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Glam Rock/Hair Metal. This is what Spinal Tap is spoofing. One of the worst crimes perpetrated by the music industry in the 1980’s? Probably not the worst, but it’s up there. The lyrics have no coherent purpose, they’re as shallow as you can get. The music is energetic - I could see some of these songs on a workout playlist. The songs are super overproduced, the vocals are mostly indecipherable, the singer’s voice is not my cup of tea. Notable songs include Animal, Love Bites, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Hysteria, Love and Affection.
You can almost hear the hair. Sounds like the soundtrack from a 1980s teen movie starring Judd Nielson.
I dunno, 2? 3? Didn't enjoy it, but it isn't complete shit.
Thought this was going to better. Generally just mildly organised noise
What's great about this process is listening to artists you suspected were shite and finding out that they are indeed shite
1. Animal 2. Pour Some Sugar On Me 3. Hysteria
I really don't enjoy this era and style of rock. Lots of hits here for sure, but not my thing.
Make it end. Please. Comercial crap made for wannabe tough soccer moms.
I hear they’re good live? Idk man I just don’t think this era of rock is for me.
Although I never owned a copy of this album, it was pretty much unavoidable in the late 1980s. It did bring back some memories, like "Rice and Peas" (Love Bites) and the other big hits. It's also awful, commercial, over-produced hair-metal, so the memories weren't great to be fair. Two stars.
Hair/Glam metal. “Pour Some Sugar on Me” is not a good enough song to warrant this album being included on this list. It’s pretty uninspiring and just not that good. 2/5 Won’t listen again
Aika agressiivisen keskinkertainen 2/5
It’s interesting to listen to this as a child of grunge because it has always sounded like a parody of something, but the something is just itself. An era of rock that seems like the excess and rock star was of it all was the point presaging an era of rock where the excess was all directed as a means of escaping the last era’s bullshit. Can’t deny a power ballad or pour some sugar tho
These songs all sounded like the same song and while Pour Some Sugar On Me is a karaoke classic it is not that great of a song
Def Leppard is a band that made a career out of sounding like a Rocky III/Rocky IV soundtrack. The 80s were a strange time. I remember liking the song Rocket as a kid, not so much anymore, but it's still probably my favorite Def Leppard song. Seriously, this could be the soundtrack for Rad. There's the perfect combination of rock and rock ballads to last through a 90 minute movie about a kid who just wanted his dad to accept that he wanted to be a skateboarder rather than a mine worker while he falls in love with his rival's ill-treated girlfriend only to win the big race at the end and have his dad hug him at the finish line. Love Bites is terrible. Which song has been played at strip clubs more, Pour Some Sugar On Me or Panama by Van Halen? I had friends in the early 90s who still loved Def Leppard, hard to believe this lasted when so many other bands have gone by the wayside. This whole album is very dated. I liked Pyromania better, too many power ballads on this one.
hmmm no
Boring ass dad rock.
Definitely a band of a time and despite liking some of their more well known songs, I find a whole albums worth a bit much and containing a lot of filler, especially coming in at over an hour. I’ll stick to their greatest hits thanks.
So big and so boring.
Nah
Better than I expected, but dragged on with lots of filler.
Classic rock and hair metal just aren't my thing at all. It's very corny but not in a fun way. As far as those genres go this isn't the worst though I will say. The guitar tone is pretty solid. It's mostly the vocals I dislike.
Everything I hate about guitars
Not a Def Leppard fan, although I have to admit, I kind of liked Pour Some Sugar On Me. I was tempted to start flipping my hair around.
2.5
Rock n roll Never heard of them before Not my type But liked one or two songs
women- oh this is about to be so ass. 3 rocket- 3 animal- 3 love bites- 2. nope pour some sugar on me- 2 or 3 armageddon it- 3 gods of war- 2 dont shoot shot gun- 2 or 3 get this shit away from me i might be stupid but i didnt know the drummer only had one arm. i would like to emphasize the band's shit music is not his fault but rather the fault of literally everything else
I don't like anything about hair metal. I don't like the way it is sung. I don't like the way the guitar or the drums sound. I don't like the dumb lyrics aimed at twelve year olds. I don't like that it is the official theme song for baseball players to commit date rape to. Lowest common denominator pop is still lowest common denominator pop, even if it is run through a "hard rock" filter. This is just bad.
The fun realisation I know one of the songs on this record, and never knew it was Def Leppard. Nothing else really stands out to me. Over the top, guitar riffs, synths, squawky vocals, drowning in reverb. Could be Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, etc, could be any other 80s glam rock band. The most interesting thing here are the “sample” and found sounds on the outro of Gods of War, but I don’t think it’s in service of much really.
It’s not terrible it’s just really not my genre.
Meh
Too cheesy, songs too long, some nice guitar sound but the lyrics were properly bad.
Sometimes the most metal thing you can do it makes a new wave album.
Tekevät parhaansa editoidakseen ja paisuttaakseen musiikkinsa kuuntelukelvottomaksi. Joissakin bändin melodioissa on silti vähintäänkin huumorisoittoon kelpaavaa tehoa. Ja ykköshitti on... no sitä itseään.
This album has sold 20 million copies, which seems crazy, until you remember that every strip club in the world probably bought 5 copies because it was the only reliable way to access "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
Fine. They all kinda sound the same.
ehh...
This is music for assholes. It is self-indulgent and vapid. It doesn't have any redeeming qualities. The music is too self-absorbed, too craving of commercial validation that it can't even be heavy metal. It's pop, flaccid and impotent despite its constant, desperate gestures of virility. The songs don't just objectify women, they reduce all of their listeners to a subservient status. If you're a Def Leppard fan, you have no higher purpose in life than filling stadiums and buying albums. The over-enlarged egos that compose the band Def Leppard champion excess like it's an act of rebellion. It's not. It's amplified mindless consumerism. Stoke the economy, keep profits up, generate a good ROI. I feel stupider for having listened to this album twice. I feel like buying a Camero and drunk driving. I feel like changing my name to Don or Chip. I feel the sweet relief from responsibility that being a shallow, unselfconscious, unselfreflective individual must offer. 2 stars because I thought the song Rocket was actually pretty cool.
62 minutes 32 seconds. damn i figured that if def leppard had one thing going for them, it'd be brevity. this album cover rules. triangles are all the rage, and it ties in the absurdly angular def leppard font. slashing hand written type with weird kerning contrasts all the sharp angles. faces scream, for some reason as alien hyrogliphic startrek meet predator giberish explodes from all angles. im rdy for 60 minutes of mair metal now. Im not loving it, but im not exactly hating it. it's inoffensive arena music. BG vocals are so tinny and icy, they make my nipples hard (not in a good way) 2 arms are essential for drumming hey its over! 2
Not my thing
Gentlemen, coming to the stage, Candy!!! Sugar pouring everywhere! Having never actually sat down and listened to this album in my whole life I feel like I know way too many songs off of this! Just because it was popular doesn't mean it was good!
Reminds me of Bryan Adams.
It has the hits but felt a lot longer than it actually was.
Never a big Def Leppard fan. In this album did nothing to change my mind. Almost all the songs sounded exactly the same to me. Pour some sugar on me was the only one that I recognized and I actually liked. This just seems like it’s a band trying to be rock ‘n’ roll when it’s really just a pop band
I really can’t stand sleezy 80s rock
Everybody’s always talking about how the drummer from Def Leppard’s only got one arm, but no one ever mentions how he’s only got one drumbeat. …and that predates the arm thing. Also, much love to England for proving that butt rock was not strictly an American thing.
Sólido. Divertido por momentos. Memorable? Debo saber muy poco de rock porque por momentos pensé que estaba escuchando Aerosmith o Guns. Nota: 2.5
Irrelevantes Rockzeugs.
I just don't like hair rock. Yes, I'm bias, I know, no-one's perfect.
So 80s. Not in a good way. Acknowledgment of all of the singles contained on one album - doesn't mean they don't all sound the same. Of note: I will always think of Pour Some Sugar on Me as a stripper song.
Listens: 2 Stand out tracks: Gods Of War, Pour Some Sugar On Me Not a fan of 80 classic rock hair bands. I can't really discern qualities between most tracks. It's all heavy guitar and strong drums. Pour Some Sugar On Me has transcended time to be one of their (or at least to me) recognizable tracks. I can't deny it as a piece of music; even one that I enjoy, despite categorically loathing most of the 80s rock, electric guitar-heavy genre.
The shiniest, hairiest hair rock. Not my jam.
De är så tuffa och hårda, not.
Alright but all kinda sounds the same.
Some great tunes but very hit and miss, rotational for the bangers perhaps
I didn’t hate this, some catchy songs in a very of its time Bon Jovi sort of way. But sometimes you need that right?
- 1h Glam Rock .. yehaw .. nicht - muss aber gestehen, dass es mir entweder einfach besser gefiel, als das letzte Def Leppard Album oooder ich höre mich langsam rein in die Musik 2,25/5
So bad it's ... awful actually. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" is an abomination (also a great pop song). An album one loves to hate, even if one has to acknowledge some guilty pleasures within, though not enough to explain tens of millions of records, which in actually the bigger abomination and a testatment to the pandemic of poor taste!
https://youtu.be/aDUOC9Xk2wM?t=16
Given how much of their biggest tracks are on here this almost feels like a compilation album (you can feel that in the runtime as well). Unfortunately I just wasn't crazy over this one. So many of the hits in this one just blended together in a way that I didn't feel a similar album like Slippery When Wet did. Maybe I shouldn't be looking into it like this though, given the mission statement for this genre was just 'we want to make a shitload of money and fuck groupies who all conveniently tell us they're 18'
I can make a joke here, but you have all heard it … one day, I might be surprised to find out Def Leppard was actually a metal band, but that day is not today. Hysteria is kinda slow and plodding, it’s definitely poppy but overally catchy. At least not as catchy I hoped considering how boring it is. 5.7/10
Maximalist production and minimalist intelligence
I haven't heard this since 1987 when my best friend Matt Ancone loved them. (He also loved the band Europe.) Now that I understand more about music, this album is nothing but a bunch of songs to yell along with at concerts. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I never understood the popularity. Now that I do understand, I can say it's too late for me. Getting into Def Leppard as an adult islike getting into pro-wrestling after you’re 18. It’s not a thing.
I’m just not into this although I see the appeal. I like “Pour Some Sugar on Me” but I wonder if that’s just nostalgia. 2.5/5
Didnt enjoy this at all. Honestly difficult to sit through.
"One part love/one part wild/one part lady/one part child." Gross. Bad start and I don't like my horny 80s jams to surpass the five-minute mark. 1980s excess, for better and for worse. I enjoyed the more pop-minded songs, like "Animal". And "Pour Some Sugar on Me" is a classic dumb fun sex jam that I can't hate. The production is so polished it shines. I feel like this wants to be cool, and maybe it was, but a good portion of it comes off as corny (see: "Rocket"). The love ballads strike me as silly and insincere given the way objects of affection are addressed elsewhere (which is to say, as objects). It's meat-headed, often lyrically nonsensical, and way, way too long, but it's everything a fan could want in an 80s glam metal record and fun enough.
Can't believe I willingly putting on a Def Leppard album. Though Pour Some Sugar On Me does hold up as a single, that's about as good as it gets. I unfortunately have no choice but to put this in the category of the kind of music that shows up in cheesy 80s movies. Just far too over the top without much substance for me. They might sing a lot about women, but can't say this was intended for women. An hour I will never get back!
So very 80s; the epitome of hair metal. The vocals are piercing and the music is just plain corny. I can't say I hate this record, but I certainly don't enjoy listening to it. But, as I've agreed to by doing this project, I will listen to each record in its entirety. It is truly amazing that this is considered a record we must listen to before we die, and that there are people out there that really enjoy this music - a testament to the diversity and subjective nature of music and art. No, thank you, for me though.
Ugh. Reminds me of my gym class. Fuck that gym class.
Crap 80's pop rock
What One Armed Scissor did for 2000’s hardcore, Pour Some Sugar On Me did for 80’s hard rock. I’ve always had a bit of distaste for 80’s hard rock/hair metal - you could say I’ve kept it at arm’s length - but there’s something about the production that doesn’t do it for me. Every song is about sex, every song is quite boring and almost every song has a bit where they just shout the track name and (presumably) set the live audience up to go ‘yeah!’ or something. Which once in a while is fine, but it’s on every track. Bet they’re great fun live, but tickets probably cost an arm and a leg. Appreciate Chris will want to throw hands when I say I don’t like this, but he’s a little armchair warrior and I reckon I could take him handily.
Despite what John may think, I'm actually not a massive fan of the Lep anymore (would be mad if I was) but I can't deny the impact that had on me as a youth. It was a proper gateway album into heavy rock/metal, as they were a firm fixture at home due to their local hero status. Don't really enjoy any hair metal bands but these slipped through the net, similar to how Rick Allen slipped through his seatbelt. Some bangers on here like PSSOM, Animal, Rocket but really not a fan of the Mutt Lange 80s production. So poppy. Reckon live it at a festival it would be fun though. Proper limbs. And probably a shot in the arm during a long day in the sun. Always makes me laugh at how big these are in America. Like actually huge. Fair play to them, though; they knuckled down and put in some hard work and elbow grease to succeed. Fun album to revisit but it's pretty shit isn't it.
This seems like the quintessential stereotypical hair metal record and that is not good. Mindless lyrics, cheesy riffs, and fake bravado
I hate this genre sm soz
Esta es mi opinión personal, pero creo que todo el glam de los 80's no debería existir en esta lista. El Glam de los 70's es mucho más influyente y se mantiene mucho más fresco hasta el día de hoy. Las composiciones y producción de bandas como Def Leppard envejecieron como la leche, a pesar de que su sonido fue el hegemónico durante décadas. Habiendo dicho eso, el impacto de este disco es innegable. Este fue el trabajo que llevó a los sucios rockeros de los 80s a ser considerados como propuestas para llenar estadios, creando una imagen más limpia y amplia, más relacionada con el pop; lamentablemente, a la vez entregándonos el estereotipo más molestoso relacionado con el rock de la cultura popular. Innecesariamente largo, innecesariamente tedioso e innecesariamente reventado. Este LP es más grande que la vida y en este momento la vida es difícil para todos, así que no es una gran escucha en pleno 2026. Pistas destacables: Animal Pour Some Suger On Me
Cliche and corny 80's hair band. Not my style, even if it had a few good songs. 4/10
Cool guitar bits, can't stand the singing
I listened to this album and now I can only make jokes about how I hate my wife.
Vinyl record side A : Hits that I can't stand. Vinyl record side B : Fillers that I can't stand.
shit sucks
1.5/5
My mind is so made up on Def Leppard, they are not for me on any level. There are people out there that like this band, and I'm happy for them. Def Leppard seems like a caricature of a rock band to me, and none of their quirks work for me. Seriously, how does Def Leppard get more albums on this list than John Coltrane?
Is it bad that I stopped listening to this to listen to pretzel logic again?
Fav: Love Bites Least Fav: Excitable That just felt like one massive hour-long song, sooooo boring
Bij tijd en wijle niet zo abominabel als wat ik had verwacht, maar het is wel een album die onze reis door eighties wel een beetje samenvat he. Er gebeurden fantastische dingen in de 80s op cultureel en muzikaal vlak, maar die weten ze tot nog toe goed te verbergen. Er gebeurde gewoon veel, dus ook deze ijzingwekkende uitspattingen zijn typisch voor dat decennium. Enfin, de grote hits zijn best catchy, en toegegeven; ik tikte een beetje mee met m'n voet tijdens de hooks. Schrik hier toch wel van, want voor de rest is Def Leppard alles wat ik niet zoek in muziek. Hier ga ik wakker van liggen. 5,5/10 Highlights (God vergeef me): Animal Pour Some Sugar On Me
I was alive in the 80's but im very glad i wasn't old enough to have this as my formative musical upbringing as it seems like a bit of a wasteland in hindsight. This just seems very empty and shallow. It could be called fun and well done, and it gets a bonus point for being from Sheffield. But it was a tough listen
Does all Def Leppard sound the same? Yes. Yes, it does.
++: Rocket, God of War, Excitable +: Love Bites, Armageddon It, Don't Shoot Shot Gun, Run Riot +-: Women, Animal, Pour Some Sugar on Me, Love and Affection -: Hysteria 6,9/10
From the Sheffield Strip, California.
All of these songs sound exactly the same to me. Power 80s pop rock.
- 1/12 songs added to main playlist - Arena rock, not my jam - Having a hard time getting really interested - Only 2 songs in at this point, but it doesn’t really hit for me - Lots of hits - Not very engaging for me, a bit of a chore to listen to - Favorite song: Gods of War
There's probably a reason subsequent generations of kids have been walking around in Nirvana tees for the better part of 25 years, but hair metal stayed firmly in the 80s where it belonged.
12 year old me loved this, and it does have its moments. But the production is a bit too much and the lyrics are almost dumb enough to be on an Aerosmith album. The whole second half is just filler.
its very campy but that's the appeal. Its a bit long though
In some ways, Def Leppard is the best of the hair metal bands, but shit still stinks even if it’s the “best” shit. Fucking awful. I’m glad Nirvana killed this shit off.
Way overproduced with dumb lyrics. The title track is the album's saving grace but the rest I can live without. It was a massive success but I find it disappointing when it came out and my opinion hasn't changed since.
Awful 80s hair metal
This music came out when I was in college. I was pretty indifferent, but I thought I’ll give this a genuine listen today. I’m still pretty indifferent. Even the song I remember liking was boring. Other than a few catchy refrains, I couldn’t get into this. Not my style.
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
My hair grew 3 inches listening to this.
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
Makes Bon Jovi sound mint
the 80’s will never happen again. what a crazy time. this album will never be made again. i appreciate that aspect of it.
aggressively mediocre
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
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
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
it’s giving 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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
too long and too samey
2.5/5
Cheesy and bland. Don't like this type of 80s rock
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.
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)
3 decent songs and a whole host of boring dross.
Meh is an understatement
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 really didn't grab me. It sounded fine, but I won't revisit
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.
Awesome drumming, insipid lyrics.
Not for me.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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
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.
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".
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.
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.
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
Big time stupid 80s band, and I only have room in my heart for ACDC when it comes to big time stupid 80s bands.
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Not terrible, but very hard to take this type of hyper-polished 80's pop-rock seriously...
I forgot how much I hate this album. 2/5
I listened to the whole thing. Felt like a chore.
meh
Ну прикольно для древних рок-динозавров из 70х, но слушать это я ещё раз конечно же не буду
Successful but soulless 80's hair metal
Not for me.
2/5
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’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.
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
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.
I tried!
Bland
It's hard to imagine a more mainstream focused rock album.
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.
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.
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.
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
I literally didn't notice when this album finished. Boring af
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.
One hour of Def Leppard is way too much. Three stars if the could have cut the album to under forty minutes.
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
Good songs but the album itself is nothing to write home about.
Lots of radio hits, but other than "Pour Some Sugar On Me", I was never a fan of Def Leppard.
not a fan
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 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.
"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.
How tf is this an hour long.
Wuää, 1,5
Very dated man cheese for teenage boys. Not the stream of the 1980s I want to remember. No thanks!
Ugh.
Not bad but not my thing
fordómar mínir fyrir 15 ára svíum í denimvestu, skeggbrodda og lummu í gúlnum verða til þess að þessi fær 2,5.
80’s hard rock is like kryptonite for me. Overproduced bombastic stupidity. Can be fun in very small doses.
High energy music and lyrics but too gung ho, macho for my liking.
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.
An abomination of 80s pop/glam/metal not for me-ness
Old man rock
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.
Def Leppard not for me.
incredibly mid
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.)
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.
Essentially the same song on repeat, it’s ok but best kept to the odd song popping up on a best of album somewhere
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
Typical nwobhm nonsense.
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 know it’s good but it isn’t my scene.
sigh. 2 stars
Pretty boring, lead singers voice was beyond irritating. Could only get a few songs into the album before giving up. 4/10
These rockers made some 3 minute songs go for 5 or 6 minutes. Pour some corn syrup on them. Baby!
Bland
Not terrible, but really not my cup of tea. Just not that interesting to listen to.
I don’t like this glamrock stuff
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
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.
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
Does not slap nearly as hard as other efforts.
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
Actually didn't enjoy.
This thing has hooks for days, but often they're kind of "annoying earworm" type hooks. Very AC/DC, Aerosmith. Very, very shiny. I went into it with an open mind: I love "Photograph", but *loathe* "Pour Some Sugar On Me". Unfortunately, this record is more the latter. Aims for the cheap seats, and every track is way, way too long. Am I excited? Nah, not really. Favorite track: "Armageddon It"
A dated glam rock album with some fun melodies but really repetetive songs.
Yawn
Poor cock rock
Seriously? Is this on the list for the comedy value?
Metal for soccer moms.
10/02/2022 Restrospective log. I started listening to this on 09/30 and did not finish just bc I saw that the album had an hour long run time and I was like HUH??? Given that, I still surprisingly liked this album just because of how absolutely ridiculous it was. It’s so bloated and over the top ridiculous on all fronts that you have to set aside your ego and just have fun listening to this hair metal insanity. I will never listen to album again, but I won’t lie and say I didn’t at least have a little fun dipping my toe in the water.
Lame hair metal
Bubble gum metal. Yuck
Find this utterly useless and boring
Je reconnais l'importance de l'album pour le groupe, mais ce n'est pas pour moi.
Couldn’t finish it. Really can’t do hair bands unfortunately.
Not for me
good album
Even though I knew I wasn't a big fan of hair/glam metal, this album was a major letdown. Boring, mundane, mediocre, slow, and nothing to really draw you in to any of the songs. While "Pour Some Sugar on Me" is by far the best song on the album, it has been so overplayed over the years that I'm not terribly interested in listening to it for the 1000th time.
not my thing
Nostalgia can’t save everything. This is long. Some cool effects here the guitar playing is great but will probably won’t revisit again.
Ja ba maldar om dehär albumet fö de ha vari i min väg så länge å ja ha skjuti ipp de å allt möjligt men helt tbh de va int super ass
Respect to Rick Allen but I fell that one Def Leppard album is more than enough before you die
Muy yankees para ser ingleses.
Sounds so dated. Pour some sugar on me is a classic though.
Didn’t hate it, but didn’t really like it that much either
Im sure this is a great classic rock album, I dont really like that type of stuff. Had some cool riffs but I found it a little cheesy 4/10
not good
My opinion of Def Leppard's music is the same as my opinion about their mullets and their bleached and shredded jeans. I paused for a curious moment, but it never caught on with me. All these years later, both the hairstyle and the music feel pretty silly to me. There are moments in the music where I could almost get pulled in, and then it is clear that the track playing is another iteration of Def Leppard's version of a 'hey ladies' kind of song. I don't like that topic from any band. When the album came out it was everywhere, which helped to further ruin my opinion. I remember in high school, for our early morning workouts they finally had to put down the rule and say that this album could no longer be played - other people needed a chance for something different. Superficially, I might be tempted to give this 3 stars ("I guess this is okay"), but "Pour Some Sugar on Me" (may I NEVER have to hear this song again) guarantees nothing better than 2 stars.
Fuckin’ awful. 2 stars, only because a few of the songs have a certain anthemic quality that I can appreciate, but overall I really hate this type of music.
Snällare och poppigare rock än vad jag förväntat mig. När jag börjar lyssna vill jag skalla dagen rakt i plytet, känner mig kraftfull. Denna känsla håller i kanske 2-3 låtar, innan det blir för tröttsamt. På något sätt svårt att verkligen tro på texterna om kärlek när de sjungs av pudelrockare. Men det är väl bara mina fördomar. Bättre än det förra Genesisalbumet, men likväl en tvåa. Bästa låt: Love Bites
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. although 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 a ANOTHER Def Leppard album on this list. Why two, for god's sake? What else do they have to offer?
VERY 80s. Animal, Don't Shoot Shotgun and Run Riot bang to an extent but this is pretty bad in 2023
It sounds like Def Leppard. If you're into that great, but otherwise it sounds like movies-taking-place-in-the-80s soundtrack music
So bland. Something about the "huge" production of this record just saps it of all dynamics for me, so it loses my interest if I listen to more than a few songs in a row. Piecemeal it's alright, but the album as a whole is kind of tiresome to listen to.
Yeah I'll pass. Sure I'll sing along to Pour Some Sugar On Me while I'm shitfaced at a rock bar but glam just does nothing for me whatsoever.
-Rocket is a boring tune -I actively loathe Pour Some Sugar One Me -Love Bites is the least powerful power ballad I've ever heard For one of the best-selling rock albums of all time, this feels remarkably edge-less in hindsight This album is in a weird grey zone between hair metal and pop rock where it doesn't really commit to either one enough. Makes me just want to listen to Dokken. Best songs: Woman, Armageddon It
Like reading someone else’s mail. I don’t have nostalgia for this.
lala
I listened to the whole damn thing.
die erste hälfte hat ein paar ok bis gute songs, die zweite das schlimmste was ich bis jetzt von den 1001 alben gehört habe
More Like "Echt Deppart" 😂 fand das nicht ganz so überträglich muss ich sagen weil mehr selfaware poppig, aber trotzdem echt nicht meins.
Feels like a "Ya had to be there" album. I could see this album really being fun in 1987 if tons of people were listening to it, but dedicating an hour to this thing is not worth it anymore. It is also kind of everything I dislike about classic rock - big arena choruses and lackluster instrumental play. 3/10
Hair metal has not aged well at all. Pour Some Sugar On Me is a heater though
I would rate it lower for being so cliché, but from what I'm reading, this is the origin of the cliché so props for that lol. (I was hoping but I could not recognize any song)
Fun, but not for me and not must-hear.
Meh.
Ends up just kind of boring and cringey. The production is too quality, but a lot of the songs lack cohesive bridge sections and the lyrics are subpar
Why would you have this album on but not Pyromania. This album is everything wrong with 80s metal. Overproduced plodding crap. At least Pyromania had some decent riffs. PourSome Sugar On can still draw a smile though
I was not expecting this album to sound so spectacular. I'm familiar with Def Leppard's big hits, and I'm not completely confident in their songwriting abilities, but the producing really elevates this album into something that's quite palatable and fun throughout. Pop metal can be so joyous and goofy, and Hysteria came close to making me turning my brain off and making me a believer. The T. Rex influence here is palpable. Fav Tracks: Pour Some Sugar on Me and Animal
Classic 80’s hard rock / light metal. Iconic sound but kind of lazy writing in a lot of places.
Not my type of music
Blokes from Sheffield signing in an American accent
This album really did not age well. This was bad. I did not like this. I feel like all the songs sound the same and they all sound bad.
I ruggenti anni '80! Uno spasso totale. Se hai voglia di: chitarre distorte, riverbero, cori, ritmi gagliardi, melodie finte ribelli e orecchiabilissime, allora TOP. Si vede che è stato lo stampino per un mucchio di roba venuta dopo. Roba generalmente ininfluente e fine a sé stessa. Lo trovo un po' bimbominkioso.
Generic 80s Rawk. A lot of screaming about stuff, way too much synth, and fake drum sounds (obviously drummer only has one arm so can't blame him for that but could have dialed back the compression) Guitar playing, which is normally the best part of hair metal, is so so. Overall, would prefer to be a deaf leopard than to listen one.
Ren rock n roll, pour some sugar on me, spade
I initially was going to give this 3 stars since it's fine as background music even if it wasn't my favorite, but it just became so repetitive musically and vocally that halfway through I began to actively dislike it and wanted to quit listening.
Ik dacht nog even dat dit misschien leuk kon worden (open minded bui), maar de waarheid kwam keihard aan...
Ughh..... dat was echt op het tandvlees zeg. Wat een gedateerde 80's rock. Dit is eigenlijk onder geen enkele omstandigheden nog aanvaardbaar als serieuze muziek.
Never understood the appeal to Def Leppard. Sure, their music was popular during it's first wave when I was a youth, but I never got into them because I couldn't stand this brand of mainstream, radio-friendly, light-weight wannabee hair metal. There are guys around my age that still listen to DF because it reminds them of their youth and they can't "relate" to newer music. This is almost 35 years ago! Move on, there's lots of way better music in the three and a half decades that followed.
Hearing a couple of these tracks on an 80s movie soundtrack or in a karaoke bar is all very well and good. A whole hour of them is a bit much though. 2.5
Accomplished musicians but it's just a boring boring listen.
It was OK. Not really my taste and I don't think it stands the test of time in the same way as something like Appetite for Destruction, if you can even compare those two. Does it deserve to be in this list, probably, 1001 albums is a lot and it is definitely a prime example of music in a particular genre at a particular time. Is that genre and that time one that generated era defining works, probably but I don't think this album is one of them.
Not sure what all the fuss is about
One handed drummer rock!
Like 80s power rock. Pretty sure some of this was on GTA Vice City. Just sounds like Aerosmith. 2/5
Cheesy soup with chunks of cocky rocks served pyro hot in kevlar bowls. So rich that you thank God gave Rock’n’Roll to you…and a spandex onesie. Queen gives more than 1.7
Just not the kind of music that draws me in. I promised myself I would listen to it the whole way through but did not alter my opinion from where it was before I listened. Though I will say that i like the title track. 2.5 🌟
Rating somewhere between a two and a three. Started off pretty strong but faded towards the end.
def leppard :/
Definitely not my style. I really loved the intros for most tracks but disliked the following 95% of the track
Radio sam svatove i jednostavno nisam imao vremena. Iskreno, ne bih ni tražio za njih, ali tko zna. //// Ma šta ko zna, kurac, neb si ovo nikad pustio, al nije odvratno toliko.
Não é meu estilo
Ieder lied voeld ewat hetzelfde aan
A couple of monster hits but not enough across the album
Very dated, not that interesting.
niet zo lekkere rock
Not bad - not good either