Best Kiss Album Cover

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Kiss or whoever selected their cover art is under-heralded for finding a midway ground between artsy Hipgnosis stuff and leave-it-to-the-boys-up-in-marketing dullness. The first album sleeve is nothing special but after that things get pretty interesting, no?

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Friday, 3 January 2003 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

A: yes!! Dressed to Kill is so beautiful it's scary. Also, a glossy Tiger Beat-style magazine which I read but couldn't afford to buy when I was 10 years old or so spun a really awesome "Kiss is dead and have been replaced by androids" story which I'd guess was the inspiration for "Phantom of the Park" -- there was a transcript of the tape that had been found in the wreckage of the car that killed them all, and explanation of how each album cover contained Abbey-Road-stylee "clues" to tell the fans The Truth About Kiss i.e. that they are no more and have been replaced by drones

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Friday, 3 January 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

oh come now someone besides me has to think that both Rock and Roll Over and Dressed to Kill are triumphs of album design

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Friday, 3 January 2003 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroyer is best because they're skipping like little girls

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 3 January 2003 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001ELP.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

WHAT'S BEHIND THE DOOR???

― original bgm, Friday, 3 January 2003 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Gandolf?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 3 January 2003 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Garbage bags filled with money?

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Friday, 3 January 2003 19:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I can remember thinking as a kid that i thought the cover to Hotter Than Hell was really dirty.

....But a few years later i stuck the stickers included in Rock and Roll Over album on my little kiddie record system. ¥

― christoff (christoff), Friday, 3 January 2003 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Just looked them up. Gack, you're right.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 3 January 2003 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

No single album cover has ever appealed to me more than this:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc900/c991/c99137fmgs4.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 January 2003 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Practically every one of their makeup-era album covers is striking in some way, for better or worse: Rock and Roll Over...Love Gun...Alive II...the 1978 Solo albums...Unmasked...Creatures of the Night...

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 4 January 2003 02:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I dunno, Joe.....cover-wise (to say nothing of the music), this was *NOT* their finest hour:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre500/e512/e51257wcch3.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 January 2003 02:31 (twenty-three years ago)

C'mon Alex! Let The Fox hypnotize you with his glowing eyes!! :)

(doubtlessly I'm gonna get struck by lightning now)

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 4 January 2003 04:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I just looks like they're all trying to cram into the "photobooth of the night".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 January 2003 06:23 (twenty-three years ago)

IT just looks, I should say.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 January 2003 06:24 (twenty-three years ago)

'Love Gun'. Greenish covers are difficult to pull off but when it works, it's amazing. Plus I think the situation depicted on the cover inspired me to work more assiduously on the craft of music, it's like the 72 virgins for aspiring axe-slingers.

― dave q, Saturday, 4 January 2003 10:52 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

I like the Unmasked and Destroyer album covers.

― D Maskell, Sunday, 21 March 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

nice try, kid!

― dave q (listerine), Saturday, 19 August 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

It's either Destroyer or Rock'n'Roll Over.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 21 August 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

ace get back in it's that creepy photographer

― dave q (listerine), Monday, 21 August 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

For me, nothing beats this:
http://ca.wrs.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9htdaMSi.lETmYBwaL2FAx./SIG=12h58h6mk/EXP=1156242578/**http%3a//www.bcpl.net/%7emchristi/Music/LPs/0015/Kiss_Alive.jpg
Amazing rock-god poses and even a nod to the incipient Kiss Army. (Military-style font used to render the title.)

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I have a weak spot for Hotter than Hell, even though, technically, it's kind of shitty.

http://www.rockdetector.com/assets/img/covers/21849.jpg

― darin (darin), Monday, 21 August 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

kind of?!

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

What's shitty about this??
http://www.rockdetector.com/assets/img/covers/21849.jpg
Let's see, we have the pop-art (slash) japanese thing going, po-mo thumb elements (w/ green polish, no less), very colorful abstractions, super dynamic rock pose, with cat on star child man love. You must be goin' blind, cuz this cover is Hotter Than Hell!

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

nine years pass...

i like to imagine them shouting "wheeeeeee!" and "yipeeeee!" on the cover of Destroyer

― brimstead, Sunday, 17 July 2016 00:10 (nine years ago)

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