Great review, I agree with your placement of crazy nights. That’s an awesome Paul story, really cool that it went well and you can look back and its all good.Happy thanksgiving too!
I loved your review of Lick It Up. I thought you were spot on about that album and Creatures; however, I disagree with this review of Crazy Night. You’re right about the pandering and time period. I have always enjoyed this album more than Hot in the Shade and even Revenge. Turn on the Night, Reason to Live, Crazy, Crazy Nights, and Good Girl makes this a good listen for me. Also, I like Nevison and what he did for Survivor. Glad you like The Elder. My favorite Kiss album is and has always been Dynasty. I am 60, and I enjoy every album from 79 on, save Carnival. Good job with these reviews.
Hey, I appreciate you saying so! Thanks for watching! Believe me, I can definitely recall spending a LOT of time with Crazy Nights in '87 and '88. When it came out I thought it was just fantastic. It was only years later that I started to rethink that opinion a little bit. And I do still understand why a lot of people love the album. I really think it's all just about what each of us is looking to get from a band at certain points in our lives. And, for whatever reason, this album just doesn't hold quite as much appeal for me as some of the others do these days. But absolutely nothing wrong with ANY album a person loves, in my opinion. If you love something, just love it! Part of the beauty of music. 😊 Again, thanks for watching and for chiming in!
'Crazy Nights' was a period-piece for me, more of a mile-stone in my personal life at the time. The album was clearly an effort to sonically embrace the slick late-80s metal sound. I liked it, yet I preferred the sound on Asylum and Animalize more so. I saw the Crazy Nights tour in Toronto December 1987 with Ted Nugent as the opener. The staging was fantastic albeit with limited pyro and a setlist leaning heavily on KISS 80s song catalogue. In the rearview mirror Crazy Nights was made palatable because of Eric Carr and Bruce Kulick. 'Crazy Nights', 'Reason to Live' and 'Turn on the Night' are the stand-out songs for me.
I mostly agree with you. I would only rank Sonic Boom, Monster, Gene Simmons and Peter Criss solo albums as being worse than Crazy Nights. At least Reason to Live and Turn on the Night give the album some merit.
Hated it at first. Wanted a heavy record and got the opposite. But this album really grew on me years later. Crazy nights. My way. Turn on the night are good ones
The saddest thing about this album. They took almost 2 years between this and Asylum and only 2: songs, Reason to Live, and the title were tolerable. What I diid love though was that the band quickly made a a wardrobe change by ditching the Asylum bright colors. I will proudly stand up and say that Reason to Live was one of the better ballads ot the 80s and certainly kept KISS relevant.
You ever think it's weird that the album is called "Crazy Nights", but the song is "Crazy Crazy Nights" and yet during the chorus they repeat it 4 times, "These Are Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Nights"? Just a little thing I noticed.
Oh my...I picked My Way to put on the worst KISS songs list and you gave it 4 stars, lol, I love the lyrics too, by themselves. Actually I have a huge kiss playlist and 6, YES! 6 songs from this album are on it. I think they are good songs but not great KISS songs. I don't mind it when the songs come around every now and then, but I cannot listen to the album straight through.
On a another note this was the 1st brand new released kiss album that I ever bought and it was the 1st show I ever attended in Worcester mass January of 88. They filmed the turn on the night video there. So regardless this album will always have a special place in my heart.
Hehe....this album did it pretty great in Norway I remember and I still have the record I bought then 😃👍 Wow! Shook the hand of Paul Stanley, you lucky you 😎🎸👍
I remember the hits, most were catchy earworms, especially the leadoff. Mom had this LP, and for me, it just didn't quite make it, but kept trying. Everytime something would seem like really taking off, something WTF would knock it back down. It is similar in ways to Unmasked, but for me, I settle that by how far I go, before hitting "skip". Unmasked, I can usually go to, or through Easy As It Seems, while CN gets a skip or two much earlier. No No No, is much better live. Some of the thing with this album, is the lineup on it, and maybe an expectation of what that bunch could do, then being reminded of it, by almost every other song in the set. Still, I'd ask, would CN be more what would be fine for Thayer and Singer?
@@charlene2400 😆😆😆😆😆! Yeah, Exposed came out between Asylum and CN, that's right. And, next thing you know, Paul is wearing workout clothes all the time. Haha!
I absolutely loved your concert story. How cool!!! When they came to Denver, Anthrax opened. I was so excited about that. I was in the 13th row. To this day, the best seats I'd ever had at a KISS show. While not on par with your story, I did have a weird cool moment. I was such a fan of Paul and was directly in front of him. He is so good with engaging the audience but I wasn't prepared when he actually looked at me, lol. I was 19 and I literally froze. Again, like you, this someone I had idolized from a young age, acknowledging my existence. Sounds so stupid now but it was such an out of body experience. Now on to the album. I really liked the album a lot back then. I still do actually, it's not in the upper half and it is a bit dated in sound. I actually liked all of Gene's songs for a change, even if it was him trying sound like what he thought was in. The album cover is one of my favs. If I were to rank covers, I'd have it around 7. I wish I had kept my shirt from the tour. I'm glad they got away from this sound though. It's really just a time capsule of 1987. When I put it on now, I can enjoy it for that reason. Anyway, I enjoyed this review
That's a really cool Paul Story! That made me happy and smile as you were telling it. I'm glad you had that moment with Paul Stanley. I actually think that Hot In The Shade is a worse album than Crazy Nights, but that's just my opinion. Next time I watch one of your reviews, I'm gonna watch the review on Hot In The Shade. If your wondering, Crazy Nights would be number 17 and Hot In The Shade would be 18 in my ranking of the KISS albums. Well, take care.
Your intro was a friggin' trip made me Lol. I always liked this album but it was way overboard with the keyboards that is an overriding negative. It is my wish beyond wishes for them to professionally produce and release Sword And Stone. I like Bon Fires version on the Shocker soundtrack but Paul absolutes sings the hell out of it on the demo. A big F YOU to Nevison for not putting it on the album. I have the original Crazy Nights LP and will gladly sell it to you for $45. TREMENDOUS story to close
I'd have to get loopy too in order to review this album. Seems like the beers were flowing like a river when u did this. Terrible album but Hot in the Shade is almost as bad.
Crazy Nights was intended to be a glam rock album; the band waited a whole year for producer Ron Nevison to become available. It was certified platinum, but sold below expectations.
Bang Bang You is cheesy, even for Kiss! It seemed like ever since Kiss fell from grace in their heyday of popularity (late 70's), they were chasing success ever since. They did pretty good in the mid 80's with Animalize and Asylum but I don't think those albums brought them the success they were hoping for. So Paul decided to wait to work with Ron Nevison to help bring them the smash success they were chasing, but it didn't happen. Crazy Nights did o.k, but it wasn't a smash like the Heart album Ron produced several years earlier.
I found the Crazy Nights album very underrated, but it’s by far a perfect album. A few ways to make it a much greater album: 1. Add Sword and Stone, Time Traveler, Promise the Moon, and When two hearts Collide. 2. Complete lyrical overhaul to When Your Walls come down. 3. Complete lyrical overhaul to Bang Bang You, and make with a faster tempo (much like live performance). 4. Change song order. Have Turn On the Night is the final track. 5. Limit My Way and I’ll Fight Hell to Hold You vocal gymnastics. 6. Give more spotlight to Eric Carr on the songs aside from No No No. 7. Music videos should be showcasing all four members equally. 8. Limit the chorus of Crazy Crazy Nights. 9. Increase tempo and vocal performance on Hell or High Water 10. If songs cannot be hypothetically changed, I’d remove When Your Walls Come Down, Hell or High Water, Bang Bang You, and Thief in the Night. Replacing them with the listed demo tracks. I recommend final pressing looks like so: 1. Crazy Crazy Nights (adjusted) 2. I’ll Fight Hell to Hold You 3. Bang Bang You (adjusted) 4. No No No 5. My Way 6. Sword and Stone 7. Good Girl Gone Bad 8. When Your Walls Come Down (adjusted) 9. Thief in the Night 10. Hell or High Water (adjusted) 11. Time Traveler 12. When Two Hearts Collide 13. Promise the Moon 14. Turn On The Night
I appreciate the time you put into this. If you saw the video, however, you'll already know that I respectfully disagree with #1. I didn't like those songs as much as some folks. But that's me. Thanks for the comments!!
This album kicked ass. What sucks is their previous 2 one hit wonder albums and your less than stellar rating system. Yes, it was a little more "poppy" than "rocky"....but it was a good album.
Gene makes a slight improvement over the previous 2 albums. 1 5star reason to live and 2 4 stars, hell or high water and thief in the night. Sorry, but I don’t care for the title track. A lot of 2 stars on this puppy!
I'm listening to Kiss discography for the first time in my life. I've listened It up to Hot in the Shade, and I must say: Crazy nights is my favorite from this no make up era! (Yes. I like It more than Lick It up). I'm not saying Its a"GREAT" record, because I really don't think It is. Crazy Nights has a lot of stinkers, but It also has 4 of my 5 favorite KISS' songs since Creatures and tbh I didn't enjoy Animalyze and Asylum at all, and although Lick It Up is consistent, It didn't do much for me. However I understand why a long time fan would hate this album. It's too poppy even for Kiss. There are some bands that I follow for a long time that have gone into this direction and I also don't think they made the right call. But regarding Crazy nights, what can I say? I really like it
More power to you, Thales! That's awesome! I wish I felt more like that. I don't hate it all, but the stinkers, for me, REALLY stink. Lol Thanks for watching! And enjoy your exploration of the catalog! Oh, to be able to experience that for the first time again... 😊
@@HARDROCKreverie It has been more interesting than I thought It would be to be honest. Your reviews were a big incentive for me to go on this journey. I'm really enjoying these videos. Kiss were my favorite band in my early teens (I was born in the 90s), but I ended growing out of them (mostly because of Gene simmons). Now I'm having fun finding out where the songs I liked fits in the catalog and discovering many amazing songs that I had no idea existed.
I don't get the hate for many non-makeup KISS albums (other than Carnival of Souls. That thing is awful!). I love Crazy Nights & Hot in the Shade and pretty much all KISS albums.
@@mikepratt6481 Haha. I just don't get people hating it. An acquired taste, yes. But hardly a "bad" KISS album. At least half of those songs are really good. Just my opinion.
@@HARDROCKreverie I think my distaste for it comes from something you mentioned in this review, and something I've loved about KISS forever. They've always been a fun, positive band with songs like I and My Way to name a couple. CoS was not only an attempt at doing grunge music (which I hated), but also because it was dark and negative, 2 things KISS had never been. Sure, stuff like Creatures and Revenge had a harder feel but they were still fun KISS albums. CoS just sucked all the joy out of listening to a KISS album for me.
The picture behind you is from the Crazy Nights video shoot. I was there. It was filmed at the Olympic Auditorium near Downtown L.A August 8th 1987.. It was cool cause KISS plugged in and played 3 or 4 songs live. They gave away t-shirts that said KISS CRAZY NIGHTS on the front and I WENT CRAZY WITH KISS AUGUST 8TH on the back.
That is definitely AWESOME! I remember reading things in the Metal mags about that shoot. VERY cool 😎. Geez, I would have killed to be there for that! That was also the stage they used for the tour, I remember from the show I saw in Tulsa.
If you compare it to kiss albums of the early 70s everything you say is true but if you rate it as an album of its own it's not as bad as you say. It is a product of the time (not Moris day)
Turn on the night Reason to live and Crazy crazy nights good pop songs but not good Kiss songs. Otherwise this album is only sentimental value for me.. Us Australians for some reason accepted Kiss music in the 80s.
Haha Benny Hill music hahaha. Air Sipply? I'm dying! I hated Crazy nights when it came out. Funny to say but I like the Gene songs more than Paul's. Gene's sound more heavy metal than Paul's pop glam rock sound except I love I'll fight hell to hold you. Highlight of the album is Bruce and Eric's playing. I use this cd as a beer coaster! Awesome review!
Hard to listen to. Horrible 80’s production (thanks Ron Nevison) even worse than Heart and Ozzy! Crazy Crazy Nights- 3 No No No- 4 And the rest ain’t worth putting anything!!!!
You posed the greatest point ever ever....ever during an early review. I think it was during the Animalize review. You had Bruce Kulick around, why did they not just hire him outright after Vinnie was fired? He was the perfect controlled shredder guy. No need to have Mark who couldn't play the same solo twice. Also, you had a top 15 all time, top 10 in my book, drummer in Eric Carr. Why did you need a machine or Schwartzman or Kevin Valentine to play drums. To me, Kiss should have been good enough. It makes me sad that the mid 80s were such a waste.
its an awful album. i mean , its better than a garage band's demo. or a starting band's first couple of low budget albums. but for a major Band , that were originally innovators, they went from setting the point to following others. it was the culmination of their fetish for the "follow the money" mindset. its lifeless uninspired , very generic mid-late 80's pop-rock . other bands did it way better than KISS. in an old guitar player magazine (early 90s), in the reader's letters section, some guy mentioned that KISS was the biggest corporate wh*re of a band ever. and i refused to believe it at the time, but they were right. the chasing the new hit single and sales started more or less with Dynasty (disco), Unmasked (pop rock like Styx), The Elder (a concept album), Animalize/Asylum/CrazyNights/Hot in the Shade (corporate rocck.pop rock selling out), Carnival of Souls (grunge). they've put out more crappy albums since 1978 than they have good ones. some good standouts are: Creatures Lick it UP Revenge Alive 3. everything else probably makes like one really decent album if you get all the decent songs off them.
Great review, I agree with your placement of crazy nights. That’s an awesome Paul story, really cool that it went well and you can look back and its all good.Happy thanksgiving too!
I loved your review of Lick It Up. I thought you were spot on about that album and Creatures; however, I disagree with this review of Crazy Night. You’re right about the pandering and time period. I have always enjoyed this album more than Hot in the Shade and even Revenge. Turn on the Night, Reason to Live, Crazy, Crazy Nights, and Good Girl makes this a good listen for me. Also, I like Nevison and what he did for Survivor. Glad you like The Elder. My favorite Kiss album is and has always been Dynasty. I am 60, and I enjoy every album from 79 on, save Carnival. Good job with these reviews.
Hey, I appreciate you saying so! Thanks for watching!
Believe me, I can definitely recall spending a LOT of time with Crazy Nights in '87 and '88. When it came out I thought it was just fantastic. It was only years later that I started to rethink that opinion a little bit. And I do still understand why a lot of people love the album. I really think it's all just about what each of us is looking to get from a band at certain points in our lives. And, for whatever reason, this album just doesn't hold quite as much appeal for me as some of the others do these days. But absolutely nothing wrong with ANY album a person loves, in my opinion. If you love something, just love it! Part of the beauty of music. 😊
Again, thanks for watching and for chiming in!
Nice photos from the 80s. When did you cut of your hair? (or when did it get lost?)
😆. I didn't lose it, I know exactly where it went. Haha. Somewhere around the year I turned 40, I think.
'Crazy Nights' was a period-piece for me, more of a mile-stone in my personal life at the time. The album was clearly an effort to sonically embrace the slick late-80s metal sound. I liked it, yet I preferred the sound on Asylum and Animalize more so. I saw the Crazy Nights tour in Toronto December 1987 with Ted Nugent as the opener. The staging was fantastic albeit with limited pyro and a setlist leaning heavily on KISS 80s song catalogue. In the rearview mirror Crazy Nights was made palatable because of Eric Carr and Bruce Kulick. 'Crazy Nights', 'Reason to Live' and 'Turn on the Night' are the stand-out songs for me.
I mostly agree with you. I would only rank Sonic Boom, Monster, Gene Simmons and Peter Criss solo albums as being worse than Crazy Nights. At least Reason to Live and Turn on the Night give the album some merit.
Hated it at first. Wanted a heavy record and got the opposite. But this album really grew on me years later. Crazy nights. My way. Turn on the night are good ones
The saddest thing about this album. They took almost 2 years between this and Asylum and only 2: songs, Reason to Live, and the title were tolerable. What I diid love though was that the band quickly made a a wardrobe change by ditching the Asylum bright colors. I will proudly stand up and say that Reason to Live was one of the better ballads ot the 80s and certainly kept KISS relevant.
Love you Man!! I feel exactly the same way as you!!!
You ever think it's weird that the album is called "Crazy Nights", but the song is "Crazy Crazy Nights" and yet during the chorus they repeat it 4 times, "These Are Crazy Crazy Crazy Crazy Nights"? Just a little thing I noticed.
Hahaha 🤣
YES! I DO think it's weird! Lol
Thank you for saying so! I can't believe no one else has brought that up. Lol
Oh my...I picked My Way to put on the worst KISS songs list and you gave it 4 stars, lol, I love the lyrics too, by themselves. Actually I have a huge kiss playlist and 6, YES! 6 songs from this album are on it. I think they are good songs but not great KISS songs. I don't mind it when the songs come around every now and then, but I cannot listen to the album straight through.
Yeah, I think you said it really well. That's pretty much that album.
On a another note this was the 1st brand new released kiss album that I ever bought and it was the 1st show I ever attended in Worcester mass January of 88. They filmed the turn on the night video there. So regardless this album will always have a special place in my heart.
That's AWESOME, Lucy. And I totally get that! It was my first time seeing them, too, and I definitely enjoyed it.
Thanks for watching!
I agree with the nostalgia stand point. A lot of albums have a special place in my heart because I can look back with fond memories.
Whaaaat?!? I love this album!!!
Hehe....this album did it pretty great in Norway I remember and I still have the record I bought then 😃👍 Wow! Shook the hand of Paul Stanley, you lucky you 😎🎸👍
Kiss did something different all over the place, really wished that after the reuion with ace and peter they went back to the non-makeup.
I remember the hits, most were catchy earworms, especially the leadoff. Mom had this LP, and for me, it just didn't quite make it, but kept trying. Everytime something would seem like really taking off, something WTF would knock it back down. It is similar in ways to Unmasked, but for me, I settle that by how far I go, before hitting "skip". Unmasked, I can usually go to, or through Easy As It Seems, while CN gets a skip or two much earlier. No No No, is much better live. Some of the thing with this album, is the lineup on it, and maybe an expectation of what that bunch could do, then being reminded of it, by almost every other song in the set. Still, I'd ask, would CN be more what would be fine for Thayer and Singer?
"No, No, No" was pretty great live, yes. I think we hear this album in pretty similar ways. 😅
@@HARDROCKreverie wasn't this right around the timing of Paul Stanley Workout video? lol
@@charlene2400 😆😆😆😆😆!
Yeah, Exposed came out between Asylum and CN, that's right. And, next thing you know, Paul is wearing workout clothes all the time. Haha!
got this in ITALY i was in the service
I absolutely loved your concert story. How cool!!! When they came to Denver, Anthrax opened. I was so excited about that. I was in the 13th row. To this day, the best seats I'd ever had at a KISS show. While not on par with your story, I did have a weird cool moment. I was such a fan of Paul and was directly in front of him. He is so good with engaging the audience but I wasn't prepared when he actually looked at me, lol. I was 19 and I literally froze. Again, like you, this someone I had idolized from a young age, acknowledging my existence. Sounds so stupid now but it was such an out of body experience.
Now on to the album. I really liked the album a lot back then. I still do actually, it's not in the upper half and it is a bit dated in sound. I actually liked all of Gene's songs for a change, even if it was him trying sound like what he thought was in. The album cover is one of my favs. If I were to rank covers, I'd have it around 7. I wish I had kept my shirt from the tour. I'm glad they got away from this sound though. It's really just a time capsule of 1987. When I put it on now, I can enjoy it for that reason. Anyway, I enjoyed this review
Awesome stuff, Michael!
Gosh, I totally forgot to talk about the cover! Haha. I kinda like it, too.
Thanks for another great comment!
I hate it how vinnie vincent is praised by kiss fans but Bruce kulick is overlooked and underrated
Could not POSSIBLY agree more!
That's a really cool Paul Story! That made me happy and smile as you were telling it. I'm glad you had that moment with Paul Stanley. I actually think that Hot In The Shade is a worse album than Crazy Nights, but that's just my opinion. Next time I watch one of your reviews, I'm gonna watch the review on Hot In The Shade. If your wondering, Crazy Nights would be number 17 and Hot In The Shade would be 18 in my ranking of the KISS albums. Well, take care.
Great comment, Angelo! Thanks 👍
Your intro was a friggin' trip made me Lol. I always liked this album but it was way overboard with the keyboards that is an overriding negative. It is my wish beyond wishes for them to professionally produce and release Sword And Stone. I like Bon Fires version on the Shocker soundtrack but Paul absolutes sings the hell out of it on the demo. A big F YOU to Nevison for not putting it on the album. I have the original Crazy Nights LP and will gladly sell it to you for $45. TREMENDOUS story to close
Love your reviews man. But your a little harsh on when your walls come down. I know. I know but kiss has sometimes had their corny side as well.
I'd have to get loopy too in order to review this album. Seems like the beers were flowing like a river when u did this. Terrible album but Hot in the Shade is almost as bad.
Crazy Nights was intended to be a glam rock album; the band waited a whole year for producer Ron Nevison to become available. It was certified platinum, but sold below expectations.
Bang Bang You is cheesy, even for Kiss! It seemed like ever since Kiss fell from grace in their heyday of popularity (late 70's), they were chasing success ever since. They did pretty good in the mid 80's with Animalize and Asylum but I don't think those albums brought them the success they were hoping for. So Paul decided to wait to work with Ron Nevison to help bring them the smash success they were chasing, but it didn't happen. Crazy Nights did o.k, but it wasn't a smash like the Heart album Ron produced several years earlier.
Yep. Definitely. And thank goodness it didn't work, or we might have been stuck with crap like that for a few more albums.
I never heard it completely through... I think i make it as far as Reason to live... then I'm done
Great review and loved hearing
your fantastic memories, something you will always enjoy and never forget.
My favorite album by kiss by far
Really ??? 😅
Damn
Better than Asylum.
Crazy nights was a good single
This album traumatized me .I had it on vinyl and I didn’t need to see Paul’s g string
LMAO 🤣😂 Totally agree with you!
I found the Crazy Nights album very underrated, but it’s by far a perfect album. A few ways to make it a much greater album:
1. Add Sword and Stone, Time Traveler, Promise the Moon, and When two hearts Collide.
2. Complete lyrical overhaul to When Your Walls come down.
3. Complete lyrical overhaul to Bang Bang You, and make with a faster tempo (much like live performance).
4. Change song order. Have Turn On the Night is the final track.
5. Limit My Way and I’ll Fight Hell to Hold You vocal gymnastics.
6. Give more spotlight to Eric Carr on the songs aside from No No No.
7. Music videos should be showcasing all four members equally.
8. Limit the chorus of Crazy Crazy Nights.
9. Increase tempo and vocal performance on Hell or High Water
10. If songs cannot be hypothetically changed, I’d remove When Your Walls Come Down, Hell or High Water, Bang Bang You, and Thief in the Night. Replacing them with the listed demo tracks.
I recommend final pressing looks like so:
1. Crazy Crazy Nights (adjusted)
2. I’ll Fight Hell to Hold You
3. Bang Bang You (adjusted)
4. No No No
5. My Way
6. Sword and Stone
7. Good Girl Gone Bad
8. When Your Walls Come Down (adjusted)
9. Thief in the Night
10. Hell or High Water (adjusted)
11. Time Traveler
12. When Two Hearts Collide
13. Promise the Moon
14. Turn On The Night
I appreciate the time you put into this. If you saw the video, however, you'll already know that I respectfully disagree with #1. I didn't like those songs as much as some folks. But that's me.
Thanks for the comments!!
@@HARDROCKreverie Time traveler??? UUUgggggggg!!!
@@markmedina5543 LOL 😆
nope MR Blackwell now that SUCKED
This album kicked ass. What sucks is their previous 2 one hit wonder albums and your less than stellar rating system. Yes, it was a little more "poppy" than "rocky"....but it was a good album.
Gene makes a slight improvement over the previous 2 albums. 1 5star reason to live and 2 4 stars, hell or high water and thief in the night. Sorry, but I don’t care for the title track. A lot of 2 stars on this puppy!
Yeah, you won't get much argument outta me! 😅
Saw them New Year’s Eve 87/88 and they played hell or high water, but 2 weeks later they’d already dropped it from the set list
Thank you for the 1 on bang bang guy. This song still gets me angry when I hear it. What a horrible song
😆😆😆😆😆 You are MOST welcome! 😁
I'm listening to Kiss discography for the first time in my life. I've listened It up to Hot in the Shade, and I must say: Crazy nights is my favorite from this no make up era! (Yes. I like It more than Lick It up). I'm not saying Its a"GREAT" record, because I really don't think It is. Crazy Nights has a lot of stinkers, but It also has 4 of my 5 favorite KISS' songs since Creatures and tbh I didn't enjoy Animalyze and Asylum at all, and although Lick It Up is consistent, It didn't do much for me.
However I understand why a long time fan would hate this album. It's too poppy even for Kiss. There are some bands that I follow for a long time that have gone into this direction and I also don't think they made the right call.
But regarding Crazy nights, what can I say? I really like it
More power to you, Thales! That's awesome! I wish I felt more like that. I don't hate it all, but the stinkers, for me, REALLY stink. Lol
Thanks for watching! And enjoy your exploration of the catalog! Oh, to be able to experience that for the first time again... 😊
@@HARDROCKreverie It has been more interesting than I thought It would be to be honest. Your reviews were a big incentive for me to go on this journey. I'm really enjoying these videos.
Kiss were my favorite band in my early teens (I was born in the 90s), but I ended growing out of them (mostly because of Gene simmons). Now I'm having fun finding out where the songs I liked fits in the catalog and discovering many amazing songs that I had no idea existed.
@@thales6790 very cool 👍😎. When you get to where you know, let me know if you have any favorites!
I don't get the hate for many non-makeup KISS albums (other than Carnival of Souls. That thing is awful!). I love Crazy Nights & Hot in the Shade and pretty much all KISS albums.
And a lot of us love COS, too.
@@HARDROCKreverie yeah and I don't get that. I don't think I've ever listened to it in full in one sitting. And I've had it since it came out!
@@mikepratt6481 Haha. I just don't get people hating it. An acquired taste, yes. But hardly a "bad" KISS album. At least half of those songs are really good. Just my opinion.
@@HARDROCKreverie I think my distaste for it comes from something you mentioned in this review, and something I've loved about KISS forever. They've always been a fun, positive band with songs like I and My Way to name a couple. CoS was not only an attempt at doing grunge music (which I hated), but also because it was dark and negative, 2 things KISS had never been. Sure, stuff like Creatures and Revenge had a harder feel but they were still fun KISS albums. CoS just sucked all the joy out of listening to a KISS album for me.
@@mikepratt6481 I do totally get that. Because of that, it did take me awhile to warm to COS, though I eventually did.
The picture behind you is from the Crazy Nights video shoot. I was there. It was filmed at the Olympic Auditorium near Downtown L.A August 8th 1987.. It was cool cause KISS plugged in and played 3 or 4 songs live. They gave away t-shirts that said KISS CRAZY NIGHTS on the front and I WENT CRAZY WITH KISS AUGUST 8TH on the back.
That is definitely AWESOME! I remember reading things in the Metal mags about that shoot. VERY cool 😎. Geez, I would have killed to be there for that!
That was also the stage they used for the tour, I remember from the show I saw in Tulsa.
If you compare it to kiss albums of the early 70s everything you say is true but if you rate it as an album of its own it's not as bad as you say. It is a product of the time (not Moris day)
Lol. Not Morris Day. 😊 Okay, you get bonus points for that! Oh-ee-oh-ee-oh!
And yes, a valid point.
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To me, desmond child aint shit compared to Vinnie Vincent writing songs.. KISS were stupid to fire Vinnie
Nothing good from gene at all.
Heres a little review for everybody out there...
Turn on the night Reason to live and Crazy crazy nights good pop songs but not good Kiss songs. Otherwise this album is only sentimental value for me.. Us Australians for some reason accepted Kiss music in the 80s.
I liked this review so much I had to watch it twice.
Hahaha 😀
3:15 😂😅😂😂
It's not a bad album.
No it's not. But it's not a KISS album.
Haha Benny Hill music hahaha. Air Sipply? I'm dying! I hated Crazy nights when it came out. Funny to say but I like the Gene songs more than Paul's. Gene's sound more heavy metal than Paul's pop glam rock sound except I love I'll fight hell to hold you. Highlight of the album is Bruce and Eric's playing. I use this cd as a beer coaster! Awesome review!
Hahaha! Beer coaster! That's awesome 😎
Hard to listen to. Horrible 80’s production (thanks Ron Nevison) even worse than Heart and Ozzy!
Crazy Crazy Nights- 3
No No No- 4
And the rest ain’t worth putting anything!!!!
You’re being generous with bang bang you ,it’s cringingly awful .Every non make up kiss album has to have that one lame corny song on it
Lol
As i agree with most of what you say but you drag on to long.
Thanks for watching anyway, I guess. 😆
You posed the greatest point ever ever....ever during an early review. I think it was during the Animalize review. You had Bruce Kulick around, why did they not just hire him outright after Vinnie was fired? He was the perfect controlled shredder guy. No need to have Mark who couldn't play the same solo twice. Also, you had a top 15 all time, top 10 in my book, drummer in Eric Carr. Why did you need a machine or Schwartzman or Kevin Valentine to play drums. To me, Kiss should have been good enough. It makes me sad that the mid 80s were such a waste.
where is the hot in the shade review???
Should have it posted in the next few days! Thanks!
Crazy Nights album is terrible.
its an awful album. i mean , its better than a garage band's demo. or a starting band's first couple of low budget albums.
but for a major Band , that were originally innovators, they went from setting the point to following others. it was the culmination of their fetish for the "follow the money" mindset. its lifeless uninspired , very generic mid-late 80's pop-rock . other bands did it way better than KISS.
in an old guitar player magazine (early 90s), in the reader's letters section, some guy mentioned that KISS was the biggest corporate wh*re of a band ever. and i refused to believe it at the time, but they were right. the chasing the new hit single and sales started more or less with Dynasty (disco), Unmasked (pop rock like Styx), The Elder (a concept album), Animalize/Asylum/CrazyNights/Hot in the Shade (corporate rocck.pop rock selling out), Carnival of Souls (grunge). they've put out more crappy albums since 1978 than they have good ones.
some good standouts are:
Creatures
Lick it UP
Revenge
Alive 3.
everything else probably makes like one really decent album if you get all the decent songs off them.
KISSjovi another boring Toronto show and what s with the pointless ramp....??
Yeah, KISS making a weird decision in the 80s - imagine that! 😆
Thanks for watching!