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Come Out and Play is the fourth album by the American heavy metal band Twisted Sister, released by Atlantic Records on November 9, 1985. The album was significantly less successful than its predecessor Stay Hungry (1984), both critically and commercially, although it achieved Gold status by selling more than 500,000 copies.[3]

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Come Out and Play
Studio album by Twisted Sister
Released	November 9, 1985
Recorded	1985
Studio	The Hit Factory, New York City and Los Angeles
Genre	Heavy metal, glam metal
Length	39:36 (46:02 with bonus track)
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Dieter Dierks
Twisted Sister chronology
Stay Hungry (1984) Come Out and Play (1985) Love Is for Suckers (1987)
Singles from Come Out and Play
"Leader of the Pack" Released: December 1985 "Be Chrool to Your Scuel" Released: 1986 (Europe only) "You Want What We Got" Released: 1986

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	4/10[2]

Overview

Following the massive success of 1984's Stay Hungry which established Twisted Sister as one of the world's top recording acts, the band was faced with the question of whether they should continue in the same MTV and radio-friendly direction that brought them so much success, or return to their heavy metal roots. Come Out and Play saw them attempt to do both, but the approach ultimately proved devastatingly unsuccessful and the album marked the beginning of the band's commercial decline.

The band's decision to record a cover of the 1964 Shangri-Las' hit "Leader of the Pack" and release it as the album's first single proved very unpopular with the band's fanbase. Ultimately, neither "Leader of the Pack" nor second single "Be Chrool To Your Scuel" (featuring guest appearances from artists such as Alice Cooper, Brian Setzer, Clarence Clemons and Billy Joel) came close to matching the success of "We're Not Gonna Take It" or "I Wanna Rock" from 1984's Stay Hungry.

The 1986 world tour in support of Come Out and Play was a fiasco, marked by low attendance and ticket sales so low in some areas that several shows were simply canceled. Longtime drummer A.J. Pero left the band following the tour in 1986, contributing to the chaos which eventually saw Twisted Sister disband in 1988.

The music videos for "Leader of the Pack" and "Be Chrool to Your School" followed the same comedic formula which had been so successful for the band in the Stay Hungry era. The latter single, featuring a prominent guest spot by Dee Snider's hero Alice Cooper, was banned by MTV on the grounds that it was offensive. The band didn't produce a video for the album's final single, "You Want What We Got".

In 1986 the band released the Come Out and Play: The Videos home video on VHS, which included four videos ("We're Not Gonna Take It", "I Wanna Rock", "Leader of the Pack" and "Be Chrool to Your Scuel") tied together by scenes of Snider in a scrapyard being visited by troubled teens seeking advice, to the tune of the song "Come Out and Play". This home video has never been re-issued on DVD.

The intro to the title track features an homage to the 1979 cult classic movie The Warriors, in which the main villain, Luther, chants "Warriors, come out to play".

Track listing

Personnel

Twisted Sister

• Dee Snider – lead vocals, backing vocals
• Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda – lead & rhythm guitars, backing vocals
• Jay Jay French – rhythm & lead guitars, backing vocals
• Mark "The Animal" Mendoza – bass, backing vocals
• A. J. Pero – drums, percussion

Additional musicians

• Alan St. John – keyboards
• Don Dokken, Gary Holland – backing vocals
• Alice Cooper – co-lead vocals on "Be Chrool to Your Scuel"
• Brian Setzer – guitar solo on "Be Chrool to Your Scuel"
• Billy Joel – piano on "Be Chrool to Your Scuel"
• Clarence Clemons – saxophone solo on "Be Chrool to Your Scuel"
• The Uptown Horns:
  • Crispin Cioe – baritone saxophone on "Be Chrool to Your Scuel"
  • Arno "Cool-Ray" Hecht – tenor saxophone on "Be Chrool to Your Scuel"
  • "Bad" Bob Funk – trombone on "Be Chrool to Your Scuel"
  • "Hollywood" Paul Litteral – trumpet on "Be Chrool to Your Scuel"
• Julia Waters, Maxine Waters – backing vocals on "Be Chrool to Your Scuel"

Production

• Dieter Dierks – producer, LP audio mastering
• Eddy Delana – sound engineer
• Craig Engel – assistant engineer in Los Angeles
• Craig Vogel – assistant engineer in New York
• Bob Ludwig – LP audio mastering
• Mikael Kirke – art director
• Mark Weiss – art director, photographer
• Barry Diament – CD audio mastering

Video guest stars

The following people appeared only in the song's official video:

• The comedian Bobcat Goldthwait
• The make-up artist Tom Savini
• Actor Luke Perry

Charts

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[14]	Gold	500,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

External links

• Album lyrics from Twisted Sister's official website

На других языках

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- [en] Come Out and Play (Twisted Sister album)

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[es] Come Out and Play (álbum)

Come Out and Play es el cuarto álbum de estudio de la banda estadounidense Twisted Sister, publicado por Atlantic Records el 9 de noviembre de 1985.[4] El álbum no pudo repetir el éxito cosechado por la banda con su anterior producción, Stay Hungry de 1984. Aunque el álbum vendió más de 500 000 copias logrando convertirse en disco de oro, la gira promocional del mismo fue un fiasco, con fechas canceladas y muy poca asistencia. El baterista A. J. Pero abandonó la banda luego de finalizar la gira en 1986, contribuyendo al mal momento en el que se encontraba la agrupación, lo que terminaría llevando a la disolución de la misma luego de la publicación del álbum Love is For Suckers a finales de 1987.

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