Def Leppard - Foolin' (REACTION!)

[@kalebpost20]

Pyromania would’ve been the highest selling album of 1983 if it wasn’t for a little record called Thriller

[@IJFlores]

The Police’s Synchronicity too.

[@NoahWolfe]

@@IJFlores 83 was a ridiculous year. Aside from the mega-hits, Metallica, Ratt, Motley Crue, Queensryche all released their debut albums. Yes had 90125, Ozzy had Bark at the Moon, U2 released War .. it was just an amazing time.

[@WillyJackson-if6zf]

​@@NoahWolfestill have most of those on my shelf.

[@chrisprimosch6882]

Album still sold over ten million copies.

[@TheAstronomyFloyd]

Least Joe Elliott isn’t a kiddie fiddler

[@geofre44]

Cheesy is Poison. This is prime 80’s rock with the best voice of the era, twin guitars rocking, and incredible writing. Come on bruhs!

[@sadwingsraging3044]

THIS!

[@Jamie.Laszlo]

A lot of "prime 80s rock" can be seen as being cheesy. Especially 40 years later to someone listening to it for the first time.

[@sadwingsraging3044]

@Jamie.Laszlo as compared to the absolute dearth of talent you hear today? Nahh,,, the 80's stuff will continue to be played well into the future while the more modern stuff will fade into the oblivion.

[@travistotle]

It's still cheesy bruh. Just because there's some thick muenster or stinky gorgonzola cheesy bands of the 80's doesn't mean part-skim mozzarella Def Leppard ain't cheesy lol

[@sadwingsraging3044]

@@travistotle Better than having the cookie monster screaming any day of the week.🤣

[@RaginCajun77346]

Definitely not cheesy...regular 80's rock. With the harmonies and stop-breaks and stutters it's actually a rather unique song. One of my favorite from the band.

[@jdd3786]

This is absolute cheese. Remember, you had Metallica, Slayer, the Smiths, Black Flag, the Misfits, and Joy Divison at this time. Not saying it's not good, but it's cheese.

[@RaginCajun77346]

@@jdd3786 guess it depends on what side of the table you were on. I loved Metallica never got into slayer and was certainly not into any of those other bands.

[@sayrerowan734]

Slayer was cheesy AF in 83.​@@jdd3786

[@jdd3786]

@@RaginCajun77346 Got it.

[@generoberts9151]

For the time period Def Leppard’s first three albums hit hard. Nothing cheesy about album rock. Steve Clark was a talent. RIP -

[@okiebu]

It wasn’t cheesy 40 years ago

[@pudgydaddy]

THIS is the correct response.

[@generoberts9151]

Today’s music is so poorly written compared to years back. Sorry for being cheesy because it has a melody

[@pooki903]

yeah it was. awesome, but absolutely cheesy.

[@DPRyan-vd5pp]

I know right! I’m 51 now and this was rockin back then…. Even now, ozzy sounds Cheesy from the 80’s

[@kookoo9235]

@@generoberts9151 The writings the same, the structures are the same, chord progressions are pretty much same, nothings changed around the pop music except the genre has switched a little. If anything you have better writing today if you venture outside the popular realm and look into stuff like jazz or metal where people are really pushing it these days.

[@blackbuttecruizr]

One of the best albums of all time.

[@patrick-po2lx]

absolutely.

[@brianj9262]

Remember back in the day. This was number 1 and quiet riot was number 2 in the charts

[@sadwingsraging3044]

Not a bad track on it. Not one!

[@arthurbishop3173]

Lol... doesn't come anywhere close to 'High and Dry'. You need to listen to more albums if you think it's up with the best.

[@howie5th]

Truth! Top 10 for me!! 👍🏻

[@jblaskov]

“Too Late for Love” is probably my personal fave off this great album!

[@independenceltd.]

definitely the best track

[@coyote4237]

Agreed.

[@sda6691]

100%. I would Listen to it, then rewind it and then relisten.

[@RanjitSouri-PinkFloydPiano]

Agreed! All-time great album, and "Too Late for Love" is my favorite track on it too!

[@davestrongman9519]

I agree

[@40granite]

I’m 62, I’ve never seen this song make anyone laugh before, until today.

[@nancysmith8626]

Right?? Come on, Lost in Vegas! You're coming off as your own version of "get off my lawn" now.

[@SteveKile]

But they still enjoyed it!

[@nancysmith8626]

@@SteveKile This is true. I know I raked them over the coals, but I meant it in the nicest way, ha. They used to jam out to rock songs without so much laughing at them at the same time.

[@DocSote6]

I’m 50, and same here! DL fan since ‘81!

[@datubeda]

Someone poisoned the well with the list it was placed on, and George kind of recognized that at the end of the video. They would have approached the song completely differently with a different introduction.

[@An_Dulachan]

This is not cheesey. This song flat out rocks.

[@steveholt5115]

Nah it’s cheesy but it rocks fr

[@deadliestassassin3092]

Hysteria onwards is cheesy

[@Rollotomassi099]

i can get you cheezy ....this isnt cheezy

[@violetlilith]

Nah it's hella cheese in the best way possible.

[@travistotle]

Some of y'all in the comments are getting way too sensitive over "cheesy" like it's an objective insult. If you can hear this and you don't hear at least a little bit of cheese, your ears are compromised.

[@whataday2624]

I wouldn’t call this “cheesy”…this is quintessential 80s with balls. I love Def Leppard.

[@yeahboiii6640]

Exactly if you didn't come up in the 80s they have no idea.

[@pbrecipe2443]

its cheese man.

[@lebarbosa9778]

it's def cheesy

[@rozwell5277]

It's cheesy and cliche for the time period.

[@AddMiller221]

Haha, '80's with balls'. Never heard anything Def Leppard related described as anything close to that.

[@BizNizil7676]

Rock of Ages, High N Dry, Let it go, Photograph, Woman, Too late for love, Die hard the hunter, switch 625, there's soooo many Def Leppard bangers out there 👏 👏 👏

[@seanyesaki5985]

Cheesy or not, it's a good rock song. It represents the 80s hard rock music scene as well as any tune from that era.

[@jedolivier2688]

Bringing on the heartbreak off the HIGH & DRY album is another really good one.

[@ericfall5277]

Love that song.

[@ericfall5277]

Let it go too is another one

[@SGED392]

Hit and Run

[@apmartini70]

Fantastic track -- my intro to Def Leppard many years ago

[@Daddy53751]

That whole album crushed!🤘🏻

[@MGBP616]

Steve Clark their former Lead guitarist and all-time great, died January 1991. He wrote or co-wrote 90% of their stuff which is why everything is co "catchy" since he was a classically estute riff writing genius. You would love "Billy's got a gun" from Pyromania album.

[@pensivepenguin3000]

What I appreciate about Steve is he could do that classic early 80s shred but he also did really interesting, melodic and harmonic layered things that I wasn’t hearing anyone else doing

[@metaphoria3]

@@pensivepenguin3000like a shredding Brian Wilson

[@MrTheSickOne]

I was in 5th grade when this song came out....this cute 6th grade girl was listening to this on her walkman under a tree at recess....I asked what she was listening to....she gave me one side of the headphones.....and we rocked out!!!! Great song, great album, great times

[@chrislatham4235]

Ya'll missing High n Dry. As much as Pyromania and Hysteria were a commercial success High n Dry just rocks.

[@metalpianomanmusic]

they need to listen and react to "Me and my wine" just for the music video alone

[@whataday2624]

You’re not wrong. It’s easy to skip over the early stuff because of the later success…High n Dry is awesome.

[@Joseph-bq4xv]

High n Dry For Sure!!!

[@alvaroSantisteban]

Not a huge def leppard fan here, but this album is probably in my top 10 heavy metal albums.

[@arthurbishop3173]

High and Dry is the only album with any blood and guts in it.

[@michaelrains64295]

I play tech death metal guitar and I won’t apologize for rocking some Def Leppard. Good songs and peak 80s swagger. \m/,

[@pensivepenguin3000]

Attitude, personality and swagger are exactly what modern metal and most modern rock is missing. These new guys have the chops but they don’t have the charisma

[@craig0832]

Photograph next 🥃🥃

[@tracybarnes3923]

Look here, we would skip school with some tall boy buds, a pocket knife (to shotgun them) and a boom box that took 8 D batteries. We would end up at the river, in the middle of nowhere, drinking, swimming, tanning and wearing out THIS cassette. 😂 Those were the 80's! ✌️❤️

[@parkcaro]

Yes! I also had a boom box that took 8 Ds...It was so big I used to sit on the floor with a mirror propped on top of it to curl my hair.

[@tracybarnes3923]

@@parkcaro same. Lol

[@hafadude69]

This song was played by everyone in the 80's. This album was kick ass!

[@metaphoria3]

*still

[@kylehelmer1725]

Photograph is from the same album and it's their best song. Give it a shot.

[@DorianStarkey]

Nothing cheesy about this banger! Amazing album from start to finish! Huge radio hit!!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@luisneiman4125]

Thanks for the reaction! As others have said, "Photograph" is a great Def Leppard track to check out; by far my favorite of theirs.

[@An_Dulachan]

Photograph sucks, and is mos def cheesy AF.

[@thebob01]

Great tune

[@Planeswalker817]

Foolin' is like, what if cheesy was a compliment.

[@WKUFranko]

Def Leppard personified 80's hair metal. I don't think they were "cheesy".

[@generoberts9151]

@@WKUFrankoDef Leppard pre-dated “hair”. This song was 1981-2. The third album

[@LarryCurley]

Very well put, Walker

[@WKUFranko]

@@generoberts9151 You are probably right, when you think about the era, the only "cheesy" song I can think of is "Pour Some Sugar on Me".

[@generoberts9151]

@@WKUFrankoThere later stuff including the transition from Hysteria was already admitted by Elliot that they started catering their song writing toward woman. If that is the definition of “cheesy” then so be it. They started getting a pop like edge, but still mainstream popular. Ironically “Pour Some Sugar on Me” was probably their most popular song overall.

[@ladyvexx7034]

Rock of Ages is a good one, too.

[@danielwilson9724]

I love that halfway in they both admit it's definitely " playlist" material 😂

[@lucythesillygoose1847]

Def Leppard - Let it Go (Remastered)

[@parkcaro]

What you need to understand is that when we first heard this there was nothing else like it. I still remember when my older cousin showed up at our house with this record and threw it on my dad's hi-fi, my brother and I were blown away. I think the first song he played was Rock of Ages. I've been a Def Leppard fan ever since.

[@pensivepenguin3000]

Yeah, the production was considered cutting edge back then. Mutt Lange brought that cinematic hi-fi sound to everything he touched

[@nancysmith8626]

@@pensivepenguin3000 Exactly! This album sounded like nothing I'd heard before on radio when it came out. One note of "Photograph" and I was instantly hooked as a child.

[@davestrongman9519]

Unta gleeben glowben globum!!!

[@bobbysays]

I don't hear any cheese in this, just a great sounding song.

[@ChuckWasHere]

I was 13 years old when I became hooked on this album and this song in particular was played on repeat for like a year straight. It was my gateway into heavy metal and trash. If it wasn't for Def Leppard I wouldn't be into music like I am today.

[@patrick-po2lx]

this music made perfect sense in the middle 1980s, when nuclear war seemed imminent, and relentless partying in response was performance art.

[@angiemaney761]

Love your reaction❤ I'm a 58 year old woman, graduated high school in 1984 and this is my favorite band ever!! I literally wore out the cassette tape listening to this while cruising town!! The entire album Pyromania is definitely worth a listen!!

[@Daddy53751]

Right there with ya sis! They opened for Billy Squier for this tour, and they smoked it!🤘🏻

[@mingramh]

Also 58 and 1984 grad, and I concur. Saw them with Tesla.

[@markfrost8728]

I watched them center stage at the omni in Atlanta in 1988 good concert.

[@GravityFalloutPines]

Yes I was 11 or 12 when Def Leppard ruled the world, but I'll always love them!

[@roymendez6615]

The one thing you can never take away from Def Leppard is there vocal harmonies. Even today Joes voice isn’t the same but harmonies is 🔥🔥🔥

[@poopsebeb]

Mutt Lange was a huge part of making those vocals come together Great team at the time

[@pensivepenguin3000]

A big part of that was Mutt Lange, their producer on High and Dry through Hysteria. He brought that layered harmonized vocal sound to everybody he worked with. You can hear it on albums by The Cars and Huey Lewis he worked on from the same era. Great stuff

[@Ekhymosis17]

I don't think this was cheesy, to me it's one of their more serious songs, really good song

[@loristone9242]

I don't think it's cheesy, either. The harmonies are amazing and considering they were so young when they wrote these songs they are not cheesy whatsoever.

[@Jaysonic3423]

One of the GREATS in 80s hard rock releases. This was the last good album by D.L. and one i still listen to a lot

[@SeaToSkyImages]

This song has unironic cowbell in it. It's awesome!

[@floorsbychrisable]

Bringing on the Heartache Rock of Ages Photograph Love Bites just HARD ROCKIN cheese for days😅

[@metalrules1135]

The production values on this record are perfect. Every instrument just sounds awesome and the mix is right on. It all still holds up today.

[@pensivepenguin3000]

Many people don’t know that you are hearing 99% sampled/programmed drums on this album and Hysteria. The producer, Mutt Lange, was a control freak and perfectionist and he wanted precise control over every sound. I think his intensity paid off. Record sounds amazing

[@cassidymd72]

I would never call it cheesy either. It was great for its time. Early 80’s.

[@keithkinkade4265]

This song is hardly cheesy . One of their most rocking tunes! Yall got to get to some High and Dry. Ratt don't hold a candle to Def Leppard

[@jammers1967]

Classic Def Leppard was never considered cheesy- cheesy started with Hysteria and on

[@Daddy53751]

💯

[@bamachine]

Only really cheesy song on Hysteria is the one that gets way too much airplay, Pour Some Sugar On Me. The rest of Hysteria is not cheesy.

[@arthurbishop3173]

​@@bamachineYes it is. It's overproduced derivative pop rock without an ounce of blood and guts in it.

[@bamachine]

@@arthurbishop3173 Well, that's just like your opinion, man It is not nearly as good as their earlier stuff but rarely does any band become popular without their later work becoming more commercialized. Also, keep in mind, that album was done with a dude that suddenly only had one arm to drum with, so his new kit was a little more 'electronic' vs 'acoustic'. So even if it might have been more commercialized, I still respect what they did on that album because they stuck by Rick.

[@masonb9788]

Come on.. a band that was influenced by T. Rex, Bowie and Elton John definitely has some kitch going on.

[@TheMlvswoll]

Seen them live years ago. Gotta give them props. They bring it live

[@stephensekela2551]

Check out their “power ballads”: - Too Late for Love; - Bringin on the heartache

[@MxLee192]

The cheese is what makes this shit fun to listen to. The woahs and backing vocals always crack me up but at the same time, it totally rules 😂

[@absea7918]

In '83, when this came out, other than Van Halen, no band balanced hard rock and pop like this. It became the blueprint for Bon Jovi, and everyone else in the 80's. It made it the challenge of following it up very hard, but Hysteria was up for the challenge.

[@pensivepenguin3000]

Pyromania was like the first Terminator movie and Hysteria was like T2 - the followup that took everything good about the first one and just cranked it up to 11. Huge, bombastic hi-fi production. Exactly what you’d want in a late 80s rock album

[@nancysmith8626]

@@pensivepenguin3000 YES!

[@donthomas7090]

You have to think about when it came out 1983. What was on the radio then and before not after. Rap was still new then, too. Good music 🎶 is just good. 💥

[@ChiliCheeseSwag]

It's no wonder this album went diamond. This song has a killer headbanging tempo

[@pensivepenguin3000]

They nailed that pocket, that midtempo groove that was just perfect for rocking out

[@martinlopez758]

Their first three records, On Through The Night, High And Dry, and Pyromania all rock. Hysteria and on were pop records. Joe Elliott says that himself. Do any of their first three albums, you won't be disappointed.

[@pensivepenguin3000]

Hysteria was fantastic though. A big, hi-fi, cinematic blockbuster of an 80s pop-rock record. I feel like they tried to repeat that success on Adrenalize and it fell short, but I will always defend Hysteria

[@OriginalWhiteDevil]

I don't hear the cheese, and I know my cheese.

[@SophiaAphrodite]

It's the chorus vocals and cheesy lyrics

[@norwegianblue2017]

Right? There is no shortage of cheesy 80s bands, but this isn't one of them. I think they started this song hearing that it was cheesy and then started looking for it. These guys aren't Poison or Bon Jovi. At least, not before the Hysteria album which was kind of a pop sellout.

[@dthom1201]

Need to do some Def Leppard off of the High N Dry album like Lady Strange and many others. On Pyromania "Billy's Got a Gun" is very underrated.

[@Daddy53751]

@@dthom1201can’t forget “On through the night”!

[@backandtotheleft5623]

This is pure Colby Jack

[@rubicon-oh9km]

Times change boys. Forty years have passed. When this song came out, it was pure fire and just everywhere.

[@JGNM-mp9cs]

DL's first 2 records are badass AC/DC style hard rock.

[@adriantrusca1245]

No. First album is flat out metal. NWOBHM.

[@Mooches33]

One of the few 80’s bands that still can do it live today.

[@jennzebel]

I am re-evaluating my whole life....I never thought this was a cheesy song HAHAHAHHAHAHA facccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!

[@TrooperSC]

It isn’t. They’re clueless.

[@facelessandnameless]

It isn’t.

[@danarchuleta1154]

Thank you! Is rap just juvenile nursery rhymes? Neither is true.

[@RunTFC]

Like when they reacted to Balls To The Wall, it was cheesy to them.

[@hooyah_whit7054]

Alright fellas... obviously they are diggin the songs... it's no different that rewatching our favs 80s action flicks and realizing how cheesy they are compared to todays action flicks!!! Like Top Gun vs Top Gun Maverick! Its like day and night!

[@HammerGoatRex]

I've been a musician for 34 years and it was a Def Leppard song that inspired me to pick up the guitar. Now I find them to be so cheesy that it's laughable but I can't deny that there was something about them that spoke to me when I discovered them back in the latter part of the 1980s.

[@kevinjakubowski7165]

Have they done "Photograph" - my favorite Def Leppard song

[@sassycassie1669]

In case you were wondering, it's OK air drum with 2 arms.

[@dadrock4409]

Is not cheesy. Kids just don’t know any better.

[@eduarDOGames560]

It’s dads music to them …to us when we heard it for the first time it’s just ROCK !

[@jayj8664]

Nothing cheesy about Def Leppard... never has been

[@independenceltd.]

one lump or two?

[@XViTNg]

Def Leppard is proper cheesy. But it’s still good. There’s lots of good cheesy music.

[@arthurbishop3173]

It was all cheese after the second album

[@independenceltd.]

@@arthurbishop3173 Yep. I'd just turned 14 when "Pyromania" came out and to this day I have never owned it. It immediately sounded like a sell-out album. I even had a guy, whose favorite albums were probably "Thriller" and "1999," try to tell me how great it was and when I sloughed him off he actually made me a tape of the album. I did take it home and listen to it once or twice. But when i tried to pawn it off on a couple of friends they told me he'd made them tapes too and they'd already given theirs away. Which is what I did. Probably to a girl. lol

[@pensivepenguin3000]

I love DL and that statement is patently false lol. What about that song they did that was basically about Bart Simpson? Lol. Hysteria is ridiculous, bombastic and over-the-top, and it’s great. Cheesy doesn’t automatically mean bad. They are a fun rock band

[@jacrispyvulcano9728]

George wiping his glasses killed me LOL

[@Clareypie]

My husband used to hang around with these guys, they rock so hard and they still put on a fantastic show!

[@Ghost-Drummer69]

Def Leppard,, one of the great bands of the 80’s. Like you guys said if you’re gonna have cheese, do it right and they certainly did. Saw these guys in Detroit in 1983 at Joe Louis Arena and they definitely rocked that place out!! Much love to you fellers, keep up the good work.

[@Daddy53751]

West coast they opened for Billy Squier, and they were on fire!🤘🏻💯

[@earendil9132]

Bringing on the Heartbreak is a fantastic song by Def Leppard you guys should react to

[@bluharkness3921]

This album was the first I ever bought in 83' and Thriller was next. The 80s were awesome!!

[@pensivepenguin3000]

Hell yeah! The only song I don’t love on thriller is that duet with Paul McCartney. Other than that, no skips

[@Mr-SRG]

You can't turn this song on loud enough when home alone! It just hits after every slow break

[@djlp2212]

This was always my favorite Def Leppard song, no cheese.

[@stewartdowouis9218]

I will never not love this song/album. It, along with KISS’ Rock n Roll Over, blew my mind when I was a kid. Changed the course of my life.

[@joshualaird5303]

This is my era and like everyone else I think it's the best!

[@shack_SI]

F-F-F-Foollin'! ....Ch-ch-ch-Cheezay! 40 years aged , only makes it better.

[@HeavyTopspin]

Don't see the cheese. It's simply one of the best examples of its time, and no cheesier than 90s grunge or gangster rap, 00s mumble rap and nu-metal, and infinitely better than anything coming out of the U.S. music scene nowadays.

[@nancysmith8626]

Agreed!

[@laurat1720]

Glad your exploring the 80s rock genre again. Def Leppard is a great group. A Lot of great songs from them. Congratulations

[@scottabbott5469]

Def Leppard didn't start out cheesy with Pyromania, but rather when they released Hysteria, they were the whole damn platter.

[@dudemandave2000]

Nothing cheesy about this song at all! Whoever said it was, doesn't know Jack and are probably Swift fans.

[@blackbeltjones2903]

And yet ur watching two dudes who have great taste and actually like the song despite it's cheese factor.

[@Dr_V_von_Doom]

"Probably swift fans". That all you got? This shit sucks. Def leopard sucks. Real men don't listen to this shit.

[@Qthetar]

It’s super cheesy and if you think it’s not then you’re lying to yourself

[@CrashTestPilot]

Back in the day, when Def Leppard was still awesome.

[@pensivepenguin3000]

They will always be a great band. Even if they never put out another album after hysteria, that would have been four albums of some of the best pop metal and classic rock ever recorded, not to mention their awesome stage shows. Guys in their 60s aren’t going to sound the way they did in their 20s, but that doesn’t mean they are any less a band. The fact that they are still out there touring and selling out arenas speaks for itself

[@RunTFC]

Bringing' on the Heartbreak/Switch 625...back-to-back semi-cheese/rockin' shiz

[@LTJfan]

F-F-F-Foolin'!!

[@faithrenewed3443]

Two weeks into their first concert tour half the teen girls in the U.S. were wearing Def leopard t-shirts.... Awesome band of my teen years.

[@frankslay4920]

I remember we had a school bus driver that would let us play cassette tapes and we must have listened to this album the entire school year.

[@drewyager4020]

Same in PA

[@Anonymiad]

was his name Otto? lol

[@drewyager4020]

@@Anonymiad it was actually Sherri. She was very cool. But really only allowed Metal!!!

[@ikymagoo]

I bought this album with my own money when I was 12 years old in 1983, still one of my favorite albums and bands! ❤

[@davidpalahinjak8954]

It ain't easy bein' cheezy! 🔥

[@katwebbxo]

Love them. I wore their albums out during my 80's phase as a teenager lol. Still love them just as much and I got to see them with Heart years ago. It was amazing. ❤

[@MikeGTR]

Banger

[@piranhakeet]

Try some of their earlier stuff when you get a chance. "Wasted" and "Answer to the Master" from the On Through the Night album, "Lady Strange" and "Mirror Mirror" from High and Dry.

[@thetomgibson]

Whoever thinks this is cheesy doesn’t know what cheesy is. Sorry, can’t stand ignorance.

[@jonathanjacques7250]

💯

[@bojangles713]

They are sometimes too

[@blackbeltjones2903]

Lighten up 😂. Something can be cheesy and still sound good. They like the track, why make an issue? You'd think no one could have their own opinion without feeling personally attacked by it.

[@Dr_V_von_Doom]

It's cheesy and soft as fvxk. Fvcking lame hair metal. Go Ahead and apply your makeup and hair products lady.

[@pensivepenguin3000]

Arguably most pop metal from the 80s could be considered cheesy, but I think they leaned too heavily on that description going into the song. Glad they ultimately liked it

[@generoberts9151]

Everything off of this album and “High am Dry” is fire. I don’t care what people think.

[@rayjones4616]

Two of the greatest Hard Rock/Heavy Metal albums of all-time, to be sure!

[@generoberts9151]

@@rayjones4616Funny how they make fun of 80s rock but I can’t tell you how many younger people I come across that tell me , I like your music era better. I’m like “yeah, ya think?”

[@tabajarasantos2789]

This is Taba, from Brazil. Love the show, guys!!! Congrats!!!!🙃

[@solidsnakec20]

def leppard is awesome! 🤣🤣

[@NateJones10]

I think they mean "cheesy" that Def Leppard has all the stereotypical hairband rock parts in it. What they don't understand is Def Leppard basically wrote the book on this sound back then, then went on to be the biggest Hair Band of the 80's with their Hysteria album and toured on it for years. Other bands tried to copy things from Def Leppard without copying them. Everyone loved Def Leppard back in the day, basically until Guns and Roses showed up at the end of teh decade and took that crown and the arenas from them. I think Def Leppard had the largest female fan base of the hairbands too, then probably followed by Bon Jovi.

[@Corndog642]

Some of my favorite Def Leppard tracks: Too Late for Love Bringing on the Heartbreak / Switch 625 Stagefright Rocket Women Armageddon it Rock of Ages

[@kolbee911]

That's a fair list.. fair as in good.

[@AICJDR]

Maybe it's a generational thing, but I don't find this song cheesy. I don't find the singing cheesy either.

[@MsAlliwannadoisdance]

Def Leppard's vocal harmonies are unparalleled even to this day

[@jbassguy571]

When they got to the "Pour some sugar on me" era they were drifting into the seas of cheese.

[@thebob01]

Great peeler tune

[@pensivepenguin3000]

Of course, but who cares? Lol. That song is an anthem. Hysteria is like a big ol’ overproduced, bombastic blockbuster of a record - and I love it

[@nancysmith8626]

@@pensivepenguin3000 Amen!

[@beatmet2355]

That song gets overplayed. Still a good song, but I could do without hearing it as much as I have

[@Kardashev1]

Def Leppard Pyromania tour was my first big concert, 80's, junior high, Mom drove me and my buddy, caught major second hand pot high, great experience.

[@myproject13ttt]

Nothing cheesy about... Playing this song Any souped up hot rod Cruising the strip, on the weekend in high school With hundreds of other hot rods with hot chicks🤘

[@peterbondmusic]

It's all here, production, arrangement, performance. Mutt Lange, one of the greatest producers ever, considering this is 1983 especially the production on a technical level alone is mind boggling.

[@iwannaseenow1]

The presumption of cheese definitely had an effect on the review. i think if this wasn't the case, the only real cheesy pary, IMO, is the "Ohhhhhh" part... lol. Edit: I am not a particularly big fan of theirs, but they are masters of stadium rock songs.

[@chrisprimosch6882]

Totally agree. I think the people who vote on their little polls might not know any better, so this is what the guys get fed before they even hear something, it makes it a lot harder to be objective. Imagine if they were told how unbelievably cheesy Black Sabbath was before they even heard them.

[@tigerback62]

I Absolutely L O V E this song! Thanks for reacting!

[@danielwagerman9524]

This is a good song from Pyromania, and one of my favorites. But anything off High 'n Dry is FIRE!

[@Nicole-jv3pn]

High 'n Dry is an awesome album.

[@mjnation7876]

Pyromania is one of my favorite albums of all time and this is maybe a top 5 Def Leppard song for me.

[@SophiaAphrodite]

Photograph and Pyromania are very good as well.

[@BridgeIV]

You guys just make me smile, thanks for reacting to the music of my youth!