C/D: KISS "Revenge"

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Lately just been going through all the albums I own that I haven't listened to in ages, which mainly is every single KISS album.

What do people think on this one?

I'm tossed. More solid in comparison to their 80's work, but still lots of garbage. Honestly, I think that the mix on the bass on this album and on "Alive III" makes it interesting, as Simmons gets some decent bass riffs on the album. Horrible lyrics, and "God Gave Rock and Roll to You II" is pretty goddamned awful, but something makes me like this album, and it bugs me trying to figure out what.

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Saturday, 8 October 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

I thought my friends loved me, but it turns out that there was a "God Gave Rock and Roll to You II" and none of them told me, so fuck those assholes

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 8 October 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

it's great.only a few duds.
great songs songs -god gave rock and roll to you, i just wanna , unholy,take it off.
good songs - spit,everytime i look at you,thou shalt not.
top 5 kiss cds
hot in the shade
crazy nights
dynasty
unmasked
revenge

― retrogurl, Saturday, 8 October 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

update:
top 10 kiss cds

hot in the shade
crazy nights
dynasty
unmasked
revenge
lick it up
psycho circus
animalize
destroyer
asylum

― retrogurl, Saturday, 8 October 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

"How many of you believe in the power of rock & roll?! Well, I do! I do! I dooooo-oooo-ooooo!"

Classic if only for that outro. The rest of the album's pretty forgettable, though.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 8 October 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

knights in satan's service more like knight in shitty shit

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!, Saturday, 8 October 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

was this a serious question?

― Mitya (mitya), Saturday, 8 October 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

retrogurl, you mean the top 10 shittiest KISS albums?

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 8 October 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

was this a serious question?

I'm serious because I swear, so many KISS fans will excuse any shitty album for whatever odd reasons. And quite often, even those that don't, will still seem to like some of their more questionable albums for various reasons. I.e. me with Music from the Elder... Alex in NYC with Dynasty.

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Sunday, 9 October 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

I think it's grate! clearly an instance of Simmons taking stock of Seattle and Pantera and making a much tougher rekkid than, say, Crazy Nights. Its just as "me too" as their '80s stuff, but they're trying harder.

plus— and I think AlexNYC might correct me— its the only Kiss album that begins with a Simmons tune.

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

That could be true. I must confess that I've never owned Revenge, so cannot weigh in on it (though chances are that it's a steaming bag of chunk-laden crap).

I never picked up any of the non-makeup albums (actually, I think I gave up prior to Creatures of the Night, the last make-up record). Wait, that's not true. I did pick up a copy of the entirely needless Alive III when I found it on the discard pile at work. I did get the Unplugged disc too, so I guess that also counts as a non-makeup record. I regret to say that I did buy Psycho-Circus which is dire beyond words (though Ace's "Into the Void" weren't too bad). I did get the box set a number of years back, which included a bunch of the non-makeup stuff (like the sublimely ludicrous "All Hell's Breakin' Lose" off of Lick It Up wherein Kiss INVENT RAP-METAL!).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

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