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I remember once avoiding this band like it were AIDS, 
That was during the years when I was fast discovering, and totally in the throes of thrash metal, for one.
However, just a few years ago, over an Easter holiday week-end, I finally bought, on a pure impulse, the band's 'classic' album of the eighties, 'Stay Hungry'. I won't write a review of it, except to say that I honestly really enjoyed it. Their 'image' had once put me off, but once I actually heard this rollicking, entertaining album, I realised I was rather wrong about them----this, for instance, was NOT 'glam/hair' metal, at all. I later bought their 'Come Out and Play' album, which while not as superb as 'Stay Hungry', was still a pretty good heavy rock/metal record I liked very much. Dee Snider was such a force of nature, on vocals. And the very impressive Jay Jay French, on guitar, would have arguably gotten far more credit had he been in some other contemporary rock-metal act with a higher profile and sudden superstardom a la Iron Maiden and kind.
Anyway, these are the only two studio albums I've heard----until I bought their reunion 'live' album, 'Live at Wacken---The Reunion' (2005), at the beginning of this year. That was not half-bad, too. It had to be especially fun for fans who had known and loved the band longer, and far more than I ever had.
Anybody here a big Twisted Sister fan? Are their other albums just as good, or have I already got their best ones? C'mon you KISS fans,
don't be such snobs, say something about Twisted Sister.
That was during the years when I was fast discovering, and totally in the throes of thrash metal, for one. However, just a few years ago, over an Easter holiday week-end, I finally bought, on a pure impulse, the band's 'classic' album of the eighties, 'Stay Hungry'. I won't write a review of it, except to say that I honestly really enjoyed it. Their 'image' had once put me off, but once I actually heard this rollicking, entertaining album, I realised I was rather wrong about them----this, for instance, was NOT 'glam/hair' metal, at all. I later bought their 'Come Out and Play' album, which while not as superb as 'Stay Hungry', was still a pretty good heavy rock/metal record I liked very much. Dee Snider was such a force of nature, on vocals. And the very impressive Jay Jay French, on guitar, would have arguably gotten far more credit had he been in some other contemporary rock-metal act with a higher profile and sudden superstardom a la Iron Maiden and kind.
Anyway, these are the only two studio albums I've heard----until I bought their reunion 'live' album, 'Live at Wacken---The Reunion' (2005), at the beginning of this year. That was not half-bad, too. It had to be especially fun for fans who had known and loved the band longer, and far more than I ever had.
Anybody here a big Twisted Sister fan? Are their other albums just as good, or have I already got their best ones? C'mon you KISS fans,
don't be such snobs, say something about Twisted Sister.
I can relate to your remarks about how TS were hugely under-rated and misunderstood by too many people. I confessed earlier to being one of them, cos given their 'look'/image, and hearing some random 'singles' and seeing a few videos, I had too quickly and ignorantly lumped them in together with the glam rock/metal losers. Thank god, I came around to giving them a serious second chance 5-6 years ago, and found myself another awesome old band to add to my personal roster of favourites in rock-metal. I definitely wanna watch them live--for the first time ever, sometime if I get lucky. Cheers to ya all! 
but the playlists do differ somewhat.
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