Product Description
Very Hard To Find Original Australasian Pressing. Includes Inner Sleeve With Lyrics. Record Has Picture Labels. Def Leppard At Their Peak Of Popularity, With Immaculate Production From Mutt Lange.
Condition – Vinyl: VERY GOOD PLUS! Some light surface marks, occasionally audible, but plays through fine.
Condition – Cover: VERY GOOD PLUS! Shelf wear, circle mark on front, edge creases.
Side 1:
Women
Rocket
Animal
Love Bites
Pour Some Sugar On Me
Armageddon It
Side 2:
Gods Of War
Don’t Shoot Shotgun
Run Riot
Hysteria
Excitable
Love And Affection
AMG –
Strong pop hooks and "perfect"-sounding production, Hysteria is arguably the best pop-metal ever recorded. Where Pyromania had set the standard for polished, catchy pop-metal, Hysteria only upped the ante. Pyromania's slick, layered Mutt Lange production turned into a painstaking obsession with dense sonic detail on Hysteria, with the result that some critics dismissed the record as a stiff, mechanized pop sell-out (perhaps due in part to Rick Allen's new, partially electronic drum kit). But Def Leppard's music had always employed big, anthemic hooks, and few of the pop-metal bands who had hit the charts in the wake of Pyromania could compete with Leppard's sense of craft; certainly none had the pop songwriting savvy to produce seven chart singles from the same album, as the stunningly consistent Hysteria did. Joe Elliott's lyrics owe an obvious debt to his obsession with T. Rex, particularly on the playfully silly anthem "Pour Some Sugar on Me," and the British glam rock tribute "Rocket," while power ballads like "Love Bites" and the title track lack the histrionics or gooey sentimentality of many similar offerings. The strong pop hooks and "perfect"-sounding production of Hysteria may not appeal to die-hard heavy metal fans, but it isn't heavy metal -- it's pop-metal, and arguably the best pop-metal ever recorded.