Hysteria

Literally no band outside of the hair metal genre has cited Def Leppard as a massive influence in the nearly 40 years this album had existed. Yes, it had radio singles. Yes, their drummer lost an arm. Yes, this sucks as big and loud as it could legally suck.

Doing an album a day has really solidified how this is not my type of music. I sigh every time I get a hard rock band.

Thriller-esque these nuts. this shit sucks.

Def Leppard is trash

Awful cheesy shite

no sta roba non riesco proprio ad ascoltarla

More than once I found myself checking back on my app thinking the album ended and it started playing Guns 'n Roses (derogatory), only to find out it was still in fact Hysteria by Def Leppard. This album is too long and does not nearly do enough to deserve the length. First 5 songs are alright and the rest is completely forgettable.

Couldn’t get past 3 or 4 songs. Garbage.

There are only two hair metal bands that I find acceptable: Van Halen (bc Eddie may he rest in peace) and Bon Jovi cause they have some actually good songs. Def Leppard is not one of them. This album and this band is ridiculous and just awful. This is neither metal nor hard rock it’s just some pop artists who think they know rock. It’s quite disgusting. All of their songs sound the exact same. All of their lyrics are just about girls, sex, partying, and drinking. Dudes really have a one track mind. Musically they all sound the same. EXACT SAME. Some might say oH bUt ThEy HaD sEvEn SiNgLeS. WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO BE IMPRESSED BY THAT? Seven carbon copy singles. Big freaking whoop. This band is a disgrace to anything resembling rock, they’re absolute trash and deserve no place on this list.

Ah fuck off with this trash.

Do I really have to listen to a whole HOUR of this? I'm not even halfway through the first song and I'm cringing hard. "WOMEN - mEn CAnT LiVe wITouT eM!" Good God. I actually have to switch to headphones, because I'm worried my neighbours will hear me listening to this utter shite. Rocket sounds like exactly the same song as the first, but over SIX minutes long. Do I sense a formula here? Animal isn't actually a bad song, if you ignore how gross and creepy the lyrics are. Is there some sort of deeper meaning here, or are Def Leppard advocating for a return to wanton barbarity? Maybe we'll never know. 'Love Bites' is about 5 mins and 47 seconds too long. That's all I've got for this one. 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' sounds like some sort of horrific love-child of Kiss and AC/DC attempting to record a cover of Led Zeppelin's Black Dog, purely based on a memory of someone describing it to them several years previously. Almost at the halfway point here, and oh God, the next song is a pun involving sex and the end of the world somehow...I think I'm going to have to pack it in. I think this will only be the second album I wasn't able to finish, the first being the Christina Aguilera one. This is the type of album where I feel like I have to listen to something incredible right afterwards, because, what if I died suddenly and THAT was the last album I listened to? In this case I thought for a few mins about what might be the antithesis of Hysteria by Def Leppard. I'm still not sure, but I've settled on Sufjan Stevens' "Javelin" for now.

Absolutely horrible

Awful cheesy rock

Production wise way more polished than Pyromania, but it sounds reconstituted and bloated. Songs sound the same, again. Overall: 2/10

I am dumbfounded by the high ratings given to this album. This is heavily produced garbage. The 80s were the worst thing to happen to the world: Reagan, Thatcher, day-glo clothes, coke, synthesizers, and hair metal. Barf.

Awesome thanks.

naja, mehr gewollt als gut

Just hate Def Lappard. Will not listen.

What Paul said….

ug

The worst of the "rock icons". The further behind we left this trash the better music became.

So outdated... I had never really listened to Def Leppard and I will never again.

Not great

I can fully admit that this doesn't suck as much as Pyromania. I still find it very difficult to listen to. Pop "metal" is just not a vibe I enjoy. From an enjoyment perspective, I'll call this a 1.5 (rounded down per protocol).

hair metal sucks. the music is bad, and the lyrics are even worse. def leppard cares more about their looks than their sound and it shows, as their music is repetitive, soulless, and just plain awful.

Not me

Please, I can't... When is this app going to give me something that's not insufferable?

i hope i can give zero stars, wtf was that?

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

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

Not a fan.

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

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

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

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

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

Terrible. I really struggled to finish it.

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

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

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

Nope. Hate hair metal

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

Terrible, never liked it

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

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

Boring

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)

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.

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. 🥛

Not my sort of thing

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

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.

A bit shit.

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

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

Det här är det dåliga.

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.

Better than bon Jovi

Not my cup of 🫖

I loathe 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.

could hardly make it through

Not my scene.

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.

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

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

Not my thing at all. Rubbish

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.

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

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.

nah

Wat is dit voor slappe midtempo hardrock!?

No i powrot na wyspy, a jak to zazwyczaj bywa z takimi powrotami, bywaja one dosc ciezkie, bo taki wlasnie jest album Hysteria glam metalowej, czy jak dla mnie raczej pop rokowej bandy prosto z Sheffield, ten krazek z 87 jest 4 w dyskografii zespolu, ktory tworzy pieciu czlonkow z panem Joe Elliott jako frontmenem, albumowe info nie wskazuje palcem na to zeby ktos z bandy tworzyl teksty, tylko wszyscy sa zlistowaniu jako autorzy, ale po odsluchu plyty, czlowiek jest pewny, ze nad tak popowymi tekstami musialy tegie glowy siedziec, bo plyta jest nagrana w taki sposob zeby sprzedac kazdy utwor z osobna, ale nie w ten sposob, ze kazdy jest na tyle unikatowy i czyms sie wyroznia, a wrecz przeciwnie, wszystko jest jednakowo mialkie, wiec o ile nawet w niektorych miejsach gitarki brzmia jakosciowo, jak na excitable, to jednak popowa kompozycja trakow brak jakiejkolwiek liryki, przewijajace sie do bolu chorkowania sprawiaja, ze glowa boli juz po kilku trakach, a plyta liczy ich az 12 z ponad godzinnym plej tajmem, wiec krotko nie jest, ale udalo sie sprzedac plyte, bo to z niej pochodza najbardziej sluchalne w naszych czasach piosenki zespolu z pour some sugar on me oraz tytulowa histeria, ktora jest takze moim plejkowym pickiem, dawno nie bylo albumu, ktory by cierpial na taka przypadlosc, grania w kolko tego samego i sztucznej doskonalosci nagrania, nie chodzi tylko o multitrakowe wokale, tak bardzo naduzywane, ale same instrumenty wydaja sie jak wziete z szafki sampelkowej przykladow okreslonych dzwiekow, moze pan producent Robert John "Mutt" Lange ma cos z tym wspolnego, bo jest on takze tworca sukcesu najbardziej sztucznie brzmiacych dla mnie zespolow, czyli nickelbacka i moroonow 5, czy ac/dc, po przesluchaniu histerii wylosowalo mi nastepny trak 20 century boya i tylko bardziej utwierdzilem sie w tym pisalem wyzej, bo ich muzyka brzmi po prostu nudno, wiec jak dla mnie zle

Este es uno de los peores discos que he escuchado en la vida y he escuchado mucha mierda.

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

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

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

This is straight up garbage

Shit dad rock, awful

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

Demasiado rock

No puedo con este jevi

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

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')

Boooooo

Never liked the band