Artist: Kiss: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Rock: Hard-Rock Metal: Heavy Discography: Paul Stanley Year: 2006 Tracks: 9 Gold (CD1) Year: 2005 Tracks: 20 Symphony: Alive IV (CD 2) Year: 2003 Tracks: 10 Symphony: Alive IV (CD 1) Year: 2003 Tracks: 11 The Box Set (CD 5) - 1992-1999 Year: 2001 Tracks: 18 The Box Set (CD 4) - 1983-1989 Year: 2001 Tracks: 16 The Box Set (CD 3) - 1976-1982 Year: 2001 Tracks: 19 The Box Set (CD 2) - 1975-1977 Year: 2001 Tracks: 20 The Box Set (CD 1) - 1966-1975 Year: 2001 Tracks: 21 Psycho Circus Year: 1998 Tracks: 10 Alive! (CD 2) Year: 1997 Tracks: 7 Alive! (CD 1) Year: 1997 Tracks: 9 Live In Boston, MA Year: 1995 Tracks: 30 Smashes, Thrashes and Hits Year: 1988 Tracks: 15 Lick It Up Year: 1983 Tracks: 10 Killers Year: 1982 Tracks: 12 Creatures Of The Night Year: 1982 Tracks: 9 Music From ''The Elder'' Year: 1981 Tracks: 12 Dynasty Year: 1979 Tracks: 9 Peter Criss Solo Year: 1978 Tracks: 10 Double Platinum, CD2 Year: 1978 Tracks: 10 Double Platinum, CD1 Year: 1978 Tracks: 10 Ace Frehley Year: 1978 Tracks: 9 Love Gun Year: 1977 Tracks: 10 Alive Ii - 2 Year: 1977 Tracks: 11 Rock and Roll Over Year: 1976 Tracks: 10 Destroyer Year: 1976 Tracks: 9 Dressed To Kill Year: 1975 Tracks: 10 Alive! Year: 1975 Tracks: 17 Kiss Year: 1974 Tracks: 10 Hotter Than Hell Year: 1974 Tracks: 10 Unmasked Year: Tracks: 11 The Very Best Of Year: Tracks: 21 Hot In The Shade Year: Tracks: 15 Gene Simmons Year: Tracks: 11 Best of Year: Tracks: 19 Animalize Year: Tracks: 9 Rooted in the camp theatrics of Alice Cooper and the seamy surd rock of glam rockers the New York Dolls, Kiss became a favorite of American teenagers in the '70s. Most kids were taken with with the look of Kiss, non their music. Decked out in outrageously showy costumes and make-up, the ring fashioned a entrancing stage head featuring ironic ice, smoke bombs, expound lighting, blood spitting, and flame ventilation that captured the imaginations of thousands of kids. But Kiss' music shouldn't be laid-off -- it was a commercially potent fuse of anthemic, fist-pounding concentrated rock compulsive by sleek gist hooks and ballads powered by chinchy guitars, treacly melodies, and sweeping string section. It was a full that sic the basis for both stadium careen and the pop-metal that dominated rock in the previous '80s. Kiss was the brainchild of Gene Simmons (fresh water bass, vocals) and Paul Stanley (musical rhythm guitar, vocals), late members of the New York-based difficult rock 'n' roll ring Wicked Lester; the pair brought in drummer Peter Criss through his ad in Rolling Stone and guitar player Ace Frehley responded to an advertizement in The Village Voice. Even at their first Manhattan concert in 1973, the group's approaching was quite a theatrical; Flipside manufacturer Bill Aucoin offered the isthmus a management deal later the betoken. Two weeks after, the banding was signed to Neil Bogart's newcomer record book label, Casablanca. Kiss released their self-titled debut in February of 1974; it ailing at number 87 on the U.S. charts. By April of 1975, the mathematical group had released three albums and had toured America invariably, construction up a sizable fan al-Qaida. Culled from those numerous concerts, Alive! (released in the fall of 1975) made the bar rock & wind superstars; it climbed into the Top Ten and its attendant single, "Rock 'N' Roll All Nite," made it to number 12. Their reexamination, Ruiner, was released in March of 1976 and became the group's number one pt album; it as well featured their identification number one Top Ten individual, Peter Criss' office lay "Beth." A 1977 Gallup poll named Kiss the most pop ring in America. Kiss passion was in wide-cut swing and thousands of pieces of product run into the marketplace. The group had two comic books released by Marvel, pinball machines, make-up and masks, dining table games, and a live-action TV moving-picture demonstrate, Kiss Meet the Phantom of the Park. The group was never seen in public without wear away their war paint and their popularity was growing by leaps and boundary; the membership of the Kiss Army, the band's fan club, was now in the vI figures. Even such terrible popularity had its limits, and the band reached them in 1978, when all quaternary members released solo albums on the like two dozen hour period of time in October. Simmons' record book book was the to the highest degree successful, stretch number 22 on the charts, still all of them made it into the Top 50. Dynasty, released in 1979, continued their run of nuclear number 78 albums, even it was their last recorded with the original lineup -- Criss left in 1980. Kiss Unmasked, released in the summer of 1980, was recorded with academic term drummer Anton Fig; Criss' permanent understudy, Eric Carr, joined the banding in time for their 1980 creation circuit. Candy kiss Unmasked was their number one record since Destroyer to miscarry to go atomic number 78, and 1981's Music From the Elder, their first gear album recorded with Carr, didn't even go atomic number 79 -- it couldn't even climb past times number 75 on the charts. Ace Frehley left the band after its discharge; 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 physical composition for 1983's Lick It Up. The publicity worked, as the album became their number unitary pt phonograph recording in quaternary long time. Brutalise, released the next year, was just as successful, and the mathematical group had recaptured their bionomical niche. Vincent left after Animalise and was replaced by Mark St. John; St. John was briefly taken ill with Reiter's Syndrome and left the band. Bruce Kulick became Kiss' new steer guitar player in 1984. For the rest of the x, Kiss turned extinct a series of best-selling albums, culminating in the early 1990 hit lay "Perpetually," which was their biggest individual since "Beth." Kiss was scheduled to record a new album with their old maker, Bob Ezrin, in 1990 when Eric Carr became severely ill with crab; he died in November of 1991 at the eld of 41. Kiss replaced him with Eric Singer and recorded Retaliation (1992), their number one album since 1989; it was a Top Ten strike and went amber. Kiss followed it with the button of Alive III the following yr; it performed creditably, barely not up to the standards of their two former alive records. In 1996, the original lineup of Kiss -- featuring Simmons, Stanley, Frehley, and Criss -- reunited to perform an outside circuit, complete with their notorious makeup and particular personal effects. The spell was unmatched of the to the highest degree successful of 1996, and in 1998 the reunited radical issued Psychotic Circus. While the ensuing term of enlistment in support of Psychotic person Circus was a winner, sales of Kiss' reunification album weren't as leading as hoped-for. Reminiscent of the band's late-'70s unfocussed full full point, few tracks on Psychotic person Circus featured all little Joe members playing in concert (most tracks were supplemented with session musicians), as the stria seemed more than concerned in flooding the marketplace with merchandise in time over again instead of devising the music their top precedency. With rumors running rampant that the Psycho Circus Tour would be their last, the quartet proclaimed in the spring of 2000 that they would be launching a U.S. leave term of enlistment in the summertime, which became one of the year's top concert draws. But on the evening of a Japanese and Australian import in early 2001, Peter Criss of a sudden left the ring once once more than, purportedly discontentedness with his remuneration. Taking his place was former Kiss drummer Eric Singer, wHO in a controversial locomote among some longtime fans, donned Criss' cat-man make-up (since Simmons and Stanley possess both Frehley and Criss' make-up designs, there was no threat of a case) as the parting tour continued. With the band scheduled to call it a day purportedly by recent 2001, a mammoth career-encompassing box specify was mark for later on in the year, spell the summer saw peradventure the to the highest degree extraordinary piece of Kiss product all the same -- the "Osculation Kasket." The chemical grouping was comparatively quiet through the repose of the year, just 2002 started with a bang as Gene Simmons turned in an entertaining and controversial interview on NPR where he criticized the system of rules and berated legion Terry Gross with sexual comments and arch answers. He was promoting his autobiography at the time, which besides caused dissent in the Kiss camp because of the inflammatory remarks made towards Ace Frehley. Frehley was quite angry at the situation, champion to his no-showing of an American Bandstand day of memorial evince. His place was taken by a wig-wearing Tommy Thayer, nly no unmatched was fooled and the ring looked especially amazing piece pretense to play their instruments during the prerecorded caterpillar tread. The show was an embarrassment for the grouping and for their fans, just Simmons was nimble to fire the populace presentation as some other in a long nonparallel of money-oriented decisions. |