Through all that, Kiss also released sixty singles and eight box sets. Kiss is big business. Kiss is Rock and Roll. Kiss is part of our lives. Here are our favorite all time top 10 Kiss albums.
We open up our top 10 Kiss albums list with a very interesting Kiss album. Sonic Boom just missed the number one spot in peaking at number two.
The album was released on October 6th of Still, at the time Kiss fans as well as many other rock and roll fans were very happy to have a new Kiss album. It had been eleven years since Kiss had released their last studio album entitled Psycho Circus in The Sonic Boom album was brilliantly marketed.
It was pretty much a box set album release. Disc 1 contained the brand new album of 11 new Kiss songs. Disc two contained a greatest hits compilation of 15 classic songs. When I first saw how many extras the band was adding to the new album release I was a little concerned that they were doing this because maybe the new songs were weak.
I could not have been more wrong. This was a great album. It was heavy, it rocked hard and at times even leaned towards the world of Led Zeppelin. It really represented the band well after 50 years proving they were still going strong and that Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons defined the notion that rock and rollers never get old. This is the album that was released after Kiss for the first time in their career appeared on MTV without their makeup.
Remember how big of a deal that was? Of course it made sense that the band would appear on the album cover without costumes or makeup. At the time, only Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons remained from the original band with Eric Carr now playing drums and the incredible Vinnie Vincent on lead guitar. Lick It Up was a continuation of the new sound Kiss had explored on the Creatures of the Night album.
With Vinnie Vincent on guitars the band sounded heavier than ever. Although, it only peaked a number 66 on the Billboard Hot At the time it became their highest charting album on the Billboard top peaking at number It was also the last Kiss album to feature the full original line-up on every track. But on Love Gun , they still sounded tight. On Shock Me , Frehley sings lead for the first time, sounding effortlessly cool — or maybe just pissed. Destroyer had been considered a sell-out.
With Peter Criss singing it like Rod, it was another huge hit. Neil Bogart, the head of Casablanca Records, took a hands-on approach with Dressed To Kill , co-producing the album with the group. It sounded much cleaner and punchier than the preceding album, Hotter Than Hell. There was a joke about the Kiss solo albums that became received wisdom: they shipped platinum and returned double platinum.
What Ace delivered was a smoking, balls-out, hard-rock record with flashes of his goofball humour. More complex is the story of its creation. By , Ace Frehley had quit. Behind the scenes, several guitarists auditioned. Amazingly, Eddie Van Halen was briefly in the frame.
In the end, the job went to Vinnie Vincent, who co-wrote and recorded three tracks. Somehow, Kiss pulled it off. From the start, Kiss wrote anthems. Boozehound Ace Frehley wrote Cold Gin but lacked the bottle to sing it. Instead, the staunchly teetotal Simmons did. Kiss was not a hit at the time — US chart peak: No. Kiss made their big breakthrough with Alive! Two years later came the sequel, and it was another blockbuster. It was also a better representation of the Kiss live experience.
The audiences were more hysterical. And the original vinyl-issue gatefold cover opened to reveal the full OTT splendour of Kiss on stage. Also included were five new studio tracks. The title screamed for attention, and it came. By Halloween night , it was all over but for the shouting. Ace Frehley was wasted, Peter Criss talked about guns, and you could see Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons already plotting their replacements.
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The critics hated it.
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