― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link
it is my birth name, yes. and although I was brain-baffled by an excess of red wine last night, which led to some overly vicuperative spouting off, I stand by my statement. horrible band. the kenny G of rock.
― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 12 October 2006 06:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 12 October 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 12 October 2006 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Thursday, 12 October 2006 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link
1. photograph2. animal3. now4. armageddon it5. hysteria
all of those songs are catchy, melodic, and even get me nostalgic
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 12 October 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Stumpus Maximus is, in fact, the band's tour manager Malvin Mortimer, and "The Good Ol' Boys" are Def Leppard. It's not a regular version of the old Engelbert Humperdinck song. With every verse, Stumpus is singing higher, until the end when he does nothing but screaming. It was meant as a joke, and was released as the B-side of the "Rocket" single and other singles.
Malvin became somewhat of a celebrity in '88 when some DJ's in Greece began playing the b-side instead of the usual A-side.
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― tk (tk), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes. (Now that I finally have it too.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 January 2007 04:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 January 2007 05:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 15 January 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm an idiot.
Whatever. Hysteria doesn't hold a candle to Pyromania. That is all.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 15 January 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
So Hysteria: dud for production, classic for the actual songs, and doesn't vaguely measure up to the preceding two albums.
― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
And all these weird CoolEdited, Pro-Tooled, compressed rock records from Nickelback and P.O.D. that get released these days can all trace their family tree back to this record. God bless Rick Allen for having heart in the face of adversity, but a one-armed man does not belong on the drummer's stool for a rock record. I've got factory preset drumtracks on my cheap four-track at home that have more soul than Rick Allen's drumming.
And keep in mind that I LIKE Def Leppard.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
The fact that, as is noted above, the design theme of the album appears to have been Tron just makes it all the cooler.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
alex totes OTM....pyromania is a better pop record AND a better hard rock record than hysteria. better singles, mo' rockin' jointz.
high n' dry is hella underrated too.
i've never heard on thru the night, but i'm afraid it can't live up to that huge guitar haulin' big rig cover.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Pyromania is the only good reason to love Def Leppard. Maybe High 'n' Dry. I can see the kitsch/horror appeal of Hysteria (and the appeal is VAST, don't get me wrong), but I'm perfectly happy to let other people enjoy those terrible laffs.
Plus the associations are bad. When people who annoy me sober get drunk, they seem to LOVE THE SHIT out of Hysteria. Bro slapping, titty-shaking purgatory. Makes it hard to join the hug circle.
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link
rock of ages, photograph, foolin', too late for love, etc etc
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Specifically addressing that, David Fricke's liner notes for the reissue indicate that nearly all the songs were not only written well in advance of the final recording but had been gone through live in studio at least a few times. (I have to say I actually think he did a great job on these liner notes in particular -- it's the best accounting of the album I've read yet.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link
GOT THE REISSUE HOLY SHIT
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 1 February 2008 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Considering that myself. But the original sounded pretty good (was a digital recording after all) and they should have reissued "Pyromania" at first.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 1 February 2008 08:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I heard...or, rather, saw the video, for "Animal" recently, and it completely cemented my argument. Hysteria is poop (and no amount of re-mastering/re-tweaking will save it).
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:22 (sixteen years ago) link
"Animal" is nowhere near the best song on Hysteria, you madman.
― HI DERE, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link
It's my favorite, but "Gods of War" (which, holy christ, after the remix sounds like Front 242) and "Rocket" nip at its heels.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
That's akin to saying that it's not the stinkiest turd in the septic tank. POOP IS POOP.
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 1 February 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
No it isn't!
― HI DERE, Friday, 1 February 2008 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes it is!
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 1 February 2008 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1721346/2/istockphoto_1721346_kids_fighting.jpg
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 1 February 2008 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
REVIVE:
Vindifuckincation: In John Sellers' new memoir, Perfect From Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life, the scribe says....
I'd deemed Hysteria the most disappointing album of all time, and it still might be: next to Pyromania it is an overproduced, castrated, one-armed bore.
Fuckin' AMEN!
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 22 March 2008 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
The songs are strong, but it's all too glossy and sterile-sounding. It's too bad, because Def Leppard had a really good sense of melody among the hair-metal bands.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 22 March 2008 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
"C'mon, Steve!"
― Terrible Cold, Saturday, 22 March 2008 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
martin popoff famously rated this 0 out of 10 in his much esteemed guide to heavy metal!!!
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 24 March 2008 07:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Who the fuck is John Sellers?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/74/JohnSellers-1961SICover.jpg/445px-JohnSellers-1961SICover.jpg Gunter glieben glauchen globen!
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 02:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I watched the Hysteria episode of Classic Albums last night and I've got even more respect for it now. The detail with which this thing was crafted is mindboggling. I never knew the cut up backwards vocal bits in "Rocket" were actually the choruses of "Gods of War" and "Love Bites".
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I need to watch that -- only just learned the whole series was on Netflix Instant, friend Stripey said it was a stellar episode.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
There's a bit where Phil is talking about how Mutt brought the song "Love Bites" to the band as a country ballad he'd written, and proceeds to demonstrate the opening verse in that style. IT ALL CLICKS NOW. It really is a country song run through the Def Leppard machine.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link