The somewhat delayed success of "Pour Some Sugar on Me" (due to the new promo release) helped send Hysteria to number 1 on the Top Pop Albums chart (now the Billboard 200) a year after release, selling four million copies during the single's run. 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. Two intros were recorded for the song: the studio version has "Step inside, walk this way, you and me babe, hey hey!" and then cuts immediately to the guitar, while the single version has "love is like a bomb" and a slightly longer progression.īy the spring of 1988, Hysteria had sold 3 million copies, which was not enough to cover the album's $5 million production costs. In the Hysteria episode of the Classic Albums documentary series, Elliott said he thought he heard the phrase "love is like a bomb" on Lange's tape "and that set the whole tone for the lyric."
They then swapped dictaphones and tried to determine what each other's words were. The song's lyrics were written after Elliott and Lange went to opposite ends of the studio control room and delivered stream-of-consciousness words into a pair of dictaphones while the song's backing track played. Įlliott claims the song was at least partially inspired by the Aerosmith and Run-DMC version of " Walk This Way", which made him realize the potential of the mixing of rap and rock. Within two weeks the song was completed, smoothed out, and included as the twelfth track on Hysteria. Īlthough 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. This was my first ever lyrics video, so obviously it's going to be noobish.Near the end of recording the album Hysteria, during a production break, lead singer Joe Elliott was jamming with a riff he had come up with two weeks earlier on an acoustic guitar. "There are a lot of mess ups in this video, so plz don't post any comments about it. Top 100 Greatest Hip-hop/Rap Singles Of All Time.
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