![]() ![]() *If I had to choose what songs would accompany me on a deserted island. “Miss You in a Heartbeat.” But similar to the other Top 10 lists remember the asterisk: A few were easy choices, others suffered from familiarity and many battled it out with strong picks like “Last Dance” vs. It’s by far the toughest of the four I’ve done. ![]() This list surprised me a little as I went through their catalog. Don’t be put-off if you see it well represented. The band continues to record and tour with their latest album from 2015 a self-titled release that got big props here. Their usual 17 song concert setlist contains all hits without any chance for those needing a bathroom break to leave. That’s the struggle when consolidating Def Leppard’s body of work into just 10 songs. Pour some sugar on me? More like pour some sugar in my ears because so much of their stuff is ear candy. Chiefly, Def Leppard manages to incorporate a number of hooks and melodies that not only make many of their songs timeless but such a fun and often easy listen without feeling worn out after so many turns. ![]() Go ahead make fun of the hair metal bands and their slow songs but Def Leppard turns this genre into an art form. In fact, any Top 10 Best Def Leppard songs could include half of Hysteria without much argument.Īnd those ballads. Boffin – a nickname Lange was calling keyboardist Thomas ‘She Blinded Me With Science’ Dolby at the time.It’s not always easy deciding on a Top 10 list especially in music, and especially for a band with so many hits and other overlooked songs.ĭef Leppard began its tenure with their 1980 debut On Through The Night, found mainstream success three years later with Pyromania and hit the stratosphere in 1987 with Hysteria somehow bucking the seemingly usual band trend of releasing a minor flop after hitting success. Its success was also impressive in Canada (#4 album/ two top 30 singles) but only modest in their homeland the UK (#18 album/three minor hits).Ī final note of trivia, synthesizers on the album are credited to Booker T. Pyromania went on to sell over ten million copies in the US, thus being certified diamond by the RIAA. This helped propel Pyromania to #2 (held from the top spot by Michael Jackson’s Thriller) and achieve 6x platinum certification in less than two years. Released in early 1983, seven of its ten songs got strong US rock radio play that year, with three of them crossing over to pop and reaching the top 30. The album took a year to write, record and mix. Frontman Joe Elliot’s voice ‘was in shreds’ after two songs and founding member Pete Willis was fired for being so drunk he couldn’t play the songs. ![]() The band struggled to keep up with Lange’s ambition. He sat down with us as a sixth member of the band and participated in the whole thing. They weren’t written songs that he changed. We gave Mutt songwriting credits because this time he actually helped us structure the songs. Lange was ‘a perfectionist’ who insisted on ‘so many takes that the tape is falling apart’ and contributed so much to the songs he was given songwriting credit: The album was a shift away from the band’s ‘riff metal’ roots towards more radio-friendly glam/hard rock. Pyromania is Def Leppard’s third studio album, the first to feature guitarist Phil Collen and second produced by Robert John “Mutt” Lange. ![]()
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