Rank the KISS catalog...

On another board I was asked to rank the KISS catalog from my favorite to my least favorite. What would your list look like?

1. Alive
2. Rock And Roll Over
3. Kiss
4. Hotter than Hell
5. Creatures of the Night
6. Dressed to Kill
7. Asylum
8. Alive II
9. Destroyer
10. Revenge
11. Love Gun
12. Lick It Up
13. Music From the Elder
14. Alive III
15. Animalize
16. Psycho Circus
17. Dynasty
18. Unmasked
19. Hot In The Shade
20. Carnival of Souls
21. Kiss Symphony: Alive IV
22. Crazy Nights

Solo albums:
1. Ace
2. Paul
3. Gene
4. Peter


Edit: Forgot about MTV Unplugged! It would rank pretty high as well. Great live recording.

Alive
Cranival of Souls
RARO
Destroyer
Love Gun
Unmasked
Elder
Alive III
Revenge
HitS
Alive II
Asylum
Crazy Night
Dynasty
Kiss
HtH
Dress to Kill
LIU
Animalize
Psycho
Alive IV

1.Rock And Roll Over
2.Kiss
3.Creatures Of The Night
4.Hotter Than Hell
5.Unplugged
6.Dynasty
7.Unmasked
8.Revenge
9.Alive
10.Lick It Up
11.Music From The Elder
12.Dressed To Kill
13.Carnival Of Souls
14.Crazy Nights
15.Asylum
16.Love Gun
17.Psycho Circus
18.Animalize
19.Killers
20.Destroyer
21.Alive II
22.Hot In The Shade
23.Alive III
24.Alive 4

I forgot the solo albums
Ace is in at 3
Paul at 4
Gene at 21
Peter at 25

AHHH!!!! This one is hard!!!!!! OK:

Alive!
Destroyer
Rock And Roll Over
KISS
Creatures Of The Night
Revenge
Hotter Than Hell
Love Gun
Dressed To Kill
Music From "The Elder"
Lick It Up
Dynasty
Alive II
Animalize
Psycho Circus
Unmasked
Asylum
Alive III
Carnival Of Souls
Alive 4
Box set Alive 4
Crazy Nights
Hot In The Shade

Solo albums:

Ace
Paul
Gene
Peter

The top 10 is VERY hard for me to rank - it can easily change day to day

Studio:
1. Destroyer
2. Love Gun
3. Hotter Than Hell
4. Revenge
5. Rock and Roll Over
6. Creatures of the Night
7. KISS
8. Dynasty
9. Dressed to Kill
10. Unmasked
11. Lick it Up
12. Music From "The Elder"
13. Animalize
14. Asylum
15. Crazy Nights
16. Hot in the Shade
17. Carnival of Souls
18. Psycho Circus

Live:
1. Alive III
2. Alive!
3. Alive II
4. Kiss Unplugged
5. KISS Instant Live: Somerset WI (The Show I was at!)
6. Alive IV (From the Alive box set)
7. KISS Symphony: Alive IV

Solo:
1. Paul Stanley
2. Ace Frehley
3. Peter Criss
4. Gene Simmons

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On another board I was asked to rank the KISS catalog from my favorite to my least favorite. What would your list look like?

Mine would be blank album wise song wise might be another story

I'll rank all the ones I have, at least.

1-Destroyer
2-KISS
3-Alive
4-Psycho Circus
5-Rock and Roll Over
6-Hotter than Hell
7-Unmasked
8-Love Gun
9-Dressed to Kill

Schbopo wrote:

I'll rank all the ones I have, at least.

1-Destroyer
2-KISS
3-Alive
4-Psycho Circus
5-Rock and Roll Over
6-Hotter than Hell
7-Unmasked
8-Love Gun
9-Dressed to Kill

Wow! Psycho Circus over Rock and Roll Over, Hotter than Hell, Dressed to Kill, etc. That's unusual. I like Psycho Circus, but think it has a few fluff songs.

1. Rock and Roll Over
2. Creatures of the Night
3. Hotter than Hell
4. Alive
5. KISS
6. Destroyer
7. Alive II
8. Love gun
9. Revenge
10. MTV Unplugged
11. Lick It Up
12. Carnival of Souls
13. Music from the Elder
14. Dressed to Kill
15. Alive III
16. Animalize
17. Dynasty
18. Psycho Circus
19. Crazy Nights
20.Asylum
21. Alive IV
22. Unmasked
23. Hot in the Shade

KISS albums!

1. Creatures of the Night
2. KISS
3. Alive!
4. Lick It Up
5. The Elder
6. Asylum
7. Animalize
8. Unmasked
9. Love Gun
10. Rock N Roll Over
11. Dressed To Kill
12. Hot Hot...Hotter Than Hell
13. Revenge
14. Killers (The new songs kick!)
15. Destroyer
16. Dynasty
17. ALIVE! II
18. Crazy Nights
19. Hot In The Shade

(I haven't heard any others)




The solo albums

1. Paul
2. Ace
3. Gene
4. The Drummer guy

I'm too lazy right now to list them all in order, so I am just including my top 5!

1. Alive!
2. Rock and Roll Over
3. Destroyer
4. Dressed to Kill
5. Hotter Than Hell

Ok, maybe I'm not too lazy to list my least favorites...
Asylum, Animalize, Crazy Nights, Hot in the Shade and all those damn solo albums.

Don't know that I could rank them all...there would be lots of ties.

But my Top 5 are:

1. Destroyer
2. Asylum
3. Unmasked
4. Lick It Up
5. Creatures Of The Night

1. KISS
2. Creatures of the Night
3. Love Gun
4. Rock and Roll Over
5. Lick It Up
6. Music from 'The Elder'
7. Dressed to Kill
8. Revenge
9. Asylum
10. Crazy Nights
11. Animalize
12. Hotter Than Hell
13. Destroyer
14. Hot in the Shade
15. Dynasty
16. Carnival of Souls
17. Psycho Circus
18. Unmasked

Solo:
1. Paul
2. Ace
3. Gene
4. Peter

I generally don't care about live albums, so I'll list them separately:

1. Alive
2. KISS Symphony: Alive IV
3. Alive III
4. Alive II
5. KISS Unplugged

1. Alive
2. Creatures Of The Night
3. Lick It Up
4. Love Gun
5. Rock And Roll Over
6. Alive II
7. Hotter Than Hell
8. Kiss
9. Revenge
10. Music From The Elder
11. Dressed To Kill
12. Destroyer
13. Dynasty
14. Animalize
15. Killers
16. Alive IV
17. Asylum
18. Unmasked
19. Crazy Nights
20. Hot In The Shade
21. Carnival Of Souls
22. Psycho Circus

Solo Albums:
Ace
Paul
Peter & Gene- to me these are both pretty equally terrible.

As for Alive III and Unplugged, I really dont remember too much about either.

On a side note, is "Nothin' To Lose" about what it sounds like it's about?

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

On a side note, is "Nothin' To Lose" about what it sounds like it's about?

Yep, but its ok, she doesn't care anyway.

manny wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

On a side note, is "Nothin' To Lose" about what it sounds like it's about?

Yep, but its ok, she doesn't care anyway.

Well, she didn't want to do it...but she did anyway.

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

manny wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

On a side note, is "Nothin' To Lose" about what it sounds like it's about?

Yep, but its ok, she doesn't care anyway.

Well, she didn't want to do it...but she did anyway.

LMAO - see my first review on KISS - KISS in the KISS Discography section if you want to know what the song is about!

If you are too lazy to click on it yourself, here is my quote:

Nothin' to lose (Gene's ode to anal sex),

I'm gonna be lazy:

Top Five:
1. ROCK AND ROLL OVER
2. REVENGE
3. CREATURES OF THE NIGHT
4. KISS
5. LOVE GUN

Bottom Five (descending order, with #5 being the worst)
1. ANIMALIZE (call me heretic if you wish; this one never did much for me)
2. UNMASKED
3. HOT IN THE SHADE
4. PETER CRISS (solo)
5. CRAZY NIGHTS

Fat Freddy wrote:

Bottom Five (descending order, with #5 being the worst)
1. ANIMALIZE (call me heretic if you wish; this one never did much for me)

Oh no I agree with you its bad. But theres no way it was worse than Asylum.

DeathCult wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Bottom Five (descending order, with #5 being the worst)
1. ANIMALIZE (call me heretic if you wish; this one never did much for me)

Oh no I agree with you its bad. But theres no way it was worse than Asylum.

I tend to give ASYLUM a few points over ANIMALIZE just because of my fond memories of the video for "Who Wants To Be Lonely."

Fat Freddy wrote:

DeathCult wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Bottom Five (descending order, with #5 being the worst)
1. ANIMALIZE (call me heretic if you wish; this one never did much for me)

Oh no I agree with you its bad. But theres no way it was worse than Asylum.

I tend to give ASYLUM a few points over ANIMALIZE just because of my fond memories of the video for "Who Wants To Be Lonely."

Thats the reason why I dont totally hate ASYLUM actually. But, Animalize had a few more songs I liked and it wasnt as annoying. But anyway, good picks.

ALIVE
Hotter Than Hell
Creatures Of The Night
Rock And Roll Over
KISS
Destroyer
ALIVE II
Dressed To Kill
Love Gun
Revenge
(music from) The Elder
Dynasty
Asylum
Lick it Up
Animalize
Unmasked
Carnival Of Souls
Hot In The Shade
Crazy Nights
Psycho Circus
ALIVE III

The SOLO lps

ACE
PAUL
GENE
PETER

All this hatin' on Asylum! I love that album..."Tears Are Falling", "King Of The Mountain", "Who Wants To Be Lonely", "I'm Alive", "Radar For Love"...killer stuff!