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had some songs already pretty peak
Business as usual babes
not for me
No está mal, el rock/heavy de los 80 y el doble bombo tan característico de este grupo. Me he guardado "Pour some sugar on me".
Can I rate it zero.
Didn't realize Pour Some Sugar on Me was by Def Leppard! Also thought it was more metal than it is; actually much more rock.
A good example of mid-eighties, mid-atlantic, ‘poodle rock’. I despise it to it’s core
Terrible album by one of the most over rated bands ever!
I listened to 3 tracks. It sucked when it came out and it has not gotten better with time.
4,5
I couldn't finish this album, it's pretty cheesy.
This is a better album than my 3 stars suggests. I love some of the songs, but an entire album is a lot. In the pantheon of hair metal albums this is a gem.
Felt like I could hear the hair in the metal. Started off fun and loud, got bored in the middle
Rocky and raucous and totally adolescent.
Probably the best blockbuster commercial rock of the ‘80s. This is Michael Bay if he was a rock band - bombastic, glossy, high-tech and dumb as rocks! Such a blast if you’re able to meet it on its level.
You could not avoid this album in the 80s, so many hits from this record it could be a greatest hits album. While they are catchy, they definitely got overplayed for me and I find them plodding. But hard to argue their popularity and presence.
Better musicians than I remembered, but I never could settle into the music.
Solid 80’s hair band and knew a few mor songs than I thought.
Didn't finish listening Only recognized one song Never was a hair-band fan One star for the one-armed drummer
Meh. This album has a lot of hits, but the hair metal genre doesn't do much for me.
Ok, vähä filleriä omaan makuun
Never got much into Def Leppard. Too mainstream rock for me. 3/10.
More of what you’d expect from Def Leppard Not bad but doesn’t do anything different 3.5/5 Favorites: first half of the album, hysteria
Glossy, polished, over produced, still has some all timers on it. An album I fully understand the detractors and the rabid fans. To me it’s fine.
This was too cheesy for me really, and you get the point before too long. Many of the songs revolve around similar subjects, structures and sounds, and over an hour of that is a bit overkill. There are some decent riffs and sing-along choruses here to be found here and there, but there's precious little which blew me away. The big singles are good for drunken karaoke nights but that's the extent of it for me.
I have never felt so guilty for an actual guilty pleasure.
I really don't get on with this kind of hair metal, does nothing for me at all
Just awful...
Plus one for nostalgia
Wow, I didn't like this
Prime glam metal, full stop. 4.5 bumped up to 5.
I’m at a 4.5 that I’ll (surprisingly enough) bump down to a 4. My biggest knock on “Pyromania” was the following: “This is not quite as good as its contemporaries in terms of a full album experience, but it still stands up decently well, with my only real complaint being ‘it just kind of sounds the same after too long’. We’ve had other albums in this space that kept the energy all up the way through, at a blazing breakneck pace, and this one just didn’t keep it there for as long as it could have.” The reason I’ve copied that verbatim is because the exact same issue applies verbatim. This time around, with an extra 17 minutes on the docket & a far less compelling closer in “Love and Affection” (the 6th sex track on the album, by my count), there’s just not enough of a saving grace to bump this up to a 5. Don’t get me wrong, the highest highs here are remarkably high, including the dopamine hit that is “Pour Some Sugar on Me”, & there are no truly low lows, but in exchange for some potent instrumental energy, they’ve traded in their ability to write full songs. Almost every track here is one or two short verses & then a barrage of choruses. There’s not a lot of bite to them, and while I’m fine with ‘thoughtless’ music when it sounds as good as it does here, there’s only so much guitar-driven metal you can take as a flowing album experience. Realistically, this complaint is exaggerated by the fact that this album didn’t just stop at “Hysteria”. If it had, I would’ve been fine to bump this up to a 5, flaws and all, solely on account of just having a lot of fucking fun listening to this. Seriously, everything here is “Pyromania” turned up to an even higher degree, and when it’s rolling, it’s fucking awesome. It just rolls on a bit too long, with “Excitable” being anything but excitable after 53 minutes of similar sounding songs (& the entirety of “Hysteria” before it roughly being the same exact topic), and with “Love and Affection” being just as predictable as the title would suggest. They’re not bad tracks at all, and I do like them. They’re just the musical equivalent of needless exposition dumps after the ending. It does feel like a glam metal classic despite my complaints. It’s just not the best album experience at the end of the day, and if you have far less tolerance for the repetition in the music here, I can understand knocking it as far down as a 3. I won’t go that low, but I am stuck going from a 4.5 to a 4. Honestly, it’s probably closer to a flat 4, but I digress. If it were just a little bit tighter for everything surrounding the actual instrumentals & vocals (namely lyrics, length & track order), it’d probably be an easy 5. As it stands, it just gets a bit high on its own horny supply without reinventing the wheel enough to warrant its shortcomings. Hence, a 4.5 bumped down to a 4. It’s still probably an essential listen for ‘80s glam rock, and it should be on the list.
For a band originally from the UK they were really not that big over here - well, at least, in the circles I moved in, and my time overlaps massively with their peak in the late 70's to late 80's. I've always considered them more of a US phenomenon (this seemed to be a 'thing' around that time e.g. Whitesnake). Anyway, I was familiar with a few of the more famous tracks and they are very catchy. I enjoyed it but wouldn't rush out to hear it again. I'm going with 3 stars, seems about right.
Good album, I hadn't heard it before, and I was shocked to find that it was good. I'm not a fan of theirs, but it may have opened a door with a few of these songs.
Just what I needed yesterday
Felt like the same song over and over again
Solid album, classic rock.
Usually not huge on 80s hair metal but this album is super solid. Multiple big hits and even the filler songs still rock.
Pretty cool. Standout tracks: Animal, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Excitable
Vier Jahre nach dem Durchbruch mit "Pyromania" erschien im August 1987 "Hysteria", das vierte Album des englischen Rockquintetts aus Sheffield. Aufgenommen wurde es an drei Orten: in den Wisseloord Studios in Hilversum, den Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin und im Studio Des Dames in Paris. Den letzten Schliff gab Produzent Robert John "Mutt" Lange in seinem privaten Studio in Hindhead. Erschienen ist das Album bei Mercury, in Europa über Bludgeon Riffola – musikalisch liegt es zwischen Hard Rock und Glam Metal, glattgeschliffen bis zur Radiotauglichkeit. Drei Jahre steckten in der Produktion, und das merkt man. Im Dezember 1984 verlor Schlagzeuger Rick Allen bei einem Autounfall seinen linken Arm; monatelang stand infrage, ob die Band überhaupt weitermacht. Allen kam zurück, mit einem eigens für ihn gebauten elektronischen Schlagzeug. Lange schichtete Gitarren und Gesang Spur für Spur übereinander, bis Songs wie "Animal", "Pour Some Sugar on Me" oder "Love Bites" klangen, als könnten sie gar nicht anders klingen. 25 Millionen verkaufte Exemplare, sieben Hit-Singles – das sind die Zahlen. Was mich mehr beeindruckt: Trotz der chaotischen, jahrelangen Entstehung wirkt kein Song wie ein Lückenfüller. Man hört die Arbeit, aber man hört sie nicht als Anstrengung. Zwölf Songs, drei Jahre, ein Arm weniger – und trotzdem klingt jede Sekunde wie aus einem Guss.
I rinsed this as a kid. Couldn’t get enough of Def Leppard. Look, it’s a ridiculous album. The production is preposterous and the lyrics are all about basically NOTHING… but it’s quite fun.
Pretty awesome straight 80s rock!
2.75
Is it bad I feel like so much rock of a similar era sounds the same? I enjoy it though.
Good God if I hear it "Pour Some Sugar On Me" one more time I'm going to punch somebody in the head god-awful album.
I forgot how good this album is. Pretty much peak Arena Rock, and I'm not throwing shade by saying that. Very much the sound of rock in the 80's and this was some of the best made at the time. Fantastic time capsule that puts me back to cruizin' the drag with my friends, windows down, blasting Def Leppard on a tricked out car stereo. Those were the days, and this album was an important part of the soundtrack.
Nope.
A rock solid rock album. The album overstays its welcome a bit, as nearly every song is longer than it needs to be. These are mostly 3-minute songs with 6-minute runtimes. Still a very good time!
Guitar, drums… women! What more does man need?!? Possibly a mirror for the lovemaking… Anyway I am a sticky sweet mess after listening to this album. What a treat after a few years of not listening to any of their stuff. From the first note the production was on point and if you didn’t know the band are from Yorkshire my home county then you could be forgiven for thinking they are an American powerhouse. They certainly sound more authentic than the American band named after their own place Boston! The first 5 tracks play and you think this can’t be beaten but every track that follows blows up and it’s boom after boom after boom 💥 Even tracks 6-10 don’t let up. Some of the seamless movements from one track to another keeping the tempo coming and not giving moment for a breath. How good would this be to listen to live back to back..! The album should have ended with the title track and the last two tracks cut from the album stopping it been a perfect album. Best track- for me I love ‘rocket’ Worst track- ‘excitable’ why does he scream it so often! 9.5/10 gutted the last 2 tracks were not bonus tracks so has to drop half a point!
Def Leppard - Hysteria A complete surprise. Like almost everyone else I've heard all the singles from this in passing on the radio or TV. But I've never heard them like this. Every track on the first half of this album is a pop-metal masterpiece. Split as side one and two, that side one run of Woman, Rocket, Animal, Love Bites, Pour Some Sugar and Armageddon It is absolute killer no filler. Yes, it fades away a bit after that but by then the work is done! As so many albums of that time, it is just a couple of songs too long. The curse of the cd age. Love the thought hat a bunch of South Yorkshire lads, with the help of a maverick South African producer, made one of the greatest American sounding metal albums of all time. Best Track - Rocket. The one where they pack everything in. Worst Track - Excitable. Swngs and misses as the album runs out of steam. Drop a couple of tracks and this would have been bang on. 8.5/10
Absolute overproduced soulless shite rock from a band that simply had nothing to offer but an admittedly cool story of bouncing back from the brink and a lowest common denominator sound. I mean one of their biggest songs here is based on one of the dumbest puns ever. They're somehow the dumbest hair metal band, and that's among a sea of absolutely stupid rock. And even then it's so fucking catchy that I still can't totally hate it. But we all collectively should have some better standards for ourselves.
I’ve decided I do not like 80s hair metal. Overproduced, cringey, pop rubbish
This was definitely a fun album to go through! Consistent, high energy from start to end. It felt a little long, but not enough to have me concerned - I checked how much songs were left on the third last song. A solid album!
Peak 80’s glam/hair metal. Nothin better.
dropped when i was a senior in HS and even though it wasn't my kind of music, my gf and her crowd loved it and the songs definitely grew on me...Rocket, Pour Some Sugar on Me, Hysteria, Love Bites, Love & Affection, Animal are all certified bangers I remember line for line despite not having even thought about this album in 35 years
#431 If I was at some form of wedding or other function where I’d had a few to drink and was up dancing, I could entirely enjoy a Def Leppard track; listening sober I can see the fun in some of the more upbeat / popular tracks but an entire album of this is a bit too much for me, particularly more ballad driven tracks. Hair/glam 80s stadium rock just doesn’t really do it for me. Heard before? ❌ Would I revisit? ❌ Listen before you die? ❌ Fave track(s): Pour Some Sugar on Me Rating: 4/10 ⭐️⭐️
the vocals were very pleasing compared to most rock around this era, i think realistically this is a 3.5 from me maybe, but it gets a 4 because i didnt dislike really any songs, but not too many stood out either
Kind of a surprise? Weirdly ethereal, great album
Sweet Jesus this is 80s production writ large, no mistaking when this was made and it's aged as a result. It was the biggest song from this but I'm not a fan of Pour Some Sugar, Animal is catchy as fuck in fairness. It's fine but really this is of its time and place, and designed to be super commercial for the era. If I was coked off my head looking to pull in the late 80s I'm sure this would sound amazing. Don't Shoot Shot Gun is fucking atrocious. Pure hair metal, really overdoes the gated reverb drum sound and I'm not a fan of it used in this style, drummer sounds like he is playing with one hand tied behind his back 👀 4/10
It's fine
Iconic stadium rock sound, complete with adolescent lyrics of a sexual nature, and you've captured a moment in time, for better or worse. I begrudgingly have to give this a nod, if for the accolades alone, though it still plays too damn long.
It sounds very over-produced and cliche. Every song feels like it is trying to be an anthem, and it's just annoyingly in-your-face. It lacks originality, I'm sure there are thousands of 80s metal albums that sound incredibly similar, albeit lacking the extravagant budget. However, I have to admit that it is quite fun. It doesn't take itself too seriously, and I like that.
Butt ass stadium rock. My guilty pleasure.
Overall Rating: 4/10 The fun thing about listening to this album was realizing just how much I dislike Def Leppard! Don't get me wrong, there's certainly stuff about them to enjoy, but I didn't realize just how much of the garbage radio rock that I hear out in public was made by these guys. The entire first half of this album was basically a greatest hits of poop. I can understand the appeal, but I've just gotten so sick of these songs over the years. Fav Song: Armageddon It
Good
Actually enjoyable. I'm really surprised that some of these could go into my favorite songs playlist.
I don't care who they are, hair metal is not something you should listen to before you die.
Good album but not quite a 5 but a definite 4.5 . II think Pyromania is a slightly better album, wish we could mark out of 10.
This is another record where I was fairly familiar with the singles, but had never really heard the record. The most immediate impression I have is that this sounds expensive. Every sound is perfectly put into place and is layered. This is clearly an effort at create a series of pop hits. There are threads of the old metal sound, but this is primarily a mainstream eighties rock album that also wants access to the pop market. The twenty million albums sold make a pretty good case that they succeeded in their goals. This is a talented group and they know how to write a pop song. Also, I don't particularly like it.
Quintessential 80's Hard Rock album! It has a massive amount of their greatest hits! The other songs on this album are just as good and criminally underrated! Amazing!
Struggling between 3/5 and 4/5, but I guess it was enjoyable enough to be bumped to 4/5.
The fact that the first track on this so-called metal album is called 'Women' & the last is 'Love And Affection' endears me to it a bit, & Rick Allen's one-armness is a legend of a kind, but too much 'One part love, one part wild / One part lady, one part child,' like all things shit, somehow confounds & wearies at the same time: confusingly cliché. 3 years of something went into the making of this record, tho I wouldn't be so generous as to call it 3 years of craft, since it's clear from the outset that this thing is a monster of manufacturing. 'Animal' has its moments of that Max-Weinbergian flair for the precise & energetic - there just aren't enuf of 'em. I'll give it up to 'em - they're hopeless romantics, which I like & I respect - but the music? Shite.
I find it really interesting how some 80s rock bands sound so nostalgic. It’s something about those synths surrounding over-the-top guitars and catchy choruses, plus that constant feeling that I’m watching *Back to the Future*. That’s it! *Hysteria* is basically Huey Lewis’s "The Power of Love," just an hour-long version of it. Fuck it. It’s still fucking amazing! 5 stars.
honestly more highlights than i expected highlights: women animal love bites pour some sugar on me armageddon it gods of war run riot
It’s camp, it’s brazen, it’s hair metal. Thoroughly enjoyable even if it’s predictably indulgent and it could definitely be shorter. At its heart it’s pretty basic stuff. Good 80s electric guitar and vocals oozing with charisma. A couple of lame songs where they push the envelope a bit too far (Rocket and bits of Love Bites, whining and gurning on Don’t Shoot Shot Gun) but overall there’s a lot of joy to be had. Once you know it makes sense, but amazing that this the drummer’s first album since having an arm amputated and he had to learn how to play again with that fairly key limiting factor. I can only imagine it was an absolute hoot to go see them in their pomp.
I thought I would like this more. Sadly, it turns out I don't. "Animal" gave a glimpse of what I thought I might be getting: textbook glossy rock, followed by the obvious crowd-pleaser, "Pour Some Sugar on Me". Beyond that, though, apart from a few moderately enjoyable middle-of-the-road songs that drift by, there's not much here to like. "Love Bites" was dross of the highest magnitude. It's a cringe-worthy, over-the-top romantic drama, like something you'd get at Eurovision, and several other songs fall into a similar trap. It's low-rent stadium rock. I've always had a slightly complicated relationship with stadium rock. I don't dislike it necessarily, but it has to punch hard. I can happily lower myself to listening to some of my favourite stadium rock bands, the ones that make me want to learn guitar just so I too can become a rock peacock. If the riffs, hooks, and swagger aren't there, all you're left with is a withering love anthem. At that point, you might as well put on a Bon Jovi T-shirt and declare yourself rock dead.
Overproduced, shallow, stadium rock but I enjoyed it anyway. Listening to this album is like eating a whole packet of Haribo Tangfastics. You know its super sweet sugary crap, but you eat them anyway and enjoy them. You get to the end of the bag and you've eaten too many Tangfastics for one sitting and you feel slightly sick.
Too much hair, not enough metal.
Meh. The hits are okay I guess, but it's still hair metal. Just don't dig it.
Wow, sehr gut!
да нормас
Is it great? Sometimes. Great all the way through? Maybe not. Do I love it? Absolutely.
Damn this album is absolutely stacked as far as Def Leppard is concerned. Could have easily mistaken Hysteria for a greatest hits album. Def Leppard in general is probably about a 3 for me as I like them but don't love them, but'll I'll give this a boost because damn it's all here.
Not bad at all
out of the two hair metal albums i've been given so far, i slightly prefer this over slippery when wet, but i still really don't enjoy this. still plastic, still cheesy, still meaningless. please stop giving me albums from these 80s pop-metal hitmaker bands 🙏
It's hard to imagine that there was a time when this music was everywhere.
This band is from Sheffield and I was just there, how funny. Not that you would know they are from Sheffield because this is giving pure eighties Americana. Anyway I love how unapologetically 80s this album is … I loved it, what can I say?
I walk into a biker bar, flip a quarter in into the jukebox and proceed to roundhouse the shit out of 11 knuckleheads - without so much as a wrinkle in my bandana. The song playing on the jukebox? Hysteria by Def Leppard.
Interestingly my dad went to a tribute band concert for this album the same day.... crazy. Lots of great songs here but the album is a little long and starts to blur together at the end. I think a strong 8 songs instead of 12 would make this really tight. That said, its great as a whole with a lot of iconic songs. Favorite Songs: Animal, Love Bites, Hysteria
華麗金屬嗎？硬搖滾嗎？我還沒有聽過太多，這很像KISS的感覺，但我還沒有聽過太多這種的，沒辦法評價太多，但我蠻喜歡的。
Very poor, but at least it was long.
It’s utterly pompous, it’s so over the top, it’s way too long and it’s absolutely fucking nuts. AND YET. Ultimately it’s good fucking fun, definitely doesn’t take itself seriously. The concept of a hair metal band like this coming from Sheffield is absurdly funny to me. It’s obviously not an all time great but it’s harmless and fun.
It's music for teenage boys. As a former teenage boy, there's a certain level on which I love this, but I kind of think I've outgrown it now. Pour some sugar on me is still a really fun song though
It is a very sexy album, which was common for that age and glam rock band, so a solid 3 for them this time 🔥
Sounds like someone fed Bon Jovi steroids and gave the producer a cocaine budget. Absolutely magnificent. 5/5
Not for me
Stupid and fun. Wildly too long, but indulgence seems to be the theme here.
a pleasant surprise favorite: Hysteria
I didn't have any idea how I was going to feel about this album going into it, and it ended up being kind of middle-of-the-road for me. There are fun elements (especially the guitar work) but it errs into cheesiness quite a bit. I found the album to be rather overlong, as well. Impressive that the drummer was able to do all this with just one arm, though. I didn't know that about Def Leppard. Favorite track(s): "Hysteria" and "Rocket"
Do I feel bad for the drummer? Absolutely. Does that mean this music is good? No
Certainly biased here as Def Leppard has always been my favorite hair metal band and I grew up listening to them constantly, but I don't care. Sometimes a band just writes twelve absolute bangers and turns the fun factor all of the way up. Hysteria is such a great time, perfectly polished with so much cheese and its accessible sound serves as a gateway for prospective metal fans to discover more from the genre. Couldn't hate this if I tried to.
Not for me
Women 2.4 Rocket 2.6 Animal 2.3 Love Bites 2.3 Pour Some Sugar on Me 3 Armageddon It 2.4 Gods of War 2.5 Don't Shoot Shotgun 2.2 Run Riot 2.3 Hysteria 2.5 Excitable 2.2 Love and Affection 2.2 Score: 2.408333333
2026.08.23.
Great energy, my fav so far
This is one of the records that got me into music when I was in like 4th grade. I love this record so much. I know everyone is so cynical these days, and the next generation’s tastes have evolved so far as to have no time for this pop-metal masterpiece, but I still love it. Objectively, yes, it’s over the top, overproduced, lyrically kind of trite and uninspiring, and does not showcase anything more than basic musical competency with some slick studio tricks. But dammit, this record makes me feel some real joy for an hour. There are a couple songs that could have been left off that would have tightened up the record. It comes to a bit of a screeching halt with Don’t Shoot Shot Gun, which is an incoherent mess of a song. I don’t think this record necessarily needs Gods of War or Excitable either, they’re kind of just filler. Despite the fact that there are at least three skippable tracks, Hysteria is a pretty easy 10 for me; nostalgia papers over the cracks for me. 9/10
It’s just not for me it has some redeeming qualities the talent is there but I just can’t get into the overly glossy rock that def leopard is giving me. Fav tracks: none
1023 - "Here's your juice box and orange slice. Thanks for coming."
Bleh. Feels too long, and like once you've heard one song you've heard them all. Even during my classic rock phase as a young lad I couldn't get into Def Leppard, and I still can't today.
Wasn't drunk enough at karaoke to really enjoy this album. Can't deny the hits though.
Feel like this deserves a 1 as peak 80's nonsense, but take a 2 you slippery fucks
Fantastic album.
varmaa tähä mennessä vaikein kuuntelukokemus
I think this is the album that should have made me realise, immediately, from the appalling opening track, that my hair metal phase needed to be nipped in the bud. And yet, somehow, it lasted right from 1987 through to somewhere in early 1990. When I listen now, I genuinely think most of this sort of rock really is... pick your adjective: naff, corny, crap!? The guitarists can, of course, play, and the singers can command a stage; I went to see Bon Jovi and Dave Lee Roth during this time and can testify to that. There is quality stuff by Aerosmith, Van Halen and Guns n Roses out there. But emotionally, I can't really connect with much of this type of music at all now, and am bemused that I liked it for so long (actually, I blame certain friends). There's the odd exception though, and one of those is perhaps Animal. A certified pop rock banger. But, with apologies to Dave from Bank of Dave, this is, mostly, really terrible.
I love this album. Almost every song has a great hook and the whole thing hangs together so well.
There's something that just sounds gross about them, these dudes seem very sleepy. But the jams were much better than I was expecting. I will put a little respect on their names and give it a 2 rounded down
Given my history of rock, I went into this album and expected to either: (1) hate it with the passion of a thousand suns or (2) love it and learn a valuable lesson about judging a book by its cover. It turns out there is a third option, to not have any strong feelings about this thing altogether.
A great rock album, although not really my style. Feels a little too polished and clean for my liking! Favourites: Animal Armageddon It
Best stuff from the hair metal era, lots of memorable hits from this album.
OG buttrock.
reminds me of will schuster
The drummer having one are is cool, but not when it comes time to actually record an album.
Another review with me having a rant about how good an album is, it's true every time, I am just passionate about a lot of music what can I say! I must admit I haven't listened to as much Def Leppard as I should have, knowing me and that I like this kind of music. I LOVE this era of music so much, and of course I already knew the kind of sound this album would bring from my pre-existing knowledge of 'Pour Some Sugar On Me'. I had a lot of fun listening to this album and I shall be returning in the foreseeable future.
Glam Metal at its worst or best? It all depends on one’s inclination for hairspray riffs and raucous choruses. Love it or hate it, this album encapsulated a genre for better or worse.
I have to be in a certain mood to really appreciate this kind of rock I think. Some of it is really fun and other songs drag. The hits are hits for a reason. (3.5 stars)
I love metal, in (almost) all its forms, but this is just not it. This is cheesy, long-winded pop with hilarious 80s production choices. Death's "Scream Bloody Gore" also dropped in 1987 and helped establish the template for death metal. I bring this up because the list doesn't have any death metal on it but for some reason there are two Def Leppard albums. 0.5/5.0: Unlistenable
almost all of these songs are 2 minutes too long, not to mention quite a few of them shouldve been omitted completely
Oh fuck yeah this album is so tits man. Nothing brings to me that nostalgic 80s rock feeling like Hysteria. Makes me wish that I was a teen in the 80s or early 20s. This tid bit from GPT is pretty impressive The drums have that massive, electronic/arena sound, especially because Rick Allen was playing with a custom electronic/acoustic setup after losing his arm. That gives the record a very specific feel: human resilience filtered through high-tech 80s rock production. LOL that Bloodhound Gang song comes to mind.
5/10
Def Leppard is a band that made a career out of sounding like a Rocky III/Rocky IV soundtrack. The 80s were a strange time. I remember liking the song Rocket as a kid, not so much anymore, but it's still probably my favorite Def Leppard song. Seriously, this could be the soundtrack for Rad. There's the perfect combination of rock and rock ballads to last through a 90 minute movie about a kid who just wanted his dad to accept that he wanted to be a skateboarder rather than a mine worker while he falls in love with his rival's ill-treated girlfriend only to win the big race at the end and have his dad hug him at the finish line. Love Bites is terrible. Which song has been played at strip clubs more, Pour Some Sugar On Me or Panama by Van Halen? I had friends in the early 90s who still loved Def Leppard, hard to believe this lasted when so many other bands have gone by the wayside. This whole album is very dated. I liked Pyromania better, too many power ballads on this one.
I have never understood the Def Leppard hype - but I understand it's down to personal taste etc. For me - this album is every possible stereotype of glam/hair metal in one exhausting package. Don't get me wrong - I think that hair metal has some great bands/songs/musicians and has its place, but for me this record doesn't do anything particularly special. To the point of each song sounding much like the next, trying too hard for every track to be a big stadium anthem with little substance. I have heard some Def Leppard songs (not from this or Pyromania) that are great and have something about them. Unfortunately this album offered up none of that for me.
I know that Def Leppard exists but don't have any liked songs by them on Spotify and never owned one of their albums. I had just graduated from college when this one was released. I was familiar with their previous album (Pyromania) because it was very regularly played in the dorms and houses at college - and I never liked that one. Uh oh, this is over an hour long. I just don't understand the appeal of poppy hair metal like this. Dumb lyrics, slick production, boring arrangements, high pitched vocals. Nearly every song sounds the same. Just super generic stuff to me. Nearly 40 years later and I still haven't figured out why anyone would consider this good. I bet you could ask AI to make a hair metal album and it would be just as good as this - possibly better. OK I just did that... Here's an AI generated song called "Midnight Rendezvous". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here’s a Def Leppard-style song about a one-night stand with a rock groupie. It’s got the big hair, anthemic choruses, and rebellious energy you’d expect from the band’s 80s glam metal era. “Midnight Rendezvous” (In the style of Def Leppard) (Opening riff: Big, crunchy power chords, driving rhythm, and a soaring vocal melody.) [Verse 1] She’s got the look, she’s got the style, Leather boots and a killer smile. Backstage pass, she don’t need a name, Just a one-way ticket to the fame. [Pre-Chorus] She’s a groupie queen, yeah, she’s wild and free, Tonight she’s all about the melody. No strings attached, no ties, no chains, Just a backstage pass and a bottle of champagne. [Chorus] Oh, it’s a Midnight Rendezvous, Under the neon lights, we’re breaking the rules. She’s a rock ‘n’ roll fantasy, Tonight she’s all about me! (Guitar solo: Shredding, melodic, and full of attitude.) [Verse 2] She’s got the moves, she’s got the fire, Backstage whispers, a hidden desire. No promises, no lies, no tears, Just a one-night stand and a decade of cheers. [Pre-Chorus] She’s a groupie queen, yeah, she’s wild and free, Tonight she’s all about the melody. No strings attached, no ties, no chains, Just a backstage pass and a bottle of champagne. [Chorus] Oh, it’s a Midnight Rendezvous, Under the neon lights, we’re breaking the rules. She’s a rock ‘n’ roll fantasy, Tonight she’s all about me! (Bridge: Soft, then explosive) Soft: She’s a shadow in the spotlight’s glow, A fleeting moment, a one-night show. Explosive: But damn, she burns like a wildfire flame, A memory I’ll never tame! [Final Chorus] Oh, it’s a Midnight Rendezvous, Under the neon lights, we’re breaking the rules. She’s a rock ‘n’ roll fantasy, Tonight she’s all about me! (Outro: Big, anthemic, fading out with a guitar wail.) Whoa-oh-oh, yeah! Midnight Rendezvous! ----------------------------------------------- I had to check if this site has albums from bands like Ratt, Poison, Scorpions, Motley Crue, Whitesnake, Warrant etc. - which fit in the same bucket as these guys in my mind. Thankfully, I can report back that none of these bands have an album on this list. But Pyromania is also on this list. I'm happy the drummer was able to continue his career and do very well even after his tragic car accident where he lost an arm. Good for him! Liked songs on Spotify: 0/12 Rating: 1/5 (should be zero)
Damn…that leopard can’t even hear…..damn…
Few bangers, the rest sounds the exact same.
Solider Hardrock
wel leuk
The first songs sound like AI music combined with k-pop lyrics. Though many songs are catchy and fun, the project overall feels kinda generic to me. Many songs sound mostly the same, and the lyrics of this album are not that interesting to me. However, I grew a lot into the album from the middle part where most of the good and appealing stuff was. Overall, catchy and fun, but a little bland. Best: Hysteria; Armageddon It; Run Riot; Love and Affection Worst: Rocket
It’s a really fun 80s rock album. Feels like a perfect album to exemplify the sound of the time. It does lack some variety and it does feel a bit long in the tooth, but overall really enjoyable. I don’t know if it’s one that’s going to change anyone thinks about music but it’s a fun listen.
Halfway through Women, I was prepared to say that this album was going to outperform my expectations. Then I caught the lyric "Skin on skin, let the love begin," and I was back to where I started.
Uuuuggghhhhhh.... Christ, the guitars on this album suck. And the synths. And everything else. I don't care if the drummer has three limbs. This all blows goats.
I kind of skipped my way through this today because as a young male during the time of this release, it was everywhere. Radio, TV, friends, etc. I hate the dated production which I think is the zenith of the 1980s perhaps. It wasn't just them, there were 20+ bands whose drums/guitars/vocals sounded like this. The lyrics cause brain damage and/or manosphere sympathies. The lyrics should be avoided. The only reason this doesn't get 1 star is that they are really good at writing pre-choruses which set up their arena choruses. Almost every hit of theirs has one. I've always kind of liked Pour Some Sugar on Me despite myself.
Like Van Halen, Def Leppard is big dumb fun. They lack the air of being in on the joke that VH had during the Roth era, but on the other hand their songs are better than those of humorless Hagar-era VH. Anyway, I'm giving this a buoyed-by-nostalgia 4 rounded up from 3-something. There's no song on here as good as Photograph (DL at their best), but Animal and Pour Some Sugar on Me are excellent and a lot of fun. Most of the rest are at least tolerable. (Love Bites being the exception.)
2/5 - The lyrics are objectively terrible. The production is heavy-handed and cheesy. Yet this produced 7 singles and was totally inescapable on MTV in the late 80s. I was 13 and loved it, but I moved on pretty quickly. "Yeah, but are you getting it? (Armageddon it)" Holy fuck.
Quintessential 80s glam
SISISISUS MÁS ASÍ PORFAVORRRRRR
It’s hilarious that an album produced with big money and with due seriousness is impossible to listen to with a straight face. 'Animal' might sound good after ten pints. 'Love Bites' might need ten more.
Pour some sugar on me… hell ya
Yet another example of a band/album that I don't get the hype for.
We need to bring back lead singers calling out “guitar” and “drums” in rock music.
Production was really good. I don't know what it is (maybe vocals) that just has always turned me off from Def Leppard. These songs are fine but to me it isn't the classic it gets credit for.
2.5 - I like it more than Pyromania, but I'm still not going to be listening to them on purpose.
fav songs: pour some sugar on me glam, arena, radio 20/100
3.5
Another one that is just meh. Not awful, not especially enjoyable
Músicas longas demais, disco longo demais. Uns 20 minutos a menos, com menos músicas, talvez tornasse um disco memorável. Os hits tem vida própria, sem necessidade do contextos do disco. E boa parte das músicas poderia estar em qualquer disco de "hair metal" da época.
this is actually fire. really impressed. love rocket, think that's a bit of an underappreciated gem, same with gods of war. pour some sugar on me is definitely a bit overrated, but hysteria (title track) might actually be a little underrated. 4.1/5, a couple of skips but overall really consistent and enjoyable
3/10
Nice
WAYYYY too long. Five minutes was pushing it. I've always hair metal and this album didn't change that in the slightest. Oh! And every song sound the same. Generally just such a terrible experience. Thumbs way down.
3/5
Yippee! Well, we’re starting out with a track called Women. I mean, it’s quite a bop. I loved that guitar solo. Rocket has such a great drumbeat! Love bites is nice. It’s a bit slower and very vibey. Pour some sugar on me is weirdly nostalgic for me even though I wasn’t alive when it was released. I have a friend who I roomed with on a school trip who was absolutely obsessed with this song. Armageddon it had a very nice driving beat to it. Gods of war sounded like an amalgamation of sweet child of mine and rock you like a hurricane. The title track was honestly pretty fun. I don’t have too much to say about the last couple tracks, but overall this album was quite good! I did think it went on a bit at some points, and it did not need to be an hour, but I had a good time with it. 4/5 ⭐️ 188/1089
Pour Some Sugar On Me is for sure in the running for Most Overplayed Songs Ever. Other than that this is fine.
Hysteria is one of those albums I never get tired of. Every track feels like it belongs, and the big songs still sound as good now as they did then. For me, this is rock done properly. Easy to listen to, full of great hooks, and an album I can play from start to finish. Five stars TH
This album came out during my senior of high school. So yeah, I'm familiar. It was everywhere and unavoidable. Even though I thought it was pretty sucky back then I decided to give it a fair listen to now. It's so much worse than I remember. It's just soft, cheesey, pop drivel. In my memory they were more hard rock. But there's nothing hard about this.
All killer, no filler. Can't believe this is an hour long and yet filled with so many bangers. Well done all x
The hits were hits, the rest?
Geoff Leopard Very much of its time, which is no bad thing. 80s hair metal is severely underrated. Not much more to say about this one. It bangs. Favourite track: Pour some sugar on me
yaaa ok, me gustó
Nirvana's Unplugged was my album yesterday, and my God what a contrast. After hearing the stripped-down, completely exposed naïveté of that live album, this super-polished, cynical studio creation is like something from another planet, and you start to understand why Nirvana was so appealing to kids back in the early 90s. Years of listening to Def Leppard records will do that to people. Anyways. Is this any good? I don't know. It isn't real. It's like the CGI version of music. It looks cool but it isn't actually happening. The drums and bass all sound incredibly fake. Songs are assembled rather than performed. Which feels weird and inauthentic to me. So much for the performance aspect of this album. But the songs? They're pretty great - as far as pop metal goes. Def Leppard were really going for it here. Trying to throw as many hooks at the wall as they possibly could.... it's actually fun to listen to. "Pour Some Sugar On Me" is incredibly cheesy, but also just plain incredible. If there is a pop-metal zenith, that is it. Also - having had one of Slade's records fairly recently I can say with confidence that I get it now- that band was hugely influential on this type of chorus-forward heavy metal. I also can't help but compare "Gods of War" with Metallica's "One"- both anti-war songs, but one really SOUNDS like an anti-war song. The other could be an anthem for anything. But I don't hate it, and it's certainly interesting. I'll bite - THREE STARS
Become more of a fan as the years elapse. Great guitar work and vocals.
I don’t really like hair metal
Eh Pour Some Sugar on Me is good but the rest is meh
Ok. So you got a slick 80s hair metal producer. That don’t impress me much.
Overproduced? Yes. Cheesy? Yes. Hair? Yes. Metal? Eh. Unique? No. Thought provoking? No. Fun? Yes. Drummer only had one arm? Yes. Guilty pleasure? Yes. Will I ever listen again? Probably not. Does it belong on this list? Yes.
Genuinely terrible, couldn't even finish it
Def Leppard is a good band for what they do/ did. If you like it you like it a lot if not I’m sure it’s difficult. I liked the songs I knew and the others were fine.
There are a handful of bands that I clocked back in the 80s (and later) that I refer to as some variation on the sound of the future. Not sure Hysteria holds up in that respect, but at least in the summer of 1988 “Rocket” sure fit that billing. I admire what they and Lange were up to trying to craft the pop metal version of Thriller, but wow are these songs ever long. There are parts of nearly every song I still kinda love and others - usually the chorus - that I absolutely loathe. I guess that formula did gangbusters for them...
Hair metal isn't my favorite genre, but Def Leppard are far from the worst in it. It is kinda cool how they stuck by their drummer even after a tragic accident caused him to lose an arm. What's more rock and roll than going, "fuck it, we'll have a one-armed drummer"?
So boring. This is not for me.
Inoffensive dad rock
Glam rock in its finest form, but if this is as good as glam rock gets, then it’s hardly an elite genre.
pretty good hair metal 💥animal 💥pour some sugar on me 💥hysteria
Adolescent 80's overproduced, cheesy, pop metal. The songs have some catchy choruses (Pour Some Sugar on Me) but are very similar in structure and gimmicky hooks. I thought I was going to enjoy this but now remember why I moved away from this genre.
Standard hair metal. Def Leppard has a very distinct sound. The album had a few hits and was overall enjoyable
Minus one star for "Women." Plus one star for maybe the coolest hair metal album cover of the 80s.
Review - argh hair metal is all bad there are no good hair metal albums the defining features of hair metal are inherently dislikeable arghhhh. Cool they kept the one armed drummer though. Score - 2.5/10 Need to listen? NO
WOOOOO. the problem is that I don't hate hair metal. the bluntness and sexual nature of a lot of the lyrics are guarenteed to drive feminists insane but i think it is ok. as for the music it can be cheesy at times but i found myself able to tolerate it. 3/5
I wish I was a Deaf leopard. 3/10
Horrifically bloated and not musically interesting enough to make up for it. Glam rock is already on thin ice and this is a bad example of it. Massive respect for Rick Allen though.
I’ve decided I do not like 80s hair metal. Overproduced, cringey, pop rubbish
I never minded listening to anything by them and today I learnt how right I was. I expected some copycats of the hard rock of Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath (but 10-15 years too late) but this album is actually much worse: here we are rather in the neighborhood of Bon Jovi... This leopard is lucky to be deaf because the music is shite
Now, I'm not a big fan of heavy metal, especially not of lightweight hair metal. And this has all the worst features of those genres coupled with excessive production. I did listen to the whole thing. I don't think this is an album I needed to hear.
okay album but nothing really stood out to me as anything i'd listen to again. some of the songs are too overplayed for me to enjoy anymore.
La verdad q no le tenía ni fe y me re sorprendió, por eso las 5 estrellas. Las canciones son bastante parecidas algunas. De todas formas muy bueno
I'm not as much of a fan of this style of arena / light metal rock with slow anthems mixed in, but it's still in a general genre I like.
This is twice as long as it needs to me. Fine, pop-y rock music that is not for me but it's not bad just so produced and it kind of all sounds the same?
Hysteria was created to be full of hit singles, and boy, did Def Leppard succeed in that mission. I am a bit of a sucker for Def Leppard and the glam hard-pop-rock sound. Hysteria is a long album though. An hour long and the songs aren't exactly 4 minutes long either. It can wear on the listener a bit but there is no doubt Hysteria deserves a spot in this book. You can feel the work that was put into making this album, because even as the songs are good and became hits, the sweat and struggle can be felt through most of these songs. Still, seven hit singles! That was the intention and that was the outcome. The album is very much front-loaded, which is not a criticism, but Hysteria is the only hit song that is on Side 2. This is a landmark album in the 80's. Best tracks: Women Rocket Animal Love Bites Pour Some Sugar on Me Armageddon It Hysteria Love and Affection
I ended up with this on Father's Day, which feels spiritually appropriate. As I understand it, Hysteria is a dad rock classic, and is kind of considered a hair metal high watermark. And, honestly, it probably *is*, I just also don't really like hair metal that much. This being a mid-late '80s hair metal album means that it's inevitably cheesy, flashy, and at least a *little* ridiculous. But I do respect that this album is pretty transparent about the fact that this is a pop album with big guitars. Def Leppard are definitely not trying to be something they're not. And, maybe it's just the father's day spirit, but it kind of worked for me. A lot of these songs are *really* catchy. Women, Animal, Gods of War and Pour Some Sugar On Me are a pretty good encapsulation of what's going on here. Instantaneous pop songs meet metal arrangements and tropes. And the result is a lot of fun. But 62 minutes is a little much for this kind of thing, and I think the last leg of the tracklist is kind of weak. But Hysteria is still very enjoyable.
Although there's some great songs on here, I didn't enjoy this album as much as Pyromania ☹️ Some songs seemed a bit like filler, and that's what let it down 3 ⭐️
I mean it's cool you can drum with one arm but that's the only cool thing about this album
This one was fun
A star for each arm the drummer has.
I cannot believe there's people out there that like this. What is going on with the world. All respect to the one armed drummer though Will I listen to again: 0%
I'm sure this probably says a lot more about me than it does about the music, but I hate it when everyone in a room sings along to a song they all know. One time, my wife brought me to some sort of dueling piano bar where everyone would drink and sing along to songs like Tiny Dancer and Piano Man and stuff like that and it just made my skin crawl. I told her wasn't feeling well and had to go to the bathroom and I just went outside and sat in the cold. In January. In Canada. I couldn't even sit in the lobby. Arena Rock pushes the same buttons for me. I'm sure I heard a piano version of "Pour Some Sugar On Me" that night.
Kickass cover but. Man I won’t even call it boring or not catchy because I see why it’s so beloved just off guitar work alone, but it is an album at its best when the lyrics don’t show up. Like if you told me a horny fourteen year old boy wrote this I would entirely believe you.
A few classic hair bops but not enough sparkle to bring it over the threshold for me.
Pop music (popular music) is a commercial genre defined by mass accessibility, catchy melodies, and relatable themes.
Not my flavour of rock at all. Pour Some Sugar On Me is irresistible dumb fun, but I couldn't find much good will for the rest. Love Bites and Hysteria are boring dirges for such big hits, and the album could've comfortably been two or ten tracks shorter. It's so sex-obsessed that it's unintentionally hilarious, though I prefer that priapic stupidity to their attempts at heartfelt balladeering or, God forbid, political commentary.
Ok, another old man rant...I suppose if I had been nearer 13 rather than 30 and never heard any real music when this lot peaked I may have been able to say "Armageddon It." I didn't then and I'm still not. They were successful enough though so it must have meant something to many. Just leaves me cold though. Have to admit this is the first album I have skipped through several tracks - I have heard (and hated) them enough before to know I would happily die without having to hear any of this again. Come back Joni, all is forgiven!
If you dont take this one too seriously its actually for the most part a lot of fun. I am not sure this is what the band intended though. The tracks Animal, Pour Some Sugar on Me and Hysteria were the standouts for me but I genuinely would listen to this one again - at full blast to drown out the sound of my weird next door neighbours music
Hilarious, and I think I'm laughing AT them, not WITH them? Yer man is very horny, but doesn't really have many words to express it. Special mention for 'Gods of War', a rare venture away from his pants into 'political' introspection, with guest lyrics by a small child. My high(low)light was definitely 'Love Bites', in which an existential crisis arrives for the singer in the form of catching his own eye in a mirror while fucking. Truly abysmal.
It’s kind of amazing how an album that generated so many hit singles and sold so many copies had so little of a lasting impact.
Excruciatingly cheesy stadium rock. Sometimes sexy, but mostly cringe. I kind of enjoyed Pyromania despite its corniness, mainly because it was still close to hard rock and even packed a bit of punch. But by 1987, Def Leppard had devolved into sugary glitter rock for the masses, churning out one tacky ballad after another. Tracks like "Animal" are almost painful to listen. The whole album is so 80s that it feels like a parody of a parody, and is only saved by a couple of groovy hits. A pointless addition to the list in my opinion. 3/10
Haha, damn, Pour Some Sugar on Me .This kind of 80s glam is hard for me: cheesy one hand drumming, a typical hair metal voice, the whole thing. Still, it’s better than Pyromania and a lot of albums from the same era and scene. Still, after Appetite for Destruction and the thrash explosion, this already sounded pretty outdated.
Yes, it is - of course - vastly overproduced to the point of being ridiculous. The songs have all the subtlety of an airhorn in the face, and it's impossible not to think that they are a bunch of silly billies at heart. And yet. And yet! There are just five, six or even seven songs on here that bring deep and unmitigated joy, in ways that scientists could struggle over for years. It's the unabashed chorus of it all, the ridiculous building of the songs and the celebration of being young and dumb that has to make you smile. Do I respect it? No. Do I like it? Impossible to answer. Do I grin like a loon and sing? Of course.
Man, I miss the 80s.
2nd half of side A; Animal and Love Bites standouts; Pour Some Sugar sounds like the number one hit. Soft spot for Armageddon It; c'mon Steve. Title track and we are back on track after a lull of 2-3 songs. Weird song to end the album on; out with a whimper. 3.5/5
Rocking and rolling like a dad on a boat (white cutoff, aviators)
My new favourite driving album. I rock. Fuck yeah. So many singles. Rocket was a school disco classic. I had completely forgotten "Pour Some Sugar on Me" but so glad its back in my life. Its incredibly dumb - but its a lot of fun. It definitely should not be a 5 but a bonus point for a 1 armed drummer and a bonus point for being from Sheffield.
Hysteria When my cousin worked as a music rep she used to give me all sorts of promo stuff, and one of the things she gave me was an Armageddon It 12 inch single box set with pin badges, posters and postcards. It also came with an Armageddon It grey sweatshirt. I loved that sweatshirt until I burnt a hole in it flicking matches and I put it in the bin to hide it from my mum. This is fun in a way that Van Halen could only dream of, even if it can’t quite sustain its silly enjoyability over a full 60 minutes. It absolutely reeks of the 80s in a good way; the gated drum sound, the big sound, the guitar tone, the synths, the vocal style, the charmingly earnest inanity of the lyrics, the woah woahs. And Pour Some Sugar On Me is an absolute belter. It’s definitely front loaded, the first side being a much stronger set of songs. Alongside Pour Some Sugar On Me Women, Rocket, Animal and Armageddon It are all great examples of 80s hair metal. The second side isn’t nearly as strong, and the stylistic limitations of the genre become more obvious the longer the album goes on. Don’t Shoot Shotgun is good and I do like the mid tempo-ness of the title track. Gods of War is a bit of a low point though, another example of a metal band ham fistedly writing a song about war, man, and the final two tracks check a lot of hair metal boxes without feeling particularly inspired. For the silly exuberance of the first side and for the excellence of Pour Some Sugar on Me it's easily a solid 3 - if I want a fix of 80s rawk then I’ll certainly reach for this again. 🐆🐆🐆 Playlist submission: Pour Some Sugar On Me
I've misunderstood the Leppard. I thought they were like Iron Maiden but with a one-armed drummer. This is much closer to Bon Jovi. Pop metal is how I've seen this described, and that's fair. There's a bit of fun, a lot of filler, and a lot of 80s gloss with not much underneath. The opening run, 'Woman' especially but also 'Rocket' are sluggish at best, despite some nice harmonies on the latter, that clearly borrow from Queen. The standout is the well put together 'Animal', an absolute staple of late 80s Capital Radio, and the best song for showcasing the vocals. It screams 1987. The glam-derived 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' is stupid fun and another Chris Tarrant go to. Which is all to say it has mass appeal whilst being unchallenging and safe for all the family. The best choruses here (like those two) have that football chant quality. A lot have a pumping drum beat. The album probably deserves credit for advancing stadium soft rock, if you like that sort of thing. They probably achieve what they want, but the album feels like it has too much lull amongst the peaks. I'm torn between ratings; on balance I feel a high two is the best I can offer.
I get such a negative gut feeling when I listen to songs from this era that are way overplayed and way overrated. No good feelings from this album whatsoever. And in fact I quit halfway through
Ok
Perfect in its genre. Also just a lot of fun.
It’s probably just nostalgia, but I enjoy this album. There’s a lot of good writing, music-wise.
unas si me gustaron, pero algunas medio meh
BLAST this entire album at my funeral
It deserves to be here, but it's serious butt rock.
A strategy perfectly executed - make something as bland AF and let the American market lap it up. a solid 2.5 stars.
Brilliant
his has some bangers on there but overall not really my thing
Pour Some Sugar On Meeeeeeee! I love that song.
Listenable but I don't like it as much as "On Through The Night" or "High & Dry".
Very long for a comedy/gimmick album. I know they don't see themselves as that, but that probably makes it funnier that they take themselves very seriously. That said, some of those choruses are banging. Catchy easily to sing along to and very instant.
This is an ok album. It's a great example of 80s hair metal with it's wall to wall ballads and catchy hooks. It's not bad by any means, just doesn't compare to stronger acts of the era or modern metal genres.
Solid album from the 80’s!
A bit naff and cheesy, but if you take it for what it is this is a good fun listen!
06/03 Hell yeah. Classic album with nt a bad song on it
Not bad by any means. Just think it's a bit cynical. The guitar riffs lack a bit of oomph and the drums (understandedly) lack flourish. Clearly trying to make a pop record.
not particularly interesting
Def Leppard was so influential in the 1980-90s that I didn’t realized leopard had an “o” in it until college. You have to hand it to them—especially drummer Rick Allen —they made a helluvan’ album. There were so many hits on this record: Women; Rocket; Armageddon It (nice double entendres); Hysteria and of course one of my favorite Skate City Roller rink songs Pour Some Sugar on Me, which still holds up and kicks ass. I have to say the vamp on Animal was cooler than I remember it. What I appreciated more this time were the deep cuts like God of War and Excitable, which kept that same edge and drive. Love and Affection’s guitar solo was majestic. Def Leppard found that perfect pocket between pop rock, glam and metal during the time when people had to pick. In many ways, this was Michael Jackson’s Thriller for the rock world. I was going to rate this as a “4”, but as I sang along with every song, I just had to go bigger!
Random thoughts: * This is the Def Leppard album to put on this list for sure. If nothing else just to have Pour Some Sugar on Me. * I know this music was popular but man is it repetitive and kinda boring. It’s kinda like they took Zeppelin and made it as bland as possible to reach the world fest audience. * one thing that jumped out on me was the vocal/movie samples. Those really jumped out. Is it a Def Leppard thing? * I’m sure I’ll hear Pour Some Sugar on me a million more times but it would not be because I play this album.
Haven't heard this before but was aware of some of the singles. OK it not revolutionary however it has has cracking tunes and a great production. Rock music made for the charts. A guilty pleasure.
So cheesy, tacky, overproduced and obnoxiously flamboyant. I love it.
Another excellent cock rock entry
Yep. Decent.
The music itself was a bit cheesy for me, but to be expected from 80s music. Nevertheless, the wholesome lyrics (as far as I could tell) won me over slightly. For a band of its time, it is refreshing to pair this music with lyrics about women that are not actually misogynist. The opening track 'Women' is perhaps not to today's standards,
So 80s. Has some hits, but very repetitive.
Quite a nostalgic album for me
Big fan of this, used to get played a lot in the car growing up
Not a fan
Not horrible I guess? I'll say 2.5, round down.
Rockin
Pretty decent hair rock/metal. The hits are the hits.
some fun stuff but mostly meh not my style
чё-то по большей части какой-то бон джови, если не скорпионз. не знаю как назвать. ганз н роузез. романтический рок. очень странный альбом
This is Def Leppard at their best! It’s them doing exactly what they do at the peak of their power. And you know eh.
It sounded exactly how I expected. For an hour.
I didn’t like this as much as Pyromania, once again the delivery is great but overall the songs did not click with me as much. Pour Some Sugar On Me is a worthy standout
It's big hair 80s rock.
Yucky. Overproduced hair metal slop
5 stars - Love this album from start to finish. One of the albums I would list as part of the soundtrack of my childhood.
It was fine
Glam rock tal vez? Está bien, pero no es mi tipo. Siento que es muy bueno para baladas románticas y recordar buenos tiempos de épocas pasadas No sé si hay alguna canción que en mi caso pueda destacar, pero el álbum por completo es muy fiel en su concepto Entiendo también su alcance y popularidad, me recordaron muchísimo a Bon Jovi (no son los mismos) Buenos solos y musicalmente fuertes
My first listen to a Def Leppard album, and honestly I’m not very familiar with their music at all, so I went into Hysteria completely open-minded. Unfortunately, this album just isn’t for me. This kind of cliché stadium rock does very little for me and after a while it all starts to feel quite repetitive and limited. The album has big hooks and polished production, but a lot of it feels overly flashy without really saying much underneath. It comes across like music aimed at teenagers — loud, overblown and full of meaningless lyrics, extended guitar solos and tracks that go on far longer than they need to. At over an hour long, the album really drags in places and I found myself losing interest as it went on. While I can understand why it appealed to so many people commercially, there just aren’t many songs here that I’d personally want to come back to. Favourite tracks: “Rocket” was fun for spotting all the musical references and shout-outs, although it’s about five minutes too long. “Pour Some Sugar on Me” is also worth a listen Least favourite tracks: A lot of the album blends into fairly standard rock music that offers very little variety Album artwork: Lots going on here visually and very much fits the over-the-top style of the album
Hysteria might be the best hair metal song of all time. So good. F it I like hair metal. I am cringe but I am free
In a world of Iron Maiden, what's the point of this?
An incredibly disappointment. The prior three albums were all much better than this money grab. Pop.
I’m not normally a fan of Def Leppard so I never expected to like this album, it was ok though. Fav song is ‘Pour Some Sugar On Me’.
I just can’t stand Def Leppard
Hard one to evaluate! I feel like I aught to like this more than I do I'm a sucker for sampling stuff like the Apollo mission for songs, so "Rocket" had an appeal to me (I very much enjoy Public Service Broadcasting). It's a rare case where I think the drums stole the show for me I think the glam-ness of this puts me off. There's a character to songs like "Animal", "Love Bites", and the title track "Hysteria" that make them feel like stadium fillers, but they just feel very vacant to me? Really hard feeling to nail down. Harder stuff like "Run Riot" are a little more my taste by comparison There's some cool guitar, not so much cool bass, and I'm left overall feeling a little eh. I think this is a 2.5 for me, but if I round down I'd be putting it with some stuff I really did not like so I think it's a 3
Picture this. I've been playing guitar for a year or two, only listening to acdc and rock music. We move house and uncover my dad's old sound system with a pile of cds. I get the system set up, which is massive btw, and play the last cd that had been listened to. This album stats blasting starting with the lead guitar. Amazing. This album has everything I like about 80s glam rock/metal, which I like alot. The genre is filled with amazing and fun guitar playing, and this is no exception. Through discovering this album I was lead down a path that took me to some of the bands that I love and have heavily influenced my guitar playing and what music I like. This album and others like it also give me nostalgia for all the good parts of high during that time too, especially the music related parts which was most of my life back then. Overall, I like it.
I didnt really like it that much
Why is this album 1 hour long?
First song is called women lets gooooo
I don't believe I've ever listened to this album start-to-finish. The Mutt Lange-produced albums by Def Leppard are just hard to deny. You might want to hate it, but deep down, they're just good, maximalist hard rock. I think I prefer Pyromania to this album though.
⭐⭐⭐ Soundet är väldigt daterat och låtmaterialet är inte jättestarkt men det är något som gör att det ändå funkar. Kan nog tänka mig att lyssna på albumet igen även om det inte är det första jag väljer men några enskillda låtar är ändå ganska röjiga. Blir en 3a. Bäst är Rocket, Animal, Pour some suger on me
Is it 80s over produced hair band butt rock? Yes. Do I love it? Also, yes. So many absolute bangers and brings me back to simpler times.
A full hour of cheese. How has this made it into the top 1001?
SEVEN SINGLES‽ There were SEVEN singles from this album? Are you kidding me‽ And “Women” — an altogether terrible song (“Skin on skin/Let the love begin”) — was the SECOND single? Really? If there’s one thing the music industry does best, it’s pummel us with a band’s underserving follow-up to their big hit album (in this case, PYROMANIA). Whatever good will I may have felt towards some of these catchy songs, it’s all been beaten out of me by rock and 80s radio playing these songs to death. The entire thing is an overproduced, bloated mess. Every track is too long. This album’s more than 62 minutes long and could easily lose 20 minutes.
mmediate teenage nostalgia hit me when I saw the cover, but the actual front‑to‑back listen was a high‑low ride — some killer tracks, some I barely remembered — leaving me realizing my warm feelings were tied more to Pyromania than Hysteria, even though there are still some damn good songs here.
This is some good old bad music. Great move to keep the drummer who lost an arm, that’s awesome of them. That’s the only compliment I really have of this album, that they weren’t mean to their drummer. The songwriting is so dated, the songs are so boring, the lyrics suck, everything about this is bad.
Undeniably catchy, for sure, even if it's kinda repetitive. It's like walking through a museum of things that had tremendous value 40 years ago, but are aesthetically tedious outside its cultural context.
I went through a hair metal phase in college. I loved this then; now it's more nostalgic, but I still enjoyed it.
It was ok 80's rock. A bit too long, if they had cut it down by about half I'd probably have bumped it a star.
I recoiled a bit after seeing that this goes for 60 minutes, just a bit fed up with long albums recently. This album has lot of very much 80s-sounding guilty-pleasure anthemic rock songs that somehow all sound like could be contenders for singles; like my goodness gracious that's impressive for a 60 minute album. I was a fan of the A-side of the album, the B-side was a bit lacklustre compared to the first half. My expectations weren't high, because you know, 'glam metal' and all. Definitely not too shabby of an album, not sure if I would want to return to this album. This is an album I think best fits as 3.5/5.0, as I think does it's job well but still has some flaws - like it sounding very generic and predictable. So, yeah it for sure exceeded my expectations which helped the time go by faster. Highlight Song/s: "Women" and "Pour Some Sugar On Me"
This album is good from start to finish. "Gods of War" is an under-appreciated song on this album. I wore this cassette out when I purchased it back in 1987.
Very, very good. This album starts to lag near the end, and I think it could very easily be trimmed into a 5-star album. Honestly, I'm astonished that there were so many incredible songs I'm super familiar with after hearing what I had figured were all of Def Leppard's hits on Pyromania.
They can write a decent singalong-able hook, but there's basically nothing else to offer. Mostly boring stadium rock
This album is the line between confidence, arrogance, and delusion. Very 80s movie sound (aka overproduced but catchy). Makes me impulsively want to create chaos with a strategic use of smoky eyes and leather pants, rockstar girlfriend style.
I have known this album for some time. Animal is catchy. The Hysteria main riff is quite nice. The pop-y-ness is a bit much for me
Legendary rock
Gah, hair metal at it's near-worst, vaguely tolerable in small amounts ⭐⭐
It's incredibly cheesy 80s glam rock/hair metal about sex, sex, and more sex. But it's not...awful. It's just not particularly good either.
fun, but kind of default. unsurprising
I have heard tales of the grasp that Pour Some Sugar On Me had on music in my area when it came out. There was a show I used to watch as a teen. It would pit different music clips against each other every day, and the public would vote on their favourite. The next day, the reigning champion would go against a new clip. The show had to introduce a rule that after a certain win streak, clips would get added to a Hall Of Fame and removed from rotation. That's because Pour Some Sugar On Me kept winning and had a massive streak. But that's the thing. I'm over that song. It's been overplayed so much that just hearing the beginning makes me want to switch songs. I'll still sing along to it if it's playing and I'm doing something else, but I don't enjoy it as much as I used to. There aren't many songs like that for me. But we can't really say this isn't an album deserving of being on this list. 4/5 because Pour Some Sugar On Me is overplayed.
It was okay. Hadn’t heard these guys before. Probably not a go to, but worth the listen.
I like the playing, it's great. I don't like the singing and the songwriting. Too glammy for my tastes. I understand that this is an important record from the time, but for me it's an unfortunate 3/5
Fun. Not especially deep. I find it odd that they were such a huge band when you look at their album sales and yet my sense is they have a limited cross-generational legacy. After their heyday they seem to fade into obscurity except for those who remember it.
Like it 3/5