Hysteria

This is my favorite album overall for the 1980s. This is the album that I listen to most of all from that decade and only second to The Who, Quadrophenia. Hysteria blew me away when it first came out in 1987. The production was the best I ever heard and nothing since then has overtaken it. Mutt Lange was at his peak and his pushing the band members paid off.

Bland

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

It's hard to imagine a more mainstream focused rock album.

It's been a long, long time since I listened to this album. I was 9 years old when it came out and boy it was huge. It really was everywhere. A few years later grunge hit and overly produced albums like this were instantly dead and forgotten. Time plays tricks as I remember this as being much more robotic and sickly sweet than it actually is. More pop than rock, but there is still a rock edge buried in there. Almost like magic those hooks immediately flood back when hearing the songs, even though I believed I had forgotten them, and I find myself singing along.

just banger after banger

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

Overproduced, undercooked. The pop of rock music. I see why people love it, and in small doses it can be fun, but an hour long album was just too much for me.

Amazing.

lots of classics, but not really my thing. 2.6/5

gta vice city muziek 2/5

This is stadium hair metal, ready for grunge to come in and kill the ever loving shit out of it. Pour Some Sugar On Me is the soundtrack to every barn party with the increasingly aged and irrelevant. This album has had all its hard edges sanded over, and as a result lacks the bite of something trying to convey something. Its just selling a distorted guitar sound. It is just a commercial product at this point. And holy god does this album overstay its welcome.

Awsome

Thought I may enjoy this for nostalgic reasons… nope, the sounds and composition are antithetical to my musical preferences. A solid 2 star rating.

Too much sugar on meeeeee

80’s hair rock. Not my thing.

nachos

very smool

3.5/5. There's no reason for an album like this to be over one hour long. Mostly impressed by the fact that their drummer is an amputee who never let his physical disabilities impair his playing ability, that's resiliency baby.

Good for what it was. Kids enjoyed it

Solid

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

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

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

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

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

Pure bliss of 80s metal. Just what I needed for a friday afternoon

It was ok

Killer! Glam arena is a great combo, this was way less intense than I was expecting. Favorite Track: Women

Never heard of Def Leppard before and listening to this, somehow I constantly felt that they trying too hard, I don't know.

Glam rock

Well I tried. I just can't unhear the small town drunk guys singing pour some sugar on me at karaoke right after the inevitable carrie underwood. This music isn't really saying anything at all except ooh yeah get it yeah do it whoa yeah and some other unintelligible things. But maybe i just don't get it

This was mega popular and I didn't like it then. I hate it even moreso now. It's really vacuous and indulgent. Bleh!

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

nah i know this, it fucking sucks. i can tolerate metal and appreciate it, even though its not my thing, but this is way too overproduced and im impressed how this has a 3.40 average review. because its disguting the amount of layers of effects they introduce to the songs. 80s are cool and stuff but this is the kind of thing that makes me wanna puke whenever i need to listen to something made in the 80s.

I literally didn't notice when this album finished. Boring af

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

60/100

Classic DL, if dated. Nothing really stood out to me - it is their sound, and I've never listened to a full album through despite hearing Photograph a thousand times, but I'm not sure this is pushing me to change that either.

Not a fan.

It wasn't good then. It hasn't gotten better with time. An extra star to make up for the missing arm of the drummer.

I am so extermely surprised I am in love with this, Im a total poptimist but I ever expected that to translate to 80's hits. The harmonies and compositions are perfect

Great classic rock!

Strippers worldwide owe Def Leppard points for all the cash they’ve made while working to Pour Some Sugar

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

J'aime le glam ? 💅

ah oui acdc je connais 🎀

I once had the misfortune to witness the awful, dreary, third division Def Leppard live (I'd gone to see the band third on the bill). Back then, the drummer still had both arms. They were awful then, but this, this album is even worse. Dreadful.

Just awful

One hour of Def Leppard is way too much. Three stars if the could have cut the album to under forty minutes.

SKIN ON SKIN LET THE LOVE BEGIN WOMEEEEEN!!! So omnipresent was Def Leppard's music in the 80's that if you lived through it, you were likely desensitized to their unique and powerful sound. Listening again now, it's as though some little-known fertility god had awoken once more to put on its red leather pants and splinter the Earth’s crust with pure sexual energy of a divine nature. Like a percentage of 80’s music and theater, the magic in these songs seems to have emerged from something similar to a lack of self-awareness, which allowed for unique or uncomfortable aspects, and sometimes transcended to greatness. No one born from ‘76 to ‘84 wants to hear “Pour Some Sugar On Me” or “Love Bites” ever again. But if you Dave Mustaine those tracks, Hysteria might replenish your 80's magic flask.

Pure 80s trash, hated it when it came out still do

A quintessential dad rock album. Not my thing but pretty solid, and Pour Some Sugar On Me obviously slaps. Also mad respect for the drummer

It is what it is

So much going on in this album, lots of guitars and chorus pedals. Corny songs and mainly pop ballads. This would be fun stuff to play live. Pour some sugar on me is obviously a banger. The rest I don’t feel like I need to listen to again

hair metal perfection

Accrocheur, accessible, mais facilement oubliable.

3-4

Good songs but the album itself is nothing to write home about.

Aged quite poorly: I have to say it isn't the worst rock album on this list by far, it's a classic dad rock album and it will always be that way. Issues arise when it comes to ageing the album which it doesn't look nearly as good. The out of date synths and almost 80s pop sound which just sounds so bleh now takes this experience down another point. One major banger but the rest wasn't great.

So cheesy but so damn good

Cheesy, but it sounded like they were having fun at least.

This shit reminds me of my Dad this shit is such a vibe. SATELLITE OF LOVEEEEEE

Staple of rock, solid album 7.5/10

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

Finaly good rock

I feel like I already did one by Def Leepard and used the anecdotes and quips I thought of... This was one of THE rock monoliths of my high school days and it is solid for what it is. What that is, however, is a fairly shallow pool.

jakoby pop soft rock asi idk, neco co bych cekal v radiu, nic ohromujiciho

Hit after hit after hit after hit. What a powerhouse of an album. 10/10.

Quite enjoyed this one

Lots of radio hits, but other than "Pour Some Sugar On Me", I was never a fan of Def Leppard.

Definitely not a Def Leppard fan. Interesting personal note though. I had never connected the song Hysteria with the album. I was familiar with the song, didn’t know the title, and didn’t know what it was about.

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

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

not a fan

Great to hear from Def Leppard again.

It is the epitome of 80s hair band. There were several songs that I knew. Overall I enjoyed the album. I felt though that many of the songs carried on a little too long. This lead to the album being over an hour long. By the end of it I was glad that it was over. It is better than a three but not really a four. I will round down.

Yeah it's official, I've totally fallen for glam metal. I've sort of known of Def Leppard for as long as I remember - they're one of my dad's favourite bands and he's always going on about the time he saw them in concert. Wasn't really my thing as a kid but now I've grown up and really got into rock music so I totally get it. This album was a hard rock rush and I couldn't help but feel like a bit of a badass listening to this. Overall this is just ridiculous, fun and thoroughly enjoyable. Favourite: Rocket

Sugar on me has been planted. Unfortunately, the rest of the album is the slowest and the most boring car crash I have ever heard. Literally nothing happens during the songs. Apparently, the drummer recorded the album while having only one arm. It's very impressive, kudos to him, but why does it all sound like the whole band had a collective one arm to use instruments? Few nice moments, but otherwise a waste of time.

I was prepared to hate this, I’m allergic to most mainstream 80’s rock, but it’s almost hard to not to appreciate this big budget sound. If there’s a crime here, it’s the mega hit Pour Some Sugar on Me, which I personally find to be one of the worst ear worms ever conceived. The album as a whole is a little overly long, and it doesn’t shake up the sound enough to justify the length, but there are some undeniable hooks throughout that make me resist turning it off. I was truly blown away by some of the guitar tones, which has to be some of the best of the genre.

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

The essence of the phrase "old but gold."

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

3.5/5 Good old Metal cheese. This is junk food metal. You enjoy listening to it, but does it fill you up and change your life? No. But it's good for what it it is.

A little long but rousing hair metal often is. This isn't an album I'll obsess over but I did enjoy it and it's uplifting sound. Nothing else to say really!

I never got into hair metal when it came out but I admit this is a fun album.

I'm not sure I needed a full album of this but it's a lot more enjoyable than some other glamsludge.

I can understand why people like this - high energy, melodic, accessible, catchy, easy to sing along to. For me it's overblown, I find many of the lyrics annoying, it's not really my speed. The one I can get behind is "Pour Some Sugar On Me" - perhaps the celebratory feelings of hearing it at dozens of weddings has rubbed off over time. The other songs are essentially lesser versions of that song. I understand why this commercially successful album is on the list, but you won't find it in my regular rotation.

I really disliked their previous album "Pyromania," but they changed a lot in the 4 years in between. Became much more pop-oriented and playful. I can see the appeal. There should really only be one Def Leppard album on this list, and this should be it.

Sometimes I'll order a cheese pizza and then ask for extra cheese. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but at a certain point the essence of the pizza has been completely drowned in the cheese. Too much of a good thing. That's Def Leppard for me, I can enjoy a few songs here and there, but it becomes just too much 80s cheese pizza for me. Every once and a while is fine though.

A bit of a mixed bag for me personally, but I can definitely see why this is one of the 1001 albums. It's an extremely well done high energy rock album full of well written songs, and also has a slight experimental edge to it. Sometimes they took the experimental side a little too far and left me asking "what's going on...?," but I appreciate that they were willing to go there at all. Clearly they were just being really creative (it's not too derivative or too pretentious), but it doesn't always fit the song. However, when it does, it's amazing. My previous exposure to this album was just the chorus of "Pour Some Sugar On Me." I heard it in a YouTube video about songs One Direction ripped off, and apparently this was one of them. They played the chorus of "Midnight Memories" and then "Pour Some Sugar On Me," and I've got to agree it was extremely similar. I don't know if it's just because I'd heard it before, but "Pour Some Sugar On Me" ended up being one of my favourites on the album. It's just such a huge, infectious chorus. You can't help but sing along. This is the main strength of this album's songwriting. The hooks and choruses are huge and bombastic. I didn't enjoy all of them (some were annoying- for instance, I wasn't a fan of the chorus of "Women," which was a shame, as I was really enjoying the lyrics of the verse. I don't even know why, but I really enjoy songs that use that kind original sin/the fall trope. It's kind of a guilty pleasure of mine), but that's just a matter of taste. Lyrically, most of it is about sex (so not really that deep), but it was well done. The main thing I didn't enjoy lyrically was the "I don't care about love, I just wanna get laid" kind of message that was in a couple of the songs. I think that's a really sad, unhealthy mindset (is it even PC to say that these days? I don't even care: love is important). "Gods of War" is a great song. Trust me to say that, though, as it's the only "serious" song on the album. It has an anti-war message, and I appreciated that. I'm not sure if this album is a little front loaded or if I just got sick of it as it went on (especially since their sound is a LOT- 3 or 4 songs is fine, but after a while it can get a bit too much). There were good songs later on (the title track and "Gods of War"). But other than that, I enjoyed the first half a lot more. Favourite songs: Gods of War, Pour Some Sugar On Me

It’s a a fun shit and giggles album. Quite impressive the drummer found a way to carry on after the events of his arm tearing off. But all in all, too long and too unmemorable for me. 6,5 out of 10

Xx

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

Solid.

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

Practically flawless from start to finish. A masterclass in how every rock album should be. The production is absolutely crystal clear. This isnt an album that you listen to for profound lyrics but for its massive sound mainly from the drumming and guitar work make it sound colossal. There is too many bangers for it to get anything less than five stars

Its ok. Took me back to the 80's. Some good tunes on there and all in all good fun

Just perfect

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

Ein top Album 👍🏻🔝

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

"Skin on skin/Let the love begin." That line alone is enough to disqualify this record from any such list as this. The thin, tinny and synthetic sound (not to mention the neanthandrealically sexist lyrics would also do the trick). To choose one of many examples of defects, the faux hand-claps on "Animal" (for which they relied on a drum machine, as if they couldn't manage to organically perform such a basic musical maneuver on their own) are particularly egregious a sin, and that commission on a song that has a not unwinsome melody. Indeed, there's some suggestion of quality songs, but they're a struggle to spot, given the slathering of extreme cheesiness. Even the "good" songs are appalingly bad (lookin' at you "Pour Some Sugar on Me"). "The Gods of War" is just an eye-rolling attempt at seroiusness, one supposes. By combining the urge of giving the people what they want and not going broke by underestimating the taste of the listening public (especially the American variety), this record cemented DL's place as just about the the worst of the worst of the '80s – and that's quite an achievement.

Another classic that otherwise would have never been on my radar. Absolutely cracking from start to finish, with awesome guitar riffs and licks, killer vocals and bombastic drums.

Quality.

Pretty much everything about Def Leppard had passed me by until now (though I did recognise Pour Some Sugar On Me), but that was pretty good. Massively OTT, very glam, but bags of fun. He can't sing particularly well, but that doesn't even matter that much with this, it's half sung and half shouted anyway. Best if you don't really listen to their lyrics (they aren't offensive or anything, just a bit cliched), just nod your head to it and enjoy the GINORMOUS sound. 3/5 - in a similar vein to the Bon Jovi album we had quite a while ago, but not as catchy as that was. Almost a 4 though.

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

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

Well there's a time and place right? A road trip or mid life crisis as a middle aged man? JK! This kind of classic rock is somewhat a guilty pleasure at times and harks back to the seminal Air Guitar album I reference in other reviews. So it's not my bag that much any more but it's fun right?! 3.5 if I could

Ermmm well I guess it is what it is. It's not bad but there's only so long I can listen to this kind of dad rock and this felt like a looooong album.

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

I was raised on this

How tf is this an hour long.

3.5

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

Wuää, 1,5

Slaps

Always felt very average about these guys

oké maar zo zijn er veel van,

Pour some sugar on me sheesh ik kan het niet laten om dat niet mee te zingen. Iets teveel filler songs imo

Very dated man cheese for teenage boys. Not the stream of the 1980s I want to remember. No thanks!

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

Many of the songs sound the same but I like that one song so it was ok.

I've always been indifferent to Def Leppard. They're fine, in my estimation. Never took them too seriously, but I could understand why their music was so popular. I saw them live. They were good. On a closer listen, it's amazing how banal the songs are. I do like the music, there are melodies galore, and the call and response thing these guys have developed is catchy. And I'm fine with Joe Elliott's vocals. But my god, the lyrics are painful. "Skin on skin/Let the love begin/WOMEN!" from the opener had me snickering. And "You got the peaches, I got the cream" from "Pour Some Sugar On Me," was another that made me groan with embarrassment. This album sold 25 million copies. It was HUGE. And it's total nonsense. But it SOUNDS fantastic, it's massive, and they obviously did what they set out to do. Factor in the story of Ric Alllen (drummer) and that adds a compelling dimension to the story. But there are too many things about the album that are ridiculous. Just the way the massive gang of Leppards phrase the words "poore sum shuggar ohn maye" like they're some band of tough thugs is patently funny. So, whatever, I guess I'm way past my Def Leppard phase. When I need a nugget of catchy pop hard candy, I'll reach for Poppy.

yeah no. i can't take this music seriously. this is an easy one to cull from this list.

Ugh.

I was really hoping that this would be at the very least marginally easier to stomach than Pyromania was. It is in fact even more of a slog to listen to and get through. It's impressive to make something so boring and uninteresting and also give it such a needlessly long run time in the pre-CD era. It's absolutely mind boggling to me that this among the most sold albums of all time. After two records I now think that Def Leppard is perhaps the most boring and uninteresting and overrated band relative to "success" that there might be.

Love is like a bomb, baby, c'mon get it on Livin' like a lover with a radar phone Lookin' like a tramp, like a video vamp Demolition woman, can I be your man? Razzle 'n' a dazzle 'n' a flash a little light Television lover, baby, go all night Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet Little miss innocent sugar me, yeah, yeah Now c'mon, take a bottle, shake it up Break the bubble, break it up Pour some sugar on me Ooh, in the name of love Pour some sugar on me C'mon, fire me up Pour your sugar on me I can't get enough 5/5

Not bad but not my thing

4.0

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

I loved this album, there wasn’t a bad truck on it, not all of the songs were suitable singles, but every song had a place on the album, and there were no fillers. Coupled with the fact that the album was made on the very difficult circumstances and the drummer only had one arm makes it even more remarkable. Do anything ages this album is this song gods of war where there are the VoiceOver is from Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, but I suppose if you are old enough to remember them then you can date the album if you’re not then it’s just another man and woman doing a voiceover. 5/5, This is Def Leppard at their best

Pour some sugar on me!!! Love it.... Enjoyed most songs on the album, but was a bit too much like axel rose for my liking

Holy shit what an album. This album and Pyromania are generation defining rock albums. They basically decided what the late 80s were going to sound like for rock music.

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

Ik dacht dat dit een stuk hardere muziek zou zijn, maar is een beetje glamrock a la Aerosmith. Niet slecht, maar ook niet echt mijn ding.

fordómar mínir fyrir 15 ára svíum í denimvestu, skeggbrodda og lummu í gúlnum verða til þess að þessi fær 2,5.

Def Leppard's trademark have always been energetic, radio-friendly rock songs with 80s songwritghting and produciton sensibilities. And this is exactly what we get here. With every. single. song. The tracks themselves aren't necessarily bad, but it's generally too much of the same during the album's 1 hour and 2 minutes runtime. It's just too long with too little variation. 3/5

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

As I'm writing this I'm praying to Chronos, the God of Time, to make it so the 80's never happened, so that neither would this album, or any albums like this one. Unfortunately that would also mean I'd never have been born, but as much as I love my life such is the sacrifice I'd be willing to make to spare people's ears from these horrible kakophonias.

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

Terrible. I really struggled to finish it.

already listened to this so many times...

80’s hard rock is like kryptonite for me. Overproduced bombastic stupidity. Can be fun in very small doses.

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

3.5

Rock it!

Not bad, but not much variety throughout. Mad props for what they've accomplished, just not quite for me.

Sugar

High energy music and lyrics but too gung ho, macho for my liking.

Solid 3.5 from me, but this thing was a monster in its day. You couldn’t turn of FM rock radio or MTV and not hear something from this album.

2/3

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

Kings of Butt-Rock. I loved listening to the entire album for the first time in like 30 years.

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

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

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

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

Hair metal is big, dumb, and bad

que cover nojento. que estilo nojento. é metal dos anos 80 so que sem o fator que deixa ac dc por exemplo parecendo uma banda dos anos 70, o uso de sons pesados em vez dos usos de sons eletronicos. duas estrelas porque o guitarrista é decente.

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE THIS BAND SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR DEF LEPPARD. Yeah I really hate this band. It all sucks. HATE HATE HATE

An abomination of 80s pop/glam/metal not for me-ness

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

Probably over hyped myself reading about this one. Read that everyone was copying their sound at the time, so they tried to reinvent themselves/change things up a bit with this album. Normally love it when bands take a gamble like that. Well less safe/boring and it’s good to see musicians challenging themselves. Didn’t quite grab me the way I thought it would but enjoyed it nonetheless. Did groan a little at the run time

Enjoyed this one more than I thought I would. That glam rock genre is usually something I just don't enjoy. Something about the vocals in this genre very rarely sits well with me but this was sound. Saved a few songs and I especially enjoyed the opener. Nice surprise with the only let down being that it was a few songs too long. Strong 3

Old man rock

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

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

okay

Very poppy, but certainly likable

"I don't want to touch you too much, baby 'Cause makin' love to you might drive me crazy"... This sounds like a vapid parody form start to finish, and it encapsulates everything I hate about 80s glam/hard rock music. For one full hour. 1 star for every arm on Rick Allen.

I was surprisingly happy about Pyromania when it appeared on this list. I found it quite fun and charming. With Hysteria Def Leppard removes most of the fun, cuts down on the charm and for some reason most of the songs far exceed their allowed runtime. Who the hell thought of all these intros, outros and frustratingly long middle sections? There are still some highlights in "Rocket" (minus the outro), "Armageddon It" and its catchy chorus (minus the length) and of course the amazing title track. But the length is just plain silly and the charm, which is normally where Def Leppard is strongest to me, quickly wears off.

All time great album!! One of my favs

Actually a very decent rock album!

Def Leppard not for me.

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

Oh fuck yeah, Friday is starting off with a BANG! This album is a tour de force of glossy 80's stadium rock. I have so much affection for it, because I loved Def Leppard growing up. Their songs are fun and so sing-a-long-able (even though a lot of the time I struggled to decipher what was actually being said through the screeching and echoey vocals.) Case in point: Love Bites. All my life I have sung that one part as "it can't be love if you're throwing him out" and just learned today that it is actually "it can't be love if you throw it about" LOL. I still think my misheard lyrics work better here. Listening with lyrics on in Spotify is illuminating so many more misheard lyrics for me! Omg. Overall though, facts are facts. The drummer had one fucking arm and they made an album with 7 singles on it!!!! That is a stunning accomplishment and not many artists have done it. Def Leppard rules!

Surprised by how many songs I knew on the album. good album all the way through.

This album really makes you think that good things come to those who wait. This album would probably still be good but not as good if Def Leppard was rushed by producers to make it, however they had 4 years in between albums due to their drummer losing his arm. Imagine writing an album about sex and then 2/3 of the way through dropping an anti-cold war banger. Based af. I firmly regret giving Something Else by The Kinks a 5 as it is nowhere near the tier of this album. Now this time these cats (Leppard haha get it) were cooking with propane.

Such a fun album to listen filled to the brim with bangers. Something you can truly appreciate after listening to an album that may not be great. The vibe I get from this album is like when you go to the bar and you’re in the perfect balance of chilling with the boys and being drunk. Just a great fun album.

Banger after banger after banger. Plain and simple. The only drawback on the whole album is that they put Love Bites forth, so you’re left longing for another power ballad. Although that’s quickly remedied with Pour Some Sugar On Me. The best part of the album as a whole is the ease in which you can jam along to it. Never heard these songs? Doesn’t matter. Anyone can enjoy these bangers. A beautifully crafted musical masterpiece that realistically deserves a 4.25/5 but I’ll round up to 5 because it was that much better than yesterday’s album.

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

BANGER ALERT My first ever memory of music comes from a time of adolescence that involves a trip to the Kalahari Waterpark at the Wisconsin Dells. Vault: Def Leppard’s Greatest Hits (1980-1995) was the only album available in the car during the round trip so that shit was drilled into my brain. 50% of this album belonged on the vault, so in a way Def Leppard has been with me since the beginning. In this body of work, Def Leppard explores the complex emotions that accompany intimate relationships with songs spanning from themes of lust to themes of love over undeniably catchy grooves. Although these concepts are nothing new, Joe Elliot’s high falsetto combined with the pioneered structure of hair metal changed the scope of hard rock. While many of the songs featured are brazenly horny, we cannot forget to acknowledge “Love Bites”, a cautionary tale whose lyrics ring too true about the tribulations of heartbreak - or “Hysteria”, an honest portrayal of those who are lovesick in the most early stages. There was definitely a few times I cried to “Love Bites” in my middle school years. Profound and accurate art. It would be remiss to not acknowledge the innovation of production in this album. Def Leppard stands alone in the 80’s for bands that adapted to the sound of B I G. The heavily reverberated guitar and drums with stacked vocals give this project a sound that’s larger than life. Def Leppard provides the qualities of an arena show in the convenience of a studio album. Although it’s a production technique not seen very much else throughout music in that time period, it is the backbone of modern country music production. P.S. the drummer did this whole album and continued the rest of his career with only one arm. How many other bands do you know who employ limbless drummers? I would rate this 4.5 if possible.

I definitely remember this band and a lot of the tracks from this album because it was released when I was about 20 or so, and it got a lot of airplay and dorm play. Didn't really do it for me back then. It's not bad, just holds no interest for me. Still have the same reaction today. Just not interested.

incredibly mid

This would have my vote for best album of all time. Back in the day we listened to this a LOT. I had one friend who claimed that he wore out the CD and had to buy a new one, that's the only time I've ever heard of that happening. I'm not sure it's even possible, but he played it enough that it might have happened.

My first tape as a child. Loved this album. Now, not so much, some good songs, some garbage (excitable). Basically pop music.

This is quite easy-ish listening. A bit of general toe tapping and head nodding going on. But this kind of 80's rock just feels a bit empty for the most part, devoid of any real depth of feeling. There are some standout tracks in here that I dig, including 'Love Bites'.

Pop glam metal perfection. Every song a banger. This was their return after almost certain doom after a bus wreck. The stakes were high and it surpassed all expectations a juggernaut of 80's everything.

It took a long time to like in the 80s. I wasn't into heavy rock ....and again I am surprised how much I enjoy it now.... considering I have only heard this during the 1980s, from a cassette player on and only Renault distorted speakers... It's really quite good. 3 years to record, with a one armed drummer (that's not why) this was a huge hit ...

See Pyromania.

Where to start? This album is almost a caricature of itself and the 80s commercial-metal genre it epitomises. Or does it just seem that way in retrospect? No, I think I could have said that even at the time. It combines some epic 80s guitar tones along with some of the most ridiculous excesses of 80s production, and quite a few of the most inane songs ever written. In the end, I keep finding little islands of "ooh that sounds awesome" (for about 5 seconds) floating in a sea of mediocrity. I didn't make it all the way through more than two songs, and even quit before the solo of most of them! HOWEVER...kudos for the Gods of War track. I remember how counter-cultural it was for a big rock band to be this clearly anti-war at the time, and writing on the 1-year anniversary of Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine, it couldn't be more relevant today.

Look, I just listened to this. An hour I’ll never get back. Though I did enjoy some of the guitar & actually didn’t mind the last track, Love & Affection. But, really, not my style.

This is probably the most perfect pop-rock album ever made. And that is NOT a good thing. Polished within an inch of its life, this is just bloodless and over-long to me. Steve Albini was right when he said if you assemble perfect parts together, it doesn't make a sexy rock record. So, so polished, and over long. 'Perfection' really doesn't do it for me. I know it sold a gazillion copies, and I am glad it exists, if only to prove why this approach doesn't work. It is charming enough not to be loathsome, but I really don't need to listen this again. Sitting through an hour of this is boring and like eating an entire cheesecake. A single piece is a tasty treat, two is too much, and a whole cheesecake will make you want to vomit and never eat cheesecake again. I can't believe that there is ANOTHER Def Leppard album on this list. Why two, for god's sake? What else do they have to offer? (Note: this is the same review that I gave to Def Leppard's Pyromania album. They are, for all intents and purposes, interchangeable records.)

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

Zu viel hair metal.

Usually a fan of 80s metal but Def Leppard is a bit too glam for my taste.

Meh.. 2 lög svona ágætlega áhlustunarverð, annað fer inn um annað og út um hitt.

Nope. Hate hair metal

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

Essentially the same song on repeat, it’s ok but best kept to the odd song popping up on a best of album somewhere

rock de los 80 smooth prolijo me da la sensacion medio pavote

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

I thought this was going to a Pyromania level album, but it turned out to be a bit of a dud. Was excited for the mega-shop-tunes. Still not terrible.

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

Fine to work to in the background. Nothing crazy memorable for me. A 3.5

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

One of my very first cassette tapes.

So bad. This kind of music is the only one that this project has not been able to shake me of my dislike for! I even enjoy some country now. But this. Man. Shit drum sounds. Shit lyrics. General shit ambiance. Doesn't come across any having any degree of legit human authenticity to it. Contrived bullshit designed to make them rich and popular with the ladies. I can't argue with their motivation, but it doesn't mean I want to hear the outcome!

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

When one sells their soul for rock and roll, one usually doesn't expect to part with a limb to do so. Death maybe but to lose an arm and somehow live to tell the tale? Unfathomable. Even more unfathomable is to have enough faith in the potential of your band that you press on, remain in the band and do your duty with one arm. Hysterical. Serious matters aside, if there was an honest answer to the question of what is the most excessive rock album of the 80s, it would have to be this. Def Leppard just grabs your by the sides of your face and takes you on a hour long thrill ride that, towards its end, you wish would go on and on and on. Front loading an album with hit after hit is nothing new but it is utterly apparent here. Every song sounds like it could have been a world-conquerer (some of which were), which was probably the point. It is hard to envision the 80s and Def Leppard's trajectory if this didn't come to fruition. Three years of stop/starting, hardworking craft went into this and it shows and it was probably worth losing an arm over. Pour some sugar on someone in the name of love... for this album.

A well produced but a rather stiff album - those were right who called it a pop metal record than anything metal/glam rock. It is fun listening to nevertheless even though it's not the genre I often listen to.

yep

I love drums

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

There was really no way to escape this album when I was a kid and like it or not, it was part of my childhood. Hysteria was part of the 1980's straight cheese. I'm talking big hair, highlights, perms, collars up on my jean jacket and high top reeboks on my feet. Casey Kasem on radio, Hulk Hogan on my wall and Winstons. This was the mainstream version of Metallica and just popped just before the rise of GnR. Lamestream, mainstream. This seems to have aged appropriately, unlike the rest of us. Still a good listen today.

While "Pour Some Sugar On Me" was a huge hit, possibly bigger than anything on "Pyromania," I give the slight edge to "Pyromania" overall. There are a few hits on "Hysteria," but everything else is pretty unspectacular when spectacular is kind of what the genre is all about. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" and a few others have some pretty cringey lyrics too. If "Pyromania was a high 3, this one is barely a low 3.

I give Pyromania a slight edge. Hysteria veered a little more towards the pop-side of pop-metal.

When I hear this album, I think of white trash…mullet, Bret the Hitman Heart tank top, and a trucker hat…standing on the chairs at a bar screaming, “POUR SOME SUGAR ON MEEEEE, IN THE NAME OF LO-OVE!!!” I can’t get this picture out of my head.

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

Terrible, never liked it

After 35+ years, this album still sounds as great as ever, and for sure it is DL's best album.

This has been one of the biggest surprises for me on the list so far. Listening to this, I was overwhelmed by a wave of eighties nostalgia, enjoying the combination of hard rock and pop, of which I am usually not a fan. But I think it was especially the songwriting that won me over so emphatically. Today has been a good day.

Not much to say against this, nice middle-of-the-road-stuff.

It's ok. Off course there are hits and it's impossible not to sing along to "Pour some sugar on me" but overall the album feels boring and repetitive after a while. Definitely a go to for a 80s theme party, I wouldn't listen to it all day tho.

butt rock. boring. battlestar galactica.

Coming down from the high of the Köln Concert, this was a garbo follow-up act. Every song sounded exactly the same

By the end of this album my hair was in a perm. That’s the power of glam rock

A slow builder but ground breaking at the same time.

3.5

Typical nwobhm nonsense.

I was 11 when Pyromania came out, love that album and Def Leppard. By the time Hysteria came out my favorite bands were Slayer and Metallica. Needless to say I was fairly disappointed with it. That being said, while the production isn't for me, I can appreciate the techniques that were used and applied in making the album. The album was a juggernaut in the 80s. Hysteria, Born in the USA,Thriller, Joshua Tree and Appetite just seem to churn out songs. It's get a 3 for me, 2 for the music plus 1 for the fond memories of high school make out session while listening to it. Hard to make out to Angel of Death.

Garbage. Ok, Pour Some Sugar on Me was a stripper hit. Overproduced garbage.

Maybe if i had heard this with fresh ears in 1987. The hair metal of the 80s were a joke and an example of lameness when I started listening to music. Nothing about listening to this album has changed my mind.

I don't get it. Of course, I'll sing along to Pour Some Sugar when I'm drunk, who wouldn't? But past that, I really don't understand the appeal of this type of Hair Metal at all. Never really wanted to turn it off, though.

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

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I know it’s good but it isn’t my scene.

sigh. 2 stars

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

Pretty boring, lead singers voice was beyond irritating. Could only get a few songs into the album before giving up. 4/10

Another one of those bands that one of my friends was deeply into but I wasn't. Reading the history of this album was interesting but I didn't find it overly compelling, Love Bites and Pour Some Sugar On Me got stuck in my head but not sure if that makes them faves.

Cock rock or hair metal or whatever this counts as has always left me cold, and this is no exception. I guess it didn't majorly get on my nerves? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Fave track - "Pour Some Sugar On Me" was the most familiar, I guess? The intro of "Gods of War" made it sound like it was gonna me some moody post-punk biz, but then it veered back into cock rock. 😒 "Run Riot" was kinda fun, I spose....

Hysteria is the fourth album by English rock band Def Leppard, and it's their best-selling one as well as also being certified diamond in 2009. This hard rock, glam metal album performed well critically and commercially, even though it was more "poppy" than their previous albums. An interesting fact about Hysteria is that it was delayed because of a car accident that drummer Rick Allen got into at the end of 1984, which caused him to lose his left arm and have to relearn drums using a foot pedal for anything his arm would have done. This also caused the drums to sound a little stiff or mechanized, but that was to be expected. I was surprised to actually like this album because some of the Def Leppard songs I have heard before never piqued my interest like the tracks on this one. Great pop metal album!

Boring

These rockers made some 3 minute songs go for 5 or 6 minutes. Pour some corn syrup on them. Baby!

I always thought DL were more like Pantera but they're actually more Bon Jovi meets Guns and Roses. A few familiar moments on here which was nice because I didn't think I knew any of their songs. Not really for me, I gave a bonus point because they do it all with a one-armed drummer.

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

It would be interesting to hear this again for the first time (although a few songs were new to me). You couldn't get away from this band in the 80s. I liked them a lot then, but it's quite corny now. I didn't have money to buy my own music until Adrenalize came out. It was a wet sock and I regretted spending 2 working hours of my $4.25/hr job on it. I think a lot of my impression of Def Leppard is colored by that now. But this review is about Hysteria. Definitely a pop record. Catchy songs. I did enjoy them at the time and they are okay now. Don't try to get too far away from this just being a fun listen. That's what it is. And it's not bad at that.

It seems like it has been ages since I’ve listened to an album that I already know very well. Well today is that day! I has admittedly been a while, but 19 year old me was a big fan of Def Leppard. I remember being very disappointed seeing them live and them not being very good. Songs I already knew: all of them to some degree Favourites: Pour Some Sugar On Me, Armageddon It, Hysteria What can I say? I just really love this era of music. Whether it is pop or rock, the snare drum is unusually loud, the vocals are a little strange, and yet it still manages to sound fantastic. This is certainly an album where every song is somewhat similar to the others, but it’s a style that is very suited to my taste. Therefore, although this can be sometimes frustrating with other albums, it didn’t bother me in the slightest this time. Overall, I enjoyed this album a lot, from that strangely loud snare, to the thumping bass, to the face-melting guitar solos, to the high screeching singing. This is my jam.

Not as bad as I thought, but not really my thing either.

First CD I ever had, bought with my own money when I was 13. 35 years later, it still holds up. And yes, I still have the CD I bought then. :)

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

pour some sugar on me is iconic

The only big Sheffield act that I don't get. Hair metal and Sheffield United not my thing. However, this was more fun than I anticipated, with a couple of stone cold bangers in Pour Some Sugar and, best song, Animal

Bland

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

Not terrible, but really not my cup of tea. Just not that interesting to listen to.

CD

This album screams 80's. I enjoyed second half of album more. God's of War and Don't Shoot Shot Gun were my favorite tracks. Warrant definitely ripped Pour Some Sugar on me sound for Cherry Pie. Our not really my vibe but cool for what it is.

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

Iconic pop rock hair metal. Takes me back to grade 7-8 and hearing the singles everywhere. Especially the local travelling fair or carney. You could play any song from this album in a movie and you would know exactly with zeitgeist is. Didn’t really like then and don’t now. But I wouldn’t hate anyone for likely it. I’m just never going to put it on got myself to listen to.

Good

I don’t like this glamrock stuff

Going from the Beatles' *Abbey Road* to Def Leppard's *Hysteria* tells you everything you need to know about this app. The background vocals and chord changes between the verses and choruses are quite smart in a number of cuts ("Rocket" or "Love Bites" come to mind here), making this band an iconic one in this eighties hard-rock/pop metal subgenre. Too bad such subgenre is too damn cheesy and has aged horribly... if it wasn't *already* horrible when this album came out, that is. Number of albums left to review: 717 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 141 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 69 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more important): 78 (including this one)

Better than expected but likely won’t go back to it, just not for me. Front have instrumentals were nice, run time was a bit too long

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

I didn't give the last Def Leppard LP a 1 because I thought the hit, "Photograph" wasn't a bad song. There is no such song on this album. In fact "Pour Some Sugar on Me" could be the worst song on the album.

Well we certainly have had some bad albums recently, but this one takes the cake. Someone mentioned this is pop trying to be heavy metal and that's a good description, but they should have also added that its shite. Everything about this starting from the horrible cover, inane lyrics and hackneyed guitar riffs and choruses scream CLICHE! Truly execrable.

Listens: 2 Enjoyed: meh first time listening to Def Leopard and they really aren't what I've always imagined them to be. This album starts off pretty mellow and soft to slow becoming a bit harder. I had a few moments of enjoyment here but ultimately I don't think I'd actively seek it out in the future

I too am surprised with how much I enjoyed this album! I started off listening to it with my brother on a Thanksgiving road trip. We took turns reading the lyrics and laughing at their silliness; I mean, "Red light, green light, yellow light, go!" says it all. Then the songs started sticking in my head. When we arrived at our destination, I listened to the album again whilst shooting pool—a perfect Def Leppard scenario, I think. And the transition from ironic-love to genuine-love for DL's Hysteria took hold. I began to appreciate the boldest, largest moments on this album just as they're presented ("God of War," for instance, is fan-friggin-tastic!) And soon I was mumbling "Red light, yellow light, green light go" and "You got the peaches, I got the cream" to myself without any concern or conscious, and much to my brother's chagrin. I couldn't exactly explain to him why I all of a sudden thought this album was great, and I agreed fully with all of his complaints. I just liked it! For many of the same reasons he didn't to be honest. So there you have it. I would say this album is too long, because it assuredly is, but it has too be! I couldn't imagine this insane, maximilist, balls-to-the-wall, tongue-not-even-in-mouth-let-alone-cheek, a record being any shorter. What's unfathomable is how tight the songwriting and production still manages to be in spite of all this album's late-80s, obscene, excesses. I can best describe the sound of this album as if the members of Slayer performed an Eagles cover, with, yes, a twist of Michael Jackson. Which, come on! It's so cool! Four stars!

Pretty good! It would be hard to say that this isn’t a tight album. If the Def Leppard sound were a recipe it would be as follows: take some big reverberant backbeats, thick electric guitars, growly vocals, groovy 8th-note bass lines, raunchy lyrics, then mix well and supersize the whole thing until it fills a stadium. Surprisingly groovy too! Not just head-bobbing 80s rock, a little bit of hip swing in there as well. My favorites were “Rocket,” “Love Bites,” and “Hysteria”. Probably because I found those three to be the quirkiest in terms of interludes, grooves, and overall mood. Not much more to say here; this isn’t my go-to genre but I enjoyed listening to it!

This album was so satisfyingly awful. I knew I would hate it going in, and every song confirmed my prejudice.

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

Okay I finally listened to Def Leppard, but only because at some point Jacob threatened to stop picking up my calls if I didn’t. I liked it! I listened to it over the course of two runs and the first half of the album really made me run faster. Really enjoyed the opening of the album, Woman. The first three songs are great and then the album loses steam for me. It could have been 4-5 songs shorter. Great guitar hooks all around though. It’s fun to imagine this would be playing at a crowded sports bar in the 80s. You’d probably find some dirty pinball machines in the back. Jacob describes this as pinball music, but really what’s happening here is that specific sounds in the second half of “Gods of War” are actually in Star Trek Next Generation pinball machine and lots of other machines! Those gun and metallic vocals are really pinball, I’m with you Jacob. Overall, I did my duty and listened to this album in full. If they had kept up the momentum of the first three songs, it’d be a 4/5. But alas, 3/5.

Solid classic rock!

I would probably never listen to it again but it was fun at the time 2.5

Hard rock "oitentista" que não funciona para mim, nem os hits eu reconheci.

Great sounding record, it just sounds a little too stiff and processed at times. Appreciate how they bridged the gap between glam rock and 80s pop. Harmonies are great.

Öde.

Second album for me from the auditory impaired felines. Hair metal was at it's peak in 1987 when this album was released. However, only a short 3 years later the genre would be swept off with derision into irrelevancy, to never re-appear or be resurrected in any significant way, except on a list of 1001 must listen albums. Other genres that similarly died out after over-saturating pop culture such as disco, new wave and punk, did eventually see somewhat of a resurgence in recent years, and continue to exert a viable influence on today's music, but not hair metal. That's not to say the genre didn't produce some legit and worthwhile music (mostly limited to G 'n R though), but I believe a list curated by professional music critics should do a better job of separating out chaff like this that may have topped the charts in it's time, but now is little more than nostalgia for those who once enjoyed it in their youth. Chart topper =/= quality. I'm too young to have lived through the hysteria of Def Leppard, and for that, I'm infinitely grateful. 1 glass of water to wash down the sugar rush. 🥛

Sheffield Hair Metallers show the Americans that the Brits can do it just as well as them. Well nearly. Best Tracks: Pour Some Sugar on Me; Armageddon It; Run Riot

Solid 80s up beat pop rock

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

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

Not my sort of thing

To me, Def Leppard has always lived in an uncanny valley between Peter Gabriel and Metallica. That 80s sonic palette just doesn’t totally gel with the hard rock sound they’re striving for. The lyrics are bad, or at least boring. Nothing about the album is poorly executed, solid vocals and 80s pinch harmonics guitar. Of course, pour some sugar on me rocks. but the album feels like the record label described their median consumer and the Def Leppard created a normal distribution around that median—pour some sugar is the outlier in that distribution. I think pour some sugar goes so hard because they leverage the background singers much better—it feels like a song by a band and not market research made manifest. Strong words for an album I don’t really have strong feelings for. Sorry, Mr. Leppard you don’t really deserve the hate I’m giving.

this is the prototypical def leppard album. this sort of hair metal will never be my thing, and i really dont vibe with the singles. cant give this a 1 because of the technical quality, but i didnt enjoy the listen

A fun listen.

Not as bad as I thought would be

Does not slap nearly as hard as other efforts.

This was okay. Every song was about one or two minutes longer than it needed to be. There's some good stuff on here though. I'm hoping I'll like Pyromania more when I listen to it. My favourite song is probably Love Bites.

Pretty bad - all the songs sound the same, and all are massively over-produced with terrible gated drums and nonsensical lyrics. More like a pop album than a rock one, but fails as either in my opinion

Rough as usual but energetic

I let this wash over me like a bad background record in a lunchtime diner. It's desperately of its era and woefully short of redeeming features. An album that marked a period of time that has now passed.

Des siècles d'évolution musicale pour arriver à ça... Prefs: Hysteria? jsp tout est pourri Moins pref: Excitable pire chanson de tous les temps

Pretty forgettable, to be honest. Love hitting the snare really big, regardless of song or tempo.

Actually didn't enjoy.

My first Def Leppard album, and a STELLAR introduction. "Pour Some Sugar On Me" is a classic, but my top tracks would probably be "Rocket," "Women," "Love Bites," "Run Riot," "Excitable," and "Armageddon It".