Kiss – Love Gun – 1977

I like Love Gun, but not all the songs are divinely inspired. Several of them are quite ordinary, but the highlights, on the other hand, are quite significant! The opening “I Stole Your Love,” the title track “Love Gun,” and “Plaster Caster” all belong to the category of fantastic songs.

Whether the Love Gun cover is one of the coolest in Kiss’s entire discography may not have much to do with the music. But Kiss’s image has always been such a significant part of their brand that I can’t help but comment on it. It does contain the mysterious floating head after all.

Back to the music then. Overall, the ups and downs balance each other quite well. It’s not a fantastic album but rather what you might expect. Ace Frehley sings for the first time on this album on the song “Shock Me”. Peter Criss gets equal space with “Hooligan.” The rest of the material is handled by Stanley and Simmons as usual. It’s nothing strange these days. It is, and has probably always been their band. Of course, back in the good ole’ days it was a little different.

It’s certainly not an album that should be ashamed of owning or to have on the shelf. I think it’s a record you should own, but it’s not the best ever by Kiss in my opinion. By the way, the album ends with a cover that Swedish artist Magnus Uggla has also interpreted once upon a time. In Kiss’s version, it’s called “Then She Kissed Me,” and The Crystals are behind the original.