![]() ![]() Hysteria FAQs Who wrote the songs on Hysteria?Īll of the songs were written by Steve Clark, Joe Elliott, Phil Collen, Rick Savage, and Mutt Lange, the band's unofficial (maybe official?) sixth member. ![]() This song would have been a hit for most other 80s hair bands. Almost sounds like Hysteria the song, part two. That opening riff signals High 'n' Dry to get restrained chime on the ol' six string. Who's excitable? Alllll the ladies in the front row. The title track of the album is no exception. Hysteriaĭef Leppard has never shied away from writing well-crafted ballads. Awesome post-chorus buildup riff from Collen and Clark. You could totally see the Great Ones traveling in their time traveling telephone booth to Def Leppard's Run Riot. Run Riot is what would have been Hysteria's contribution to the Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure Soundtrack had everything worked out in life. A little midnight madness is encouraged in nearly every 80s hair metal song. Ultraproduced vox kick off Don't Shoot Shotgun. On a countdown to zero, Take a ride on the nightmare machine, There ain't gonna be heroes, Whoa, there ain't gonna be anything. Gods of War is a great track for lovers of Steve Clark. ![]() If there is a defining song for the "sound" of Hysteria, it is Armageddon It. Sparkly guitars, huge Def Leppard choral vox, a video that is basically Pour Some Sugar on Me II. To be clear, I adore Armageddon It, so there's that. The guitars of Armageddon It highlight DL's transition from the good looking, but rugged street rock grit of Pyromania and prior, to the clean-shaven, champagne-fueled, cigarette boat operating hair metal that we all know (and most likely still love) today. Then, Def Leppard took over the airwaves. Hysteria was slipping a bit when the song was released. It really revitalized the popularity of the band. Some of those ladies would go on to have this hair metal anthem as their stage song. ![]() Ridiculous, right?.Ī half-assed, electrified rap that has more guitar layers than paint on a country barn, Pour Some Sugar on Me introduced Def Leppard to way more ladies than their New Wave of British Heavy Metal days could ever dream of. Pour Some Sugar on Me, the zenith of Def Leppard's popularity, was almost left off of the album. Stripped down and acoustic, Love Bites is nothing more than a country song in hair metal clothing. Track 4 shines again as the obligatory ballad. AnimalĬompressed cleans, big, bouncy bass, and vocal processing galore on Love Bites. Rocket has everything that the modern, in 1987, fan of the Lep was looking for:ĭouble time pace pick-up at the end. Musicians, is Rocket a shuffle? I am unclear on this. But, stripped down to it's rock roots, it could have been on Pyromania, High 'n' Dry, or On Through the Night. Maybe not sonically, as the influence of ol' Mutt Lange is clearly on display here. It's a stretch, but I think Def Leppard could have put Women on any of their first albums. Here's a BBC interview on the history of the band. It's just all 5 members of Def Leppard doing gang choruses. The Bankrupt Brothers are the band within the band. Seriously, on the same web page Rolling Stone ranks a Hole album, a My Morning Jacket album, and an Amy Winehouse album ahead of Hysteria. There are at least 460+ albums on their list that aren't even close to the pure majesty of Hysteria. Rolling Stone ranked Hysteria at 464 on the 500 greatest albums of all-time. The album is perhaps Producer Mutt Lange's finest work. Just incredible.Īnd, if I recall correctly, Tear It Down off Adrenalize was supposed to be on Hysteria. You could say that trying to make every song a single is selling out, but what is wrong with that?Īlong with Appetite for Destruction, Hysteria released 7 singles. But can you argue with the results? The guys from DL shouldn't be blamed for creating a masterpiece. It probably upset some core fans who wanted to live in a High n Dry and On Through The Night world forever. Sonically, this album has something for everyone. Hysteria took forever to record, overset expectations, promised the world, and then absolutely delivered. Maybe it was because Def Leppard were a band in truest sense of the word, a bunch of kids who set out to make awesome rock tunes in their late teens and ended up succeeding. Maybe it was because they lacked someone like Desmond Child, Bon Jovi's lyrical and songwriting version of (his buddy) Bill Belichick's Ernie Adams. Maybe it was because they lacked true categorization. The funniest part about Def Leppard to me is how some people struggle to recognize their greatness. So many tracks, so many layers, so many overdubs, so many years to produce and subsequently release. Def Leppard’s Magnum Opus to Women (of the Champagne Room) ![]()
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