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Monster is Kiss’ last studio album. Unless if they don’t decide to make a comeback. But I doubt it. Three years before Kiss releases the excellent album Sonic Boom. It was an album that I found to be unexpectedly good and had catchy melodies. The expectations for this album were thus high. Surely the guys (who may not be guys anymore, at least not Gene and Paul) could deliver an album of the same caliber...
Revenge is the sixteenth studio album by Kiss. I have so far reviewed a significant portion of their album production and I have truly found varying qualities. Some albums are truly dismal to the point that I can hardly understand how they were released, while others are actually as good as one can expect from Kiss. I don’t mean this because they are musical geniuses, certainly not! But rather because Kiss is such a legendary...
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...
In Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park, Kiss is the largest music attraction in the world and they’ve come to play in this theme park. Meanwhile, Abner Devereaux, the park’s developer, gets even stranger ideas than usual and is ultimately fired by his old friend who happens to also be the owner of the park. He plans his gruesome revenge! His plan to replace the famous rock group with his own creatures and use...
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...
Dynasty is an album that has been in my consciousness for virtually my entire music-interested life. It was the first album I had ever heard by Kiss; it was simply at home! My sister owned it, but I can’t for my life remember why. She wasn’t into hardrock at all as I remember it. I thought it was really good then though. I thought it had a really cool album cover, even though that might...
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...
If you have the previous album – Destroyer, from the same year in mind, Rock and Roll Over becomes a massive disappointment. There are no distinctly outstanding songs, and everything becomes a bit of a mess. In fact, I almost felt a bit irritated towards the end of Rock and Roll Over, hoping it would be over soon! It’s strange because it’s essentially the same type of music that Kiss delivered before, but here, it...
I have previously claimed and concluded that Destroyer would be a rather mediocre album. However, as usual, it also depends on the mood and the attitude one has towards the music at the time of listening. It is undoubtedly a more well-produced album than the previous three, and it’s not hard to figure out when you read that it’s Bob Ezrin who produced it. The sound is thicker than before, and Destroyer contains some of...
This might sound a bit strange, as I genuinely like the simple and uncomplicated songs on this Dressed to Kill. It’s really the melodies that take center stage, and it doesn’t matter that Kiss’ technical skills on the instruments aren’t flawless, or that Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley’s voices occasionally clash a bit. It just makes it sound a bit more authentic than it probably would if everything were perfectly polished down to the smallest...
