Love Is for Suckers is the fifth album

Album

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 by the heavy metal

Heavy metal music

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 band Twisted Sister

Twisted Sister

Twisted Sister is an American heavy metal band from Long Island. Musically, the band implements elements of traditional heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, along with a style that is similar to early glam metal bands...

. According to the Live At Wacken DVD, the material was originally meant to be a solo album by Twisted Sister's lead singer, Dee Snider

Dee Snider

Daniel "Dee" Snider is an American singer-songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality, and actor. Snider is most famous for his role as the frontman of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister...

, but the label pushed for it to be released under the Twisted Sister name instead. Love Is For Suckers was released by Atlantic Records

Atlantic Records

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 on August 13, 1987. 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.

This would be Twisted Sister's final studio album, as all albums since have been compilations or live albums (with the single exception of Still Hungry in 2004 which was simply a rerecording of 1984's Stay Hungry).

Dee Snider has stated that he likes many of songs on the album, vocally. However he feels that if they play any of them live, then it may bring back bad memories for the band.

No songs from this album appeared on the band's 1992 greatest hits album Big Hits and Nasty Cuts

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.

Track listing

1. "Wake Up (The Sleeping Giant)" (Dee Snider) – 4:19
2. "Hot Love
   Hot Love (Twisted Sister song)
   "Hot Love" is Twisted Sister's last and only single from the album Love Is for Suckers, released in 1987. The single wasn't successful although it did peak at #31 in the U.S. Mainstream Rock charts. After the release of this single and the album, Twisted Sister split. They reformed again in 1997...
   
   " (Dee Snider) – 3:28
3. "Love Is for Suckers" (Marky Carter, Dee Snider) – 3:25
4. "I'm So Hot for You" (Dee Snider) – 4:05
5. "Tonight" (Dee Snider) – 3:51
6. "Me and the Boys" (Dee Snider) – 3:52
7. "One Bad Habit" (Dee Snider) – 3:18
8. "I Want This Night (To Last Forever)" (Mark Tanner, Marty Wagner, Dee Snider) – 4:18
9. "You Are All That I Need" (Dee Snider) – 4:17
10. "Yeah Right" (Dee Snider) – 3:14

Re-release bonus tracks

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

Chart performance

Chart (1987)	Peak position	Total weeks
Canadian Albums Chart	78	8
German Albums Chart	59
Norwegian Albums Chart	11	8
Swedish Albums Chart	43	2
Swiss Albums Chart	17	1
UK Albums Chart	57	2
U.S. Billboard Hot 200	74	11

Twisted Sister

• Dee Snider
  Dee Snider
  Daniel "Dee" Snider is an American singer-songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality, and actor. Snider is most famous for his role as the frontman of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister...
  
   – lead vocals
• Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda
  Eddie Ojeda
  Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda is one of the two guitarists of the American heavy metal band Twisted Sister....
  
   - lead guitar
• Jay Jay French
  Jay Jay French
  John French Segall , better known by his stage name Jay Jay French or J.J. French, is a founding member and one of the two guitarists of the American heavy metal band, Twisted Sister....
  
   - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Mark "The Animal" Mendoza
  Mark Mendoza
  Mark "The Animal" Mendoza is the bassist of the American heavy metal band, Twisted Sister. He joined the band on October 31, 1978, after he left The Dictators. He also briefly played in Blackfoot in early 1990s.Mendoza played the bass guitar on all of Twisted Sister's major label releases...
  
   – bass, backing vocals
• Joe Franco
  Joey Franco
  Joe Franco is an American drummer best known for his work with the band The Good Rats in the late 1970s and later as a replacement member of Twisted Sister.-Biography:...
  
   – drums, percussion (credited as Joey "Seven" Franco)

Additional musicians

• Reb Beach
  Reb Beach
  Reb Beach is an American rock guitarist. He is a member of the bands Winger and Whitesnake...
  
   – guitars
• Beau Hill
  Beau Hill
  Beau Hill is an American record producer who is best known for his work with Alice Cooper, Kix, Winger, Streets, Warrant, Fiona, Europe and Ratt....
  
   – keyboards, backing vocals
• The New West Horns – horns
• Jimmy Chalfant – backing vocals
• Steve Whiteman – backing vocals
• Kip Winger
  Kip Winger
  Charles Frederick Kip Winger is an American rock musician, both a member of the hard rock band, Winger, and a solo artist.-Early days:Winger was born in Denver, Colorado to parents who were both jazz musicians....
  
  – 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

Single

• "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 album version.