After sinking deep into this musical celebration, even the not-so-avid listener will sure know something about Kiss, a classic rock icon of the '70s roaring back in vibrant...
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Greatest Kiss is a fine 16-track collection of the group's biggest hits presented in their original studio versions, with the notable exception of a live version of "Shout...
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Boy, it must've been a hellish scene whenever Kiss was preparing to make this, what turned out to be the last Kiss record with The Other Two Guys, before Gene and Paul made...
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Psycho Circus 9/22/1998, Yahoo! Music, Bill Holdship
I'm always willing to be fair. Hell, I even gave Courtney Love a glowing review in a recent myLAUNCH critique, so I was prepared to give ol' Bat Lizard a fair shake for old...
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Since the 1996 reunion tour was a blockbuster success, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons decided to keep Peter Criss and Ace Frehley around for a little while longer -- long...
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Does that mean Cheap Trick is comin' on next? Live from the hugely successful reunion tour, where the Kiss Army grows up and takes their 2.5 children to the arena to see...
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You Wanted the Best, You Got the Best contains a selection of live recordings of their best-known songs, along with the live, unreleased "Room Service," "Take Me," "Let Me...
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Kiss' 1974 self-titled debut is one of hard rock's all-time classic studio recordings. Kiss is chock full of their best and most renowned compositions, containing elements...
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Although Kiss' self-titled debut performed respectably on the charts, it was not the blockbuster they had hoped for. With the album fading on the charts in the summer of...
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By the release of their third album, 1975's Dressed to Kill, Kiss were fast becoming America's top rock concert attraction, yet their record sales up to this point did not...
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Alive! was the album that catapulted Kiss from cult attraction to mega-superstars. It was their first Top Ten album, remaining on the charts for 110 weeks and eventually...
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More than any other Kiss record, this sonically captures the bigger-than-life aspects of their live show. Sound effects, monstrous sound, brilliant arrangements are all...
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The pressure was on Kiss for their fifth release, and the band knew it. Their breakthrough, Alive!, was going to be hard to top, so instead of trying to recreate a concert...
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Produced by Hendrix engineer Eddie Kramer, this one contains the Rod Stewart-ish "Hard Luck Woman," later covered by ex-card-carrying Kiss Army member Garth Brooks. Also,...
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With the massive success of their previous album, the experimental Bob Ezrin-produced Destroyer (which contained the surprise ballad hit "Beth"), Kiss could have taken the...
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Love Gun was Kiss' fifth studio album in three years (and seventh release overall, peaking at number four on Billboard), and proved to be the last release that the original...
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Wraps up the fourth, fifth, and sixth studio albums the way Alive! did the first three. Fourth side is studio, with some great tracks, such as Ace's "Rocket Ride" and a...
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For Kiss' breakthrough 1975 release Alive!, the band had a total of three studio albums from which to select their in-concert repertoire. By mid-1977, Kiss had released...
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Double Platinum is a double-album, 20-track collection that gathers all of Kiss' biggest hits ("Rock and Roll All Nite," "Beth," "Detroit Rock City," "Calling Dr. Love,"...
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Dynasty marked the first time that the original four members of Kiss didn't all appear together for the entire album -- session drummer Anton Fig subbed for Peter Criss due...
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'90s Kiss has proven, for whatever reason, to be more vital and ass-kickin' than in the '80s; this album ranks with Creatures Of The Night--well,...
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Despite coming off a monster ballad with Hot in the Shade's Michael Bolton-penned "Forever," Kiss was plagued by financial instability due to Simmons and Stanley's...
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Not really, not yet. Criss had just bailed, and the drums are by Late Nite veteran Anton Fig. Was that Paul Shaffer lurking around in the control room agreeing with...
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Kiss Unmasked was the group's first album since Destroyer to not go platinum, and it's easy to see why. Driven by pedestrian riffs and melodies, none of the songs are...
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Regrettably overlooked, Kiss's concept LP is the first to feature new drummer Eric Carr, the first to not go gold, and certainly the only one with songs co-written by Lou...
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Is it Ace or Memorex? Actually, it's Vinnie Vincent subbing for the incapacitated axeman. Some real gems here ("War Machine,""I Love It Loud," the title track), with...
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By 1982's Creatures of the Night, Kiss had finally ditched their plans of becoming "respectable artists" (starting with 1979's Dynasty) and had come to the realization that...
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Vinnie Vincent is an official member, the makeup comes off (on MTV, no less), and the band scores their first U.K. top 10 hit with this rather bland...
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Due to the underachievement of their exceptional 1982 comeback album, Creatures of the Night, Kiss knew the time was right to drop the makeup, so in September 1983 the band...
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Animalize was more successful than the previous Lick It Up, but that's only because its predecessor had accomplished the job of restoring the band's reputation among...
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As was the case with Crazy Nights, the band seemed like another Sunset Strip glam band instead of the mighty Gods Of Thunder they had been a decade...
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Sonically, Kiss retained their revitalized roar throughout Asylum, turning in a tough, but supple performance that would have been more impressive if the songs were...
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Like most of Kiss' '80s album Crazy Nights was an inconsistent set of power ballads and streamlined, polished hard rockers, but the hooks on the album were the strongest the...
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Smashes, Thrashes & Hits is a compilation of Kiss's greatest hits from their '80s career. Since there weren't enough chart-toppers from that period to fill an entire album,...
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Realizing that their last albums weren't even close to being in league with their output from the '70s, Kiss made a conscious effort to get back on track with 1989's Hot In...
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Judged against Kiss' previous Alive! albums, Alive III doesn't hold up particularly well. Instead of relying on raw energy and ridiculous but dynamic showmanship, the band...
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1981's The Elder was such a bomb worldwide that Kiss' record company outside the U.S., Casablanca/Phonogram, demanded that the band immediately assemble another...
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The discount-priced 20th Century Masters compilation presents the highlights of the first half-decade of Kiss' existence, drawing from recordings originally released between...
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Although several other hard rock acts have seen their hits repackaged more times than Kiss (namely the Who, Motörhead, Black Sabbath, etc.), the masked quartet certainly...
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The majority of Kiss hits collections to surface since the late '90s (and boy, have there been a truckload of them) have focused primarily on the group's makeup years, which...
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Longtime Kiss fans have come to expect things done on a grand scale by their masked heroes, and everyone's favorite rock & roll merchandising machine doesn't disappoint with...
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