Forty years ago this was released.. KISS Destroyer album.. The follow up to their massive successful Alive! semi-studio "live" album.. So what if they used studio tricks to enhance the live experience it was THE definitive of the group live. I got into kiss with the live album.. Then bought the Dressed to kill album, then the originals album.. By then Destroyer was out and ripping up the charts.. On a fan site on Facebook there was a guy who said he knew the words to all the songs by that first weekend of owning the record.. I replied I knew all the song order on all six of the studio albums and the two live albums.. I had no life.. The evolution of the kiss sound would pretty much stay the same until the "disco" album Dynasty which would lose me as a fan until Paul Caravello joined the band for the Creatures of the night album.. AKA Eric Carr, he would transform the band from their stuck in a rut plastic sound back to a hard rocking machine... Even though they would struggle to gain fans back from their three album pack of crap known as the disco, experimental music era of Dynasty, unmasked and music from the elder.. Unmasked was a particularly hard album to listen to because they were all but irrelevant.. I was in my first band back then and wanted to play anything by kiss except their latest music.. Music from the elder was a concept album that seemed like there was something else that it would go to.. But to this day nothing has happened.. An anime movie short would be really cool but so far no one has stepped forward with such a thing.. People want them to play it in it's entirety... Nothing..
Amidst the rock anthems of Detroit Rock City and Shout it out loud was the ballad that would put them in the spotlight forever.. Beth, written and sung by Peter Criss... Really Destroyer showed how versatile the band could be, as well with Great Expectations.. God of Thunder went from a speedy little number with Paul singing it, to the slower heavy sound with Gene on vocals.. I would not get the album until I bought it on cassette tape a while later and then got it a few years ago in the new redigitized version from a music site to remain nameless here.. But it starts with a Y... Go buy it and crank it...
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