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[size=8]Kiss in concert in Boston, 2004; left to right: Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer, Paul Stanley and Eric Singer[/size]
Rooted in the campy theatrics of Alice Cooper and the sleazy hard rock of glam rockers the New York Dolls, Kiss became a favorite of American teenagers in the '70s. Most kids were infatuated with the look of Kiss, not their music. Decked out in outrageously flamboyant costumes and makeup, the band fashioned a captivating stage show featuring dry ice, smoke bombs, elaborate lighting, blood spitting, and fire breathing that captured the imaginations of thousands of kids. But Kiss' music shouldn't be dismissed -- it was a commercially potent mix of anthemic, fist-pounding hard rock driven by sleek hooks and ballads powered by loud guitars, cloying melodies, and sweeping strings. It was a sound that laid the groundwork for both arena rock and the pop-metal that dominated rock in the late '80s. Kiss was the brainchild of Gene Simmons (bass, vocals) and Paul Stanley (rhythm guitar, vocals), former members of the New York-based hard rock band Wicked Lester; the duo brought in drummer Peter Criss through his ad in Rolling Stone and guitarist Ace Frehley responded to an advertisement in The Village Voice. Even at their first Manhattan concert in 1973, the group's approach was quite theatrical; Flipside producer Bill Aucoin offered the band a management deal after the show. Two weeks later, the band was signed to Neil Bogart's fledgling record label, Casablanca. Kiss released their self-titled debut in February of 1974; it peaked at number 87 on the U.S. charts. By April of 1975, the group had released three albums and had toured America constantly, building up a sizable fan base. Culled from those numerous concerts, Alive! (released in the fall of 1975) made the band rock & roll superstars; it climbed into the Top Ten and its accompanying single, "Rock 'N' Roll All Nite," made it to number 12. Their follow-up, Destroyer, was released in March of 1976 and became the group's first platinum album; it also featured their first Top Ten single, Peter Criss' power ballad "Beth." A 1977 Gallup poll named Kiss the most popular band in America. Kiss mania was in full swing and thousands of pieces of merchandise hit the marketplace. The group had two comic books released by Marvel, pinball machines, makeup and masks, board games, and a live-action TV movie, Kiss Meet the Phantom of the Park. The group was never seen in public without wearing their makeup and their popularity was growing by leaps and bounds; the membership of the Kiss Army, the band's fan club, was now in the six figures. Even such enormous popularity had its limits, and the band reached them in 1978, when all four members released solo albums on the same day in October. Simmons' record was the most successful, reaching number 22 on the charts, yet all of them made it into the Top 50. Dynasty, released in 1979, continued their streak of platinum albums, yet it was their last recorded with the original lineup -- Criss left in 1980. Kiss Unmasked, released in the summer of 1980, was recorded with session drummer Anton Fig; Criss' permanent replacement, Eric Carr, joined the band in time for their 1980 world tour. Kiss Unmasked was their first record since Destroyer to fail to go platinum, and 1981's Music From the Elder, their first album recorded with Carr, didn't even go gold -- it couldn't even climb past number 75 on the charts. Ace Frehley left the band after its release; he was replaced by Vinnie Vincent in 1982. Vincent's first album with the group, 1982's Creatures of the Night, fared better than Music From the Elder, yet it couldn't make it past number 45 on the charts. Sensing it was time for a change, Kiss dispensed with their makeup for 1983's Lick It Up. The publicity worked, as the album became their first platinum record in four years. Animalize, released the following year, was just as successful, and the group had recaptured their niche. Vincent left after Animalize and was replaced by Mark St. John; St. John was soon taken ill with Reiter's Syndrome and left the band. Bruce Kulick became Kiss' new lead guitarist in 1984. For the rest of the decade, Kiss turned out a series of best-selling albums, culminating in the early 1990 hit ballad "Forever," which was their biggest single since "Beth." Kiss was scheduled to record a new album with their old producer, Bob Ezrin, in 1990 when Eric Carr became severely ill with cancer; he died in November of 1991 at the age of 41. Kiss replaced him with Eric Singer and recorded Revenge (1992), their first album since 1989; it was a Top Ten hit and went gold. Kiss followed it with the release of Alive III the following year; it performed respectably, but not up to the standards of their two previous live records. In 1996, the original lineup of Kiss -- featuring Simmons, Stanley, Frehley, and Criss -- reunited to perform an international tour, complete with their notorious makeup and special effects. The tour was one of the most successful of 1996, and in 1998 the reunited group issued Psycho Circus. While the ensuing tour in support of Psycho Circus was a success, sales of Kiss' reunion album weren't as stellar as anticipated. Reminiscent of the band's late-'70s unfocused period, few tracks on Psycho Circus featured all four members playing together (most tracks were supplemented with session musicians), as the band seemed more interested in flooding the marketplace with merchandise yet again instead of making the music their top priority. With rumors running rampant that the Psycho Circus Tour would be their last, the quartet announced in the spring of 2000 that they would be launching a U.S. farewell tour in the summer, which became one of the year's top concert draws. But on the eve of a Japanese and Australian tour in early 2001, Peter Criss suddenly left the band once again, supposedly discontent with his salary. Taking his place was previous Kiss drummer Eric Singer, who in a controversial move among some longtime fans, donned Criss' cat-man makeup (since Simmons and Stanley own both Frehley and Criss' makeup designs, there was no threat of a lawsuit) as the farewell tour continued. With the band scheduled to call it a day supposedly by late 2001, a mammoth career-encompassing box set was set for later in the year, while the summer saw perhaps the most over-the-top piece of Kiss merchandise yet -- the "Kiss Kasket." The group was relatively quiet through the rest of the year, but 2002 started with a bang as Gene Simmons turned in an entertaining and controversial interview on NPR where he criticized the organization and berated host Terry Gross with sexual comments and condescending answers. He was promoting his autobiography at the time, which also caused dissent in the Kiss camp because of the inflammatory remarks made towards Ace Frehley. Frehley was quite angry at the situation, leading to his no-showing of an American Bandstand anniversary show. His place was taken by a wig-wearing Tommy Thayer, but no one was fooled and the band looked especially awful while pretending to play their instruments during the pre-recorded track. The appearance was an embarrassment for the group and for their fans, but Simmons was quick to dismiss the performance as another in a long series of money-oriented decisions.
[b]Kiss Discography 19 Plus Albums
Well there'll be a total of 19+ Albums when i'm done uploading so i'll be adding as i up them so beer with me on this 1 please
Kiss in my opinion is 1 of the best old school rock bands of the 70's[/b]
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Dressed To Kill
1. Room Service
2. Two Timer
3. Ladies In Waiting
4. Getaway
5. Rock Bottom
6. C'mon And Love Me
7. Anything For My Baby
8. She
9. Love Her All I Can
10. Rock And Roll All Night
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Destroyer
1. Detroit Rock City
2. King Of The Night Time World
3. God Of Thunder
4. Great Expectations
5. Flaming Youth
6. Sweet Pain
7. Shout It Out Loud
8. Beth
9. Do You Love Me?
10. Bonus Track 1
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Love Gun
1. I Stole Your Love
2. Christine Sixteen
3. Got Love For Sale
4. Shock Me
5. Tomorrow And Tonight
6. Love Gun
7. Hooligan
8. Almost Human
9. Plaster Caster
10. Then She Kissed Me
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Dynasty
1. I Was Made For Lovin' You
2. 2,000 Man
3. Sure Know Something
4. Dirty Livin'
5. Charisma
6. Magic Touch
7. Hard Times
8. X-Ray Eyes
9. Save Your Love
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Unmasked
1. Is That You?
2. Shandi
3. Talk To Me
4. Naked City
5. What Makes The World Go 'Round
6. Tomorrow
7. Two Side Of The Coin
8. She's So European
9. Easy As It Seems
10. Torpedo Girl
11. You're All that I Want
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Double Platinium
01 Strutter '78
02 Do You Love Me
03 Hard Luck Woman
04 Caling Dr. Love
05 Let Me Go Rock'n'Roll
06 Love Gun
07 God Of Thunder
08 Firehouse
09 Hotter Than Hell
10 I Want You
11 Deuce
12 100,000 Years
13 Detroit Rock City
14 Rock Bottom
15 She
16 Rock And Roll All Nite
17 Beth
18 Makin' Love
19 C'mon And Love Me
20 Cold Gin
21 Black Diamond
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The Solo Albums
Paul Stanley
01 Tonight You Belong To Me
02 Move On
03 Ain't Quite Right
04 Wouldn't You Like To Know Me
05 Take Me Away
06 It's All Right
07 Hold Me, Touch Me
08 Love In Chains
09 Goodbye
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Peter Criss
01 I'm Gonna Love You
02 You Matter To Me
03 Tossin' And Turnin'
04 Don't You Let Me Down
05 That's The Kind Of Sugar Papa Likes
06 Easy Thing
07 Rock Me, Baby
08 Kiss The Girl Goodbye
09 Hooked On Rock And Roll
10 I Can't Stop The Rain
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Gene Simons
01 Radioactive
02 Burning Up With Fever
03 See You Tonite
04 Tunnel Of Love
05 True Confessions
06 Living In Sin
07 Always Near You/Nowhere To Hide
08 Man Of 1,000 Faces
09 Mr. Make Believe
10 See You In Your Dreams
11 When You Wish Upon A Star
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Ace Frehley
01 Rip It Out
02 Speedin' Back to My Baby
03 Snow Blilnd
04 Ozone
05 Whats On Your Mind
06 New York Groove
07 I'm In Need Of Love
08 Wiped-Out
09 Fractured Mirror
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Now back to the Regular Albums
Music from the elders
1. Fanfare
2. Just A Boy
3. Odyssey
4. Only You
5. Under The Rose
6. Dark Light
7. A World Without Heroes
8. The Oath
9. Mr. Blackwell
10. Escape From The Island
11. I
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Psycho Circus
01 Psycho Circus
02 Within
03 I Pledge Allegiance To The State Of Rock 'N Roll
05 We Are One
06 You Wanted The Best
07 Raise Your Glasses
08 I Finally Found My Way
09 Dreamin'
11 In Your Face
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MTV Unplugged
01 Comin' Home
02 Plaster Caster
03 Goin' Blind
04 Do You Love Me
05 Domino
06 Sure Know Something
07 A World Wihout Heroes
08 Rock Bottom
09 See You Tonight
10 I Still Love You
11 Every Time I Look At You
12 2,000 MAN
13 Beth
14 Nothin' To Lose
15 Rock And Roll All Nite
16 Got To Choose
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Animalize
01 I've Had Enough
02 Heaven's On Fire
03 Burn Bitch Burn
04 Get All You Can Take
05 Lonely Is The Hunter
06 Under The Gun
07 Thrills In The Night
08 While The City Sleeps
09 Murder In High Heels
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Creatures Of The Night
1 Creatures Of The Night
02 Saint And Sinner
03 Keep Me Comin'
04 Rock And Roll Hell
05 Danger
06 I Love It Loud
07 I Still Love You
08 Killer
09 War Machine
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Killers
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Now for the Live Albums
Kiss Alive 1
Disc: 1
1. Deuce
2. Strutter
3. Got To Choose
4. Hotter Than Hell
5. Firehouse
6. Nothin' To Lose
7. C'mon And Love Me
8. Parasite
9. She
Disc: 2
1. Watchin' You
2. 100,000 Years
3. Black Diamond
4. Rock Bottom
5. Cold Gin
6. Rock And Roll All Nite
7. Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll
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Kiss Alive II
Disc: 1
1. Detroit Rock City
2. King Of The Night Time World
3. Ladie's Room
4. Makin' Love
5. Love Gun
6. Calling Dr. Love
7. Christine Sixteen
8. Shock Me
9. Hard Luck Woman
10. Tomorrow And Tonight
Disc: 2
1. I Stole Your Love
2. Beth
3. God Of Thunder
4. I Want You
5. Shout It Out Loud
6. All-American Man
7. Rockin' In The U.S.A.
8. Larger Than Life
9. Rocket Ride
10. Any Way You Want It
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Kiss Alive III
01 Creatures Of The Night
02 Deuce
03 I Just Wanna
04 Unholy
05 Heaven's On Fire
06 Watchin' You
07 Domino
08 I Was Made For Lovin' You
09 I Still Love You
10 Rock And Roll All Nite
11 Lick It Up
12 Forever
13 I Love It Loud
14 Detroit Rock City
15 God Gave Rock 'N Roll To You II
16 Star Spangled Banner
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Kiss Alive IV
01 Deuce
02 Lick It Up
03 Caling Dr. Love
04 Beth
05 Goin' Blind
06 Shandi
07 Detroit Rock City
08 King Of The Night Time World
09 Do You Love Me
10 Shout It Out Loud
11 God Of Thunder
12 Love Gun
13 Black Diamond
14 Great Expectations
16 Do You Remember Rock And Roll Radio
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