Def Leppard 'Hysteria': C/D?

I wonder how they would be viewed now if they had split when SC died.

That's a good question. However, the thought of 5 or 6 Joe Elliott solo albums is scary.

the part in the documentary where Phil Collen is showing their dueling guitar riffs, it's amazing how mathy it seems when taken apart.

I take guitar lessons, and my teacher is always impressed when I bring him something he considers through-composed, whether it's Def Leppard or Bedhead or Television, where the guitarists have put a lot of thought into how their parts fit together.

also, it's funny when they're talking about the making of "Rocket" and all the lyrical references they were making to the early 70s glam stuff ("Satellite of Love", "Jean Genie", "Killer Queen, etc)... These were references to things just 12-13 years earlier. If I were writing "Rocket" right now in 2012, and wanted to reference 20 things from 1999 or 2000, what would I mention?

N'Sync, Condi Rice, you know.

Y2K

Hell, watch it even if you hate this record.

This would be me - been reading about the making of it in Greg Milner's Perfecting Sound Forever and am kind of intrigued. Actually that's not true, I've never heard the album in full, I just really dislike Def Leppard in general (though I'll grudgingly admit that 'Animal' is quite good apart from the chorus).

the chorus is the ideal release for the pent-up energy!

the chorus is the ideal release for the pent-up energy!

It's that one-note gang-shout bit, it just doesn't work for me at all in this context. I did actually watch the Classic Albums last night though and very much enjoyed it. Phil Collen demonstrating all the separate guitar parts was particularly interesting and they all seemed like genuinely nice, down-to-earth guys. Wished there was more soundboard stuff but I think that about every one of those documentaries. I still can't get behind the actual songs I'm afraid - I realised this is mainly down to Joe Elliot's voice, I just don't like his strained way of singing higher notes (and having it tracked a thousand times doesn't exactly help).

Got real Prince of Darkness "This is not a dream..." speech vibes off this pic of Ann Romney, in relationship to the Hysteria album cover.

http://cdn04.cdnwp.thefrisky.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/06/Ann-Romney-Mitt-Romney-beach-walk-400x470.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yCcLNwU9ps4/T3-oxPk5QTI/AAAAAAAAENc/Q70lyPibd5o/s320/Def+Leppard+Hysteria.jpg

You are receiving this album in order to alter the events you are seeing.

what's with that horrible cover, anyway? imagine what it could have sold if the cover wasn't so atrocious!

GASP

in 1988, my older brother's best friend had three favorite bands: Def Leppard, the Replacements, and U2.

I was into all those bands in 1988. Doesn't seem weird imo.

I was going to say, that seems pitchpoint perfect.

yeah that seems pretty otm

it's the replacements that confuse me.

Doesn't confuse me at all, they were getting greater attention then anyway.

Then Play Long says if it takes four years, hell, it's worth it: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/def-leppard-hysteria.html

I don't think there'll ever be a day when I'm not bowled over by how intricate the fucking production on this album is.

My fave recent thing about this - Elliott's high pitched backing vocals complimenting the main last chorus of "Gods Of War"

The outro of 'Gods Of War' sounds absolutely amazing on headphones.

Collen's work on "Animal" is so great. Such great tone and melodic as fuck

http://i.imgur.com/LtzLrQc.jpg

"Richard John Cyril "Rick" Allen (born 1 November 1963) is an English drummer who has played for the hard rock band Def Leppard since 1978. He overcame THE AMPUTATION OF HIS LEFT ARM in 1985 and continued to play with the band"

DO YOU TAKE SUGAR
ONE LUMP OR TWO

:D

LUMPS? RE: Pete Puma; oh, three or four...

candy-ass record; loved High 'n' Dry when i was 13, less-so for Pyro when i was 14. Down-hill since. The only thing i liked about Def Lep was akin to the first time i was inside a true Brit automobile: Curious. I'd easy pay twelve bucks to see them in a bowling alley show, but i just know that, even at 12 bones, i'd still be disappointed for the absence of tracks from their early, "Range Rover-type" days....

Check it: just like Dick Dale trying to surf a dust wave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Neuoqmqt1HE

...and lest we forget the 2-handed rummer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHNBxd4LnDs

want to like this album.. just sounds like bad xtian rock or something to me. i admire the hugeness of "pour some sugar on me" but it's no "i love rock and roll"

fascinated with how they recorded the drums LAST

I just assumed a lot of the drums were sequenced, programmed or overdubbed in whatever order. Same thing for ABC's (much earlier) Lexicon of Love, which was a drum machine selectively doubled/replaced by real drums. Dave Grohl in Queens of the Stone Age recorded the drums and cymbals separately.

Really interesting posthumous interview with Mike Shipley about mixing this and Pyromania in the latest Tape Op: http://tapeop.com/interviews/118/mike-shipley/

"Mutt's whole thing was, ‘Kids these days don't want to hear honky little snare drums. They're all out watching Star Wars and having visual experiences, so let's make records like that. Rather than going the natural route, let's make something larger than life!'"

Nothing could be more accurate.

I was gonna say, he certainly achieved that!

"There ain't gonna be heroes/There ain't gonna be anything"

Cool interview

yeah but imagine how much realer these songs would be on acoustic guitars, man

^ Read the above comment and thought I was in the Paul McCartney thread for a second.

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!

I feel strongly now that "Animal" is the best song on this album

Probably right. Has this alb not had a poll?

I couldn't find it! seems weird if it doesn't

bought the 30th anniversary remaster CD when I was on a Target run on a whim

God's of War is the one that really floors me now more than then

Love & 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 have

Excitable is the only one that seems corny imo, were there any good period b sides they could have swapped it for?

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"?

these songs were incredibly fun live last year too, even without the insane layered vocals that you get on the album

xp 3rd Grade me needed "Excitable."

although outside of nostalgic context I guess I can hear it possessing some annoying qualities (foreshadowing "Let's Get Rocked")

AAAH AAAH!
OOOH OOOH!

Easily my favourite band to come out of Sheffield, America.