I’m sure you have your own list of worst KISS tracks for each album. Definitely let me know which ones you come up with, as well as anything else relevant, in the comments below.
@@randallbenton4481 Yes ! Actually I consider "Destroyer" the best of the "early " KISS albums. My very first KISS concert was in Chicago for the Destroyer tour. Ahhh, high school memories ! My ears rang for 3 days ! To me, those first 6 albums were classic KISS.
Personally I believe the big hit is several times their worst song on their album. Lick it up..naahhh, Tears are falling..naahh, I was made.., Shandi...
Yeah I agree about this song. It's not the worst on that album. I'd probably go with "All The Way" because all of the other songs are solid. Even "Mainline."
Facts. He legit ranks it as the worst cuz of one ”bad lyric” like bruh? How tf is Flaming Youth worse than Great Expectations? Also maybe Paul meant that young people was fired up and about young people and teens who are kiss fans setting the world on fire with their energy. Even if it didn’t so fucking what if it’s about gay people? A band can sing about whatever they want? Let Me Go Rock N’ Roll is an absolute banger? So what if it had that old timey sound a band isn’t necesarily suppoused to follow the current format. Hell, thereare bands today who still make glam metal type music even if it’s not popural. And saying that Ace is a better bass player than Gene. Just cuz it’s complicated dosen’t mean it’s good. And just cuz it’s simple dosen’t mean it’s bad.
@@elvis5138 I personally feel like Beth is the worst song on Destroyer .. I've grown to hate this song, it is so overplayed .. second worst, Do You Love Me, same reason.
3:02 Kissin’ Time was recorded (reluctantly for a promotional campaign and as you said Casablanca released it as a single and added the single to their already released debut album against their wishes. KISS reluctantly agreed to record the lyrically updated version of Bobby Rydell's 1959 hit (for Bobby Rydell) Kissin' Time using it in a series of local radio kissing contests designed to boost sales of the album. Apparently they recorded it within 30 minutes… not a bad cover, I personally kinda like it.
@@SirManflyhonestly if they whittled it down to 9 or 10 tracks it would’ve been so much more palatable. Still not amazing but definitely better than the hour long mess we got. I use this on playlists 1. Rise to It 2. Prisoner of Love 3. Hide Your Heart 4. Forever 5. Cadillac Dreams 6. King of Hearts 7. You Love Me to Hate You 8. Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell 9. Boomerang Still not amazing but it’s far more streamlined
Okay….the Hotter than hell track “Let me go rock and roll” was a great song way back when that album came out! If you ever saw them do it live in concert it’s such a high energy song!!!
I cannot pick a song from Unmasked as my least favorite. I don’t know why but I absolutely love this album and every song on it. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I can’t say anything good about anything on both Sonic Boom and Monster. I first saw KISS on the Crazy Nights tour and that album, to me, is like Unmasked. I absolutely love it and I can’t pick a least favorite song on it. The rest of your picks I agree with.
For me Unmasked is my favorite Kiss album too! I love how much Ace contributed along with Anton Fig playing drums. The production is kinda thin unfortunately with the guitars sounding like they're playing through a 5 watt Fender Champ. I'm from Vancouver Island Canada and my Grandparents used to winter in Palm Springs and before they came back they would ask if I wanted anything. I asked for this album on cassette. I remember it had a beige case which was odd, the cassette itself was white and the clear plastic screen on one side was missing. But in 1987 for me this album was almost perfect. As a drummer and bass player, Torpedo Girl was the holy grail to be able to play for me and my friends in our early teens. But as this guy mentions, the lyrics are beyond cheezy but I was too busy trying to learn how to play the hi-hat with my left foot on the up beat while playing a kind of syncopated thing with the snare and toms. Shandi is a very good song that in my eyes gets glazed over by many critics for whatever reason. Talk to Me and She's So European were great too. Is that you is even a song I crave to hear every now and again.
I love Unmasked, too. Not every song, but Torpedo Girl is one of my faves. And I gave up on Kiss after Lick It Up. A few songs here and there are ok, but not much into the bulk of it.
Love the content...but I gotta disagree about Ace playing bass better than Gene did. Dude is a severely UNDERrated bass player. Seriously go back and listen to many of the bass lines on the first 6 albums in particular. Great stuff!!
I agree, 100%. Gene never gets enough credit for his bass playing, his bass lines are what made so many of those 70s bangers. Interesting lines that differ to the guitar parts, and really add some drive to the songs. Very underrated bass player 🤘🏻
It's interesting to see how different KISS fans' picks for best or worst tracks are. Some of my all time favorite KISS songs are precisely on your list, hahaha: I do love Kissin' Time, Getaway, Flaming Youth, Then She Kissed Me, Dirty Livin', Torpedo Girl, Odyssey and We Are One. My favorite KISS studio albums, in order, are: 1. Destroyer (I love Great Expectations too!), 2. Love Gun, 3. Unmasked, 4. Dynasty, 5. KISS. I go for song catchiness rather than heaviness and don't really mind lyrics that much when it comes to KISS, so that's why.
70% agreed, getaway is cool, dirty living is cool, let me go is awesome, remember that kiss is only about having fun, not necessarily Pink Floyd lyrics but instead you can feel the power
Been a fan since 75’…a real fan takes the good with the bad and doesn’t trash their work. 200+ songs that we know of for sure and about 10 or so are lackluster…I am sure they can live with that. I enjoyed the post but disagree on about half of the songs, especially “Let Me Go Rock n Roll” and “Flaming Youth”, I agree the chorus in Flaming Youth needed something but it was still a great song.
Haven't started watching the video yet but I love that this exists. Once I became a teenager back in 05-07 and started getting into music for the first time, I fell down the KISS rabbithole since they were my Dad's favourite band. I ripped a lot of the Kissology audio and uploaded it as bootlegs on Guitars 101. Fun times. The back catalog of KISS is a sort of boomer rock purgatory; what happens when very wealthy people have very bad song ideas yet can afford infinite studio time to ensure that these are packaged and sold as commercial products on a yearly basis. There is no set pattern to this chaos but it generally alternates between Gene the narcissistic sex pest, and Stanley Eisen being a more articulate and nuanced sex pest. There is a difference I promise and KISS fans will know what I'm talking about. The result is KISS' library being split effectively in two; there are songs the band was proud to play live (even if for a single tour, common with them) and are worth listening to over and over again, and the other half - close to ten whole album's worth - of the worst, most soulless and contrived boomer rock imaginable. Their work ethic is admirable for the sole reason that they wrote and sold as many brutal, soul-crushingly bad songs shoehorned onto good or otherwise great albums, as other bands have written total in their entire discography. This is probably why I love them so much. Their good songs are great, but their bad songs are completely unhinged and insane, and there are so goddamn many of them covering all possible rock subgenres. And KISS kept doing it, consistently until 2012, culminating in an entire album worth of forgettable music - their magnum opus. Monster is quintessential KISS. It's so bad I won't listen to it or pretend it exists, just as the band, in live shows, pretends half their discography doesn't exist either. Very meta! There are three songs that highlight this: Rockin' in the USA (Alive II), Fits Like a Glove, and Bang Bang You. Even on their most commercially successful albums, the band is creatively bankrupt and borderline retarded. Gene's penis is a snake. Paul's penis, however, is a cannonball! This is the nuance I was talking about. Germany was really neat. Truly we are in the presence of legends. Anyways the worst song off HITS is Read My Body.
I was with you until the early 80s. I Love It Loud is the worst on Creatures.I’m Alive is worse than Trial By Fire. Bang Bang You is worse than. My Way.HITS is easier to say what is a good song, but Read My Body is the worst. And I’ve always loved Torpedo Girl.
@@billycain9890 me too, I love We Are One.. and I still agree I Finally Found My Way was fcking hot garbage (coming from someone who always enjoyed Peter in his prime- even own his mid 90s solo album that almost no one remembers)
Almost Human from Love Gun is even worse, despite having a pretty cool groove, it just is a squashed under the burden of its cheesy lyrics and it just stagnates early. The guitar work almost saves it though!
When I was about 10 years old my father, genuinely interested in what music I was getting into, sat down for a listen of some songs from Dressed to Kill with me. "Getaway" completely made him burst out laughing at "got no dough." He kept on laughing and going "I gotta get away" and "got no dough." It was a pretty magical moment.
We only differ in two choices: On "Hotter Than Hell" it should be "Mainline" ("Mainline... baby, give it to me one time"). On "Animalize" it is definitely "Burn, Bitch, Burn" ("Oh babe, I wanna put my log in your fireplace"). "Burn, Bitch, Burn" isn't just the worst KISS song on that album, it is their worst, period. Maybe the worst song in rock. Ever.
I think you were pretty easy going on these selections, and especially for The Elder...and I also sing along with laughter every damn time. Nice one, once again mate!
There's a few Kiss albums that don't have a bad song at all in my opinion that's the debut Kiss album dress to kill creatures of the night and revenge and also rock and roll over
I stopped buying KISS albums, yes albums, after Love Gun. Not because I didn’t like them anymore, just kinda outgrew them for awhile. “Let me go rock n roll” was an awesome RnR “throwback “ that I always turned up on the stereo !
Man, pretty much every Gene song on Animalize and Asylum are turds of an extreme magnitude lyrically. I swear, on Animalize, he fit as many cliches in there as humanly possible. Burn Bitch Burn is a big offender too. You could have picked any Gene song on those albums and been on the money. You hit the nail on the head as far as Gene phoning it in.
1. Black Diamond (love this live) 2. Got to Choose 3. Love her all I can 4. Beth (never liked that) 5. Mr. Speed 6. Then she kissed me (like it) 7. Sure know Something 8. Shandie 9. Odyssey (but love it) 10 Keep me Comin‘ 11. Lick it up 12. Heavens on Fire 13. Tears are Falling Later Albums I never had until Psycho Circus : 18. I finally find my way My List ends here !
not only does Gene sing "baby" a lot on Let me go rock n roll...but his bass guitar is saying it throughout the whole song. "babeh babeh babeh" is his part on the guitar.
You are full of it dude. Dirty Livin' is the best song on Dynasty and my favorite Kiss deep track of all time. And is definitely a rock song, not disco. So goes the old saying: opinions are like buttholes, everyone has one and they all stink.🤣
Let Me Go Rock and Roll is great and Get Away is cool too. The Destroyer and Rock and Roll Over quotes I agree with. On Love Gun I never liked Christine Sixteen because I thought it was so corny when he talks in the middle of the song. Like a do wop song from 1962.
1. Kissin' Time 2. Let Me Go , Rock N Roll 3. Anything For My Baby 4. Flaming Youth 5. See You In Your Dreams 6. Tomorrow And Tonight 7. Save Your Love 8. You're All That I Want 9. Odyssey 10. Keep Me Comin' 11. Gimme' More 12. Murder In High Heels 13. Trial By Fire 14. Bang Bang You 15. Read My Body 16. Tough Love 17. Seduction Of The Innocent 18. I Finally Found My Way 19. All For The Glory 20. Eat Your Heart Out
Enjoyed your list😃 At least we agree on Read my Body🤣🤣 Here’s mine if you want some painfull reminders! Kissing time-(Embarrassing) Goin’ Blind-(Not bad at all) Ladies in Waiting-(Boring) Great Expectations-(How this ended up on the album i’ll never know) Love ‘em & Leave ‘em-(Amazingly bad) Got Love for Sale-(And Gene’s streak continues..) X-Ray Eyes-(Wow.. Just.. Wow..) She’s so European-(Worst song on my least favorite Kiss album) Mr. Blackwell-(Torture) Keep Me Comin’-(Too much Paulsetto) All Hell’s Breakin’ Loose-(Not bad.. But.. Not Kiss for me) Murder in High Heels-(Burn Gene Burn) Radar for Love-(Why Paul... Why...) Bang Bang You-(Horrendous) Read My Body-(Worst song.. ever🤣) Tough Love-(Forgetable) As for the last 4 studio albums i never could get past 2 listens so can’t remember any of those songs😅 Revenge was the last album I enjoyed. 🎼🎸🥁
from hotter than hell : strange ways, rarer: baby driver, from love gun :Hooligan", Dynasty:"Dirty Livin' ", unmasked :"Easy as It Seems",the elder:escape from the island, from lick : Fits Like a Glove", animalize : Lonely Is the Hunter",Asylum: Radar for Love", crazy nights: "Thief in the Night", hit shade : "Read My Body", revenge :"Spit",carnival :"In the Mirror", p circus :"I Finally Found My Way", ( we are one is awesome ),sonic boom :Russian Roulette", monster :"Back to the Stone Age"
I agree almost in every case, tho many albums have more than two really bad tunes, but... "MY WAY" is far from being the worst tune on Crazy Nights. It is actually one of the best four tunes and shows a fantastic vocal performance by Paul. "No, no, no" and "Bang, bang you" are really horrendous.
Totally agree on Tommy Thayer's songs in last two albums. His are the worst. Also I do agree on Loney is the Hunter. That's not a song, that's a puke !
1. Kissin’ Time 2.Comin' Home 3. Getaway 4. Sweet Pain 5. Baby Driver 6. Love for Sale 7. Hard Times 8. What Makes The World Go 'Round 9. Odyssey 10. Keep Me Comin' 11. Young and Wasted 12. Get All You Can Take 13. Love's a Deadly Weapon 14. No, No, No 15. Boomerang 16. Spit 17. In The Mirror 18. You Wanted The Best 19. Danger Us 20. Last Chance
KISS: KISSIN`TIME HOTTER THAN HELL: ALL THE WAY DRESSED TO KILL: ANYTHING FOR MY BABY DESTROYER: SWEET PAIN ROCK AND ROLL OVER: SEE YOU IN YOUR DREAMS LOVE GUN: THEN SHE KISSED ME DYNASTY: X RAY EYES UNMASKED: YOU`RE ALL THAT I WANT. THE ELDER: ODDYSSEY CREATURES OF THE NIGHT: I STILL LOVE YOU LICK IT UP: GIMME MORE ANIMALIZE: GET ALL YOU CAN TAKE ASYLUM: I`M ALIVE CRAZY NIGHTS: BANG BANG YOU OR MY WAY HOT IN THE SHADE: BOOMERANG REVENGE: PARALYZED CARNIVAL OF SOULS: IT NEVER GOES AWAY PSYCHO CIRCUS: I FINALLY FOUND MY WAY SONIC BOOM: NEVER ENOUGH MONSTER: ALL FOR THE LOVE OF ROCK AND ROLL
KIϟϟ - "Love Theme from Kiss" Hotter Than Hell - "Goin' Blind" Dressed to Kill - "Ladies in Waiting" Destroyer - "Great Expectations" Rock and Roll Over - "See You in Your Dreams" Love Gun - "Christine Sixteen" Alive II (Side Four) - "Rockin' in the U.S.A." Paul Stanley - "Hold Me, Touch Me (Think of Me When We're Apart)" Gene Simmons - "See You Tonite" Ace Frehley - "Wiped-Out" Peter Criss - "Kiss the Girl Goodbye" Dynasty - "2,000 Man" Unmasked - "Is That You?" Music From "The Elder" - "Fanfare" Killers (new tracks only) - "Down on Your Knees" Creatures of the Night - "Killer" Lick It Up - "Dance All Over Your Face" Animalize - "Burn Bitch Burn" Asylum - "Trial by Fire" Crazy Nights - "Bang Bang You" Hot in the Shade - "Read My Body" Revenge - "Spit" Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions - "I Walk Alone" Psycho Circus - "Raise Your Glasses" Sonic Boom - "Yes I Know (Nobody's Perfect)" Monster - "All for the Love of Rock & Roll"
Flaming Youth and Sweet Pain are two of my favorite from Destroyer! Well....just goes to show that everyone has an opinion....which is a good thing. Great Expectations, to me is clearly the worst on the album
I think you are really underrating Gene. I have never really liked "him" as a person; however as a musician myself I will say he really gets ranked poorly and very undeservingly . Listen to Goin Blind, Let Me Know, and even Hard Luck woman. (Going Blind) especially--- these bass lines are killer. He very easily could play Torpedo Girl
Kiss - Black Diamond Hotter Than Hell - Let Me Go, Rock ‘n’ Roll Dressed to Kill - Getaway Destroyer - Great Expectations Rock ‘n’ Roll Over - Baby Driver Love Gun - Then She Kissed Me Dynasty - X-Ray Eyes Unmasked - You’re All That I Want Elder - Mr Blackwell Creatures - Rock ‘n’ Roll Hell Lick it Up - A Million To One Animalize - Burn Bitch Burn Asylum - Secretly Cruel Crazy Nights - When Your Walls Come Down Hot in the Shade - boomerang Revenge - Domino (Unplugged version much better) Psycho Circus - I Finally Found My Way Sonic Boom - Say Yeah Monster - Freak
-Kissin' Time -Mainline -Ladies In Waiting -Sweet Pain -Baby Driver -Then She Kissed Me -Dirty Livin' -Tomorrow -Odyssey -Saint and Sinner -And On The 8th Day -Murder In High-Heels -I'm Alive -When Your Walls Come Down -Read My Body -Take It Off -Seduction Of The Innocent -Raise Your Glasses -Hot And Cold -Outta This World
I am late to this thread... but, being a HUGE Kiss fan, I know almost every song by heart. And I agree with most of this... and I am impressed with the thought that went into this video. But, I still like most of the songs mentioned here.... Including "Then She Kissed Me". :)
1 kissin' time 2 mainline 3 getaway 4 sweet pain 5 see you in your dreams 6 hooligan 7 x ray eyes 8 torpedo girl 9 odyssey 10 saint and sinner 11 fits like a globe 12 burn, bitch, burn 13 trial by fire 14 good girl gone bad 15 somewhere between heaven and hell 16 spit 17 i walk alone 18 i finally found my way 19 when lightning strikes 20 eat your heart out
"Getaway" may be Frehley's "least popular" song, but the solo kicks ass. He put everything into that. (I'd say "Anything For My Baby" was the candidate here. Paul comes up with a lot of filler if Gene ain't writing anything to bring to the bank.)
Pretty cool list! The kiss nerd in me must point out a few differences in opinion... great expectations, baby driver, hooligan, burn bitch burn, radar for love, you wanted the best are the worst tracks on their respective albums IMO
At least you guys can remember the names of the worst. As a kid I was like, WhatTheFuck is this shit!? And skip it, like I did by skipping every album after Dynasty because METALLICA made KISS look like 4 singing Jewish clowns.😜
Ace’s solo on ‘Kissin Time’ is superb. ‘Ladies in Waitin’ is the blandest 70s KISS imo. My favourite tracks on Dynasty and Unmasked are your least favourite. 😂 Each to their own. Thanks anyway.
Kissin Time Got to choose Anything for my baby Flaming youth See you in your dreams Christine sixteen Charisma You're all that i want Odyssey Luck it up Heavens on Fire Trial by fire When your walls came down/ Bang Bang you Read my Body Spit I finally found my way When lightning strikes Outta this world
KISS eponymous - Love Theme From KISS Hotter Than Hell - Mainline Dressed to Kill - Rock Bottom Destroyer - Sweet Pain R&R Over - Baby Driver Love Gun - Love for Sale Dynasty - Save your Love Unmasked - every track. If I had to pick a favourite it would be Torpedo Girl. Creatures - Rock and Roll Hell HITS - Silver Spoon Revenge- Tough Love. Spit rules lol Psycho Circus - that stupid ballad that Peter sings Sonic Boom - Stand Monster - Long Way Down
I’m sure you have your own list of worst KISS tracks for each album. Definitely let me know which ones you come up with, as well as anything else relevant, in the comments below.
Absolutely disagree with FLAMING YOUTH from Destroyer. GREAT SONG!
@@randallbenton4481 Yes ! Actually I consider "Destroyer" the best of the "early " KISS albums. My very first KISS concert was in Chicago for the Destroyer tour. Ahhh, high school memories ! My ears rang for 3 days !
To me, those first 6 albums were classic KISS.
Personally I believe the big hit is several times their worst song on their album. Lick it up..naahhh, Tears are falling..naahh, I was made.., Shandi...
FLAMING YOUTH and not Great Expectations? you're high, dude!
“Let Me Go, Rock ‘n’ Roll” kicks major ass on “Alive!” (1975); absolutely dig the longer guitar solo at the end…
I'm sorry but "Let Me Go Rock and Roll" is one of their absolute best all time songs. It brings down the house every time they play it live!
Nah, it SUCKS!!!
Then why is it not featured on a y live work?
One of my favorite songs
Yeah I agree about this song. It's not the worst on that album. I'd probably go with "All The Way" because all of the other songs are solid. Even "Mainline."
@@RobertWilkinsonJKekMaloy It IS, it closes out the "Alive" second disc. They played a an absolutely EPIC version.
Man, we have different tastes in KISS songs!
I agree with your comment 💯% . I was just thinking the same thing.
Dirty living is the best song on Dynasty. And ace's solo is smokin
I agree, also love Ace's guitar on this.
Dirty living and Hard Times are the ones that save this album. Hes obviously never heard Dynasty. Charisma? Xray eyes?
worst song on Dynasty is I was made for loving you.
Same, I feel like Dynasty gets a lot of unwarranted hate just because of the disco tinges. That's a far better song than "I was made for loving you"
Every song by Ace on Dynasty is great
Let Me Go Rock And Roll is one of the best songs on Hotter Than Hell. Also, Hotter Than Hell is a perfect album.
I agree this guy doesn't know to much about music
Facts. He legit ranks it as the worst cuz of one ”bad lyric” like bruh? How tf is Flaming Youth worse than Great Expectations? Also maybe Paul meant that young people was fired up and about young people and teens who are kiss fans setting the world on fire with their energy. Even if it didn’t so fucking what if it’s about gay people? A band can sing about whatever they want?
Let Me Go Rock N’ Roll is an absolute banger? So what if it had that old timey sound a band isn’t necesarily suppoused to follow the current format. Hell, thereare bands today who still make glam metal type music even if it’s not popural.
And saying that Ace is a better bass player than Gene. Just cuz it’s complicated dosen’t mean it’s good. And just cuz it’s simple dosen’t mean it’s bad.
I totally agree. He lost me when he picked that one.
I probably would have picked Mainline
@@elvis5138 I personally feel like Beth is the worst song on Destroyer .. I've grown to hate this song, it is so overplayed .. second worst, Do You Love Me, same reason.
I respectfully Disagree with you on Flaming Youth and Then she kissed me.
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"Absolutely nothing to do with the track"...I can clearly hear Gene's backing vocals on Getaway.
Same album, different song (and vocal) - - you can hear Ace singing background on Rock Bottom
Ace DOES drop down to sound like gene. Watched him do it live just a few months ago at Miller Auditorium. That SpaceMan is the Only Space Man.
Naked City, Under The Rose and Two Timer are all great. Also Odyssey is great too.
Naked City and Under The Rose are my favourite songs on those albums
3:02 Kissin’ Time was recorded (reluctantly for a promotional campaign and as you said Casablanca released it as a single and added the single to their already released debut album against their wishes.
KISS reluctantly agreed to record the lyrically updated version of Bobby Rydell's 1959 hit (for Bobby Rydell) Kissin' Time using it in a series of local radio kissing contests designed to boost sales of the album. Apparently they recorded it within 30 minutes… not a bad cover, I personally kinda like it.
I like it, too
I think it's an absolute rocker . Aces best guitar solo as far as I'm concerned!!
Dressed to Kill is proof that it is better to put out a short album than a long album full of fillers. Every song is razor sharp.
Meanwhile Hot In The Shade should have been called Hot Garbage ! 🤮
I always want a KISS tour in the DTK suits
@@SirManflyhonestly if they whittled it down to 9 or 10 tracks it would’ve been so much more palatable. Still not amazing but definitely better than the hour long mess we got. I use this on playlists
1. Rise to It
2. Prisoner of Love
3. Hide Your Heart
4. Forever
5. Cadillac Dreams
6. King of Hearts
7. You Love Me to Hate You
8. Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
9. Boomerang
Still not amazing but it’s far more streamlined
def one of my fave albums
Yes: Dressed is a tight, punchy record (with poor audio engineering).
oh man, "Read my Body" is a top ten KISS song for me.... and im not joking
Ace is the best lyricist in the band. Flaming Youth is way better than Great Expectations
Okay….the Hotter than hell track “Let me go rock and roll” was a great song way back when that album came out! If you ever saw them do it live in concert it’s such a high energy song!!!
If it was high energy, why is it not on Alive?
Uhh. It is on Kiss Alive bro..
@@RobertWilkinsonJKekMaloybro you smokin' something? Musta passed out before the album ended.
I cannot pick a song from Unmasked as my least favorite. I don’t know why but I absolutely love this album and every song on it. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I can’t say anything good about anything on both Sonic Boom and Monster. I first saw KISS on the Crazy Nights tour and that album, to me, is like Unmasked. I absolutely love it and I can’t pick a least favorite song on it. The rest of your picks I agree with.
I’m with you. I LOVE Unmasked. Two of my top five KISS songs come from it with Talk to Me being my favorite KISS song.
For me Unmasked is my favorite Kiss album too! I love how much Ace contributed along with Anton Fig playing drums. The production is kinda thin unfortunately with the guitars sounding like they're playing through a 5 watt Fender Champ.
I'm from Vancouver Island Canada and my Grandparents used to winter in Palm Springs and before they came back they would ask if I wanted anything. I asked for this album on cassette. I remember it had a beige case which was odd, the cassette itself was white and the clear plastic screen on one side was missing. But in 1987 for me this album was almost perfect.
As a drummer and bass player, Torpedo Girl was the holy grail to be able to play for me and my friends in our early teens. But as this guy mentions, the lyrics are beyond cheezy but I was too busy trying to learn how to play the hi-hat with my left foot on the up beat while playing a kind of syncopated thing with the snare and toms.
Shandi is a very good song that in my eyes gets glazed over by many critics for whatever reason. Talk to Me and She's So European were great too. Is that you is even a song I crave to hear every now and again.
I too love Unmasked, but I'm going to have to go with Torpedo Girl as my least favorite .. as much as I love Ace, it's just a silly song.
Unmasked is definitely the worst Kiss album ever way too polished way too pop
I love Unmasked, too. Not every song, but Torpedo Girl is one of my faves. And I gave up on Kiss after Lick It Up. A few songs here and there are ok, but not much into the bulk of it.
I left after he said "Let Me Go Rock n Roll" was the worst song on Hotter Than Hell!! Blaspheme!!
Love the content...but I gotta disagree about Ace playing bass better than Gene did. Dude is a severely UNDERrated bass player. Seriously go back and listen to many of the bass lines on the first 6 albums in particular. Great stuff!!
I agree, 100%. Gene never gets enough credit for his bass playing, his bass lines are what made so many of those 70s bangers. Interesting lines that differ to the guitar parts, and really add some drive to the songs. Very underrated bass player 🤘🏻
You said "kissin time"..... and I quit watching this BS. That song is fun!!!
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No, you’re thinking of Burn Bitch Burn. Or would that be Idioms? Well, most idioms are convoluted metaphors, so whatever.
It's interesting to see how different KISS fans' picks for best or worst tracks are. Some of my all time favorite KISS songs are precisely on your list, hahaha: I do love Kissin' Time, Getaway, Flaming Youth, Then She Kissed Me, Dirty Livin', Torpedo Girl, Odyssey and We Are One. My favorite KISS studio albums, in order, are: 1. Destroyer (I love Great Expectations too!), 2. Love Gun, 3. Unmasked, 4. Dynasty, 5. KISS. I go for song catchiness rather than heaviness and don't really mind lyrics that much when it comes to KISS, so that's why.
Nice to find another Unmasked fan
People don’t like Flaming Youth?
70% agreed, getaway is cool, dirty living is cool, let me go is awesome, remember that kiss is only about having fun, not necessarily Pink Floyd lyrics but instead you can feel the power
Hot In The Shade needs a remaster/remix badly.
Bass line on Dirty Livin' (Dynasty) was awesome
Great bass line. Great guitar work, great vocals, great lyrics. WTH this guy thinking?
Such an underrated song. It could be a huge hit if some pop star covered it.
Been a fan since 75’…a real fan takes the good with the bad and doesn’t trash their work. 200+ songs that we know of for sure and about 10 or so are lackluster…I am sure they can live with that. I enjoyed the post but disagree on about half of the songs, especially “Let Me Go Rock n Roll” and “Flaming Youth”, I agree the chorus in Flaming Youth needed something but it was still a great song.
I love Getaway....love it!
About the only thing I agreed with here was And Then She Kissed Me and Odyssey. Flaming Youth is my favorite track on Destroyer.
Mine too. I would personally pick Beth or Great Expectations
Haven't started watching the video yet but I love that this exists. Once I became a teenager back in 05-07 and started getting into music for the first time, I fell down the KISS rabbithole since they were my Dad's favourite band. I ripped a lot of the Kissology audio and uploaded it as bootlegs on Guitars 101. Fun times.
The back catalog of KISS is a sort of boomer rock purgatory; what happens when very wealthy people have very bad song ideas yet can afford infinite studio time to ensure that these are packaged and sold as commercial products on a yearly basis.
There is no set pattern to this chaos but it generally alternates between Gene the narcissistic sex pest, and Stanley Eisen being a more articulate and nuanced sex pest. There is a difference I promise and KISS fans will know what I'm talking about.
The result is KISS' library being split effectively in two; there are songs the band was proud to play live (even if for a single tour, common with them) and are worth listening to over and over again, and the other half - close to ten whole album's worth - of the worst, most soulless and contrived boomer rock imaginable. Their work ethic is admirable for the sole reason that they wrote and sold as many brutal, soul-crushingly bad songs shoehorned onto good or otherwise great albums, as other bands have written total in their entire discography. This is probably why I love them so much. Their good songs are great, but their bad songs are completely unhinged and insane, and there are so goddamn many of them covering all possible rock subgenres.
And KISS kept doing it, consistently until 2012, culminating in an entire album worth of forgettable music - their magnum opus. Monster is quintessential KISS. It's so bad I won't listen to it or pretend it exists, just as the band, in live shows, pretends half their discography doesn't exist either. Very meta!
There are three songs that highlight this: Rockin' in the USA (Alive II), Fits Like a Glove, and Bang Bang You. Even on their most commercially successful albums, the band is creatively bankrupt and borderline retarded. Gene's penis is a snake. Paul's penis, however, is a cannonball! This is the nuance I was talking about. Germany was really neat. Truly we are in the presence of legends.
Anyways the worst song off HITS is Read My Body.
You lost me with Let me Go Rock n Roll. One of their best songs.
For me, the worst song on Psycho Circus is hands down You Wanted The Best. Definitely not one of Gene's better outings
I was with you until the early 80s. I Love It Loud is the worst on Creatures.I’m Alive is worse than Trial By Fire. Bang Bang You is worse than. My Way.HITS is easier to say what is a good song, but Read My Body is the worst. And I’ve always loved Torpedo Girl.
“We are One” isn’t good, but “I finally found my way” is a top 10 all time worst kiss song.
Shows you how different kiss fans are I love the song We Are One
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me too, I love We Are One.. and I still agree I Finally Found My Way was fcking hot garbage (coming from someone who always enjoyed Peter in his prime- even own his mid 90s solo album that almost no one remembers)
Almost Human from Love Gun is even worse, despite having a pretty cool groove, it just is a squashed under the burden of its cheesy lyrics and it just stagnates early. The guitar work almost saves it though!
I liked "Then She Kissed Me"
When I was about 10 years old my father, genuinely interested in what music I was getting into, sat down for a listen of some songs from Dressed to Kill with me. "Getaway" completely made him burst out laughing at "got no dough." He kept on laughing and going "I gotta get away" and "got no dough." It was a pretty magical moment.
We only differ in two choices: On "Hotter Than Hell" it should be "Mainline" ("Mainline... baby, give it to me one time"). On "Animalize" it is definitely "Burn, Bitch, Burn" ("Oh babe, I wanna put my log in your fireplace"). "Burn, Bitch, Burn" isn't just the worst KISS song on that album, it is their worst, period. Maybe the worst song in rock. Ever.
spot on!
Love Mainline, the worst song on Hotter Than Hell is the title track to me.
Worst KISS song is "Beth"
In fact i do like their cover of and then she kissed me, the song i really dont like on love gun is tomorrow and tonight.
Let Me Go Rock And Roll is awesome on the Kiss Alive album.
Let me go rock n roll is a GREAT SONG...My favorite actually... especially live
So glad I own an OG version of the debut. I never even heard the offender until around 10 years ago.
I love a lot of your least favorites. Dirty Livin', Trial by Fire, My Way, and Read My Body are catchy as fuck
Ya these are kinda weird picks because they’re all pretty good 🤷🏻♂️
I absolutely love Kissin' Time. They really sing their asses off on that one.
I think you were pretty easy going on these selections, and especially for The Elder...and I also sing along with laughter every damn time. Nice one, once again mate!
I loved dirty living. Guess I am strange. Lol
There's a few Kiss albums that don't have a bad song at all in my opinion that's the debut Kiss album dress to kill creatures of the night and revenge and also rock and roll over
I stopped buying KISS albums, yes albums, after Love Gun. Not because I didn’t like them anymore, just kinda outgrew them for awhile.
“Let me go rock n roll” was an awesome RnR “throwback “ that I always turned up on the stereo !
100% agree! Had all albums up to love gun. After that album, just out grew them I guess.
Man, pretty much every Gene song on Animalize and Asylum are turds of an extreme magnitude lyrically. I swear, on Animalize, he fit as many cliches in there as humanly possible. Burn Bitch Burn is a big offender too. You could have picked any Gene song on those albums and been on the money. You hit the nail on the head as far as Gene phoning it in.
1. Black Diamond (love this live)
2. Got to Choose
3. Love her all I can
4. Beth (never liked that)
5. Mr. Speed
6. Then she kissed me (like it)
7. Sure know Something
8. Shandie
9. Odyssey (but love it)
10 Keep me Comin‘
11. Lick it up
12. Heavens on Fire
13. Tears are Falling
Later Albums I never had until
Psycho Circus :
18. I finally find my way
My List ends here !
Mr Speed? Seriously! Kick ass riff on that one!
Well I guess like he said it’s his opinion
The one lyric that Gene got right on Animalize was "Girls love money, Like bees to honey" lonely is the hunter was one of his better ones,lol
not only does Gene sing "baby" a lot on Let me go rock n roll...but his bass guitar is saying it throughout the whole song. "babeh babeh babeh" is his part on the guitar.
I totally diagree on Flaming Youth, Getaway, Dirty Livin, Torpedo Girl, And On The 8th Day, Trial By Fire.
Let me go rock and roll worst song on hotter than hell? my God man have you gone mad.
Aw I love We Are One and Outta This World
Boomerang on Hot in the Shade is easily the worst on that album. And Burn Bitch Burn on Animalize
I cringe when I hear a kiss fan that got into them first time in the 80s and totally don’t get the 70s.
You are full of it dude. Dirty Livin' is the best song on Dynasty and my favorite Kiss deep track of all time. And is definitely a rock song, not disco. So goes the old saying: opinions are like buttholes, everyone has one and they all stink.🤣
Getaway is a great song. Lyrics are weak I agree however. Never dug Ladies in Waiting.
I would go with Great Expectations for worst on Destroyer. But it's not bad.
Have to say Shandi is my most disliked Kiss song from the original 4
The best kiss song will always be "don't tug my ascot"
Let Me Go Rock and Roll is great and Get Away is cool too. The Destroyer and Rock and Roll Over quotes I agree with. On Love Gun I never liked Christine Sixteen because I thought it was so corny when he talks in the middle of the song. Like a do wop song from 1962.
Bob Halligan Jr wrote "some heads are gonna roll" by Judas Priest. That elevates him above all the styles and songs you named here.
1. Kissin' Time
2. Let Me Go , Rock N Roll
3. Anything For My Baby
4. Flaming Youth
5. See You In Your Dreams
6. Tomorrow And Tonight
7. Save Your Love
8. You're All That I Want
9. Odyssey
10. Keep Me Comin'
11. Gimme' More
12. Murder In High Heels
13. Trial By Fire
14. Bang Bang You
15. Read My Body
16. Tough Love
17. Seduction Of The Innocent
18. I Finally Found My Way
19. All For The Glory
20. Eat Your Heart Out
Let me go Rock and Roll is an absolute banger. It’s a perfect party song, and is hands down one of their best live songs.
Enjoyed your list😃
At least we agree on Read my Body🤣🤣
Here’s mine if you want some painfull reminders!
Kissing time-(Embarrassing)
Goin’ Blind-(Not bad at all)
Ladies in Waiting-(Boring)
Great Expectations-(How this ended up on the album i’ll never know)
Love ‘em & Leave ‘em-(Amazingly bad)
Got Love for Sale-(And Gene’s streak continues..)
X-Ray Eyes-(Wow.. Just.. Wow..)
She’s so European-(Worst song on my least favorite Kiss album)
Mr. Blackwell-(Torture)
Keep Me Comin’-(Too much Paulsetto)
All Hell’s Breakin’ Loose-(Not bad.. But.. Not Kiss for me)
Murder in High Heels-(Burn Gene Burn)
Radar for Love-(Why Paul... Why...)
Bang Bang You-(Horrendous)
Read My Body-(Worst song.. ever🤣)
Tough Love-(Forgetable)
As for the last 4 studio albums i never could get past 2 listens so can’t remember any of those songs😅
Revenge was the last album I enjoyed. 🎼🎸🥁
WHAT? You chose Getaway? Not cool man. But hey, to each his own
I love Dance All Over Your Face.
from hotter than hell : strange ways, rarer: baby driver, from love gun :Hooligan", Dynasty:"Dirty Livin' ", unmasked :"Easy as It Seems",the elder:escape from the island, from lick : Fits Like a Glove", animalize : Lonely Is the Hunter",Asylum: Radar for Love", crazy nights: "Thief in the Night", hit shade : "Read My Body", revenge :"Spit",carnival :"In the Mirror", p circus :"I Finally Found My Way", ( we are one is awesome ),sonic boom :Russian Roulette", monster :"Back to the Stone Age"
I agree almost in every case, tho many albums have more than two really bad tunes, but... "MY WAY" is far from being the worst tune on Crazy Nights.
It is actually one of the best four tunes and shows a fantastic vocal performance by Paul.
"No, no, no" and "Bang, bang you" are really horrendous.
Great video, however I love "torpedo girl"😊
Totally agree on Tommy Thayer's songs in last two albums. His are the worst. Also I do agree on Loney is the Hunter. That's not a song, that's a puke !
Hmmm, guess you haven't heard Beth...
I don't know how you didn't have Great Expectations as the worst track on Destroyer. Flaming Youth and Sweet Pain are way better than that one.
1. Kissin’ Time 2.Comin' Home 3. Getaway 4. Sweet Pain
5. Baby Driver 6. Love for Sale 7. Hard Times 8. What Makes The World Go 'Round
9. Odyssey 10. Keep Me Comin' 11. Young and Wasted 12. Get All You Can Take
13. Love's a Deadly Weapon 14. No, No, No 15. Boomerang 16. Spit
17. In The Mirror 18. You Wanted The Best 19. Danger Us 20. Last Chance
KISS: KISSIN`TIME
HOTTER THAN HELL: ALL THE WAY
DRESSED TO KILL: ANYTHING FOR MY BABY
DESTROYER: SWEET PAIN
ROCK AND ROLL OVER: SEE YOU IN YOUR DREAMS
LOVE GUN: THEN SHE KISSED ME
DYNASTY: X RAY EYES
UNMASKED: YOU`RE ALL THAT I WANT.
THE ELDER: ODDYSSEY
CREATURES OF THE NIGHT: I STILL LOVE YOU
LICK IT UP: GIMME MORE
ANIMALIZE: GET ALL YOU CAN TAKE
ASYLUM: I`M ALIVE
CRAZY NIGHTS: BANG BANG YOU OR MY WAY
HOT IN THE SHADE: BOOMERANG
REVENGE: PARALYZED
CARNIVAL OF SOULS: IT NEVER GOES AWAY
PSYCHO CIRCUS: I FINALLY FOUND MY WAY
SONIC BOOM: NEVER ENOUGH
MONSTER: ALL FOR THE LOVE OF ROCK AND ROLL
Umm..."Flaming Youth" ??!!.... Opinions are like.... well - you know.
KIϟϟ - "Love Theme from Kiss"
Hotter Than Hell - "Goin' Blind"
Dressed to Kill - "Ladies in Waiting"
Destroyer - "Great Expectations"
Rock and Roll Over - "See You in Your Dreams"
Love Gun - "Christine Sixteen"
Alive II (Side Four) - "Rockin' in the U.S.A."
Paul Stanley - "Hold Me, Touch Me (Think of Me When We're Apart)"
Gene Simmons - "See You Tonite"
Ace Frehley - "Wiped-Out"
Peter Criss - "Kiss the Girl Goodbye"
Dynasty - "2,000 Man"
Unmasked - "Is That You?"
Music From "The Elder" - "Fanfare"
Killers (new tracks only) - "Down on Your Knees"
Creatures of the Night - "Killer"
Lick It Up - "Dance All Over Your Face"
Animalize - "Burn Bitch Burn"
Asylum - "Trial by Fire"
Crazy Nights - "Bang Bang You"
Hot in the Shade - "Read My Body"
Revenge - "Spit"
Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions - "I Walk Alone"
Psycho Circus - "Raise Your Glasses"
Sonic Boom - "Yes I Know (Nobody's Perfect)"
Monster - "All for the Love of Rock & Roll"
Flaming Youth and Sweet Pain are two of my favorite from Destroyer! Well....just goes to show that everyone has an opinion....which is a good thing. Great Expectations, to me is clearly the worst on the album
I think you are really underrating Gene. I have never really liked "him" as a person; however as a musician myself I will say he really gets ranked poorly and very undeservingly . Listen to Goin Blind, Let Me Know, and even Hard Luck woman. (Going Blind) especially--- these bass lines are killer. He very easily could play Torpedo Girl
Kiss - Black Diamond
Hotter Than Hell - Let Me Go, Rock ‘n’ Roll
Dressed to Kill - Getaway
Destroyer - Great Expectations
Rock ‘n’ Roll Over - Baby Driver
Love Gun - Then She Kissed Me
Dynasty - X-Ray Eyes
Unmasked - You’re All That I Want
Elder - Mr Blackwell
Creatures - Rock ‘n’ Roll Hell
Lick it Up - A Million To One
Animalize - Burn Bitch Burn
Asylum - Secretly Cruel
Crazy Nights - When Your Walls Come Down
Hot in the Shade - boomerang
Revenge - Domino (Unplugged version much better)
Psycho Circus - I Finally Found My Way
Sonic Boom - Say Yeah
Monster - Freak
Also none of these are based on the lyrics, if you started analysing Kiss lyrics most songs would make the list.
How you could not chose Burn Bitch Burn from Animalize is beyond me. Let me put my log in your fire place is so laughable as lyrics
Flaming youth is a great song!
How bout that Sonic Boom dog shit greatest hits package lol
Flaming Youth, My Way and I Walk Alone are amazing songs.
-Kissin' Time
-Mainline
-Ladies In Waiting
-Sweet Pain
-Baby Driver
-Then She Kissed Me
-Dirty Livin'
-Tomorrow
-Odyssey
-Saint and Sinner
-And On The 8th Day
-Murder In High-Heels
-I'm Alive
-When Your Walls Come Down
-Read My Body
-Take It Off
-Seduction Of The Innocent
-Raise Your Glasses
-Hot And Cold
-Outta This World
I use to not like Let Me Go Rock 'n Roll until I realized that Peter has many great drum fills throughout.
Torpedo Girl is vastly underrated.
I think that’s the fastest song KISS does. Under 3 minutes ?
It's great on Kiss Alive.
I am late to this thread... but, being a HUGE Kiss fan, I know almost every song by heart. And I agree with most of this... and I am impressed with the thought that went into this video. But, I still like most of the songs mentioned here.... Including "Then She Kissed Me". :)
Also... "My Way" is in my top ten Kiss songs. It is so uplifting
1 kissin' time
2 mainline
3 getaway
4 sweet pain
5 see you in your dreams
6 hooligan
7 x ray eyes
8 torpedo girl
9 odyssey
10 saint and sinner
11 fits like a globe
12 burn, bitch, burn
13 trial by fire
14 good girl gone bad
15 somewhere between heaven and hell
16 spit
17 i walk alone
18 i finally found my way
19 when lightning strikes
20 eat your heart out
"Getaway" may be Frehley's "least popular" song, but the solo kicks ass. He put everything into that. (I'd say "Anything For My Baby" was the candidate here. Paul comes up with a lot of filler if Gene ain't writing anything to bring to the bank.)
Pretty cool list! The kiss nerd in me must point out a few differences in opinion... great expectations, baby driver, hooligan, burn bitch burn, radar for love, you wanted the best are the worst tracks on their respective albums IMO
At least you guys can remember the names of the worst. As a kid I was like, WhatTheFuck is this shit!? And skip it, like I did by skipping every album after Dynasty because METALLICA made KISS look like 4 singing Jewish clowns.😜
Good video! I love Saint and Sinner, it may be my current favorite on Creatures. I agree with most of your choices, though.
Ace’s solo on ‘Kissin Time’ is superb. ‘Ladies in Waitin’ is the blandest 70s KISS imo. My favourite tracks on Dynasty and Unmasked are your least favourite. 😂 Each to their own. Thanks anyway.
Kissin Time rocks
Kissin Time
Got to choose
Anything for my baby
Flaming youth
See you in your dreams
Christine sixteen
Charisma
You're all that i want
Odyssey
Luck it up
Heavens on Fire
Trial by fire
When your walls came down/ Bang Bang you
Read my Body
Spit
I finally found my way
When lightning strikes
Outta this world
Guess what.. I disagree with every song you've picked except that horrible cover on Love Gun
15:12 ELVIS PRESLEY recorded a song named exactly that, with the word "cry" changed to "die"
The kissin time is for a kissing competition.
KISS eponymous - Love Theme From KISS
Hotter Than Hell - Mainline
Dressed to Kill - Rock Bottom
Destroyer - Sweet Pain
R&R Over - Baby Driver
Love Gun - Love for Sale
Dynasty - Save your Love
Unmasked - every track. If I had to pick a favourite it would be Torpedo Girl.
Creatures - Rock and Roll Hell
HITS - Silver Spoon
Revenge- Tough Love. Spit rules lol
Psycho Circus - that stupid ballad that Peter sings
Sonic Boom - Stand
Monster - Long Way Down
Let me go rock and roll is the most under rated song by KISS. I would choose Mainline.
It wasn’t dance over your face it was on the 8th day