KISS Discography - My Life As a Kiss Fan

[TAC]

Awesome. I would love to see them do a theater style tour with a set built around tracks like that. I would definitely go see that.

[cfmoran13]

One tune I always wish they would've pulled out is "Getaway" from Dressed To Kill.  Any of the 3 drummers over the years could've pulled it off vocally.  Probably my second favorite Peter vocal, behind "Black Diamond" (all-time favorite KISS song).

[Mosh]

They also did a Creatures Of the Night themed set with more rarities.

[TAC]

They also did a Creatures Of the Night themed set with more rarities.

Right. That is awesome!

[Stadler]

I'd pay to see that.  I've long said (probably somewhere here in this thread) that I wish Kiss would do the "Iron Maiden" thing, and do a tour of recent stuff, and a tour of a certain era of the band.    Kiss sort of did that for a while (the first reunion was essentially the Love Gun tour/set, and they've touched on the Destroyer era set/costumes) but I wouldn't mind expanding that.   The problem is, they've NEVER been a real "rarities" band, even if they did drop some of those obscure Rock and Roll Over songs in for a show or two.

For me, a diehard, I'd love to see a whole set of songs from '74 to '80, and not have ONE song from Alive!, Alive II, or Double Platinum.  I think it would just be me, Coz, Eddie Trunk, and Sophie in the audience though.   

[TAC]

I'd be there too. I swore off Kiss concerts years ago. They need something unique for me to go see them.

[bl5150]

Back in 2004 they did two regular large gigs here and a smaller more intimate gig with a varied setlist

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/kiss/2004/palais-theatre-melbourne-australia-3d405ef.html

Was a nice change

[TAC]

That's a great setlist.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

I'd pay to see that.  I've long said (probably somewhere here in this thread) that I wish Kiss would do the "Iron Maiden" thing, and do a tour of recent stuff, and a tour of a certain era of the band.    Kiss sort of did that for a while (the first reunion was essentially the Love Gun tour/set, and they've touched on the Destroyer era set/costumes) but I wouldn't mind expanding that.   The problem is, they've NEVER been a real "rarities" band, even if they did drop some of those obscure Rock and Roll Over songs in for a show or two.

For me, a diehard, I'd love to see a whole set of songs from '74 to '80, and not have ONE song from Alive!, Alive II, or Double Platinum.  I think it would just be me, Coz, Eddie Trunk, and Sophie in the audience though.   

I get to stand next to Sophie, though.

[Lowdz]

I'd pay to see that.  I've long said (probably somewhere here in this thread) that I wish Kiss would do the "Iron Maiden" thing, and do a tour of recent stuff, and a tour of a certain era of the band.    Kiss sort of did that for a while (the first reunion was essentially the Love Gun tour/set, and they've touched on the Destroyer era set/costumes) but I wouldn't mind expanding that.   The problem is, they've NEVER been a real "rarities" band, even if they did drop some of those obscure Rock and Roll Over songs in for a show or two.

For me, a diehard, I'd love to see a whole set of songs from '74 to '80, and not have ONE song from Alive!, Alive II, or Double Platinum.  I think it would just be me, Coz, Eddie Trunk, and Sophie in the audience though.

I'd be there. My favourite KISS songs are not the ones Paul and gene think they are.

[cfmoran13]

I'd pay to see that.  I've long said (probably somewhere here in this thread) that I wish Kiss would do the "Iron Maiden" thing, and do a tour of recent stuff, and a tour of a certain era of the band.    Kiss sort of did that for a while (the first reunion was essentially the Love Gun tour/set, and they've touched on the Destroyer era set/costumes) but I wouldn't mind expanding that.   The problem is, they've NEVER been a real "rarities" band, even if they did drop some of those obscure Rock and Roll Over songs in for a show or two.

For me, a diehard, I'd love to see a whole set of songs from '74 to '80, and not have ONE song from Alive!, Alive II, or Double Platinum.  I think it would just be me, Coz, Eddie Trunk, and Sophie in the audience though.

That'd be a great show!  Personally, the setlist has been extremely tired ever since the make-up came back on.  I'd love a "deep cuts" tour.  But, they don't have the balls to do that.  I haven't seen a show since the "Farewell" tour.  And, other than sometimes wishing I could have my daughter see them live, I have no desire to see them in concert anymore.

[Stadler]

I'd pay to see that.  I've long said (probably somewhere here in this thread) that I wish Kiss would do the "Iron Maiden" thing, and do a tour of recent stuff, and a tour of a certain era of the band.    Kiss sort of did that for a while (the first reunion was essentially the Love Gun tour/set, and they've touched on the Destroyer era set/costumes) but I wouldn't mind expanding that.   The problem is, they've NEVER been a real "rarities" band, even if they did drop some of those obscure Rock and Roll Over songs in for a show or two.

For me, a diehard, I'd love to see a whole set of songs from '74 to '80, and not have ONE song from Alive!, Alive II, or Double Platinum.  I think it would just be me, Coz, Eddie Trunk, and Sophie in the audience though.

That'd be a great show!  Personally, the setlist has been extremely tired ever since the make-up came back on.  I'd love a "deep cuts" tour.  But, they don't have the balls to do that.  I haven't seen a show since the "Farewell" tour.  And, other than sometimes wishing I could have my daughter see them live, I have no desire to see them in concert anymore.

Respectfully, I don't think it's "balls", necessarily.  It's business.   They're still doing good business, and when I saw them last there were a LOT of people like me with their kids.   My daughter was through the MOON for Rock and Roll All Nite and Detroit Rock City.  I can guarantee you she would have been in the can for "Getaway" or "Let Me Know".   

[Lowdz]

They are touring the UK this year but as I saw them last time with essentially the same set, I'm going to pass.

[Mosh]

I think Kiss do OK with their setlists all things considered. I never go to the concerts so it doesn't really matter to me, but they seem to make room for at least one or two deeper cuts in place of the stuff they have to play. Flaming Youth last year was a cool surprise.

[cfmoran13]

Respectfully, I don't think it's "balls", necessarily.  It's business.   They're still doing good business, and when I saw them last there were a LOT of people like me with their kids.   My daughter was through the MOON for Rock and Roll All Nite and Detroit Rock City.  I can guarantee you she would have been in the can for "Getaway" or "Let Me Know".   

I totally agree with the business comment.  Actually, I meant "balls" in terms of intentionally breaking away from the standard setlist knowing it's probably not the best for business.  That's pretty much what the Kruise is for these days.  It's probably safe to say that the people willing to pay $1,000's for tix are the ones looking for the deeper cuts.  Sadly, their standard concerts are not the place for that.  Which is one of the reasons I've chosen not to go.  I don't really need to hear RaRAN ever again.

[bl5150]

https://www.klassik78.com/


An album recorded by some KISS fans with the intention of sounding like a long lost KISS demo.  Not bad...........

[TAC]

https://www.klassik78.com/


An album recorded by some KISS fans with the intention of sounding like a long lost KISS demo.  Not bad...........

That is so awesome. The Gene and Paul voices are exact. I would be totally fooled. Did I miss a Peter voice? How in the world did you ever stumble upon that? I love the 8 track in the picture.





Speaking Of KISS, I bought The Ritz On Fire, another one of those radio broadcast bootlegs. It's the August 12, 1988 show from The Ritz in NYC. I had this on tape many years ago. This is a great capture of the band from that era. Bruce Kulick is amazing on this. Seems that dropped Bang Bang You (fine by me, one of the worst 80's tracks) and Reason To Live. No problem there either.

[bl5150]

I should've held onto it and made out as if I had a demo nobody else had for the show

Ritz On Fire sounds cool.  I agree re Bang Bang You but I always liked Reason To Live despite the cheese.....beautiful understated solo by Bruce.

[Stadler]

I haven't watched the link yet, but the setlist is amazing.  I could do without Bang Bang You and Crazy Crazy Nights - they both Suck Suck Bad), but you take the good with the bad.  Tears Are Falling is one of my favorite Kiss songs ever, so...

[TAC]

Honestly I've never had a problem with Reason To Live. I think it has an awesome chorus.
I loved 80's KISS. I was very into them back then. I'm a huge Asylum guy. I think it's way underrated. Not as metal as Animalize, but it has some awesome tunes.

   Tears Are Falling is one of my favorite Kiss songs ever, so...

See, as much as I love Asylum, I was never crazy about Tears Are Falling.

[BlobVanDam]

I like Reason To Live. I love Tears Are Falling. Bang Bang You and Crazy Crazy Nights blow. Or suck. Whichever one we're using now.

[TAC]

I never had a problem with Crazy Nights. I always felt it was one of their most "70's sounding" 80's tracks. Writing wise, not production wise.

[bl5150]

80's KISS really had zero radio presence here in Australia until Crazy Nights which charted well.   So I lived with Killers (my very first album purchase around '82) for 6 years before my next KISS album.  As far as I knew (and bear in mind I was 8yo when I bought Killers ) they weren't releasing albums.

Crazy,Crazy Nights charted pretty well and Turn On The Night also was on the video shows........on the building rooftop , can still remember it   Can't remember what I did yesterday though

[TAC]

Turn On The Night is a great song!

What did you get after Killers?
Creatures? LIU?

It took me a long time to appreciate Lick It Up. When that came out, I was out of my KISS fandom, so there were a few years where I ignored them. I bought Animalize when it was released, but it wasn't until Asylum came out, where it totally clicked with me.

[bl5150]

Crazy Nights was my next purchase and then Hot In The Shade, Revenge etc......and only then did I work my way back to albums like Creatures,Asylum and Lick It Up.   I can't recall why but in my early teens in 87-88 I was only just starting to flesh out my collection beyond a few standards and the record stores here likely didn't stock poorly charting albums like Asylum, Animalize etc....    I was only just discovering metal mags etc... too around that time so there was very limited information available.

During that period I was obsessed with Van Halen, Ozzy , Whitesnake and Malmsteen and had probably gone off KISS a little bit as I had played nothing but Killers from 82-85 (the only album I owned )

[King Postwhore]

During the LIU/Animalize/CN tours I was getting frustrated hearing the same old songs played.  HITS was a breath of fresh air live.

[TAC]

During the LIU/Animalize/CN tours I was getting frustrated hearing the same old songs played.  HITS was a breath of fresh air live.

I agree. HITS followed the Paul solo tour, and I think it really opened his eyes and they seemed to reembrace their past.



BTW, I am making an 80's KISS CD for the car. Tough to narrow it down to 80 minutes. Listening to King Of Hearts now. Except for the horrific pre chorus, this is an A+ track. Everything about it is perfect. (except for the pre chorus)

[BlobVanDam]

https://www.klassik78.com/


An album recorded by some KISS fans with the intention of sounding like a long lost KISS demo.  Not bad...........

These sound like rejected demos for studio tracks from Kiss Alive II.

[bl5150]

You always manage to surprise me Tim - King Of Hearts is the last song I would've picked for you.

I could imagine you listening to "shining like a jewel tonight , love is gonna rule tonight"  and giving it the stamp

[TAC]

It's better than "Read my body, are the letters big enough"

 



I love Paul Stanley. And it wasn't always that way, but you have to take that corniness. There are so many cringeworthy lyrics in KISS tracks, but "shining like a jewel tonight, Love is gonna rule tonight" is actually pretty good.
It's the "When you touch me" prechorus that just about blows this song, but everything else about it is excellent. AS soon as the CD is burned I'll post the tracks.

[cfmoran13]

BTW, I am making an 80's KISS CD for the car. Tough to narrow it down to 80 minutes. Listening to King Of Hearts now. Except for the horrific pre chorus, this is an A+ track. Everything about it is perfect. (except for the pre chorus)

I'd be curious to see how many Gene songs end up on that 80's Kompilation.  He wrote some truly awful stuff in the 80's.  Definition of "mailing it in".

Is the "Ritz On Fire" bootleg the show that was broadcast on 102.7 WNEW?  I bought that on cassette at a flea market back in '88.  Always liked the sound of that show.  But, I agree that the HITS tour was way better.  I remember going to that show and them opening with "I Stole Your Love".  What a great setlist that was!

[cfmoran13]

It's better than "Read my body, are the letters big enough"

The absolute WORST song ever written by KISS (excluding a few solo album songs).  "Take Me Down Below" is pretty close.

[Stadler]

BTW, I am making an 80's KISS CD for the car. Tough to narrow it down to 80 minutes. Listening to King Of Hearts now. Except for the horrific pre chorus, this is an A+ track. Everything about it is perfect. (except for the pre chorus)

I'd be curious to see how many Gene songs end up on that 80's Kompilation.  He wrote some truly awful stuff in the 80's.  Definition of "mailing it in".

Is the "Ritz On Fire" bootleg the show that was broadcast on 102.7 WNEW?  I bought that on cassette at a flea market back in '88.  Always liked the sound of that show.  But, I agree that the HITS tour was way better.  I remember going to that show and them opening with "I Stole Your Love".  What a great setlist that was!

But he had a couple in there that were decent...

I'm a fan of the last two songs from both Lick It Up and Animalize, (though "Young and Wasted" and "Burn Bitch Burn" are weak to me),"Trial By Fire" is AWESOME, and I really like "Hell Or High Water".   

As for Paul, yeah, you can't really call out the "cheese" without limiting it to REAL cheese.  Or cheese from a can.   There isn't a Kiss record out there that doesn't have something (lyrically) to raise your eye brows to (I mean, "Love Gun"?  Really?).  It's just when it gets really over the top. 

[TAC]

So I went to make my KISS 80's Kompilation CD, but I realized I had forgotten The Elder and Unmasked. Plus I had trouble narrowing it down to 80 minutes, so I ended up making two 70 minute volumes.
Volume I covers Unmasked, The Elder, Killers, Creatures, and Lick It Up
Volume II covers Animalize, Asylum, Crazy Nights, and Hot In the Shade

Volume I                          Volume II
Creatures Of the Night        King Of The Mountain
The Oath                            I've Had Enough
Tomorrow                          Secretly Cruel
I'm A Legend Tonight          Thrills In The Night
War Machine                      I'll Fight Hell To Hold You
I                                       Burn Bitch Burn
Dark Light                          King Of Hearts
Naked City                         Little Caesar
Young And Wasted              I'm Alive
Danger                              Trial By Fire
Easy As It Seems                Turn On The Night
Exciter                                Any Way You Slice It
Only You                             You Love Me To Hate You
Gimme More                       No No No
I Still Love You                    Under The Gun
Nowhere To Run                  Boomerang
And On The 8th Day             My Way

[TAC]

I'm a fan of the last two songs from both Lick It Up and Animalize, (though "Young and Wasted" and "Burn Bitch Burn" are weak to me),"Trial By Fire" is AWESOME, and I really like "Hell Or High Water".   

I LOVE And On The 8th Day. I actually prefer Lonely Is The Hunter to Murder In High Heels, but neither is that great. Burn Bitch Burn isn't bad. At least it rocks.

I prefer Young And Wasted to Not For The Innocent and Fits Like A Glove.

Hell Or High Water isn't bad and just missed making Volume II.