Love Is for Suckers

Infobox Album |
Name = Love is for Suckers
Type = studio
Artist = Twisted Sister
Released = August 13, 1987
Recorded = At Atlantic Studios, NYC
Genre = Heavy metal
Length = 38:18
Label = Atlantic Records
Producer = Beau Hill
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gpfpxq95ldde link]
Last album = "Come Out and Play" (1985)
This album = "Love is for Suckers" (1987)
Next album = "Still Hungry" (2004)

"Love Is for Suckers" is the fifth album by the heavy metal [ [http://www.metal-archives.com/ Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives ] ] group Twisted Sister. According to the "Live At Wacken" DVD, the material was originally meant to be Dee's solo album. However, Twisted Sister's record company pushed the band to do it together. It was released by Atlantic Records on August 13, 1987. This would be their final studio album, as all albums during their break-up have been compilations or live albums. The tour for the album ended in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 10, 1987. Two days later, on October 12, 1987, vocalist Dee Snider announced his departure from the band.

No songs from this album made it on to the band's 1992 greatest hits album "Big Hits and Nasty Cuts".

Track listing

# "Wake Up (The Sleeping Giant)" (Dee Snider) – 4:19
# "Hot Love" (Dee Snider) – 3:28
# "Love Is for Suckers" (Marky Carter, Dee Snider) – 3:25
# "I'm So Hot for You" (Dee Snider) – 4:05
# "Tonight" (Dee Snider) – 3:51
# "Me and the Boys" (Dee Snider) – 3:52
# "One Bad Habit" (Dee Snider) – 3:18
# "I Want This Night (To Last Forever)" (Mark Tanner, Marty Wagner, Dee Snider) – 4:18
# "You Are All That I Need" (Dee Snider) – 4:17
# "Yeah Right" (Dee Snider) – 3:14

Re-release version bonus songs

#"Feel Appeal" [*] – 3:19
#"Statutory Date" [*] – 3:11
#"If That's What You Want" [*] – 4:25
#"I Will Win" [*] – 3:29

Credits

Twisted Sister

*Dee Snider – lead vocals
*Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda - lead & rhythm guitars
*Jay Jay French - rhythm & lead guitars
*Mark "The Animal" Mendoza – bass
*Joey "Seven" Franco – drums

Additional musicians

*Reb Beach – guitars
*Beau Hill – keyboards, backing vocals
*The New West Horns – horns
*Jimmy Chalfant – backing vocals
*Steve Whiteman – backing vocals
*Kip Winger – backing vocals

Production

*Beau Hill - producer, engineer, arrangement
*Stephen Benben - engineer
*Ira McLaughlin - assisted engineering
*Ted Jensen - mastering at Sterling Sound, NYC
*Reb Beach - arrangement
*Twisted Sister - arrangement
*Ronni le Tekro - arrangement
*Bob Defrin - art direction
*Frank Moscati - photography
*Dee Snider - cover concept

ingle

*"Hot Love" / "Tonight"

Released on August 1, 1987, this was Twisted Sister's final single release. The single version of "Hot Love" is longer than the version of the song on "Love Is for Suckers".

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