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Track Listings
1 | Detroit Rock City |
2 | King of the Night Time World |
3 | God of Thunder |
4 | Great Expectations |
5 | Flaming Youth |
6 | Sweet Pain |
7 | Shout It Out Loud |
8 | Beth |
9 | Do You Love Me? |
10 | Bonus Track 1 |
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Product Description
This deluxe reissue has been remastered from the original master tapes and features enhanced packaging restoring elements available on the LP release. Track listing: "Detroit City Rock," "King of the Night Time World," "God of Thunder," "Great Expectations," "Flaming Youth," "Sweet Pain," "Shout It Out Loud," "Beth" and "Do You Love Me?"
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With their 1976 album Destroyer, the band's fifth release in two years, Kiss began to expand their fan base by shedding a bit of their edge, taking on a more melodic sound and a less menacing image. The Peter Criss ballad "Beth," written for his wife, is the most sentimental love ballad the group ever recorded, and songs like "Detroit Rock City" and "Shout It Out Loud" had the kind of arena-rock punch that kept subscriptions to the Kiss Army at an all-time high. Despite, or because of, the blatantly commercial direction the band seemed to be heading in, 1976 was the most creatively rewarding period in its lengthy career. In addition to releasing Destroyer, the band pumped out the equally touted album Rock and Roll Over, which included the pounding "Take Me" and the groovin' "Calling Dr. Love." The only finer year was 1978, when the band starred in the classic B-grade flick Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park. --Jon Wiederhorn
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.87 x 6.46 x 0.39 inches; 3.39 ounces
- Manufacturer : Universal Music Group
- Item model number : 2139019
- Original Release Date : 1997
- SPARS Code : DDD
- Date First Available : February 9, 2007
- Label : Universal Music Group
- ASIN : B000001EL3
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #32,634 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #456 in Arena Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
- #510 in Pop Metal (CDs & Vinyl)
- #1,133 in Hard Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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The answer was to go the opposite route from ALive! and choose a route of experimentation and improve their sound. Famed Alice Cooper producer Bob Erzin was recruited for production duties in the hope to make a true success, and his presence certainly makes this a much bigger sounding record than before. With a much improved production to their previous studio albums, KISS are definitely trying for commercial success here.
Without a doubt this is the most experimental album that KISS had released up until this time; whilst the first three albums were pretty decent but rather formulaic, in comparison Destroyer has a lot more going on. 'God Of Thunder' is a major departure from the previous albums, it is much darker and sinister with Gene's vocals coming across as more of a growl than before. There are further examples of experimentation here from the use of choirs in 'Great Expectations', car effects in the gargantuan 'Detroit Rock City' and the introduction of full ballads such as 'Beth', some less successful than others however.
With this experimentation unfortunately Destroyer becomes less consistent than KISS and Hotter Than Hell; whilst much of the album is massive and contains some of the bands all time great anthems there is also some very weak moments. 'Detroit Rock City' is one of their strongest anthems and an ever present in the set list, 'Beth' is one of the greatest KISS ballads of their careers and this still leaves other highlights such as 'Do You Love Me'. 'God Of Thunder', 'Shout It Loud' and 'King Of The Night Time World' making this a very strong showing. On the other hand the use of a choir in 'Great Expectations' only adds to the atrocity, this is genuinely the first awful song KISS have made (and unfortunately not the last).
Often cited as the fan favorite KISS album, is it the greatest KISS album? It is very close, and there is no denying how good, no brilliant, much of this album is with so many of these being true anthems and set staples, but at the same time it is inconsistent, with the truly awful 'Great Expectations' as well as the forgettable 'Flaming Youth' and 'Sweet Pain'. Despite this, this is a huge album that you simply have to hear if you are a KISS fan or even if you give a damn about rock music.
As for the actual record, well HOLY SMOKE! The center ring is a reproduction of the original 1976 BLUE BOGART LABEL! The sound, as I am winding up side one as I type is STUNNING! The 180 gram vinyl is so quiet that if you didn't know you were spinning wax, you could easily mistake it for a CD!
If all the records sound this good, and they should, this is going to make me very happy. The feeling of having a brand new VINTAGE KISS album in my hands, slitting it open for the first time, slipping out a high quality piece of wax, and hearing the needle touch the virgin vinyl are all things to be treasured. I will review the rest of the records as I get to them. As Do You Love Me? finishes up, I will move on to Dynasty. Hoping for a quality poster on good stock. I will certainly let you know!