Any fans (or members of the Kiss Army) out there? Hottest band in the world...greatest american band of all time ... KISS!

I saw them on their reunion tour back in the 90s, and I just learned how to play this song on the guitar:

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i enjoy them and some of their songs. i won't claim to be a big fan though. i think they're very cool, just not sure why i'm not into them as much.

CHIC0 said:

i enjoy them and some of their songs. i won't claim to be a big fan though. i think they're very cool, just not sure why i'm not into them as much.

WOO WOO WOO WOO=]

I Love Kiss there debut is fantastic! as is Hotter then hell, Destroyer, Alive & lovegun i even love parts of Dynasty Sure Know Something is a great song!

But i am kind of... an odd Kiss fan cause i am HUGE on there 80's stuff most fan's are very hateful about there 80's output yes it is cheesy alot of it but there's some great stuff in there

Animalize also was there most rocking album IMO

Gunsnhalen said:

CHIC0 said:

i enjoy them and some of their songs. i won't claim to be a big fan though. i think they're very cool, just not sure why i'm not into them as much.

WOO WOO WOO WOO=]

I Love Kiss there debut is fantastic! as is Hotter then hell, Destroyer, Alive & lovegun i even love parts of Dynasty Sure Know Something is a great song!

But i am kind of... an odd Kiss fan cause i am HUGE on there 80's stuff most fan's are very hateful about there 80's output yes it is cheesy alot of it but there's some great stuff in there

Animalize also was there most rocking album IMO

thanks!

funny thing is when i was little, i remember having a KISS album, and really liked it. but not sure what happened to it. or which album it was. i also wanted to dress up like Peter Criss for a party or something.

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I saw them during the Farewell Tour

I've been a fan for yearrrrssssssssss

My fave is Paul Stanley

I actually really dislike the band.

However, I've been seeing "tears are falling" from their unmasked years like ALL FRIGGEN DAY for some reason.

TheVoid said:

I actually really dislike the band.

However, I've been seeing "tears are falling" from their unmasked years like ALL FRIGGEN DAY for some reason.

but they're lovely! and cool!

and Tears are falling is a classic of mid-80s cheesy pop-metal

God knows, I tried to take them seriously.....

I like some of their songs though(esp from the Love Child album) but the bulk of their stuff still remain hit & miss to me.

Loooove me the hottest band in the world. KISS!!! They were my #1 musical love for years till a skinny mf with a high voice from Minneapolis came along and changed that.

But KISS is still #2 on my all time list. I have seen them 14 times from 1979-1995 (I didn't go for the reunion years).

In retrospect, I love all KISS eras but the first six albums are great. 80s KISS is also very strong, athough there was so much competition with bigger more successful bands (Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake) that sometimes it was just awkward for KISS.

^not sure what the Love Child album is supposed to be. Love Gun perhaps?

I stand corrected

I think their chartered plane should've disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle around '79 or '80, that would've been just perfect. Then we could have lots of conspiracy theories, instead of everything they did starting with 'Lick It Up'

They represent everything I hate about music. I can't describe how much I hate this band.

voyevoda said:

They represent everything I hate about music. I can't describe how much I hate this band.

are you an indie/alternative rock fan??

abigail05 said:

I think their chartered plane should've disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle around '79 or '80, that would've been just perfect. Then we could have lots of conspiracy theories, instead of everything they did starting with 'Lick It Up'

JoeTyler said:

abigail05 said:

I think their chartered plane should've disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle around '79 or '80, that would've been just perfect. Then we could have lots of conspiracy theories, instead of everything they did starting with 'Lick It Up'

There is one bad thing about this scenario:

No Vinnie Vincent Invasion!

abigail05 said:

JoeTyler said:

There is one bad thing about this scenario:

No Vinnie Vincent Invasion!

That's true; Lick It Up at least spawned one of the weirdest guitar heroes of all time!

I'm surprised that you don't like Lick It Up anyway ; make-up or not, it's still one of the band's best albums... and it's my fifth favourite LP of the band...

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The first time they came to Spain (European tour for promotion of Creatures of the Night, late 1982) they did this tv show my elder brother and I happened to watch at that moment, they played I Love It Loud, and at the end of the song my bro became an fan, he was 12 back then... Funny he's been a fan of Gene Simmons for years - now he can't stand the guy

Funny too that this show was on 28th November, and in early December Ace Frehley left the band/was kicked out.

[My fave is Paul Stanley too ]

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KISS is one of those bands that you respect for what they did to the genre but the flamboyance always outweighed the music. I do like some of their music though. "Detroit Rock City", "Firehouse", "Rock & Roll All Night", etc. But they've have done some songs that have me like

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I'm not really all that familiar with their stuff, besides the hits

and I gotta admit that Lick It Up is a good song.

But the whole unmasking thing, though necessary for their survival (and the continuation of Gene's strip mining of rock n' roll mystique) just kinda...sucked I guess.

abigail05 said:

I'm not really all that familiar with their stuff, besides the hits

and I gotta admit that Lick It Up is a good song.

But the whole unmasking thing, though necessary for their survival (and the continuation of Gene's strip mining of rock n' roll mystique) just kinda...sucked I guess.

What KISS did in 1983 further damaged whatever legacy they were building with the get-ups. I mean damn in the late 1970s they did a sucky movie, had toys out and did that disco record? I usually dig disco but not that song they did. "I Was Made for Loving You" oh come on! KISS' best stuff was between 1973 and 1977 or whatever.

Hell it wasn't even the same "KISS" that unmasked. Two of the original members had been left the group for about four years when they unmasked lol

Gene still looked like a true badass even without the makeup anyway...

JoeTyler said:

Gene still looked like a true badass even without the makeup anyway...

In the '90s yeah lol now he can't really get away with it hahaha

KISS was an absolutely incredible visionary creation and concept. And fantastic band with great songwriting. But after Peter Criss left in 1980, the band should have broken up, cause it was never the same. But instead they rode their incredible creation into the ground and drained it of what made it so special.

Which is why, unfortunately, they do not get the credit and respect they deserved.

Their were so visually spectacular, but at the core they were just a mean, kick ass, down and dirty street band. Because all of them, (except for maybe Gene) were exactly that, a bunch of tough New York City street kids with thick New York accents.

But at the time, rock music had been overblown to a form of pretentious minded art, because of British bands like Queen and Led Zepplin, etc.

Which is why "Destroyer" is the only album of theirs, critics liked. That was their "art rock" album.

But they werent about that. THey were instead, something like the rock equivalent of a funk band.

All about the DEEP down and dirty groove and all about fun.

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Timmy84 said:

dude, you posted some motherfuckin' classics right there!!!

sexyfunkystrange said:

KISS was an absolutely incredible visionary creation and concept. And fantastic band with great songwriting. But after Peter Criss left in 1980, the band should have broken up, cause it was never the same. But instead they rode their incredible creation into the ground and drained it of what made it so special.

Which is why, unfortunately, they do not get the credit and respect they deserved.

Their were so visually spectacular, but at the core they were just a mean, kick ass, down and dirty street band. Because all of them, (except for maybe Gene) were exactly that, a bunch of tough New York City street kids with thick New York accents.

But at the time, rock music had been overblown to a form of pretentious minded art, because of British bands like Queen and Led Zepplin, etc.

Which is why "Destroyer" is the only album of theirs, critics liked. That was their "art rock" album.

But they werent about that. THey were instead, something like the rock equivalent of a funk band.

All about the DEEP down and dirty groove and all about fun.

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yall gotsta have this in your collection