Hysteria

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".

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.

My initial thought is that this is what you get when you try to put Bon Jovi together with about a quarter of the budget. It's so boring. Pop hard rock for the easy to please. I strongly suspect that if their drummer had been a better driver it wouldn't even be on this list, but that's the power of a good story, I guess.

Yawn

Poor cock rock

Seriously? Is this on the list for the comedy value?

A bit shit.

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

I thought this would be some fun nostalgia (and on some songs it was) but really... this band kind of sucks. Having a one armed drummer whose beats are, understandably, simplistic didn't help them. 3 is pretty generous.

It's still in regular rotation around here. A great collection of songs. Harmonies and a sound unlike anything before.

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

Metal for soccer moms.

Sorry, nej, låter som all 80-talsrock/ett metoo-ärende

Det svänger katten 8)

Solid

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.

Will need to listen again I think, sounded miles better once I put it through a different speaker

Just your average album that makes you rethink what you want to expect from music.

Pretty amazing pop-hard rock magic. Definitely has it's own sound and lot of catchy tunes. Though absolutely POP, it still holds up well.

Lame hair metal

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

'Why can't a rockband sell a record to a Elton John or Michael Jackson-fan without losing your original market?' - Steve Clark (R.I.P) The goal of this album was very clear, make a rock album that would sell millions to a different audience than their contemporaries. And they succeeded insanely well with their hardrock bubble gum pop crossover. Incredibly catchy but with 68 minutes the album might've lost bit of filler to make it not strand into songs that are starting to sound the same in the end. But any band in this era would've loved to be able to pen something down like Gods Of War, which is the highlight of this album

I remember vividly the first time I heard the first single from this album: "Women." I got chills. Mind you, I was barely ten years old. But I'd been listening to Def Leppard (through my older sisters) since they bought the Pyromania LP in 1983. MTV really made Def Leppard for me. And then there was such a long wait... (4 years is a long time when you're ten). The drummer lost an arm... But the video for "Women" came on MTV... I was amazed. Rick Allen playing drums... Joe Eliot looked different. His hair was blonder. Longer. What an album. Every song could be a hit. I think the best one, the most underrated, is "Gods of War." But as a whole, the album is among my favorites.

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

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

Bubble gum metal. Yuck

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

Metal hell yeah

Find this utterly useless and boring

C’est à moitié « vraiment mauvais » et à moitié important et pertinent.

Je reconnais l'importance de l'album pour le groupe, mais ce n'est pas pour moi.

Music I'd tolerate playing on the radio or bar. But not my cup of tea.

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

Solid rockin' fun!

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

Copied to cassette from a friend's CD, this one spent a lot of time in my walkman in college. Pour Some Sugar and Armageddon It were constantly on MTV but the rest of the album is just as solid. I love especially all the songs with one-word titles: Women, Rocket, Animal, Hysteria, Excitable. This is some really great 80s hard rock.

I’m a big fan of Pyromania. Surprisingly I had never listened to this follow up album before. I didn’t realize how many of these songs I remembered from the radio until I started hearing them, so most of the album was at least somewhat familiar. I love that Def Leppard shimmer! ————————————————————————- Random thoughts: Interesting that “Love Bites” originated as a Country Ballad… listening to it now I can hear how that could work. I’m surprised I couldn’t find a country cover. “God of War” shows that anti-war-hair-metal-protest music works! Effective and interesting mixing of tempos, rhythm and melody on songs like “Don’t Shoot Shotgun.” When they start cranking it up you really feel it! “Armageddon It” is possibly the best metal pun ever. I haven’t listened to Hysteria in a long time and was struck by how lovely it is. A lot more going on in this song than I remembered or gave it credit for. ————————————————————————- With age I’ve gained greater appreciation of 80s hair metal and Hysteria is right up there with the best of them! I see a lot more of this in my future.

Couldn’t finish it. Really can’t do hair bands unfortunately.

rocket, pour some sugar, armageddon, don't shoot

Leuk classic rock/metal album maar niks super speciaals eigenlijk

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

Not for me

The cotton candy cone of rock. No substance. Completely devoid of all edge. Way too big, way too much. Kind of nice while you’re eating it.

good album

Pretty good classics

Glam metal, rock, ochentero.

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

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

Hysteria appears to have perfect production, but the compositional approach seems to be a bit restrained. I was impressed more than anything else by how American Def Leppard sounded in the eighties. That's not a dig: There's very little anyone could hope to add to the arena sound captured here. But there's little else to motivate me.

Just a good rock album, great guitar and vocals

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

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.

It was just a few songs into this album that I became fully aware that 80s hair metal is just not for me. By the time I got to the title track "Hysteria" I was so over this album and just wanted it to end. How on earth did this have seven hit singles? The only remotely memorable song "Pour Some Sugar on Me" is filled with the same cheesy lyrics, over-the-top production, scratchy-voice vocals, and repetitive guitar riffs with basic solos that all the rest of the songs on this album have. Man, I do not understand how so many people love this genre and how this is considered among the best. Hated it.

Classic 80s hair band album. Pour some sugar on me, was the most notable song on the album. At least 5 hits, basically the sound of the 80s.

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.

Lots of classic dad rock

Every song sounded the same. So much for that 80s nostalgia

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

Glam rock-metal. Varios megahits. Un 4.

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

Det här är det dåliga.

Way better than I could've thought. Especially on headphones. Insane guitar parts. Great song structure. Incredible production.

Muy yankees para ser ingleses.

Quintessential 80s metal. It follows "the formula" of all the metal bands - rock, rock, ballad, more rock, then an almost wistful love song. I mean, it works even if it is trite and a bit dated. Hilarious looking back on it that so many people took it seriously when it's so clearly a pastiche.

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

Pretty solid album surprisingly

Pretty classic rock!

Took me back to a time when I wasn’t alive but vibes were all over the place. I caught onto the impact that Def Leppard had on The Killers influence. The guitar in “Women” is sampled in Smile like you mean it.

Sounds so dated. Pour some sugar on me is a classic though.

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

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

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

Didn’t hate it, but didn’t really like it that much either

Was fun 80s hair metal but too corny for me.

Fun cock rock

"Hysteria" is like a good Marvel movie. I doubt it's going to be a lot of people's favourite album ever, and its not the most technically or artistically complex effort, but the mass appeal Def Leppard has crafted here is undeniably appreciable. There's just something comforting about this style of big stadium glam metal, and while every track doesn't land as strongly as 'the hits' that the casual listener would be most familiar with, I was pleasantly surprised how well the album maintained my interest with over an hour run time. It's not a complicated sound, but not all music needs to be - this is the kind of music that is meant to be shouted along to by a tipsy audience on karaoke night at your local dive bar. Standout tracks: "Women", "Animal", "Love Bites", "Pour Some Sugar on Me" and "Hysteria"

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

This is the cutest hard rock ever. 4 The cover looks like a Yu-Gi-Oh card. 3

corporate 80s glam rock strikes again! not quite as dark as Bon Jovi, or as immediately as catchy as AC/DC. not sure if I'd call it "good", but it sure is a spectacle!

Really enjoyed Animal

Pours some suga on myself

Some of these are hits but they all sound the same

All around fun album

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

This album is packed with singles and listens like a greatest hits compilation. Hysteria is Def Leopard’s finest album and the last in a series produced by Mutt Lange. The album is cohesive, and meticulously arranged. However at the end of the day it is a hair metal/pop album from a band who is trying to sound American despite their origins in Sheffield. As such, Hysteria is an over earnest, cheesy affair which is not self aware enough to be great.

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

Bitchin'. 4.5 stars

It was fun for 10 minutes but then became a little exhausting.

not good

I was surprised by how many songs I recognized

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

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

This was definitely a Def Leppard album. You can tell because it sounds exactly like you think it is going to.

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.

I don’t think glam metal is for me.

So many hits from this 1 album! Though not much diversity.

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.

Enjoyed it!

I never understand what reason anyone might have to pick this over music such as, say, Led Zeppelin’s. To me, Def Leppard always sounded like a vastly inferior wannabe.

This is one of those albums thats better in short bits. 2-3 songs at a time absolutely slaps but it definitely has that 80s sound. When this album came out I'd have been sure to give it a 5/5

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

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

Really good, but perhaps mostly nostalgia.

it’s a fun listen with some duds

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?

Good but not great.

How to rate a genre I know so little about? Well it was highly polished in the production, super clean and not at all rough; the lads could play and lead vocals were strong; the clips of Reagan and Thatcher were super nostalgic and made me miss the Cold War. It was a pretty fun record which surprised me as I’d always found the idea of Def Leppard underwhelming. Maybe I’m just now that target audience? Gulp.

Yeah it’s good

Just two days ago I got my first Def Leppard album and now I get another. Once again, too long and just too bland. It's just boring forgettable 80s crap. 2.5/5

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

Great tunes and guitars.

Better than bon Jovi

VERY 80s. Animal, Don't Shoot Shotgun and Run Riot bang to an extent but this is pretty bad in 2023

Brilliant

Classic Rock n Roll

Not my cup of 🫖

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

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

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

It sounds like Def Leppard. If you're into that great, but otherwise it sounds like movies-taking-place-in-the-80s soundtrack music

Enjoyable if I'm in the mood for it. A bit irritating if I'm not

This gets 5 stars because of so many great memories associated with when this album came out. They released 7(!) singles: all of which got a ton of radio airplay. But I do have to say that the layered harmonies, and the heavy production, haven't aged very well.

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

No me termina de volver loco todo el glam y este disco no es la excepción. Sí tiene buenas canciones que me quedo pero como disco no me convence porque creo que tiene mucho relleno. Sólido 3. Songs: Animal, Run Riot, Hysteria

Tuve hace muchos años mi época de escuchar Def Leppard y les agarré mucho gusto. Entiendo que en su momento los fans que los conocieron haciendo metal en sus dos primeros discos los hayan odiado un poco cuando lanzaron Hysteria y quizá hasta abandonado por otras bandas, pero visto en retrospectiva este disco es una genialidada: Tomas una banda que hace cosas pesadas y pules el sonido para que alcance a mucho más público, les arreglas un poquito el look para que le gusten a las mujeres, y PUM tienes un disco que rompe records de ventas. Y la neta es que es muy buen disco. No hay rato aburrido porque hasta las baladas pedorras están muy bien hechas y tienen momentos chidos. Mis favoritas creo que son Hysteria, Pour Some Sugar On Me y Animal.

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.

Eh. I got bored of this pretty quick. Every song sounds basically the same. It's like ACDC.

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.

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

-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

I loathe Def Leppard.

Hi- Women, Rocket, Love Bites, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Armageddon It, Hysteria Lo- Gods of War Peak hair metal, fantastically constructed, perfectly executed, excellent in every way. The only reason I didn't enjoy Gods of War is that it really doesn't jive well with the energy of the rest of the album, but even still it isn't a bad track, it's just the rest of the album is so strong.

not my gender but a good album

Muy bueno

Really up and down for me but gave it a last second third star for being fun at times

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

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

1st album I ever purchased.

Like reading someone else’s mail. I don’t have nostalgia for this.

80s classic

Tune after Tune after Tune after Tune.....

Pour ceux qui se demanderaient, un leppard est un animal hybride né de l'union d'une guéparde et d'un léopard. Le comportement du leppard est principalement caractérisé par de longues crises d'hystérie se traduisant souvent par des troubles de la parole ou de la sensibilité. Le groupe Def Leppard a parfaitement su traiter ce sujet souvent passé sous silence dans cet album.

J'ai apprécié cet album de Alice Cooper, et lui accorde donc la note de 3/5.

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

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

Absolute banger

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

Best Song: Run Riot. Only because around the three minute mark there is a brief guitar solo that reminds you that music can be fun and interesting. Worst Song: Love Bites. Why this one over the dozen other nearly identical soulless entries? I don't know. They're all bad. Overall: This is a low water mark in rock music history. Def Leppard lacks the edge of other hair metal bands like Motley Crue, the vocal talent of groups like Boston who could actually pull off these kind of ballads, and the passion of literally any other band. The instrumentation is uninteresting. The vocals sound like sick cats stage whispering from the far end of a wind tunnel. The lyrics are so dumb they feel like parodies. "Don't Shoot Shot Gun"? Kill me.

I knew this was Def Leppard's biggest album but I didn't realize that basically every song became a classic from Love Bites to Animal to Hysteria to Armageddon It. Lots of bangers and the epitome of hair metal

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

could hardly make it through

4.5

3/5

lala

Good guitar work. Not my style.

Such a good album. If only for Animal which is a masterpiece. Most if my knowledge of Def Leppard (and this album) comes from the Classic Album episode about it where they walk through the making, Rick Allen and his drumming, and how they thought they messed up the order they put out the singles on this one. Really fascinating stuff and I’m definitely going to be watching that again after hearing the album through (Classic Albums I have found is free on TubiTV)

Listened to on 3/15/22 4.5/5 Favorite song: pour some sugar on me, animal, love and affection Absolute classic with so many hits - could do without the weird intros for a few songs but also impossible to not bop your head along and want to play air guitar

Classic 80’s rock music, which really isn’t my cup of tea. It’s fine to have on though. Favorite song was Pour Some Sugar On Me.

Not my scene.

I listened to the whole damn thing.

Origunal, quite hard, bit psychadelic

These songs don't need to be 5-6 minutes long. This album doesn't need to be an hour long. An hour of glam rock gets so repetitive that it becomes genuine torture and every flaw becomes more pronounced (The cheesy lyrics, weird song structures, overproduction..) Def Leppard, KISS, AC/DC, Mötley Crue, Bon Jovi... it's all the same, really. This is what people who exclusively listen to pop and hip-hop (nothing wrong with that) think all rock is like, because they heard it in their dad's car once. Glam rock is such an odd genre. Insert arm joke here.

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

Sorry musste nach der Hälfte abbrechen und hab dann nur noch in die nächsten reingehört, was ich dann als gute Entscheidung befunden habe. Erst Guns n' Roses und jetzt das ist einfach zu viel. 3/10

die erste hälfte hat ein paar ok bis gute songs, die zweite das schlimmste was ich bis jetzt von den 1001 alben gehört habe

Wenn ich in einem Raum mit Bin Laden, Hitler und diesem Album wäre und 2 Kugeln hätte würde ich dieses Album 2 mal erschießen

ich hasse diese liste

extrem flach und schlecht, wie kann etwas so schlecht altern Wahnsinn

Sie haben es geschafft 10 minuten musik in 6 minuten zu komprimieren horror langweilig rentner musik

More Like "Echt Deppart" 😂 fand das nicht ganz so überträglich muss ich sagen weil mehr selfaware poppig, aber trotzdem echt nicht meins.

Literally one of my favourite classic rock albums of all time. Will never get tired of Def Leppard 😍. So so so good!

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

Fun to listen to. A lot of the sounds are similar but works for what it is. Would listen to again.

"Skin on skin, let the love begin... women!" Wow, this album is worse than I remembered. Aged like milk.

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

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

Perfectly fine album, with a few good tracks, and a few forgettable ones. Nothing here is inherently bad though, so it's solid.

Hair metal has not aged well at all. Pour Some Sugar On Me is a heater though

it's way fine

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

Never thought I'd give Def Leppard a 5 stars...

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

Not as heavy as I remember. But it’s not my go-to music.

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

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)

Classic but hokey 80s

80's opulence, manufactured image, coccaine, cockinesss, and all the obsolute worst aspects of western society in the 80's rolled into one terrible record.

Meh Leppard

Not my thing at all. Rubbish

Great albums with a lot of awesome classics.

Bitchin'. I really dig it

Fun, but not for me and not must-hear.

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

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

Classic 80s hair band. The songs were pretty good, but interestingly, I don't really think they hold up? I mean, they're good for their time, but I don't really see myself going out of my way to listen to this now - and I love 80s music!

Actually pretty enjoyable although there weren't any songs that totally stood out to me.

I have a weird relationship with rock music. The majority of my favorite albums EVER belong to rock and its subgenres. I love rock!! However, a lot of the biggest rock bands ever are bands I don't enjoy in the slightest. When you say you like rock, a lot of people think of these arena bands from the 80s, like Def Leppard or Bon Jovi. But this is EXACTLY what I DON'T mean when I say I love rock. These 80s pop hair-metal bands do not sound good. The way they overproduce their music is sickening; it's really too much. It's irritatingly poppy. The music is engineered to be sickeningly cheesy and sweet. These bands are obsessed with their cool image more than anything, and it shows. Every single song is a painfully cliché and cringeworthy "anthem", and they're all indistinguishable from the others. The lyrics are uninspired. The formula is so overdone here. It's exactly like Halloween candy: a piece of candy is fine once in a while, but once you grow out of adolescence, the thought of eating a bucket full of candy in one night makes you want to vomit. This album is a bucket full of cheap, over-processed junk candy, and it was really hard to enjoy more than a minute of it, let alone a whole hour of it.

The ultra-80s production, the - at best - dated lyrics. This album was either singles I already knew - difficult to escape if you were around in 1987 - and hated, or album tracks not as good as the singles. Not everything that sells tens of millions of copies then needs to be listened to now - wonder if Englebert Humperdink, famously outselling the Beatles, will be on the list. As he can't be worse than Def Leppard.

7.5

This was my lawn mowing cassette as a kid earning that neighbourhood coin. When I saw it on the list, I thought ‘Good, but not amazing’. Wasn’t even gonna listen - I know them all by heart - but then I listened to it. 5 stars. Bravo.

Didn't love every song but there are a few hits and I made it from beginning to end without getting the itch to skip any.

It has dated quite a bit. It is too long at over 60 mins and they were stretching it to release 7 singles. I smiled when I didnt see the lyrics on spotify; they must not have thought them worthy of posting them. 😂 they are pretty corny and the snippets of Reagan and Thatcher date this album. However it bears some re-listening. Cover art 2/5

I’m not really a fan of metal music so I can’t really add much in terms of a review. I do feel that this is a fairly good album. There are no filler tracks and all the songs appear to be lyrically and instrumentally strong. However as I don’t really enjoy the genre, I don’t really think very highly of it. I did however enjoy ‘Armegeddon’.

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

Absolutely ridiculous pop metal record - but it does what it sets out to do with a level of meticulous attention to detail that helps set it apart somewhat. I've got to admire, or at least gawk at, just how seriously everyone involved seems to take such a fundamentally goofy exercise. I mean, "Pour Some Sugar on Me" is undeniably fun. As with the whole record, don't look too closely at the lyrics. Favourite groaner? "Are you getting it? I'm Armageddon it." No wonder so many dads go crazy for this band. My biggest complaint is the length. This album did not to be more than 35 minutes and would, I think, be much stronger with a little trimming (looking at you "Excitable"). This one's gonna mess up my algorithm, isn't it? Favourite song: "Pour Some Sugar on Me" Rating: 2.5/5

I just can't. I started but I just can't go on. This is unremittingly appalling. And to think that there were people who bought this and listened to it more than once

Classic 80’s hard rock / light metal. Iconic sound but kind of lazy writing in a lot of places.

Not my type of music

Cheesy but fun!

In 2022 ‘Hysteria’ feels like the most ridiculous album. It sounds all of the $4.5 million that it reportedly cost to make. It’s shiny, gleaming, glossy, expansive, excessive, bloated, monolithic…over produced, probably 20 minutes too long; and yet I still really like it because despite all my criticisms, the album is a heap of big, dumb fun. It reaches for your jugular, doesn’t let go for the duration, and demands you have a good time, which ultimately you will. Truly ‘Hysteria’ is to hair metal what ‘Thriller’ is to pop.

4.5/5 nice one! Who would have thought!

Blokes from Sheffield signing in an American accent

very carefully crafted and arranged - every song has a couple of twists in it - packed with singles, stadium hard rock/pop classics

I'm very critical of the glam / hair metal movement due to the overcommercialization and generic nature of the songs. I would get so bored scrolling through the Billboard of the 80s and early 90s and hearing formulaic trash. This makes it all the more exciting when you have a quality band that deserves its fame and notoriety, and you start to understand how the genre became so big. Hysteria is Def Leppard's best effort (Pyromania in an assured second), and it stands alongside Van Halen's 1984 and GnR's Appetite as the genre's best albums that predominate rock radio. The production and vocal delivery are top of the notch. It's loud and impressive, never too busy, but still explosive in nature to get me moving. No bad songs, but certainly several weaker tracks. Despite that, the entire side is absolutely perfect. Banger after banger, which is especially impressive considering that goes on for a half hour. Even the mandatory glam metal ballad here "Love Bites" (or is it "Hysteria"?) is incredible. Honestly, the only improvement I could think of is cutting off 2 or 3 songs near the end, which isn't even to justify me not giving it a perfect score.

Some bangers, but extremely cheesy 6/10

9/10. This had a lot of nostalgic songs for me, and was overall a really fun album.

It was alright. 6/10

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.

Way better than I was expecting. Recognised several songs from movies. Had a really fun vibe.

7/10

I once fucked a deaf dumb and blind leopard while wandering through the Himalayas. I was very high on opium and self worth at the time.

SHACK must be stopped

I feel let down for Sheffield that these are from there. They've got a nice back catalogue of bands and then this tripe which is arguably the biggest band from the city. the most interesting thing abou def leppard is the one armed drummer, crashed his corvette on snake pass and lost an arm. i'd be impressed by that as a cool story but he did it overtaking so a bit of a dick move really.

I wandered lonely as a cleft lip baby at a Pretty Little Miss USA competition. "Isn't she brave?", "She's a loser, Janet. An ugly little loser who's ruining the competition for everyone."

Hahaha it's like a piss take. I know it wouldn't be at the time, but now? Sheesh. Very much of its era. 80s movie montage. Rockin'. Yeah.

I really don't want my metal to sound acceptable to my mother. Give me more Slayer and less Bon Jovi. And NWOBHM is the single worst name for a musical movement ever, so it is a no from me.

Before all of this really overblown reverse-gated reverb, there was the Def Leppard that made "On Through The Night." Back when they had an even-number of arms. This isn't my way of disparaging Hysteria. Rather, I think Def Leppard's pre-fame records buttress the feeble pure pop-metal sheen of a record like Hysteria. Like, Metallica made three shred records and then they made the Black Album. You can hate on the black album (which I think I did earlier in this list), but where does a band go when they've mastered one genre. Hopefully somewhere. In the case of Def Leppard, that place was the top of the charts. There are worse places to be. But I think "Pour Some Sugar on Me" is a stupid song. I don't like that the 80s metal movement ended in a bunch of songs that had funny punchline choruses. Really tough to pick a rating for this record. I guess I'll be charitable and pick 3 instead of two. Really rounding up there. But I am because of the aforementioned history of this band, as well as the fact that this record seems to have taken the genre as far is it would ever go before Nirvana came and killed this bullshit. Also, Bon Jovi is better.

Hopefully this is the only time I have to make this joke throughout this entire experience: What has 9 arms and sucks? Def Leppard. Named for the only living thing on the planet that can stand to listen to all 60 minutes of this album, the band is Def Leppard, but their fans are Blind Sheep. Okay - I'm done. In all seriousness, They're pretty cool. I will never really understand what separates them from other bands (like Poison) that did the exact same shit during the 80s. Maybe it's just that their songs are way longer? Not better, just longer? Anyhoo, this is - by far - their best album. The hits just keep coming. Is it "good"? I don't know. Is it fun to listen to? For sure.

Honestly this is jam packed full of catchy shit. Everything is pretty big, really well-written, perfectly executed, etc ec. The vocal harmonies in particular are where they really stand out I guess - and the way they meld with the guitar melodies so well. Production is flawless, if a little declawed, but it really is just a crystal clear, perfect little slice of late 80s production. It's openly cheesy as shit, just puts itself right out there celebrating the big hair/sleaze look - it's almost like they knew hipsters in 2021 would go into conniptions in the knowledge they can't stop it existing already. ha. Criticisms: Excitable is a dead set awful song, and Don't Shoot Shotgun isn't far behind. Also, it feels like the whole album could have been one long song - great for cohesion, and might have been amazing at 30min... but 60? They could have trimmed the fat and I probably would've given it a 5/5. That being said, it's been fun to listen to this again in full, haven't heard it beyond the hits in a good 10+ years. 4/5.

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.

I was raised on 80's hair bands and I adore this album. Means a lot to me. Hot take: Pour Some Sugar On Me might be my least favorite track. Overplayed.

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

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.

I love Def Leppard, starting back with High & Dry which should be on this list - it’s my favorite Def Leppard album. Hysteria is also good, love every song on it, but they had a bit more polish to their sound by this time. Still a 5 though!

nah

Ren rock n roll, pour some sugar on me, spade

Genre not my cup of tea but easily listenable

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

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.

The epitome of hair metal. This album has some great hits (Animal & Love Bites are great) but also some meh songs. Can’t forget their drummer has 1 arm. That blows my mind.

Really good rock, but with the cheesy 80s backing.

Healthy slice of 80s power rock.

eh, other the the iconic (if cheesey now) Pour Some Sugar On Me; this didn't do much for me. Rocket is a neat song. Well produced. Probably wouldn't any of these songs off. 3*.

Blijkt dat ik toch best wel wat nummer van Def Leppard ken.

Ik dacht nog even dat dit misschien leuk kon worden (open minded bui), maar de waarheid kwam keihard aan...

Wat is dit voor slappe midtempo hardrock!?

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.

This album really helped define their sound. There are many good songs on it.

It was pretty fun, very much of its time.