Better rock n' roll through science

Some bands work the literary aspirations of rock n' roll, as evidenced by Flynn's Hold Steady track yesterday. Others just plug in and go for the big dumb glory. And some bands do the latter and then spend months in a studio applying mysterious audio chemicals to polish and shine the stuff into something slick enough to enter young listeners' ears and permanently affix itself to the pleasure center of their brains. Such was Def Leppard's method in their prime. And this was before the drummer even got his bionic implants. Here's an album cut that could've easily ruled the world in 1983.

Def Leppard - Stagefright