Stay Hungry (album)

Stay Hungry
Cover photo by Mark Weiss
Studio album by Twisted Sister
Released	May 10, 1984
Recorded	February–March 1984
Studio	Record Plant, New York City, Westlake Audio and Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	36:58
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Tom Werman
Twisted Sister chronology
You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll (1983) Stay Hungry (1984) Come Out and Play (1985)
Singles from Stay Hungry
"We're Not Gonna Take It" / "You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll" Released: April 27, 1984 "I Wanna Rock" / "The Kids Are Back" Released: October 1984 "The Price" / "S.M.F." Released: December 1984

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	7/10[2]
IGN	Good[3]
Ultimate Guitar Archive	8.9/10[4]

Stay Hungry is the third album by American heavy metal band Twisted Sister. Released on May 10, 1984, the album features the band's two biggest hits, "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock". It also features the power ballad "The Price". According to RIAA certification, Stay Hungry gained multi-platinum status with U.S. sales of more than 3,000,000 copies.^[5]

Twisted Sister performed the song "Burn in Hell" during a cameo appearance in the 1985 film Pee-wee's Big Adventure. The song "Burn in Hell" was covered by black metal band Dimmu Borgir on Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia. "We're Not Gonna Take It" was also covered by Bif Naked on the Ready to Rumble soundtrack. The two songs that comprise the Horror-Teria segment became the basis of Twisted Sister lead singer Dee Snider's 1998 film Strangeland, in which Captain Howdy was played by Snider himself. The "Captain Howdy" segment of the "Horror-Teria" suite would later be covered by the death metal group Broken Hope on their album Repulsive Conception and in 1999 by the Swedish heavy metal band Morgana Lefay on their Symphony of the Damned, Re-symphonised album.

In 2004, the band re-recorded the tracks from this album and re-released them under the title Still Hungry.

In 2009, the band played Stay Hungry in its entirety for the first time including songs never played live before, such as "Don't Let Me Down" and "Horror-Teria: Street Justice".

Track listing

All songs are written by Dee Snider.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Stay Hungry"	3:03
2.	"We're Not Gonna Take It"	3:38
3.	"Burn in Hell"	4:43
4.	"Horror-Teria (The Beginning): a) Captain Howdy b) Street Justice"	7:45

Side two
No.	Title	Length
5.	"I Wanna Rock"	3:06
6.	"The Price"	3:48
7.	"Don't Let Me Down"	4:26
8.	"The Beast"	3:30
9.	"S.M.F."	3:01

Deluxe edition

A 25th Anniversary Edition was released on June 30, 2009 by Rhino Records. The first disc contains remastered versions of the nine tracks from the May 1984 original. The bonus disc uncovers 15 unreleased outtakes and early demos from the original sessions, recorded in December 1983 at Nino's Studios, Baldwin, New York, as well as the new track "30" recorded especially for this collection by the 1984 lineup at Audio Magic, West Babylon, New York.

Additionally, any music fan that bought the CD or vinyl of Stay Hungry 25th Anniversary Edition in any participating independent record store received a free gift from the band: a DVD of the Twisted Sister 1984 Uncut Live at San Bernardino concert. Originally broadcast on MTV as Stay Hungry Live, the concert had been commercially unavailable for years and previously unavailable as DVD. June 30, 2009 was the only day the DVD was available and only through participating, independent record stores with a limited stock.^[6]

Commented guitarist Jay Jay French, "While other bands have made exclusive deals with big box chains and discounters, Twisted Sister remembers all the independent record shops who have supported us through the years."^[6]

Bonus disc

1. "Death from Above" – 2:42
2. "Prime Motivator" – 2:25
3. "We’re Not Gonna Take It" – 2:47 (early demo)
4. "Death Run" – 1:45
5. "This One’s for You" – 2:00
6. "S.M.F." – 2:14 (early demo)
7. "We’re Coming On" – 1:42
8. "Call My Name" – 2:10
9. "Burn in Hell" – 5:08 (early demo)
10. "Pay the Price" – 1:42
11. "What’s Love Without You" – 1:44
12. "Our Voice Will Be Heard" – 1:29
13. "You Got to Fight" – 1:39
14. "The Price" – 2:36 (early demo)
15. "Stay Hungry" – 1:58 (early demo)
16. "KMET Radio Spot" – 0:24
17. "30" – 4:23 (new track)
18. "Lollipop Guild" – 0:30 (hidden track)

Personnel

Twisted Sister

• Dee Snider - lead vocals
• Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda - lead & rhythm guitars, backing vocals
• Jay Jay French - rhythm & lead guitars, backing vocals
• Mark "The Animal" Mendoza - bass, backing growls
• A. J. Pero - drums, percussion

Additional musicians

• Dean Werman, Gabby McGachan, Neidermeyer - sound effects, handclapping

Production

• Tom Werman - producer, arrangements with Twisted Sister
• Geoff Workman - engineer, mixing
• Gary McGachan - additional engineer at Cherokee Studios
• John "Red" Agnello - additional engineer at Record Plant
• Greg Laney - additional engineer at Westlake Studio
• George Marino - mastering at Sterling Sound, New York
• Bob Defrin - art direction

Charts

Album Year Chart Position 1984 Billboard 200 (USA)[7] 15 UK Albums Chart[8] 34 German Albums Chart[9] 48 1985 Swedish Albums Chart[10] 3 RPM100 (Canada)[11] 6 New Zealand Albums Chart[12] 10 Norwegian Albums Chart[13] 11

Singles Year Single Chart Position 1984 "We're Not Gonna Take It" New Zealand Singles Chart[14] 2 Top Singles Canada[15] 5 Mainstream Rock (USA)[16] 7 Billboard Hot 100 (USA)[17] 21 UK Singles Chart[8] 58 1985 Swedish Singles Chart[18] 10 1984 "I Wanna Rock" Mainstream Rock (USA)[16] 35 Billboard Hot 100 (USA)[17] 68 UK Singles Chart[8] 93 1985 Norwegian Singles Chart[19] 5 New Zealand Singles Chart[20] 10 Top Singles Canada[21] 44 "The Price" Mainstream Rock (USA)[16] 19

Certifications

Country	Organization	Year	Sales
USA	RIAA	1995	3x Platinum (+ 3,000,000)[5]
Canada	CRIA	1985	5x Platinum (+ 500,000)[22]

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