I've been listening to Love is for Suckers -- the ill-fated Twisted Sister swansong -- a lot these days. I've never quite understood why it's taken such a beating over the years.
Is it a good metal album? No.
Is it a metal album at all? No.
Is it a good pop album? Yes.
Is it a great pop album? Yes!
Considering that it was originally intended to be a Dee Snider solo album, recorded with studio musicians, it's really unfair to judge it as a Sister record. The style/sound is unlike anything they had released before, but that's because it was an entirely different band who recorded it. Supposedly the record company wanted it to be released as a Twisted Sister record, so the other band member's names and faces were placed in the liner notes and that was that. There was one single released that went nowhere.
A decent video made.
A brief tour to support it.
And that was it.
Well, until all the various reunions here and there, leading to the full-scale reunion a few years back. But that's another beast all together.
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