Voici une réédition spéciale pour fêter les 25 ans de leur célèbre album, avec une tripotée de bonus et un nouveau morceau :
TWISTED SISTER has set a June 23 release date for the 25th-anniversary reissue of "Stay Hungry" featuring loads of bonus material, including one brand new track, "30", that the band recently recorded.
The package includes:
* "Stay Hungry" remastered
* Ten never-before-heard songs originally demoed for "Stay Hungry"
* Five early demos of songs from "Stay Hungry"
* One brand new song
* One rare radio spot using "SMF" as the music bed
"Stay Hungry" bonus tracks:
* "Death From Above"
* "Prime Motivator"
* "Were Not Gonna Take It"
* "Death Run"
* "This One's For You"
* "SMF"
* "We're Coming On"
* "Call My Name"
* "Burn In Hell"
* "Pay The Price"
* "What's Love Without You"
* "Our Voice Will Be Heard"
* "You've Got To Fight"
* "The Price"
* "Stay Hungry"
* "30"
TWISTED SISTER guitarist Jay Jay French commented: "A couple of years ago, while playing to 80,000 fans in Quebec after not playing there since 1984, it struck me just how important our album 'Stay Hungry' had become. It broke sales records in 8 countries and the videos made us international stars. Canada especially had gone crazy for the album and bought it at a much greater proportional rate against U.S. sales then any album in recent memory.
"We had just released our re-recorded version of it called 'Still Hungry'. While talking to our fans in Canada, it struck me how many still preferred the original 'Stay Hungry'. Maybe, as band members, we were just too close to the whole thing. Maybe we just weren't seeing it and, more importantly, hearing it through the eyes of the fans who had spent the last 23 years with their ears tuned in to the sound of the original record. I knew that in two years a milestone was approaching. In May of 2009, the 25th anniversary of 'Stay Hungry' would arrive. I started to think of a way to recognize and celebrate the music and the times which had become so important to the lives of not only our millions of fans around the world, but also to acknowledge the importance and relevance of all of the music created by the hard rock bands of that period. What became obvious to me was that just re-mastering the original record was not a reason to re-release it. The only way this could be 'special' was to locate any material that was recorded by us at the time and never released so as to make a truly great two-disc package.
"Much to the band's surprise, Atlantic/Rhino discovered a series of cassettes that comprised almost a whole extra albums worth of material. This original music was part of the 'demo' process used in making 'Stay Hungry'. These tapes were recorded in December 1983 at Nino's studios in Baldwin, Long Island along with all the songs that wound up on the finished album. I completely forgot that these tapes ever existed. The band barely remembered these songs ever being recorded. Most of the songs, upon fresh listening, are shockingly good. Remember, these are demos which means that they are unfinished versions of songs. Maybe some day we will actually fully finish and record some of them if you, the fans, yell loudly enough. Don't ask me why some didn't make the record; the politics of that question are too deep to get into. Suffice it to say, we are proud of this material and, to make the re-release really special, we also recorded our first new song in 10 years — a song called '30'."
I'm the lost one chasing colors to the sun
Colors bleed but never fade
Ca se voit surtout que c'est leur plus gros succès!
Et perso, c'est pas mon skeud préféré loin de là! La production est cheap à mort, avec une batterie qui sonne d'une façon atroce.
Je préfère 100 fois un album comme You Can't Stop Rock'N'Roll, ça c'est un disque qui tue et qui sonne! J'avais lu d'ailleurs une interview du sieur Snider (à l'époque de Widowmaker?) qui avouait à demi mot préférer ce disque au suivant, et trouvait la production de Stuart Epps bien supérieure à celle de Tom Werman. Si quelqu'un à des souvenirs de cette interview (l'ami Toxic et sa mémoire phénoménale, help please!), qu'il en parle, j'ai la flegme de chercher dans mes mags.
Hard Rock magazine numéro 117-Novembre 1994-page 48, Megadeth (Marty Friedman+Dave Mustaine) en couverture. Dee Snider; je cite " comparé à Stay Hungry (...)nos premiers albums sonnaient mieux, plus vrai, surtout You Can't Stop Rock N Roll."
Dave:How many albums you got in the history of the band?
Dee: 5 albums
Dave: Now, have they all been monsters?
Dee: Nah, some of the earlier ones were really lame....Honesty
Je sais pas... peut être qu'il parle de chiffres de vente...
Si c'était durant la promo, j'imagine qu'il fallait sortir la technique habituelle de dénigrement des précédents albums genre : "ce qu'on fait maintenant est beaucoup mieux alors achetez le disque".
I'm the lost one chasing colors to the sun
Colors bleed but never fade
Dee Snider explique qu'il compose toujours beaucoup plus de titres que nécessaires pour un album, ce qui explique qu'il existe autant de titres inédits de Twisted Sister :
IconVsIcon.com: This June you will be re-releasing Stay Hungry for it’s 25th Anniversary. What can you tell us about the process of putting this re-release together?
Dee Snider: "Jay Jay French and Mark “The Animal” Mendoza share credit for really putting the effort into making this thing a reality. The album, of course, was our biggest record. Twenty-five years later, to see the life that the album and some of the songs in particular have is pretty amazing. When you try to do something like this re-release you really try to pull out all the stops that will make the more than casual fan intrigued by giving them more information about your state of mind and what was going on at the time. As the only songwriter in the band, I always overwrote for every record. I had written twenty five songs for Stay Hungry, of which we chose ten. So, when we started digging through the tapes, we found demos for the other fifteen songs and it was kind of a no-brainer to say 'Here’s what we didn’t put on the album!' I remember Jay Jay was going through it and he called me up and said 'We could have put out a double album or a sequel, like Stay Hungry 2 or something. There is some great shit on here!' I always said that I never presented a song to the band that I wouldn’t be comfortable with having on an album, so although I may have presented twenty five songs, I wrote fifty. So, I said 'Yeah man! That’s good shit!' s
I'm the lost one chasing colors to the sun
Colors bleed but never fade
La première édition qui vient de sortir a un problème audio...
"On the evening of July 2nd, we learned the entire inventory of Disc 1 of TWISTED SISTER's 'Stay Hungry' 25th anniversary set has an audio problem. We had originally been told it was limited to a few thousand and had posted a message to our fans immediately as to how to exchange for a replacement CD."
Commented guitarist Jay Jay French: "TWISTED SISTER fans are among the most dedicated fans in the world. Everything we have ever done has been focused on giving to you, our fans, the highest levels of concert experiences and recorded product. We go to great lengths to produce CDs and DVDs with the sole intent of making our fans happy and proud to say that they are part of the TWISTED SISTER family.
"We spent a full year (and 24 previous years) working towards our 'Stay Hungry' reissue. Our goal was to create a truly special event with fan ownership of this package.
"To say that the band is upset and disappointed would be the understatement of the year. Please know that we are working through the weekend with Rhino to address this problem."
I'm the lost one chasing colors to the sun
Colors bleed but never fade
