KISS: What the hell are they on about?

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Were KISS's songs meant to make sense in any way? I'm being wholly serious here; I mean, have you people listened to "I Love It Loud"? "Deuce"? What in god's green pastures are they babbling on and on about? I guess "Heaven's on Fire" makes sense but it's crap, so what's the point?

I mean, "Crazy Nights"???!

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

seriously now, i just heard "deuce" and i'll be damned if i can make any sense out of the fucking lyrics. i mean, "get yer grandma outta here?" then there was "crazy nights," where paul stanley's bitching about kids not being taken seriously or something, with the "it's the crazy crazy CRAZY nights" chorus stuck on for no apparent reason.

i know very well that half of their songs are about partying or getting pussy. but the other half might as well be sung in mongolian for all the sense they make

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm torn between never wanting to hear them again and wanting to hear every song they've ever recorded, including the solo albums.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

hush yo mout' miccio, or i'll get alex to turn you into luggage!

;-p

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

alright, if they made a VIDEO for every song they'd ever made I'd definitely watch them all.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"Deuce" is about a blowjob.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

gee, what's "Flaming Youth" about?

Whoo yeah
My parents think I'm crazy and they hate the things I do
I'm stupid and I'm lazy, man, if they only knew

How flaming youth will set the world on fire
Flaming youth, our flag is flying higher and higher and higher

My uniform is leather, and my power is my age
I'm gettin' it together to break out of my cage

'Cause flaming youth will set the world on fire
Flaming youth will set the world on fire
Flaming youth, our flag is flying higher and higher and higher

Flaming youth will set the world on fire
Flaming youth will set the world on fire
Flaming youth will set the world on fire
Flaming youth will set the world on fire
Flaming youth will set the world on fire
Flaming youth, our flag is flying higher and higher
And higher and higher and higher and higher and higher

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Love It Loud" is about how he love's it loud.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

gah. ignore that apostrophe!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

James, what era/album is Flaming Youth from?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, but then for no apparent reason gene simmons goes "i wanna be president!" like, WTF?

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

TS:

http://www.rockshoppe.com/pinups/rock/r_paulst.jpg

vs.

http://www.wcjw.com/tiny.JPG

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I discovered "New York Groove" off Ace Frehley's solo album last year, and was surprised how much I dug it. Then I learned it was originally done by a UK glam band named Hello, and the original is stranger and more interesting (it's mildly dubby, and the Bo Diddley influence is more prominent, while still somehow remaining glam). So then I cared less. But it was all about being back in the New York groove, which was nice.

It's pretty obvious what "Strutter" is about, though -- blatantly stealing from "Girl" by the Beatles!

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and the lyrics to "crazy crazy nights" (gotta get it right, there are two "crazy"s in this puppy):

CRAZY, CRAZY NIGHTS
(Whoow! Here's a little song for everybody out there)

People try to take my soul away, but I don't hear the rap that they all say
They try to tell us we don't belong, that's alright, we're millions strong
This is my music, it makes me proud, these are my people and this is my crowd

Chorus:
These are crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy nights
These are crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy nights

Sometimes days are so hard to survive, a million ways to bury you alive
The sun goes down like a bad bad dream
You're wound up tight, gotta let off steam
They say they can break you again and again, if life is a radio, turn up to ten

chorus repeats 2x
These are crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy nights
These are crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy nights

And they try to tell us that we don't belong
But that's alright, we're millions strong
You are my people, you are my crowd, this is our music, we love it loud

Yeah, and nobody's gonna change me, 'cos that's who I am

chorus repeats out
These are crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy nights
These are crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy nights

now someone tell me what the fuck does the "crazy x4" chorus have to do with this song's verses? this song never made any sense to me

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"these are crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy nights" = "but the times they are a-changin'"

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 5 June 2003 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

flaming youth is classic casablanca era KISS, it's on Destroyer

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The sun goes down like a bad bad dream

I like how in this line you can interpret "goes down" as meaning "happens" (you know, like a deal going down)... the sun's not descending (cuz that would be GOOD -- he LIKES the night, right?), it's, er, happening, man. Or maybe it's "going down" like a bitter pill, or a meal that's hard to digest?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

changing from madonna-pop to bad hair-metal?

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"there's fings oi haven't told yew/i go out late at night..."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

we all know the other meaning that "going down" has in non-"crazy crazy nights" kiss songs. that much sense they doth make!

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

KISS have alot of wisdom in their lyrics - 'if life is a radio, turn up to ten', 'you gotta live life like you're on vacation' from "lick it up" (guess what it's about)

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"I know life sometimes can get tough! And I know life sometimes can be a drag! But people, we have been given a gift, we have been given a road, and that road's name is... Rock and Roll!"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN A ROAD!!!

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

QED.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

HOW MANY PEOPLE HERE LIKE TO TAKE THE TASTE OF ALCOHOL!

AW-RIGHT!!

(paul does his foxy dance across the stage)

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think Tad quite understands that half the fun of being a Kiss fan is making fun of them. I remember when "Crazy Nights" came out, and one of my friends and I couldn't stop laughing at Paul with that "Woo!! This is a little song for everybody out there!"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Latoya Jackson has the exact same outfit as worn by Paul Stanley above... uncanny!

― maria b (maria b), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

And hair to boot! Except that it's blonde now...

― maria b (maria b), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"We've got a little surprise for you tonight! We're gonna hand the mic over to ... Ace Frehley! SHOCK ME!!"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

then there's this gene-penned classic from the first one -- "nothing to lose" -- lyrics read like gene's getting his girlie to give him butt-sex -- but what's this bit about "before i had a baby" -- is gene saying, "my woman just got pregnant so if i want any i gotta get some butt-love?"

Before I had a baby
I didn't care anyway
I thought about the back door

I didn't know what to say
But once I got a baby
I, I tried every way
She didn't wanna do it
But she did anyway

But baby please don't refuse
You know you got nothin' to lose

You got nothin' to lose
You got, got nothin' to lose, well nothin'
You got, got nothin' to lose, yeah baby
You got, got nothin' to lose
You got, got nothin' to lose, you g-g-g-g-got nothin'
You got, got nothin' to lose, well come on mama
You got, got nothin' to lose, yeah shake your
You got, got
You got, you got, you got nothin' to lose

So now I've got a baby
And we've tried every way
You know she wants to do it
And she does anyway

But baby please don't refuse
You know you got nothin' to lose

You got nothin' to lose
You got, got nothin' to lose, yeah baby
You got, got nothin' to lose, yeah
You got, got nothin' to lose, you feel so good
You got, got nothin' to lose, well come on mama
You got, got nothin' to lose, ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch yeah
You got, got nothin' to lose, well come on
You got, got
You got, you got you, got nothin' to lose

You got, got nothin' to lose
You got, got nothin' to lose, ooh baby
You got, got nothin' to lose, yeah
You got, got nothin' to lose, yeah
You got, got nothin' to lose, oh you g-g-got, baby
You got, got nothin' to lose, shake it honey
You got, got nothin' to lose, oh you know you're a sweet thing
You got, got nothin' to lose, oh really mama
You got, got nothin' to lose, yeah you really can move it
You got, got nothin' to lose, oh you g-g-got nothin'
You got, got nothin' to lose,
Yeah shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it
You got, got nothin' to lose
You got, got nothin' to lose
You got, got

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

blow jobs, buttsex... do these guys not like pussy or something?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

did you read those lyrics to "Flaming Youth"?!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

It all comes down to six simple words.

"First I drink, then I smoke."

Immortal.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 June 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe they're just afraid of getting somebody pregnant. When first reading the lyrics to Nothing To Lose, I assumed it was about Gene having second thoughts about sex after becoming a father, but then I remembered that he's yet to have a kid, right?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 6 June 2003 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I'm familiar with "Flaming Youth." :-)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 June 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

one song I never got (well, I know what the song is about, but...) is an unreleased Kiss song called "Rotten to the Core".

I happened to read a Gene Simmons interview from the late 90s (reunion-era) where, when asked about unreleased songs, he said that "Rotten to the Core" was his tribute to Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols.

The lyrics (and there's nothing very Sex Pistols-y about the music, either):

Let me introduce you to pleasure.
I will seduce you, my treasure.
I know you'll ask me for more.
You'll wanna know what's in store.

And, what color is my heart?
Can it be torn apart?
Don't turn your back on me.
Cause I'll give you misery.

[Chorus]
Don't you know I'm rotten to the core.
Rotten to the core...
I'm rotten to the core...
I'm rotten to the core...
I'm rotten to the core...

Oh, So rotten baby.
I'm so so bad.

I've got the power any hour.
Babe, feel my tower of power.
You want my love and you're in business, baby
Don't you know I'm your sickness.

And, what color is my heart?
Can it be torn apart?
Don't turn your back on me.
Cause I'll give you misery.

Don't you know...
Don't you know I'm rotten to the core.
Rotten to the core...
I'm rotten to the core...
I'm rotten to the core...
I'm rotten to the core...

Rotten to the core...
I'm rotten to the core...
I'm rotten to the core...
I'm rotten to the core...

(Whoa-whoa)

I'm so rotten...
I'm so rotten, baby...
I'm so... rotten...

I'm rotten to the core...
I'm rotten to the core...
I'm rotten to the core...
I'm rotten to the core...

Rotten to the core
I'm rotten to the core
I'm rotten to the core
I'm rotten to the core...

[Fade out]

― Mean Guy, Friday, 6 June 2003 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I think he's using "baby" in the sense of "sweetie."

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 6 June 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

one night a local cable station here in philly played like 50 videos in a row by kiss for some reason-it was on for hours late at night and i was riveted. the thing was, EVERY video was post-music from the elder on up to their revenge album. it was like watching an aternate kiss universe. they musta made a zillion videos when no one was looking. i mean, lick it up and domino and some of the others i remember seeing, but this was an 80's vision of the band that was like a dream. or nightmare.depending on your tolerance for bad kiss videos.

― scott seward, Friday, 6 June 2003 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm 93 and you're 16

― dave q, Friday, 6 June 2003 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

So are KISS the boys' equivalent of Duran Duran?

To deriders, stupid, silly, all style no substance, inpenetrable lyrics, ridiculous gimmicks. But to fans, a meet and right and holy obsession of wonderfulness, which criticism only makes you love them more?

― kate (kate), Friday, 6 June 2003 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

TS:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001EL1.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

vs.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000DQSC.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 6 June 2003 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick Rhodes is wearing WAY more makeup. He gets my vote!

― kate (kate), Friday, 6 June 2003 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

but nick rhodes didn't have that crazy tongue action that gene simmons had! that has to count somehow for the girls' vote, no?

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 6 June 2003 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, considering how many women Gene Simmons has had, despite being the "ugliest member of Kiss" vs. Nick Rhodes and his thing of "the only way anyone will EVER see me naked is if I'm drunk and you're beautiful" well, I don't know...

My vote is still on Nick Rhodes.

― kate (kate), Friday, 6 June 2003 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate, Nick Rhodes now, or Nick Rhodes then? Cos he's looking a little rougher these days. And Simon's had a few bonbons too...

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 6 June 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of Having Fun With Stanley on Stage?

― J (Jay), Friday, 6 June 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone know what I am on about, then?

― J (Jay), Friday, 6 June 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, I am tempted to riddle my next mix cd-r with Paul Stanley stage banter

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 6 June 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone know what I am on about, then?

yes i do ... and i haven't been able to find a copy either!

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Goddammit, I go away for a few days, and a Kiss thread sprouts up like a foul-smelling Venus flytrap, waiting to suck me in and digest me like so much oblivious insect intestine. Forty-eight answers deep no less. Fuck-a-duck, kinda too late to weigh in now, then. I'll say this, though:

Kiss:What the hell are they on about?

I don't think there's a particularly complicated or tricky subtext to their schtick/aesthetic/presentation/package. What's not to get? It's a stoopid celebration of youth, sex and "rock'n'roll". That's it. It pretty much begins and ends there. If only they'd all perished simultaneously in a freakish hydrofoil accident sometime just after the release of Dynasty, the world would've been a happier, brighter, cooler place. But, alas, `twas not to be, and we all got to witness Kiss age, grow flaccid, flabby and even more avaricious than one could consider humanly possible. That they insist on soldiering on in some ludicrously weakened, incontinent incarnation does what little of their legacy is left intact a serious disservice.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I am tempted to riddle my next mix cd-r with Paul Stanley stage banter

This is my dream . . . find your own dream! Unless you happen to own Having Fun With Stanley On Stage, in which case I'll share my dream with you if you share your copy with me . . . .

― J (Jay), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

This is a great idea. He's the consummate showman. When I saw Kiss live I literally couldn't wait for the songs to end to hear what Paul would say next. It's the best part of the show!!

Also, Robert Plant has a ton of these. I .. erm .. own some bootlegs < /nerd> where he says some absolutely hilarious stuff.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

ok J, I'll do it with Bono stage banter instead

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Edge, play the blues!"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

am i buggin' ya? didn't mean ta bug ya!

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

For those of you who are not aware, Having Fun With Stanley On Stage is the best parts of a bunch of Kiss concerts condensed down onto one smokin' 45 rpm single. Those parts being, of course, the witticisms of Mr. Paul Stanley. When I first heard of this item, I desired it. Then I actually heard a copy, and that desire ripened into mad animal lust. Trust me: Having Fun With Stanley On Stage is the single most incredible piece of vinyl ever produced.

― J (Jay), Friday, 6 June 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex, please tell me your use of the phrase "fuck a duck" stems from having witnessed Melvin Van Peebles' stunningly awful film Identity Crisis. Pleeeeeeze.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 6 June 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Ummmm...sorry to disapoint you Anthony. To be perfectly honest, I have precious little recollection about how the exclamation "fuck-a-duck" wormed its way into the regular rotation file of my vocabulary. I don't remember seeing "Identity Crisis," although perhaps I might have at one point. Dunno. Only know that it makes me laugh, which is becoming harder to do these days.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 June 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

dude, rent Identity Crisis then, if you're able to enthusiastically enjoy piss-poor absurdly awful films. Melvin Van Peebles (who evidently has no cinematic taste whatsoever) utters that phrase and the response he gets sends me into hysterics every time. The film is about a rapper named Chilly D who gets possessed by the spirit of a gay fashion designer who was killed by a group of conniving Arabs.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 6 June 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Sounds like a classic.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 June 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, wtf are we discussing KISS and Duran Duran for when that film exists?

FYI NYers you should come to Infrared Lounge tonite, there's a cover charge but you can see Mini-KISS that way, which is totally what you think it is. I'm so stoked. I hope the person who invited me doesn't kill me for inviting like the entire world.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 6 June 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

more info about what I'd easily call the worst low budget film ever. Sure, there are probably cheaper, less skilled ones, but where those films are probably weak due to negligence, ignorance and indifference, Identity Crisis takes the cake thanks to the amount of effort it must of required to make something this awful.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 7 June 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I fucked up the link.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 7 June 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

you crazy americans!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 7 June 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Mini-KISS: Midget KISS impersonators. Playing glittery wooden planks, and air-drumming. Funny, pathetic, sort of sweet. They really looked like the members of KISS they were trying to impersonate, but they were about three feet tall.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 7 June 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I would kill you all to see Mini-Kiss.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 7 June 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The Mini-Kiss show does sound like a jaw dropper, but --- like Marxism and the Menage a'Trois -- it's probably better on paper than in actual practice.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 7 June 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

It lost its appeal after the third song. But I was happy they played (heh, "played") "Hard Luck Woman"!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 7 June 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmm...I guess I wouldn't necessarily kill you all. But I'd probably push rather hard to get to the front row.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 7 June 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I would kill all of MiniKiss to see you all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 June 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm 93 and you're 16

thankee, mr. q!

"And I know how it should be/There is nothing more for you and I/Some are young and some are free/But I think I'm goin' blind."

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 7 June 2003 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Just when I think they can't sink any further into the quagmire of self-importance without the slightest sense of dignity/self-awareness......

Preorder KISS Symphony: Alive IV NOW!
From: KISSONLINE

Released July 22, 2003. KISS Symphony: Alive IV, captures one of the world's greatest performing rock bands with the prestigious 60-piece Melbourne Symphony Orchestra live before a sold-out crowd from Australia's Telstra Dome while on the 2003 tour. The energy packed two-disc set promises to captivate and tantalize fans new and old alike with twenty-two newly recorded live tracks featuring ten classic KISS tracks backed by the 60-piece Melbourne Symphony, six never-performed-live acoustic versions of KISS classics and six raw classic KISS tracks sans orchestra. This spectacular concert event proved to be a memorable show highlighted by the Melbourne Symphony appearing in full KISS makeup and will be released as a DVD, in the future.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 June 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Kiss & M!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 14 June 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

my conclusion: if KISS's lyrics make no sense, it's not because there's any hidden depths of meaning or playful wordplay or attempts at profundity*. it's because they spent 10 minutes tops writing the damn lyrics.

(* alright, some smart ass might bring up the elder as the exception, where KISS did try for thematic profundity. but no-one listens to the elder for the "insights." though admittedly their lyrics on this one aren't demonstrably worse than lou reed's [their co-writer].)

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 15 June 2003 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Radiohead 'OK Computer' v Kiss 'Destroyer'

(if Radiohead did 'Great Expectations' they could a)credit it to themselves, stick it on 'Hail to the Thief' and wonder if anyone noticed, or b)admit it's a cover and be cooler than they already are!)

― dave q, Sunday, 15 June 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

even though this isn't about lyrics, this album cover ...

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc300/c337/c33747jm084.jpg

... never made any sense to me. i mean, i guess the hands are reaching up to the KISS guys' genitals and we all know about how many women messrs. simmons and stanley have schtupped. but why does paul stanley have the hands? or are those grasping hands paul's hands and he's subconsciously acknowledging his homo-lust for the other KISS guys?

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

and the guy to the left of paul stanley (eric carr? or the zillionth guitarist to take ace's place?) is he supposed to be armless? and are those arms his?

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, what a weird title for a comp. "Smashes" and "hits" I can understand, but what are "THRASHES"!?

― dave q, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i guess cause it rhymes? or the late eighties was when thrash-metal was in its prime and they were trying to suck in that audience?

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 07:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Well if *that's* what they wanted to do, maybe putting "Creatures of the Night" or "Fits Like a Glove" would've been a good idea. Sometimes I think they were the dumbest smart band around, not the smartest dumb one.

― dave q, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Never once in their zealously hedonistic existence have Kiss ever properly "thrashed."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

What about Ace's DeLorean, and the fact that when a homeless street bum impersonated Peter Criss EVERYBODY BELIEVED HIM?

― dave q, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

we never did figure this out, did we?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 13 November 2003 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, the central plank of their campaign was largely concerned with primarily rocking and, yea verily, rolling all night, in addition to the requisite amount of partying every day. Pretty simple, really.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

it didn't hurt that making money was a common side effect of the above. well said, alex.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i bought the kiss box set at the thrift store for ten bucks about a month ago. i only listened to the first disc cuz i wanted to hear the pre-kiss stuff. that stuff aint so hot. i figured the whole thing was worth having for that price just in case of emergency.

― scott seward, Thursday, 13 November 2003 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

if detroit was rock city for the boys, then philly is pat's cheesesteak city for 'em:

http://www.patskingofsteaks.com/Melssa.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

That's not them.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

are you sure?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never been more positive about anything in my life. Look at their facial structure, for Christ's sake. And the colour of their hair. Moreover, the Peter Criss impersonator doesn't even have the requisite tatoos. I can safely assure you with all the certainty of a new day dawning tomorrow that the folks in the above picture are not Kiss.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Tomorrow's news: "GENE SIMMONS ANNOUNCES KISS COLLABORATION WITH BRITNEY SPEARS; SUN REFUSES TO RISE."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The lack of chest hair on the Paul Stanley imposter is the giveaway for me.

― Unum, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm inclined to believe alex in nyc, though it is nice to think that gene simmons stopped off at pat's while en route to his now-infamous interview with terry gross (who works outta the NPR station in philly). i mean, pat's is such a tourist trap anyway AND NOT EVEN THE BEST PHILLY CHEESESTEAK FER GOO-AWDS SAKE!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

"Red light, green light, don't say 'no' - she says 'stop', baby go, go, go!" -Makin Love

"No place for hidin' baby, No place to run, You pulled the trigger of my Love Gun" -Love Gun

"So if you please get on your knees, There are no bills, there are no fees " -Dr Love

"When I saw you coming out of school that day... I knew, I knew... I've got to have you, I've GOT TO have you!" -Christeen 16

Uh... you don't know what their on about? Let's put the X in Sex and all that. It's a comic-book fantasy version of Paul's & Gene's heterosexual power posturing. Totally farcical, yet still bad-ass. But it's like you're asking abut the deeper meaning of Spinal Tap's 'Sex Farm'.

On a positive note, KISS(tm) did serve as a weird lunchbox bridge for the children of the 70's and 80's between Spiderman and John Lennon. And back again!

However, Ace Frehley was the only real dude in that band who delivered the edgy hot rock... Parasite, Cold Gin, Snowblind, and his solo album is the only one still standing. Paul & Gene are so pissed that they tour with Ace & Peter imitators now.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

put your hand in my pocket
grab onto my rocket

― dave q (listerine), Saturday, 19 August 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

test

― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 19:56 (seventeen years ago)

FAIL

― Edward III, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 20:04 (seventeen years ago)

Number 32 on the October Blender's list of 33 "most overrated people, places, trends and other junk in rock":

Memo to Gene Simmons: Either take your shirt off or put your pants on. As a band, they're about as perfunctory as Gene's sex tape -- they're a tiresome, bickering circus act with a few decent glam songs.

Underrated alternative: Cheap Trick

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 22:00 (seventeen years ago)

kiss are beautiful. so many good songs.

― dell, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 22:20 (seventeen years ago)

Apparently, all Kiss lyrics make sense. You just need to play them backwards to hear the hidden satanic and evil messages. :)

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 11 September 2008 00:23 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

"Nothin' to Lose"
"Nothin' to Lose", the band's first single, is a song written by Gene Simmons and sung by him, Peter Criss and Paul Stanley. The song chronicles the singer coercing his girlfriend into trying anal sex, and her subsequent enjoyment of it. The B-side was "Love Theme From KISS", the album's instrumental

― deutsche Scheisse prawns (Eisbaer), Friday, 10 December 2010 03:40 (fourteen years ago)

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