Well, I thought it would take me longer to vote, but as much as I love Def Leppard, Twisted Sister is just pure fun. Honestly, the biggest thing that puts them in with bands like Poison and Warrant is Dee Snider's "uniform", cause musically they're pretty much straight up old school heavy metal. Like Judas Priest with more of a punk influence and more silliness than a barrel full of monkeys on acid.

Twisted Sister - 6
Def Leppard - 3

Yeah, one of the things listening to Stay Hungry yesterday got me thinking about is how close hair metal is to early punk on the rock family tree. It's kind of funny since the audiences for the two have often been such opposing camps.

Well, I'm pretty sure the original glam metal scene from LA did legitimately evolve out of glam punk roots. Not any kind of expert though, so feel free to educate me.

It evolved out of Aerosmith, Van Halen but even more from Alice Cooper and Kiss (especially the image) add in the UK glam rock brigade of the early to mid 1970s as well such as the Sweet. If you want glam punk roots then look no further than the New York Dolls. I'd say that the New York Dolls may well be the single biggest influence if you take the punk connection into consideration.

I re-listened to Stay Hungry and its a great album and has Tom Werman's production all over it, the killer tracks are "Captain Howdy" and "Street Justice" I was always a fan of the debut anyway and the second album is on a par with it but Stay Hungry is their definitive album but as impressive as it is, still have to go with Def Leppard on this.

Twisted Sister -6
Def Leppard -4

Stay Hungry.

You can really hear the classic metal influence such as Sabbath, Maiden and AC/DC (especially in "I Wanna Rock"). They managed carrying it along well. It's better driven and the lyrics aren't as corny. I prefer Snider's voice as well.

Already said my piece on DL.

Twisted Sister - 7
Def Leppard - 4

It's interesting to hear people talk of a punk influence in Twisted Sister because originally Twisted Sister came from the same scene as the New York Dolls, Richard Hell, The Dictators in the early 70s. The only difference was those bands got signed & Twisted Sister didn't until 1981 when they did their first tour of the UK.

So it could be argued that Twisted Sister are a proto punk band,

Well there you go. I knew they went well back into the 70s but I didn't realize they weren't signed for so long.

Stay Hungry!!

I've just eaten thanks.....oh you mean the album.

Twisted Sister -8
Def Leppard -4

I remember when I was 13 going in to buy Stay Hungry.
The guy at the record store refused to sell it to me because he thought I was too young.
So a few days later I asked my mother to buy it for me, as the guy at the shop knew her when he saw she was fine with me having it he let me buy whatever albums I liked.

Having said that I still think You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll is Twisted Sister's best album.