Twisted Sister: You Can’t Stop Rock N Roll(1983)

 

COME INSIDE
TAKE A SEAT OR A RIDE
WE’RE SO GLAD THAT YOU’RE HERE
NOW COME ON
HAVE A DRINK OF SOME COKE
GASOLINE OR SOME ROPE
A GUILLOTINE?
ARE YOU GONE?
DON’T TURN AROUND
IGNORE THAT SOUND
JUST LIE ON THIS RACK
ARE YOU STARTING TO CRACK?

I NEED THIS LIKE A KNIFE IN THE BACK
I NEED THIS LIKE A KNIFE IN THE BACK

That paragraph basically sums up the street vibe of Twisted Sisters You Can’t Stop Rock N Roll back in 1983 a full year before Twisted Sister hit the mother lode with the Stay Hungry album!

A pretty ass kicking album that didn’t really set the world on fire at the time. Why? I have no idea as I think its T.S’s best!

The Sisters That are Twisted ….

• Dee Snider – lead vocals
• Jay Jay French – lead & rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Eddie “Fingers” Ojeda – lead & rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Mark “The Animal” Mendoza – bass, backing vocals, studio assistant
• A. J. Pero – drums, percussion

You Can’t Stop This 10 Pack of Rock:

1.	“The Kids Are Back”	3:16
2.	“Like a Knife in the Back”	3:03
3.	“Ride to Live, Live to Ride”	4:04
4.	“I Am (I’m Me)”	3:34
5.	“The Power and the Glory”	4:20

Side two
No.	Title	Length
6.	“We’re Gonna Make It”	3:44
7.	“I’ve Had Enough”	4:02
8.	“I’ll Take You Alive”	3:08
9.	“You’re Not Alone (Suzette’s Song)”	4:02
10.	“You Can’t Stop Rock ‘n’ Roll”	4:40

This album is a mix bag of barroom brawls which are the first three tracks that open the album(The Kids Are Back/Like a Knife in the Back/Ride to Live) and sensitive type Metal Macho Stuff in I Am (I’m Me) and You’re Not Alone(Suzette’s Song).

YCSRNR in-between those tracks mentioned keep the fist n dukes flying which makes this easily a street rock album  with some decent production by Stuart Epps who does not slick up the production whatsoever. Perhaps maybe that was by financial choice but whatever may be the case these songs sound better with a rough around the edges sound. No polished Gloss!

T.S were good players not exceptional virtuoso’s by any stretch of the imagination but they made it work. Course it helped that your Lead Singer wrote all the band’s music/lyrics on this album so for that you gotta thank Snider as he is one talented fella!

A pretty decent revisit that’s for sure. A solid 10 song effort that has band wanting and driving for success but as I mentioned earlier why this album didn’t do it who knows!

Having said that this album did do pretty well in Britain where the album charted  and the single I Am (I’m Me)  went Top 20!

North America waited for the silly videos from the Stay Hungry album to really get behind T.S but that was how much MTV and to a certain extent MuchMusic  helped propel the songs into sales….

If you come across this album on any format! Grab it and let it Kick Yer Ass!

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