Hysteria

I've associated Def Leppard with being stripper music for a while, and kind of assumed it was all just middle of the road AOR. However, I properly enjoyed this album. It's a but dated and probably pretty sexist, but the tracks are all decent and well written. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

Fun, but all the songs are too long

Hard rock pop, buen sonido, buenos coros, nada muy espectacular

It was pretty fun and cheesy, but i can't remember any of the songs a few hours after listening

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 🌟

Good

Det här är fucking bra! Jag upplever det som att det är precis lagom mängd "disco-influens" när det blir blandat med rocken, oftast iaf, ibland blir det för mycket åt det hållet. Påminner om Aerosmith på många plan. Sedan var det också kul att lyssna på "Pour some sugar on me" med intention att faktiskt lyssna på låten. Jag kanske inbillar mig men den känns lite som ett meme, känslan är att jag sett den användas på ett komiskt sätt i filmer och serier. Men som låt är den faktiskt inte alls dålig. Bäst: "Rocket"

def leppard is god awful, i used to love this album too

One of my favorite albums growing up. I saw them a couple of years ago and saw the hysteria tour in charleston wv which was in the round. Top notch 80s album

Rating somewhere between a two and a three. Started off pretty strong but faded towards the end.

classic kick ass rock and roll. a guilty pleasure!

Decent album in its genre, not great but also not too bad. It wasn't good enough to make someone who doesn't like the genre listen to all of it.

I'm really hating it and I don't think I'll finish it. This shit is cringey as hell. Some of the guitar work is good though. Hair metal was a mistake and I don't think it's OK. animal is almost not bad. it's growing on me and i want it to stop, love bites.. pour some sucks. Not good overall, maybe influenced some good music.

Legendary album. Kind of holds up. Lots of songs with three words.

def leppard :/

Amazing!

Sehr gutes Hard Rock Album

Definitely not my style. I really loved the intros for most tracks but disliked the following 95% of the track

fun 80s rock

classic, but still 80s rock

Massively clichéd, ludicrous lyrics, teenage hair metal, pointless forgettable solos and generally indistinguishable from a dozen other 1980s middle of the road rock bands, (in this case from Sheffield but trying to sound like Americans). It's OK in small doses, just letting it wash over, but nothing stands out or grabs my attention; the songs aren't strong enough to transcend the limitations of the genre. Plastic rock.

Awwww I haven't heard Def Leppard in a long time and this was so much fun to hear again. Perfect bit of hair rock I needed. I ended up listening to the album three times throughout the day. Can't beat a bit of cheese rock to brighten a dull day.

An excellent example of 80s hair metal! Yes, it is cheesy and repetitive, but is it fun and holds a real sense of nostalgia for me, being an 80s baby.

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.

Lowkey liked it ngl :)

Come on, seriously, High N' Dry is epic, this is TRASH

Não é meu estilo

Already had this album added to my library. Such a classic! So many greats songs, my favorite being the cliché “Pour Some Sugar on Me”. Something about it that isn’t necessarily a 5, but still very solid!

Some incredible songs but I found it hard-going for the whole hour of the album. A lot of the songs do sounds the same!

Pop trying to be metal. I understand why it was popular in its day; tough dudes felt like they could like a "rock" band that still got ladies to shake it. Song writing is solid pop writing and production is over layered and over compressed....but I guess that became the iconic def leppard sound. "Run Riot" had interesting time changes between straight and half time, and the verse also had an interesting odd meter time signature thrown in every 4 bars or so.

This is straight up garbage

Lived it in late 80s as a child, still do now although I haven't listened to this in about 25 years!

More classic tracks than I realised. Pretty good album for their first album with a one armed drummer.

This is some good rock, Pour Some Sugar on Me? Banger, if not a little strange to play in public but a good song.

This was actually great! Really good fun.

Decent

Nice album, full of energy and fun songs. Feels like something that should be enjoyed live.

No es mi estilo favorito y creo que caen demasiado en la hortereada y en el medio tiempo. Sin embargo, 'Hysteria' me parece una pasada de canción y me recuerda obviamente al 'Heroes' de Bowie. Solo por esto necesita entrar en el terreno del bien - notable

Truly a classic

It’s the standard later 80’s hair/stadium rock music. It’s fairly uneventful and sounds the same as approximately 100 other rock bands from the time. Thankfully the 80’s finally put an end to the infatuation of band members trying to look and sound overtly feminine more than actually producing interesting music. The only song on this album that stands out from the rest is Love Bites...perhaps it being the only ballad and therefore different to the rest enhances it’s appeal but I genuinely think it’s still a standalone decent effort. Anyhoo...yawn. NEXT!

Ieder lied voeld ewat hetzelfde aan

leuke, opgewerkte rock.

Dit leunt dichter aan bij Pop dan bij Hardrock. Op een festivalweide zou ik hier enorm van genieten. Op album komt het net wat minder over

👍

Shit dad rock, awful

I enjoy the first half of this album more than the second. I imagine a road trip in America back in the 80s would've vibed on this album at some point. Solid album with plenty of cheesy big choruses 3*

This was pretty good. Whole album is a fun listen.

Not as "metal" as I feared. OK, for what it is.

I've never actually listened to a Def Leppard album so it was fun diving into a classic, but it's probably not something I'd return to often.

A couple of monster hits but not enough across the album

In my opinion, their best start to finish work. I’ve always liked this one, based upon the hits, but there are also a few duds along the way.

Where Pyromania had set the standard for polished, catchy pop-metal, Hysteria only upped the ante. Pyromania's slick, layered Mutt Lange production turned into a painstaking obsession with dense sonic detail on Hysteria, with the result that some critics dismissed the record as a stiff, mechanized pop sellout (perhaps due in part to Rick Allen's new, partially electronic drum kit). But Def Leppard's music had always employed big, anthemic hooks, and few of the pop-metal bands who had hit the charts in the wake of Pyromania could compete with Leppard's sense of craft; certainly none had the pop songwriting savvy to produce seven chart singles from the same album, as the stunningly consistent Hysteria did. Joe Elliott's lyrics owe an obvious debt to his obsession with T. Rex, particularly on the playfully silly anthem "Pour Some Sugar on Me," and the British glam rock tribute "Rocket," while power ballads like "Love Bites" and the title track lack the histrionics or gooey sentimentality of many similar offerings. The strong pop hooks and "perfect"-sounding production of Hysteria may not appeal to die-hard heavy metal fans, but it isn't heavy metal -- it's pop-metal, and arguably the best pop-metal ever recorded. Its blockbuster success helped pave the way for a whole new second wave of hair metal bands, while proving that the late-'80s musical climate could also be very friendly to veteran hard rock acts, a lead many would follow in the next few years.

Very dated, not that interesting.

The drummer from Def leopard only has one arm. But. I saw them at the Wolverhampton civic hall and they rocked hard. Were supported by the darkness too. This album is too slick and not hard rocking enough for 5*.

good fun

80s hair metal. An expansive sound with massive choruses combined with synth elements. An easy and enjoyable listen, and very 80s. A bit samey though and difficult to remember any particular song, possibly a result of the slick production, within which the actual songs get a bit lost. 3.5/5

Just awful, hate this type of over produced hair metal. Didn't make it all the way through.

heavy de los 80

Amazing album

niet zo lekkere rock

Monster hooks, monster riffs, monster drum fills - the excess of the 80s are in full effect here. Whereas I tend to ding albums for sounding dated, somehow I enjoyed this album much more than expected - it's so over-the-top 1987. There's even a catch-all political track that encapsulates all of the "foreign threat" fears of the era - terrorism, civil unrest, Cold War, complete with a cameo from Ronald Reagan himself. A perfectly realized time capsule.

En el seu moment recordo que sonava com cap altra cosa. Posar-se 'Rocket', 'Animal', 'Women', 'Love Bites'... era espectacular, un viatge a un terreny desconegut però increïble. Després de tants anys, em continua semblant igual d'original. Ja no té el mateix efecte, però continua sent una de les obres mestres del rock dels 80. No és perfecte perquè la segona cara perd una mica de força, però tot i així.... déu n'hi dó

Great skating music. I think Pour Some Sugar On Me's a tad overrated, but the other songs bring me back to the days of Footloose.

Underneath the hood this is a quietly insane record - the kitchen sink production, Joe Elliot's nonsensical stream-of-consciousness lyrics, the mere fact that the drum patterns had to be configured for three limbs - wild. Its subsequent success is the cherry on top. If you don't like melodic hair metal, it's an automatic one or two star, right? I do, though - and all the Mutt Lange bells and whistles are still a pleasure to behold.

good album

Not bad - not good either

Bon jovi vibes, not great, not terrible

love it from my teen years

Damn good

Demasiado rock

Oh boy. I listened to this album a lot in high school. Despite the memories and nostalgia associated with this album, and how much I enjoyed it at that time, it's super mediocre. Extra point for nostalgia.

Very nice riffs

The definitive hard rock of the 80s. Fun songs for a stadium. Great guitar lines, fun melodies, I love this rock music, and always will.

If you're going to pick a Def Leppard album that's 'important', the breakout "Pyromania" is the way to go - the # of hits on this one is as much a function of the momentum that came form Pyromania as it is the songs themselves - this one comes off more as watered-down glam metal/hairband.

No puedo con este jevi

Listen. I love some of these bops. Big Def Lep fan, but sometimes it's too much and they're not all hits alright? The hits are 5/5 but I can justify giving this album a 5 or even a 4.

one extra star for nostalgia

Love it! PSSOM it's such a classic!

didn't like it

Este álbum es una pasada, de 12 canciones más de un tercio son muy buenas. No sé como no lo había escuchado antes. Ves a ACDC, ves a los Guns, ves a Aerosmith... Milenials descubren el Rock and Roll

A favourite from my childhood - great album

Seven singles. Seven goddamn singles on this record. That’s insane. And thanks to a very kind and awesome 5th grade teacher who let us listen to cassettes during class… I have these tunes ingrained in my membrane. I “sang” Pour Some Sugar on Me over the phone to my first girlfriend at her request. She dumped me the next day. Okay, the timing here’s not exactly true but it didn’t last and it couldn’t last because when all is said and done, Love Bites. (At least in the 5th grade.)

3

Some absolute bangers.

Easy listening/low bar, so I finished it, but not enjoyable by far.

Man there are more hits on this album than I realized. Knew the songs but not the names. These were crazy hits at the time are are still essential party jams.

Loved it

amazing, I thoroughly enjoyed the 80s sound of this, really cool :D

cool

Rockkk

MEH

En klassiker med många sönderspelade spår. En av lätt, effektiv lyrik och svängiga riffs.

Another rock album that hits the perfect spot (not too heavy, not too light). It's an hour long album with 5 mega hits and most of the other songs are almost equally good just not on the same level of popularity. There was like 1 song which I was meh about and that's impressive on an hour long album.

Good, better than expected. Slightly too long and samey for me to love it though. Animal is a banger

Really enjoyed this one, for all its cheesy hooks, big choruses, guitar riffs. Solid album in this genre.

Nice rock / hardrock album. A lot of familiair songs.

Some good, some meh. Bored by the end. thought I would like this more. 2 or 3 great songs.

I will never understand the unholy fusion of overdriven guitar, cheesy synths, barbershop-quartet vocals, and horny lyrics that is hair metal. Contains two of what are perhaps my least favorite songs of all time ('Love Bites' and 'Pour Some Sugar On Me')

This is ok. 80s hair rock. Pretty average.

Rocks

Classic 70s/80s (harder) rock band.

Really solid classic rock

This is a fun one. Just ridiculous 80s butt rock and soft metal. Tons of great shredders and power ballads. Kinda weird that they are an English band though. They would like they are straight from the sunset strip to me.

Meg

peak of the genre

2.4

Recognize some of these songs. Great listen if in the mood for heavy metal.

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

Rock anos 80 feito pra ser comercial. Meio cansativo acho.

Might have had too much rock in my life to give this a great assessment but it didn't rock my socks off.

I can no stress this enough...this album is one of the greats. Just a joy to listen to hits that represent an era of rock. This is why this collection of albums was written.

Undeniably fun to listen to

Ehhh

Side one of this album is damn near untouchable. If they moved the title track to after "Gods of War" and then ended the album, it's a contender for 5 stars. But it's just too long, with few of the later songs not standing out too much. Overall though, very good.

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".

My favorite Def Leppard album for sure. but overall its not that great in the wide world of music.

This is the first album on this list that I've actually listened to more times than I can easily count. It was my go-to gym album for a while, and I've never grown tired of it. There have been a couple of other easy 5-stars for me, but this was one I could label without needing to listen to it. \m/

Delicious strong cheese

Didn't realize how many Def Leppard songs that I knew came from this album

It was ok

Great Album, each song is good and sounds like it belongs into a huge stadium show and best of playlist. Album itself could do with being 15 min shorter

Rätt kass alltså

Hyvä levy ja kuunteli mielellään alusta loppuun. Näitä on tullut aikoinaan pyöriteltyä veljen LP-soittimella.

the album sounds like the soundtrack of 80s hardrock, not bad nowadays but not exceptionall either

If I had the power to delete one song from the world's consciousness and ensure it had never been made, Pour Some Sugar On Me would be on the shortlist. So, I entered this one with some trepidation. There are certainly some songs where you have to turn your brain off in order to enjoy it; "Don't Shoot Shot Gun" is an easy target, but see also Armageddon It. The lyrics are so inane they almost ruin an incredible sounding song. That's the thing, though - outside of the sugar song, it sounds amazing. A great album for background listening. I'm glad that this project forced me to take another look at this one. Best track: Gods of War

Tuttuja hittejä. Ei kyllä mun juttu, mut tän levyn osalta ymmärrän hyvin listalta löytymisen

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

Boooooo

fucking GLAM ROCK AS HELL

1987. Key Songs: Women, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Hysteria

This album made me feel like I was at a dive sports bar. Solid listen, definitely outside of my usual sound, but not bad. Obviously I was familiar with “Pour Some Sugar On Me,” so it was cool to hear some context.

Oddly up my alley

pretty great hard rock album,

Classic

Never liked the band

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