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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...
10.000 Volts is the 6th or 7th solo album by former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley. It all depends a little on how you count. Should the Kiss solo album be counted? Should Frehley’s Comet be part of the discography? But either way, I feel that 10.000 Volts is a strong album. It starts off with a really good opener and keeps the energy high all the way through. Of course, it’s impossible to say how...
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...
Hotter than Hell is not as solid an album as the debut! The entire production is poorer, and the songs haven’t been crafted with the same precision. Nothing really stands out from the rest of the songs except possibly the title track – Hotter Than Hell. Unfortunately, as a big fan of the movie Kiss Meets The Phantom of the Park (which the band apparently hates). I find it difficult to embrace the lyrics...
I have written about the debut album of Kiss in some way or form before. In fact, I’m sure that I’ve written about it multiple times before. That means I’ve also rated it before, probably higher than I’m rating it now. But as you know ratings only reflect the time when you’re rating the object. Things happen. Not to the music itself of course, but our experiences and moods change over time. But I’ll try...
Back in the day when I grew up I always liked Ace Frehley’s way of writing music more than the other Kiss members. It was more straight and to the point in some way. I still hold songs like Cold Gin and Hard Times from the Dynasty album among the best that ever can from the band. All the songs on this solo album sound just like you’d expect. I guess I could have an...
