Twisted Sister : Love is For Suckers

LOVE IS FOR DREAMERS

LOVE IS FOR BELIEVERS

LOVE IS FOR LOSERS

LOVE IS FOR SUCKERS

 Love Is for Suckers

is the fifth 

studio album 

by the American 

heavy metal band

Twisted Sister 

It was released by 

Atlantic Records on

 July 3, 1987.

It was the band's

 last album before

 their breakup

 and

subsequent reunion 

and release of 

Still Hungry 

in 2004. 

It is also their

 last album to be

 composed of 

entirely new, 

original material.

Overview

The sound of the album was

 strongly influenced by 

glam metal, 

and was one of the causes

 of conflict which led 

to the band splitting

 after its release. 

The band got rid of

 the more extreme elements 

of their look, to 

"fit in with every other 

hair metal band out there 

at that time". 

According to

 interviews contained in the

Live at Wacken DVD

 and in 

Snider's autobiography, 

the material was

 originally meant to be 

a solo album by

 Twisted Sister's 

lead singer, 

Dee Snider, 

but the label pushed for it

 to be released under the

 Twisted Sister name instead. 

The tour for the album

 lasted just over one month

 and ended in 

Minneapolis, Minnesota on

 October 10, 1987. 

Two days later, 

on October 12, 1987, 

vocalist 

Dee Snider 

announced his departure

 from the band.

All the classic-era 

band members took part

 in recording sessions

 for the album, 

except drummer 

A. J. Pero, 

who left the band in 

July 1986 

and was replaced by

Joey Franco. 

According to the

 album's producer

Beau Hill, 

guitarist

Reb Beach

played almost all of the

 guitars on the album.

 Hill had Beach, Ojeda and French

 all play the lead, 

rhythm and solo guitar parts 

of a song and he would 

then select the best performances. 

Although he wanted to use

 Twisted Sister's two guitarists

 where possible, 

Hill found that Beach, 

being 

"such an incredible guitar player", 

often provided the

 "strongest and most compelling performance"

No songs from this album 

appeared on the band's

 1992 greatest hits album

Big Hits and Nasty Cuts.

 It would be 

Twisted Sister's final 

studio album of

 original material, 

as all albums since 

have been compilations, 

live albums or

 re-recordings of 

already written material.

Seven of the album's songs

 were played live during

 the brief 1987 tour.

 Snider has stated that 

he likes many of the songs 

on the album, vocally. 

However he feels that

 if they play any of them live,

 it may bring back 

bad memories for the band. 

In 2012,

 the band introduced

 "Wake Up (The Sleeping Giant)"

 into their set,

 following demands from fans

 for material to be included 

from all of the band's

 studio albums.

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