Hysteria

If you were to ask AI to come up with a prototypical 80s stadium rock album, it would probably throw something like this back at you. Catchy hooks, gang vocals, and lyrics that walk the line between misogynistic and just plain silly (“Armageddon it? Yes, I’m a-getting it.”). Full disclosure, I owned this album back in the day and thought it was pretty cool. Listening to it now, I waver between an amused nostalgia and an irritation that a lot of the albums I left this for are not on this list.

Maybe I’m rounding up, but I’ve gotten used to turning up the knob with every song. Really interesting filler samples made this album memorable.

The good: by far the best one-armed drumming performance I've ever listened to. I always felt he should have a prosthetic arm with a permanently twirling drum stick. I kinda like Love Bites. The bad: a lot of the lyrics are aggressively bad. It makes me remember how very much EVERYWHERE this album was for years when I was in high school. It seemed to linger far, far too long for the quality of the music. The rest: Mediocre arena rock, but it's broadly bland enough to appeal to lots of folks who don't like to think about their music all that much. Or listen too closely. Now that I think of it, perhaps this set the template for modern Country! Pyromania is a MUCH better DL album.

I have a huge soft spot for 80s hair bands and an enormous amount of respect for the drummer continuing to deliver with just one arm. Def Leppard falls just short of 5 stars for me even with their biggest hits and it seems like most of those were on this album. I totally rocked out in my car, though.

fine, wasn't really paying attention

This record is just fun music. The lyrics aren’t the best, the music isn’t overly innovative, but it’s just a fun listen. I had to tell myself not to take this one too seriously, and I enjoyed the listen. 3.75/5.

The eighties were a difficult time for some artists. I like rock, it's my favorite genre, but this album just doesn't work for me.

Never expected to listen to a Def Leppard album. Agreed, the guitar tone is beautiful. So, better than I expected.

I unironically love the guitar tone on this album. There is something about the palm-muted staccato runs, wide vibrato on bends and whammy-bar dive-bombs that just scratches an itch nothing else can. I have heard Pour Some Sugar On Me too many times to be able to enjoy it anymore, but the rest of the album was pretty fun to listen to in the background. Track picks for me are Women, Hysteria, and Gods Of War.

I didn't expect to like this album and indeed I do not. A full hour of this was way too long for me. It's basic, incredibly cheesy, and the lyrics are not that interesting or creative. There's so much dumb, obvious innuendo. I have heard Pour Some Sugar On Me many times and have never enjoyed it. I actually don't mind other similar rock bands like AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, etc. Maybe I'm just nostalgic for the bands I listened to as a kid and Def Leppard wasn't one of them? Though I'd say there's definitely something about their sound that I just don't like. The album could be worse so I will give it a 4/10.

“Don’t you just feel like you’re at a social and drunk” - Kerri This album was Def Leppard’s bridge into more of the pop genre as their 3rd album. Inspired by Thriller they were wanted to make a bunch of pop hits. I just assumed this was what all Def Leppard sounded like because it’s heavy play time at socials, etc. So I guess I only know the mainstream version of Def Leppard.

I thought this album was decent. It had some good songs on it. But a lot felt really similar and a lot of them felt pretty poppy to me

This sounded like I just listened to power 97 for an hour and 2 minutes. But with that being said it did make me want to grab a leather jacket, some hairspray, and some ripped jeans and a lighter and wave it around in the air (the lighter not the jeans). This was 80s rock to its core, Tres Clasique, either love it or hate it. I sit somewhere in the middle. Due to some of the songs like Pour some sugar on it or whatever, just kinda annoying. I guess its still undeniably a classic song, just overplayed to shit within media, so its kinda ruined for me. Can almost hear the New York Dolls (#Throwback) a bit within their sound, maybe Def got hit with some trickle down effect of their music, or perhaps even some direct inspo. Love Bites was 100% my favorite, so good! The buildup and then the payoff, like WHAM BHAM thank you MAM. I DONT WANT TO TOUCH YOU TOO MUCH BABBBEYYY, just makes me want to belt out to the heavens, like cmonnnn. Also their drummer has one arm?!?! That deserves some bonus points. 7/10

I see that Wikipedia notes ominously that this hour-plus monster is the band's longest studio album... to date. This is the kind of thing that Bill and Ted probably like. It's also not unlike Spinal Tap. I These songs sound so similar that I'm reminded of Angus Young of AC/DC as well - "I'm sick to death of people saying how we've made eleven albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we've put out twelve albums that sound exactly the same." I've just looked it up, and this came out 3 years AFTER This Is Spinal Tap! How did Def Leppard release this with a straight face? Maybe the answer is that they didn't, at least I hope not. It's still pretty likable, despite how incredibly uncool it is. It's some real dad rock, but also quite fun and well-intentioned, and a bit so-bad-it's-good.

There was a brief time in my life when I would tell people that my least favorite genre was classic rock. I've only recently come to the realization that "classic rock" isn't actually a genre, but more of an umbrella term used by radio stations to signal that they primarily play rock & roll from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. That said, I actually have enjoyed my fair share of classic rock albums from bands like Pink Floyd, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Alice Cooper (partially thanks to the Generator), but Def Leppard may very well be the perfect representation of what I previously imagined the "genre" to be. In other words, I didn’t particularly enjoy Hysteria. The lyrics on the album haven’t aged well and its music has aged even worse – it’s very much a product of its time and features many of the elements that This Is Spinal Tap mocked three years earlier. However, the biggest issue I have with Hysteria isn’t that it sounds dated – it’s that the songs just aren’t that compelling or memorable. Coming off of Supergrass’ debut album yesterday, this one just sounds so slow and bland by comparison. Even the album’s biggest hit ("Pour Some Sugar on Me") honestly didn’t do much for me. I don’t want to be all negative here, though – after all, two stars isn’t the worst rating I could have given Hysteria. "Women" was a pretty decent opening track and I enjoyed the "Gods of War" foreshadowing that was cleverly hidden in "Rocket." "Gods of War" might be the only track on the album attempting to say something (even if it’s a bit surface level), so I can appreciate that Def Leppard put in some effort to build up to it! All in all, Hysteria wasn’t really my thing and I’m doubtful there will be many glam metal Book Albums I end up rating highly (although Slippery When Wet is likely a shoo-in), but at least now I know which type of “classic rock” I can probably stay away from. We’ll see if Pyromania fares any better! Highlights: Women, Rocket, Gods of War

Probably more like a 2 but it annoyed the hell out of me so like

Absolutely smashing album. Every song is a gem.

Def Leppard no ápice criativo. Álbum que virou clássico. Pula Unicrom.

Well this was a fun listen. Familiar with Hysteria and a lot of the songs on it. Side A is truly remarkable and just an 80s hair metal masterpiece, side B is ok and has Hysteria on it. Had the makings of a 5 star album but might have just peaked too early

Nei som eg koste meg med detta

I always thought Def Leppard was way more metal than this, didn’t know they were this soft glam rock group. This works great at an 80s themed party, but not really anything I’d put on for serious listening. ’Pour some sugar on me’ is something everyone has heard, and has a catchy chorus, no doubt. ’Hysteria’ was an unexpectedly good rock ballad as well, but in the end it’s just not my jam so hard to judge entirely. Strong 3 for what it is feels reasonable?

Man, this felt so formulaic—over-polished, overproduced, and very repetitive. The lyrics are questionable (maybe not metal’s strong suit), with all the chanting, etc. It also felt quite samey. I read somewhere that this album produced a lot of singles, which doesn’t surprise me, but all the singles sound the same. I put this on at the gym because I thought it would be a good fit. I wouldn’t recommend listening to Love Bites while lifting— the cringe of “When you make love, do you look in your mirror? Who do you think of? Does he look like me?” was just too much. It wasn’t all bad; their formula does work at times. “Pour Some Sugar on Me” is a good song, and “Hysteria” stood out to me too. Middle-of-the-road 3. I can see why thrash took over soon after this.

This was a fun album! Great sound overall.

Lekkere powerrock, zoals Aerosmith, Bon Jovi en Guns 'n Roses dat ook uit hun mouw konden schudden. Het bereikt geen Van Halen-achtige toppen, maar verder dikke prima.

Animal is één van de hits en vrij exemplarisch voor het album. Het is in de basis een vrij klassieke rock plaat, wat gekleurd door de jaren '80. Soms heeft het iets van power-rock. Meestal houden de heren zich enigszins in en gaat het meer richting radio-rock. Er is weinig op aan te merken, maar tegelijk springt deze plaat er ook niet uit. We zijn wat dat betreft ook wel wat gewend rond dit genre. De concurrentie is sterk.

Def Leppard is zo'n band, waarvan je de naam kent, maar geen enkel nummer. Je kent eerder het nummer van de Bloodhound Gang, waar hij meerdere keren zingt "the drummer from Def Leppard has only got 1 arm!". Daar had ik de wiki niet voor nodig, maar die wiki is sowieso wel een groot feest. De drummer heeft zoals gezegd maar 1 arm door een auto-ongeluk. De twee gitaristen werden de Terror Twins genoemd, niet te verwarren met de Toxic Twins van Aerosmith, omdat ze zich kapotzopen en een ietwat kwade dronk hadden. De ene gitarist heeft zich definitief voor een laatste keer kapotgezopen, de andere gitarist heeft daardoor de alcohol toch maar afgezworen. En dan kom ik nog een zekere F1-coureur tegen die ooit een gitaarsolo heeft gedaan voor een later album. Heerlijk. De muziek dan, de 80s komen de kamer weer volop binnen met veel synths en galm. Bombastische stadionrock/metal met een glamrandje eraan. De drummer heeft maar 1 arm, maar daar heeft hij ook voldoende aan, want eigenlijk is het vrij traag allemaal. Regelmatig kan er meegezongen worden, a la Bon Jovi, een stadionrock-gimmick. Het album ging blijkbaar als zoete broodjes over de toonbank, want het staat in de lijst van meest verkochte albums (lees ik ook weer in de wiki). Het is leuk om een keer te luisteren, maar ik weet niet of ik hem mee zou nemen uit een eurobak voor de platenverzameling. Een nummer of twee is wel tof, maar het klinkt eigenlijk allemaal hetzelfde en het album duurt zowaar meer dan een uur. Dan begint het op een gegeven moment wel iets te vervelen.

This album was where I began to part company with the British Boys. I was a huge DefHead up through Pyromania, but this lost me. As crazy as it sounds to say they’d gone too commercial (that’s ALL they were), the Mutt Lange-ing of Hysteria got out of hand. Songs got bloated, lyrics got way dumber, and the whole pop-radio affair just didn’t appeal to headbangy l’il me. There were plenty of bangers, sure! But the goofy raggedy fun was lost. Ah well.

Great album and an all time classic, probably one of Def Leppard's best.

Very good album, classic

Not for me

🤘🏻

Yeah it's dad rock but it's actually good dad rock.

Have a hell of a soft spot for Def Leppard and this album in particular. Pour some sugar and Hysteria are stone cold classics but also shoutout to Women, animal, and don't shoot shot gun.

Awesome…..hit after hit

Despite my hate for Def Leppard I have to admit there are a couple good songs on here. They’re just surrounded by shit.

What a landmark in 80s glam metal - sex, drugs, violence and screeching guitars packaged perfectly together by Leppard

Wouldn't put it on but enjoy hearing the singles on the radio enough. A cassette of this and Queen's Night at the Opera got me through some boring supermarket shifts once upon a time.

Gotta love the cheesiest 80's rock ever!

Not usually a big fan of this hair metal type stuff bit this wasn’t bad and even Jess said it’s not bad

3,3/5

p566. 1987. 2 stars. Aerosmith lite. Generic stadium rock with a couple of decent songs. Pass.

It's stupid and fun and a total cartoon.

8/10. Didn’t expect to enjoy this much. Repeated the first 5 songs a few times.

Baustelle, Gerstetten, Deutschland. Flutscht sauber durch.

3.5

I want to start paying more attention to these albums because my head's in the gutter - I think this was good? Maybe? Starting to blend together a bit with every album on either side, and I think that's maybe a reflection of the music but mostly one of me

fav songs: animal and love bites

One long song

The kind of rock I like. 3.5/5

80s rock is not my thing but this was alright

Det var overraskende godt faktisk. Hvad der ikke er i tromme tempo, det er der ihvertfald i tromme kreativitet! Jeg kunne faktisk også sætte pris på den cheese fornemmelse den slags musik har, muligvis fordi jeg lige har set Peacemaker. 🤷

One small step for corny hairmetal - a giant leap off the edge for all of music

No private session used for Spotify. I remember when this overhyped album came out, it was everywhere and it sickened me. It's not there best work, that being Pyromania, it brought Def Leppard to the masses with quite literally sugary rock songs with keyboards. Now that I have said that, and am listening to it, it is a lot of fun. Oh yes, Def Leppard, two words, they couldn't spell either correctly.

Guilty pleasure.

No es lo mío, me ha empezado a gustar a partir de pour some sugar on me, Armaggedon me está gustando.Gods of war no está mal, Hysteria la mejor del álbum, de ahí adelante love and affection.

Better than Coldplay

I despise this kind of music. The fact that this is over an hour long is just… The awful vocals, the corny lyrics, the reverb on the drums, everything about this is bad.

Rocking single handedly

This is probably the most 80's sounding album I have ever heard (derogatory). It sounds really dated, but it was big at the time. Mid 3.

I note before listening this album has a number of Radio classics. Speaking of which, Animal is a fantastic tune. Pour some Sugar on me is... well worn.

Well, they were certainly a force back in the 1980s, so it's hard to question this selection on the 1001 albums list. They weren't my cup of tea, but I can't deny they were at the top of the heavy metal hair band pyramid in their time. Watching their videos today, though, they definitely give off a Spinal Tap vibe.

Most succesful album of the Hard-Rock dinosaurs.

Shit, couldn't make myself to listen to it fully

I hated this in 1987 and still hate it in 2025. But what’s worse is I may hate the people who like this more than I hate the music itself.

I honestly have more respect for them now. I mostly knew them as Pour Some Sugar on Me and that's it. They may have been the mindless rock of their time, but it's layered and interesting musically.

Huge, anthemic, loud, stupid. The riffs, when they're actually present, are a ton of fun, both for me and (presumably) for Def Leppard. The run of tracks Pour Some Sugar On Me / Armageddon It / Gods Of War is heavily riff-focused, and to good effect. Part of the latter's riff reminds me (tragically) of the main guitar tune from ABBA's Voulez-Vous. A lot of the songs don't have any interesting musical elements to make the listener come back for a second run-through. Run Riot and Excitable are two examples. They really don't live up to their respective names. Regarding the song Hysteria: Muse did it much better, but this version's still alright. All of side 1 is pretty good, explaining why all six tracks were released as singles. As a (technically) first-time listener of Def Leppard, I'm tempted to say they come off as a knock-off Guns N' Roses. The two bands sound pretty similar. Both are the easily-dismissable "hair rock" that swamped the 80s popular music scene. So clearly these guys are trend-followers, and since it's a bad trend (as agreed by most listeners), and they do it noticeably worse than Guns N' Roses, I can't really give this a 5. Knock it down to a 3, actually, because the album took up much more of my evening than it had business doing. The tracks drag on, solo after solo, chorus after chorus... The shortest track, Animal, is still a bit of a slog at over 4 minutes, and the album in its entirety is over an hour. You need prog-rock levels of slow, interesting musical ideas to justify that. 3/5 Key tracks: Rocket, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Armageddon It

Rendyrka glam rock. Helt forferdelig for meg. Føles falsk, for meg.

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Yeah it's ok, produced to the max pop rock that has its moments and also is too sterile at times.

Man. The production on this record is some of the most incredible, fussy, huge sounding music I've ever heard. I appreciated it as a kid, and now even though it sounds kind of silly and cheesy, it is still just as rousing as it ever was!

Ok, so Rock of Ages blew my ears off when I heard it first week of middle school (6th grade). I loved, loved, loved that song. This album produced a number of major hits - no doubt a major part of 1980s radio and culture. I must say my taste for this music remains back in the 6th grade. This album is better than Pyromania and can be fun but is too tedious, too much over produced fluff, has nothing to say. Nostalgia value earns it a point. 3/5

OK they may not be Sweet, but I do quite like these guys 😅💪

Def Leppard are enjoyable in smaller doses, but they are not Top 1001 winners.

Is it generic? Yes! Is it a bad listen? No?

Def Leppard manages to carry that signature 80's rock sound into the 90's and keeps it pretty authentic, it sex, drugs and rock n' roll through and through. This is a classic rock album I grew up with in my household so its hard not to let nostalgia blind me, but man its just a fun energetic experience. It does overstay its welcome a bit, but it comes out the gate with fire. 4 out of 5 but 10 out of 10 for one-armed drummers.

First off… fucking stellar album cover! Second… the first half of this album is fantastic. Those drums sound crisp, the vocals and growled in an almost comical way, the guitar riffs kick ass. I was shocked by how much I enjoyed the first half. Second half isn’t as strong but I rode the high of the first half and enjoyed it too. Not quite a 5 star album. 4.5 for sure

Not my cup of tea

Fengende puddelrock. Dabber av litt mot slutten.

A very middle of the road hair metal album with some frankly cooked production choices. Pour Some Sugar On Me is fucking massive though. 3.1/5.0 Best Song: Pour Some Sugar On Me

To me its like if Motley Crueueue were good. Animal is such a massive 80s banger. Pour some sugar on me is a timeless perverts classic. A lot of the music is kind of samey, yes, but the poor fucker only has one arm. The album is a lot of fun, big time. Sick album art as well.

Excellent example of 20th century AI as anyone who has ever gone head over heels at the speed of light would immediately guess. Some well executed heavy rock with a nod to pop. As disposable now as it was when it came out, crowding talented and constructive artists from the market.

Black sabbath aah rock

Great album Very memorable with little to no misses

Solid album. I like the brash, strong energy. Listened to it while mowing and it was really hitting.

De primeiro momento, achei que seria um hard metal, mas no momento que dei play, percebi que era um rock. A música tem uma batida boa, estilo Every Breath You Take. Lembra MUITO EBYT Me faz sentir como se estivesse ouvindo nos anos 80, sentada no capô do carro e ouvindo com aqueles disco. Ai agora eu to dirigindo no carro azul, música na rádio e eu vibrando. Acho engraçado que a primeira música é sobre histeria, pq eu tava estudando sobre há pouco tempo. Deus, oq você quer dizer com isso?🤨 A música é boa, eu gostei 8/10

Pravi rock mediokritet, jedan od onih što su zapravo za 2.5 zvjezdice.

Probably my least favorite genre of rock is '80's Hair Metal. This is just not for me. And Pour Some Sugar on Me sucks Best Song: Animal Rating: 5/10 Stars: 3

RAD

My son wanted this album t-shirt because it had a "Leppard" on it and we had to coach him to say his favorite song was "Pour some sugar on me" but in the end he preferred "Rocket"

I've been trying to figure out how to enjoy this unironically and it turns out that I'm too much of a smug douchebag to do so. Three stars!

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I really don’t like this. First of all, it’s way too long. I could grow a beard listening to this and I’m a woman. Too many tracks that are too similar for each one to be this long. And I’m not against long songs. But there’s nothing interesting about these ones, they tire you out. If I were to listen to a singular song at random from this album, there’s a good chance I would give it three stars. But put together this just can’t reach three stars for me. I suppose it’s catchy but it’s awfully tacky. It’s what I imagine the 80s in America to be like. Except they’re english. Shit.

Very corny… this type of music from the 80s really sucked

Not a good album, in an away I’m glad that this process hasn’t proven all my pre held opinions wrong. One plus point is that I felt like I was about to watch an episode of gladiators a couple of times.

What in the smokemachinehairspraypowerstance-hell is this album doing on this list. Get in the bin.

Enjoyable 80s hard rock. Pour Some Sugar on Me always a classic and fun song. Wouldn't really say this something that great or special compared to many of the other albums. It was also pretty long of a record with some okay tracks in it.

Really enjoyed this throwback album to my youth. Wasn’t a fan of a lot of 80s glam/hair rock, but these guys were prolific. This album is full of everyday plays from then.

This album was huge when I was in high school, but I never listened to the whole thing until now. At least, not in one sitting, because I knew almost every song on here due to its incredible radio presence. I was never a big fan, though. Still not, really. However, judging this album relative to all music options, not just those of the era it came out, it much better than it used to be. In other words, relative to the watered down quality of music the last couple decades, Def Leppard has started to sound pretty darned awesome to me. Which says a lot because I really didn’t like them back then. Extra points that my 16 year old daughter enjoys this more than contemporary stuff.

I basically had 1 star in mind when I pulled this. I hated Def Leppard as a kid. To me they were so boring, just a slog of a band in a genre that’s supposed to be fun and stupid. Having listened to it now as an adult…. It fucking sucks. Okay the only positive is the production is excellent. Other than that how can anyone like this crap. The hair metal ballad might be the worst type of song in existence.

This is a fun one. Just ridiculous 80s butt rock and soft metal. Tons of great shredders and power ballads.

Stupid cock rock

This would be awesome if I was black out drunk at a frat party.

AHHH!!!!!!!

No notes, really. Just pure love. This is teenage memories in a can of Aquanet.

The apex of 80’s over-production. Layered guitars, gated drum samples, and stacked vocals all blend together for a style that resides somewhere between metal and electronic pop. Six top 40 singles.

I know everyone expect me to hate this album. When you find the right hair/heavy metal band, there's a kind of weird sincerity to it. I'd like to hope that all members have agreed that they weren't really that cool. I like to hope there is a bit of embarrassment for the mass of shredders in cover bands with Zoom multifx pedals. I did actually watch (without even knowing any song on the album) a documentary on this album when I was sixteen. I remember being vaguely impressed that they tried hard to vary the guitar parts (all three of them!) across each song so that they each played a different part (wild for 16 year old me, trust me!). Each song played with aggressiveness, but there is kind of a catchiness that cancels out the stuff I don't really like. Hysteria was a good example of this. Pour Some Sugar on Me is a bit crud, but I found a few high points. Not enough to admit to anyone I was listening to it... 3 stars. Don't tell anyone.

This is like the time your close friend broke up with his girlfriend. He is devastated, but you are delighted cos you always thought she was a drag, and when they were dating he would never come out and party with you. Now it is the weekend, and it is your duty to lift him out of the mire of sadness and self-loathing that he has enveloped himself in. How do you do this though? Pretty simple really. Get a couple of your other close friends together, and get cross-eyed drunk. You all get dressed up in your best clothes. Denim vests, tight jeans, and more Lynx Africa body spray than the Surgeon General would ever approve. You're gonna go out and get wrecked. You're gonna go to the busiest night clubs, and you are gonna walk in like you own the show. Will everyone notice you? Of course. Will all the lads in the bar wish they could be like you? Obviously. Will every girl in the bar immediately lust for you? Duh. Will they get a chance to try and tame one of you wild stallions? Absolutely not. This is a night of brash, loud, arrogant fun. You'll show up at the club, you'll drink more vodka than the rest of the bar combined, you'll become the envy of everyone in the room, and you'll leave without ever seeing anyone again. Then you'll go to the White Lady Diner for a cheap burger where the four of you will discuss how great each of you are.

Trump has started gold plating everything in the Whitehouse. McDonalds sells a double big mac. A Ford F150 doesn't even get near the top 10 list of biggest pick up trucks. We live in a time of excess and Hysteria, despite coming out 38 or so years ago, fits perfectly into this world. Excessive production, vocals dubs, big guitars, striking drums. It is peak hair metal pushed to its limits. I'd cry if I googled the budget for this album. And the problem with excess is it usually comes off as tacky. That is the case here. It doesn't feel authentic. There is no real soul or passion. This is music tailored to sell big. Trying to find meaning and depth to the lyrics is like trying to figure out why Christopher Luxon thought it was a good use of tax payer money to fly himself and Albanesr to the top of a mountain for a photo opp. If you want to hear the album that killed hair metal and brought forth Grunge, Thrash, Alternative, then this is it. 3 stars as despite all this the title track, Hysteria, rips.

The work soundtrack of my dads favorite strippers

God awful lyrics. God awful guitar tone. Embodies all the worst things about 80s rock

absolute masterpiece, first one of this list that 1000% belongs.

Muy bueno

My love of Def Leppard begins and ends with Pyromania, and my reasons for hating Hysteria are many. For brevity's sake I'll only name one. Having to watch the Hysteria video sandwiched between Coroner and Kreator on the headbanger's ball. But as much as I hate it, I have to admit that Hysteria is a masterpiece of pop metal absurdity. So 5.

I will give credit where it's due for the impact the album made but I won't be listening to this album again.

I think this was the turning point of when all heavy rock albums began to sound the same. Production was over the top and influenced everything that came after

So fun... straight up 80's

Always enjoyed this album since I heard my mate play it on the school bus back in 1987. Still got my cassette tape of it somewhere.

It’s proper 80’s cheese rock but I can’t help but enjoy it.

the leopard is pretty good at singing for being deaf. also this is NOT hysteria by muse. still solid. 6/10

As I listened to this, I was trying to figure out why, back in the day, I liked Pyromania (can still listen to that one, albeit with a bit of nostalgia) but I always disliked Hysteria and pretty much everything that came after it. Then it hit me - Def Leppard had by this point become a pop band with slightly louder guitars. There's no rawness (not that Pyromania was particularly raw). The whole album feels sterile and produced-to-death. You could change out the vocalist and release it as a Bon Jovi album.

In 1987-88 I was in Junior High and you would have typically seen me walking around in my Def Leppard tshirt and Acid Wash Jeans. I loved Def Leppard sooo much! I owned this album on vinyl, including all the 45 singles, cassette, and early compact disc. I had the Historia VHS, the In the Round Live VHS, the mail order Animal Instinct book. So this album is obviously still special to me. The first four albums are still very special to me. Let's not talk about the fifth album, Adrenalize, that is when I hung up my Def Leppard tshirt and Acid Wash Jeans for good.

I was never a fan of the long haired hard rock of the 80s but after listening to this LP it might change my view of some of their material. This is a strong album with 3 or 4 top hits on it plus other good songs.

I enjoyed it

I came into this knowing: a) Def Leppard was hugely popular; b) among music knowers, they're considered better than a lot of their contemporaries/comparators (Poison, Tesla, RATT, etc.); and c) the hits on this albums ("Love Bites" "Pour Some Sugar on Me" "Hysteria") and Pyromania. I groaned when this came up and expected to find myself plodding through some tedious buttrock that I'm superior to. And... I actually really liked a lot of it. I think the lyrics are dumb, and I don't really like the singing voice either, but I get it. Some of the tracks I may have never heard ("Don't Shoot Shot Gun" "Run Riot") are buttrock, but kickass buttrock. It's overproduced, but in a way that actually really suits the music. It's... kinda good? I'm sort of amazed this is what I've concluded.

Throw all restraint out the window and make the biggest, slickest, hookiest record that technology can manage. Then pull it off. Really fun record.

Individually each song is fine but as an album, it palls after a while and by the end I was glad it was over.

Quite a few good songs, but the album is tarnished by the slick production and overall softness. Also, outside of the singles, there isn’t much to root for. Album is at least 20 minutes too long

This might have been the first CD I ever purchased? It really sounded unbelievable back in the day. But man, it's not something I need to come back to.

def leppard is my favorite hair metal band but this album is still mainly carried by the singles

75/100 some incredible songs and the rest is just pretty good

Hell yeah!

"One part lover, one part child" what did he mean by this anyway this just doesn't hit the same when it's not being blasted over the speakers on the Gravitron

so easy to listen idk right for this moment

I hate “Pour Some Sugar On Me,” so I fully expected to hate the album as a whole, but it actually wasn’t bad. It’s basically the music equivalent of junk food. When you think of the most cliché, basic “rock,” this is the sort of thing that comes to mind - and I truly don’t mean that as a slight against the album. It’s effective, and it’s fun. Too long, though.

Blast from the past 7/10

80s quasi hard rock masterpiece. If it was 1989 I'd have probably given this 5 stars but having not listened for 2 decades it just didn't sound anywhere as good as I remembered. I waffles between 3 and 4 but I had to resist the urge to skip tracks more than normal so went 3.

This was a fun album to listen to.

3/5. Production value is crazy good here, and the stadium choruses work really well in each song. The main downside here is the length of the album. Yes, it goes hard in each song, but I do lose track as each one has similar riffs and repeated drums. They would really benefit from trying different time signatures and making their music a little more complex, it seems like they have the skill. But I guess there is skill in making catchy and accessible music. Plus the slower metal ballads break the continuation for the better. Best Song: Pour Some Sugar On Me, Hysteria, Women

I don't care for Def Leppard

возможно местами затянуто, но в целом добротно. такой знаете угар по старческому дерьмецу

Not as good as Pyromania, but better than later stuff.

Some real hits. But the album, as a whole, didn't gel for me.

Fun album that I hadn't spent much time with before. Probably a bit more pop/balldy than I was expecting but good tunes. Pour Some Sugar being irresistible.

Well produced buttrock

pas spectaculaire j’ai l’impression d’être dans une annonce de motos J’aime bien Don’t Shoot Shot Gun

Quite liked this, felt like good classic stadium rock stuff

Not only are all these songs cheesy, they also suck.

A lot of 89s bombast, but these guys really bring everything they got

Glam Rock/Hair Metal. This is what Spinal Tap is spoofing. One of the worst crimes perpetrated by the music industry in the 1980’s? Probably not the worst, but it’s up there. The lyrics have no coherent purpose, they’re as shallow as you can get. The music is energetic - I could see some of these songs on a workout playlist. The songs are super overproduced, the vocals are mostly indecipherable, the singer’s voice is not my cup of tea. Notable songs include Animal, Love Bites, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Hysteria, Love and Affection.

OK'ish heavy pop

Glam metal cool

You can almost hear the hair. Sounds like the soundtrack from a 1980s teen movie starring Judd Nielson.

Dated and cheesy, but not hard to listen to. And I’m an absolute sucker for Pour Some Sugar on Me.

I dunno, 2? 3? Didn't enjoy it, but it isn't complete shit.

Thought this was going to better. Generally just mildly organised noise

What's great about this process is listening to artists you suspected were shite and finding out that they are indeed shite

Listened to half thought it was worth 2 stars. Listened to the 2nd half, went to the trouble of getting an email to allow me to edit my score. 1 star

1. Animal 2. Pour Some Sugar On Me 3. Hysteria

This is tiresome stuff. The uk equivalent to the hair metal bands if the 80s. Yet the singles are good (animal and pour some sugar on me). The rest is not worth anybodies time unless they have it to waste.

Some of the most dated, corny, hilarious music there is. But I love it.

A classic rock album that I'd never heard before, but feel that I can call it classic because it feels so relevant and listenable all these years after its release. Will definitely listen again, loved Animal.

Overheard my brother play Def Leppard a lot - one star.

Never given Def Leppard a fair shake outside of the hits. PSSOM is an easy favorite. I really enjoyed almost every song on this album to be honest. They do tend to blend together a bit, but I didn't mind when I was liking each one. Only odd part that made me go 🤨 was the beginning of Excitable... Going to ignore that! I liked this whole album much more than I expected I would. Would listen again! Favorites: - Pour Some Sugar on Me - Armageddon It - Run Riot - Hysteria

I’ll start off by saying that the album cover is way too metal looking for their sound. But this is a solid 80s rock album that I enjoyed front to back. I had a hard time not picturing their one armed drummer absolutely mashing throughout the entire album. (3.5/5) Favorite tracks: - Animal - Pour Some Sugar On Me - Hysteria (Muse?!)

I don't feel anything about it and I'm too bored to listen to it till the end

Damn, I love hair metal. Not ashamed. These guys were “made for radio” rock stars and absolute hit machines. Def Leppard perfected the hair metal formula better than any of them without losing their shit and turning into douchebags.

*vocals are screaming, instrumentals are loud and banging, hard to define as music, definitely not veil to listen to.

Genuinely terrible in every way

I really don't enjoy this era and style of rock. Lots of hits here for sure, but not my thing.

I like what this album is going for, I do enjoy all most of Def Leppard‘s music. However, it is a little bit too much Def Leppard for me. They’re good in small chunks, I really enjoyed the first half of the album, but it got to be a bit too much at the end. I don’t think it reached the height of thriller or anything like that,but it was an ambitious solid effort. But it was an ambitious solid effort. Four out of five.

Fun to listen. Has some really good radio hard Rock tunes. Can't fault Def Leppard for doing that. 3/5

Liked better then other Def Leppard album

Better than expected but sometimes doesn't live up to it's own promise. Hysteria is hardly hysterical

80s hair band to the max, which isn't my genre in the slightest. It doesn't do anything for me which puts it in the 3 category for me.

An album with quite a few classic rock hits. Love Bites is an underrated track. It’s easy to overlook Pour Some Sugar on Me given how often it’s played on classic rock stations/playlists, but it really is a solid track and the band’s best.

80's hair rock in it's purest form. Some would take this as a very good thing. I am not that someone. Van Halen without energy. Toto without Toto. Frat boys gone "hard". I hated them in the 80's. I was hoping that 40ish years later I'd come back with fresh ears and find what I was missing. I was missing nothing. It was bad then and aged poorly. This brought a visceral skin crawling sense of disgust and ick from beginning to end. Keep your simple syrup to yourself, Def Leppard, that's not hot.

Straightforward power rock pop. Big hair, check. (Wait--what's with the bald guy?) Two guitars, check. Generally avoided a collapse into being a ballad band that befell other groups. Would have been even better if they had been Australian as they no doubt are in an alternate universe somewhere.

fun album

Make it end. Please. Comercial crap made for wannabe tough soccer moms.

-i was not thrilled to listen to this tbh. i thought it would be cheesy and gauche. i was kind of right? but i did end up enjoying a lot of it -it’s far from the best hair metal i’ve ever heard, which i suppose isn’t the highest bar for me. but i can really appreciate the energy and cultural impact something like this would have in the 80s -Favorites are Animal and Gods Of War

Just when you thought they had put out their album that could never ve matched in pyromania, these dudes come out with one less arm on Rick the drummer (who I Idolize) and put out a back to back impossible perfect album. Even the b sides are insanely good

Yeah I didn’t really know them apart from name. Very 80s sounding, I feel like if I had listened to it as a kid it would have felt very nostalgic, maybe it reminded me of something I did listen to as a kid. I don’t know. Probably not my favourite tbh

Ass.

I hear they’re good live? Idk man I just don’t think this era of rock is for me.

So much fun. I fuck with it. Will be listening to other stuff

Maybe a bit long but so much fun

Although I never owned a copy of this album, it was pretty much unavoidable in the late 1980s. It did bring back some memories, like "Rice and Peas" (Love Bites) and the other big hits. It's also awful, commercial, over-produced hair-metal, so the memories weren't great to be fair. Two stars.

I really dont enjoy most of what came out in the 80s, this Included. All of the quintessential 80s tropes just don’t do it for me. It’s a fine album but I don’t enjoy anything about it.

Meh

Very good upbeat, catchy album. Lots of great riffs and energy. Stand out songs - Animal, Hysteria, pour some sugar on me, don't shoot shot gun

Just fun 80s pop metal.

Hair/Glam metal. “Pour Some Sugar on Me” is not a good enough song to warrant this album being included on this list. It’s pretty uninspiring and just not that good. 2/5 Won’t listen again

All sounds the same

Love, love, love! So classic Def Leopard.

4*

Oh yes just what I’m always wanting to listen to…more butt rock.

God awful, all the songs sound the same. Hair rock would have to be the worst sub genre.

Aika agressiivisen keskinkertainen 2/5

Alkupuoli erinomaista poppis/glam rockia, mutta levyn toinen puolikas alkaa vähän toistaa itseään. 3/5

Really great album, so many iconic songs!

It is not a strong 5 and probably I will not often relistening.

Classic 80s

Alright

Ckassic 80s hair

Packed with radio hits. Not sure it deserves a 4 but I was talked into giving it a 4 by my partner who now has Animal stuck in his head.

It’s interesting to listen to this as a child of grunge because it has always sounded like a parody of something, but the something is just itself. An era of rock that seems like the excess and rock star was of it all was the point presaging an era of rock where the excess was all directed as a means of escaping the last era’s bullshit. Can’t deny a power ballad or pour some sugar tho

These songs all sounded like the same song and while Pour Some Sugar On Me is a karaoke classic it is not that great of a song

4/5

3.5

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 think Def Leppard, and this album specifically, is just 80s rock perfected. The really loud echoey drums, dense vocals, and everything sounds like it's being performed in a stadium. This album is full of really good songs, and then there's also Pour Some Sugar on Me, which I think is an elite song and one that is pretty timeless. For me, 90% of the album is 4 stars, and then Pour Some Sugar on Me gives it just enough of a boost to 5 stars. Favorite Song(s): Rocket, Animal, *Pour Some Sugar on Me*, Love and Affection

3.5

So much nostalgia. Still rocks.

This was a ridiculously consistent album, and that's what they intended, but that's the problem. It's too much. Every song is trying it's hardest to be a big single and it's exhausting. Not all are as good as one another. I ynom Love Bites was most enjoyable and I can see myself listening to that and a few others like Hysteria again but it's a bit much and a bit bland for an hour.

hmmm no

This just sucks. I dislike everything about it. If AI made a rock album I suspect it'd sound like this. It just feels soulless. I guess the saving grace is that it is exactly how they wanted it to sound, so it's not like a good band that just made a bad recording. I hate the drum sound, the production, the guitar sounds, the guitar playing, the fact that it's like heavy rock with all the heavy bits removed, I dislike the vocals, the backing vocals and just how it makes me feel in general. Interestingly it has clearly influenced a bunch of things I do like and I was trying to figure out why I liked them. Some of them had better guitar parts, or at least parts that are played more naturally and not mixed to sound sterile. Also though I'm not sure there is a song on this album that doesn't lumber along at about 104bpm. It's so slow. There is no upbeat number, just naff big plodding snare hits with canyon reverb on. Gah.

Boring ass dad rock.

Definitely a band of a time and despite liking some of their more well known songs, I find a whole albums worth a bit much and containing a lot of filler, especially coming in at over an hour. I’ll stick to their greatest hits thanks.

Listening to this made me realize that I have heard more Def Leppard songs than just 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' (which is a certified banger.) I'm less of a fan of the ballads, but I enjoyed this album much more than I thought I would.

Very polished, very 80s stadium rock. Though not much of the emotional depth or grit that makes music enduring or interesting remains left from Mutt Lange's production process. Oh well, I'm sure the memories this album evokes are more interesting, at least, than the album itself, sonically.

rich

So big and so boring.

Nothing special, nice enough.

Nah

What is this album doing on THIS list? Seriously?? It was trash then and it’s trash now. The non-popular songs are awful, as are the popular ones.

This was probably the album I enjoyed the most on this list and allot of the songs I heard the weekend before getting this album because Def Leppard always comes on at the end at after parties with my brother. So this is as biased as it gets. It's Peak 80s Glam metal, it's cheesy, catchy and positive. Including almost all their hits in one album. there were 3 tracks I didn't get into out of 12 so personally it can't be anything but a 5 I feel Run Riot is a more unknown banger people miss on this album!

This might be the best glam/hair rock album I've heard so far. It was just fuun from beginning to end. Still not my thing so only a 4, but I wouldn't mind listening to it again. Strrrong 4 tho

Amazing. Listened twice!

Wonderful first album to have generated. This classic holds a special place in my heart, i listened to it non-stop for years when it came out!

Good stuff! Never heard of them before listening to that album, really enjoyed the Hysteria song. It gave me sort of nostalgia feel like I had already heard the song a million times. Album saved!

It rocks

Bands like Def Leppard are weird cuz it rips but it’s also quite campy at times. And I hate when I can’t help but enjoy it. Something about the DL choruses just really hook me.

Better than I expected, but dragged on with lots of filler.

proto butt rock. 👎

Fun, albeit a little dated, album with an annoying amount of filler.

80's stadion(hard)rock met een stevig randje glam. Dat dit lelijk oud is geworden staat denk ik buiten kijf. Tegelijkertijd schuif je het naar binnen alsof het popmuziek is. Waar dit vroeger misschien hardrock was is dit tegenwoordig toch wel geschikt voor het hele gezin denk ik. Dit kan zowel op Arrow Classic Rock als Sky Radio. Met een speeltijd van iets meer dan een uur vind ik het wel een wat lang album, maar verder kan ik er weinig op aanmerken. Een product van z'n tijd. Als tijdcapsule is het nu nog wel geinig. Je moet dit vooral niet te serieus nemen denk ik. Deze is voor de mannen van eind 50 die elke weekend in hun garage aan hun motorfiets staan te werken om maar niet bij de vrouw op de bank te hoeven zitten. Drie sterren.

So back in the late 80s or early 90s, my dad bought a CD player from one of his co-workers, along with his entire CD collection. It was packed with hair metal and glam rock albums from that era. During that summer vacation, my mom taught me how to use it while my dad was at work so I could keep myself occupied while she slept in. Hysteria was one of the many albums I started my music journey with. Listening to it again took me right back to those memories. Even though I’ve heard these songs more than enough times over the years, there’s definitely a strong sense of nostalgia attached to this album.

"Hysteria" is the fourth studio album by English rock band Def Leppard. Glam metal, arena rock, hard rock and pop rock are the Wiki-listed genres. Yep, the definition of arena rock. The album took over three years to create due to delays including a car crash involving drummer Rick Allen which cost him his arm and cycling through multiple producers before finally landing on Robert John "Mutt" Lange. Other bandmembers included Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Phil Collen (guitars, backing vocals), Steve Clark (guitars, backing vocals) and Rick Savage (bass, guitar, backing vocals). Commercially sales initially stalled but skyrocketed after the release of "Pour Some Sugar on Me" and reached #1 in the US and UK and has become one of the best selling albums of all time. It had generally positive reviews and was also the last album with guitarist Steve Clark. All songs on side one were released as singles. "Women" begins things. Glossy guitar and drums. Echoing vocals and guitar. A pronounced bass. Backing vocals chanting "Woman." A slapping drum sound that's kind of annoying. Why men love women. A rocket blasting off starts "Rocket." A big sound with rumbling drums, guitar strings and layered guitars. Elliot's lead vocals and backing vocals deliver one of the many memorable choruses. References to many influential bands and, at seven minutes, is way too long. I have to admit, I love the opening guitar riff and power chords to "Animal." A very catching song. Their formula works perfectly here. Talk about a formula working: if you said name a song that makes you think musically of the mid to late 80's, for better or worse, it would have to be "Pour Some Sugar on Me." It was impossible to miss. A classic guitar riff opening. Power chorus, a classic vocal chorus and yes, it's catchy. I wonder if Elliot actually had sugar poured on him. The highlight of side two is "Hysteria." A slower song with a melancholic guitar melody and an emotional vocal delivery by Elliot. Some of the best backing vocals and choruses on the album. He wants a girl so bad, he gets hysteria when she's near. It's hard to think of an album that better defines the mid to late 80's than this one. It's formulaic but it works. Layered guitars, power riffs and chords, both catchy and annoying choruses and overproduction. The band and the producer Lange had a goal to make an album like Michael Jackson's "Thriller" where every song has the potential to be a hit. And, yes, they succeeded. For me, the good with guitar and catchy choruses far outweigh the bad being the overproduction and annoying choruses. I have a feeling everyone everyone has an opinion and where they stand on this album.

Classic rock and hair metal just aren't my thing at all. It's very corny but not in a fun way. As far as those genres go this isn't the worst though I will say. The guitar tone is pretty solid. It's mostly the vocals I dislike.

норм, но звучит уже старовато.

Eu tenho muita dificuldade com esses arena rock da década de 80 super produzidos. A menos que haja alguma memória afetiva, é realmente difícil eu gostar. Dito isso, nunca vi muita graça em Def Leppard e assim sigo. Achei um disco longo e plástico que não me acrescentou muita coisa, nem mesmo pra compreender esse tipo de sonoridade.

Not really a fan of this but nothing really bad here either

Everything I hate about guitars

Good for the genre.

Se nota el paso del tiempo, ha envejecido regular. Baja nota en la grabación y producción.

I was pretty familiar with more than half of these songs, which is testament to their popularity in 1989 and 1990. I'm not sure if I've heard any of them since 1995, which is testament to their staying power. Cheese metal perfected.

I'm not the biggest hair metal fan, but I enjoyed quite a few of the songs on this record. I was also surprised most of the songs are 4-6 minutes long. I guess people's attention spans could handle it back then.

What tripe and what a waste of time

There were more songs on here that I liked than I expected. But it was still just pretty generic hair metal that could probably have stayed in the 80s. Pour some sugar on me is an all timer tho

Very fun! Sounds like it would be a good album to sing along to in the car.

For 80s hair metal this might possibly be the GOAT

Heavy metal is hard to listen to or appreciate the talent of the musicians for me. I did listen to at least half a song but sadly this sound is not for my ears.

Can't stand this.

"Hard" hair rock. Seems counter intuitive. Purposely misspelling the name to be "less punk" confuses me. Pour Some Sugar on Me is truly a shit song. The lyrics are so juvenile and lame.

The height of 80s hair bands and pop metal! 7 singles, a chart topping album, all with a one armed drummer. Listening to this brings me back to those days. I listened to a lot of Def Leppard back in the 80s, and it’s still nostalgic, but not as great as I remembered. Still fun to rock out to a bit here and there, but definitely not something I seek out for my old school rotation.

Not a Def Leppard fan, although I have to admit, I kind of liked Pour Some Sugar On Me. I was tempted to start flipping my hair around.

I only made it through 2 songs. Really hated this.

Like many other 60 year old white American men, I enjoy some Def Leppard. Unfortunately this is not their best work. Pyromania is the apotheosis of the slick Mutt Lange iteration of the band while On Through the Night showcases the rough and ready version.

Pop hair metal is not my genre, however I've had a fondness for Def Leppard since Bringin' On the Heartbreak from High n' Dry. Then I saw them in 1983 after the release of Pyromania (opening for Billy Squier...hilarious). Hysteria only has maybe four songs that I listen to, but one of them is an all time favorite for pure fun....Pour Some Sugar On Me. So for that song alone I'd have to give this album a 4.

Such a dilemma. I love Def Leppard and I firmly believe that they are a power pop band at heart, as is clearly evident in the harmonies in the many choruses they throw into their overstuffed songs. The first side of this album is one banger after another; the second side peters out and the whole thing could easily be 20 minutes shorter, both by cutting entire songs and losing about 3 minutes of each of the longer ones. Nonetheless, I find their inability to edit, leading to seven-minute songs with meandering bridges, kind of charming, so I'll blame the album's faults on Mutt Lange and give it a 4.5.

2.5

Let me paint a picture for you. 1985 Buick century. 2 tone, tan and brown. Windows down. Hysteria on the cassette player. 16 year old me loving life. Some real bangers here, in the 80s and 90s, I love them, but I'm not sure they've aged super well. Doesn't matter, still know all the words to put some sugar on me.

The pinnacle of the Hair Metal genre. This masterpiece had seven(!) smash hit singles that kept it on the radio for over a year and a half. Mutt Lange's meticulous production set it apart from the rest of the field, creating a sound with the widest possible appeal. Other Pop Music acts rose and fell while Def Leppard maintained its hold on the radio and MTV. "Hysteria" is a huge nostalgia bomb for me. "Hysteria" was a big part of my late high school years' soundtrack. School, jobs, girls, and weekend nights spent partying with friends were forever linked to songs from this album. Oh, yeah... did I mention that their drummer only had one arm? That's gotta be worth at least an extra half-star.

I liked this better than expected. Still, a lot of the songs were too long, the album was too long, and I won’t bother listening to it again. 3 stars.

Good overall. Felt like a mix of AC/DC, Bond Jovi and Bryan Adams. Felt a little bit similar in the second half, and certain parts seemed to go on slightly too long. Pour Some Sugar On Me definitely the standout track.

So much fun

This is an excellent album from cover to cover.

Rock n roll Never heard of them before Not my type But liked one or two songs

women- oh this is about to be so ass. 3 rocket- 3 animal- 3 love bites- 2. nope pour some sugar on me- 2 or 3 armageddon it- 3 gods of war- 2 dont shoot shot gun- 2 or 3 get this shit away from me i might be stupid but i didnt know the drummer only had one arm. i would like to emphasize the band's shit music is not his fault but rather the fault of literally everything else

This album is a monument to the gluttonous and over-the-top sound that is 80s hair metal, in all the best and worst ways. It's cheesy as hell, bloated, and overly polished... but I can't bring myself to hate it, despite being prepared to when I saw the 1hr+ runtime. Maybe it's nostalgia, but just by listening to the SEVEN singles on this thing, it's clear that this album was a force to be reckoned with in the late 80s, and I can't help but be totally swept up in the tidal wave of rock n' roll awesomeness. And as a drummer, how can you not respect the hell out of Rick Allen for giving an absolutely killer performance AFTER losing an arm. That fact has been the butt of many a joke in the music community for years, but when you step back and seriously think about that scenario and how that must have affected his life, it really is an incredible musical feat.

Pour Some Sugar On Me

Sure some songs are catchy, I’ll give it that. Unfortunately, I already know this album well and it’s too associated with an annoyingly vapid section of pop culture to me.

A fun album. Dads everywhere rejoiced when this was released.

I don't like anything about hair metal. I don't like the way it is sung. I don't like the way the guitar or the drums sound. I don't like the dumb lyrics aimed at twelve year olds. I don't like that it is the official theme song for baseball players to commit date rape to. Lowest common denominator pop is still lowest common denominator pop, even if it is run through a "hard rock" filter. This is just bad.

The fun realisation I know one of the songs on this record, and never knew it was Def Leppard. Nothing else really stands out to me. Over the top, guitar riffs, synths, squawky vocals, drowning in reverb. Could be Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, etc, could be any other 80s glam rock band. The most interesting thing here are the “sample” and found sounds on the outro of Gods of War, but I don’t think it’s in service of much really.

Guter Hardrock mit gutem Konzept. Gerne mal wieder.

You don't get more 80s than Def Leppard 80s.

I really enjoy a ton of 80s and 90s rock bands that are contemporaries of Def Leppard, but admittedly have never really been as big a fan of DL as a lot of others. But results are results and it’s hard to argue with a series of things: - Very few bands have sold 20m albums in their careers, let alone selling 20m copies of one record like DL did with this album. - Very few albums have a consecutive song run of hits like songs 2-6 on this album: Rocket, Animal, Love Bites, Pour Some Sugar on Me, and Armageddon It, all of which made the Top 20. - Rick Allen’s ability to adapt to playing drums with one arm is pretty incredible, and you would never know it on this album. Half of this record is still played on the radio (some more than others) so it wasn’t hard to burn through those and enjoy them. The non-singles I hadn’t heard before and each one of those was a bit of strange listen for me. They would all have parts that I enjoyed and started heading in directions that had a chance to be great, but they would all take turns that I didn’t really like as much, often into very generic choruses. As a result, I didn’t really find anything new that I have to come back to. Still, the sheer sophistication that DL creates at various points on this album and the hits that it generates sets Hysteria apart from most other albums of this age. And, to be honest, the hits hold up after all this time. So despite my lack of DL fandom, surprisingly, this album gets 4 stars from me.

While this album sounds completely stuck in its era it also shows how l80s music can be exciting and beautiful. Much better than I expected.

High school Soundtrack. We saw them twice on this tour.

It’s not terrible it’s just really not my genre.

Pretty solid

Not bad. Like it, even. But I’m unlikely to seek it out to listen.

Meh

First impressions are solid groove, more face pulling, head banging but also songs felt a bit long at times. Maybe especially after some shorter albums, but thought it was ready to end a few times. Good sound and production. Good, clean, classic rock anthems but also with enough variety in songs to keep it fresh enough. Vocals sound Axel Rosey at times. Did not know “pour some sugar on me” were the words, nor the artist! What a banger. Full face screw unlocked. Maybe slightly downhill from there. Close to 3.5 but might just miss out

Too cheesy, songs too long, some nice guitar sound but the lyrics were properly bad.

I'll always associate this band with MTV's heyday. This album seemed a lot longer than 62 minutes and I was glad for it to be over. I can take Def Leppard in smaller doses but this album was a lot. This was pretty mid for me overall but since I can't give 2.5 stars I'll round up - 3/5.

Great Album! Some MEGA hits on this one. This was a soundtrack to my early childhood. It brings back so many memories.

The music is not bad, instrumentals are good but they just don’t bring that certain “new” energy… 3/5

Pull down rock with high production. Still holds up for me

Good instruments The voice is just kinda generic rock sounding Every song turns out pretty mid

10/10. It's kind of cheesy, but I cannot help it, I just love glam metal. :)

I’m so happy hair metal days are over…

great

They all sound so similar to one another and I didn't enjoy it very much. I know theres some "classic" songs on here, but classic doesn't necessarily mean good... Still, there were a few songs I liked. Armageddon was relavtively good, but this definitely isn't something I'll come back to Overall: 3/5

Not a big dec leopard or that style of 80s rock, but can admit the album had a lot of hits

Not exactly the pinnacle of great music, but it's fun as hell, so who cares? Does exactly what it's supposed to do.

I was pretty ready to give this a 1 or 2 expecting the album to be super cheesy from start to finish, but some pretty big nostalgia kicked in. Love Bites really got me feeling like Johnny Lawrence reminiscing about the 80s. It was so weird to hear Ronald Reagan clips in "Gods of War" because it sounded so dated but so close to home in the horribleness at the same time.

Sometimes the most metal thing you can do it makes a new wave album.

Nätillä amerikanraudalla kaasu ei aivan pohjassa stadionille -meininki. Mennään samaa tahtia eteenpäin tunti, koko ajan silti eteenpäin. Tää kasaritukkaäänimaailma kyllä miellyttää mua aina, kuulostaa kesältä, ne hiukset liehuu tuulessa. Siitä piste, vaikka yksittäiset biisit ei herätä ou jee -reaktiota.