Ultimate Albums: Pyromania (Part 1)

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13 жыл бұрын

Def Leppard featured on Ultimate Albums first episode with 'Pyromania'.

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@isaiahmarquez9717 3 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed Pete Willis guitar playing on the first 2 albums. Pete and Steve Clark made a damn good 1-2 combo. 🤙🏼

@JokersWild70 Жыл бұрын

He played on the majority of this record as well, but I think it's all rhythm guitar, no solos

@dude5301 11 ай бұрын

⁠@@JokersWild70All Rhythm guitar on Pyromania, plus songwriting.

@rattandroll2010 3 ай бұрын

Pete had to go, he was a mess at the time.

@YooTubeSuxLikeHell 11 жыл бұрын

Thumbs up for Pete Willis!

@reenapurdy3923 7 жыл бұрын

Def Leppard has always been & continues to be the ultimate rock band...all the copy cats have never surpassed the original & ultimate best! 🎤🎸📣🐆 (still kicking ass!)

@2Xboti 12 жыл бұрын

what about Die hard the hunter, comin under fire, billy's got a gun, stagefright, .... my god this is an epic album!!!

@efilnikufesin2069 5 жыл бұрын

I was really looking foward to seeing Pete Willis at the RnR hall of fame induction and was disappointed not to see him there. Im a huge Pete Willis fan and loved his playing and was an integral part of Def Leppard..

@frasiercraine1776 4 жыл бұрын

He chose not to be there. He had other family engagements. Family comes first.

@efilnikufesin2069 4 жыл бұрын

@@frasiercraine1776 I agree

@deanladue3151 3 жыл бұрын

I think that Pete moved on from Def Leppard a long time ago. He gets royalties from the band today, his place in the history of Def Leppard is assured. And Pete's happy with that.

@austincooper4508 Жыл бұрын

What is Pete doing these days?

@markmero1516 11 ай бұрын

@@austincooper4508running a property management company as far as I know.

@79tazman 11 жыл бұрын

The whole album rocks in my book

@eddiewilson4695 11 жыл бұрын

Rip steve clark

@theunknown4570 8 жыл бұрын

Even as a 12 year old when this came out. I knew it would always be an awesome record.

@Me37368 5 жыл бұрын

Rock music wasn’t dead In the early 80s!

@kenkuchnicki9012 4 жыл бұрын

Hack To Scratch Golf Rush Subdivisions

@79tazman 11 жыл бұрын

Pyromania was the first Def Leppard album I bought and I still have the cassette today it's all worn out but still have it with the cover

@LordStanley94 3 жыл бұрын

Pyromania: Album of my Childhood. As was ACDCs Back in Black

@andyseaview 10 жыл бұрын

mutt lang had this idea of a heavy rock band that sounded like pop rock but not crossing the line too much, i think when he met def leppard he saw the band that would take his dream of a heavy rock band selling as many albums as Micheal Jackson and having as many top 20 singles, without crossing over to pop music by keeping an edge about the band

@PeterWillard 10 жыл бұрын

Mutt almost achieved it with AC/DC... but Def Leppard pulled it off so much better.

@andyseaview 10 жыл бұрын

Yeah, leppards sound was bigger, but he did come close with ac/dc but i think mutt knew he would need a few ballads to do what he wanted to do, but i think ac/dc drew the line when it came to doing a ballad, HELLS BELLS was the closest mutt would get to a ballad from ac/dc, but with DEF LEPPARD i think mutt saw ballad gold, or in DEF LEPPARDS case, mutt saw HYSTERIA DIAMOND, 16 million or so

@myworstenemy680 10 жыл бұрын

Mutt could take a punk band and create a pop friendly multi platinum mega hit album haha. He is simply a sonic genius, and I feel fortunate to have grown up listening to his produced albums. His ability to enhance the guitar and cut it perfectly into the mix still amaze me.

@sabbygomez7087 8 жыл бұрын

nice profile pic bro

@Me37368 5 жыл бұрын

andrew morcus but then they became a full on pop band with their X album in 2002 but their 2015 self titled album had some good stuff

@oceanking18 10 жыл бұрын

I seen them on the 83 tour (Sep 17th) at KGB FM San Diego Skyshow in Jack Murphy stadium. All day event with them headlining after Uriah Heep, Motley Crue and Eddie Money. I had worked my way up as close as 30 feet from the stage when Def Leppard started the show. In this documentary there are clips of this live show which Def Leppard said was one of their favorite shows they had done on this Giant tour. It rocked!!!!!!! I'll never forget it.

@TrebleMidBass 13 жыл бұрын

80's hair metal, and sleez hard rock classic era was just amazing at the time, and it was very creative era for music industry

@Themachinegun 4 жыл бұрын

The whole 80's Metal scene was started in this order! MTV, Quiet Riot, Def Leppard, Motley Crue…..

@fuckherrightinthepussy8255 9 жыл бұрын

it's like the early 80's right now... rock music now needs another kick in the ass! we need another pyromania!

@michaelhawthrone2184 8 жыл бұрын

+gamer269 :D They are trying to push bullshit like bring the horizon

@mitchhamann294 8 жыл бұрын

There will never be another Pyromania.. You can never top that!!

@mitchhamann294 8 жыл бұрын

There new album is damn close

@LordStanley94 3 жыл бұрын

I also have to add two additional albums which were my childhood: Van Halen Diver Down and 1984

@copykon 7 жыл бұрын

Rob Halford is too kind and a legend himself.

@gstar7686 6 жыл бұрын

I still think High N Dry was their best and heaviest.

@efilnikufesin2069 5 жыл бұрын

E.P.,On through the Night and High N Dry are as heavy as they got and wanted to get in a AC/DC and N.W.O.B.H.M. way..they came into thier own on Pyromania

@linettesomerton9261 5 жыл бұрын

NO; Sorry ; PYROMANIA , Hands Down , Mate !!

@leebaron3230 8 жыл бұрын

I remember Joe Elliott saying after this came out that "There's clips of Pete Willis playing Rock of Ages AS HOW HE THINKS IT GOES....!" Funny thing is that, that's how Rock of Ages is played EXACTLY! As far as I'm concerned

@ttc817 13 жыл бұрын

It sucks Ultimate Albums was such a short-lived series.

@Margie75 8 жыл бұрын

I love Def Leppard 's High and Dry. Pyromania is their masterpiece.👍 Hysteria is a close second,then Adrenalize in my humble opinion.

@DarthSlayer88 12 жыл бұрын

photograph comes on the radio? VOLUME FULL BLAST!!!!!! coming from a kid born 8 years after this album came out btw! lol

@ilovesteveclark6084 5 жыл бұрын

Steve's riffs arewhat brought the massive attention to them.

@linettesomerton9261 5 жыл бұрын

Him & The Other Guys in tha band !!!

@Marcoshary 10 жыл бұрын

Excellent documentary!

@Triumph-nz8pt 11 жыл бұрын

Please do not forget that if Def Leppard didn't have any talent, Mutt wouldn't have had anything to work with or 'improve upon' as you would say. He couldn't have just pulled it out of thin air! I think giving him 90% is just a little bit too generous. In my opinion of course :)

@mollyhatchet7075 11 ай бұрын

THIS IS THE BEST BRITISH ROCK BAND OF THE 1980'S ...

@LongDrivesAtNight5150 10 жыл бұрын

Heavy rock was not boring to me at all back then.....Scorpions, Van Halen, Priest etc...Def Leppard did a great job with Pyromania and the album was a major hit bringing it to the masses, but I laugh at the notion that there was nothing else around at the time.

@Nissardpertugiu 5 жыл бұрын

Mercyful fate were pushing . Priest back on the more thrashier edge and more long structures on Defenders since 1978 , amorcing the way leading to Painkiller years later . In my country , there s a band called Satan jokers , combining 2 singing , with complicated metal mixing with Jazz rock . Virtually the first fusion metal band . The second album Trop pour toi , its was like Def leppard and Judas Priest and Deep Purple mark III and mahavishnu orchestra . After the very " Midlands " rawness of fils du metal ...in 1983 . Its was too early . You know in France , if the band could rivalize with strangers , it was self shot down in flames in his own country .in 1984 . The third album was III , very agressive and Modern and very fusion .. In 1985 . They were 15 years ahead of the game . There re others bands pushing the boundaries differently . Def leppard did too , it was great . But yeah i agree with you Others bands doing it were more extreme alzo ...

@Havanacuba1985 5 жыл бұрын

Ratt and dokken 🤟🏼

@DoubleVisionandco 13 жыл бұрын

I tend to disagree about anyone not "pushing the boundries" Van Halen had put out "women and children first" as well as "Fair Warning" which was a rather dark album, but it was solid rock and roll to the core. Pyromania is a ultimate album, even so it`s too slick which is due of course to Mutt Lange.

@aerosmithmotleycrue 12 жыл бұрын

I agree completely, but I would throw adrenalize in there as well. Pyromania, Hysteria, and Adrenalize give them enough merit to at least be nominated.

@austincooper4508 Жыл бұрын

Nice to hear from Pete in this.

@DefLeppardVanHalen 10 жыл бұрын

Wait a minute, didn't Mutt previously worked with them on High N Dry? They pretty much left that part out.

@rodrigofonseca6241 9 жыл бұрын

Yes, he did. And in my humble opinion that record is the ultimate Def Leppard record. I think they didn't talk about it in this documentary cause High N' Dry wasn't a record selling album.

@23hunter152 5 жыл бұрын

Eternal Redhead agreed, High N Dry is my favorite Def Leppard album

@simon120477 11 жыл бұрын

It really doesn't matter if there are 3 or 5 hit singles. The important thing is that this album will always kick ass. Look on the bright side, 'Hysteria' had 7 hit singles, 6 of them US top 20 singles. Now, which band can top that?

@OSUalum41 6 жыл бұрын

Why does the narrator keep calling him "Mutt Langer?" It's Lange. No R at the end.

@markorollo. 3 жыл бұрын

That's how it's pronounced apparantly, saw a video of David Coverdale where he mentioned him and said it the same way too.

@deanladue3151 3 жыл бұрын

Since Lange is from South Africa, the language is mainly Dutch there. Which is how his name would be pronounced in the language. Also have heard Brian Johnson and Cliff Williams pronounce his name that way.

@Assepsouth 11 жыл бұрын

pour moi le meilleur album de def leppard

@Adrianzz356 12 жыл бұрын

i think hysteria went to much in the pop direction

@bradmodd7856 6 жыл бұрын

"In the early 80s Rock Music was a withering wasteland"...then came Def Leppard and saved Rock....yeah right...that was the golden age of rock, Back in Black had just been released, Iron Maiden released Number of the Beast..Ozzy had just released his first solo record...is this narrator on crack??

@Me37368 6 жыл бұрын

Brad Parker that’s what I thought

@Deadgo-yf9zg 5 жыл бұрын

I think maybe they were suggested that Iron Maiden and Ozzy were the category of metal that were apparently too obsessed with the occult?

@Limited_Light 5 жыл бұрын

@@Deadgo-yf9zg Yes.

@DefLeppardVanHalen 10 жыл бұрын

That's a sweet Kramer NightSwan Pete's playing.

@efilnikufesin2069 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah Vivian Campbell's signature model ironically enough.

@CrossroadsCMT 12 жыл бұрын

? She's a huge fan and said if she were to do a Crossroads it'd only be with Def Leppard. Def Leppard wanted to do something out of the ordinary and do something exciting again (because really all they do are nostalgia tours these days, same shit every year). I wish they would've waited and performed some of her better songs but the collaboration was nice on their songs. Heck, their duet of "Love" (dvd exclusive) sounds way better than the studio version on Songs from the Sparkle Lounge

@linettesomerton9261 5 жыл бұрын

Tha BEST Album EVER !!

@edwardbliss8931 6 жыл бұрын

Rock 'n' roll needs to be central to our culture again

@Jackknuckleson 13 жыл бұрын

Def Leppard deserve to be in the Rock Hall because of this album and Hysteria alone.

@georgeroberts9111 6 жыл бұрын

YES. ABSOLUTELY

@bfischer2473 5 жыл бұрын

Party with them all the time and they call all the time vip cast and crew bffs with all of them drummer and all and he has one arm and plays like an fucking animal!!!!!! Cheers mate love you rick Allen

@GorditoCrunch343 8 жыл бұрын

This documentary should be called "How the NWOBHM died an untimely death". Because that's exactly what Pyromania caused.

@AngelofAnguish 11 жыл бұрын

What's your opinion of Def Leppard's debut "On Through The Night" and (the second) High N' Dry?

@deanladue3151 3 жыл бұрын

That was the real Def Leppard before "Mutt" Lange began making wholesale changes to their style musically. I think 'Pyromania' is a VERY good album! But it lacked the explosiveness and power of 'High N Dry'. Lange realized that there needed to be some kind of trade-off musically to take 'Pyromania' to the next level. But 'High N Dry' is one helluva head bangin album! 🎸✊✊

@aaronmccoy5524 8 жыл бұрын

There was plenty of killer music in 1982. I dont know why they try to say it was a wasteland etc.

@richardherzog5405 6 жыл бұрын

Aaron McCoy They are talking rock. Plenty of good pop music

@Leps262 13 жыл бұрын

Love Joe's hair in this!! ;)

@tomflake6141 8 жыл бұрын

I believe the "e" In Lange is silent.

@manhoot 12 жыл бұрын

In my mind they should have brought back Pete after Steve C died.

@flynntaylor5459 Жыл бұрын

It was like the bridge, a hybrid to heavy metal yet it was an everyday party record but also experimental in sound. Yet for me I loved the fact that all the boys could sing!!!

@AngelofAnguish 11 жыл бұрын

Likewise! According to Joe and Steve, the band wanted to make the music more "accessible" to "non-rock/metal fans" (in my opinion, Metallica's "black album" is an example of that.). In my opinion, NOTHING WRONG with "maturizing" your music, BUT, at the same, you DON'T want the fans from the On Through The Night, High N' Dry, and/or Pyro. days to utter "Sell out!" My point is, "Let the MAINSTREAM come to YOU! DON'T GO to the mainstream!'

@mnagz5 11 жыл бұрын

Haha me too. Went to Vegas to see their residency and I'm only 20.

@LongDrivesAtNight5150 10 жыл бұрын

Love ya Def Leppard, but don't forget Van Halen's Diver Down album in 1982, even though mostly cover songs, eventually went 4x platinum in the US....

@leebaron3230 8 жыл бұрын

I'm with ya there! However didn't Leppard go Platinum on Pyro and Hysteria? Maybe after the fact....?

@Perpetualmusik 11 жыл бұрын

So true!

@79tazman 11 жыл бұрын

And Pyromania

@copykon 7 жыл бұрын

swear to god, no pun intended LOL

@manhoot 12 жыл бұрын

@Xeivous Amen to that. Were it not for Pete Willis contribution to songs on THIS album, it would not have fared as well. Hysteria is a total sell out collection of dreck.

@Jamcad01 13 жыл бұрын

@DoubleVisionandco Don't forget about Van Halens debut. It was the first album to have guitar virtuoso & friendly rock hits as well as Pyromania

@TrebleMidBass 13 жыл бұрын

Pete willis use a buddy guy/ kramer nightswan guitar hmm i didnt know it.

@ThatBritishPlace 10 жыл бұрын

Iron Maiden and Judas Priest are from the north? hmmm

@dr.awkward9075 9 жыл бұрын

At this point it's stranger to see Rick Allen with 2 arms instead of 1.

@bethanylightfoot1601 7 жыл бұрын

Dr. Awkward ya. It. Is. Hard. To see him. With. One. Arm. But. He. Plays. Then. Ever. With. His. One. Arm. Then. His. Hos. Two. He. Sounds. Good. Too

@bethanylightfoot1601 7 жыл бұрын

Sorry. Rick. Allen. Does. Play. Better with. One arm. Then. Did. Two

@davidgeisler9885 10 жыл бұрын

On the pronunciation of Mutt Lange's surname as "Lang" or "Langer" I've heard Phil Collen on two separate clips say "Langer" FWIW

@leebaron3230 8 жыл бұрын

And also say Lange! I was just gonna say that!

@SRockofAgesL 12 жыл бұрын

@ColumbianEagle72 If you don't agree with the five hits then sadly your the one that don't know nothin. "Photograph", "Rock of Ages", Foolin", "Rock Rock till You Drop" and "Too Late for Love"!!! Boom Def Lep for Life!!!!!!!!

@CrossroadsCMT 13 жыл бұрын

@ColumbianEagle72 Rock! Rock! Till you drop gets played once in a while around here.

@Jamcad01 13 жыл бұрын

@ColumbianEagle72 Billy's got a gun, Action not words and comin under fire were rock hits as well

@sherrysura7744 4 жыл бұрын

One question, phil said they want him to play solo on some tracks, why didn't steve did all the solos?

@Jamcad01 13 жыл бұрын

What song is he talking about at 4:38?

@scotwells7573 7 жыл бұрын

Pyromania is Mutt's masterpiece.

@AngelofAnguish 11 жыл бұрын

What's your opinion of Def Leppard's debut, "On Through The Night," and "High N' Dry?"

@jbellflower83 5 ай бұрын

Van Halen and ACDC were still going strong in 82 so i dont agree that rock was looking for a "new saviour". Pyromania was a monster album for sure but rock was still well represented in that time period.

@obijuano 10 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one bothered by the narrator saying Mutt LANGER?

@Limited_Light 9 жыл бұрын

***** Band manager, Peter Mensch, also pronounces it that way and you'd think he'd know.

@79tazman 11 жыл бұрын

The whole album rocks but coming under fire was the 5th I think

@GlenLeppard Жыл бұрын

is there a dvd for this?

@damianminchin 12 жыл бұрын

@ozzyhead73 ABSOLUTELY AGREE!!!!!

@thecan80an33 7 жыл бұрын

As a drummer and counting Rick Allen my biggest influence, it makes me sad to learn that all the drums on Pyromania are programmed... Same with Hysteria and Adrenalize.

@AngelofAnguish 11 жыл бұрын

I can't tell you what OTHER albums, regardless of their genre, I'd rather IGNORE IN FAVOR OF Pyromania!

@anaximander24 10 жыл бұрын

"He (Mutt) believed they could topple mighty AC/DC, if properly guided" (8:16) ha! they're going to topple ac/dc! ha! impossible

@Me37368 5 жыл бұрын

anaximander24 no one can top ac dc

@theunknown4570 8 жыл бұрын

Is that Bears Grylls Narrorating?

@danewson 12 жыл бұрын

@manhoot Everyone says that. It wouldn't have made a difference. Once Mutt left it was all over.

@Jamcad01 13 жыл бұрын

@krisaf778 What ever i already know know.

@diamondd2778 6 жыл бұрын

Oh there was Van halen.... Acdc.... judas preist..... yeah it wasnt boring

@Diggerdog2nd 7 ай бұрын

It's a great album that I love & got to see them on tour in 83 but I'll admit High & Dry is still their masterpiece & really, I was kind of disappointed for a bit with Pyro when it came out 1. because they got rid of an important member.2. because the sound was not raw anymore, it was the most polished thing you ever heard. I got over that eventually. It's there 2nd best to me anyways.

@shaindaman13 12 жыл бұрын

Whys this guy keep calling Mutt "Mutt Langer"? No ER on the end dude. Just Lang.

@CrossroadsCMT 12 жыл бұрын

@HooverNtrout Look under my videos, it should be there.

@Vinylrebel72 7 жыл бұрын

The narrator cant pronounce "Lange" ?

@BamaKattt 13 жыл бұрын

Whoa! The English version! Too cool! God Bless the U.K.!

@thomascampr 9 жыл бұрын

One of the BEST albums of all time but it was so challenging vocally that joes voice blew out after a few years. He never sounded the same that why Hysteria was not great plus Hysteria was over produced. Still good but not great like Pyro

@Me37368 5 жыл бұрын

Why do people call this a pop album? Please explain how rock till you drop, stagefright, Billy’s got a gun, coming under fire, and action not words have any pop to them?

@linettesomerton9261 5 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU!! THERE IS NOTHING POP ABOUT THIS!! Where Does Tha Confusion Come From 🎶 Listen 2 Backstreet Boys ,, Then LISTEN 2 Leppard ; THEY AREN'T THE SAME! Thanks! Cheers.

@frasiercraine1776 4 жыл бұрын

Because... Revisionist history. They weren't saying that back then.

@davidpaul6656 2 жыл бұрын

Pyromania was start of their downfall. They don't even rock anymore!!

@ozzyhead73 13 жыл бұрын

at the begining the narrator says, IN THE EARLY 80,S ROCK WAS A WITHERING WASTELAND! WRONG!! you had a lot of great rock bands hitting theyre peak and in theyre prime like AC/DC-VAN HALEN-DEF LEPPARD-DIRE STRAITS-OZZY OSBOURNE-IRON MAIDEN-DIO-JUDAS PRIEST-MOTORHEAD, i mean the list goes on and on!! if anything, ROCK N ROLL TODAY IN 2011 is a withering wasteland of bullshit bands that have absolutlely no staying power!! half the time these documentaries are so wrong about everything!!!!

@AngelofAnguish 11 жыл бұрын

Likewise! In my opinion, Vivian Campbell JUST DOESN'T "FIT" (a band like) Def Leppard!