Def Leppard 'Hysteria': C/D?

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.

no.. love bites.

this will be played heavily at my delusions of grandeur party, even though this album's grandeur is earned!

There's number 32!

"THEY COUNTED WRONG."

Dammit I do too. In late middle school, I worked for a landscaping company raking leaves in the huge rich-people yards in the neighborhood where the governor's mansion is located in Nashville. I'm pretty sure Hysteria was the only thing I ever listened to on my walkman while doing that... It used to take me an entire 6-8 hour day to rake one of those yards, and I'd listen on repeat/auto-reverse the whole time.

Simply the fact that the drummer had one arm and that he stayed the drummer. What utter dedication

Rick Allen also managed to get arrested for assaulting his wife with only one arm. I tell ya the guy just never gave up in the face of tragedy.

The decline and fall of Mutt Lange

including mention of British tv documentary about making the album, which I wouldn't mind seeing.

I like it, but Pyromania will always mean more to me, even as I recognize Hysteria is certainly the more strange record, a singular document. I just like the tunes better on the earlier record.

DUDD!!!!

Def Leppard officially stopped mattering after the last note strcuk on Pyromania. After said album, the boys ditched all their sonic ties to the NWOBHM that spawned them and basically attempted to become a vaguely metallic version of Wham! I, for one, have never forgiven them.

But that's brilliant!

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDSUB020405181212270411&sql=A8isxlfde5cqq

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!