![]() Great hooks, the exact same ingredients for which other bands of the era, Vocals to 's just real gritty, meat and potatoes hard rock with No, they weren't virtuosos, but they had an uncanny talent forĬoming up with interesting, if simple, heavy riffs and adding really catchy Jokers ever made, and I get the feeling that even Kiss fanatics underĮstimate it. It's probably the most consistently solid album these Yes so much that you've forgotten what real rock 'n roll sounds like. You wankers have all subjected yourselves to artsy fartsy stuff like Thank goodness for the makeup, because they wouldn't have made it without it. Watching the Dolls very closely during this period. They were always about aping what was hot at the time, and were obviously The album really deserve a six then? Apart from 'Strutter' and maybe aĬouple others, the songs are written and played as generically (Jim Hull) Okay, the non-classics are awful, the classics aren't great. WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN, THEY HAVE 24 MORE ALBUMS? DO I LOOK LIKE A I hope you enjoyed my Kiss reviews! Good night! Some great riffs here and there, but they were no AC/DC, Led Zeppelin orīlack Ladysmith Mambazo. but cool vocals! Low, gruff and ugly!Īs a final summation of my Kiss review, I conclude that they definitely had The music is absolutely TAME - limp wristed drumming,Īmateurish power chord whackin'. One thing about Kiss (at least thisįirst album anyway) - no goddamned way did their music live up to the menace of To be honest, even theĬlassics aren't really that great. Predictable, worthless, throwaway midtempo hard rock tunes. Non-classic tunes are really pretty awful though. "Cold Gin." Tons of classics on this debut, in other words! All the Sure you know by the Replacements, and "Firehouse," which I'm sure you knowĪs the most talented band to come out of the 1980s. Kiss," which I'm sure you know by the Melvins, "Black Diamond," which I'm To kick ass, have fun, and penetrate every female alive, including fatĬontains "Strutter," which I'm sure you know by Unrest, "Love Theme From It - they're not trying to be serious musical artists they're just trying Midtempo power chords and stupid sexist lyrics all the way. And yes, they STILL play simplistic hard rock. With the occasional make-up wearin' original line-up "reunion" grabbin' 'em Times and have continued to push on in spite of limited public interest, They removed their makeup, replaced their lead guitarist about fifty-two ![]() ![]() But theĮnd of the decade DID come, and with it the Kiss hit factory dried up, so Actually, between Kiss and Ernest Borgnine, it'sĪmazing that there were ANY virgins left by the end of the decade. ![]() Two of them were hugeĭruggies the other two (Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons) just had sex withĮvery woman in America, including your mother - I'm serious, ask her. Pong, oops I'm stuck in this nostalgic parenthese). Shoot them and of course Adventure People, Army Men, Hot Wheels and MatchboxĬars, baseball cards, Lite Brite, games like Payday, Big Deal and Monopoly, That thing where it looked like planes were flying across the wall and you'd His head down really hard to make him kick the ball across the room, and That thing my brother had that was a little football player and you'd push The motorcycle would do a wheelie and go flying down the driveway, and also Playing with that little Evil Knievel toy where you'd rev the thing up and Remember collecting Kiss trading cards and excitedly staying up to watch Heck, I was too, and I didn't even know any of their songs! I Simplistic hard rock that drove the kids wild (and I do mean "kids" - IĬlearly remember my 10-year-old brother and his friends being CRAZY about In the 70s, Kiss painted their faces, spit blood, breathed fire and recorded Let's Put The "X" Back in "Sex"? That's kind of stupid, isn't it? special introductory paragraph! Kiss Hotter Than Hell Dressed To Kill Alive Destroyer Rock And Roll Over Love Gun Alive II Double Platinum Gene Simmons Ace Frehley Peter Criss Paul Stanley Dynasty Unmasked Music From The Elder Creatures Of The Night Lick It Up Animalize Asylum Crazy Nights Hot In The Shade Revenge Alive III Carnival Of Souls-The Final Sessions MTV Unplugged Psycho-Circus Symphony Alive IV Jigoku-Retsuden Sonic Boom
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