I’m sure you have your own list of worst KISS tracks for each album. Definitely let me know which ones you come up with, as well as anything else relevant, in the comments below.
@@randallbenton4481 Yes ! Actually I consider "Destroyer" the best of the "early " KISS albums. My very first KISS concert was in Chicago for the Destroyer tour. Ahhh, high school memories ! My ears rang for 3 days ! To me, those first 6 albums were classic KISS.
Personally I believe the big hit is several times their worst song on their album. Lick it up..naahhh, Tears are falling..naahh, I was made.., Shandi...
Yeah I agree about this song. It's not the worst on that album. I'd probably go with "All The Way" because all of the other songs are solid. Even "Mainline."
Facts. He legit ranks it as the worst cuz of one ”bad lyric” like bruh? How tf is Flaming Youth worse than Great Expectations? Also maybe Paul meant that young people was fired up and about young people and teens who are kiss fans setting the world on fire with their energy. Even if it didn’t so fucking what if it’s about gay people? A band can sing about whatever they want? Let Me Go Rock N’ Roll is an absolute banger? So what if it had that old timey sound a band isn’t necesarily suppoused to follow the current format. Hell, thereare bands today who still make glam metal type music even if it’s not popural. And saying that Ace is a better bass player than Gene. Just cuz it’s complicated dosen’t mean it’s good. And just cuz it’s simple dosen’t mean it’s bad.
@@elvis5138 I personally feel like Beth is the worst song on Destroyer .. I've grown to hate this song, it is so overplayed .. second worst, Do You Love Me, same reason.
I cannot pick a song from Unmasked as my least favorite. I don’t know why but I absolutely love this album and every song on it. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I can’t say anything good about anything on both Sonic Boom and Monster. I first saw KISS on the Crazy Nights tour and that album, to me, is like Unmasked. I absolutely love it and I can’t pick a least favorite song on it. The rest of your picks I agree with.
For me Unmasked is my favorite Kiss album too! I love how much Ace contributed along with Anton Fig playing drums. The production is kinda thin unfortunately with the guitars sounding like they're playing through a 5 watt Fender Champ. I'm from Vancouver Island Canada and my Grandparents used to winter in Palm Springs and before they came back they would ask if I wanted anything. I asked for this album on cassette. I remember it had a beige case which was odd, the cassette itself was white and the clear plastic screen on one side was missing. But in 1987 for me this album was almost perfect. As a drummer and bass player, Torpedo Girl was the holy grail to be able to play for me and my friends in our early teens. But as this guy mentions, the lyrics are beyond cheezy but I was too busy trying to learn how to play the hi-hat with my left foot on the up beat while playing a kind of syncopated thing with the snare and toms. Shandi is a very good song that in my eyes gets glazed over by many critics for whatever reason. Talk to Me and She's So European were great too. Is that you is even a song I crave to hear every now and again.
I love Unmasked, too. Not every song, but Torpedo Girl is one of my faves. And I gave up on Kiss after Lick It Up. A few songs here and there are ok, but not much into the bulk of it.
3:02 Kissin’ Time was recorded (reluctantly for a promotional campaign and as you said Casablanca released it as a single and added the single to their already released debut album against their wishes. KISS reluctantly agreed to record the lyrically updated version of Bobby Rydell's 1959 hit (for Bobby Rydell) Kissin' Time using it in a series of local radio kissing contests designed to boost sales of the album. Apparently they recorded it within 30 minutes… not a bad cover, I personally kinda like it.
Okay….the Hotter than hell track “Let me go rock and roll” was a great song way back when that album came out! If you ever saw them do it live in concert it’s such a high energy song!!!
It's interesting to see how different KISS fans' picks for best or worst tracks are. Some of my all time favorite KISS songs are precisely on your list, hahaha: I do love Kissin' Time, Getaway, Flaming Youth, Then She Kissed Me, Dirty Livin', Torpedo Girl, Odyssey and We Are One. My favorite KISS studio albums, in order, are: 1. Destroyer (I love Great Expectations too!), 2. Love Gun, 3. Unmasked, 4. Dynasty, 5. KISS. I go for song catchiness rather than heaviness and don't really mind lyrics that much when it comes to KISS, so that's why.
@@SirManflyhonestly if they whittled it down to 9 or 10 tracks it would’ve been so much more palatable. Still not amazing but definitely better than the hour long mess we got. I use this on playlists 1. Rise to It 2. Prisoner of Love 3. Hide Your Heart 4. Forever 5. Cadillac Dreams 6. King of Hearts 7. You Love Me to Hate You 8. Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell 9. Boomerang Still not amazing but it’s far more streamlined
70% agreed, getaway is cool, dirty living is cool, let me go is awesome, remember that kiss is only about having fun, not necessarily Pink Floyd lyrics but instead you can feel the power
Haven't started watching the video yet but I love that this exists. Once I became a teenager back in 05-07 and started getting into music for the first time, I fell down the KISS rabbithole since they were my Dad's favourite band. I ripped a lot of the Kissology audio and uploaded it as bootlegs on Guitars 101. Fun times. The back catalog of KISS is a sort of boomer rock purgatory; what happens when very wealthy people have very bad song ideas yet can afford infinite studio time to ensure that these are packaged and sold as commercial products on a yearly basis. There is no set pattern to this chaos but it generally alternates between Gene the narcissistic sex pest, and Stanley Eisen being a more articulate and nuanced sex pest. There is a difference I promise and KISS fans will know what I'm talking about. The result is KISS' library being split effectively in two; there are songs the band was proud to play live (even if for a single tour, common with them) and are worth listening to over and over again, and the other half - close to ten whole album's worth - of the worst, most soulless and contrived boomer rock imaginable. Their work ethic is admirable for the sole reason that they wrote and sold as many brutal, soul-crushingly bad songs shoehorned onto good or otherwise great albums, as other bands have written total in their entire discography. This is probably why I love them so much. Their good songs are great, but their bad songs are completely unhinged and insane, and there are so goddamn many of them covering all possible rock subgenres. And KISS kept doing it, consistently until 2012, culminating in an entire album worth of forgettable music - their magnum opus. Monster is quintessential KISS. It's so bad I won't listen to it or pretend it exists, just as the band, in live shows, pretends half their discography doesn't exist either. Very meta! There are three songs that highlight this: Rockin' in the USA (Alive II), Fits Like a Glove, and Bang Bang You. Even on their most commercially successful albums, the band is creatively bankrupt and borderline retarded. Gene's penis is a snake. Paul's penis, however, is a cannonball! This is the nuance I was talking about. Germany was really neat. Truly we are in the presence of legends. Anyways the worst song off HITS is Read My Body.
Love the content...but I gotta disagree about Ace playing bass better than Gene did. Dude is a severely UNDERrated bass player. Seriously go back and listen to many of the bass lines on the first 6 albums in particular. Great stuff!!
I agree, 100%. Gene never gets enough credit for his bass playing, his bass lines are what made so many of those 70s bangers. Interesting lines that differ to the guitar parts, and really add some drive to the songs. Very underrated bass player 🤘🏻
Been a fan since 75’…a real fan takes the good with the bad and doesn’t trash their work. 200+ songs that we know of for sure and about 10 or so are lackluster…I am sure they can live with that. I enjoyed the post but disagree on about half of the songs, especially “Let Me Go Rock n Roll” and “Flaming Youth”, I agree the chorus in Flaming Youth needed something but it was still a great song.
I stopped buying KISS albums, yes albums, after Love Gun. Not because I didn’t like them anymore, just kinda outgrew them for awhile. “Let me go rock n roll” was an awesome RnR “throwback “ that I always turned up on the stereo !
1. Black Diamond (love this live) 2. Got to Choose 3. Love her all I can 4. Beth (never liked that) 5. Mr. Speed 6. Then she kissed me (like it) 7. Sure know Something 8. Shandie 9. Odyssey (but love it) 10 Keep me Comin‘ 11. Lick it up 12. Heavens on Fire 13. Tears are Falling Later Albums I never had until Psycho Circus : 18. I finally find my way My List ends here !
There's a few Kiss albums that don't have a bad song at all in my opinion that's the debut Kiss album dress to kill creatures of the night and revenge and also rock and roll over
When I was about 10 years old my father, genuinely interested in what music I was getting into, sat down for a listen of some songs from Dressed to Kill with me. "Getaway" completely made him burst out laughing at "got no dough." He kept on laughing and going "I gotta get away" and "got no dough." It was a pretty magical moment.
from hotter than hell : strange ways, rarer: baby driver, from love gun :Hooligan", Dynasty:"Dirty Livin' ", unmasked :"Easy as It Seems",the elder:escape from the island, from lick : Fits Like a Glove", animalize : Lonely Is the Hunter",Asylum: Radar for Love", crazy nights: "Thief in the Night", hit shade : "Read My Body", revenge :"Spit",carnival :"In the Mirror", p circus :"I Finally Found My Way", ( we are one is awesome ),sonic boom :Russian Roulette", monster :"Back to the Stone Age"
I think you were pretty easy going on these selections, and especially for The Elder...and I also sing along with laughter every damn time. Nice one, once again mate!
We only differ in two choices: On "Hotter Than Hell" it should be "Mainline" ("Mainline... baby, give it to me one time"). On "Animalize" it is definitely "Burn, Bitch, Burn" ("Oh babe, I wanna put my log in your fireplace"). "Burn, Bitch, Burn" isn't just the worst KISS song on that album, it is their worst, period. Maybe the worst song in rock. Ever.
I was with you until the early 80s. I Love It Loud is the worst on Creatures.I’m Alive is worse than Trial By Fire. Bang Bang You is worse than. My Way.HITS is easier to say what is a good song, but Read My Body is the worst. And I’ve always loved Torpedo Girl.
KIϟϟ - "Love Theme from Kiss" Hotter Than Hell - "Goin' Blind" Dressed to Kill - "Ladies in Waiting" Destroyer - "Great Expectations" Rock and Roll Over - "See You in Your Dreams" Love Gun - "Christine Sixteen" Alive II (Side Four) - "Rockin' in the U.S.A." Paul Stanley - "Hold Me, Touch Me (Think of Me When We're Apart)" Gene Simmons - "See You Tonite" Ace Frehley - "Wiped-Out" Peter Criss - "Kiss the Girl Goodbye" Dynasty - "2,000 Man" Unmasked - "Is That You?" Music From "The Elder" - "Fanfare" Killers (new tracks only) - "Down on Your Knees" Creatures of the Night - "Killer" Lick It Up - "Dance All Over Your Face" Animalize - "Burn Bitch Burn" Asylum - "Trial by Fire" Crazy Nights - "Bang Bang You" Hot in the Shade - "Read My Body" Revenge - "Spit" Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions - "I Walk Alone" Psycho Circus - "Raise Your Glasses" Sonic Boom - "Yes I Know (Nobody's Perfect)" Monster - "All for the Love of Rock & Roll"
not only does Gene sing "baby" a lot on Let me go rock n roll...but his bass guitar is saying it throughout the whole song. "babeh babeh babeh" is his part on the guitar.
Let Me Go Rock and Roll is great and Get Away is cool too. The Destroyer and Rock and Roll Over quotes I agree with. On Love Gun I never liked Christine Sixteen because I thought it was so corny when he talks in the middle of the song. Like a do wop song from 1962.
Almost Human from Love Gun is even worse, despite having a pretty cool groove, it just is a squashed under the burden of its cheesy lyrics and it just stagnates early. The guitar work almost saves it though!
Ace’s solo on ‘Kissin Time’ is superb. ‘Ladies in Waitin’ is the blandest 70s KISS imo. My favourite tracks on Dynasty and Unmasked are your least favourite. 😂 Each to their own. Thanks anyway.
I am late to this thread... but, being a HUGE Kiss fan, I know almost every song by heart. And I agree with most of this... and I am impressed with the thought that went into this video. But, I still like most of the songs mentioned here.... Including "Then She Kissed Me". :)
KISS eponymous - Love Theme From KISS Hotter Than Hell - Mainline Dressed to Kill - Rock Bottom Destroyer - Sweet Pain R&R Over - Baby Driver Love Gun - Love for Sale Dynasty - Save your Love Unmasked - every track. If I had to pick a favourite it would be Torpedo Girl. Creatures - Rock and Roll Hell HITS - Silver Spoon Revenge- Tough Love. Spit rules lol Psycho Circus - that stupid ballad that Peter sings Sonic Boom - Stand Monster - Long Way Down
Matt, very informative and I probably agree with you on most selections. I came in right around the same time as you, more towards Lick It Up, right before the make-up came off. Would like to be friends with you on Facebook, if you're there. I also definitely need to know where you got that shirt!
1. Kissin' Time 2. Let Me Go , Rock N Roll 3. Anything For My Baby 4. Flaming Youth 5. See You In Your Dreams 6. Tomorrow And Tonight 7. Save Your Love 8. You're All That I Want 9. Odyssey 10. Keep Me Comin' 11. Gimme' More 12. Murder In High Heels 13. Trial By Fire 14. Bang Bang You 15. Read My Body 16. Tough Love 17. Seduction Of The Innocent 18. I Finally Found My Way 19. All For The Glory 20. Eat Your Heart Out
Music From The Elder was supposed to be a soundtrack to a movie The Elder that was never made, so that was why it was more like a Broadway musical album then a rock album, also I think the song You Wanted the Best was the worst track on Psycho Circus, ad I actually really like Saint and Sinner from Creatures of the Night
I stopped watching this at 5mins in, I’m a KISS fan and I love all they’re tunes. Got aggravated to hear that you chose Getaway as one of your worst KISS songs. Thank God this is your list I couldn’t watch anymore of this shit
My worst-list: Love theme from Kiss (Love it though) Let me go rock and roll (Killer track on "Alive!") She Beth I want you (An absolute killer on "Alive II") Then she kissed me Hold me, touch me Tunnel of love Tossin' and turnin' New York groove Save your love Tomorrow Mr Blackwell Keep me comin' Lick it up While the city sleeps Radar for love Bang bang you Boomerang Thou shalt not I walk alone Within - -
KISS: KISSIN`TIME HOTTER THAN HELL: ALL THE WAY DRESSED TO KILL: ANYTHING FOR MY BABY DESTROYER: SWEET PAIN ROCK AND ROLL OVER: SEE YOU IN YOUR DREAMS LOVE GUN: THEN SHE KISSED ME DYNASTY: X RAY EYES UNMASKED: YOU`RE ALL THAT I WANT. THE ELDER: ODDYSSEY CREATURES OF THE NIGHT: I STILL LOVE YOU LICK IT UP: GIMME MORE ANIMALIZE: GET ALL YOU CAN TAKE ASYLUM: I`M ALIVE CRAZY NIGHTS: BANG BANG YOU OR MY WAY HOT IN THE SHADE: BOOMERANG REVENGE: PARALYZED CARNIVAL OF SOULS: IT NEVER GOES AWAY PSYCHO CIRCUS: I FINALLY FOUND MY WAY SONIC BOOM: NEVER ENOUGH MONSTER: ALL FOR THE LOVE OF ROCK AND ROLL
On COTN, I actually like Saint and Sinner. The song I couldn’t, and still can’t stand to this day is I Still Love You. He put absolutely no effort into that chorus.
This was a well done video, and even though I love most songs you’ve picked, I agree. Let me go rock and roll is one of my all time favorite songs because I appreciate it for what it is. A pure rock and roll song to jam and solo on. I just love that. I’m not a fan of flaming youth, but I would say great expectations is one of the few kiss songs I just can’t get behind. Dirty livin is another one of my favorites. The bassline is one of my favorites, but I was a fan of the disco era stuff. ~Torpedo girl has a fantastic bassline, I agree. Spit is just a crazy song. The musicality of it is really really cool and rocky to me. I would like to point out that carnival has some heartfelt stuff on it like you said, including childhoods end and I will be there. I would personally take raise your glasses or I’ve finally found my way to be worse. We are one is corny but I do love it. Monster and sonic boom suffer a lot because of gene in my opinion. I understand that’s his character but could there not be 100 sexual innuendoes per song? -I am a huge fan of Tommy, despite his tracks being subpar, he’s technical and by the books. I like that. All this is just my opinion of course and o do thought this was a well thought out list. Apologies for the long comment.
1. Love Theme From Kiss 2. Mainline 3. Anything For My Baby 4. Great Expectations 5. Hard Luck Woman 6. Then She Kissed Me 7. Dirty Livin’ 8. You’re All That I Want 9. Odyssey 10. Saint And Sinner 11. Dance All Over Your Face 12. Lonely Is The Hunter 13. Radar For Love 14. Bang Bang You 15. Read My Body 16. Every Time I Look At You 17. Seduction Of The Innocent 18. I Finally Found My Way 19. Never Enough (Poison rip off) 20. Eat My Heart Out
Kissin Time Got to choose Anything for my baby Flaming youth See you in your dreams Christine sixteen Charisma You're all that i want Odyssey Luck it up Heavens on Fire Trial by fire When your walls came down/ Bang Bang you Read my Body Spit I finally found my way When lightning strikes Outta this world
Totally agree on Tommy Thayer's songs in last two albums. His are the worst. Also I do agree on Loney is the Hunter. That's not a song, that's a puke !
-Kissin' Time -Mainline -Ladies In Waiting -Sweet Pain -Baby Driver -Then She Kissed Me -Dirty Livin' -Tomorrow -Odyssey -Saint and Sinner -And On The 8th Day -Murder In High-Heels -I'm Alive -When Your Walls Come Down -Read My Body -Take It Off -Seduction Of The Innocent -Raise Your Glasses -Hot And Cold -Outta This World
1. Kissin’ Time 2.Comin' Home 3. Getaway 4. Sweet Pain 5. Baby Driver 6. Love for Sale 7. Hard Times 8. What Makes The World Go 'Round 9. Odyssey 10. Keep Me Comin' 11. Young and Wasted 12. Get All You Can Take 13. Love's a Deadly Weapon 14. No, No, No 15. Boomerang 16. Spit 17. In The Mirror 18. You Wanted The Best 19. Danger Us 20. Last Chance
Pretty cool list! The kiss nerd in me must point out a few differences in opinion... great expectations, baby driver, hooligan, burn bitch burn, radar for love, you wanted the best are the worst tracks on their respective albums IMO
At least you guys can remember the names of the worst. As a kid I was like, WhatTheFuck is this shit!? And skip it, like I did by skipping every album after Dynasty because METALLICA made KISS look like 4 singing Jewish clowns.😜
My List 1. Kissing time 2. Mainlain 3. None of the album 4. Flaming youth 5. See you in your dreams 6. Then she kissed me 7. X ray eyes 8. Torpedo Girl 9. None but the album is trash 10. Danger 11. Not for the Innocent. 12. Lonely is the hunter 13. Anyway you slice it 14. Good girl gone bad 15. While the city sleeps 16. Spit 17. I will be there 18. I love the album completely 19. All for the glory 20. Out of this world
Matt, I've been a Kiss fan since '76. I think you're spot on across the board. That said, while there are some good songs on Dynasty.. Dirty Livin' grew on me over the years. The demo was tougher, rougher, grittier (not just lyrically). And to be honest, the fact that it stands so far out from the rest of the tracks, well isn't that the point? Dynasty ultimately failed (from a perspective point of view) simply because Paul wanted to dive into disco and capitalize off that trend.. albeit his timing was horrible bc disco soared years earlier and died out by 1979 year end. For better or worse, I feel Dirty Livin' as a demo was more rock, less disco. Just didn't cut it on a disco album so they altered the time signature to create a disco track. Again, I see your POV. Definitely agree with you on the end result.
I'm not gonna lie, you had me in hysterics when you recited some of the lyrics. Especially See You In Your Dreams... Your expression was priceless 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Seriously, great video and great content! I just subscribed. Take good care.
Man, pretty much every Gene song on Animalize and Asylum are turds of an extreme magnitude lyrically. I swear, on Animalize, he fit as many cliches in there as humanly possible. Burn Bitch Burn is a big offender too. You could have picked any Gene song on those albums and been on the money. You hit the nail on the head as far as Gene phoning it in.
1 kissin' time 2 mainline 3 getaway 4 sweet pain 5 see you in your dreams 6 hooligan 7 x ray eyes 8 torpedo girl 9 odyssey 10 saint and sinner 11 fits like a globe 12 burn, bitch, burn 13 trial by fire 14 good girl gone bad 15 somewhere between heaven and hell 16 spit 17 i walk alone 18 i finally found my way 19 when lightning strikes 20 eat your heart out
Kissing time* is a good song - Let me go rock & roll* is a good sone - Flaming youth* is a great song - Then she kissed me* is a great song - Dirty livin' * is a good song - Torpedo girl* is a good song - Odyssey* is a good song - Saint and sinner* is a good song - And on the 8th day* is a great song - My way* is a good song -
1. Love Theme From KISS (74) 2. Strange Ways (74) 3. Rock and Roll All Nite (75) 4. Great Expectations (76) 5. See You In Your Dreams (76) 6. Almost Human (77) 7. Dirty Livin’ (79) 8. Talk To Me (80) 9. Dark Light (81) 10. Killer (82) 11. Young and Wasted (83) 12. Murder In High-Heels (84) 13. Tears Are Falling (85) 14. My Way (87) 15. Rise To It (89) 16. Every Time I Look at You (92) 17. I Will Be There (97) 18. I Finally Found My Way (98) 19. Yes I Know (Nobody’s Perfect) (09) 20. Long Way Down (12)
I think you are really underrating Gene. I have never really liked "him" as a person; however as a musician myself I will say he really gets ranked poorly and very undeservingly . Listen to Goin Blind, Let Me Know, and even Hard Luck woman. (Going Blind) especially--- these bass lines are killer. He very easily could play Torpedo Girl
@@billycain9890 me too, I love We Are One.. and I still agree I Finally Found My Way was fcking hot garbage (coming from someone who always enjoyed Peter in his prime- even own his mid 90s solo album that almost no one remembers)
Love Theme from Kiss Mainline Getaway Sweet Pain Love em and leave em Tomorrow and Tonight Dirty Livin Two sides of the coin Fanfare Danger Dance all Over your face Lonely is the hunter I’m Alive Bang Bang You Read Mu Body Carr Jam In My Head I finally Found my way Danger us Take me down below
"Getaway" may be Frehley's "least popular" song, but the solo kicks ass. He put everything into that. (I'd say "Anything For My Baby" was the candidate here. Paul comes up with a lot of filler if Gene ain't writing anything to bring to the bank.)
1. K- Kissin’ Time 2. HTH- Mainline 3. DTK- Ladies in Waiting 4. D-Do You Love Me 5. RARO-See You In Your Dreams 6. LG-Then She Kissed Me 7. DY-Undecided 8. U-Torpedo Girl 9. MFTE-Odyssey 10. COTN-Danger 11. LIU-Dance All Over Your Face 12. AN-Lonely Is The Hunter 13. AS-Uh! All Night 14. CN-Bang Bang You 15. HITS-Read My Body 16. R-I Just Wanna 17. I Walk Alone/Seduction of The Innocent 18. We Are One I tune out after this one.
Kiss - Black Diamond Hotter Than Hell - Let Me Go, Rock ‘n’ Roll Dressed to Kill - Getaway Destroyer - Great Expectations Rock ‘n’ Roll Over - Baby Driver Love Gun - Then She Kissed Me Dynasty - X-Ray Eyes Unmasked - You’re All That I Want Elder - Mr Blackwell Creatures - Rock ‘n’ Roll Hell Lick it Up - A Million To One Animalize - Burn Bitch Burn Asylum - Secretly Cruel Crazy Nights - When Your Walls Come Down Hot in the Shade - boomerang Revenge - Domino (Unplugged version much better) Psycho Circus - I Finally Found My Way Sonic Boom - Say Yeah Monster - Freak
1. Kissin time 2. Let me go 3. Two timer 4. Sweet pain 5. See you in your dreams 6. Almost human 7. Dirty livin 8. Torpedo girl 9. Odyssey 10. Danger 11. Gimme more 12. Murder in high heels 13. Any way you slice it 14. Bang bang you 15. Boomerang 16. Paralyzed
I’m sure you have your own list of worst KISS tracks for each album. Definitely let me know which ones you come up with, as well as anything else relevant, in the comments below.
Absolutely disagree with FLAMING YOUTH from Destroyer. GREAT SONG!
@@randallbenton4481 Yes ! Actually I consider "Destroyer" the best of the "early " KISS albums. My very first KISS concert was in Chicago for the Destroyer tour. Ahhh, high school memories ! My ears rang for 3 days !
To me, those first 6 albums were classic KISS.
Personally I believe the big hit is several times their worst song on their album. Lick it up..naahhh, Tears are falling..naahh, I was made.., Shandi...
FLAMING YOUTH and not Great Expectations? you're high, dude!
“Let Me Go, Rock ‘n’ Roll” kicks major ass on “Alive!” (1975); absolutely dig the longer guitar solo at the end…
I'm sorry but "Let Me Go Rock and Roll" is one of their absolute best all time songs. It brings down the house every time they play it live!
Nah, it SUCKS!!!
Then why is it not featured on a y live work?
One of my favorite songs
Yeah I agree about this song. It's not the worst on that album. I'd probably go with "All The Way" because all of the other songs are solid. Even "Mainline."
@@RobertWilkinsonJKekMaloy It IS, it closes out the "Alive" second disc. They played a an absolutely EPIC version.
Let Me Go Rock And Roll is one of the best songs on Hotter Than Hell. Also, Hotter Than Hell is a perfect album.
I agree this guy doesn't know to much about music
Facts. He legit ranks it as the worst cuz of one ”bad lyric” like bruh? How tf is Flaming Youth worse than Great Expectations? Also maybe Paul meant that young people was fired up and about young people and teens who are kiss fans setting the world on fire with their energy. Even if it didn’t so fucking what if it’s about gay people? A band can sing about whatever they want?
Let Me Go Rock N’ Roll is an absolute banger? So what if it had that old timey sound a band isn’t necesarily suppoused to follow the current format. Hell, thereare bands today who still make glam metal type music even if it’s not popural.
And saying that Ace is a better bass player than Gene. Just cuz it’s complicated dosen’t mean it’s good. And just cuz it’s simple dosen’t mean it’s bad.
I totally agree. He lost me when he picked that one.
I probably would have picked Mainline
@@elvis5138 I personally feel like Beth is the worst song on Destroyer .. I've grown to hate this song, it is so overplayed .. second worst, Do You Love Me, same reason.
Dirty living is the best song on Dynasty. And ace's solo is smokin
I agree, also love Ace's guitar on this.
Dirty living and Hard Times are the ones that save this album. Hes obviously never heard Dynasty. Charisma? Xray eyes?
worst song on Dynasty is I was made for loving you.
Same, I feel like Dynasty gets a lot of unwarranted hate just because of the disco tinges. That's a far better song than "I was made for loving you"
Every song by Ace on Dynasty is great
Man, we have different tastes in KISS songs!
I agree with your comment 💯% . I was just thinking the same thing.
Naked City, Under The Rose and Two Timer are all great. Also Odyssey is great too.
Naked City and Under The Rose are my favourite songs on those albums
I cannot pick a song from Unmasked as my least favorite. I don’t know why but I absolutely love this album and every song on it. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I can’t say anything good about anything on both Sonic Boom and Monster. I first saw KISS on the Crazy Nights tour and that album, to me, is like Unmasked. I absolutely love it and I can’t pick a least favorite song on it. The rest of your picks I agree with.
I’m with you. I LOVE Unmasked. Two of my top five KISS songs come from it with Talk to Me being my favorite KISS song.
For me Unmasked is my favorite Kiss album too! I love how much Ace contributed along with Anton Fig playing drums. The production is kinda thin unfortunately with the guitars sounding like they're playing through a 5 watt Fender Champ.
I'm from Vancouver Island Canada and my Grandparents used to winter in Palm Springs and before they came back they would ask if I wanted anything. I asked for this album on cassette. I remember it had a beige case which was odd, the cassette itself was white and the clear plastic screen on one side was missing. But in 1987 for me this album was almost perfect.
As a drummer and bass player, Torpedo Girl was the holy grail to be able to play for me and my friends in our early teens. But as this guy mentions, the lyrics are beyond cheezy but I was too busy trying to learn how to play the hi-hat with my left foot on the up beat while playing a kind of syncopated thing with the snare and toms.
Shandi is a very good song that in my eyes gets glazed over by many critics for whatever reason. Talk to Me and She's So European were great too. Is that you is even a song I crave to hear every now and again.
I too love Unmasked, but I'm going to have to go with Torpedo Girl as my least favorite .. as much as I love Ace, it's just a silly song.
Unmasked is definitely the worst Kiss album ever way too polished way too pop
I love Unmasked, too. Not every song, but Torpedo Girl is one of my faves. And I gave up on Kiss after Lick It Up. A few songs here and there are ok, but not much into the bulk of it.
3:02 Kissin’ Time was recorded (reluctantly for a promotional campaign and as you said Casablanca released it as a single and added the single to their already released debut album against their wishes.
KISS reluctantly agreed to record the lyrically updated version of Bobby Rydell's 1959 hit (for Bobby Rydell) Kissin' Time using it in a series of local radio kissing contests designed to boost sales of the album. Apparently they recorded it within 30 minutes… not a bad cover, I personally kinda like it.
I like it, too
I think it's an absolute rocker . Aces best guitar solo as far as I'm concerned!!
Okay….the Hotter than hell track “Let me go rock and roll” was a great song way back when that album came out! If you ever saw them do it live in concert it’s such a high energy song!!!
If it was high energy, why is it not on Alive?
Uhh. It is on Kiss Alive bro..
@@RobertWilkinsonJKekMaloybro you smokin' something? Musta passed out before the album ended.
I respectfully Disagree with you on Flaming Youth and Then she kissed me.
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"Absolutely nothing to do with the track"...I can clearly hear Gene's backing vocals on Getaway.
Same album, different song (and vocal) - - you can hear Ace singing background on Rock Bottom
Ace DOES drop down to sound like gene. Watched him do it live just a few months ago at Miller Auditorium. That SpaceMan is the Only Space Man.
It's interesting to see how different KISS fans' picks for best or worst tracks are. Some of my all time favorite KISS songs are precisely on your list, hahaha: I do love Kissin' Time, Getaway, Flaming Youth, Then She Kissed Me, Dirty Livin', Torpedo Girl, Odyssey and We Are One. My favorite KISS studio albums, in order, are: 1. Destroyer (I love Great Expectations too!), 2. Love Gun, 3. Unmasked, 4. Dynasty, 5. KISS. I go for song catchiness rather than heaviness and don't really mind lyrics that much when it comes to KISS, so that's why.
Nice to find another Unmasked fan
People don’t like Flaming Youth?
oh man, "Read my Body" is a top ten KISS song for me.... and im not joking
About the only thing I agreed with here was And Then She Kissed Me and Odyssey. Flaming Youth is my favorite track on Destroyer.
Mine too. I would personally pick Beth or Great Expectations
Dressed to Kill is proof that it is better to put out a short album than a long album full of fillers. Every song is razor sharp.
Meanwhile Hot In The Shade should have been called Hot Garbage ! 🤮
I always want a KISS tour in the DTK suits
@@SirManflyhonestly if they whittled it down to 9 or 10 tracks it would’ve been so much more palatable. Still not amazing but definitely better than the hour long mess we got. I use this on playlists
1. Rise to It
2. Prisoner of Love
3. Hide Your Heart
4. Forever
5. Cadillac Dreams
6. King of Hearts
7. You Love Me to Hate You
8. Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
9. Boomerang
Still not amazing but it’s far more streamlined
def one of my fave albums
Yes: Dressed is a tight, punchy record (with poor audio engineering).
70% agreed, getaway is cool, dirty living is cool, let me go is awesome, remember that kiss is only about having fun, not necessarily Pink Floyd lyrics but instead you can feel the power
Haven't started watching the video yet but I love that this exists. Once I became a teenager back in 05-07 and started getting into music for the first time, I fell down the KISS rabbithole since they were my Dad's favourite band. I ripped a lot of the Kissology audio and uploaded it as bootlegs on Guitars 101. Fun times.
The back catalog of KISS is a sort of boomer rock purgatory; what happens when very wealthy people have very bad song ideas yet can afford infinite studio time to ensure that these are packaged and sold as commercial products on a yearly basis.
There is no set pattern to this chaos but it generally alternates between Gene the narcissistic sex pest, and Stanley Eisen being a more articulate and nuanced sex pest. There is a difference I promise and KISS fans will know what I'm talking about.
The result is KISS' library being split effectively in two; there are songs the band was proud to play live (even if for a single tour, common with them) and are worth listening to over and over again, and the other half - close to ten whole album's worth - of the worst, most soulless and contrived boomer rock imaginable. Their work ethic is admirable for the sole reason that they wrote and sold as many brutal, soul-crushingly bad songs shoehorned onto good or otherwise great albums, as other bands have written total in their entire discography. This is probably why I love them so much. Their good songs are great, but their bad songs are completely unhinged and insane, and there are so goddamn many of them covering all possible rock subgenres.
And KISS kept doing it, consistently until 2012, culminating in an entire album worth of forgettable music - their magnum opus. Monster is quintessential KISS. It's so bad I won't listen to it or pretend it exists, just as the band, in live shows, pretends half their discography doesn't exist either. Very meta!
There are three songs that highlight this: Rockin' in the USA (Alive II), Fits Like a Glove, and Bang Bang You. Even on their most commercially successful albums, the band is creatively bankrupt and borderline retarded. Gene's penis is a snake. Paul's penis, however, is a cannonball! This is the nuance I was talking about. Germany was really neat. Truly we are in the presence of legends.
Anyways the worst song off HITS is Read My Body.
Love the content...but I gotta disagree about Ace playing bass better than Gene did. Dude is a severely UNDERrated bass player. Seriously go back and listen to many of the bass lines on the first 6 albums in particular. Great stuff!!
I agree, 100%. Gene never gets enough credit for his bass playing, his bass lines are what made so many of those 70s bangers. Interesting lines that differ to the guitar parts, and really add some drive to the songs. Very underrated bass player 🤘🏻
Let me go rock n roll is a GREAT SONG...My favorite actually... especially live
So glad I own an OG version of the debut. I never even heard the offender until around 10 years ago.
Bass line on Dirty Livin' (Dynasty) was awesome
Great bass line. Great guitar work, great vocals, great lyrics. WTH this guy thinking?
Such an underrated song. It could be a huge hit if some pop star covered it.
In fact i do like their cover of and then she kissed me, the song i really dont like on love gun is tomorrow and tonight.
Let Me Go Rock And Roll is awesome on the Kiss Alive album.
Been a fan since 75’…a real fan takes the good with the bad and doesn’t trash their work. 200+ songs that we know of for sure and about 10 or so are lackluster…I am sure they can live with that. I enjoyed the post but disagree on about half of the songs, especially “Let Me Go Rock n Roll” and “Flaming Youth”, I agree the chorus in Flaming Youth needed something but it was still a great song.
I stopped buying KISS albums, yes albums, after Love Gun. Not because I didn’t like them anymore, just kinda outgrew them for awhile.
“Let me go rock n roll” was an awesome RnR “throwback “ that I always turned up on the stereo !
100% agree! Had all albums up to love gun. After that album, just out grew them I guess.
I love Getaway....love it!
1. Black Diamond (love this live)
2. Got to Choose
3. Love her all I can
4. Beth (never liked that)
5. Mr. Speed
6. Then she kissed me (like it)
7. Sure know Something
8. Shandie
9. Odyssey (but love it)
10 Keep me Comin‘
11. Lick it up
12. Heavens on Fire
13. Tears are Falling
Later Albums I never had until
Psycho Circus :
18. I finally find my way
My List ends here !
Mr Speed? Seriously! Kick ass riff on that one!
There's a few Kiss albums that don't have a bad song at all in my opinion that's the debut Kiss album dress to kill creatures of the night and revenge and also rock and roll over
When I was about 10 years old my father, genuinely interested in what music I was getting into, sat down for a listen of some songs from Dressed to Kill with me. "Getaway" completely made him burst out laughing at "got no dough." He kept on laughing and going "I gotta get away" and "got no dough." It was a pretty magical moment.
Hot In The Shade needs a remaster/remix badly.
For me, the worst song on Psycho Circus is hands down You Wanted The Best. Definitely not one of Gene's better outings
I absolutely love Kissin' Time. They really sing their asses off on that one.
I liked "Then She Kissed Me"
from hotter than hell : strange ways, rarer: baby driver, from love gun :Hooligan", Dynasty:"Dirty Livin' ", unmasked :"Easy as It Seems",the elder:escape from the island, from lick : Fits Like a Glove", animalize : Lonely Is the Hunter",Asylum: Radar for Love", crazy nights: "Thief in the Night", hit shade : "Read My Body", revenge :"Spit",carnival :"In the Mirror", p circus :"I Finally Found My Way", ( we are one is awesome ),sonic boom :Russian Roulette", monster :"Back to the Stone Age"
I think you were pretty easy going on these selections, and especially for The Elder...and I also sing along with laughter every damn time. Nice one, once again mate!
We only differ in two choices: On "Hotter Than Hell" it should be "Mainline" ("Mainline... baby, give it to me one time"). On "Animalize" it is definitely "Burn, Bitch, Burn" ("Oh babe, I wanna put my log in your fireplace"). "Burn, Bitch, Burn" isn't just the worst KISS song on that album, it is their worst, period. Maybe the worst song in rock. Ever.
spot on!
Love Mainline, the worst song on Hotter Than Hell is the title track to me.
You said "kissin time"..... and I quit watching this BS. That song is fun!!!
Well I guess like he said it’s his opinion
The one lyric that Gene got right on Animalize was "Girls love money, Like bees to honey" lonely is the hunter was one of his better ones,lol
I was with you until the early 80s. I Love It Loud is the worst on Creatures.I’m Alive is worse than Trial By Fire. Bang Bang You is worse than. My Way.HITS is easier to say what is a good song, but Read My Body is the worst. And I’ve always loved Torpedo Girl.
I left after he said "Let Me Go Rock n Roll" was the worst song on Hotter Than Hell!! Blaspheme!!
I totally diagree on Flaming Youth, Getaway, Dirty Livin, Torpedo Girl, And On The 8th Day, Trial By Fire.
I loved dirty living. Guess I am strange. Lol
KIϟϟ - "Love Theme from Kiss"
Hotter Than Hell - "Goin' Blind"
Dressed to Kill - "Ladies in Waiting"
Destroyer - "Great Expectations"
Rock and Roll Over - "See You in Your Dreams"
Love Gun - "Christine Sixteen"
Alive II (Side Four) - "Rockin' in the U.S.A."
Paul Stanley - "Hold Me, Touch Me (Think of Me When We're Apart)"
Gene Simmons - "See You Tonite"
Ace Frehley - "Wiped-Out"
Peter Criss - "Kiss the Girl Goodbye"
Dynasty - "2,000 Man"
Unmasked - "Is That You?"
Music From "The Elder" - "Fanfare"
Killers (new tracks only) - "Down on Your Knees"
Creatures of the Night - "Killer"
Lick It Up - "Dance All Over Your Face"
Animalize - "Burn Bitch Burn"
Asylum - "Trial by Fire"
Crazy Nights - "Bang Bang You"
Hot in the Shade - "Read My Body"
Revenge - "Spit"
Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions - "I Walk Alone"
Psycho Circus - "Raise Your Glasses"
Sonic Boom - "Yes I Know (Nobody's Perfect)"
Monster - "All for the Love of Rock & Roll"
not only does Gene sing "baby" a lot on Let me go rock n roll...but his bass guitar is saying it throughout the whole song. "babeh babeh babeh" is his part on the guitar.
Let Me Go Rock and Roll is great and Get Away is cool too. The Destroyer and Rock and Roll Over quotes I agree with. On Love Gun I never liked Christine Sixteen because I thought it was so corny when he talks in the middle of the song. Like a do wop song from 1962.
Let me go Rock and Roll is an absolute banger. It’s a perfect party song, and is hands down one of their best live songs.
Almost Human from Love Gun is even worse, despite having a pretty cool groove, it just is a squashed under the burden of its cheesy lyrics and it just stagnates early. The guitar work almost saves it though!
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No, you’re thinking of Burn Bitch Burn. Or would that be Idioms? Well, most idioms are convoluted metaphors, so whatever.
Ace is the best lyricist in the band. Flaming Youth is way better than Great Expectations
Ace’s solo on ‘Kissin Time’ is superb. ‘Ladies in Waitin’ is the blandest 70s KISS imo. My favourite tracks on Dynasty and Unmasked are your least favourite. 😂 Each to their own. Thanks anyway.
I am late to this thread... but, being a HUGE Kiss fan, I know almost every song by heart. And I agree with most of this... and I am impressed with the thought that went into this video. But, I still like most of the songs mentioned here.... Including "Then She Kissed Me". :)
Also... "My Way" is in my top ten Kiss songs. It is so uplifting
KISS eponymous - Love Theme From KISS
Hotter Than Hell - Mainline
Dressed to Kill - Rock Bottom
Destroyer - Sweet Pain
R&R Over - Baby Driver
Love Gun - Love for Sale
Dynasty - Save your Love
Unmasked - every track. If I had to pick a favourite it would be Torpedo Girl.
Creatures - Rock and Roll Hell
HITS - Silver Spoon
Revenge- Tough Love. Spit rules lol
Psycho Circus - that stupid ballad that Peter sings
Sonic Boom - Stand
Monster - Long Way Down
“Music From The Elder” is their best album!!! “Odyssey” is a masterpiece!!! xoxo The Clarences
Flaming Youth, My Way and I Walk Alone are amazing songs.
Matt, very informative and I probably agree with you on most selections. I came in right around the same time as you, more towards Lick It Up, right before the make-up came off. Would like to be friends with you on Facebook, if you're there. I also definitely need to know where you got that shirt!
Bob Halligan Jr wrote "some heads are gonna roll" by Judas Priest. That elevates him above all the styles and songs you named here.
1. Kissin' Time
2. Let Me Go , Rock N Roll
3. Anything For My Baby
4. Flaming Youth
5. See You In Your Dreams
6. Tomorrow And Tonight
7. Save Your Love
8. You're All That I Want
9. Odyssey
10. Keep Me Comin'
11. Gimme' More
12. Murder In High Heels
13. Trial By Fire
14. Bang Bang You
15. Read My Body
16. Tough Love
17. Seduction Of The Innocent
18. I Finally Found My Way
19. All For The Glory
20. Eat Your Heart Out
I love a lot of your least favorites. Dirty Livin', Trial by Fire, My Way, and Read My Body are catchy as fuck
Ya these are kinda weird picks because they’re all pretty good 🤷🏻♂️
Music From The Elder was supposed to be a soundtrack to a movie The Elder that was never made, so that was why it was more like a Broadway musical album then a rock album, also I think the song You Wanted the Best was the worst track on Psycho Circus, ad I actually really like Saint and Sinner from Creatures of the Night
I stopped watching this at 5mins in, I’m a KISS fan and I love all they’re tunes. Got aggravated to hear that you chose Getaway as one of your worst KISS songs. Thank God this is your list I couldn’t watch anymore of this shit
My worst-list:
Love theme from Kiss (Love it though)
Let me go rock and roll (Killer track on "Alive!")
She
Beth
I want you (An absolute killer on "Alive II")
Then she kissed me
Hold me, touch me
Tunnel of love
Tossin' and turnin'
New York groove
Save your love
Tomorrow
Mr Blackwell
Keep me comin'
Lick it up
While the city sleeps
Radar for love
Bang bang you
Boomerang
Thou shalt not
I walk alone
Within
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KISS: KISSIN`TIME
HOTTER THAN HELL: ALL THE WAY
DRESSED TO KILL: ANYTHING FOR MY BABY
DESTROYER: SWEET PAIN
ROCK AND ROLL OVER: SEE YOU IN YOUR DREAMS
LOVE GUN: THEN SHE KISSED ME
DYNASTY: X RAY EYES
UNMASKED: YOU`RE ALL THAT I WANT.
THE ELDER: ODDYSSEY
CREATURES OF THE NIGHT: I STILL LOVE YOU
LICK IT UP: GIMME MORE
ANIMALIZE: GET ALL YOU CAN TAKE
ASYLUM: I`M ALIVE
CRAZY NIGHTS: BANG BANG YOU OR MY WAY
HOT IN THE SHADE: BOOMERANG
REVENGE: PARALYZED
CARNIVAL OF SOULS: IT NEVER GOES AWAY
PSYCHO CIRCUS: I FINALLY FOUND MY WAY
SONIC BOOM: NEVER ENOUGH
MONSTER: ALL FOR THE LOVE OF ROCK AND ROLL
Great video, however I love "torpedo girl"😊
On COTN, I actually like Saint and Sinner. The song I couldn’t, and still can’t stand to this day is I Still Love You. He put absolutely no effort into that chorus.
This was a well done video, and even though I love most songs you’ve picked, I agree.
Let me go rock and roll is one of my all time favorite songs because I appreciate it for what it is. A pure rock and roll song to jam and solo on. I just love that.
I’m not a fan of flaming youth, but I would say great expectations is one of the few kiss songs I just can’t get behind.
Dirty livin is another one of my favorites. The bassline is one of my favorites, but I was a fan of the disco era stuff.
~Torpedo girl has a fantastic bassline, I agree.
Spit is just a crazy song. The musicality of it is really really cool and rocky to me.
I would like to point out that carnival has some heartfelt stuff on it like you said, including childhoods end and I will be there.
I would personally take raise your glasses or I’ve finally found my way to be worse. We are one is corny but I do love it.
Monster and sonic boom suffer a lot because of gene in my opinion. I understand that’s his character but could there not be 100 sexual innuendoes per song?
-I am a huge fan of Tommy, despite his tracks being subpar, he’s technical and by the books. I like that.
All this is just my opinion of course and o do thought this was a well thought out list. Apologies for the long comment.
Getaway is a great song. Lyrics are weak I agree however. Never dug Ladies in Waiting.
Aw I love We Are One and Outta This World
1. Love Theme From Kiss
2. Mainline
3. Anything For My Baby
4. Great Expectations
5. Hard Luck Woman
6. Then She Kissed Me
7. Dirty Livin’
8. You’re All That I Want
9. Odyssey
10. Saint And Sinner
11. Dance All Over Your Face
12. Lonely Is The Hunter
13. Radar For Love
14. Bang Bang You
15. Read My Body
16. Every Time I Look At You
17. Seduction Of The Innocent
18. I Finally Found My Way
19. Never Enough (Poison rip off)
20. Eat My Heart Out
Hard Luck Woman and Dirty Livin' are great songs , have you got something against Peter Criss ?
I disagree on 4? of these, but your list is MUCH closer to mine.
A Peter hater, I see.
Kissin Time
Got to choose
Anything for my baby
Flaming youth
See you in your dreams
Christine sixteen
Charisma
You're all that i want
Odyssey
Luck it up
Heavens on Fire
Trial by fire
When your walls came down/ Bang Bang you
Read my Body
Spit
I finally found my way
When lightning strikes
Outta this world
Totally agree on Tommy Thayer's songs in last two albums. His are the worst. Also I do agree on Loney is the Hunter. That's not a song, that's a puke !
Boomerang on Hot in the Shade is easily the worst on that album. And Burn Bitch Burn on Animalize
The kissin time is for a kissing competition.
-Kissin' Time
-Mainline
-Ladies In Waiting
-Sweet Pain
-Baby Driver
-Then She Kissed Me
-Dirty Livin'
-Tomorrow
-Odyssey
-Saint and Sinner
-And On The 8th Day
-Murder In High-Heels
-I'm Alive
-When Your Walls Come Down
-Read My Body
-Take It Off
-Seduction Of The Innocent
-Raise Your Glasses
-Hot And Cold
-Outta This World
1. Kissin’ Time 2.Comin' Home 3. Getaway 4. Sweet Pain
5. Baby Driver 6. Love for Sale 7. Hard Times 8. What Makes The World Go 'Round
9. Odyssey 10. Keep Me Comin' 11. Young and Wasted 12. Get All You Can Take
13. Love's a Deadly Weapon 14. No, No, No 15. Boomerang 16. Spit
17. In The Mirror 18. You Wanted The Best 19. Danger Us 20. Last Chance
Pretty cool list! The kiss nerd in me must point out a few differences in opinion... great expectations, baby driver, hooligan, burn bitch burn, radar for love, you wanted the best are the worst tracks on their respective albums IMO
At least you guys can remember the names of the worst. As a kid I was like, WhatTheFuck is this shit!? And skip it, like I did by skipping every album after Dynasty because METALLICA made KISS look like 4 singing Jewish clowns.😜
My List
1. Kissing time
2. Mainlain
3. None of the album
4. Flaming youth
5. See you in your dreams
6. Then she kissed me
7. X ray eyes
8. Torpedo Girl
9. None but the album is trash
10. Danger
11. Not for the Innocent.
12. Lonely is the hunter
13. Anyway you slice it
14. Good girl gone bad
15. While the city sleeps
16. Spit
17. I will be there
18. I love the album completely
19. All for the glory
20. Out of this world
Agree with #3
@@dexterjankaren Thanks man, wichone is your favorite?
Matt, I've been a Kiss fan since '76. I think you're spot on across the board. That said, while there are some good songs on Dynasty.. Dirty Livin' grew on me over the years. The demo was tougher, rougher, grittier (not just lyrically). And to be honest, the fact that it stands so far out from the rest of the tracks, well isn't that the point? Dynasty ultimately failed (from a perspective point of view) simply because Paul wanted to dive into disco and capitalize off that trend.. albeit his timing was horrible bc disco soared years earlier and died out by 1979 year end. For better or worse, I feel Dirty Livin' as a demo was more rock, less disco. Just didn't cut it on a disco album so they altered the time signature to create a disco track. Again, I see your POV. Definitely agree with you on the end result.
I use to not like Let Me Go Rock 'n Roll until I realized that Peter has many great drum fills throughout.
Torpedo Girl is vastly underrated.
I think that’s the fastest song KISS does. Under 3 minutes ?
It's great on Kiss Alive.
I'm not gonna lie, you had me in hysterics when you recited some of the lyrics. Especially See You In Your Dreams... Your expression was priceless 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Seriously, great video and great content! I just subscribed. Take good care.
Man, pretty much every Gene song on Animalize and Asylum are turds of an extreme magnitude lyrically. I swear, on Animalize, he fit as many cliches in there as humanly possible. Burn Bitch Burn is a big offender too. You could have picked any Gene song on those albums and been on the money. You hit the nail on the head as far as Gene phoning it in.
I would go with Great Expectations for worst on Destroyer. But it's not bad.
1 kissin' time
2 mainline
3 getaway
4 sweet pain
5 see you in your dreams
6 hooligan
7 x ray eyes
8 torpedo girl
9 odyssey
10 saint and sinner
11 fits like a globe
12 burn, bitch, burn
13 trial by fire
14 good girl gone bad
15 somewhere between heaven and hell
16 spit
17 i walk alone
18 i finally found my way
19 when lightning strikes
20 eat your heart out
I cringe when I hear a kiss fan that got into them first time in the 80s and totally don’t get the 70s.
Most of these songs I love. Let me Go Rock n' Roll. Getaway. And Then She Kissed Me. Dirty Livin. We Are One.
Kissing time* is a good song - Let me go rock & roll* is a good sone - Flaming youth* is a great song - Then she kissed me* is a great song - Dirty livin' * is a good song - Torpedo girl* is a good song - Odyssey* is a good song - Saint and sinner* is a good song - And on the 8th day* is a great song - My way* is a good song -
Good video! I love Saint and Sinner, it may be my current favorite on Creatures. I agree with most of your choices, though.
1. Love Theme From KISS (74)
2. Strange Ways (74)
3. Rock and Roll All Nite (75)
4. Great Expectations (76)
5. See You In Your Dreams (76)
6. Almost Human (77)
7. Dirty Livin’ (79)
8. Talk To Me (80)
9. Dark Light (81)
10. Killer (82)
11. Young and Wasted (83)
12. Murder In High-Heels (84)
13. Tears Are Falling (85)
14. My Way (87)
15. Rise To It (89)
16. Every Time I Look at You (92)
17. I Will Be There (97)
18. I Finally Found My Way (98)
19. Yes I Know (Nobody’s Perfect) (09)
20. Long Way Down (12)
I think you are really underrating Gene. I have never really liked "him" as a person; however as a musician myself I will say he really gets ranked poorly and very undeservingly . Listen to Goin Blind, Let Me Know, and even Hard Luck woman. (Going Blind) especially--- these bass lines are killer. He very easily could play Torpedo Girl
Flaming youth is a great song!
“We are One” isn’t good, but “I finally found my way” is a top 10 all time worst kiss song.
Shows you how different kiss fans are I love the song We Are One
@@billycain9890
me too, I love We Are One.. and I still agree I Finally Found My Way was fcking hot garbage (coming from someone who always enjoyed Peter in his prime- even own his mid 90s solo album that almost no one remembers)
Love Theme from Kiss
Mainline
Getaway
Sweet Pain
Love em and leave em
Tomorrow and Tonight
Dirty Livin
Two sides of the coin
Fanfare
Danger
Dance all Over your face
Lonely is the hunter
I’m Alive
Bang Bang You
Read Mu Body
Carr Jam
In My Head
I finally Found my way
Danger us
Take me down below
"Getaway" may be Frehley's "least popular" song, but the solo kicks ass. He put everything into that. (I'd say "Anything For My Baby" was the candidate here. Paul comes up with a lot of filler if Gene ain't writing anything to bring to the bank.)
1. K- Kissin’ Time
2. HTH- Mainline
3. DTK- Ladies in Waiting
4. D-Do You Love Me
5. RARO-See You In Your Dreams
6. LG-Then She Kissed Me
7. DY-Undecided
8. U-Torpedo Girl
9. MFTE-Odyssey
10. COTN-Danger
11. LIU-Dance All Over Your Face
12. AN-Lonely Is The Hunter
13. AS-Uh! All Night
14. CN-Bang Bang You
15. HITS-Read My Body
16. R-I Just Wanna
17. I Walk Alone/Seduction of The Innocent
18. We Are One
I tune out after this one.
Kiss - Black Diamond
Hotter Than Hell - Let Me Go, Rock ‘n’ Roll
Dressed to Kill - Getaway
Destroyer - Great Expectations
Rock ‘n’ Roll Over - Baby Driver
Love Gun - Then She Kissed Me
Dynasty - X-Ray Eyes
Unmasked - You’re All That I Want
Elder - Mr Blackwell
Creatures - Rock ‘n’ Roll Hell
Lick it Up - A Million To One
Animalize - Burn Bitch Burn
Asylum - Secretly Cruel
Crazy Nights - When Your Walls Come Down
Hot in the Shade - boomerang
Revenge - Domino (Unplugged version much better)
Psycho Circus - I Finally Found My Way
Sonic Boom - Say Yeah
Monster - Freak
Also none of these are based on the lyrics, if you started analysing Kiss lyrics most songs would make the list.
Kissing time is one of my favorites
1. Kissin time
2. Let me go
3. Two timer
4. Sweet pain
5. See you in your dreams
6. Almost human
7. Dirty livin
8. Torpedo girl
9. Odyssey
10. Danger
11. Gimme more
12. Murder in high heels
13. Any way you slice it
14. Bang bang you
15. Boomerang
16. Paralyzed
Let me go rock and roll is the most under rated song by KISS. I would choose Mainline.
You lost me with Let me Go Rock n Roll. One of their best songs.
How bout that Sonic Boom dog shit greatest hits package lol