Def Leppard 'Hysteria': C/D?

1) That weird-ass a capella bit at the start of the album version of "Rocket" -- and the way it's chopped up, reused, referred to and more throughout the song.

(x-post -> now #5. I'm talking about "Gods of War".)

(Isn't it "Guitar! Drums!"?)

I'd have to say so, you'll find disagreements of course. But I dunno...

8) Goddamn is the start of "Love Bites" weird and queasy. It's a power ballad but it isn't.

Number 7 OTMFM.

12) the buildup to the chorus of "Run Riot" is so fucking great -- the missing fake-rebellion-as-anthemic-noise link between Sweet's "Teenage Rampage" and the Prodigy's "Firestarter."

and i hated the drum sound.

TS: Lep's "Rocket" vs Smashing Pumpkins' "Rocket"

DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE

Oh wait, this one is actually in "Love and Affection".

24) "Hysteria" and "L&A" blend into one giant smeared-out falsetto ballad epic.

High N' Dry for this teenybopper.

It's actually, "I gotta know tonight/If your alone tonight"...;)

I memorized the lyrics from my brother's Hit Parader when I was in junior high. It doesn't get much better than "Hysteria" for power ballad goodness.

! Why I'm flattered, but I don't think I've quite deserved to be spoken of in the same breath. ;-)

30) To perhaps answer Myonga's point -- as I said it's an industrial-pop album in ways, but more to the point it's a pop album straight up. A huge over-the-top one of course, but that's precisely its appeal for me at least, it's a place where x ALWAYS equals x. Literally half the album became singles that charted, and while that doesn't rival all but two songs off Thriller going top ten, say, it's still something. So it CAN catch, but I think thinking of it as a heavy metal album, quotes or no quotes, actually isn't the best or only way to regard it.

Now available on all your favourite streaming services

http://teamrock.com/news/2018-01-19/def-leppard-now-on-streaming-services-announce-hysteria-uk-and-ireland-tour

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Great that finally worked out for them. (The band obv, screw the label.)

yessssssssss

I'm a HUGE Def Leppard fan ("Hysteria" is my favorite album), and I'm so glad their catalog is finally available digitally.

With that said, I've got to say the recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction news for Bon Jovi kinda bugged me, so I put together a detailed "face-off" comparing the 2 bands to show which one is REALLY more "worthy" of the honor.

I think you'll find it interesting...Feel free to share it!

"Bon Jovi, but not Def Leppard? For Shame Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!"
https://www.nostalgiclogic.com/bon-jovi-not-def-leppard-shame/

posting the same post on two different threads is about as necessary as a drummer having two arms

MEAN

it can be frustrating dealing with dismissive co-workers, those who are very comfortable routinely doing the same inefficient thing over and over. These folks have simply “accepted” the way things are done, and the most effort you’ll get from them is when they challenge your new ideas.

Promo photo for the forthcoming tour is textbook 'men who look like old lesbians' tbh.

Love bites, Animal & Hysteria are all still 10/10

Here in Greenville, as the second year of Trump dawned, Stormy Daniels spread out a taupe fleece blanket on stage, dropped to her knees, arched her back and began to squirt a bottle of lotion onto her chest to the sound of “Animal” by Def Leppard, as the president’s face flashed on video screens behind her.

Love bites, Animal & Hysteria are all still 10/10

And Armageddon It too surely

Euphoria hitting the spot this morning. Not as familiar with this album but it seems more of a successor to Hysteria than Adrenalize was

The way the first verse of Sugar is just these massive Tackhead Test Dept jackhammer beats and nothing else for 11 seconds

I remember reading that the snare sound is this pile of sampled hand claps and just about everything but acoustic snare.

Probably why it sounds like tissue paper

The way the first verse of Sugar is just these massive Tackhead Test Dept jackhammer beats and nothing else for 11 seconds

I think if this album had failed commercially it would have inspired a hipster hair metal reevaluation in the 2010s

The album that came after Pyromania. Nothing else.

Part of this is personal; Pyromania was the soundtrack to my 8th Grade, the album that burned the brightest as I tried to learn about hard rock music without the benefit of a Kiss-loving older brother or sister, the biggest gateway for all that came afterwards.

But the thing about gateways is that you move onto other things from them, and by the time Hysteria came out I was past radio fare (actually was probably dealing with that familiar stupid adolescent rebellion towards what I once loved) and was into underground stuff and the burgeoning thrash scene was as "mainstream" as I was willing to go with. Hysteria was a blip on my radar.

But part of this is more objective, since Pyromania shits over Hysteria no matter what criteria one wishes to employ.

"number of songs with puns in the lyrics"?

7372726) they yell in harmony, it’s so cool.

Is Mutt in that wall of shout mix, too?

Years ago I was randomly listening to Billy Ocean's "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car", which I must have heard a thousand times in 1988 (along with "Hysteria"). It came to the "I said open the door/get in the back ..." call and response section and suddenly the light bulb went off in my head. That was the moment when I realized it was a Mutt Lange production (which I never knew before) that used the same massed vocal production techniques as "Hysteria". My mind was blown.

Same in the Cars and Foreigner. Listen to, say, "Hello" or "Urgent," respectively.

A few Shania Twain songs like "I'm Gonna Getcha Good" have that same call-and-response. The hallmarks of a Mutt production are being big and bright, and having those vocal stacks

I need a playlist of all of his stuff

It's called "life."

Just found this one on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5mMK085PGn71nQHfZdNcZz?si=GlULBXnZQvawhuWdS7pQlA&pi=8rx_q6KaTpi4R

Several surprises on there for me: he produced "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)"?

That song has such big gaps after each line of the pre-chorus and chorus, wonder how he resisted throwing in a vocal stack of "it's not worth dying for"

dang I really really love this album

7372727) “when you get that feeling (when you get that feeling) when you start believing (when you start believing)” -> one of the best evocations of falling in love ever

otm - it’s my all-time favorite Def Lep song!

It's called "life."

a+

It really is the best album

Such truth.

Whoa, I didn’t know he worked on those classic AC/DC songs

my go to (non def lep) alb for that mutt sound is waking up the neighbors. sadly, it’s very good, and feels v much like hysterias cousin. thought I’d died and gone to heaven, depend on me (the middle section til the end), if you wanna leave me, is your momma gonna miss ya, vanishing, do I have to say the words, all I want is you, don’t drop that bomb, not guilty… could draw a nearly direct line to most hysteria tracks from those

They don’t really get talked about anymore, but those two albums Mutt Lange produced for The Boomtown Rats sound excellent. I think he produced The Fine Art of Surfacing right around the same time he did Highway To Hell

I really don’t listen much to Def Leppard, but “Animal” is just a massive, incredible song that 100% earns its awesomeness. Joe Elliot OTM: “If you can’t handle the responsibility of a hit single, don’t write one."

my go to (non def lep) alb for that mutt sound is waking up the neighbors. sadly, it’s very good, and feels v much like hysterias cousin. thought I’d died and gone to heaven, depend on me (the middle section til the end), if you wanna leave me, is your momma gonna miss ya, vanishing, do I have to say the words, all I want is you, don’t drop that bomb, not guilty… could draw a nearly direct line to most hysteria tracks from those

― lil $CHUB (Spottie),

"Can't Stop This Thing We Started."

Gonna have to get in the mindset that I’m listening to a mutt Lange album and not a Bryan Adams one

I got through maybe 5 songs on waking up the neighbors while raking up my yard this morning pre-coffee. Yeah sounds like hysteraua’s half brother. Closer than a cousin. Mutt must have been smiling when he put it together.

"Can't Stop This Thing We Started."

do I have to say the words

lol this song, i just adored it as a boy. still something touching about the shape of the chorus - the questions sung like interlocutions between that big lead guitar hook.

yeah it kinda squirrels its way to its chorus

That’s my fav one

I got in the car twice today. The first time “Hysteria” was on the radio when I turned on the engine and the second time it was “Pour Some Sugar on Me.”

the guitar solo in the title track is kind of a curveball, right? you would expect some screechy pyrotechnics but it kinda sounds like it should be on a replacements or crowded house album or something.

Yah def more of a guitar break than a solo

Cranking this album today ... forgot how much "Armageddon It" rules.

Yeah it's one of the more straightforward songs and yet probably also my favourite ?? After "Rocket" at least

C'mon, Steve ... get it!