10 Underrated Hard Rock Songs Of The '90s

By the time the alternative rock sound started sweeping the nation, hair metal was firmly out the door. For as much as fun as those bands were back in the day, their attempts at either soldiering on or blending in with the alternative sound left many great musicians by the wayside. Though their days may have been numbered, Def Leppard actually started off the next decade pretty strong with Adrenalize.

Granted, this album is far from the great pop bangers that we were subjected to on Hysteria, but the hooks that these guys were still able to lay down was undeniable. Tracks like "Let's Get Rocked" may have been the heavyhitters from this era of the band, but "I Wanna Touch U" was one of the last fun-loving songs from the band's glory years.

Given the impact that bands like Nirvana would have just a few years later, this song is fairly mindless and doesn't really seem to mean anything other than its sexualized lyrics. However, this song serves as a nice time capsule of the hair metal scene right before going completely belly-up. The time was clearly up for the era of spandex and hairspray, but Def Leppard were one of the few that managed to end the movement with a bang rather than a whimper.