Twisted Sister "Stay Hungry (USA, Atlantic Records, 7567-80156-2)"

Stay Hungry is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Twisted Sister, released on May 10, 1984, by Atlantic Records. The album contains the band's two signature songs: "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock", both of which remain a staple of '80s glam metal and rock. According to RIAA certification, Stay Hungry is the band's most successful release by far and their only platinum album. Eventually, the album achieved multi-platinum status in U.S. with sales of more than 3,000,000 certified copies by 1995.

During recording, producer Tom Werman brought some songs by English heavy metal band Saxon for the band to listen to, this led to a conflict with Dee Snider who understood it as Werman wanting the band to replace some of his songs with Saxon covers. Guitarist Jay Jay French also claims the band lost two songs that they wanted on the album due to Werman's influence.

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 all nine songs 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".

Metal Rules ranked the album #5 on their list of the Top 50 Glam Metal Albums.

In 2016, Loudwire ranked the album at number 6 on their list of the Top 30 Hair Metal Albums.

In 2017, Rolling Stone listed the album at No. 76 on its list of the 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time.

Track listing

All songs are written by Dee Snider.

    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)  7:45

          a) Captain Howdy

          b) Street Justice"

    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." 3:00

Track 1 dedicated to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Tracks 4a and 4b dedicated to Stephen King.

Recording information:

- Recorded at Record Plant, New York City

- Recorded at Westlake Audio, Los Angeles, California

- Recorded and mixed at Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles, California - Feb/March 1984.

- Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York