Pour Some POLL On Me: The Def Leppard "Hysteria" Poll

has any decent explanation ever been given as to what exactly is going on on the album cover?

They're aiming for your heart and brain, and shooting them to itty bits.

what's with the two facees being welded together

Torn between "Animal", which was a great rock anthem, and "Love Bites", which was one of the best power ballads ever.

This is actually a very strong album, and I even love many of the album tracks. "Women" and "Rocket" are both great songs that might as well have been among the singles.

animal vs hysteria imo

Bleh, I don't why y'all love this album so much. I'd die a happy man if I never heard as single track off this ever again.

xp to Geir: Both of them were, actually. Voted "Rocket" for the electronic breakdown section.

animal. as i've said before, i wish they'd have let the songs have more power (i.e., less production gloss).

You can't separate the production from the songs. On the other hand, the traditional jangle pop of "Hysteria" shows what good tunesmiths they were.

i disagree. i mean, yeah, the songs and the production are tied together in a package. but you can hear the melody of the song, and know the kind of power the group can put underneath that melody (e.g., photograph), and be unhappy that they decided to mute that power with layer upon layer of gloss and sheen.

meh. i think what i wrote makes def leppard sound like a better group than they were. i like them tho!

"Hysteria," "Pour Some Sugar On Me," "Armageddon It," and "Animal" are good songs beneath the production.

totally agree.

This is the first album I ever owned. Only just occurred to me that the whole first side were singles, what a front loaded album. Gonna give it a listen before voting.

ctrtl-f "poll some sugar on me"

:-(((((((((((

(i've been no ilx for a while, so if avoiding the obv poll pun is the new joke, yeah, I'm out of de loop)

well, "Hysteria" is on the second side xxpost

i'maPOLLin' it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBqsRXdzk8c

hysteria solo is sweet and that Frankie Goes To Hollywood breakdown is wack but I GOT TA FEEL IT IN MY BLOOD

I love this album inside and out, but I think it has to be "Gods of War."

huh, "Hysteria" as jangle pop: I guess that's right! Maybe that's it's been my favorite for years. It gets my vote.

lol papawheelie - I thought the same thing

ROCKET.

Their last great album. After all it was all downhill (more like nosedive, actually) for the Lep. I can see why the glossy production (Lange being glossy even by 80s standards) is a turn off for some, but it's part of what makes it work for me. I think I'm gonna go with "Hysteria".

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

looking at lange's discography from ac/dc on, it looks like every group who worked with him was a pale shell of itself after he left. Once you've done the mutt dance, you apparently can't remember how you did it before.

"pour some sugar on me"

still torn...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6R-LZ25Te0

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Would've gone with the winner btw. Dumbfounded that "Animal" beat "Pour Some Sugar On Me" and "Rocket," though.

animal vs hysteria imo

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, May 14, 2010

the best of the many outstanding late '80s pop metal-ish albums. probably at the time of its release, cranking my shitty boombox and listening to the cassette of the album i bought from a Sears store on Foster Ave in Chicago, i'd probably have gone for Pour Some Sugar On Me or Armageddon It but today it'd be Gods of War or Animal. But the entire album is a fuckin beast, at different points i can even hear some production that comes off as proto-shoegaze (the music backing the opening sound FX on Gods of War, to cite one and (tbh) possibly the only example), and some mid-'70s spaced out Pink Floyd guitar licks elsewhere. Women even has a part in the guitar solo that sounds like the live version of U2's Bullet the Blue Sky from Rattle & Hum. but i mean this sounds like Def Leppard and no one was ever to really ever replicate it.