The offical Kiss thread

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Maiden's Powerslave, Metallica's Ride The Lightning, Mercyful Fate's Don't Break The Oath, Slayer's Haunting The Chapel, Dio's Last In Line, Priest's Defenders Of The Faith, Queensryche's The Warning, Scorp's Love At First Sting, Ratt's Out Of The Cellar, Wasp's S/T, Yngwie's Rising Force and even Grim Reaper's See You In Hell.....

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

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Maiden's Powerslave, Metallica's Ride The Lightning, Mercyful Fate's Don't Break The Oath, Slayer's Haunting The Chapel, Dio's Last In Line, Priest's Defenders Of The Faith, Queensryche's The Warning, Scorp's Love At First Sting, Ratt's Out Of The Cellar, Wasp's S/T, Yngwie's Rising Force and even Grim Reaper's See You In Hell.....

Found some more albums released that year:

Anthrax - Fistful OF Metal, Armored Saint - March Of The Saint, Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers, Dokken - Tooth & Nail, Exciter - Long Live The Loud, Fates Warning - Night On Brocken, Metal Church - S/T, Overkill - Power In Black, Overkill EP, Running Wild - Gates To Purgatory, Saxon - Crusader, Venom - at War With Satan, Trouble - Psalm 9, Savatage - Dungeons, Twister Sister - Stay Hungry, Van Halen - 1984, Whitesnake - Slide It In, Y&T - In Rock We Trust and everyone's favorite whipping post, Keel - Lay Down The Law

thejokeriv wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

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Maiden's Powerslave, Metallica's Ride The Lightning, Mercyful Fate's Don't Break The Oath, Slayer's Haunting The Chapel, Dio's Last In Line, Priest's Defenders Of The Faith, Queensryche's The Warning, Scorp's Love At First Sting, Ratt's Out Of The Cellar, Wasp's S/T, Yngwie's Rising Force and even Grim Reaper's See You In Hell.....

Found some more albums released that year:

Anthrax - Fistful OF Metal, Armored Saint - March Of The Saint, Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers, Dokken - Tooth & Nail, Exciter - Long Live The Loud, Fates Warning - Night On Brocken, Metal Church - S/T, Overkill - Power In Black, Overkill EP, Running Wild - Gates To Purgatory, Saxon - Crusader, Venom - at War With Satan, Trouble - Psalm 9, Savatage - Dungeons, Twister Sister - Stay Hungry, Van Halen - 1984, Whitesnake - Slide It In, Y&T - In Rock We Trust and everyone's favorite whipping post, Keel - Lay Down The Law

What a brilliant time to be 13 years old...

I was a huge huge KISS fan back then, and I would have defended any KISS album back then, even if they had released an album of nothing but polka tunes I would have defended it! Looking back on it now, I do wonder why I liked it so much back then.

BTW Mark St. John was a great guitarist, more like Vinnie Vincent then Ace.

manny wrote:

BTW Mark St. John was a great guitarist

Agreed. Too bad he didn't make any other albums with them.

I always chuckle at how Paul Stanley summed up Mark St. John's tenure with the band in the X-Treme Close Up video -- "I don't know who the last Pope was, but there was a Pope that nobody got to see. They elected him Pope, and then the Pope died."

Speaking of KISS more, more merchandising coming your way:


I was just saying the other day to someone that Kiss needs more merchandise. "I mean, come on! There's just not enough of it!"

Well, Gene Simmons must have heard me, because in a new interview the Kiss bassist -- and in all seriousness, one of the best business men in music -- revealed that the video game realm might be next for Kiss.

Starting on the smaller scale of mobile gaming, Simmons told Industry Gamers that: "We’re talking with Angry Birds, KISS and Angry Birds, which will become a deal."

Fans may remember that there was indeed a video game released around the time of 1998's Psycho Circus, but that game's lukewarm reception hasn't stopped Simmons front wanting to tackle the console gaming market.

"Well, we’re talking with Sony games now," he said. "We are really trying to take it in areas that haven’t been done before and have stayed out of the marketplace because the ideas simply weren’t exciting enough. So while the gaming world is waiting for the KISS games that are going to explode, we’re busy taking the brand to places where no band has gone before."

I can see it now on PS3 and Xbox 360.....

KISS-(music From) The Elder

a role playing game

James B. wrote:

I can see it now on PS3 and Xbox 360.....

KISS-(music From) The Elder

a role playing game

LOL!!!! It'll be one of the massive online games like world of warcraft..... except only the hard core gamers that love Elder will be the only ones playing.... all 20 of them.....

Ha! I remember playing the hell out of Psycho Circus when it came out. Looking back it wasn't all that, but hey, you either love Kiss or you don't.

thejokeriv wrote:

James B. wrote:

I can see it now on PS3 and Xbox 360.....

KISS-(music From) The Elder

a role playing game

LOL!!!! It'll be one of the massive online games like world of warcraft..... except only the hard core gamers that love Elder will be the only ones playing.... all 20 of them.....

I can see the Gene $immons charachter using the outhouse and coming out with a pot-o-gold in his arms. AND a really pissed off leprachaun chasing him untill it gets engulfed in flames when Gene breathes fire on it.

re: 80's Kiss

Unmasked (never heard it)

The Elder - heard it once, that's good enough

Creatures Of The Night - my favorite 80's Kiss record by a mile.

Lick It Up - almost in the same league as Creatures, I played this one quite a bit at the time.

Animalize - Loved it when I was 13, but I feel no need to revisit it now. If I hear Heavens On Fire I'm liable to destroy my stereo, so best to avoid it.

Asylum - Purchased on release date in 1985, a friend and I listened to the album once, then we took it out into the back yard and played frisbee with it for awhile, before smashing it to pieces.

Didn't buy another Kiss album until Revenge came out.

S.D. wrote:

re: 80's Kiss

Unmasked (never heard it)

It's got 3 of Ace's best songs ever...those were the 3 that I played over and over from that album. "Torpedo Girl", "Two Sides Of The Coin" and "Talk To Me"...all 3 were hook-filled goodness.

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

S.D. wrote:

re: 80's Kiss

Unmasked (never heard it)

It's got 3 of Ace's best songs ever...those were the 3 that I played over and over from that album. "Torpedo Girl", "Two Sides Of The Coin" and "Talk To Me"...all 3 were hook-filled goodness.

Thanks. It's on Spotify so I'll try and give it a listen soon.

S.D. wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

S.D. wrote:

re: 80's Kiss

Unmasked (never heard it)

It's got 3 of Ace's best songs ever...those were the 3 that I played over and over from that album. "Torpedo Girl", "Two Sides Of The Coin" and "Talk To Me"...all 3 were hook-filled goodness.

Thanks. It's on Spotify so I'll try and give it a listen soon.

I always thought Torpedo Girl was one of Ace's weaker tunes but the other 2 are really good.

007 wrote:

I always thought Torpedo Girl was one of Ace's weaker tunes but the other 2 are really good.

I like it cuz it's silly..."let's take a dive Torpedo Girl...come on getcha feet wet!"

Ace's bass line on it is cool, too.

the 80s is my fav KISS era by far, I love them all, well I can get by without Unmasked and The Elder to be honest. But I do LOVE Hot in the Shade, which is my favorite KISS album

JaguarBlaze wrote:

Ace's bass line on it is cool, too.

What, Gene didn't play bass on most of the 80's KISS album?????? LOL!!!!!

For those of you who missed out on the original line of KISS action figures introduced in 1977 by the Mego toymakers, this is for you. Figures Toy Company has announced a line of KISS action figures made in the image of those collectibles.

In addition to recreating the original 12-inch toys that were popular in the late ’70s, Figures will produce the four original KISS members in 8-inch versions.

“Our first release will have the retro look from the 1970s, but future releases will cover all time periods in KISS’s almost-40-year musical career from 1973 to 2012,” said Figures CFO Paul Balasco. The next editions in the works will feature the band in the Sonic Boom, Dressed to Kill and debut album eras.

Both editions, which feature the band’s Love Gun-era looks, will be available starting in March. The 8-inch figures each come with a mini Love Gun album cover. The 12-inchers come with one of four mini KISS concert T-shirts.

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future releases will cover all time periods in KISS’s almost-40-year musical career from 1973 to 2012,”

Sweet!! Finally, I can get that Mark St. John doll I've wanted for so long!!

Although I did miss out on the original Mego figures back in the day (thanks alot, Mom!), I won't be getting these. Pretty cool though.

thejokeriv wrote:

JaguarBlaze wrote:

Ace's bass line on it is cool, too.

What, Gene didn't play bass on most of the 80's KISS album?????? LOL!!!!!

Gene barely showed up for most of the non-makeup stuff...

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

JaguarBlaze wrote:

Ace's bass line on it is cool, too.

What, Gene didn't play bass on most of the 80's KISS album?????? LOL!!!!!

Gene barely showed up for most of the non-makeup stuff...

Oh, I am well aware of that - I was being sarcastic