Def Leppard : Hysteria (Remastered Super Deluxe Box Set) (6 CDS)

I'M HOT

STICKY SWEET

FROM MY HEAD

TO MY FEET

 Hysteria

 is the fourth 

studio album 

by English

 Rock Band 

Def Leppard

 released on 

August,3rd 1987, 

by Mercury Records. 

The album is the 

follow-up to 

the band's 

1983 breakthrough,

 Pyromania. 

Hysteria's 

creation took over 

three years 

and was plagued

 by delays,

 including the aftermath 

of drummer

 Rick Allen's 

accident that 

cost him his left arm

 on 

December,31st 1984.

 Subsequent to 

the album's release, 

Def Leppard 

published a

 book titled

 Animal Instinct: 

The Def Leppard Story, 

written by

 Rolling Stone magazine

 senior editor

 David Fricke,

 on the 

three-year 

recording process

 of Hysteria 

and the 

difficult times

 the band endured

 through the

 mid-1980s. 

Lasting 

62 minutes

 and 

32 seconds,

 it is the band's 

longest 

studio album to date.

Hysteria

 was the band's

 third and

 final album

 to be produced by

 Robert John "Mutt" Lange. 

The title of the album 

was conceived by

 Allen referring

 to his car accident, 

the amputation

 of his arm, 

and the ensuing 

worldwide media coverage

 surrounding it.

 It is the last album

 to feature guitarist

 Steve Clark

 before his

death 

in 1991, 

although songs 

co-written by him 

would appear on

 the band's

 next album, 

Adrenalize (1992).

Although initial sales 

stalled outside

 the band's 

devoted fanbase,

 it soon became a

 worldwide 

commercial success, 

reaching number one

 on both the 

Billboard 200 

and the

 UK Albums Chart. 

It is Def Leppard's 

best-selling album

 to date, 

selling over

 20 million 

copies worldwide, 

including 12 million

 in the US, 

and spawned 

seven hit singles. 

It remains one

 of the

 best-selling albums

 of all time.

History

Soon after completing

 the Pyromania tour

 in February 1984,

 the band commenced 

writing and

 pre-production for

 what became 

Hysteria

 in Dublin, 

using Fostex 

4-track cassette recorders 

to capture ideas.

 Early sketches of

 "Animal",

 "Gods Of War" 

and

 "Armageddon It" 

were developed

 during this period. 

Lange joined them

 to help with 

writing and arrangements,

 but at late notice

 informed the group

 he could not commit 

to producing the album

 due to burnout

 from a grueling schedule 

from the past few years. 

Thus,

 they had to find 

another producer

 who was available 

and they 

went with 

Jim Steinman.

Sessions with Steinman

 began at

 Wisseloord Studios 

on August,11th 1984, 

with Neil Dorfsman

 as engineer. 

However,

 it became clear

 that Steinman

 was not the right producer

 for them,

 that his

 standards were

 not as high as Lange's:

Steinman's intention to make 

a raw-sounding record

 that captured the moment 

conflicted with 

the band's interest

 in creating a bigger, 

more pristine

 pop production. 

As singer

 Joe Elliott observed, 

"[Steinman] 

wouldn't adapt 

and we wouldn't compromise", 

and by October 1984

 Steinman was ousted

 from the project. 

Dorfsman could not see

 the album through 

as he had commitments

 to work with

 Dire Straits

 on what became

 Brothers in Arms

 he would later mention

 that they 

"barely [had] 

drums and bass

 on seven songs"

 after three 

months of work.

After parting ways

 with Steinman 

and scrapping

 the material 

from those sessions,

 the band tried to 

produce the album themselves

 with Lange's 

engineer Nigel Green. 

However, 

as Steve Clark recalled, 

"it was very slow work

 because we didn't have

 any sort of 

headmaster there, 

and we had to try 

everything

 five different ways."

On December,31st 1984,

  Rick Allen

lost his left arm 

when his Corvette (C4) 

flipped off a country road. 

Following the accident,

 the band stood by 

Allen's decision to 

return to the drum kit 

despite his disability,

 using a combination 

electronic/acoustic kit

 with a set of 

electronic pedals 

that triggered (via MIDI)

 the sounds that he would

 have played with

 his left arm. 

The band slowly continued

 production until

 Lange returned

 in the summer of 1985

 for vocal sessions

 in Paris.

 However, 

Lange soon felt 

that the material

 recorded so far 

(which sounded close to Pyromania)

 needed work,

 leading to another

 18 months in the studio.

 However, the sessions 

were further delayed by

 Lange's own auto accident

 sustaining leg injuries

 from which he

 quickly recovered 

and a bout of 

the mumps 

suffered by singer 

Joe Elliott in late 1986.

Hysteria

 was recorded in a

 piecemeal way

 like the previous

 two albums,

 with individual parts

 (or notes, even) 

being recorded and

 overdubbed separately.

 The guitars were recorded first

 to a LinnDrum click track, 

which gave Lange

 and the band

 the flexibility to

 re-write and

 re-record parts 

of the song as 

they went along.

 Then, 

once the arrangements

 were finalized, 

the bass and drums

 were added towards

 the end of the recording.

The final recording sessions

 took place in

 late January 1987

 for the song

 "Armageddon It" 

and a last-minute composition

 "Pour Some Sugar on Me", 

though Lange 

spent another three months

 mixing the tracks. 

In the meantime, 

the band completed 

additional recordings

 in February for 

B-side material, 

including 

"Tear It Down",

 "I Wanna Be Your Hero",

 "Ring of Fire" 

amongst others. 

The album was

 finally released worldwide

 on August,3rd 1987, 

with 

"Animal" 

as the lead single

 in most countries 

except for the 

US and Canada

 where

 "Women"

 was the first single.

NOTES

I Started Out 

With The 

2 CD 

Deluxe Edition

and The

30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

But Then I Got

 The 

BOX SET

So This Is A 

Combination

Of All Of Them

PLUS

I ADDED MORE 

STUFF

TURN IT UP !!!

TRACK LIST 

CD 1

(Remastered)

Women

Rocket

Animal

Love Bites

Pour Some Sugar On Me

Armageddon It

Gods Of War

Don’t Shoot Shotgun

Run Riot

Hysteria

Excitable

Love And Affection

CD 2

Tear It Down

I Wanna Be Your Hero

Ride Into The Sun

Ring Of Fire

Women 

(Radio Edit)

Rocket 

(Lunar Mix)

 (Radio Edit)

Love Bites

 (Radio Edit)

Hysteria

 (Radio Edit)

Pour Some Sugar On Me 

(Radio Edit)

Armageddon It

 (Radio Edit)

Release Me 

(Stumpus Maximus And The Good Ol’ Boys)

Rocket

 (Visualize Video Edit)

Classic Album: Hysteria

 (BBC Radio Documentary)

CD 3

Rocket 

(The Lunar Mix - Extended Version)

Armageddon It

 (The Nuclear Mix)

Pour Some Sugar On Me

 (Historia Video Edit)

Animal

 (Extended Version)

Excitable

 (The Orgasmic Mix)

Pour Some Sugar On Me 

(Extended Version)

Rocket 

(Lunar Mix Edit)

Elected

 (Live In Tilburg, Holland June 1987)

Love And Affection 

 (Live In Tilburg, Holland June 1987)

Billy’s Got A Gun 

 (Live In Tilburg, Holland June 1987)

Rock Of Ages 

(Live Medley From Tilburg, Holland June 1987)

Women

 (Live In Denver, CO At McNichols Arena December 1988)

Action 

(Live)

CD 4

Women

 (Vocal Mix)

Rocket 

(Vocal Mix)

Animal 

(Vocal Mix)

Love Bites

 (Vocal Mix)

Pour Some Sugar On Me

 (Vocal Mix)

Armageddon It

 (Vocal Mix)

Hysteria

 (Vocal Mix)

Women

 (Instrumental)

Rocket

 (Instrumental)

Animal

 (Instrumental)

Love Bites

 (Instrumental)

Pour Some Sugar On Me

 (Instrumental)

Armageddon It 

(Instrumental)

Hysteria 

(Instrumental)

CD 5

Stagefright

 (Live)

Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)

 (Live)

Women 

(Live)

Too Late For Love

 (Live)

Hysteria

 (Live)

Gods Of War

 (Live)

Die Hard The Hunter 

(Live)

CD 6

Bringin’ On The Heartbreak

(Live)

Foolin’

(Live)

Armageddon It

(Live)

Animal

(Live)

Pour Some Sugar On Me

(Live)

Phil Solo

(Live)

Rock Of Ages

(Live)

Photograph

(Live)

BONUS

Two Steps Behind

 [Acoustic] [*]

(Studio)

Miss You In A Heartbeat

 [Acoustic] [*]

(Studio)

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