Twisted Sister’s album ‘Stay Hungry’ to be re-released with two bonus tracks + bonus live disc
Great news for fans of Twisted Sister as the band’s breakthrough studio album Stay Hungry, which was originally released back in 1984, is getting re-released with two bonus tracks plus a bonus live disc. Stay Hungry contains the group’s two hit singles “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and “I Wanna Rock”.
Twisted Sister founder, guitarist and longest tenured member Jay Jay French released a video yesterday on the group’s Facebook page where he stated (as transcribed by Sleaze Roxx):
“The 40th anniversary of Stay Hungry is actually now. There will be a 40th anniversary double album coming out in October, which will have the remastered original album plus two tracks recorded at the time the album was coming out but didn’t make the record and we actually finished them later so that will be — those tracks will be added to the album. And the second album will be the live San Bernardino show so for all of you who were alive back then who were watching MTV, and were watching the MVA Twisted Sister San Bernardino live Stay Hungry concert, it will be available on audio. I think up until now, I think it’s only been available on VHS tape and laser disc, so it shows you how old that is because no one owns a VHS player and I don’t think a lot of you even know what a laser disc player is but [it] was on that and now it’s going to be on vinyl, and I think there will be a double CD as well with that material.”
Sleaze Roxx stated the following in its review of the 25th anniversary edition of Twisted Sister‘s album Stay Hungry:
“I’ll never forget the first time my eyes and ears came across Twisted Sister. I was only 11 years old and just started experimenting with metal music. Then one day I saw this band, looking like clowns, on a TV video show and immediately thought ‘WTF is this??’ At that point in time I had seen nothing like Twisted Sister, they were outrageous, even ludicrous, and spewed out anthems to a generation that was dying to rebel and scream ‘I wanna rock’!.
I’ll admit, at first I thought Stay Hungry, with its revolting artwork (it seems rather tame today) and hilarious videos for “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and “I Wanna Rock”, were nothing but a joke. But in 1984 metal was king of the castle, and after watching their videos on a daily basis I slowly became a loyal ‘S.M.F.’ Twenty-five years later Stay Hungry holds up surprisingly well, showing that songs like the title-track, “Burn In Hell”, “The Price” and the infamous singles were much more than just make-up and excess.”