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KISS (The Replacement Lineup) - Discography
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 11, 2011, 1:56 pm
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Re: KISS (The Replacement Lineup) - Discography
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 11, 2011, 1:58 pm
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[CENTER]What is the Best KISS Album Of All Time with the
Replacement Lineup?
Circa 1982
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Re: KISS (The Replacement Lineup) - Discography
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 11, 2011, 2:06 pm
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[CENTER]KISS (Music From The Elder) 1981
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What has been considered the worst KISS album of all time (or at
least when it was released anyway) has slowly been growing on
me. It's a concept album like that of The Who's Tommy, which was
intended to go with a proposed film based on the album. But with
the fan backlash and critical drubbing of the final product, the
KISS house of cards finally collapsed on itself. I understand
why it was universally hated. I was one of them. Music From The
Elder is definitely an acquired taste.
To the average fan or non-fan if you will, the common reaction
upon listening for the first time would probably be something
like "what the f*ck is this sh*t?". Like I said, an acquired
taste, which I seem to be agreeing with lately. I just choose to
look at it as a non-KISS album, which it is and look at it more
as something different to listen to.
Out is Peter Criss, and in is new drummer Eric Carr. The album
did not showcase what a monster drummer he is. He would have to
wait a year for that. But the wait is well worth it.
Fave Songs: The Oath, A World Without Heroes and I. The album
cover has been speculated over the years to be that of Paul
Stanley's hand. It's not. It was a hand model, hired
specifically for the photo shoot of the Cover. End of
discussion.
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Re: KISS (The Replacement Lineup) - Discography
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 11, 2011, 3:59 pm
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[CENTER]KISS (Killers) 1982
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European Cover
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After the disaster that was The Elder, the record company wanted
to do damage control and release a greatest hits package. At the
request of the suits, they wanted 4 new songs to add to it. I
love the 4: "I'm A Legend Tonight", "Down On Your Knees",
"Nowhere To Run", and "Partners In Crime".
These songs are the only ones I listen to on this, as the others
you find on any other of their 200 or so greatest hits packages.
This album was my first Import that I ever bought as a kid.
Originally I thought that I had scored a rare misprint cover
since the SS were now ZZ. I soon learned that this was only
released overseas and not in the states, and for obvious
reasons, they change those letters in Germany. Ended up picking
up the CD Import a little while back as well. I've added the
European Cover above so you can see the difference.
And no, Ace had nothing to do with this record even though he
was on the cover. Guitar duties went to Bob Kulick, Bruce's
older brother.
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Re: KISS (The Replacement Lineup) - Discography
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 11, 2011, 4:10 pm
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[CENTER]KISS (Creatures Of The Night) 1982
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Creatures Of The Night is best KISS album during this era of
replacement players. Not only that, it's the best KISS album of
their entire career, and that includes Destroyer as well.
Creatrues has the most aggressive, ferocious playing and singing
that to this day has yet to be matched, although Revenge did
come pretty damn close.
Let's get this review started off right by saying that even
though Ace Frehley is on the cover, he had nothing to do with
the album. He had already quit the band but they decided to put
him on the cover to once again dupe us into believing all was
well. The pattern continues.
More lies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now that that is out of the way. The reason for Creatures being
so aggressive and full of balls comes down to the two new guys
in the band: Eric Carr and Vinnie Vincent. First off, Eric's
drumming was a complete 180° from Peter Criss. Where Peter was
more swing influenced, Eric came from the school of hard rock
with his idol being John Bonham. Even though Eric had joined the
band for The Elder, it was on Creatures that he finally got to
shine. And did he ever shine.
Creatures to my ears is one of the all time best sounding drums
ever recorded on tape. It is full of thunderous drumming that
just makes you
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front without it overwhelming any of the songs. And on top of
that the sound of the drums itself is still my fave. Props to
Mr. Carr.
The other half of the equation of why Creatures f*cking rules is
Vinnie Vincent. Where Ace was definitely old school in his
playing, Vinnie was a guitar shredder with all the bells and
whistles that come with it. But he was kept in check to service
the songs and not his ego and that's why the songs work so well.
With the inclusion of both Eric and Vinnie and their playing at
A-game level here, Gene and Paul had no choice but to step up
their own game. For the last few albums it was all about pop and
disco with those two, not to mention the ill fated Elder album.
Both sing with a new sense of purpose. They were going for the
throat to reestablish their credibility that was long gone by
now. They all aced their test and passed with flying colors.
(pun intended)
Fave Songs: Every last mother-f*cking-one-of-them. Even their
lone ballad has gravitas. It's so hard tp pick an single MVP
here. So, the award goes to the entire album. Great, and I mean
GREAT album cover. All time best ever for KISS.
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KISS (Creatures Of The Night - New Cover Version) 1982
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I'll jump ahead a few years now for the sake of explaining the
second cover of the same album. Once KISS had reestablished
themselves and were experiencing a resurgence in popularity,
they went back to re-release Creatures with a new cover. Only
problem is that they were once again trying to con the fans that
may have already bailed on them when it originally came out to
push this as a "new" recording. And on top of that they put
Bruce Kulick on the cover to further drive home the point that
it's HIM playing on the album. Shameful.
I have both versions, the one with the original track list and
this current one. The current one I won't listen to because the
original track order is so ingrained in my psyche that listening
to the other track order is just too jarring for me.
Just like before with Peter Criss, the band had Ace go out and
help promote the album as if he were still in the band. So he
did a video and a handful of promos trying in vain to air guitar
along to Vinnie's playing.
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Re: KISS (The Replacement Lineup) - Discography
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 11, 2011, 4:16 pm
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[CENTER]KISS (Lick It Up) 1983
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As great as Creatures Of The Night was musically to the band and
few fans still around, it was a commercial flop. So, what to do?
Drop the make-up and hope for a fresh start with a new identity.
What we get is a fantastic follow-up to Creatures with Lick It
Up. Overall the album is more polished while keeping that hard
edge established with the previous effort. Although the drums
recede to the background here as it's not the focus as it was
before.
The lineup here is still the same with Vinnie Vincent now an
"official" member of the band. His imprint is all over the
album. He definitely was the key to changing the bands sound and
sending KISS in a different direction musically, so much so that
they didn't sound like they were from New York anymore, but a
band from LA with the growing explosion of the hair metal scene.
Was this a good thing or bad thing? Who's to say. But the band
regained a lot of fans with this album. It was good to see that
their last album wasn't a fluke and that they were on the right
path musically.
The biggest hit here was obviously the title track Lick It Up.
First video to show them without their make-up. It was surreal
watching it for the first 100 times. This song is the most
popular here, but it's not the best song on the album though.
Exciter and Million To One is the albums strongest songs.
Fave Songs: Exciter, Not For The Innocent, Lick It Up, Gimme
More and A Million To One. The Cover kicks ass. It's simple in
it's design with just the band against a white backdrop.
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Re: KISS (The Replacement Lineup) - Discography
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 11, 2011, 7:40 pm
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[CENTER]KISS (Animalize) 1985
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Well, Vinnie Vincent's reign as KISS' axe shredder was short
lived. After reviving the band musically, he became increasingly
difficult to work with, both on stage (20 minute guitar solos!!
wtf!) and off, making certain financial demands. So out with the
old and in with the new. Stepping into the meat grinder was Mark
St. John.
Mark was another gun slinger in the mold of the LA scene. But
this time Gene and Paul would write all the songs with no input
from him, more or less telling him what to play so as not to
have another Vinnie fiasco on their hands. Even Gene's
partcipation on Animalize was minimal since he was off making
movies. Hell, they had Jean Beauvoir come in and play his bass
parts on half the album. So it all falls onto Paul's shoulders,
and because of that, this album suffers from it. But Mark's
tenure with the band was short lived as he suffered from
Reiter's Syndrome. So, he was out of the band after the first
leg of the tour.
Remember Bob Kulick from previous reviews here? Well Gene and
Paul asked him to come on board full time. He refused. But he
recommended his little brother Bruce for the gig. He got it and
went on to become the longest tenured guitarist for KISS in it's
history, longer than Ace Frehley himself.
I admit that when Animalize first came out, I thought it was
great. But over the years it's getting harder and harder for me
to listen to it. It has certainly lost a lot of it's edge over
time. Average at best is the kindest thing I can say about it.
Fave Songs: I've Had Enough (Into The Fire), and Heaven's Of
Fire. Cover is meh.
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Re: KISS (The Replacement Lineup) - Discography
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 11, 2011, 7:46 pm
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[CENTER]KISS (Asylum) 1985
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Asylum is another album that I thought was great back in the day
but has been falling apart over the years. It's now an above
average album to me. By now the band was more focused on touring
and taking the show out on the road rather than working hard at
songwriting and putting together a quality album. They more or
less were of the mind set to throw whatever songs they had
together simply for an excuse to go on tour, since that was
where their bread and butter lay. This was also around the time
KISS decided to re-release Creatures Of The Night with the new
cover with Bruce Kulick on it.
Bruce did get some killer solos out of this record to show the
world what he could do. So it's not a complete bust here.
Fave Songs: King Of The Mountain, Who Wants To Be Lonely, Trial
By Fire, and UH! All Night. MVP goes to Tears Are Falling.
<-----earworm. Duh. Worst album cover in their existence, along
with Sonic Boom. Ugh. It's horrible.
Worst excuse for "costumes" in their entire career are presented
in all their cringe-inducing glory in the videos. Oh God...how
low could they go after this? The Demon Child Gene Simmons
reduced to that of a drag queen! Ack!!
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Re: KISS (The Replacement Lineup) - Discography
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 11, 2011, 7:52 pm
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[CENTER]KISS (Crazy Nights) 1987
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The music climate had changed drastically by 1987. This was at
the peak of hair metal and power ballads and lots of
keyboard-influenced songs were dominating the airwaves. KISS was
not immune to this and just like every other time before, tried
to jump on it's band wagon. Big mistake. KISS and Keyboards are
not a happy marriage. Years earilier they had a pretty good song
with Christine Sixteen on the Love Gun album. But that was with
a piano and it was still a rock boogie song. Here, it's just a
bit much with the keyboards.
Overall, the production was garbage as they decided to make the
most "pop" oriented album up to now.
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Nights is pretty forgettable. This gets a 1 star bump only for
Bruce Kulick's opening guitar intro/solo for No, No, No. As for
the rest of the song itself. No, No, No indeed.
Fave Songs: Good Girl Gone Bad. Album cover is better than
Asylum, but still needs some work on getting creative once
again.
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Re: KISS (The Replacement Lineup) - Discography
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 11, 2011, 8:15 pm
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[CENTER]KISS (Smashes, Thrashes & Hits) 1989
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Smashes, Thrashes & Hits is a Greatest Hits package and just
like before, they felt the need to remix all the songs. They
even f*cked up I Love It Loud with this remix. The drum sound is
super thin and has none of the balls from the original. My
guess is that they had to tone it down to keep in line with the
rest of the album or it would have stood out like a sore thumb.
But the biggest gaffe was having Eric Carr re-record the lead
vocals for Beth. I'm a huge fan of his, but this is a big no-no
in my book.
This set also comes with 2 new songs: Let's Put The X In Sex and
(You Make Me) Rock Hard as incentive to buy it. It worked. This
is the last KISS album to sell in excess of 2 million copies.
Fave New Songs: (You Make Me) Rock Hard <------It's got more
cowbell in it!!!! Album cover is meh.
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