― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― steeve mcqueen (steeve mcqueen), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:24 (nineteen years ago) link
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."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link
and i hated the drum sound.
― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:33 (nineteen years ago) link
TS: Lep's "Rocket" vs Smashing Pumpkins' "Rocket"
DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh wait, this one is actually in "Love and Affection".
24) "Hysteria" and "L&A" blend into one giant smeared-out falsetto ballad epic.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:39 (nineteen years ago) link
High N' Dry for this teenybopper.
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 02:58 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― kickitcricket, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 03:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― kickitcricket, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 03:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 09:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Conor (Conor), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link
! 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.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link
no.. love bites.
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gilles Meloche (Gilles Meloche), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link
this will be played heavily at my delusions of grandeur party, even though this album's grandeur is earned!
― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
There's number 32!
"THEY COUNTED WRONG."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― chuck, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gilles Meloche (Gilles Meloche), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Broheems (diamond), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Cool interview
― calstars, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 00:16 (seven years ago) link
yeah but imagine how much realer these songs would be on acoustic guitars, man
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 00:20 (seven years ago) link
^ Read the above comment and thought I was in the Paul McCartney thread for a second.
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 00:46 (seven years ago) link
You can hear huge handclaps going on in "Pour Some Sugar on Me." Those are actually 100 tracks of handclaps detuned and EQ'd. That ended up sounding like ambience in a way, and definitely had a unique sound.
I can't unhear the handclaps now!
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
I feel strongly now that "Animal" is the best song on this album
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 September 2017 22:12 (six years ago) link
Probably right. Has this alb not had a poll?
― Spottie, Monday, 4 September 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
I couldn't find it! seems weird if it doesn'tbought the 30th anniversary remaster CD when I was on a Target run on a whimGod's of War is the one that really floors me now more than thenLove & Affection is nice too seems like it should have been a hit but I guess there's a limit to how many hits you can haveExcitable is the only one that seems corny imo, were there any good period b sides they could have swapped it for?
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 September 2017 22:32 (six years ago) link
Gods of War is a real jam. Damn I do love me an on-the-nose Reagan/Poppy Bush sample, gets me right in the nostalgia feels.
I feel like I remember a poll maybe titled "POLL some sugar on me"?
― nomar, Monday, 4 September 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
these songs were incredibly fun live last year too, even without the insane layered vocals that you get on the album
― Neanderthal, Monday, 4 September 2017 22:44 (six years ago) link
xp 3rd Grade me needed "Excitable."
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 03:22 (six years ago) link
although outside of nostalgic context I guess I can hear it possessing some annoying qualities (foreshadowing "Let's Get Rocked")
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 03:25 (six years ago) link
AAAH AAAH!OOOH OOOH!
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 06:11 (six years ago) link
Easily my favourite band to come out of Sheffield, America.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 06:13 (six years ago) link
if "excitable" was just the intro stretch out to 5 minutes that would be a good song
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 07:15 (six years ago) link
The Killers nicked the guitar part from 'Women' and used it as the synth part in 'Smile Like You Mean It'
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
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
― groovypanda, Friday, 19 January 2018 10:48 (six years ago) link
!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 19 January 2018 12:58 (six years ago) link
Great that finally worked out for them. (The band obv, screw the label.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 January 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
yessssssssss
― Spottie, Friday, 19 January 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
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/
― Nostalgic Logic, Saturday, 20 January 2018 23:17 (six years ago) link
posting the same post on two different threads is about as necessary as a drummer having two arms
― del griffith, Sunday, 21 January 2018 00:12 (six years ago) link
MEAN
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 January 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link
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.
― i am a skinematographer (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 January 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
Promo photo for the forthcoming tour is textbook 'men who look like old lesbians' tbh.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Sunday, 21 January 2018 13:09 (six years ago) link
Love bites, Animal & Hysteria are all still 10/10
― i know kore-eda (or something), Sunday, 21 January 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 21 January 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
And Armageddon It too surely
― groovypanda, Monday, 22 January 2018 09:13 (six years ago) link
Euphoria hitting the spot this morning. Not as familiar with this album but it seems more of a successor to Hysteria than Adrenalize was
― chonky floof (groovypanda), Friday, 7 August 2020 10:41 (three years ago) link
The way the first verse of Sugar is just these massive Tackhead Test Dept jackhammer beats and nothing else for 11 seconds
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 24 November 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
I remember reading that the snare sound is this pile of sampled hand claps and just about everything but acoustic snare.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
Probably why it sounds like tissue paper
― a blunt toothcomb (Matt #2), Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
I think if this album had failed commercially it would have inspired a hipster hair metal reevaluation in the 2010s
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Friday, 25 November 2022 01:56 (one year ago) link
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.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 25 November 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
"number of songs with puns in the lyrics"?
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Friday, 25 November 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link