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Released: 1976 Casablanca
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| Every song on this album is an absolute gem.
This album is Kiss at their peak of creative and compositional
ability. It also helped that it was produced by Bob Ezrin, who
had worked with Alice Cooper and the later mega-platinum
album-Pink Floyd's The Wall. It starts with "Detroit
Rock City" and then crashes into "King of the Night
Time World". Then we have the Dark "God of
Thunder" and the very orchestral "Great
Expectations". Side two was no slouch either. "Flaming
Youth", Shout it out Loud", and "Do You Love
Me?" all contribute fabulously to create the ultimate Kiss
experience. Oh, by the way, this is the album that yielded Kiss
its first hit single "Beth". Kiss has a number of
compilation CD's out. Double Platinum (1978) covers
a wide range of material and is my favorite Kiss compilation
album. My favorite non-compilation albums from Kiss would
be: Dressed to Kill (1975), Hotter Than Hell (1974)
and Kiss (1974). They had another hit in 1979 from
the Dynasty album called "I was Made for Loving
You". That's when they began their decline. They released a
couple of duds but came back with an excellent but temporary
rebound with the Creatures of the Night album (1982).
That album yielded the title track and one excellent Gene
Simmons tune-"I Love it Loud". A multitude of
personnel changes chased off some of their fans but helped at
least to deliver a variety of material. Most fans prefer the
works created by the original members though. Kiss had some hit
songs later but, quite frankly, I feel that they never measured
up to the quality of the previously mentioned songs or albums. |
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