Kiss - Alive!
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Artist: KissEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Live, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1997-07-15
Music Label: Mercury
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Deuce
- Strutter
- Got To Choose
- Hotter Than Hell
- Firehouse
- Nothin' To Lose
- C'mon And Love Me
- Parasite
- She
- Watchin' You
- 100,000 Years
- Black Diamond
- Rock Bottom
- Cold Gin
- Rock And Roll All Nite
- Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll
Music reviews of Alive!
Music Review: My #3 Favorite Album Of All Time
Rating: 5 Stars
Ok, since I made such a big deal about them being my favorite band, you would have thought this would be number one, right? Well, it IS a double album, I grew up with it, but sometimes things don't mean the same in your 40's, that they did in your teens. Make no mistake though, I love this album. And the remastered CD version sounds awesome. I think they made a mistake though, in that since the entire running time is under 70 minutes they could have put it on one CD instead of two, less fuss that way. Yeah, I know, they were trying to keep the continuity of the record, but Double Platinum was a two record set, and on the remaster it is on one CD, so there.....lol.
I have also recently learned the facts about the record. It had long been rumored that the album had been recorded live without an audience, and being a huge fan of this band, I just didn't want to hear that. But there is a book out there where Eddie Kramer debunks the whole thing, and as he was the producer of the record I tend to have to take his word. His stand on it is that there was NO WAY that these guys in a normal KISS show were going to be able to play any of the songs perfectly, too much running and jumping around. So he kept the drum tracks, and had the guys re- play to those in a "live" recording, so in essence it IS a "live" record, just not in the way it is presented as. But you know what? I don't care. This record STILL blows my socks off everytime!!!!!! And besides, the Only "live" album to outsell it to this day (Frampton Comes Alive) was a total sham..
Read the top ten list of every top Rock star of the last 30 years, and this record is in there. Even Garth Brooks cites it as an influence for God's sake!! This record made Ace Frehley the first modern guitar hero, a full 3 years before Eddie was even heard from. And again, the new Kissology DVD set proves that ACE was tapping (in a rudimentary way) as early as '74.
This was the very first album of any kind that I ever bought. 15 years old, I paid 16.99 for it at SEARS, yep, they used to sell records, if you can imagine that. I now own 3 copies of it, every one of them worn slap out from having a needle on them so much. All still have the original packaging , and I wouldn't trade any of them for any price. Long burned into my memories are the afternoons after school when I and my middle brother Scott would air guitar all the way through this album, with our Coup De Grace' coming in with "Let Me Go, Rock And Roll". 6 minutes of pure air guitar histrionics., We knew every beat, every chord change, every head banging moment of it. I was so looking forward to seeing the Cobo Hall performance on the DVD set to see this guys actually DO IT, but Alas, the version on that record must have been a once in a lifetime moment.
Still to this day, I get goosebumps and a shiver up my back, when that voice proclaims "You Wanted the best, and you got it! The hottest band in the land.......KISS!!!" The opening salvo of "Duece" and "Strutter" had to be the most potent ever laid down, laying waste to believer's and non believer's alike. A "take no prisoners" attitude that you only see in a Pro Wrestling ring anymore. "Got To Choose" sounding better here than it ever did in the studio. Then the 1-2 punch of "Hotter Than Hell" and "Firehouse" take side one out in explosive fire breathing extacy. I dare you, I double dare you to find ANY record, with a better side 1 anywhere! The live version of "C'mon and Love me" did the same thing for Kiss' hard rock cred, that the live version of "I Want You To Want Me" did for Cheap Trick's. A case of taking a rather wimpy studio cut and blowing your brains out with it in a Live setting. The drum solo in "100,000 Years" is STILL the best on any record, and boy, did other bands out there try to beat it. (I will say that when I saw Kiss in '86, that Eric Carr had a very unique drum solo of his own, Too bad it never made it record). "She" is just bombastic here, a little faster, but bad ass. And I prefer Ace's solo spot here, over the one on "Alive 2" because even though it is much simpler, "lean, mean, hungry" Ace seemed also much more honest in his playing, much less a "See what I can do" and more of a "Feel what I can do"....I hope that makes sense.
They recreated the beauty of that opening on "Rock Bottom" faithfully, I just wish they could have carried it longer. The song itself just is a primer for any would be Metal guitarist out there. I absolutley live for that moment when Ace does the unintentional pinch harmonic in the first lick of the solo. "Cold Gin" is one of my very favorite Kiss songs, They sped it up just a little too much for me here, but it rocks nonetheless. I can't say anything about the live version of "Rock And Roll All Nite" that hasn't been said before. If it wasn't for this version becoming the enormous success that it did, Kiss may very well have ended up in the "also ran" category. Thank The Lord, that sometimes, miracles still happen. Which brings back to that last song (yes, I skipped a couple, so sue me, I still love em) that was my Air Guitar Heaven.
This record is SO important to me on so many levels that it is hard to convey them all. Suffice to say, that when I say Kiss got me through my teen years alive and in one piece, this record was in front of the pack. I can still hear my dad yelling at me to turn it down, then me, catching him tapping his foot and bobbing his head to "Nothing To Lose". I wonder if he ever understood the lyrics enough to know that it was about anal sex?. I never had the nerve to ask.........lol.
Description of Alive!
Japanese pressing of this classic 1975 live album, packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Kiss have been one of the best-selling Rock bands in history. Since the Japanese min-LP sleeves were introduced into the marketplace, it was no surprise to find that Kiss have sold more CDs in this limited edition format than any other artist. 16 tracks including 'Strutter', 'Deuce' and 'Rock And Roll All Nite'. Distriibuted for a limited time in Europe with new UPC number. Universal.The fact that Alive! is arguably Kiss's best album highlights the fact that they are performers first, musicians second. There's nothing wrong with that, especially when a live album sounds this good. Stuffed to bursting with classic tracks, Alive!, originally released in 1975, is a classic metal album. "Deuce," "Strutter," "Hotter than Hell," "Black Diamond," "100,000 Years," and especially "Rock and Roll All Nite" (probably the most well-known party song in existence)--they're all here, and wonder of wonders, they still sound fresh after all these years. The success of Kiss's 1996 tour shows that they've still got plenty of fans; Alive! is one album no Kiss fan should be without. --Genevieve Williams
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