Stay Hungry by Twisted Sister

Stay Hungry, Twisted Sister's third album, hit the shops on Atlantic on May 10, 1984, and it's the record that dragged the makeup-caked Long Island bruisers into the mainstream. The classic lineup was in place, Dee Snider howling up front, Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda on guitars, Mark Mendoza on bass and A.J. Pero on drums, and "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock" gave them two fist-pumping anthems, sold with videos full of slapstick mayhem.

The sessions weren't all smiles: producer Tom Werman played the band some Saxon records, which Snider took as a hint to swap his songs for covers, and French says Werman's influence cost them two songs they wanted. Still, it became their only platinum album and passed 3 million sales in the US by 1995. "Burn in Hell" turned up in Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and the band re-recorded the whole thing as Still Hungry in 2004.

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