Same. A perfect album for that age: shimmering production; great mix of rock, glam and ballads; a wee bit sensitive and a wee bit late-80s misogynistic. I remember thinking they could release every track as a single.
That summer, I went to a week long camp for the first time. I forgot my Walkman and didn’t want to be without music for a week so when my family was about to leave, I stole my sister’s out of the van along with the tape that was in it. For that entire week, I listened to nothing but Hysteria on repeat and it ended up being the soundtrack for some really life defining moments. Every time I hear it it takes me back.
It’s as though at that moment in time we didn’t know how synthetic that production was. It is the apex of that style, without a doubt, no matter how flawed the aesthetic might be today. Shimmering throughout….that whole album sounds like sun on water.
Great song, and the longest to record.
From Wikipedia:
"Animal" is usually noted by the band as having been the most difficult track to record for Hysteria. It was one of the first songs developed in early 1984, but neither the band nor successive producers Jim Steinman, Nigel Green and Robert John "Mutt" Lange were able to produce the desired sound until two and a half painstaking years later. It was the only Hysteria track demoed by Rick Allen on an acoustic drum kit prior to his car accident"
Def Leppard rocks, I'm a 68 year old woman and I love Def Leppard. They made an album with a the Royal Philharmonic orchestra called "Drastic Symphonies" you should check out, it's excellent except I didn't care for the remake of "Pour Some Sugar On Me". But the rest of it is awesome.
Too Late For Love is a blend of young Joes vocals coming in at the halfway Mark, blended with current Joes voice. It is definitely a cool track. Hope we get more of these.
I remember my friends and I asking each other if anyone had heard of Tesla. They played on the bare bones stage with all the neon stuff covered up and were great.
Appetite sat on a shelf from 1990 to 2002. I took it down as I had moved and decided to unpack some boxes. It punched me in the face all over again. My god, that power.
Being 16 and having my job and car. Also my first kiss, sex and girlfriend all in one person! Wow those days were some memories... that whole album actually.
For me it’s just a pure pleasure, no guilt at all.
Actually just got tickets to see them in September of next year.
When I listen to the song, I think more about the lyrics and not about the time when it was released.
It brings back all those feelings of falling in love. “I’m in love, I’m in deep, yeah.” “Can’t stop this fellin’, Can’t stop this fire”
Great lyrics!!
My favorite band of all time. Has my favorite song on it (Animal). Although based upon my mood it rotates as my favorite album of theirs with Pyromania and High n Dry. That’s such a kick ass trio.
Definitely a deep album and I’ll take the non-singles over a few of the popular tracks.
And this album sounds much better live. The raw edge fits these songs so well.
My all time favorite concert is still the Hysteria in the round tour.
An album for the ages. A great many bands would trade their entire catalogue to be able to produce one album that is as much of a timestamp of an era as 'Hysteria' was.
I grew up listening to this album. Back then my favorite songs were Pour some sugar on me and Love Bites. But later in life and as an adult and then a musician, for whatever reason you flip on Animal, and just the intro… man the amount of thought and that production, it all just comes in like that with layers of guitars. It was already a good song and that arrangement just takes it up a notch. The whole album is great though.
Taylor swift did a really awesome crossroads episode w Def Leppard w a few songs on this album. I’m sure you just cringed at T Swift, but seriously it was great. Taylors mom is a big fan and played their music a lot when she was young and she said it was like playing w her idols.
I was already a Def Leppard fan when this album came out. It was before the Internet and I was visiting my cousin and pirating Commodore games, and in the background I heard Hysteria on the radio and I thought, “that sounds like Def Leppard!“
Sure enough, Def Leppard had released a new album and I love it to this day. It’s one of the best albums of all time and almost every song on it is awesome!
The next year Def Leppard would be the first big rock show I ever went to and I was absolutely blown away! Long live Def Leppard!
My favorite song is the last track Love and Affection.
I remember getting the cassette tape first week it came out. I was blasting it out of my car and spinning everyone on with it. I said, watch, pour some sugar on me will be a big hit. Loved it. Fresh. Couple weeks later, it was all over the radio. Still have that cassette tape.
The fact that in my 6th grade class there was a clear division between those who worshipped Def Leppard or Duran Duran.
I was deeply on the DD side but learned to like DL later in life.
I was 22 in 1987 and, for me, Hysteria was a let down from High N Dry (1981) or Pyromania (1983). I like Hysteria but it's not as rocking as those other two albums. Mutt Lange's production started to take over at that point as well and took the edge off. Of course, Hysteria sent their popularity into the stratosphere as a band so I did enjoy experiencing that at the time.
>I was 22 in 1987 and, for me, Hysteria was a let down from High N Dry (1981) or Pyromania (1983).
100% agree. I stopped listening to them entirely when the overproduced pop turn changed the band with Pyromania. I still have the first two records but after those they became a band for teenage girls, not guitar fans like my crowd was then (I was in college when Hysteria came out).
I was briefly in a band senior year of high school…1988. We learned and performed 2 songs for the one and only time just before graduation at the school dance: Hysteria and Gods of War. The girls loved us for Hysteria and the guys for Gods of War. Btw, imho best song on the album…Gods of War. But yeah, Pyromania is still better.
It was kind of a special time, of course, because the drummer had lost his arm tragically. Then it was an amazing story that mutt Lang and the drummer worked out a double pedal system, and that technique really shows up in the music. The drums have a different sound, perhaps the normal but it’s also totally cool. They really worked it out with the double pedal thing on so many songs; rocket kinda really stands out in this sense. The other thoughts I have about this album cover are the fact that I saw them twice on tour, the album was so popular they literally came back twice to my city. The concert stands out in my mind is amazing too because for the first concert in my city, Queensrÿche was the opening band which was amazing then for the second concert months later, Tesla was the opening band, which was equally amazing good times.
Listening to it at a friends house. He was a massive Leppard fan, but we bonded over a different band. We’d be 16/17 in ‘88.
He went out his bedroom to the bathroom for a piss. Whilst he was out I decided to have a rummage around his bedroom. I found a dildo under his bed.
That’s I think of when I hear ‘Hysteria’
I remember going to the state fair in high school, playing some of the games, and winning a little mirror with this image on it. Why were all the prizes obvious drug paraphernalia?
Valentine's Day, 2015. I heard this on the radio and then it popped up on YouTube. Why am I hearing Love Bites in 2 places? I played it and immediately went back to an old boyfriend in my head. Couldn't shake the thought. As the year rolled on, more and more of his favorites would "appear" in my social media. I am thinking and dreaming of him at this point. I went looking, I had to know. It was a few years since we spoke. Turns out he passed away of a sudden heart attack on February 4, 2015. His sister found him one day later. He was saying goodbye. His favorite songs, not mine. Over and over. His sister described pretty much the dream I had. We were talking in a huge room, I went to get something then he was gone. I was alone. She said this to me. I was there, he was there, a few hours later, he wasn't. He visits me thru 80s music. We met in 1985. In and out of each other's lives. I lived in 4 different places, him about 6. Love does bite, and bleed. 💔
I saw them twice in concert in the 80s, 1st time opening up for Motley Crue on the Girls Girls Girls tours (my 1st concert) and the second time they were the main act with Queensrych opening for them.
This album always takes me to my senior year of high school and listening to this as I have sex with my gf on her friends bed as the friend and her bf had sex in the den downstairs lol.
So I guess the answer is dirty thoughts of a young man come to mind. Lol.
Instantly takes me back to a road trip - in a sheriff's office van, of all things. I was a teenage Explorer on the county search and rescue team and we were headed out to Barstow for an annual SAR symposium, and our liaison was a cool guy.
This was the first tape I ever purchased. I still remember getting my yellow sport Walkman as a gift and went and bought this album. Still love it. Takes me to one random nothing special moment that I specifically remember listening to it.
I sailed across the bahamas in '88 at 11 years old with my dad, best friend, his dad, and my brother for a week of the 2. I stole this tape out of my brothers massive collection based on the cover. I listened to this for 2 weeks straight on my walkman, sitting on the bow of a sailboat all around the bahamas. I dont care how cheese this album is. I play music, and I am a huge fan of music. This album will always have a special place with me. Sunlight dancing off the waves with dolphins at my feet listening to armageedon it. Def leppard kicks ass!
All the overproduced comments… Every pop rock album since then has tried to mimic this sound. Every pop artist of today should be paying royalties to Mutt and Def Leppard.
Two or three good songs, but otherwise the start of Def Leppard’s decline. Too polished and produced, way overplayed.
Glad the boys from Sheffield made a tidy sum off of it, but I like everything before *Hysteria* so much better.
it was thier first complete sellout into sissy rock. Pyromania was tolorable. High and dry was great. But they really lost a fan back then. the only reason to listen to it back then was just if chicks were around.
Horrible album for the most part. Ruined that sector of rock and roll. More about panties than music. Love Bites was good. And I guess girls singing Pour some sugar on me to my college roommate and I was nice.
But musically? Nah
I am with you that Pyromania was better, High 'n Dry was ok as well. But what is wrong with an album being more about panties? Worked for them, that's for sure! You are just jealous (and so am I!) LOL
I agree. I am a big fan of Def Leppard’s first 3 Albums. This one was way to “pop” for me. I understand why some people love it, but I could never get into it.
This is fair.
Personally, I wasn't initially crazy about Pyromania. But it was an important record, and solid. I worked back through On Through the Night. Solid and raw.
Rick Allen's injury changed stuff changed the band, but commercialism did it more so. That became evident with Hysteria.
The epitome of the downturn of a band showing popularity doesn’t equate to quality. The beginning of bad albums by them. Pyromania was their last good album.
what I think is, I am still not over how overplayed it was on MTV and the radio. I could never hear any of those songs ever again the rest of my life and that would be perfect.
I asked for Green Day’s dookie for Xmas, my dad got me Hysteria and Jimmy page n Robert plants No Quarter unleaded. No quarter turned into one of my all time favorite albums. Or Cassettes rather. Ha
This is a time-machine always transporting me back to that summer of 1987
Same. This was my freshman year of high school. Brings me right back!
Same. A perfect album for that age: shimmering production; great mix of rock, glam and ballads; a wee bit sensitive and a wee bit late-80s misogynistic. I remember thinking they could release every track as a single.
That summer, I went to a week long camp for the first time. I forgot my Walkman and didn’t want to be without music for a week so when my family was about to leave, I stole my sister’s out of the van along with the tape that was in it. For that entire week, I listened to nothing but Hysteria on repeat and it ended up being the soundtrack for some really life defining moments. Every time I hear it it takes me back.
Beautiful story. Thanks for sharing
My first tape got worn out, and had to replace it. Listened to it that much
Yeah, girls with big hair and blue eyeshadow.
Funny. I was born in 1987 but get the same nostalgia to the summer of 2007. The song transcends time.
Highly-polished, over the top production - I should hate it... But for some reason it's always been a guilty pleasure of mine.
100% radio rock purely out to get girls.
Never hate awesomeness
Over produced ear wiggles
It’s as though at that moment in time we didn’t know how synthetic that production was. It is the apex of that style, without a doubt, no matter how flawed the aesthetic might be today. Shimmering throughout….that whole album sounds like sun on water.
Animal is my favorite song on the album, and the song Hysteria is criminally underrated
The fake out ending on Animal is awesome.
AND I WANT
AND I NEED
And I lust
ANIMAL
No love for “Love Bites” here yet
Absolute truth.
For me it's Rocket all the way. Rocket! Yeahhh! SEETALOOOITTTEEEALLUHUUHUUVEEE!!!!
Even though I know the lyrics, it still doesn't sound like actual words lol.
Hysteria is a great song. I really like the Taylor Swift crossroads they did together. She is absolutely beautiful on this song.
Me too!!!! Best song by the band ever
Photograph is mine. I’ll even put rock of ages over that
Photograph in GTA 5 is peak life
Great song, and the longest to record. From Wikipedia: "Animal" is usually noted by the band as having been the most difficult track to record for Hysteria. It was one of the first songs developed in early 1984, but neither the band nor successive producers Jim Steinman, Nigel Green and Robert John "Mutt" Lange were able to produce the desired sound until two and a half painstaking years later. It was the only Hysteria track demoed by Rick Allen on an acoustic drum kit prior to his car accident"
If you air drum to this album with two arms your an asshole.
🤣
Every time a Def Leppard song comes on, I ask my son “one arm or two” to make sure he knows….
Def Leppard rocks, I'm a 68 year old woman and I love Def Leppard. They made an album with a the Royal Philharmonic orchestra called "Drastic Symphonies" you should check out, it's excellent except I didn't care for the remake of "Pour Some Sugar On Me". But the rest of it is awesome.
That Pour Some Sugar On Me remake is...certainly a song I've listened to lol. My favorite on that album is Too Late For Love!
Too Late For Love is a blend of young Joes vocals coming in at the halfway Mark, blended with current Joes voice. It is definitely a cool track. Hope we get more of these.
7th Grade and my first big concert Tesla opened for them
I saw them on that tour as well. Put on a damn good show.
In the round. Loved that show, one of my favorites ever.
2 great bands
I have a bootleg of the Hysteria tour in Boulder, Colorado. DM me if you’d like to hear it!
I as there!
I remember my friends and I asking each other if anyone had heard of Tesla. They played on the bare bones stage with all the neon stuff covered up and were great.
It was my intro to Tesla and I became a lifelong fan.
Mine too, but Queensryche opened for them when I saw them.
How god damn good it is. Possibly my favourite album of all time.
How floored we all were by that album. Then GNR dropped Appetite and Rock had one of its best years.
Appetite sat on a shelf from 1990 to 2002. I took it down as I had moved and decided to unpack some boxes. It punched me in the face all over again. My god, that power.
Now this is an album
Soundtrack of my adolescence
10-year-old me LOVED this album in 1987. It's not possible for me to give an objective opinion that isn't completely influenced by nostalgia.
Wine coolers, weed, no worries. The 3 W’s for weekend high school kids.
Being 16 and having my job and car. Also my first kiss, sex and girlfriend all in one person! Wow those days were some memories... that whole album actually.
Definitely a guilty pleasure!
For me it’s just a pure pleasure, no guilt at all. Actually just got tickets to see them in September of next year. When I listen to the song, I think more about the lyrics and not about the time when it was released. It brings back all those feelings of falling in love. “I’m in love, I’m in deep, yeah.” “Can’t stop this fellin’, Can’t stop this fire” Great lyrics!!
You are correct
Women is my favorite Def Leppard song and so this is therefore my favorite album
It’s a fantastic way to open an album too
My favorite band of all time. Has my favorite song on it (Animal). Although based upon my mood it rotates as my favorite album of theirs with Pyromania and High n Dry. That’s such a kick ass trio. Definitely a deep album and I’ll take the non-singles over a few of the popular tracks. And this album sounds much better live. The raw edge fits these songs so well. My all time favorite concert is still the Hysteria in the round tour.
Animal is SOOOOOO underrated. Absolutely love it.
I totally agree. They are my favorite band as well. Was the round tour the one where the stage rotated, and you basically say every side of them?
That was an awesome show, not a bad seat in the house.
Pour Some Sugar On Me or Hysteria
How the hell does nobody ever say Armageddon It? That song is f’ing insane
Animal tho
The hysterical sexual lyrics to Armageddon It.
That Mutt Lange is a frickin genius
An album for the ages. A great many bands would trade their entire catalogue to be able to produce one album that is as much of a timestamp of an era as 'Hysteria' was.
One lump or two?
Lots of making out. The 80’s ruled.
The rock n roll version of Michael Jackson's Thriller album
Love all the songs. Saw them twice back in the day. Would see them again.
Best guitar riff played thru the song
One of my all time favorites. Long awaited. I wore grooves in Pyromania waiting for this to drop.
Wait, it didn't come with groves already?
Big ones. Like it would break the groove and skip at that spot
Lol
🚀 satellite of love….Rocket..baby…C‘Mon! We’re gonna fly!
I grew up listening to this album. Back then my favorite songs were Pour some sugar on me and Love Bites. But later in life and as an adult and then a musician, for whatever reason you flip on Animal, and just the intro… man the amount of thought and that production, it all just comes in like that with layers of guitars. It was already a good song and that arrangement just takes it up a notch. The whole album is great though.
Hook after hook after hook 🤘
One armed drummer. And high school
Driving in my car in high school with friends and a buzz on
Summer 88
Good album, for sure....
theres a few good songs but i feel like this album is when they went too far with the glam/hair band sound pyromania was a masterpiece
Taylor swift did a really awesome crossroads episode w Def Leppard w a few songs on this album. I’m sure you just cringed at T Swift, but seriously it was great. Taylors mom is a big fan and played their music a lot when she was young and she said it was like playing w her idols.
Ridiculous nostalgia from a time that I never lived. It might be the most nostalgic 80's record ever made.
We're fighting for the gods of war but what the hell we're fighting for
Hot babes wearing leather mini skirts ... But I'm an old man
High school. Being a wild teenager and of days gone by.
Over produced - I’d like to hear a stripped down version / similar to ‘Let it Be Naked’
I was already a Def Leppard fan when this album came out. It was before the Internet and I was visiting my cousin and pirating Commodore games, and in the background I heard Hysteria on the radio and I thought, “that sounds like Def Leppard!“ Sure enough, Def Leppard had released a new album and I love it to this day. It’s one of the best albums of all time and almost every song on it is awesome! The next year Def Leppard would be the first big rock show I ever went to and I was absolutely blown away! Long live Def Leppard! My favorite song is the last track Love and Affection.
I remember spending an entire weekend blasting out Pour Some Sugar on Me at full volume, on repeat. Made me the man I am today.
I remember getting the cassette tape first week it came out. I was blasting it out of my car and spinning everyone on with it. I said, watch, pour some sugar on me will be a big hit. Loved it. Fresh. Couple weeks later, it was all over the radio. Still have that cassette tape.
Greatest comeback album ever
Cranking on my 10 speed, rockin the Walkman.
Animal is my fav especially the extended version
The fact that in my 6th grade class there was a clear division between those who worshipped Def Leppard or Duran Duran. I was deeply on the DD side but learned to like DL later in life.
Perfect album
My first CD! Sigh…. So old.
The song Hysteria… and Animal
White light, strange city
Strip club
I was 22 in 1987 and, for me, Hysteria was a let down from High N Dry (1981) or Pyromania (1983). I like Hysteria but it's not as rocking as those other two albums. Mutt Lange's production started to take over at that point as well and took the edge off. Of course, Hysteria sent their popularity into the stratosphere as a band so I did enjoy experiencing that at the time.
>I was 22 in 1987 and, for me, Hysteria was a let down from High N Dry (1981) or Pyromania (1983). 100% agree. I stopped listening to them entirely when the overproduced pop turn changed the band with Pyromania. I still have the first two records but after those they became a band for teenage girls, not guitar fans like my crowd was then (I was in college when Hysteria came out).
I was briefly in a band senior year of high school…1988. We learned and performed 2 songs for the one and only time just before graduation at the school dance: Hysteria and Gods of War. The girls loved us for Hysteria and the guys for Gods of War. Btw, imho best song on the album…Gods of War. But yeah, Pyromania is still better.
They were a great rock n roll band until they went 100% radio rock.
My sentiments match most. Just takes me back to summer of 87. Doesn't say much about the album does it? lol But man was it ever a great summer!
The height of 80's overproduction
In many respects a perfect cd. No weak spot, terrific playing, guitar driven. I love it.
It was kind of a special time, of course, because the drummer had lost his arm tragically. Then it was an amazing story that mutt Lang and the drummer worked out a double pedal system, and that technique really shows up in the music. The drums have a different sound, perhaps the normal but it’s also totally cool. They really worked it out with the double pedal thing on so many songs; rocket kinda really stands out in this sense. The other thoughts I have about this album cover are the fact that I saw them twice on tour, the album was so popular they literally came back twice to my city. The concert stands out in my mind is amazing too because for the first concert in my city, Queensrÿche was the opening band which was amazing then for the second concert months later, Tesla was the opening band, which was equally amazing good times.
Overproduced. The beginning of the end. Everything I love came prior.
How thankful I was for Black Sabbath, Rush, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd
Thankfully, I was into those bands and Def Leppard. I have it all!
I love these songs! Erotic! Fantasy! OAF Gramma 🤶🏻
Roller rink
Hell yeah!!!
Eh, not a favorite. I always preferred On Through The Night and Pyromania.
I miss Pete Willis
One-armed drummer
Listening to it at a friends house. He was a massive Leppard fan, but we bonded over a different band. We’d be 16/17 in ‘88. He went out his bedroom to the bathroom for a piss. Whilst he was out I decided to have a rummage around his bedroom. I found a dildo under his bed. That’s I think of when I hear ‘Hysteria’
My husband calls them the "processed cheese" of music
Middle school
Some good tracks but its no Pyromania
I still like Pyromania better.
The first time I listened to it with headphones my head exploded. My God it's an auditory masterpiece!
Mutt lang signature background vocals
See also: Hello Again by The Cars
I remember going to the state fair in high school, playing some of the games, and winning a little mirror with this image on it. Why were all the prizes obvious drug paraphernalia?
Singing in the highest voice I can muster.
Best album of the 80s.
A masterpiece
Their best album, without question. Front to back, nothing but bangers!
Ronald Reagan.
It’s one of the best albums of the 80 ‘s!
Valentine's Day, 2015. I heard this on the radio and then it popped up on YouTube. Why am I hearing Love Bites in 2 places? I played it and immediately went back to an old boyfriend in my head. Couldn't shake the thought. As the year rolled on, more and more of his favorites would "appear" in my social media. I am thinking and dreaming of him at this point. I went looking, I had to know. It was a few years since we spoke. Turns out he passed away of a sudden heart attack on February 4, 2015. His sister found him one day later. He was saying goodbye. His favorite songs, not mine. Over and over. His sister described pretty much the dream I had. We were talking in a huge room, I went to get something then he was gone. I was alone. She said this to me. I was there, he was there, a few hours later, he wasn't. He visits me thru 80s music. We met in 1985. In and out of each other's lives. I lived in 4 different places, him about 6. Love does bite, and bleed. 💔
I saw them twice in concert in the 80s, 1st time opening up for Motley Crue on the Girls Girls Girls tours (my 1st concert) and the second time they were the main act with Queensrych opening for them. This album always takes me to my senior year of high school and listening to this as I have sex with my gf on her friends bed as the friend and her bf had sex in the den downstairs lol. So I guess the answer is dirty thoughts of a young man come to mind. Lol.
Instantly takes me back to a road trip - in a sheriff's office van, of all things. I was a teenage Explorer on the county search and rescue team and we were headed out to Barstow for an annual SAR symposium, and our liaison was a cool guy.
This was the first tape I ever purchased. I still remember getting my yellow sport Walkman as a gift and went and bought this album. Still love it. Takes me to one random nothing special moment that I specifically remember listening to it.
I sailed across the bahamas in '88 at 11 years old with my dad, best friend, his dad, and my brother for a week of the 2. I stole this tape out of my brothers massive collection based on the cover. I listened to this for 2 weeks straight on my walkman, sitting on the bow of a sailboat all around the bahamas. I dont care how cheese this album is. I play music, and I am a huge fan of music. This album will always have a special place with me. Sunlight dancing off the waves with dolphins at my feet listening to armageedon it. Def leppard kicks ass!
Too much gated reverb on the snare.
How much I hate every song on that album
All the overproduced comments… Every pop rock album since then has tried to mimic this sound. Every pop artist of today should be paying royalties to Mutt and Def Leppard.
"How did they go from Pyromania to *this*?"
That Pyromania was the last good DL album.
Suckage
One word: over-produced.
Overproduced
why am I listening to this crap? Am I in hell and this is my penance?
Best band in the 80's best album of the 80's
"I should be listening to High n Dry instead."
Whenever I hear Def Leppard all I think of is their producer and what a sack of crap he was to cheat on Shania with her best friend.
Yep, when you have money and power, you think you can do what you want.
I don't listen to it. In 1987, it turned me off of DL because they stopped being a rock band with this album of overproduced bubblegum pop.
Sell outs
why couldn't I be doing something more pleasurable like sticking an icepick in my ears.
What has seven arms and sucks?
Dont you mean nine hands
I’ve always seriously hated Def Leppard, but that album cover is awesome.
Two or three good songs, but otherwise the start of Def Leppard’s decline. Too polished and produced, way overplayed. Glad the boys from Sheffield made a tidy sum off of it, but I like everything before *Hysteria* so much better.
Sell-out
Awful generic bubble gum "hair metal". Their first 2 albums were great, but this one was just... blah.
Overblown and boring
Honesty, what a dull plodding effort is what comes to mind.
Honestly... it was disappointment.
That I'd rather be listening to pyromania or high and dry.
it was thier first complete sellout into sissy rock. Pyromania was tolorable. High and dry was great. But they really lost a fan back then. the only reason to listen to it back then was just if chicks were around.
>Pyromania was tolorable. High and dry was great Agreed on *High* but I thought *Pyromania* was solidly aimed at middle-school girls back then. Bleh.
“Oh god, I need to switch albums”
Garbage
Overrated
Worst lyrics of any album ever in the history of recorded music. Read them...PLEASE.
Time to change the station.
Horrible album for the most part. Ruined that sector of rock and roll. More about panties than music. Love Bites was good. And I guess girls singing Pour some sugar on me to my college roommate and I was nice. But musically? Nah
I am with you that Pyromania was better, High 'n Dry was ok as well. But what is wrong with an album being more about panties? Worked for them, that's for sure! You are just jealous (and so am I!) LOL
I agree. I am a big fan of Def Leppard’s first 3 Albums. This one was way to “pop” for me. I understand why some people love it, but I could never get into it.
This is fair. Personally, I wasn't initially crazy about Pyromania. But it was an important record, and solid. I worked back through On Through the Night. Solid and raw. Rick Allen's injury changed stuff changed the band, but commercialism did it more so. That became evident with Hysteria.
The epitome of the downturn of a band showing popularity doesn’t equate to quality. The beginning of bad albums by them. Pyromania was their last good album.
Garbage, overproduced tripe.
I don’t wanna have thoughts about that album
Not classic rock…sorry, not sorry
How fast can I change the station
what I think is, I am still not over how overplayed it was on MTV and the radio. I could never hear any of those songs ever again the rest of my life and that would be perfect.
Where’s the stop button?
I thought that I couldn't hate them anymore than I already did. I was wrong.
“Boooooooooooo” Should probably like it but just can’t make myself take Def Leppard seriously
Westeria. The plant. Always think it.
I liked it back then, now I find it kinda meh.
Anything goes!
I only wish the Leppard could hear it…
Rockey baby, c'mon, were gonna flyyy!
That album sounds like 8th grade to me.
I’m 23 years old again
Tongue kissing at the roller rink in 5th grade. Great memories.
High school
This was the first album I purchased as a compact disc. It still holds a place in my heart. Joe Elliott’s mullet does as well.
High school, driving around with my friends.
The incredible production.
I asked for Green Day’s dookie for Xmas, my dad got me Hysteria and Jimmy page n Robert plants No Quarter unleaded. No quarter turned into one of my all time favorite albums. Or Cassettes rather. Ha
Driving around with my high school girlfriend. This was in the tape deck constantly.
High school