It reached number 1 on the Top Pop Albums chart (now the Billboard 200) a year after release, and sold four million copies during the single's run. The somewhat delayed success of 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' (due to the new promo release) sent sales of Hysteria higher than the band ever imagined. Thus, the band edited footage from an upcoming concert film to make a new promo clip for 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' and finally released it as the fourth single in North America. Within two weeks the song was completed, smoothed out and included as the twelfth track on Hysteria.īy the spring of 1988, Hysteria had sold 3 million copies, but it still was not enough to cover the album's production costs (the most expensive ever at the time). Although already behind schedule Lange felt that the album was still missing a strong crossover hit and that this last song had the potential to be one. Producer Mutt Lange, expressing great liking of it, suggested that it be developed into another song. If you think you know what sexual act is being described, you're very, very confused about what actually happens during sex.Near the end of recording the album Hysteria singer Joe Elliott was jamming with a riff he had come up with recently on an acoustic guitar. But nothing the band has ever recorded comes close to the lyrical chaos of 'Pour Some Sugar on Me.' Even if you could ignore lines like 'Livin' like a lover with a radar phone' and 'Television lover, baby, go all night,' there's still that brilliantly obtuse chorus, so easy to sing along with and so utterly devoid of meaning. There is no good explanation for why 'Are you gettin' it?' should ever be answered with 'Armageddon it!' 'Animal' contains at least a dozen mixed metaphors, with singer/co-lyricist Joe Elliott comparing himself to the drivin' rain, a circus, a heartbeat, a river, a shadow, rust, and a wolf capable of giving CPR. And I'm not just talking about that 'gunter glieben glauchen globen' hokum that kicks off 'Rock of Ages.' Their lyrics are littered with nonsensical gibberish. Def Leppard is one of those rare bands where everybody on the planet seems to know every lyric to all their songs and yet nobody has any goddamn idea what any of it means.

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