Hysteria

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

didn't like it

Meg

2.4

Not a big fan of this album. 1 stand out track.

Ehhh

Certainly not bad for a hair metal album. As I've often found with these sorts of albums, you'll have a small number of terrific songs, and then a large amount of filler that tends to blur together. I concede that the 'filler' on this album is of a higher quality, but still, very few tracks standing out to me beyond the ones you'd expect, e.g. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" and "Hysteria".

Rätt kass alltså

Not my cup of tea. 80s hair rock gets super repetitive!

1:orna behöver sparas till sämre grejer, men det här var riktigt mjäkig rock.

Hysteria by Def Leppard was okay, but I didn't really connect with it

bad and wrong

Don't get hysterical.

#487 / 1089 Heard before? ✅ Revisit? ❌ I don't care what happened to who, I'm here reviewing music and this one is one of those shits they did after totally abandoning NWOBHM, went full on pop and really started optimizing for radio play, MTV and money. This is also the year of thrash metal, beginning of death metal and black metal proper, when all metal was still going up the heavy and fast scale. Essential releases from Celtic Frost, Napalm Death, Voivod, Sodom, Suicidal Tendencies, Candlemass, Death, Bathory, Anthrax, Exodus, King Diamond, Kreator and fucking Mayhem came out this year. If one album should be rated with the past in mind, this diarrhea of an piece of shit would be it. When ALL metal went harder, faster and aggro-er, these cunts went towards yesterdays news to glam and pop. Talk about selling out! It's the ultraprocessed and overproduced cousin of the empty calorie junkfood. Almost gave it 2/5 but recounting it's sins reminded me that it does not need nor deserve forgiveness. 1/5 just by listening to bits of few tracks.

these are Spinal Tap songs but Spinal Tap sounds better

Ik weet niet of ik dit beter vind dan het ouevre van Frank Gallan.

Business as usual babes

not for me

Can I rate it zero.

A good example of mid-eighties, mid-atlantic, ‘poodle rock’. I despise it to it’s core

Terrible album by one of the most over rated bands ever!

I listened to 3 tracks. It sucked when it came out and it has not gotten better with time.

I couldn't finish this album, it's pretty cheesy.

Didn't finish listening Only recognized one song Never was a hair-band fan One star for the one-armed drummer

I really don't get on with this kind of hair metal, does nothing for me at all

Just awful...

Wow, I didn't like this

Good God if I hear it "Pour Some Sugar On Me" one more time I'm going to punch somebody in the head god-awful album.

Nope.

I don't care who they are, hair metal is not something you should listen to before you die.

out of the two hair metal albums i've been given so far, i slightly prefer this over slippery when wet, but i still really don't enjoy this. still plastic, still cheesy, still meaningless. please stop giving me albums from these 80s pop-metal hitmaker bands 🙏

Not for me

It’s just not for me it has some redeeming qualities the talent is there but I just can’t get into the overly glossy rock that def leopard is giving me. Fav tracks: none

Bleh. Feels too long, and like once you've heard one song you've heard them all. Even during my classic rock phase as a young lad I couldn't get into Def Leppard, and I still can't today.

varmaa tähä mennessä vaikein kuuntelukokemus

reminds me of will schuster

Glam Rock at its worst or best? It all depends on one’s inclination for hairspray riffs and raucous choruses. Love it or hate it, this album encapsulated a genre for better or worse.

I love metal, in (almost) all its forms, but this is just not it. This is cheesy, long-winded pop with hilarious 80s production choices. Death's "Scream Bloody Gore" also dropped in 1987 and helped establish the template for death metal. I bring this up because the list doesn't have any death metal on it but for some reason there are two Def Leppard albums. 0.5/5.0: Unlistenable

I know that Def Leppard exists but don't have any liked songs by them on Spotify and never owned one of their albums. I had just graduated from college when this one was released. I was familiar with their previous album (Pyromania) because it was very regularly played in the dorms and houses at college - and I never liked that one. Uh oh, this is over an hour long. I just don't understand the appeal of poppy hair metal like this. Dumb lyrics, slick production, boring arrangements, high pitched vocals. Nearly every song sounds the same. Just super generic stuff to me. Nearly 40 years later and I still haven't figured out why anyone would consider this good. I bet you could ask AI to make a hair metal album and it would be just as good as this - possibly better. OK I just did that... Here's an AI generated song called "Midnight Rendezvous". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here’s a Def Leppard-style song about a one-night stand with a rock groupie. It’s got the big hair, anthemic choruses, and rebellious energy you’d expect from the band’s 80s glam metal era. “Midnight Rendezvous” (In the style of Def Leppard) (Opening riff: Big, crunchy power chords, driving rhythm, and a soaring vocal melody.) [Verse 1] She’s got the look, she’s got the style, Leather boots and a killer smile. Backstage pass, she don’t need a name, Just a one-way ticket to the fame. [Pre-Chorus] She’s a groupie queen, yeah, she’s wild and free, Tonight she’s all about the melody. No strings attached, no ties, no chains, Just a backstage pass and a bottle of champagne. [Chorus] Oh, it’s a Midnight Rendezvous, Under the neon lights, we’re breaking the rules. She’s a rock ‘n’ roll fantasy, Tonight she’s all about me! (Guitar solo: Shredding, melodic, and full of attitude.) [Verse 2] She’s got the moves, she’s got the fire, Backstage whispers, a hidden desire. No promises, no lies, no tears, Just a one-night stand and a decade of cheers. [Pre-Chorus] She’s a groupie queen, yeah, she’s wild and free, Tonight she’s all about the melody. No strings attached, no ties, no chains, Just a backstage pass and a bottle of champagne. [Chorus] Oh, it’s a Midnight Rendezvous, Under the neon lights, we’re breaking the rules. She’s a rock ‘n’ roll fantasy, Tonight she’s all about me! (Bridge: Soft, then explosive) Soft: She’s a shadow in the spotlight’s glow, A fleeting moment, a one-night show. Explosive: But damn, she burns like a wildfire flame, A memory I’ll never tame! [Final Chorus] Oh, it’s a Midnight Rendezvous, Under the neon lights, we’re breaking the rules. She’s a rock ‘n’ roll fantasy, Tonight she’s all about me! (Outro: Big, anthemic, fading out with a guitar wail.) Whoa-oh-oh, yeah! Midnight Rendezvous! ----------------------------------------------- I had to check if this site has albums from bands like Ratt, Poison, Scorpions, Motley Crue, Whitesnake, Warrant etc. - which fit in the same bucket as these guys in my mind. Thankfully, I can report back that none of these bands have an album on this list. But Pyromania is also on this list. I'm happy the drummer was able to continue his career and do very well even after his tragic car accident where he lost an arm. Good for him! Liked songs on Spotify: 0/12 Rating: 1/5 (should be zero)

fav songs: pour some sugar on me glam, arena, radio 20/100

WAYYYY too long. Five minutes was pushing it. I've always hair metal and this album didn't change that in the slightest. Oh! And every song sound the same. Generally just such a terrible experience. Thumbs way down.

Genuinely terrible, couldn't even finish it

So boring. This is not for me.

Review - argh hair metal is all bad there are no good hair metal albums the defining features of hair metal are inherently dislikeable arghhhh. Cool they kept the one armed drummer though. Score - 2.5/10 Need to listen? NO

I never minded listening to anything by them and today I learnt how right I was. I expected some copycats of the hard rock of Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath (but 10-15 years too late) but this album is actually much worse: here we are rather in the neighborhood of Bon Jovi... This leopard is lucky to be deaf because the music is shite

Now, I'm not a big fan of heavy metal, especially not of lightweight hair metal. And this has all the worst features of those genres coupled with excessive production. I did listen to the whole thing. I don't think this is an album I needed to hear.

I mean it's cool you can drum with one arm but that's the only cool thing about this album

A star for each arm the drummer has.

I cannot believe there's people out there that like this. What is going on with the world. All respect to the one armed drummer though Will I listen to again: 0%

I'm sure this probably says a lot more about me than it does about the music, but I hate it when everyone in a room sings along to a song they all know. One time, my wife brought me to some sort of dueling piano bar where everyone would drink and sing along to songs like Tiny Dancer and Piano Man and stuff like that and it just made my skin crawl. I told her wasn't feeling well and had to go to the bathroom and I just went outside and sat in the cold. In January. In Canada. I couldn't even sit in the lobby. Arena Rock pushes the same buttons for me. I'm sure I heard a piano version of "Pour Some Sugar On Me" that night.

Ok, another old man rant...I suppose if I had been nearer 13 rather than 30 and never heard any real music when this lot peaked I may have been able to say "Armageddon It." I didn't then and I'm still not. They were successful enough though so it must have meant something to many. Just leaves me cold though. Have to admit this is the first album I have skipped through several tracks - I have heard (and hated) them enough before to know I would happily die without having to hear any of this again. Come back Joni, all is forgiven!

Hilarious, and I think I'm laughing AT them, not WITH them? Yer man is very horny, but doesn't really have many words to express it. Special mention for 'Gods of War', a rare venture away from his pants into 'political' introspection, with guest lyrics by a small child. My high(low)light was definitely 'Love Bites', in which an existential crisis arrives for the singer in the form of catching his own eye in a mirror while fucking. Truly abysmal.

Not a fan

I just can’t stand Def Leppard

SEVEN SINGLES‽ There were SEVEN singles from this album? Are you kidding me‽ And “Women” — an altogether terrible song (“Skin on skin/Let the love begin”) — was the SECOND single? Really? If there’s one thing the music industry does best, it’s pummel us with a band’s underserving follow-up to their big hit album (in this case, PYROMANIA). Whatever good will I may have felt towards some of these catchy songs, it’s all been beaten out of me by rock and 80s radio playing these songs to death. The entire thing is an overproduced, bloated mess. Every track is too long. This album’s more than 62 minutes long and could easily lose 20 minutes.

This is some good old bad music. Great move to keep the drummer who lost an arm, that’s awesome of them. That’s the only compliment I really have of this album, that they weren’t mean to their drummer. The songwriting is so dated, the songs are so boring, the lyrics suck, everything about this is bad.

Rough one for me. I made it through. This is just not my genre.

i can’t do hair metal for over an hour man

Disappointing.

Utterly soulless.

The first time I ever heard a Def Leppard song was in a movie during a scene in a strip club (the song playing was, to no one's shock, "Pour Some Sugar on Me"). I think that story encapsulates my feeling towards this album. Its too cocky (pun intended), overproduced, far too long, and I required a cold shower afterwards. If you like it, hey, good for you. But I wouldn't be caught within 10 feet of a strip club, and I wouldn't be caught listening to this album ever again.

Oh dear. Absolutely terrible. Formulaic, predictable, pish.

From Apple Music’s information about this album: ‘Pyromania had infused the group’s metal anthems with an expansive pop sheen, and here they sought to channel an even wider range of influences into their sound.’ If this is them adding a range of influences to their sound then I dread to think what them playing it safe would sound like.

Absolute dogshit - like Spin̈al Tap made manifest. Hated the guitar tone, hated every middle 8, hated the guitar pick slides that were thrown in, hated the china cymbals being massively overplayed, hated the lyrics (“Skin on skin, let the love begin. Women”). Just all around awfulness.

Ville heller hørt ALT annet. HATER denne skiva. HATER dette bandet.

It's not necessarily *that* awful, I just wanted it to end as soon as possible and never want to hear it again.

Lowest common denominator hair-based shitrock of the most MOTR kind. How the actual chuff is on anyone’s list of anything that doesn’t start “The Worst…” is beyond me. I resent this album and all who scooped it out of the afterbirth of early 90s bilge rock 🤮🤮🤮

I love the genre but this album sounds like shit

Me aburrió bastante, sobre todo la segunda mitad, pero definitivamente podría ser peor. Varias de sus canciones me aburren durante los estribillos pero me gustan más en sus versos, como Love Bites. Mi favorito, como parece ser el de todos según las reproducciones de Spotify, Hysteria, cuyo punteo me parece muy lindo, pero diría que es mi preferido sólo por eso. En general, no está mal pero no es mi estilo y no lo escucharía de nuevo.

I'm almost 800 albums in on this thing, and this might be the album I've struggled to get through the most. My heart sank when I saw it was over an hour long. Glam metal is probably my least favorite music genre. Vapid and uninteresting.

This is awful. Dreadful AOR....very suitable for the US market of the time. Good production though.

Starts with a power ballad, never improves. Of course, I knew every song so part of my problem is the ubiquity of this album. One more year to Appetite!

i listened to and liked this as a child. here's what nice thing i have to say: this is probably one of the best albums of a terrible genre in a terrible time in music. this music is not good. I apologize to my youth self.

Meh

Ugh, no thank you

Lige lovlig meget hår i det metal.

Unrelenting dogshit. Morrissey is more subversive and Belle and Sebastian rock harder than this

The hottest of hot garbage.

Yuck. Some of the dumbest lyrics around (Woman - really?) and formulaic cock rock. A chore to get through.

Makes me think of old movies and feel nostalgic for an older time I wasn't alive for. Overall generic fucking dogshit garbage that I wanted to turn off halfway through the first song. A full hour is ridiculous.

metal with the energy of Celine Dion. objectively speaking, on a technical level, this is musical diarrhea.

I have to agree with Robby, Def Leppard Sucks! If someone told me they made this album specifically to annoy me I would believe them. I hate the singer, I hate group chanted vocals, I hate when rock music is overproduced. This album has all those things! On top of that, every song is three minutes too long, making for a bloated turd of an album. Dear god I hope this is the only album by these dorks on this list.

Really cheesy and over-produced. Hard to believe that the band came out of the gritty, steely, grey Sheffield terraced houses - feels like this was born straight out of a sleazy LA studio. This is an album you either adore or despise. I'm definitely the latter. Best Tracks: - Run Riot - Hysteria Worst Tracks: - Don't Shoot Shot Gun - Pour Some Sugar On Me Rating: 2/10

Das ist doch ein KI-Fake. So klingt doch keine Rockband aus Fleisch und Blut.

Horrible

literal garbage - corny, generic, way too long

i think this might be top 5 worst genres ever conceived

Thoroughly meh. You can tell an enormous amount of effort has been poured into the album but for what end? Hysteria is all dull hair-metal, forgettably bland lyrics and underwhelming riffs - perhaps the title is ironic. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. fav tracks: Run Riot

Get out

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stupid cock rock

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Genuinely terrible in every way

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

Ass.

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

Meh

All sounds the same

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

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

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

proto butt rock. 👎

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

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

What tripe and what a waste of time

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

Can't stand this.

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

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

I’m so happy hair metal days are over…

made me sad. the musical equivalent of being forced to sing happy birthday to a coworker on your lunch break. a lame attempt to manufacture excitement from nothing. unearned and uncalled for. empty. forced. probably fun for a fleeting moment for those who don't know any better. i expected to dislike this, but i didn't expect it to be so boring. the "hooks" don't work. the songs are too long. rot. or if i'm more charitable, music to have a dalliance with at fourteen, but to move on from once you realize there's a big, beautiful, genuine world out there.

Well, it happened. I thought that chocolate cake would remain on the bottom for me throughout this experience but hysteria is the worst album. I’ve heard so far on this list the whole 62 minutes and 32 seconds feels like parody to me. I get that this was pop back in the day, but even for pop music These songs are just silly. I ended up listening to this album twice hoping that my first impression was just some type of Grammy shell shock but the second lesson was worse than the first this fucking singer man. So some backstory, I used to work a karaoke night at a really shitty bar in the suburbs my dad had a DJ company and he got the gig and the place was too trashy for him so I took over night after night. Pour some sugar on me would be sung multiple times tonight actually and it was an immediate excuse to get downright gross clientele there we’re all coheads And racist and had that special meth allure. Miley saving Grace on these karaoke nights was a little old woman who would come in dressed, had to toe and pink cowgirl outfit she would come in and request. These boots are made for walking by Nancy Sinatra. She would sing it. Everyone would share she’d walk right out. I loved her. She was the best I drinking years were haunted by this. Pour some Sugar over me song coyote, ugly come out, and I think it revitalize this trash heap. Song became a Q for everyone in a bar to fake the sexiest. I remember one time I was at Joe’s on weed and the song came on. Everyone’s backs turned and they screaming at the stage the DJ playing it. I took advantage of the moment and started drinking everyone’s beers behind their back because I was broke and then I urinated in a garbage can None the wiser that’s what I think I was pretty drunk. I get why this band exist. I understand why the album was made. These guys are just getting paid. My mom and my aunt’s all we put on Def Leppard. I get it not hating on the band not judging anyone who likes the band teach their own but why the fuck was this album on this 1001 list. Why do I need to hear this album before I die? What was significant substantial innovative about this Chazy ass album. God of war has a decent beginning, and I started to become optimistic that there might be some hidden gems, but I was wrong. The song quickly jumped right back into the same formula. I think the reason I’m so mad at them and so mad that I had to hear this is I’m such a fan of reversing audio And making audio interesting by stretching it and time warping it and their use of that effect throughout this album, it is so on the surface like they took away form highlighted it clicked reverse, and left it weird effect man, this is some trippy shit. Congrats hysteria you are my least favorite album so far

Just… horrible. Truly, I’m unsure if there’s an album in existance that represents more of what I hate in music. I thought about making a list of everything I hate, but it’s more effective to express one sentiment - when I listened to this, my mind wandered to those in my life I hate most loving this shit.

No.

oh my god i didn't know i didn't like def leppard AT ALL. sheeeeesh.

Hysteria sounds like every musical idea and recording they had was fed back into a machine and sythesized so many times that the end result is a blur of 80's hair rock, with no clear definition, thoughtfullness or soul. Hysteria is everything that sucks about 80's music and a lot of 80's pop culture. If anyone listens to Sonic Youth and asks "why?!" I'll show them Hysteria.

notttt my type of music

Hair rock balladeers are like stupid chotchkies sold on late night TV. Cute, amusing, and maybe a bit entertaining. At the end of the day, it all ends up at Goodwill or the landfill. Such is Def Leppard.

Bro it didn’t save my review I wrote but this is just bland hard rock that’s really hard to take seriously. Lyrical content is garbage and musical content has much to gain. Edit: (2->1) Calling this album a piece of garbage would be a compliment to this album in my eyes.

Def Leppard was a pedestrian band at best. They had one sound, no variations, no real talent. Hated them then, and I hate them even more now.

Turgid and unimaginative. And LOOOOOONG.

This was bad. Everything that irked me about this ban, and the rest of its genre, is on this album.

Oof this was a slog. Barely a 2, maybe a 1 if I'm annoyed on Monday. Happy Monday!

dogshit retard music thats literally only on here because of pour some sugar on me

3/10

I know why they spelled their name wrong: they're barely literate. I usually avoid hair metal but I'm performing my duty of listening to "500 necessary albums and 501 mediocre/poor/absolutely shithouse British albums from '80s and '90s." (You can see why they renamed it..too wordy) What I didn't realise is that when you dig beneath the cliches and hairspray is that they have produced the most inane lyrics of all time. Love Bites is meant to be a song of tortured love. But any 10-year old would be embarrassed. Truly laughably awful album. Aaaannnd it's long. FML.

Awful. Just plain, awful cock rock

Couldn’t wait for this album to end

Let’s just say this didn’t leave me in a hysteria.

Heel taai. 2/10

This might be a tad better than its predecessor, Pyromania, but it's still generic hair metal. It should've stayed where it belongs to: the '80s.

Classic rock at its very worst. It's not the worst album to listen to but its such an incredibly uncreative and boring record. The hit songs are all overplayed to the point of being grating to the ears and the deep cuts have nothing interesting buried in the album. I've listened to less enjoyable albums but none are as bland or undeserving of being on the list as this one. If you want cliché 1987 hair metal you're better off with Whitesnake or Guns 'N Roses.

Shit album and band as a whole.

Pour some sugar on this shit cause it ain't sweet... kinda boring

slick, gaudy and utterly vacuous

I already know the title track and Pour some sugar on me. -Highlights: Women, Rocket, Love bites -Armaggedon It,Run Riot and Hysteria were fine -Some of the tracks get overly goofy and "dramatic" at times or take themselves to seriously -Suffers of glam metal syndrome -Overall, it's fine for a glam metal album, if you like the classic glam metal sound you'd probably love this album. 3.7/10

siis tiesinhän toki että en mikään leppard fani ole mutta mitä helveTTIÄ on tämä??? aivan vitun peppukuolaa koko albumi. erityisesti vokaalit ovat niin vitun väkisin vängättyjä.. . tämä on musiikkia 50 äo australialaisille insesti punaniskoille. semmosille jotka eivät syö paskaa vaan laittaa suuhun ja maiskuttelee ja lipoilee sitä paskaa suussa kieli käy ympyrää siellä suussa kokoajan rikkoo paskaa paloiksi sillä kielellä suussa pureskelee ja 50/50 että nielaiseeko. tunnin verran laitoin salapoliisihatun päähän ja suurennuslasin silmälle enkä löytänyt yhtä vitun hyvää asiaa tästä albumista. brittipojat larppaa amerikkalaisia, pitäis ampua vittu päähän, aseella. excitable

This sucks. Absolutely infuriating inclusion on this list. Bland garbage best forgotten.