what i heard bout it here.
People can rip on Adrenalize all they want.
However, the fact remains it spent 5 straight weeks at #1, went triple-platinum in the U.S. alone, and produced 4 Top 40 hits during the height of the grunge era.
Very impressive.
I completely here you. And I loved it when it came out. But over the years it has aged badly imo.
Another great rankings video on one of my favourite bands. I've been a fan of the show for several months now and always look forward to a new one. Cheers, Russ from Sydney, Australia 😎🤘
Holy shit, Australia is in the house! That blows me away, man, thank you so much, seriously.
High N Dry is my favorite Def Leppard album and always will be.
Amazing album.
Same here. All killer sophomore effort !!
Please keep doing this format! There are so many bands you can cover 😁
Thanks, Brother, and we will! These have been a lot of fun to do. Did you see the Tesla Roundtable on the Rock Resurgence Radio channel? Let me know what you thought!
Great discussion fellas. Def Leppard was always a band on my peripheral and it wasn’t until the last couple years I started to notice how many really great songs I like that just so happened to be written by Leppard. Been checking them out a little more here lately. Love the channel.
Great show as always
Thank you so much! I appreciate it
This is James Anthony another great video my ranking for the albums are
High N Dry
Pyromania
On Through The Night
Hysteria
Adrenalize
Keep on rockin my brother your videos never disappoint
Thanks for sharing man!
@@HairMetalGuru419 anytime my brother
Great episode 👏
Appreciate it, Brother!
@@HairMetalGuru419 yw dude
great discussion guys.
here are my top 5 (noting that I love them all, but mine are based on least listened to up to most listened to).
5. On Through The Night
4. High N Dry
3. Adrenalize
2. Pyromania
1. Hysteria
Thanks for sharing man! And thanks for watching, I appreciate it.
I lived in West Germany from 1980-85. I partied with Def Leppard in a night club in Belgium before our American High School Football game as they walked into the club after they had their Pyromania Tour concert. We played our high school football game the next morning and we were all throwing up from drinking all night.
Shit, that's epic man! Very cool.
@HairMetalGuru419 I didn't realize how much of a fun memory it would be as a adult these days....
@@audiovideotech9777 Hell, yes, I bet it is.
1. High n Dry (Saw them twice on that tour. Opening for Ozzy & Blackfoot)
2. Pyromania
3. On Through the Night
4. Hysteria
5. Adrenalize
This is the perfect, 100% correct list that happens to be the same as mine. 🤘🏼
@@HairBandBasement😂😂
Thanks for sharing man!
5. Adrenalize
4. On through the night
3. Hysteria
2. Pyromania
1. High n Dry
Basically the Steve Clark years!!🎉
This is good discussion to all of your opinions on Def Leppard albums. As for Adrenalize surprised nobody has mentioned White lightning & Tonight. Two of the best tracks in my opinion. I can listen to all 5 albums. Agree with you on Retro Active. Good album
RATT n Roll 🤘🏻nice shirt
Hey, thanks for sharing, Brother. Yeah, White Lightning should've gotten a shoutout--solid song. And Ryan sent me the Ratt shirt!
Thank you all for another great watch !! I think everybody's list was right. All good stuff, just a matter of preference. Mine would be:
5. Adrenalize
4. On Through The Night
3. Hysteria
2. Pyromania
1. High N' Dry
Looking forward to next show & take care my friend !!
5. On through the Night
4. Pyromania
3. Adrenalize
2. High and dry
1. Hysteria
Thanks for sharing man!
Another great panel discussion! My ranking from 80-92:
1) Pyromania
2) High 'n' Dry
3) On Through the Night
4) Hysteria
5) Adrenalize
Even though I have Hysteria at 4, I still really love that album. Those first 4 albums are some of my favorite in the genre. I like Adrenalize, but songs like "Make Love Like a Man" are the reason it's my least favorite of the 5 . Just saw Def Leppard last month and they were excellent
Thanks, Matt! I saw Def Leppard in 2022 and still phenomenal. And I'm right with you with Pyro and High N Dry at 1 and 2! Thanks for your support, Brother!
If it’s worth anything, Joe Elliot in an interview once said he didn’t care about lyrics, just what the words sounded like together. He referenced Let It Go’s opening verse, specifically the last line “Get ready for the big C”. He said that line is just a line that seemed to fit. Might explain their lack of growth in that area.
1. Hysteria
2. Pyromania
3. On Through the Night
4. High n Dry
5. Adrenalize
Thanks for sharing man!
1 Pyromania
2 HnD
3 Hysteria
4 Adrenalize
5 OTTN
Thanks for sharing man!
Great show guys. Hey GURU. I'm also a ballad fan. after putting together a 10 hour + metal ballad mix. i discovered Def Leppard's, bringin' on the heartbreak is the first metal power ballad. Every band since it's release has copied the blue print. Correct me if I'm wrong bud. Cheers from Australia
Wish you guys would of done the whole catalog.
I hear you, but it took us almost an hour and a half to do 5 albums. If we did the whole catalog we'd probably STILL be recording.
@@HairMetalGuru419 yep good point!!
My list is the same as Ryan's
1. Hysteria
2. Pyromania
3. Adrenalize
4. High & Dry
5. On Through the Night
You gotta rank all the albums. Stopping at 1992 seems like a cop out.
@@Chaz4543 We ranked 5 albums and the video is an hour and 20 minutes with a panel of 6. If we had done every album we’d still be recording right now.
They sucked huge after 1992 that's why!
Joe wrote Photograph because he had a huge crush on Marilyn Monroe.
I think I heard that before.
Brian is like the grumpy old man that doesn’t like anything or anyone lmao 😂
Doesn’t like anything or anyone?? Guess you haven’t seen me on this channel before….
id take slang…truly a unique record that they put all the creative effort into. a lot of complaints about the lack of serious lyrics to adrenalize…check out slang…
It's been a long time since I listened to it... I should probably give it another run.
The guy in the lower left corner was the smartest.
Ryan, is this you? Is this your burner account?
If you asked me in 1988 it goes: 1. Hysteria. 2. Pyromania. 3. High N Dry 4. On through the night. If you ask me today it is: 1. Pyromania 2. Hysteria. 3. High N Dry 4. On through the night 5. Adrenalize. If Slang had came out in 1992 instead of Adrenalize it would have fit perfectly in the new music scene of the early 90s. Now it came out a bit too late. A decent album though.
My ranking from 1980-1992
1. Pyromania (1983)
2. Hysteria (1987)
3. High 'N' Dry (1981)
4. Adrenalize (1992)
5. On Through The Night (1980)
Thanks for sharing man!
The only band I have been lucky enough to see twice (28th June 2013 w/ Whitesnake and Europe and 24th June 2023 w/ Crüe).
Pete Willis also released an EP called I Will Be There with his supergroup Gomagog 3/5s of Iron Maiden and the bassist of Whitesnake Neil Murray.
I know Adrenalize is 5 and On Through the Night is 4 but those other 3 completely flip flop.
1. Hysteria
2. Pyromania
3.High & Dry
4. Adrenalize
5. On through the night.
3.& 4. are interchangeable the rest are set.
Thanks for sharing man!
@@HairMetalGuru419 Cheers for the reply.
... And the dissing of Love Bites continues! I understand what the lefties mean now by the term 'triggered'!
5. Adrenalize - Terrible, like the group has mentioned, atrocious childish songs, I don't even think it was great musically. The times were changing and styles change. They left behind the 80s. Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad is too sickly, power ballads should have some 'oompf', far too sickly.
My first Lepp gig though (1992?) as I didn't have older adult siblings who would have took me to the tours for Hysteria and Pyro with me being under 16 at those times. Luckily they played the main songs from Hysteria and Pyro, so it was great all in! Even though PSSOM isn't one of my faves these days it was an incredible show opener and it's an experience I will remember all my life!
4. On Through The Night - A bit before my time as a rocker. Just because I'm English doesn't mean I was into the NWOBHM scene. I'm a US LA scene hair metal rocker!
3. High N Dry - Bringin' On The Heartbreak and the glorious Lady Strange! They called Clark and Collen the 'Terror Twins' but Steve and Pete were something else on that album!!!!
2. Hysteria - I have to be objective here as I can't think with my heart! The first albums I got from these monster bands back then mean a lot to me, my first steps into the genre I love so much! Slippery and Hysteria are nothing less than holy icons. but, yes, from my vantage point in the future, yes Hysteria is very poppy and over produced now...
A full 3rd of the album I can take or leave and a few of the songs are too childishly silly for me with some gobbledygook lyrics to match, looking at you Rocket, Pour Some Sugar On Me and Armageddon It, (even though I still enjoy them somewhat nowadays, but not like I did back then)...
But... What are you guys saying there! WOMEN and Love Bites are shit songs! Get out of town yeah! WOMEN is the perfect rockers song! Why did these guys like Motley and Poison and Ratt start bands?!?!? to get the girls!!! WOMEN is an iconic song in rock history!
Love Bites! Jeebus! It doesn't matter how many times we've heard these songs, which is a lot coz we were there when they came out! A perfect power ballad is a perfect power ballad!
WOMEN and Animal are my top 2 and 3 Lepp songs!
But, yeah, Hysteria hasn't stood the test of time on a sound/tone standpoint, sure!
1. The might Pyromania!!!!! Some of the greatest songs in rock history here!
The incredible Photograph, My fave Lepp song! The Lepp's greatest song and one of rocks most iconic songs of all time!
Foolin', Too Late For Love, Comin' Under Fire! Thank The Emperor this music has been a part of my life for all 52 trips round the sun I've been on!
Billy's Got A Gun is prob the only track on the album I'm not keen on...
Very nearly a flawless album! Steve and Pete's playing is beyond question some of the best!!!
Thanks for another great discussion Guru! You lot get better looking by the day! The female viewing figures must be going through the roof by now!!
The great Steve 'Steamin' Clark.... Gone but never, ever, fuckin' forgotten!!!
Should rank the whole catalog… their albums are way better past 92.. Great rankings though.
Appreciate you watching man. Ranking them all would've taken forever--we only did 5 albums and the video is almost an hour and a half. And, I'll be honest, you're statement that everything is better after 1992? Yikes. Haha. Thanks again, man.
1. High N Dry, 2. Pyromania a great two album run like AC/DC Highway and Back In Black or Aerosmith Rock and Toys
3.On Through the Night only has bad production. I love Saxon
4. Hysteria great time of my life, women loved this album
5 Adrenalize- I wanted to like it but it was a major let down. Retroactive was better. Only better than Slang and X
Great rankings man. Thanks for sharing.
You had me at Def Leppard 🤘
Haha, thanks for watching man!
Pyromania
High N Dry
Hysteria
On Through The Night
Adrnalize
Thanks for sharing, man!
It is funny cause today Lets Get Rocked came on my Spotify and it was the first time i heard it since i was 18 or 19. Nd i loved that song back then it was one of my favorite songs of all time. Hearing it today at 33 i cant stand that song. SUCKS ASS!!! WTF was wrong with 18yo me? Im scared to listen to the rest of the album now based on what i heard bout it here.
Man, we were so stupid when we were kids...
gods of war is ... riot is ....x retro active is very underrated.
Agreed
Anything post Steve Clark's death I don't want to hear it
Man, I tend to agree with this.
High N Dry is their best… without Pete Willis, they lost their edge. Without Steve, they lost their ability to write great songs.
“Women” rocks!
“Excitable” sucks!
Haha
Der Leppatd Always Had cringy Lyrics. They are Not Springsteen. So adrenalize IS No different
Adrenalize went above the usual cringe in lyrics for Def Leppard.
Respectfully, I disagree. Yeah, there was some cringe on their earlier stuff, but they went above and beyond on Adrenalize.
@@HairBandBasement Yep
The first 3 albums are all that mattered. The rest were trash.