Twisted Sister Album: “Video Years”

I just cracked this one open.I basically got it for The Price and You Can Stop Rock'n'roll.I wasn't disappointed at all with those.The quality was a lot better than the priginals and you simply never see the Price anywhere.Yes,the cover of the Stones 'It's Only Rock'n'Roll' was cool seeing Lemmy and Robbo was cool as can be.But the one that made me take out the disc and hate it was the live concert.I have seen it on vhs a few times so I knew where things went.But no,it's CENSORED that's fine if you have kids but there was no uncensored option.I thought only WalMart did stuff like that.Especially since I didn't get it there.If you have wee ones,fine.They don't need to here this.But I don't and I'd say a lot of fans don't.The swearing was part of it.Dee admittied that when he was with friends he cursed.He considerd the audience to be friends.Wann support censorship? But it.Don't wanna? I'm sorry to say it but avoid it.

This is a very good compilation. But what could have made it excellent is THE FULL VERSION OF THE "WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT" MUSIC VIDEO !

That's right. They used the MTV edit instead of the full video, dropping the intro entirely. AND Dee Snider actually complains about MTV's editing right before the edited video plays !

The end of that video was also edited out so this is no video archive.

It fells like one of those cheap metal compilation DVDs where music videos and grainy live footage are simply thrown together.

Yes, the interviews are great but the live footage was only o.k. They could definitely have done more with this compilation.

Like the others I was quite disappointed with all of the edits on this DVD. The "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "Leader of the Pack" edits were surprising, and make this release far less than it could/should have been. It makes no sense. The edits to the Stay Hungry concert however at least can be explained. It appears that this 45 minute concert is the edited (for time and content) version that was broadcast on MTV, not the full 60 minute version that was available on the VHS tape. The most jarring edits to the concert are Dee's between song comments which really helped define the aggression that was Twisted Sister in the early/mid 80s. It is nice however to have the full version of the "You Can't Stop Rock N Roll" video and the "Hot Love" and "The Price" videos for the first time on video/DVD.

It appears I'll have to hold onto my DVD bootleg of the Stay Hungry VHS for now. This could have been THE Twisted Sister video document. Unfortunately, like the CD "remasters" that they put out several years ago, this DVD leaves me disappointed and wanting more.

If you are a casual fan, the above negatives probably won't bother you, and you likely wouldn't have even noticed them. If you're a real SMF and started salivating when they announced this release you might be somewhat let-down by this DVD. Of course if that were the case you probably would already own the DVD and wouldn't be reading this :)

Twisted Sister, like many bands from the mid-80s through the mid-90s, was catapulted even higher into the public consciousness by the Music Video. While MTV eventually dropped videos for many years (or seemed to), many of us had to queue up degrading VHS tapes to relive our teen years.

While there are edits of the videos, it was wonderful to have quality music videos...many of which, I'd never seen.

Twisted Forever, Forever Twisted.

If you're into the videos that were aired on MTV, you know back when they actually showed (music) videos that rocked, you'll love this one. It's got all of 'em and a bunch more really cool footage. If you're a Twisted Sister fan, it's an absolute must! Rock on.