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Why not room-temperature gin? Too many syllables? Hotter Than Hell : This is one of the most poorly mixed albums ever released. Not surprisingly, that type of technical failure — when awarded the luxury of time — ultimately becomes romantic. The detail about the age difference was actually concocted by Paul. Audiophiles may note that Hotter Than Hell was remastered in , thereby making its appalling production extra loud.

Wurster seems skeptical that a stewardess on a commuter airline would decide to have sex with Paul Stanley simply because his body language implied he was annoyed by an impending flight delay. Side 3 lasts for fucking ever. The cover art makes for an excellent T-shirt and a decent golf visor; the spoken-word intro displays questionable news judgment; if this record were weather, it would be partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of mastodons. Rock and Roll Over : Rock and Roll Over is a collection of 10 songs, eight of which are explicitly about human physicality but only one of which intersects with human emotion.

Many of these tracks exhibit a distance between personal actions and interpersonal feelings, including the ones with functioning narrative threads. Mostly unrelated, but not totally: also marks the period when Gene Simmons was briefly obsessed with behaving like an animatronic robot.

Dynasty : This is the sellout, frozen-face, Studio 54—obsessed plexiglass superdisc, which makes me want to like it. Perversely, I do not. Paul has claimed he was simply trying to prove that absolutely anyone could write a disco song and have it chart in the top It got to no.

Space Ace covers the Stones for coincidental symbolism, and Gene rhetorically asks if the illusion of celebrity defines his improbable charisma. These are the high points. The dreadful cartoon cover appears confused by its own irony.

Of course, Unmasked is also Ace at his absolute septic-tank worst, which does. Music From "The Elder" : Indisputably the most fascinating Kiss album by a factor of 10, this is the soundtrack to a movie that does not exist, 6 fueled by mountains of cocaine the band members did not ingest. This is the Rubicon that signaled a permanent change within the band: They actively made a record for the critics, earnestly believed the work was exceptional, and found themselves humiliated in front of an audience who now saw them as desperate and confused.

In response, Paul and Gene reversed their original feelings they now claim to hate all the songs , rejected the entire notion of taste, and decided to view any art created for noncommercial purposes as inherently false. This album will never be appreciated objectively, unless we can find a way to play it for someone who 1 likes theatrical classical rock, but 2 has no idea that Kiss ever existed. Due to its nonexistence there is not even a script , deducing the plot to The Elder solely from its corresponding music is more or less impossible.

It appears to be set in a version of the past that is actually the future, focusing on a boy recruited by a medieval organization called the Order of the Rose. Killers import : Kiss were so embarrassed by The Elder that Paul grew a beard.

They also sheepishly sent this greatest-hits collection around the world with the most popular edition landing in Japan. Killers was hard to find, overpriced, and repetitive, so if you own this album, you obviously love the band already regardless of what they were trying to accomplish. The ingestion was performed primarily by Ezrin, an amazing producer who probably got caught up in his own genius.

At times, it traffics in heaviness for the sake of heaviness, which would be OK if Kiss were a legitimately heavy band. This was also the period when Eddie Van Halen allegedly asked Gene Simmons if he could join Kiss, an anecdote Gene has told approximately 4, times and Eddie has told approximately never. It was at this juncture in the Kiss chronology that they stopped wearing makeup and became a straightforward hair metal band, albeit with more credibility and less youthful indiscretion no drugs, basically.

Still, the visual alteration meant the records now had to stand on their own, so many most? Lick It Up : This was a successful comeback project with Vincent updating the guitar sound and writing material competitive with the rest of popular culture, or at least competitive with Dokken. With the face paint vanquished, Paul holds the singular spotlight Gene becomes just the tall guy on bass. Animalize : Vinnie was fired by Kiss and replaced by Mark St.

Paul Stanley handles everything else including the production and the album art , almost like McCartney after the other three Beatles lost interest. Time has proven that Paul is the only member of the band who never stopped caring about what they were doing musically. Asylum : Writing about how the visceral physicality of unencumbered intercourse offers fleeting escape from the constructed tedium of day-to-day existence is not a bad premise for a song. Crazy Nights : The album title is Crazy Nights.

Were Kiss actually raccoons? As usual, the mainstream media refused to investigate. Hot in the Shade : Considering the year this was released and the year I was born, I probably listened to this album times, roughly more than necessary.

Ezrin was back as producer, as was Vinnie Vincent as a cowriter. Gene grew a goatee and Paul bought a leather duster, so you know a lot of deep consideration went into this. This record might seem OK if it weren't alleged to be outstanding; not unlike Zima and Las Vegas, every single exposure is slightly worse than the one before. I would not travel through time to hear this again. Francis Scott Key gets a writing credit. Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions : Recorded before the reunion agreement was signed and released to kill time, Carnival of Souls illustrates the direction late-period Kiss were going before people remembered they used to be awesome.

Psycho Circus : The long-awaited reunion of the original Kiss lineup and the worst album the band ever made. When R. You might also want to get super-high for this, but I would never advocate drugs. Yes, if we are somehow legally obligated to pretend such a thing exists. One is pretty good. Two or three are OK. Difficult to remember which are which.

All Systems Go Vinnie Vincent Invasion, : Featuring vocalist Mark Slaughter 9 and his octave range, this was a perplexing step backward for the self-absorbed Vinnie. Following this album, the other three members of Vinnie Vincent Invasion managed to kick Vinnie Vincent out of his own band.

They proceeded to form Slaughter and opened for Kiss in the summer of Union Union, : Bruce Kulick seems like a decent person with a reasonable sense of self. The band reaches new creative heights with the arrival of the Bob Ezrin-produced Destroyer. The platinum-selling studio effort features classic rockers like "Shout it Out Loud" and "Detroit Rock City," though it is the Criss-composed ballad "Beth" that becomes the album's biggest hit.

All four members of KISS simultaneously release their self-titled solo albums. Frehley's album, fueled by the Top 20 hit "New York Groove," enjoys the greatest commercial success of the quartet.

Criss, who was absent from the recent studio release Unmasked , departs the band. He is soon replaced by Eric Carr, who debuts in late July under the guise of the Fox. November 10, : 'Music From The Elder' is released. Following the brief tenure of Mark St. John, Bruce Kulick becomes the band's third lead guitarist in as many years, his first live performance with KISS recorded for the home video Animalize Live Uncensored.

Its second single, "Forever," co-written by Stanley and Michael Bolton becomes the band's first Top 10 hit since "Beth. Produced by Ezrin, the album also features a mini-reunion with erstwhile lead guitarist Vincent, who claims songwriting credits for three tracks. The tour becomes the top-grossing concert act of the year. September 22, : 'Pyscho Circus' is released featuring the original members.

Comedian and fellow guest Totie Fields was not having it. Now what are you going to do? For all the hoopla, album sales remained disappointing. But they deserved their lucky breaks. Contact The Author Name required. Email required. Comment required. December 6, pm Updated.