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Crazy Nights was originally released when I still bought vinyl, or should I say, people still bought vinyl. I purchased the single for this album, “Crazy Crazy Nights,” and I thought it was really, really good! It is a catchy song with a good hook, fun lyrics, a good beat, easy to sing along to, and so on. It was simply appealing. However, I didn’t buy the album, and I remember being a bit disappointed...
Animalize is really a crappy album! Fortunately, it has Kiss’s big hit from the 80s – Heaven’s on Fire as a magnet, which makes it bearable, or even decent at times. Besides this, though, it’s a genuinely worthless record with very few memorable melodies, and honestly, I’m not quite sure what they’re up to! It feels like they didn’t really want to release an album but had to since Lick It Up came out the...
When Lick It Up first came out, it was, of course, somewhat special that the band no longer hid behind the makeup that had previously been synonymous with them. The news value in magazines was enormous, and pictures of the unmasked members were put up on the walls next to the old tried-and-true posters. Today, I’m not sure if I find it equally cool. I sense a commercial motive behind the move, and considering what...
As well as the following album Lick It Up, Creatures of the Night is a considerably “heavier” album than most of the productions from the seventies! Unfortunately, it’s not a positive sign, and the melodies, which could often be catchy and frequently sing-along-friendly, are usually quite dull. There are exceptions to that rule, “Killer,” and “I Love It Loud,” are great songs in my ears, but the album rating cannot be based solely on just...
