Hysteria [VINYL]

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On Pyromania the guitar sounds were recorded using a Marshall 100 watt amp. But they went through a ton of guitar amps (and a whole lot of time) before they found the right one. Eventually I think the amp blew up.

Def Leppard – Hysteria (1987, 49, Vinyl) - Discogs

All songs published by: In the U.K./Ireland: Why Bother Ltd./Warner Bros. Music/Zomba Music Publishers. In Australia/New Zealand: Bludgeon Riffola Ltd./Warner Bros. Music/Zomba Music Publishers. In the Rest of The Known Universe: Bludgeon Riffola Ltd./Zomba Music Publishers. Thanks to Jan Garner, Ralph Simon and Clive Calder at Zomba for their help and encouragement. (on inner sleeve)

The Hysteria album was a testing time for the band and all of us who worked on it. It’s hard to imagine what it feels like to work on an album for three years. Over such a long period even trends in music change. At one point we were trying to soften things up a little, guitar wise. Then suddenly Bon Jovi broke with You Give Love A Bad Name. We thought — shit, now we have to heavy things up again! Def Leppard - When Love And Hate Collide - Framed 7 inch Vinyl Record - Music Wall Art - Music Gift The intro to Pour Some Sugar On Me was changed even after the album was finished (and pressed!). It was just Phil Nicholas and me messing around with samples on the Fairlight, for an extended version of the song. Mutt came in and heard it and said, “Great, do it.” Without recording the album the way we had, we wouldn’t have been able to make changes like that. Discs four and five are more interesting for the Leps diehard, containing an entire live show captured on their groundbreaking In The Round tour. While a recording that has gathered dust in the vaults for 30 years is never going to challenge Live And Dangerous for the title of Greatest Live Album Ever, it’s still a fine aural snapshot of a band in their imperial prime. But it also begs the question: where are the accompanying visuals? The tour was filmed –“We have lights, we have cameras,” Joe Elliott says during the intro to Women– but there’s no sign of any footage. I still think this remaster on vinyl sounds excellent! Lovely pressing too. Made three rips from this record. You can find them on the right side in the videos section:

Def Leppard – Hysteria (2022, Violet, Vinyl) - Discogs

Def Leppard Salutes "Captain Love" for his contributions to the creation of this record. If you delve into this list, you, too, will understand and appreciate this man's importance (not to mention, the entire history of the world since 1984!). On the Hysteria album Mutt was changing and adding things even at the final mix stage. On Gods Of War, Phil Nicholas (Mutt’s Fairlight programmer) found all the Thatcher and Reagan sound bites to sample into the Fairlight so we could use them on the final mix. Keep collections to yourself or inspire other shoppers! Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. It’s ostentatious and even maddening at times, but there’s no faulting the ambition”: XTC’s The Big Express Matrix / Runout (Runout, B-side, etched): HYSLP 1 B / 1 MASTERDISK SP - ENG 422 . 830 - 675 - 1 - BS - DMM SP 1 - 1 SM 1 -Their music was played at every party, bush bash, and camp fire you would go to": Fully Completely by The Tragically Hip - Album Of The Week Club review A lot of people couldn’t believe we didn’t use real amps. But this is where Mutt taught the band and me that music production is about the song and arrangement first, then performance, followed lastly by the sound. If the song and the arrangement is great, and the performance is great, then the sound quite often takes care of itself. Thanks to everybody at Phonogram: In the UK: Gillian Gould, Francesca Sayers, John Watson, David Simone, Tony Powell, Bob Fisher, and "Bad" Bernadette Coyle. Internationally: Lisa Anderson, Sian Thomas, Lee Kavanagh, and all at Phonogram Netherlands, France and Ireland who helped us along during this recording. Oh yes, thanks to the 40 odd Polygram/Phonogram folks who endured with us all at Mannheim, West Germany, August, 1986. CD / 2-DVD Super Deluxe Edition inc 4 books (Story Of / Ross Halfin Photo Book / Discography / Hysteria Tour Programme) Tour Poster

Def Leppard – Hysteria - The Singles (2018, Vinyl) - Discogs Def Leppard – Hysteria - The Singles (2018, Vinyl) - Discogs

Six re-issues of U.S. singles ,"Hysteria" (U.K. single), "Animal" (alternate sleeve, Spain single) and two new singles ("Excitable" and "Love And Affection"). Additional Advice given by: Martin Goldberg and Ann Waddingham, Prager and Fenton, London, England. Bruce Slayton and Victor Wlodinguer, Robbins, Spielman, Slayton and Halfon, New York, N.Y. James H.K. Harman, Theodore Goddard, London, England. Andrew Snelling and the staff at Barclays Bank, Earls Court Road, London, England.

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Finally, like I said, it was a great relief when Mike Shipley got involved. It took the pressure off me and his first few mixes gave us the formula we needed to finish the album. In the end Mike too had to leave after mixing for about 4 months. He and I ended up mixing six songs each.

Def Leppard – Hysteria (2017, 180 gram, Vinyl) - Discogs Def Leppard – Hysteria (2017, 180 gram, Vinyl) - Discogs

Guitar – Air Commodore Phil "Felix, P.C., The Guru, Wambo, Tap" Collen, B.T.H.*, Wing Commander Steve "Steamin', Dreamy, Snikker, Mayhem, P.T.W." Clark, A.H.D.* Released as part of the HMV 1921-2021 Centenary Edition series on violet vinyl with Centenary OBI and gatefold Sleeve with printed paper inner sleeves with lyrics

There are many more stories about how this album was put together. I know the band will have loads of stories of their own. I’ve mostly talked about the technical side because that was my job and I wanted to explain why we took the approach we did. (And why it took so long!) The feeling that chaos was about to erupt was palpable": Thurston Moore's memoir Sonic Life is a fascinating insider account of life-changing outsider art, and one music geek's insatiable lust for the loud I have what appears to be the 2017 pressing according to the catalogue number on the cover and Vinyls, but the matrix on the runout grooves is 01036284, this pressing doesn't seem to be listed on Discogs. Of course this meant that instead of an album production taking a month or so, it could take anything up to a year. Of course with Hysteria we completely annihilated that barrier… it took three years!