― 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
But that's brilliant!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDSUB020405181212270411&sql=A8isxlfde5cqq
― chuck, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave q, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
"Gods of War""Don't Shoot Shotgun""Run Riot""Excitable""Hysteria""Love and Affection"
Right. *checks CD* Hey, you might be right! I needed to switch "Hysteria" and "Excitable"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link
It does?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Reason 33!
34) How did I forget this? The weirdass "COUNTDOWN COMMENCING -- FIRE ONE!" in "Rocket"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Step insideWalk this way!You and me babeHEY HEY!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 May 2004 00:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 20 May 2004 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 20 May 2004 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 20 May 2004 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 May 2004 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 20 May 2004 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 May 2004 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 20 May 2004 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link
You and I together in our lives Sacred ties would never fray Then why can´t I let myself tell lies And watch you die every day
I think back to the times When dreams were what mattered Tough talking youth naivete
You said you never let me down But the horse stampedes and rages In the name of desperation
Is it all just wasted time Can you look at yourself When you think of what You left behind
Is it all just wasted time Can you live with yourself When you think of what You left behind
Paranoid delusions they haunt you Where´s my friend I used to know He´s all alone He´s buried deep within a carcass Searching for a soul
Can you feel me inside your heart As it´s bleeding Why can´t you belive you can´t be loved
I hear you scream in agony And the horse stampedes and rages In the name of desperation
The sun will rise again The earth will turn to sand Creation´s colors seem to fade to grey And you´ll see the sickly hands of time Will write your final rhyme And end a memory
I never thought you´d let it get this far, boy....
great now I'm crying
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 20 May 2004 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 20 May 2004 02:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Haha! Well, to each listener their own. :-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 May 2004 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Sucks ass, and always has. (Hair metal band chickens out and tries to get "heavy," what dipshits.) Their first LP was the only listenable one. But had *Adrenalize been released a year or two earlier, it still would have been overshadowed by plenty of great Warrant, Faster Pussycat, and Cinderella albums (among other things) regardless.
― chuck, Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:29 (nineteen 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
― 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