Hysteria

If the second half could keep up with the first half (or whittle a few out), it would be an all time classic album; a definite 5. Lot of it is cheesy especially with 2020s goggles, but it was a monster.

They really had a run of radio worthy songs. I wasn't a fan at the time, mostly because they had a long period of time with number one songs on MTV and my favorite band was often 2nd. Even though hair metal didn't really age all that well, they still wrote some really good songs.

Skoro svaka je banger, super glam album.

Bit glammy, but some gid riffage.

Old school rocker...still awesome

Pure nostalgia

Great Glam Rock. Liked Hysteria and Animal the most

Glam metal, rock, ochentero.

Pretty iconic. There was a lot of bangers on here. I liked them way more than I remember. When you look back on the best bands of any generation that you’ve been a part of. It’s easy to overlook some. These guys are among the best.

i’ve been asking for some rock, and I finally got it. I really like Def Leppard. I know that my dad thinks otherwise but I believe they’re just a classic rock group with good music.

So close to being a 5, but Side 2 is about 2 songs too long & songs are weaker except for Hysteria.

Great album, I’ll have to listen to it again

Grootste verrassing tot nu toe! Genres hard rock & metal, en een schreeuwerige cover met schedels, maar desondanks gitaarmuziek zoals het wat mij betreft bedoeld is, fijn om naar te luisteren, in synergie met zang en andere instrumenten. Zie mezelf hier graag naar terugkomen als bewijs dat niet alle hard rock en metal vreselijk is.

Good for what it was. Kids enjoyed it

I'm all about this album. The poppy songs work really well and you can tell they took a lot of care recording/mixing as everything sounds very clear. Armageddon It and Pour some Sugar on me are my highlights

This was a good classic rock album I enjoyed most of the songs.

Classic rock album with some bangers on it and some misses. Overall enjoyable. 4/5

Mint 80s Hair Band. Guitars harder than pop, but not as heavy as metal. Knew many of the songs (this album could substitute for their Greatest Hits) but even the songs I didn’t know felt familiar. This represents my soundtrack of the late 80s. Definitely a keeper. I’ll give it the No-Skip stamp. Mid 4

3.6/5 Another one that rounds generously. This was better than I expected though. Best track: Pour Some Sugar On Me

Denk dat dit het eerste album is wat ik nog niet kende wat me echt heeft weggeblazen, geweldige gitaar rifs en echt een top vocal

It’s a lot. It’s great. It’s a touch dated. It’s a bit of everything 80’s.

Great classic rock!

Favourite songs: Pour Some Sugar on Me, Animal, Hysteria, Rocket, Run Riot Least favourite songs: Gods of War 4/5

J'aime le glam ? 💅

Staple of rock, solid album 7.5/10

Quintessential rock album. So many great hits from this album. However, thats all that it feels like. It tends to drag on for too long and be quite cheesy at times.

Quite enjoyed this one

Surprisingly good. At times Van Halen, at times the Police, there's some great catchy yet inventive tuneage here

Now I didn't grow up in the 80s, but I think Def Leppard is my favorite 80s rock band. It's fun, but rocks, great drums, vocals, guitar solos. What more could you want. And man, this album has so many singles on it. Kept being surprised how many I knew.

Great to hear from Def Leppard again.

As a teen in the early 80s, I pretty much listened to new wave and prog rock almost exclusively. Of course, if you liked new wave, then de facto you hated metal and standard hard rock, so Def Leppard was a band I avoided. Over the years I expanded my tastes to listen to and enjoy bands I would have never considered back then (metal bands like Metallica, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and AOR bands like Survivor and Loverboy), but I always resisted giving Def Leppard a chance. After listening to this album, I am wondering why I resisted. This was a good album overall - plenty of harmony vocals (which is always a plus for me), interesting melodies and guitar effects. I am now intrigued to explore the rest of their discography. I feel like the stubborn protagonist in Green Eggs and Ham - "I do like Def Leppard, Sam I Am!" One knock against the album - it runs a bit long with a few fillers. Best songs - Rocket, Love Bites, Women, Hysteria

The essence of the phrase "old but gold."

Solid addition with plenty of jams. A little formulaic in sound and production but you can’t deny the goodness.

A great album for a not such good day. Wish I’d had the opportunity to listen again. 4*

Solid.

Buen disco de rock ochentero destacando guitarras y batería. Muy reconocibles por el estilo y voz. Alguna canción ha perdurado en el tiempo. Me hubiese gustado con algo más de variedad en los tiempos

Really close to being a Mother F-ing Classic! Standouts: Animal, Love Bites, Pour Some Sugar on Me, Armageddon It, Hysteria, Women, Rocket. Others: Gods of War, Don't Shoot Shotgun, Excitable, Love and Affection 4.5/5

Continuing the glam metal from the previous album Pyromania. With album names like Pyromania and Hysteria I would expect something heavier. It's very good within the genre however I prefer other metal genres. Def Leppard never really stuck with me. It's the same with Motley Crue. It's like they're trying to hard to be heavy when in reality it's the typical 80s pop hair metal. Bon Jovi on the other hand is quite enjoyable. Maybe he's just embracing the glam better? Who knows. Well this wasn't a bad album at all. Just not something that would be my first pick to listen to.

Quality.

Listened Before? Y Oh boy have I ever listened before. This was one of the most played albums of my pre-teen years and it still holds up. Solid melodies and guitars, and great singing. Love it. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Pour Some Sugar on Me, Armageddon It

A pop album masquerading as hard rock / soft metal, but in a great way. Mutt Lange production is insanely catchy.

Great album of my youth. Many strong songs on this.

Okay so I'm young enough for this to be nerdy. This album takes me back to middle school. In the Era of Panic! At the Disco and Eminem, my friends favorite artist was Def Leppard. Listened to this stuff constantly around him, and I think the personal connection gets it from a 3 to a 4 for me. RIP Daniel

Loved this album back in the day. Anthem rock at its best. "Love Bites" and "Armageddon It" are favorites. Maybe a bit over processed and gimmicky but it was all good fun.

4.0

Can't help loving this one, I have since it came out.

Noticeably worse than Pyromania. Pour Some Sugar On Me, being the ungodly banger that it is, just about pushes this one to 4 stars. Just. Barely.

This sounds like every other 80s pop metal band but it's approximately 25% more fun.

Grew up listening to the album. Its one of the few albums I've probably heard from start to finish most frequently throughout my life. Love Def Leppard.

Forgot how much I used to listen to this album. Hit after hit. Deserves a 4

Rock it!

This one took me onto a mode of cleaning hysteria. Fun ride for the most part!

The blurb from the book made me feel like this was kind of a 'come back' effort from Def Leppard following many struggles and setbacks. I think they totally nailed this. It sounds good and feels good and really captures the best of what this era offered. A pretty great record overall.

This album feels legit. Like a dude with a mullet, handlebars, denim sleeveless jacket and def Leppard t-shirt. This fuckin guy drives an I-roc z28 t-top, crushes beers and helps old ladies cross the street. Chicks love him and guys wanna be his bro. Fuck Mötley Crüe and Poison, those dicks can’t roll. Def Leppard sets the bar.

7.5/10 nse pq nunca habia escuchado un album de estos wones pero les tenia 0 fe. pense q iba a ser dadrock del malo/ la misma guea d siempre y es dadrock pero weno. rocket y hysteria son las q mas me gustaron pero igual hay caleta de canciones q son medias olvidables pami.

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Armageddon it, Pour sone sugar on me, Animal

If you think of 80s music, this is the sound!

80’s pop metal, polished to a mirror shine. I think I have a copy of this, gifted to me as a part of my neighbour’s record collection. Kinda long album for a 1xLP. It’s a solid album, and I’m enjoying it more than expected. Concentration of hits is strong here - if I didn’t know better I’d have guessed this was a greatest hits compilation just based on the sheer number of songs I’ve heard on the radio before. Not every song is a keeper here though - Excitable seems like b-side territory. Standouts: Women, Rocket, Animal, Run Riot. 3.5

'80s metal! My genre! Def Leppard is such a departure in tone from other bands in the genre cuz of the slower beat, no doubt in part to Rick Allen's missing arm. This album is full of so many bangers I can't really pick any that stand out. This and Pyromania are quintessential albums of the genre by this band.

Very poppy, but certainly likable

I'm biased but I love 80s music. Just absolutely over the top but still singalongable to this day.

VIBING. yes. This production is fabulous. POUR SOME SUUUGAR ON MEEEH. Why am i enjoying music made before my bedtime who am i Only real negative criticism so far is that it starts to lose me in the second half, its unbelievably consistent and thats amazing but i really wish it elaborated a little more, broke the boundaries of an already great album to make it even better. But alas, this album really is fantastic. The verdict: I understand.

Album is class. Would revisit! Not completely my cup of Tea, but songs are timeless :) highlights: love bites, armageddon it

This is a pretty legendary album. A lot of these songs are still played at sporting events etc. Not really my mainline music, but still clearly a part of my childhood.

Got to hand it to the drummer he never gave up when life gave them lemons they made some pretty sweet lemonade, I can see the teased blonde hair and unfathomed tight trouser bulges from here, would absolutely give a solid thumb up . Favourite tracks Rocket, Pour some sugar on me, Armageddon It

3/4 of a drummer but still able to produce some pretty big songs

This wasn't the Def Leppard album I might have preferred to hear today (that would be Pyromania), but I've got to give it them. This is really excellent. It's sharper and more polished than anything the band had done before. It's full of riffs, hooks and big, anthemic choruses. Sounds freaking great coming through a pair of headphones, or blasting out of your car speakers. It's a high water mark for 80s hard rock and just a lot of fun to listen to. Fave Songs: Hysteria, Animal, Love Bites, Rocket, Armageddon It, Women, Pour Some Sugar on Me

One of my very first cassette tapes.

It does the hair metal thing at the highest possible level musically. While not as catchy at every corner as some of the genres other singles the album as a whole is solidly made and so well produced it stands as a shining example.

yep

It was a DAMN HOT night in New Orleans the night I got to see Journey and Def Leppard play the Superdome with D---, the cosmopolitan bartender from the FQ. He had scored tix because a girl and her ex-supermodel girlfriend had come into the bar and said they needed us to go with them-- because the one was *dating* one of the members of Def Leppard and the other just went through the big D. So there we were, Row 1 and Center for two bands I'd heard a million times. They played most of these songs. And we had a ton of fun. So now when I hear it, I revisit that absolutely wild and beautiful night that went back to the hotel with the band and then all the hot bars of the Quarter until the morning birds were singing. And those are just the parts we can talk about now. I'm worried I might've signed a late night NDA for the rest. Great band if you wanna party. And yes, I do have the photos to prove it!!!!! Ok this album... I mean awesome 80's right? It's the trash hot party dumpster fire anthems that fucking MADE the 80's. We're on a ski trip and slipping a flask of Jack onto the pow pow. We're outside the school dance and we're smoking clove cigarettes. We're sneaking out late at night to meet our girlfriends. It's the hot making out music from our oldest wildest nights that's now wired into the silicon of the hard drive whether it was any good or not. It's Friday at chapel and we're looking at the girls in their plaid kilts. It's Saturday and we're under the train bridge drinking Nattie Lights and breaking bottles... Thanks for all the nights that we kept on the DL (Def Leppard).

Funny enough, Pour Some Sugar On Me is the song I disliked the most. Regardless, this is super accessible glam metal and I can't really fault it too much.

I remember when my cousin gave me the Adrenalize when I was 13. It was a sonic experience: the harmonies and voices were delightful. However, I left Def Leppard in the high school vault. Listening to these songs brought good feelings. It is a solid album. It showcases the true essence of the band. Loved it!

Typical 80's rock sounds, did put me back onto Billy Idol and Motley Crue

Never really gave Def Leppard a chance. Thought it was lame, but that was actually a pretty good album

Just as inappropriate and sly-eyed as the day it was released, this is a great jam from some true bad boys of rock and roll.

pour some sugar on me is iconic

Great rock classics, some unexpected hits on this. Overall an entertaining album.

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Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: I loved it, it’s just everything you could want from your typical ‘dad rock’ easy listening and great riffs and tremendous vocals Favourite song: Track 4 - Love Bites

Some real bangers on here, and the rest are still good.

Am I crazy?? I loved this. Absolutely loved it. All I could think was, am I supposed to not like this or something? Because on paper, I shouldn’t love it as much as I do. Plenty of the choruses and grungy “yeah”’s are so corny, the writing is so over-the-top pop anthemic, the guitar solos gratuitous. It’s like Thriller meets AC/DC meets We Will Rock You meets basement-pinball-tournament metal (complete with some early 8-bit pinball-sounding Fairlight samples). I should not like this! But I LOVED it. Something about it just works, in this super funny way where all these disparate pieces come together to form a whole. I think a lot of it is the genius of the songwriting. All of Def Leppard’s hooks are really four hooks crammed next to each other, with some death-defying way of getting from hook A to B to C to D. Almost atonal in its approach! Keeps you guessing. The songwriting is so gratuitous, but the skrelt-y metal vocals and vibrato guitar solos make things feel so silly and over-the-top that it feels theatrical. “Metal on ice.” The guitar work on some of the tracks is just unreal, like watching a high wire act. If there was only a third act with an ear break, maybe more downtempo, more complexity… if only! It would be an easy 5. As it is, an hour of just single after single tires you out. And it’s an hour! Too long. If it was, say, everything up to and including Gods of War, minus some of the more conventional AC/DC rips, I would be pretty much dead set on this. But it’s so close to perfect! I’m a convert and you’ll have to fight me. 4 stars!

Solid classic rock!

Solid 80s up beat pop rock

Classic album. I’ve already listened to this hundreds of times. Saw them on the tour supporting this album back in the late 1980s. My favorite song is Hysteria my least listened to song would be excitable or run riot. While all songs “fit” this album, those two are my least favorite. Great album that is a super quick listen because it is easy on the ears.

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80/100: This is a great album, it's always a blast listening to it; however, every time I listen to Def Leppard, I always come back to the same complaint. Why the hell is Def Leppard so goddamn horny. I suppose this was a trend amongst many 80's rock bands, but it really begs the question: why was it cool to sing about being desperately horny? Don't get me wrong, "Love Bites" and "Pour Some Sugar On Me" are both absolutely fantastic songs. The guitar riff during tghe chorus of "Love Bites" is one of my favorite riffs of all time. But, my god, both songs can basically be stripped down to "I'm horny I wanna fuck you so bad it'll feel so good" with really cool guitar riffs and drum fills in the background. It just feels awkward to listen to at times. I'm thankful music has moved away from this weird obsession with describing love through the lens of sexual intimacy, because, for me at least, it's incredibly off-putting. With that being said, this is still, musically, a very well put together album chock full of hits.

Rough as usual but energetic

Sure it's cliché, corny and dated... but goddamn it still rocks! 🤘

Never been a Def Leopard fan but everyone around me seems to have been. Never owned the shirt or a jean jacket with the back patch of the album cover...but I will be damned if I don't know pretty much every song on this album and that says something...

I have to say I'm unironically a Def Leppard fan now. This album wasn't as good as Pyromania, I thought it was a little too long, and honestly, "pour some sugar on me" felt like an odd duck in the middle of the album. Overall though, I really appreciate what they're going for. They were the top of their genre.

The hits (of which there are many) are fine, but the b-sides are what make this album worth listening to. Not a masterpiece album, but a great product of its time.

I really liked this album, it reminded me of my mom and experiences of listening to Pour Some Sugar on Me on the radio.

“And I want, and I need, and I list, animal” the play with words and how they sound is amazing. Love the fills and the call & response. The production elements for this album are top notch.

Well. I wasn’t thrilled when this popped up in the list, but god damnit, there are TONS of bangers on this bad boy

Solid rockin' fun!

This was not my jam when it was originally released. In the right mood, I could have some fun with it, but didn't love much of Def Leppard. Now, I find it much more fun...probably the nostalgia helping bump it up to the next level for me.

Minder 13 in een dozijn dan ik dacht, goed album.

Pretty good classics

Glam metal, rock, ochentero.

I had forgotten how much of this album I knew and how much of a triumph it was for it to come out. The album really rocks, and it isn't until you get to the second side do you get a clunker or two. I only have the album before it ("Pyromania") but this was a great follow-up. The electronic drumwork was a real technological breakthrough. Musicianship was great. I remember not being a fan of the vocals as much, there was a bit of the way Joe Elliott was singing on some of the songs bothered me, and I can't say what it was. But now I seem to be over it. Good stuff.

This is one of the first rock albums I remember as a kid, or other kids talking about - the full album, not just a song or two. I think I was 9 years old. For the next few years all air band skits included at least one group of kids doing Pour Some Sugar on Me or Rocket or Armageddon It, with everyone wanting to be the one armed drummer. Weird how music gets around and grows into something big. I will always prefer the more complicated style of 90's grunge and alternative to the try to please everybody style of 80's hair metal, but this was one of the finest versions of 80's drugs, sex, and rock and roll (and bubblegum). Only now do I know how much studio production was used to generate the sound; otherwise, I know it as an album full of massive hits. Sell outs or not, it is 7 songs before reaching a song that is just so-so. The first half is an awesome ride. Too bad they didn't just throw in Hysteria and call it a day as a 7-track album, because the second half is a bit soft. I mean, it rolls right along with the vibe, so fits nicely if you're listening cover to cover. But even I have to admit it's a lot of cheese and I don't know if you'd really care about most of the second half songs if you heard them one-off. I wanna give it a 5 because it's such a fun, rocking album but it gets downgraded to just under 4.5 for the cheese.

Just a good rock album, great guitar and vocals

Yeah, cool. Classic brit rock. The hairdos - classic. The sound - classic. The one-armed drummer - amazing. Some crackin' tunes in here. Stand out tracks: Pour Some Sugar On It, Love Bites, Hysteria.

80's hair metal at it's finest. Clean layering gives it a pop, glam feel. Standouts "Pour Some Sugar On Me", "Animal", "Women".

Glam rock-metal. Varios megahits. Un 4.

Not usually my thing but I looked quite a few songs on this album, especially "Love Bites" and "Armageddon it". Some parts of the album weren't for me personally, but I can recognise the appeal. Solid album

Lots of B-list bangers on this one Stadium rock is fun; love how big the sound is They figured out how to make the synth and guitar play nice with each other All the singles have a hook that slaps Vocal harmonies are so catchy Animal took 3 years to write; Pour Some Sugar on Me took 2 weeks Didn't Rick Allen have two arms on their last album?

Really enjoyed this album and I don’t really listen to rock. Really liked women, gods of war and hysteria

The front half of this album is incredible. Rocket - Animal - love bites -sugar is a ridiculous run of songs. 2nd half of the album is good but doesnt come close to the 1st half. How do they only have 6 million listeners on spotify??? GAS 8/10

Fun cock rock

Pours some suga on myself

All around fun album

The drummer from Def Leppard only has one arm. But, this album is an asskicking jam from start to finish

"Hysteria" is 100% rock anthems and power ballads and that's alright by me. It's a total radio-metal cheesefest and I don't even care. The cheese factor is mitigated by a saw-blade edge that's not present on earlier DL albums. That edge is led by Joe Elliot's vocals. He really hit his peak on Hysteria. The rest of the band follows suit and puts just a little more oomph into their work leading to a fist-pumping performance that almost makes you forget that the lyrics to EVERY SONG are utterly inane. I mean really stupid stuff. But here's the thing: it doesn't matter. It never did matter. Joe Elliot and his boys knew it didn't matter when they wrote the songs. All that mattered was that people would get amped when the songs came on the radio. So that's what they wrote: radio-metal rock anthems and innuendo-laden power ballads. And I don't even care. It's a blast.

Bitchin'. 4.5 stars

This was the first album I ever bought. Eight years old, WHSmith in Barnstaple. It terrified me (I was a sensitive kid). I rediscovered it about 12 years ago and appreciated it more. It's anthemic stadium rock delivered so slickly that you don't realise how moronic the whole endeavour is.

Big hair, big riffs, poppy choruses. According to Wikipedia this album upset Def Leppard purists which brings me joy and one extra star

Enjoyed it!

80s metal in a perfectly distilled package. I saw this tour, it was as glitzy and flashy and hairy as you can imagine. But this album absolutely rocks. Even manages to pull off the metal ballad, not always a sure thing at all.

Really good, but perhaps mostly nostalgia.

Good but not great.

As someone who likes rock, hard rock, and pop rock, this album was very easy to listen to, being a sort of combination of all three. None of the tracks really stood out (except for maybe "Pour Some Sugar On Me"), but everything sounded great. I can't see anyone disliking this music unless any of the above genres already don't appeal to them.

Great tunes and guitars.

One of my favorite Def Leppard albums. I don't love every song but there are so many anthems on this album. Animal, Love Bites, Pour Some Sugar, Armageddon It, Don't Shoot Shotgun. This may have been the album that made me a fan of them. Classic stadium rock of the 80's that you don't see much anymore.

A bona fide classic rock classic! The greatest band named after a big cat with hearing problems to feature a one-armed drummer. I know and love a lot of their classic hits, but not sure if I've truly listened to an album before. I really enjoyed this one, had a few hits I knew and plenty of songs new to me that I enjoyed as well. Despite obviously being a hard rock/'80s hair metal type band, they've got some excellent melodies on a lot of these deeper cuts. I wouldn't mind more from these guys, this one bangs. Favorite tracks: Pour Some Sugar on Me, Rocket, Animal, Armageddon It, Run Riot. Album art: Really fantastic cover, this one is a classic for me. Love anything retrofuturistic like this, and the colors really pop. 4.5/5

Мне нравится хард-рок. Музыка 80-ых. Сочетание классное, не ожидал :)

Nice to listen to at work - 80’s rock 👍🏻

I used to lump hair metal in with nu metal and pop punk for lame mainstream/pop styles of rock that I had no use for. And while there have been exceptions for all three, I’ve gravitated more towards glam metal towards the other two. There’s no pretension in most of these bands, just good times and solid hooks. That said, it took a while for me to get into Hysteria the album. I much preferred the Lep’s harder rocking earlier stuff, and while I still do, I dig most of this now. This is 80’s production excess at its highest caliber, and the levels Mutt Lange went to is insane. The title track is especially a favorite, probably their best song. I feel like Billy Corgan has spent his entire career trying to write a melody like this, but hasn’t come close. B

not my gender but a good album

Muy bueno

I really loved this album. Lots of nostalgia from grade school and even though I have heard Pour some sugar on me a million times I still think its a great 80s rock song. Animal is also a great track.

80s Poodle-hair rock, but at the better end of the spectrum. Marvellous.

80s classic

Back in the day I invented a subgenre for Def Leppard and Van Halen: they were walkman metal. I sensed that, having incorporated synths, they sounded great on tape and with headphones on. But so does Run DMC's Raising Hell. To this day I prefer listening to these albums on tape.  Ok, it's all too cheesy, but then again, that's the point and you know what you are in for. 

Bop after bop. This album fucks. This album is your dad. Say hi to your mother for me.

Like the other Def Leppard album I got on this list, I'm honestly surprised by how good this is. It's not groundbreaking or anything, but it is an incredibly well-produced album with a lot of good songs. I never thought of Def Leppard as a hit factory, but just the number of songs that charted on this album alone is surprising, and Pyromania is similar. It's also wild that this album came out after their drummer lost his goddamned arm. Like, drummers famously use their arms quite frequently, and generally they prefer to have two of them. The drumming sounds great too, especially on Pour Some Sugar On Me. 4/5 Another surprisingly good album from Def Leppard

Really like the Def Leppard sound. This is my favorite album of theirs. Every song sounds like a single. 3.5/5

Origunal, quite hard, bit psychadelic

I can't believe how much I enjoyed this, firmly going on the guilty pleasure list.

Classic Rock royalty, exactly what you'd expect out of a rock album from the 80s

Actually quite enjoyed this one. Was a very accessible style of rock and would like to give it another listen

This was a tough one to rate. I really like a lot of the songs on this album, but there are others which just are very dull and a skip. I think overall the great songs overpower the filler tracks though. You have to be in the mood for this type of cheesy rock, if you are you'll be in for a ride.

listened to it all, didnt dislike any of it. Was in background tho lmao

pretty good, I’m a sucker for 80s rock 8/10

Great albums with a lot of awesome classics.

Bitchin'. I really dig it

-I like all the rock references in "Rocket" -"Run Riot," which had great drum-heavy parts, stood out -Obvioualy I've heard "Pour Some Sugar On Me" -The Wikipedia said every song was written as a potential single, and I can definitely hear that. Every song is very anthemic and independent. A solid collection of fun ahir metal tracks

7.5

Cheesy but fun!

4.5/5 nice one! Who would have thought!

This is a classic 80s rock album. I heard this a lot growing up through older family members loving it. Objectively, probably not a 5 star album, but all tracks are really really good and some catchy radio friendly tunes in there for good measure.

Genre not my cup of tea but easily listenable

Great stuff! I hadn't really given this band the time of day besides "Pour some sugar on me" the single but I enjoyed this. I don't know about listening to it all the time, it might be past it's time but it's nice to spend some time with it.

It was pretty fun, very much of its time.

Fantastic! Loved it

Quintessential 80s stadium rock. This album is full of sing-along classics and they get an extra star because the drummer has one arm

A pretty great album absolutely packed full of hits. Six recognized songs

I liked this more than expected. Great production. The title track is quite pleasant. One of the tracks had *all* of the production tricks and was a bit much.

Good stuff! I only listened to the first few though

Everything here works, even the vocal which should annoy me but doesn’t.

Sleazy and packed full of iconic riffs.

Not for me

It might be samey. The parts of the songs might not flow super well between each other at times. It is certainly so dated that I feel like my hair is starting to tease itself up in true 80's fashion. But my god if it ain't some of the most fun music out there.

Un bon album rock plein de clasiques. 4.5

I've associated Def Leppard with being stripper music for a while, and kind of assumed it was all just middle of the road AOR. However, I properly enjoyed this album. It's a but dated and probably pretty sexist, but the tracks are all decent and well written. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

Fun, but all the songs are too long

Good

classic kick ass rock and roll. a guilty pleasure!

Legendary album. Kind of holds up. Lots of songs with three words.

Sehr gutes Hard Rock Album

classic, but still 80s rock

An excellent example of 80s hair metal! Yes, it is cheesy and repetitive, but is it fun and holds a real sense of nostalgia for me, being an 80s baby.

Already had this album added to my library. Such a classic! So many greats songs, my favorite being the cliché “Pour Some Sugar on Me”. Something about it that isn’t necessarily a 5, but still very solid!

Lived it in late 80s as a child, still do now although I haven't listened to this in about 25 years!

This is some good rock, Pour Some Sugar on Me? Banger, if not a little strange to play in public but a good song.

This was actually great! Really good fun.

Nice album, full of energy and fun songs. Feels like something that should be enjoyed live.

leuke, opgewerkte rock.

Dit leunt dichter aan bij Pop dan bij Hardrock. Op een festivalweide zou ik hier enorm van genieten. Op album komt het net wat minder over

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This was pretty good. Whole album is a fun listen.

The drummer from Def leopard only has one arm. But. I saw them at the Wolverhampton civic hall and they rocked hard. Were supported by the darkness too. This album is too slick and not hard rocking enough for 5*.

good fun

heavy de los 80

En el seu moment recordo que sonava com cap altra cosa. Posar-se 'Rocket', 'Animal', 'Women', 'Love Bites'... era espectacular, un viatge a un terreny desconegut però increïble. Després de tants anys, em continua semblant igual d'original. Ja no té el mateix efecte, però continua sent una de les obres mestres del rock dels 80. No és perfecte perquè la segona cara perd una mica de força, però tot i així.... déu n'hi dó

good album

Damn good

Very nice riffs

one extra star for nostalgia

A favourite from my childhood - great album

Man there are more hits on this album than I realized. Knew the songs but not the names. These were crazy hits at the time are are still essential party jams.

Loved it

amazing, I thoroughly enjoyed the 80s sound of this, really cool :D

cool

Rockkk

En klassiker med många sönderspelade spår. En av lätt, effektiv lyrik och svängiga riffs.

Another rock album that hits the perfect spot (not too heavy, not too light). It's an hour long album with 5 mega hits and most of the other songs are almost equally good just not on the same level of popularity. There was like 1 song which I was meh about and that's impressive on an hour long album.

Really enjoyed this one, for all its cheesy hooks, big choruses, guitar riffs. Solid album in this genre.

Rocks

Classic 70s/80s (harder) rock band.

Really solid classic rock

Recognize some of these songs. Great listen if in the mood for heavy metal.

Undeniably fun to listen to

Side one of this album is damn near untouchable. If they moved the title track to after "Gods of War" and then ended the album, it's a contender for 5 stars. But it's just too long, with few of the later songs not standing out too much. Overall though, very good.

Hyvä levy ja kuunteli mielellään alusta loppuun. Näitä on tullut aikoinaan pyöriteltyä veljen LP-soittimella.

If I had the power to delete one song from the world's consciousness and ensure it had never been made, Pour Some Sugar On Me would be on the shortlist. So, I entered this one with some trepidation. There are certainly some songs where you have to turn your brain off in order to enjoy it; "Don't Shoot Shot Gun" is an easy target, but see also Armageddon It. The lyrics are so inane they almost ruin an incredible sounding song. That's the thing, though - outside of the sugar song, it sounds amazing. A great album for background listening. I'm glad that this project forced me to take another look at this one. Best track: Gods of War

Oddly up my alley

pretty great hard rock album,

Classic

I thought I'd hate this much more, it's solid hair metal

вообще никогда не понимал весь этот волосатый рок 80х, до сих пор не понимаю - 3, чисто ибо тут я хотя бы 3-4 песни знаю

Somehow lacking in hits, but it gets extra points for being an irreverent, unironic celebration of maximalist, overproduced rock ... with the most wall-of-sound angelic background choir vocals you can imagine.

At first this was a solid 2, but then Love Bites got my karaoke heart beating, and I noticed I was singing along loudly here in my home office (luckily). So, it's a 3.

Not my kind of music, but some undeniably great music.

This is an acceptable hair metal album. It's got quite a few hits but nothing that really resonates with me personally. If nothing else, I've always enjoyed Def Leppard's dope album covers. They really encapsulate the spirit of rock & roll/metal at the time and this one is no exception. Pure badass-ery. Favorite track: Love Bites

Prefer earlier Def Leppard but you can’t deny the hit power of this record, 7 singles! It’s a little long at over an hour in run time. Hate “Armageddon It” but love the title track

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".

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.

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.

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.

Ok, vähä filleriä omaan makuun

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.

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.

Solid album, classic rock.

Pretty cool. Standout tracks: Animal, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Excitable

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.

2.75

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!

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.

It's fine

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.

Good

Actually enjoyable. I'm really surprised that some of these could go into my favorite songs playlist.

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.

да нормас

Is it great? Sometimes. Great all the way through? Maybe not. Do I love it? Absolutely.

Not bad at all

It's hard to imagine that there was a time when this music was everywhere.

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.

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 🔥

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"

1023 - "Here's your juice box and orange slice. Thanks for coming."

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

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)

Few bangers, the rest sounds the exact same.

Solider Hardrock

Quintessential 80s glam

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.

3.5

Another one that is just meh. Not awful, not especially enjoyable

3/5

Pour Some Sugar On Me is for sure in the running for Most Overplayed Songs Ever. Other than that this is fine.

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

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.

Eh Pour Some Sugar on Me is good but the rest is meh

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"?

Inoffensive dad rock

pretty good hair metal 💥animal 💥pour some sugar on me 💥hysteria

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.

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'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?

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 ⭐️

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.

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

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)

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

unas si me gustaron, pero algunas medio meh

A strategy perfectly executed - make something as bland AF and let the American market lap it up. a solid 2.5 stars.

his has some bangers on there but overall not really my thing

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.

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

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.

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,

Rockin

Pretty decent hair rock/metal. The hits are the hits.