10 Perfect Glam Rock Albums With No Bad Songs

10. Pyromania - Def Leppard

By the time the MTV generation kicked into high gear, the glory days of the glam rock movement were pretty much done. Even though people like T Rex would have absolutely killed it on the airwaves at the time, giants like David Bowie found themselves switching up their styles to suit the more TV friendly image going on at the time. On the heavier side of the spectrum though, we still got a few left turns from Def Leppard.

Considering their last record High N Dry was basically a well produced take on AC/DC flavored rock, Pyromania was going for a much more radio ready feel. Across just 10 tracks, you can tell that Leppard were as much fans people like Mott the Hoople as they were with Van Halen, taking the signature edge of the hair metal movement and putting some genuinely great pop hooks behind it.

Granted, you also have superproducer Mutt Lange to thank for everything turning out this well, disciplining the guys in the band to push their sound even harder to get the perfect vocal takes. Compared to the rest of the hair metal acts that were about to spring up in their wake, Pyromania feels like a glam rock album that just happened to find its way onto the heavier side of the charts. It may be a different flavor of glam, but hooks like these are rarely ever a bad thing in rock and roll.