Hysteria

This is one of my favorite song by Def Leppard, Hysteria. Reaching number ten on Billboard Hot 100 (the US standard for singles), and released in their 1987 album, Hysteria, is what many of us refer to as a power ballad, featuring heavy instruments and a ballad vocal style to it. This song features a classic rock drum beat, and a very clean guitar sound to it on the verse, which makes the chorus very prominent with a light distortion applied to a second guitar. This song is heavily layered, with many vocal tracks, as well as instrumental ones. This song is about wanting to be with someone so bad that it hurts, and you just have to know if they're with someone else, it's about excitement over someone so much so that you can't get them out of your head, and you obsess over them continuously.