Hysteria (album)
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| Hysteria | ||
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| Missing image Def_Leppard_-_Hysteria.jpg Album cover | ||
| Album by Def Leppard | ||
| Released | August 3, 1987 | |
| Recorded | 1986 at Wisseloord Studios in Hilversum, Netherlands, Windmill Lane Studio 2 in Dublin, Ireland & Studio Des Dames in Paris, France | |
| Genre | Hard Rock | |
| Length | 61 min 52 sec | |
| Record label | Mercury | |
| Producer | Robert John "Mutt" Lange | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| AMG | 5/5 | link (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE47D1ED847A47E20E0B11A40DEB561F61A8F1AACD83E284541D1B43844C30E79EC40A6D8B1E8B800E203E3FE2FBB5B0ECCC8EE56F890673D378EEAAC613E2E3A7B&uid=MIDMR0411111034&sql=10:ygae4j870wal~T1) |
| Def Leppard Chronology | ||
| Pyromania (1983) | Hysteria (1987) | Adrenalize (1992) |
Hysteria is the fourth album by British hard rock band Def Leppard, released in 1987 (see 1987 in music). The band initially set out to record it without direct involvement of Mutt Lange due to scheduling conflicts. However, as the band struggled with the recording process and drummer Rick Allen's auto accident, Lange would eventually join the project full-time. He recommended that they scrap most of the previous recording sessions and start largely from scratch.
The resulting album was a departure from the hard rocking sound of Pyromania. The summer 1987 release was a tight set of rock songs that were heavy on effects, keyboards and synth lines.
It's arguable that these elements combined with the killer ballads "Love Bites" and "Hysteria" are what helped the band really break into the mainstream in the States. The singles taken from album also featured remixes, which was generally unheard of for metal bands at that time.
Near the end of the recording process for Hysteria, singer Joe Elliott picked up an acoustic guitar for fun during a break. When Mutt Lange heard the riff that Joe was playing, he thought it was a great hook and should be used on the album. This simple guitar riff became the chorus of Pour Some Sugar On Me, Hysteria's most successful single.
The band worked mostly out of Wisseloord studios in the Netherlands. In the end, Def Leppard spent several million dollars to produce Hysteria.
In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Hysteria the 98th greatest album of all time.
By mid-1989, more than half the album's tracks had been released as singles somewhere around the world. The exceptions being the epic "Gods Of War", "Don't Shoot Shotgun", "Run Riot", "Love And Affection" and "Excitable". The latter track appeared on a 12" single as the "Orgasmic Mix".
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Track listing
all songs by Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange and Savage
- "Women" - 5:41
- "Rocket" - 6:34
- "Animal" - 4:02
- "Love Bites" - 5:46
- "Pour Some Sugar on Me" - 4:25
- "Armageddon It" - 5:21
- "Gods of War" - 6:32
- "Don't Shoot Shotgun" - 4:10
- "Run Riot" - 4:38
- "Hysteria" - 5:49
- "Excitable" - 4:19
- "Love and Affection" - 4:35
Singles
- "Women" (1987) #80 US
- "Animal" (1987) #6 UK, #19 US
- "Pour Some Sugar on Me" (1987) #18 UK, #2 US
- "Hysteria" (1987) #26 UK, #10 US
- "Armageddon It" (1988) #20 UK, #3 US
- "Love Bites" (1988) #11 UK, #1 US
- "Rocket" (1989) #15 UK, #12 US
Personnel
- Rick Allen - drums
- Steve Clark - guitar
- Phil Collen - guitar
- Joe Elliott - vocals
- Rick Savage - bass
Production
- Producer: Robert John "Mutt" Lange
- Engineers: Nigel Green, Erwin Musper, Ronald Prent
- Assistant engineer: Nigel Green
- Mixing: Nigel Green, Mike Shipley
- Mastering: Bob Ludwig, Howie Weinberg
- Fairlight: Phil Nicholas
- Tape operator: Mark Flannery
- Photography: Ross Halfin, Laurie Lewis
Charts
Album - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1987 | The Billboard 200 | 1 |
Singles - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 1987 | "Animal" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 5 |
| 1987 | "Animal" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 19 |
| 1987 | "Animal" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 19 |
| 1987 | "Hysteria" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 9 |
| 1987 | "Women" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 7 |
| 1987 | "Women" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 80 |
| 1988 | "Armageddon It" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 3 |
| 1988 | "Armageddon It" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 3 |
| 1988 | "Hysteria" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 10 |
| 1988 | "Love Bites" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 3 |
| 1988 | "Love Bites" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| 1988 | "Pour Some Sugar on Me" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 25 |
| 1988 | "Pour Some Sugar on Me" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 2 |
| 1989 | "Rocket" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 5 |
| 1989 | "Rocket" | The Billboard Hot 100 | 12 |