Reviews (page 6 of 9)
Ultimate rockNroll, loved all of this from start to finish, it's unbelievably dumb, but it's so much fun and slightly campy, but you can sing along and so many songs are just belters
Dan at uni would have been all over this but we never took him and his must tastes seriously. However…. As much as this is clearly big haired, big stadium rock it is actually surprisingly listenable. Pretty much every song has melody and gets the toes tapping. Not music that’s going to change the world but got to give credit where it’s due, they created something here that is an enjoyable listen. Sorry for doubting you Dan. I still draw the line at Bon Jovi though.
80s hair metal is definitely not my genre of choice, but there's some undeniably huge tracks on this one, as well as some solid musicianship.
Dumb-ass fun, or dumb ass-fun, not sure which.
Epic album. Such good rock tunes.
Listen, this is peak hair metal. It's too much, for sure, but it's ROCKING (in a super polished and hairsprayed way)
Top stuff! Cheesy in places but enough good structure to each song to make it a fun listen.
Solid as far as hair metal goes, but not a whole lot going on.
The follow-up to their breakthrough hit album Pyromania. Def Leppard successfully distilled what made them so popular: catchy sing-along choruses and big stadium-style production that envelops listeners. Unfortunately, it does come with some power ballad snoozers that make me want to blow my brains out. There aren't many, but they're a real drag when they pop up. This would be a fine release if it wasn't over an hour long. I resent these overly long songs that pad out an album that only has three or four good songs. I think this is marginally better than Pyromania having a few more songs that stand out from the rest, but it still suffers a lot of the same problems that keep me from enjoying it.
I despise hair metal, but if I'm being honest there are parts of this album I can appreciate it's just not Pour Some Sugar On Me
I already know the title track and Pour some sugar on me. -Highlights: Women, Rocket, Love bites -Armaggedon It,Run Riot and Hysteria were fine -Some of the tracks get overly goofy and "dramatic" at times or take themselves to seriously -Suffers of glam metal syndrome -Overall, it's fine for a glam metal album, if you like the classic glam metal sound you'd probably love this album. 3.7/10
Just an all round fun and brilliant album.
My hair grew 3 inches listening to this.
siis tiesinhän toki että en mikään leppard fani ole mutta mitä helveTTIÄ on tämä??? aivan vitun peppukuolaa koko albumi. erityisesti vokaalit ovat niin vitun väkisin vängättyjä.. . tämä on musiikkia 50 äo australialaisille insesti punaniskoille. semmosille jotka eivät syö paskaa vaan laittaa suuhun ja maiskuttelee ja lipoilee sitä paskaa suussa kieli käy ympyrää siellä suussa kokoajan rikkoo paskaa paloiksi sillä kielellä suussa pureskelee ja 50/50 että nielaiseeko. tunnin verran laitoin salapoliisihatun päähän ja suurennuslasin silmälle enkä löytänyt yhtä vitun hyvää asiaa tästä albumista. brittipojat larppaa amerikkalaisia, pitäis ampua vittu päähän, aseella. excitable
This list is going to incorrectly come away with the assumption I don't like metal. So quintessentially 80s, this. Animal and the chorus of Pour Some Sugar on Me obviously bring back memories and they are still good. The rest is also silly, but doesn't have those delicious hooks. Rocket and Women appear to be more or less the same song, I enjoyed bits of Gods of War, but for a record with supposedly 5 other singles and which was absolutely massive I was surprised how little else stood out. Daft and fun, no doubt, I have Korn next which I have a feeling one hour of this is going to be more tolerable overall. Can I conceive of ever listening to this as an album again though (the benchmark for an average score)? Absolutely not.
General juvenile anthem rock, bleh boring. Don't recognize any of these songs at all. 2 stars
it has some big jams
The drummer from Def Leppard has only got one arm!!! I think my years of Guitar Hero and Rock Band playing have given me a soft spot for these 80s hair bands and I quite liked this album, although it felt quite samey by the end. Fave Track: Love Bites Rating: 3
“Hysteria” was tipped to me by a trusted nerd as fireworks, but I didn't expect to play it four times over a busy weekend. Their song structures still elude me - is it as simple as having passable riffs doubled with slightly-too-high soccer terrace chants, broken up by dueling solos and peculiarly placed pauses and instrumental lurches? Simon, is this my prog? Def Leppard were a laughable proposition at every stage of my early sink into music, too ridiculous and preened when I was experimenting with metal, even more ridiculous and obviously corporate whorish when I was gorging on grunge and pre-grunge, and not even a consideration when I moved into what my wife calls “boiler music” (“This sounds like a boiler”). Apart from the hair, my lasting impression of them before this weekend came from Rick Allen's guest-appearance on the popular British children’s program, “The Sooty Show”, which made me think he’s a nice dude, one unusually natural when jamming with a band of glove puppets. The band’s name is a successfully more-stupid homage to that of Led Zeppelin’s. My research indicates that many of this record’s participants were often drunk, heavily drunk, during this important time of their lives, though perhaps not so drunk in the studio, which has me wonder how this affected the songs. There is a boozy optimism to this record, and most of the lyrics work very well if you imagine slurring them off your face: the chorus of “Animal” cries to be grunted and bellowed. Lyrics have the mystical quality of an insistent pub lush, an unspoken “you all know what I mean” hanging at the end of each line. The music has mood swings - sweeping choruses trip into stomping marches, impressionistic instrumentals jump-cut to air-horn versification - and the general sense of not always being aware of where to go next, usually resolving with an impassioned football-chant chorus or a guitar rockslide. Played at super-low volume, the shrillness of the drums pierce unpleasantly, but maybe they need this to stab through layers and layers of absurdist guitar. These guitars are a joy with their many whooshing, dramatic sounds; like a hairspray Sonic Youth! I am also reminded of peak Ted Nugent, but without the paedophilia, which I hope we can agree is a plus.
Exactly the production sound I hate - the pop metal soundtrack to a Chuck Norris made-for-TV movie or a 3rd-rate strip bar, or perhaps a Chuck Norris made-for-TV movie set in a 3rd-rate strip bar. Singer is awful, songs go on far too long. Barely a tune on here amongst all the leering and screeching. Not enjoyable even in a cheesy '80s sense, but harmless. Kiss are far worse.
bayaaa iyiydi
great album, a lot of iconic def leppard songs.
Great stuff
I like Pyromania better. I can't think of that record as a five star record, so this must be a three star record.
This sucks. Absolutely infuriating inclusion on this list. Bland garbage best forgotten.
Makes Bon Jovi sound mint
This album is good stupid fun. The lyrics are truly dumb and the music is sickeningly 80s. There are so many over produced arena hair rock anthems here that it actually is impressive. And it actually slaps pretty hard and was much, much better than the Bon Jovi album I've had. As dumb as it all is, my head was bopping along consistently thinking, "hey, why am I not hating this?". Overall, I think Women was my favorite, though I liked 2/3rds of Rocket more, it just meanders a bit much.
This is the perfect 80s pop-rock record. No throwaway tracks, no filler. Just wall to wall bangers and flawless production.
I would love to harp on about how this is such a sellout and far more commercial than their earlier work, but this is the first DL album I have listened to. Don’t mind it, but all that said it is actually quite solely, commercial, and dare I say a touch poppy . I’m guessing not like their earlier stuff which I’m sure we will be exposed to at some point.
I don’t generally love hair rock. This is too long (tails off really badly), too overproduced and very silly. But those harmonies and choruses made me smile. Most records on this list don’t make me smile.
Literally no band outside of the hair metal genre has cited Def Leppard as a massive influence in the nearly 40 years this album had existed. Yes, it had radio singles. Yes, their drummer lost an arm. Yes, this sucks as big and loud as it could legally suck.
Dumb fun which I can't help but enjoy. Like the movie Airplane, say
Excellence!!
Another nostalgic album. I thought of rating it a 4 (I like a lot of songs, but not sure I'd listen to the whole album again) but adding one for the band's perseverance.
Air drummed to this in my pre-teen days. Highly recommended.
the 80’s will never happen again. what a crazy time. this album will never be made again. i appreciate that aspect of it.
Doing an album a day has really solidified how this is not my type of music. I sigh every time I get a hard rock band.
Overproduced pop masquerading as rock and roll.
sone hits lots of 5 min songs like the end of the album more
aggressively mediocre
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Alright. Let's get this over with. When I was a kid, Def Leppard was everywhere. Jackets, backpacks, Trapper Keepers, *everywhere*. I have a bad habit of shunning popular culture. I don't think I'm a hipster, but I am immediately turned off of most things that are popular. I usually come around eventually, but I have to discover these things on my own. Def Leppard never really appealed, however. I never had the motivation to discover them for myself. Hair bands in general aren't my thing. So, open heart, open mind. It's not that bad. Lyrically, it doesn't exceed the emotional maturity of the average high shool-aged boy. So, more sophisticated than KISS, but only just. Musically, it's solid. Even complex in places. Love Bites is one of the quintessential hair-band ballads. So many singles from this album. My former boss, 15 years my senior, *loved* Def Leppard. Will I ever seek this out to listen to it again? Not likely. And the drummer for Def Leppard's only got one arm. So there's that.
i do appreciate the uninhibited 80s cheesiness so i like it more than the other album but it still is very bad music !
1. uuomen - 1 2. rocket - 1.5 3. animal - 1.5 4. love - 1.5 5. zugar - 1.5 6. armageddon - 1 7. uuar - 1.5 8. zhot gun - 1 9. riot - 1 10. hyzteria - 2 11. ezcite - 1 12. affection - 1
Thriller-esque these nuts. this shit sucks.
Perfectly produced pop metal. Not my thing normally, but really well done.
Def Leppard basically greatest hits.
This continues to prove my theory that the 80s hair metal band your parents showed you when you were a kid are the only one of the genre you actually like (Bon Jovi in my case) Fav songs: - Rocket - Love Bites - Pour Some Sugar on Me
I had heard some but not all the songs on here, and listening to it as a cohesive whole, I actually loved it. For context, I'm a pretty big fan of 80s metal, but had never been that much of a Def Leppard guy. Relative to most of the similar product I like (esp. GnR, Skid Row, Metallica) it's way lighter, way more glam, and in many ways more polished. Honestly the best comp for it is probably Boston. And it has that same effect as the first Boston CD, where you feel like you've just witnessed the sonic equivalent of watching a video where someone flawlessly peels a dozen hardboiled eggs in 30 seconds using some ridiculous stupid trick. You know, like, when they've had a massive four-part chorus, hand-clapping, a complete stop-and-restart, and modulated up a whole step for the coda, you have to wonder what else they've got in the bag. But of course Def Leppard's got more ammo. Vocal solo over the refrain on "Animal". Calling out all the members of the band on "Rocket". They literally have every trick in the book. And yes, it is a bit much. In fact, it's WAY, WAY, WAY too much. That's the point. This CD is a science project in how to create the perfect rock album, like the woman in "Weird Science". It's so polished you could do dental surgery using the reflection it casts. I still don't totally know how they get that massive vocal chorus effect on the refrain (which refrain? Why, all of them of course). I think probably the triple-tracked the entire band singing together in a closet with the echo set to 10. Who cares though, Def Leppard did it so the rest of us don't have to. The CD is a little weaker on the back half, but honestly, who cares. It's so overwhelmingly loaded on the A-side that it doesn't matter. Anyone who reached the weaker tracks on the 2nd half (roughly starting with "Don't Shoot..."), man or woman alike, will already want to sleep with any and all members of the band by that point. And that's the point, isn't it?
joa.. i weiß ja nit
#314. What has nine arms and sucks? Yeah, you guessed it- Def Leppard. Def Leppard sucks. This whole shitass genre of music sucks. All that glam band hair metal shit was a blight on the metal genre as a whole, and I for one am glad that annoying shit is long gone. They used to play almost all of these songs incessantly on the radio when i was a kid, but I'm pretty sure I haven't heard any of them since probably 2009. Maybe with any luck, it'll be 15 more years before I have to hear any one of them again. 2/5: shit Song added to playlist: Hysteria I've created a playlist on Spotify that consists of the best and/or my favorite song from each of the albums in this book. This list can be found here if you are interested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7MAXDGLWlwLkFLb8veGfkA?si=FqkQQPgZTFWG0jAUJXLFZA&utm_source=copy-link
Hysteria's production has a very modern radio feel. I can hardly make out many of the lyrics. I imagine Ibanez dropped off a create of Tube Screamers and the engineer plugged every vocal mic, instrument cable, and drum mic into one of them. Each part is overdubbed and compressed within an inch of its life. The songs are good. This is a radio ready pop-rock record. Catchy songs with massive choruses and memorable hooks are a requirement.
Def Leppard is trash
Perfect album!
Awful cheesy shite
Hysteria is the fourth album from Def Leppard, and is one of the best selling albums of all time. The band found world-wide success with their third album, Pyromania, and benefited from well-produced videos on MTV. While recording the album, the band's drummer, Rick Allen, lost an arm in a car accident, adding to the anticipation for the album. Hysteria includes some of the band's biggest hits, like "Pour Some Sugar on Me" and "Love Bites." This album may be the defining work of 80s pop metal.
Compression: the album. But they make it work for them,. This has not aged with grace, but it's fun , dumb and catchy.
it’s giving 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
What a large sounding album...
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More than once I found myself checking back on my app thinking the album ended and it started playing Guns 'n Roses (derogatory), only to find out it was still in fact Hysteria by Def Leppard. This album is too long and does not nearly do enough to deserve the length. First 5 songs are alright and the rest is completely forgettable.
It’s a feat that they somehow managed to make every single song on this album outstay it’s welcome. Yet somehow within that extra runtime there were no memorable instrumental parts to recall. Meh
Definitive 80s rock. Not a bad track on the album, but the deeper cuts mostly aren't buried treasures. Gods of War is probably the "best of the rest". Hard to shake the feeling that Hysteria and Love Bites are two versions of the same song, but if it ain't broke don't fix it? Definitely not my favorite genre or artist of the 80s, but the star power on display is undeniable.
Only really hits one lane, but it doesn’t very very well !
So Def Leppard’s debut album “On Through The Night” came out when I was in high-school in 1980, and as a rock guy, I really liked their sound – especially when compared to a lot of the new wave and punk music that was coming out at the time… It was heavy and raw, but had that AOR FM station appeal back then… Their follow-up album “High & Dry” was also excellent, and their raw, powerful, hard-rock sound seemed to be evolving… Then came the next 2 albums where their sound developed into a way more commercial – as well as a much more polished sound – with “Hysteria” being the 2nd of those two… Can’t blame them – as that recipe really worked for them – especially with females, and at least they did retain their hard-rock sound for the most part… Forgot just how good this album was, and how many songs made it to radio back in the day… Below are my favs in order - “Armageddon It” - 6-stars out of 7… “Animal” - 6-stars out of 7… “Rocket” - 5-stars out of 7… “Pour Some Sugar On Me” - 5-stars out of 7… “Hysteria” - 5-stars out of 7… “Love Bites” – 5-stars out of 7… “Love & Affection” – 5-stars out of 7… The vocals and harmonies are really well-done, even if the lyrics are pretty poppish, and basic – but musically it really pops – as I’m glad they were able to retain their hard-rock edge during this transition… There is pretty decent diversity throughout the album, and they definitely have an original sound for sure… As a drummer – I was incredibly impressed with Rick’s one-armed drumming on this album after his awful car accident a few years earlier… Got to see them in 2007, and he was even more impressive live… I do wonder if his more “electronic” sounding drum kit had something to do with kicking them into their more commercial/more produced sound – as the one element that they truly lost, was their rawness – but I doubt this album would have been as successfully from a commercial standpoint without it… 7 hit singles from this album is pretty damn impressive, and I’d probably give this a 4.25 if I could, but a healthy 4 in my book for sure – and glad I went back an listened to this one all the way through again, as it’s a great album…
Well written and catchy 80s rock, but it sounds dated and over-produced. Not sure this will keep it's place in #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie
Great to listen too when you don’t take this too serious. It has some great hooks but the hard rock/heavy metal parts are not as hard as one could wish for. Therefore only 4 stars here.
Great all-round 80's rock album. The first half is gold, the last half more filler but still ok. Love Bites is my pick of the bunch. Power Ballad of the century.
too long and too samey
2.5/5
What an a-side. Mutt Lange knows how to make big dumb music sound the biggest and dumbest
Cheesy and bland. Don't like this type of 80s rock
Classy, sophisticated but also full of great riffs, Def Leppard's sound was always a bitt too americanised for me when I was into heavy metal, but listening to iit now they sound far better than most of their NWOBHM counterparts, the title track is a stand out song
Some people enjoy butt rock. I am not one of them! I do like to, ironically, say "pour some sugar on me in the name of love" though. That's fun.
7.5/10
Very fun album. I couldn't listen to it as close as normal as I had things to do, but it was a good accompanying album for baking cupcakes to. My son danced to it as well, and approved. :)
A solid album but unnecessary on this list. We don't need a second Def Leppard album, especially when Pyromania does everything this does but better
Bigger, dumber fun
This is the perfect album to listen to and be like wow Def Leppard did that? Because so many of their songs are well known, but it seems like def isn’t as talked about with the other big rock bands all time. Maybe it’s more so because hysteria is their best album and their others aren’t as strong. I think their title track is great and aside from sugar on me they have several very good songs on this album. This was solid. 7.2/10
Ah one of the staples of 80s classic rock (and a song that probably gets all it's modern plays from strip clubs). I'm a big rock fan, and I do enjoy classic rock, but something about this era of glam / hair rock just hasn't aged that well. Perhaps its the overuse of synth? The somehow sickeningly saccharine melody and vocals? Also almost all the big rock bands of this era had eerily similar vocals, that somewhat strained, throat/head voice. As a singer myself (choir mostly), just listening to it gives me a vocal strain. After a while a lot of it just blends. One thing this era did well though are brilliant guitar solos peppered throughout their songs. So enjoyable, and really does seem to be a lost art. It almost seemed like the lead guitarist was singing their own verse in the song. Overall, I actually enjoyed this listen, but barring a few songs (yes, Pour Some Sugar on Me is one of em), I won't be putting most of these tracks on my rock playlist for a re-listen. 2.5/5 (.5 thanks to the strip club anthem that is Pour Some Sugar on Me)
Couldn’t get past 3 or 4 songs. Garbage.
3 decent songs and a whole host of boring dross.
If you listen to Animal on its own, it's a good song. If you listen to it in the context of the whole album, it's an absolute banger. Didn't expect to love this as much as I did
Pour some sugar on me. In the name of love.
For once I read the little write-up on Apple Music before I listened, and I think that greatly affected the experience. I really enjoyed this and was happy for Def Leppard, knowing what they were going for. Not likely to keep listening to it, but maybe I appreciate them a little more?
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Quintessential 80’s hair band rock. If you can get past the strong sexual overtones then there are a couple of their big hits on this album. I’ve not been a huge DL fan, so it’s middle of the road for me.
Wasn’t expecting to like it because I am not into hair metal but it blew me away especially with the guitar
There are only two hair metal bands that I find acceptable: Van Halen (bc Eddie may he rest in peace) and Bon Jovi cause they have some actually good songs. Def Leppard is not one of them. This album and this band is ridiculous and just awful. This is neither metal nor hard rock it’s just some pop artists who think they know rock. It’s quite disgusting. All of their songs sound the exact same. All of their lyrics are just about girls, sex, partying, and drinking. Dudes really have a one track mind. Musically they all sound the same. EXACT SAME. Some might say oH bUt ThEy HaD sEvEn SiNgLeS. WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO BE IMPRESSED BY THAT? Seven carbon copy singles. Big freaking whoop. This band is a disgrace to anything resembling rock, they’re absolute trash and deserve no place on this list.
arena rock. several huge tracks that dominated airwaves back in the day. lyrics on several tracks pretty dated & objectify women quite a bit. Rocket & Hysteria best tracks on the album. apart from Hysteria, 2nd half of album pretty blah
A most excellent album to motivate for work
As good as I could’ve asked for for a hair metal ballad heavy album from the late 80s
Meh is an understatement
Music to drink your first beer to 😎 (not too much though, it's a school night!!)
Felt like I was on a car ride with my parents
Ok
Prior to listening to this album all I knew about Def Leppard was Pour Some Sugar On Me. And after listening to this album, I realized I already knew everything I needed to know. I don't know how they managed to turn one musical idea into an entire album, but then I've never been one for arena rock. The only reason this album isn't bad in my opinion is because of the title track - it feels like an actually complex song that the band made accidentally based on the rest of the album. Listen to Hysteria and pick any one of the other songs, and you've listened to the whole album
welp that's 80s hair metal at it's best. 2 stars
This album reminds me of the review for Spinal Tap’s “Intravenus de Milo” album: “They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.“
This is the album with Pour Some Sugar on Me. Overall great rock with some slow jams.
This took me back a few years. I hadn't listened to this album all the way through but knew many of the songs. This album was packed full of hits that have seemed to hold up over time in a way. Not the best music, but enjoyable in its own way.
This really didn't grab me. It sounded fine, but I won't revisit
Really fun album that is entirely too long and same-y for what it is. But this is supposed to be fun, damnit, so I still love it all the same. Favorite track: Armageddon It
It was good. I’ve never heard Def Leppard before, but it was on my list so I’m glad this came up.
Surprisingly good. 3.5.
Very much of it's time.
I have always wanted to sit and listen to this album fully. Have always been a backseat Def Leppard fan. When I hear them I rock out and enjoy it. This is one of those perennial albums that just last forever.
Great album, full of hits.
Guilty pleasure, but not as much pleasure as Pyromania. I think Def Leppard jumped the shark on Hysteria. Still, it is undeniably fun to belt out Pour Some Sugar On Me like it is 1987 all over again.
Fun, recognizable music. The album is too long for the singularity of texture and tempos it offers. I didn't have a BAD time. But I'm unlikely to come back to it.
I mean, there were a lot more interesting things going on in 1987 in the music world, but they gave it their all, didn't they?
There's one guy in here who rated this one because he loves rock but hates this and Bon Jovi, and looking at his profile the dude HATES black people and thinks racism didn't exist a decade and a half ago, so fuck that dude. Anyway this rules. They aimed to make a rock equivalent to Thriller, like an all-singles record, and boy howdy did they ever.
This is the type of music is fully rejected as a teen in the 90s. Now so many years later I can see why this was at one point in time so massive. I will never be a massive fan but I can appreciate it more now.
Some one arm era Def Leppard. Never been a huge fan of this band; we'll see how a whole album holds up. Rocket is a pretty quintessential 80s glam rock song. I actually love the vocal melody and can imagine this played in a smoke-filled club with bright lights flashing and tank-tops aplenty. Wow this album is extremely front loaded. Tracks 2-5 all got significant airplay. And honestly, while I'm not huge on the Def Leppard sound in general, these hits are very solid. Back half kind of all runs together for me into a wall of screaming and bigger than life guitar. I feel like if this was severely trimmed it could slot in at a 4, but the overall impression I get is this thing is super bloated. In my eyes this is a soft 3 held up entirely by the hits that encapsulate a particular blown-out 80s rock sound.
haven't listened to a def leppard album since high school probably. They jam but definitely not my shit these days. 3.5 stars
Definitely listened to a lot of Def Leppard when I was younger playing games like Runescape, Guild Wars, and Kal Online. Album art reminds me of Yu-Gi-Oh. Wish I could have listened to this in the middle of Virginia on my way to Charlotte during the longest solo roadtrip of my life. One thing that I can't quite shake is that this sounds very commercial. Idk if it's a characteristic of this glam rock genre, but it feels like it has little authenticity. Kind of like pop rock I guess?
I saved this album to listen to for my drive down to Charlotte, and I am glad I did because the high energy glam rock was perfect to listen to with the windows rolled down blasting through the hills of central Virgina. I've listened to this album so many times, but it's been a while, and it was one of my favorites in my teenage years so my bias is extremely strong, but it unfortunately did not age as well as I wish it did. The corniness is on the highest level with some of the lyrics. That being said the instrumentals and overall loud singing go so hard and are so fun to sing along to all album. There are a few really big misses with the ballads like Love Bites and Love and Affection. But the rest is just straight up good times. Overall still an awesome and fun album to listen to. It is certainly a very low 4 though
This is definitely not my kinda music. Feel like I can enjoy the hits but barely, and even at that I would need to be on one to really love it. This type of yelling lyrics music just makes me think of the movie Rock Star. Every song kinda sounds the same. Going high 2 because some guitar licks are lickin.
The goal of this album is the be the Rock version of Micheal Jackson's Thriller, even tho the sales does not compare to Thriller, the album was a smashing sucess, with more than 20 millions sales. A real arena rock sound with Glam style and musicality, a album perfectly in his time and by one of the biggest band of the time. Their is few good songs, but for me the majority are a bit too soft/not original In the good song we have: Rocket is pretty cool lyric wise, because it reference the biggest influences on the band, like David Bowie, The Beatles and Queen. Armageddon It have a very cool vibe, i like the song Don't shoot shot gun also sounded very cool, pretty ACDC like. Hysteria is the essential power ballad in every glam metal album, honneslty a very powerfull and good song, i liked a lot the guitare part on it. Probably on of the best track on the album. But for me the masterpiece is definitly pour some sugar on me, probably the hardest track and lyrics, just so rock n roll and cool, with Elliot's magic voice its simply perfect. The big big factor on the albu, is really Joe elliot voice that just transedent every song, esepeically Pour some sugar on me. also the drummer only play with on arm, wich make the songs even more impressive, so big S/O to Rick Allen. So the album have everything to succed and it did, i honnestly think that a lot of the songs are forgettable, and the album is not as authentic or powerfull as other band like Motley Crue or Guns n Rose.
Ah fuck off with this trash.
great
I mean, it's not really my style of music but it's fine. I've listened to this several times over my life and never been into it but also not turned off because my ears are bleeding
Awesome drumming, insipid lyrics.
Genre defying Def Leppard. Metal? Rock? Arena? Hair Band? Pop? Well, yes, all of the above. Quintessential 1980s.
Not for me.
Do I really have to listen to a whole HOUR of this? I'm not even halfway through the first song and I'm cringing hard. "WOMEN - mEn CAnT LiVe wITouT eM!" Good God. I actually have to switch to headphones, because I'm worried my neighbours will hear me listening to this utter shite. Rocket sounds like exactly the same song as the first, but over SIX minutes long. Do I sense a formula here? Animal isn't actually a bad song, if you ignore how gross and creepy the lyrics are. Is there some sort of deeper meaning here, or are Def Leppard advocating for a return to wanton barbarity? Maybe we'll never know. 'Love Bites' is about 5 mins and 47 seconds too long. That's all I've got for this one. 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' sounds like some sort of horrific love-child of Kiss and AC/DC attempting to record a cover of Led Zeppelin's Black Dog, purely based on a memory of someone describing it to them several years previously. Almost at the halfway point here, and oh God, the next song is a pun involving sex and the end of the world somehow...I think I'm going to have to pack it in. I think this will only be the second album I wasn't able to finish, the first being the Christina Aguilera one. This is the type of album where I feel like I have to listen to something incredible right afterwards, because, what if I died suddenly and THAT was the last album I listened to? In this case I thought for a few mins about what might be the antithesis of Hysteria by Def Leppard. I'm still not sure, but I've settled on Sufjan Stevens' "Javelin" for now.
Solid album for sure definitely worth a listen. Side note, want to annoy a Def Leppard fan? Ask them what has 9 arms and sucks.
Absolutely horrible
Muy ochentero como para formar parte de mi rotación, pero Hysteria es un temazo
This album, while is kind of cliche and cheesy all around, it is a great record of the hair/glam times. Pour some sugar on me is the hit, but Hysteria is such a great song. I would say that this record, along with Slippery When Wet from Bon Jovi, is the definition of hair and glam, and it was done damn right.
Forgot how ouch I like DL!
One thing you can count on with Def Leppard: they always sound like Def Leppard. I gave Pyromania three stars, and this will get the same even though I like this one slightly more. If possible I would give it a 3.5
Yeah, I gave 5 stars to a Butt Rock album. It's an exemplary one.
Never a great lover of Def Lappard at the time this album came out. I was buying and listening to heavy rock types but preferred bands such as Extreme and Thunder. Def Leppard just sounded a bit too glam for me and I thought their sound was aimed at American MOR Rock fans wanting more polished rock. I never bought any of Def Leppard’s albums until last year when I bought their Drastic Symphonies album. A collection of reworked greatest hits with orchestration. This is a formula I have always liked and I thought it was about time I had a physical Def Leppard album in my collection so it fit the bill. A handful of the hit singles off Hysteria are on the Drastic Symphonies album which I like and enjoy so I listened to Hysteria again with new ears and open mind. You cannot deny that Def Leppard are masters of the type of rock they produce and for that reason they deserve their place on this list. Not entirely my thing but enjoyable to listen to every so often when in the mood. 3/5 5/5/24
Overall pretty good. Not an avid 80’s rock listener so this is a bit if new territory for me in terms of deep appreciation. Lots of awesome hits and fun lyrics. Also love the loud presence that the band invokes. Finally it’s absolutely crazy that the drummer lost an arm and is still that good!
I didnt own many albums growing up. I owned this one
In retrospect it´s funny that a lot of the "tough" guys back in high school in the eighties were actually listening to what amounts to pop. I love pop but don´t go around pretending you´re listening to hardcore antisocial violent shit when it´s more akin to Brittany Spears than Watain.
I really liked it
Mitäs hemmettiä, Def Leppard olikin näin kovaa! :D Oli kyllä melkein ihan 5/5 levy. Vähän vaan putosi 4 tähteen lopussa. Tosi hyvän mielen rockia. Parhaat: Women, Rocket, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Hysteria
Awful cheesy rock
I'll be honest, I wasn't too keen on listening to Def Leppard primarily because I had this image in my head of an 80s glam rock band that made irritatingly antiquated and streamlined hard rock music. And, in a way, I was right, but the album won me over purely based on its more ambitious and interesting execution of that cheesier hair metal sound. With longer songs here, Def Leppard is capable of fleshing out the mood of each one of these songs quite well, establishing unique sounds, riffs, patterns, and ideas that, even if you don't like them at the beginning, will force themselves into your head by the end. I can't recall the number of times a song started up and I was like "This one's not for me" and then by the time it got to the end, I was banging my head along to the chorus. The choruses are typically the highlights, with anthemic explosions of sheer catchiness not unlike many songs by Iron Maiden for example. My favorite choruses had to be "Women", "Rocket" (probably my favorite), and "Pour Some Sugar on Me". Instrumentally, the songs range from psychedelic to balladesque, to more typical throwback 70s hard rock-type sounds. I'll say the latter approach comes off as my least favorite, especially when those group, yelpy, chorus vocals come in; those genuinely sound terrible to me. I think the worst offender is "Excitable". Lyrically, there's not much to digest here. Not to say the lyrics aren't substantive, it's just that they take a back seat when compared to the rest of this album's parts. The song "Gods of War" stood out as the overtly political and anti-war song here, even stitching in a Reagen sample near the end. Aside from that, blood-pumping and magnetic themes of love are what you'll expect across most of these songs. I enjoy the songs near the beginning way more. As the album went on, I just found a lot of the vocal lines tended to bog the songs down. I will say, the first few songs won me over like nothing else. I even loved the slow ballad "Love Bites" which is such an unexpected left turn from the previous songs. Despite its many blaring flaws, there's still a charm to this album that I can't deny, so I still really enjoyed my time with it.
Production wise way more polished than Pyromania, but it sounds reconstituted and bloated. Songs sound the same, again. Overall: 2/10
Den här skrikrocken är inte riktigt min kopp te. Tycker det mesta låter likadant och är mer skränigt än melodiskt och njutbart. Hysteria är nog bäst. Och den är inte jättebra.
Alltid varit svag för pudelrock från 80-talet och Def Leppard är inget undantag. Det här är musikens motsvarighet till Walking dead eller Sons of anarchy, rätt platt egentligen men ändå väldigt underhållande.
While I recognize that this album would definitely be considered successful by most measures and can appreciate the fact that it did produce a lot of classic rock hits, and this album is full of them that's for sure, there was only a handful of tracks I had never heard before, I do think even the best of bubble gum stadium pop rock is still not something I really care for.
An original classic!! My late teen years, oh the memories attached to this album!
Classic.
One of those albums where you don't really realize you're progressing through it. Not a bad thing but nothing stand out.
sometimes it is okay to close your mind to new experiences
Rocks like a mother sucker.
Finally. Glam metal that works.
Glam rock-metal. Varios megahits. Un 4.
Glam metal, rock, ochentero.
I am dumbfounded by the high ratings given to this album. This is heavily produced garbage. The 80s were the worst thing to happen to the world: Reagan, Thatcher, day-glo clothes, coke, synthesizers, and hair metal. Barf.
High octane rock and roll baby
Bombastic, over the top, and bags of fun. The only drawback to this album is it’s slightly overlong.
And the tunes kept on coming!
I had forgotten how good this album was. Certainly a turbulent time for the band so when Mutt Lange became the producer (I believe) they were in safe hands. Seven big hits off the album - some achievement! I still have the CD that I bought as soon as it came out, with cuttings from rock magazines at the time! Must dig it out and have a read sometime…
Skin on skin.....
What an incredible amount of hits you know from the radio, parties, disco or whatever. The sound is almost too big and perfect. Lyrics are mostly stupid and cheesy, but here nobody cares. The record is way too long and the songs are hard to keep apart, so it all blurs into an overproduced mess of sweet pop trying to sound like hard rock. One or two songs are really fun, but the album as a whole is just too much to be enjoyable.
For the record, when I’ve mentioned ‘bad and boring slabs of party rock’ in my previous reviews, this has been what I’ve been talking about. Almost always the same plodding mid slow tempo throughout the album, with the occasional spot where they go double time for half a bar. Hair Metal has the exact same problem as Prog to me; I have no idea why anyone would want to sound like this. By which I mean the quality of the music itself. The extra point I’m going to give this is for the production, because this sounds fantastic. Such a shame that this sound is attached to this over-hyped nonsensical bore of an album. And I’ve not even mentioned the lyrics, which were so uniformly sexist as to put me in a bad mood from the first track. I mean fuck me man, that one was bad
Surely the very album the term 'guilty pleasure' was coined for? It makes me feel like a happy 14 year old. Love it. Favourite track: The trinity of Animal/Love Bites/Pour Some Sugar On Me is hard to beat
🤘😝🤘
Fucking classic!
That's an easy one .... I love this disc
Very popular album when it came out but not interesting to me in any way other than as a cultural artifact. I thought this list was more interesting than a popularity contest?
It wouldn't feel right to have *no* Def Leppard in this collection, I suppose, but this seems like a completely arbitrary choice for an album, especially since it's not what I think of as their defining album, "Pyromania". Most of this album seems like lighter-rock variations on that previous album's songs, although "Pour Some Sugar on Me" is one of their singles that seemed more like vintage Def Leppard. Overall, though, this album seems so much more anodyne than "Pyromania", and much more of a trend towards Journey-style rock than what they were playing before, which I guess was the point (according to the Wikipedia article) but still disappointing. And such a *long* album too, for what you get. Maybe it was the sympathy vote for the poor drummer? I've always been impressed that they didn't ditch him after the gruesome accident (and that he didn't decide to bow out), and although he definitely had to adopt a different drumming style afterwards, it's more or less worked for all of them (although it would have been nice if he had been able to stick with physical drums, as the drum pads just don't have the same sound).
occasionally it was better than I expected
Is this the worst music the world has ever produced or do I just need to lighten up and have some fun? This was the debate I had with myself while listening to this album. If AC/DC is a cold beer at BPs, Def Leppard is the warm Lucky lager at the bottom of your hockey bag that under the right circumstances might make you say “that wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be”
1.9. I've never really liked Leppard and this go through did not change my mind. Fun fact Album producer mutt Lange was married to shania twain, and mutt cheated on her with her best friend. Mutt and the friend then married each other. Then shania got with the friend's ex and got married. Couple swap, kinda weird. Shania was extremely good looking in her prime
Doesn't have the magic of Pyromania. The word overproduced comes to mind. It could just be that I prefer my drummers to have two arms.
It's of its time, but still pretty great. Some real solid radio hits and good jams. Definitely a monster album. 3.8
Awesome thanks.
FUCK deaf leopards
Idc
Wild album cover. It's a vibe and I'm into it more than I would've expected to be. "It" here being the album art. Sorry Def Leppard, the music and lyrics just seem so mid, to me.
It's alright.
Hard metal was never my thing. This album did not convert me. Only two songs kind of recognizable "Put Some Sugar on Me" and "Hysteria".
Unexpectedly enjoyable. The production had the ideal pop punch for a commercial rock album, everything sounded immaculate and the songs were mostly very memorable. Only major flaw is that, at 62 minutes, it drags for a supposed grab at pop.
My childhood<3
Highly enjoyed, recommend
naja, mehr gewollt als gut
love it!
This album rocks. It’s basically their greatest hits.
Just hate Def Lappard. Will not listen.
I was sort of intrigued to listen to this. The "Fargo Rock City" book I read recently was the story of a fan of "heavy metal" which translated as "hair metal" - it was all Def Leppard and Motley Crue which I always considered weak and lame and not really metal. Well, I'm ashamed to say I actually enjoyed the fast half of this record with the thinnest layer of irony. It felt like being in a Top Gun movie or something. But about half way through the irony wore off and I got sick of it. I guess I can now see the appeal. I like Ghost after all who are like a cross between proper metal and Abba.
What Paul said….
Best album yet. I'm now a huge def fan
2.5 stars. There are lots of interesting elements to the tracks. Very excited vocals, big thumping drums, shredding guitars, echoing backing vocals. But it gets kinda tired as the album goes on. Some songs are toooo long. Pour Some Sugar on Me is such a ridiculous song. The title track Hysteria is kinda cool though. It all sounds VERY 80s hair metal
It’s not doing it for me. Overly produced and polished with no real fun or soul or balls.
See, that's what caught me so nicely off guard about yesterday's "British Steel" by Judas Priest (#66): I didn't need irony or nostalgia to have big time fun with it. Hysteria, on the other hand, which I did listen to backthen™, needs heaps of both now. A monumental achievement in megalomaniac Radio Hard Rock, with all the bAnGeRs, yes, but: cheesy, goofy, almost clownish today. And aggressively super-sized American, somehow, out of... Sheffield? That said, I still can't quite hate this and might even do a dramatic lip sync performance to Love Bites, in a car ride w/ commercial radio situation, but this album aged into Music For Memes.
This is my middle school soundtrack and while I left behind this style of music, this re-listen gave me chills. It's a 4.5, but not willing to hit 5.
I liked this more than I expected, probably because (to quote Wikipedia) the band's goal was to create "a hard rock version of Michael Jackson's Thriller, in that every track was a potential hit single", which disappointed their "heavy metal fans". Still, few of the "hit singles" were hits with me. Even though this album had 7 singles released, the only one that I recognized was Pour Some Sugar on Me. I liked Love Bites and I sort of liked Armageddon It and Hysteria.
Yawn. This is a me thing but I get put to sleep by 80’s glam/stadium/hair/etc Just nothing going on for me
Very strong four. More like a 4 and 1/2.
This album was fun! It's weird how something can be so prototypically 80s and also have no synthesizers. It was probably a little overly long but I did really enjoy my listens.
Big time stupid 80s band, and I only have room in my heart for ACDC when it comes to big time stupid 80s bands.
Maybe the crest of the hair metal zeitgeist, where everything began to roll back and unwind from. Sitting on the edge of the nineties and still bellowing the over indulgence of the 80s, Hysteria has insanely slick production quality. Half of the tunes you know as singles the other half could masquerade as one. I distinctly remember this album as av first grader at the time. Insane that hair metal was an option for me then. It's groundbreaking in excess to an extent and is borderline obnoxious how much you want to hate it but can't.
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This album was a juggernaut. I think I've bought this 3-4 times in my life in various formats. There is very little filler on here.
Not terrible, but very hard to take this type of hyper-polished 80's pop-rock seriously...
ug
I forgot how much I hate this album. 2/5
An excellent rock album, full of hit tracks that will remain in your head for days after listening. I was glad to listen to it in its entirety for the first time.
I mean, it has some bangers. It's actually stronger than I was expecting. It's VERY 80s, of course. For better and worse.
Hits upon hits.
I listened to the whole thing. Felt like a chore.
Bloated and samey, but the energy is decent. Pyromania is better.
More of a “Deaf” Lep fan after listening to the album than beforehand. Great threefer with Animal, Love Bites, & Pour Some Sugar On Me. Simple beats and base lines, but songs started sounding similar by the end of the album (which ran a little long and got annoying.) L already had Pour Some Sugar on her liked songs playlist. I’m not adding any Def songs to mine or exploring any further. Overall, liked it (2.8*s)
The worst of the "rock icons". The further behind we left this trash the better music became.
Ronald Reagan’s best vocal performance
Jsuis pas le plus grand fan du rock des années 80 à la Kiss, Motley Crüe et metallica, mais cet album a une touche plus hard rock et un peu moins cheesy que d’habitude
Another 80s glam-rock/soft heavy metal album. OK songs on it but a sound and style that is somehow dated at this time
Oh man I can believe I’m saying this but I really had a good time with this one. I kept putting it off for weeks until i decided to take the leap … and … it’s a generally strong record - a really tight back to back hit middle, sandwiched by a well paced beginning and end. Yes it’s hair metal, yes it’s corny at times but it’s better than a lot of middle of the road records on and off this list.
meh
Ну прикольно для древних рок-динозавров из 70х, но слушать это я ещё раз конечно же не буду
I am gonna be honest did not listen to all of this album. I do not usually listen to this type of music. Probably wouldn't listen again. All of the elements like the singing and instrumental kinda blend together;whether that be a good thing or a bad thing, I don't know.
Successful but soulless 80's hair metal
Awesome
This album takes me back to probably the best time of my life. My dad taught me to play drums to this album. I remember him, my sister (RIP), and I sitting on the floor, each with a pair of sticks, banging the hell out of our light blue 90s style couch before we moved to the drum set. Early 2000s, just us 3. Love Bites is the best DL song. I’ve always admired the DL drummer. One arm and he can play like that? Sick.
So outdated... I had never really listened to Def Leppard and I will never again.
I zoned out towards the end but goddamn I had more fun than I expected. More than once my brain expected what I was listening to to break into what I then realised is an Aerosmith song. I guess I don't know the difference, sorry boys. It would have been fun but gross to be in this band.
Album cover is giving metal, and I was right about that. Have never heard of them and I'm in the mood for loud sounds so here we go. First song, powerful start. It is two step beat and the second one is louder. Ouu it's not screamy metal, he sings normally, but does talk louder in some lines. Definitely liking the guitar and the beat that makes it richer. Amazing chorus. I like his voice too. I expected this to be hard listening, but it ain't. Head banging sounds, soo good. Instrumental break was a perfect addition after the verse. I'm done, this is such a banger can't get enough of it. Also LOVED THE WAY HE SAID "WOMEN" AND "MEN" SUCH FUN. Second song, rocky start, but there was a radio talking before it. Vocalising now, not a good voice, but that doesn't matter. I love the fast beat, it's so catchy. Great chorus too, not better than the last one, but I'm loving it. Fully different vibe with the constant beat, it's giving Indian music if it was rock. One of the amazing instrumental breaks right here just because of how unique it is. Louder guitar slamming, aaand back to the original instrumental chords, lyrics came in and everything is in order now. In the outro they mixed all the sounds they have used chaotically, however, in order. Third song, it's nothing drastically different from other rock songs, first verse I mean. Ohh chorus is catchy and interesting, the lyrical flow is good too. Other two songs stand out more, though the chorus here is veeery good, I would scream along with it. Instrumental break fits the overall vibe in the song, which they haven't done before exactly, and transitions greatly into the chorus. There was a skip, and then chorus continued quickly. 4th song, slow start with different instruments. It became upbeat, but it's still downtempo, in the chorus. I love their style, it's so karaoke cored. It's break and I feel like some guy is like "ah ah ah ah", satisfying low key. The chorus has the same vibe with how lyrics were said as in before songs. The break was kinda basic. It has a Micheal Jackson vibe, the way he emphasises on some words, and beat hits hard. Robotic sounds at the end. 5th song, nostalgic start, sounded smth I've heard before. Gun shot beats. Hip hop cored singing, I always love that in rock. He's basically talking fast though. First time here, when I liked the verse more than the chorus, which is not as interesting and unique as the verse. Chorus seems more interesting second time, buut the both verses were way more better. Break was not as good as the other mentioned ones before. The last verse was veery good, too. Outro seems like it's gonna be repeating chorus. 6th song, it's a classical rock now. Nothing dramatically different from what I've already heard. Apparently this is glam metal and I so agree. It's not the kind of metal I expected. The chorus is catchy, and has a Beatles vibe slightly. "Are you gettin' it" and "Armageddon it" WHAT A RHUME, just realised. They have a memorable vibe, and a way of displaying titles in the songs very well. Break was very short, it isn't even a break tbh. It slowly faded away with the chorus. 7th song, I haven't this much for a long time here. Slow and constant sound start. Some nature-like sounds, and now people marching ones too. Such a New Order beat drop, I expected harder than that, but nope, which was better. Ohh, it's getting progressive, and harder too. The singing sounds like other songs, so not a stand out, so chorus here is better than the verse. They do short lyrics in the chorus, which in the long run sounds better, he says something the guitar goes on and so on, quite classic way of rock too, gotta love that(btw these are all imo, and based on what I've listened to before). Men talking and bombs dropping and exploding sounds at the end. 8th song, definitely a bop already. It's kinda basic, and less unique compared to the other songs, but I get the vibe depending on the fact I've been listening to them for some time now. This was the worst song I've heard here, but it doesn't mean it was bad, it was just worse than the other ones. The break is giving here more than in others though. Outro edged me, AAND IT WAS A TRANSITION TO THE 9TH SONG, hard start. He's screaming already too, low key blues vibe, but it's metal cored, the lyrics in () are one of the best and catchy ones on this album. Love the chorus too, I'm gonna enjoy the song and then write down notes this time. I LOVED THE START OF THE INSTRUMENTAL BREAK, BUT IT DIDN'T LAST LONG. Otherwise it's a masterpiece from every angle. 10th song, HELLO I KNOW THIS BEAT, IS IT A SAMPLE OR ORIGINALLY THEIRS? JUST REMEMBERED, I LISTENED TO IT YESTERDAY, IT SOUNDS LIKE PINK FLOYD'S "goodbye blue sky". Thing is it sounded familiar even when I listened to Pink too, too nostalgic. Now the song, it had that beat at the start mode. Now it's fully different vibe, but not complaining, it progressed well. Beat came back and I love itt. 11th song, WHAT ARE THESE SOUNDS, IT'S AND I'M SCARED, IT'S GETTING FAST AAAAAAAH. Awesome start, the deep voice it getting faster, just too unique. Sounded like Darth Vader too. Overall the song is too good I must say. Not very, but still progressive, he started screaming for a moment. Outro was chorus fading away. 12th song, this has Cher's "love and understanding" vibe based on the title only tho, the genre is totally different. Less unique, but still worth it, this song is. Break isn't giving, I wanted more. Chorus isn't catchy and sounds like a verse almost, but that's something too in a good way. Basically, 5 star album instantly, I expected much worse than this since I didn't know the artist and metal can be hard to listen to, but luckily I was ready for worse and got the one I wanted more, soo yea I vibed with every song as much as it needed me to.
Amazing record
3.5. It’s cheesy and big and loud and stupid, but it’s kind of the platonic ideal of pop metal. The production is so crisp, the lyrics are fun and easy to sing along to, the hooks are unreal. I have a lot of great memories of listening to Def Leppard with my dad when I was younger. Sometimes you just gotta turn your brain off and enjoy the tunes.
I have to give this 5 stars for being one of the most played albums when I was a preteen. This signified my transition from kids music to grown up music. I even had a poster of the band on my wall! Listening to this again brought me right back to my childhood.
Not great
Very good
My fav band in hard rock, and it's their staple. Perfect album.
Not for me.
Fun for a bit, couldn’t listen to them for too long
I can fully admit that this doesn't suck as much as Pyromania. I still find it very difficult to listen to. Pop "metal" is just not a vibe I enjoy. From an enjoyment perspective, I'll call this a 1.5 (rounded down per protocol).
This album didn't really excite me. It was an interesting two listens because it just sounds so prototypical 80's hair metal. Fun stuff to listen to with your brain turned off, but it didn't really catch me as something I'd want to listen to after this listen. The Reagan overlay during "Gods of War" seems to have aged badly, with the false bravado of supposed American strength. 2/5 because it's just not my thing, but really a 3/5 because I can at least see why it's on the list as a cultural touchstone of 80's hair-glam rock. 3/5
I can't believe I have to gatekeep fucking Def Leppard's Hysteria. But first, yes the sound is very late 80's and peak Hair Metal. But that doesn't take away from its achievements including 7 charting singles. Not impressed? This album was so monu-fucking-mental that it produced those singles in a time period of 1 1/2 years. In today's music that's enough time for the current pop-ranked singers backed by an excel spreadsheet of writers and producers to reinvent themselves three times over. Not enough? Fine. Let's remove a drummer's arm. This is DL's first record in the four years following the accident that claimed drummer Rick Allen's arm. He relearned how to play the drums on an electric kit designed for him for this purpose. And finally, this album fucks. This album fucks so hard that the people giving it shitty dad-rock ratings probably don't recognize that could have been conceived to this album. 5 out of fucking 5 🤘
Great fun - took me back :)
2/5
Up there with the best hair metal albums. I’m not a massive fan of hair metal so not one I’ll come back to.
Not my thing but always familiar and enjoyable. Extra point for being good despite all of their tragedies.
I have never really listened to much Def Leppard as I thought they were more heavy rock or metal. When I think of them I only think of "Pour Some Sugar On Me" and I just wasn't into them. I was so surprised at many of there songs. they are a little horny and over the top but God Damn I love Classic rock.
C’mon this is just fun. The big sound! The excessive layering! The giant epic insanely produced choruses! Yes there’s a nostalgia factor for me, but I don’t dig it just for that. It’s the whole crazy prototypical 80s glam rock sound that makes it good. Maybe so bad that it’s good, but good nonetheless. I’m all in with this one and not even sorry about it. And BTW, listen to the guitars. Sorry but you’re gonna hear the same riffs and motifs you’ll find on “real metal” records. Polished isn’t a crime any more than pretentious, musical virtue signaling via “rawness” is.
- Half these songs sound the exact same lol but they're fun - Solid hair metal
- quintessential classic rock - some really good songs in here - averaging 5+ minutes per song is tough
Very cliched but very fun. This is all the things you want from glam rock: ridiculous, poppy, sonic, silly. I bet it's even better in a huge stadium full of people with headbands and glitter. I knew a lot of the songs on this album, but wasn't familiar with the title track (which is actually quite good). The whole thing is so satisfyingly bad, that it's actually good. Though it could be cut down by about 20 minutes.
Big slab of cheese. 80s hair bands are just outrageous rock slap stick that even Weird Al can't write a parody. This album sums it up. I like some of it but it's just got too much of that trashed at 2 am in a dive bar sound.
Pretty emblematic of 80s arena glam rock. I'm not a huge Leppard fan but the album belongs on the list. A handful of good songs but it overstayed its welcome. Over an hour of what felt like the same songs structure again and again. This is Leppard at its best and even then it's pretty mediocre for me. 2.5 stars, probably bump it up a bit if they cut 2 songs of filler.
trying to sound like acdc with electric drums.
I saw them get inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and it was the only time I’ve seen them live. I must admit they were great. I forgot how massive this record was. 7 singles? Crazy. Still not my favorite genre, but this album is a fun listen.
Nothing significantly interesting about this album. Huge respect to Rick Allen tho.
Listened to half. Forgettable and mid
Thoughts before listening: Overproduced 80 hard rock. The hits are classics, although I believe Pyromania is the bigger album with bigger songs. This should be a fun listen, and I've been pleasantly surprised by the deep cuts on a lot of the big hard rock albums on this list. Review: I don't really like this. I mean I know a lot of these songs and "Pour Some Sugar On Me" is really fun, but this brand of hard rock just doesn't do anything for me. This is what the bands I like from the 80s were rebelling against. I can recognize that this is "good" while also really not enjoying it. 2-stars.
Veldig def Leppard stemning
I never did really listen to too much Def Leppard, as a matter of fact if they came in the radio I would switch the channel. But they're not bad, probably great to work out to. They weren't all headbanging songs, some more melodic stuff, too.
Glorious 80s heavy pop.
3rd best leppard album
It's not entirely rock it's not entirely pop and somehow lost all the great parts of both. Bland and a chore to listen 'til the end.
Rating: 6/10 Decent album overall. This album starts off great with all of the hits besides Hysteria on the first half. The whole album is incredibly cheesy and cliche but the first half is fun to listen to. A lot of catchy vocal and instrumental melodies, good guitar riffs, and great production. After this first half, the band starts to reuse ideas that simply don't work as well so the album begins to lose its appeal pretty quickly. Hysteria definitely saves the second half from being a complete dud. Generally speaking the songs were too long as well for the entire album, could have been better with maybe only 8 songs and 35-40 minutes of music. Favorite songs: Women, Animal, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Armageddon It, Hysteria. Worst songs: Gods Of War, Run Riot.
Great album, really fun to listen to from start to finish
hair metal sucks. the music is bad, and the lyrics are even worse. def leppard cares more about their looks than their sound and it shows, as their music is repetitive, soulless, and just plain awful.
Quintessential hair metal. Highly produced, catchy and dripping with horny sexual tension. Out of 12 tracks only 2, Gods Of War (a strangely patriotic type song that didn’t feel like it fit at all) and Run Riot (a life sucks let’s rebel and be wild song) weren’t littered with double entendres and sex. Still, for the genre definitely a fitting and solid album. 3/5 one armed drummers approve.
If you like 80s rock music you will love that album. But if you are like me it's all just a bit 'meh'.
Þetta er svaka fínt 80s metalpopp. Nú er metalpopp hins vegar ekki mjög skemmtilegt. Þrjár stjörnur fyrir vandað handverk eða tvær stjörnur fyrir að leiðinlegt form?
A couple of great songs, a bunch of duds and very overproduced. Good for it’s genre but not saying much there.
Better than I thought, need to drink before this. Straight strippers music
Classic
well that was fun could do without 'excitable'
Not me
MARMELADE. Ils étaient au HF l'année dernière. Je regrette pas particulièrement de les avoir manqués. 2,5
Exactly what a hair metal band should sound like, huge drums, synths and of course shredding guitar solos. Def Leppard aimed to make Hysteria the metal equivalent of Michael Jacksons Thriller, and whilst I don't think they quite pulled it off, it is very close. Being at the concerts touring this album would have been incredible, heck I wanted to start head banging in the office as I was listening! Best: Pour Some Sugar On Me Worst: Run Riot
Casi omito escuchar el album tras ver la portada. Habría sido un error. No es jevi insorpotable metal, sino rock durillo. Me gusta la melodía de varias canciones y las mezclas de sonidos, las voces rudas (las no jevimetalicas) y los juegos de agudos.
Please, I can't... When is this app going to give me something that's not insufferable?
This one is unfair for me to rate too. With very very slight 80's metal cheese ... this is still an absolute power house of an album. 8 out of 10 songs I still remember most the words to. I'm not even sure if I had this album back then.
This is stadium rock at its height. I grew up with this band, as my parents love this band and it was routinely played in the car on road trips. As I got older, they sort of got left behind.. My style and likes changed but I could sing every lyric on this album. As Def Leppard songs, they're not their best songs. They're the most accessible in my option. Pour Some Sugar On Me might be one of their biggest songs... But honestly, it's pretty shitty. But catchy and easy to sing along to. The guitar work is underrated. The vocals are iconic. This band has its place in music history and will go down with a great legacy. They're still touring... And they still sound good compared to their peers of their age. Music still is well played... Drummer has one arm and out drums contemporaries. Not my cup of tea anymore. But nostalgia hit well.
classic 80s Rock
For some reason, I thought Def Leppard was "serious" metal like Metallica or Iron Maiden. Turns out, they're more akin to Van Halen, which is a brand of metal I do actually like. That said, this album is extremely fun. I only knew "Pour Some Sugar on Me" and had no idea it was Def Leppard. This album had me so hyped. I had a rockin' good time and would give it 4.5 if I could.
Archetypal hair metal. Bombast. Bright-ass (over) production. Drums like they're played in an aircraft hangar full of mics. Noodly overdrive guitars, with very little in the way of actual memorable tunes. Very silly mantra-like lyrics, mostly about shagging and that. Quite funny. Quite fun. Pretty stupid. A Pirelli calendar of a record. Titillating in passing but sad (and a bit of a red flag to be honest) if that's your definition of art. Fully aware this makes me sound a pretentious killjoy. Maybe I am. But up yours Def Leppard 😆🖕
Ein bekanntes Album der 80er, ist gut aber haut mich nicht mehr vom Hocker.
I was very surprised at how much I liked "Hysteria." I was expecting something more "80's Metal" like Motley Crue, but I now feel like Def Leppard is more "80's Rock" like Journey or Foreigner. The melodies are much smoother, and the production is very high. If I could remove "Pour Some Sugar On Me," I think it would elevate the album even more, as that song feels so cheesy and lame compared to the other songs on the album. However, I could see myself listening to this album again and more of their music, now that I know their non-singles are better than some of their singles like "Pour Some Sugar On Me."
I’ve never really listened to Def Leppard before and this album hasn’t convinced me to listen to much more. It sounded like very generic, sickly sweet pop metal to me. There’s some cool songwriting but it mostly comes across a bit bland and passionless.
def leppard was a band on the rise with the release of their album pyromania in 1983. and then december 31, 1984 happened. what happened on that date, you may ask? drummer rick allen was in a car accident where he lost his left arm. somehow he completely relearned how to play the drums WITH ONE ARM! and how did the band respond? not only did they release the biggest album of their career, but it was also one of the biggest selling albums of all time. hysteria was intentionally produced with a more commercial sound in mind. the album produced seven(!) hit singles, six of which took up the entire first side of the album, including (unfortunately) longtime strip club anthem “pour some sugar on me”. for my money, the opening riff to “women” might be one of the coolest opening riffs to an album ever. also, the song “rocket” is about two minutes too long. oh, and the song “gods of war” is a pretty cool little anti-imperialist protest song they snuck in, just for good measure. this is an absolute beast of an album. pop metal perfection. probably the greatest hair metal album of all time. highlights: “women”, “armageddon it”, “gods of war”, “hysteria”.
This album is amazing. This is pinnacle 80s hair-band-glam-arena-rock. Solid rock, beginning to end.
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.
Whoever produced rock music this pristinely should be shot on the spot, only gets a 2 because Animal is a banger, the rest was like listening to the same song over and over
Skoro svaka je banger, super glam album.
Bit glammy, but some gid riffage.
Old school rocker...still awesome
i hope i can give zero stars, wtf was that?
Pure nostalgia
Great Glam Rock. Liked Hysteria and Animal the most
Glam metal, rock, ochentero.
Good album, although sounds aged.
I respect what they are doing here, and this album was WILDLY successful, but I just can't find joy in this.
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.
Pour some sugar on me was good, a couple other fun songs but mostly meh
I tried!
Cheesey radio friendly butt rock. Some of the courses really get me anyway.
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.
Am I writing this through the eyes of me when it was first released .... or how I feel about it now when I hear any of these songs on the radio (jabbing so hard at the controls with potential to break the first knuckle)...? It's probably not fair - I mean yes I bought this album upon release and listened to it with as much muster as my greasy 1988 mullet could handle. My reaction upon seeing this cover now was at "...is Pour Some Sugar On Me actually the most awful yet successful single ever released?" Yet I haven't listened to the album since probably 1990 so here goes the nostalgia trip ... (...i honestly think like 8 of these songs were singles if not hits - Mutt Lange said he wanted to make the "Thriller" of rock albums and credit to him, that crazy bastard really did it...) OK it's honestly an impressive feat of engineering - the technology and the way that technology was used to record these tracks is fascinating to me. Creatively (over-)layered guitars with odd tones, the produced-to-death background vocals (and in 1987!) that would make any 2020s pop star envious [some of those songs had as many as 120 background voices WTF], the drum replacement (all drum sounds were sampled which I don't even know how this was done pre digital workstation)... I love reading and thinking about this. It's just that it overshadowed the songs for the most part. Likely they would have been cheese to begin with. I do still get occasional enjoyment out of hearing a very early Def Leppard song (definitely from High and Dry, a few from Pyromania) just for that more raw British attack (NWOBHM!). Would these songs have aged better with .... fewer or less-processed guitars? fewer background vocals? or are the myriad soft ballads - oh so many of them, god they're bad - just what they are and would still have sucked? eh maybe they're not as bad when listening to the full album in context, in the sense that they don't anger me when they start like they do on radio :) I'm sure it's a stupid fine line that many people would dismiss but even the original Bringing On the Heartbreak (not the lousy re-release with keyboard lines added) from High & Dry - which was or could have been a total cheese single if given the Hysteria treatment - had balls. That guitar sound - real amps, etc. blahblahblah one lump or two it doesn't matter. Do I like the album? Not really, no. I'll be curious to see if this album is as polarizing as I expect it to be in reviews. In the end it's exactly what I'd remembered: very expensive junk food. I loved that pixy-stix sugar rush in 1988. I try to eat avocados now. Yeah yeah I'm no fun. I'm gonna give it a gutless 3 though I'll probably never put it on again, but it really was a cultural phenomenon even if a lot of people want to deny it. 5/10 3 stars.
So close to being a 5, but Side 2 is about 2 songs too long & songs are weaker except for Hysteria.
If someone doesn’t understand what pop hair-metal is, this is the album to listen to, still fun though