Kiss - Alive!
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Music Reviews of Alive!
Music Review: THE GREATEST LIVE ALBUM EVER. PERIOD.
Rating: 5 Stars
I'm sorry, I'll have to agree. This is the best live album by a rock band EVER. If you are like me, you probably know the whole CD by heart, you can hum the whole CD without even listen to it, and of course, you can say all the rap that Paul Stanley do between the songs.
It doesn't matter if the band fix up the original recording a little or a lot. It still has a pretty great live sound and you feel as if you were in the first row of the concert.
The whole concept is great. I remember when I bought it for the first time (well, in fact, my mom did) and I open the eyebrows got burned. I never stop listening from that day (until I got another KISS album), probably is the record that I have listen more times in my life. I mean, It's sure, It's safe, It's guaranteed. This is what KISS is all about, a great party non-stop music.
People who don't like this CD is because they don't like to have a good time and relax.
I won't list all the songs (you already know them) and say that they are perfect and all just tell you think you have a great CD collection and you don't have this your collection and throw it away, it's useless if you don't have this one.
Highlight: Everything.
Lowlight: Nothin'
Music Review: KISS=Kids in Service with Satan...hehehe, not really, but fundies used to say that...
Rating: 5 Stars
This is Kiss's best album (in my not so humble opinion), and honestly, it's the only one you really need. I recently replaced my vinyl on CD, and I'm very happy about that. This album has many Kiss classics, but they're much better live. There are many people who say this album/CD was "enhanced", and some say it wasn't, but no matter. It's still a great album that truly rocks. Deuce, She, and Rock and Roll All Nite (my favorite 3 songs on the album) are much better and livelier than their rather dull studio versions. I like the song 100,000 Years too, but the drum solo in the middle is interminable (rivaling Ginger Baker's tedious solo in Toad, but Baker's is better, which shows you how lousy Criss's drum soloing was), and Stanley's pandering to the crowd during this drum solo doesn't help. But the song itself is still a great one. The band had a few good (though not great) years after this, then they faded in the 1980's and became a nostalgia enterprise for Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons (Criss and Frehley were kicked out of the band, and Stanley and Simmons assumed the rights to the name. Simmons and Stanley wrote most of the material anyway.). I also liked it when we didn't know what Kiss's faces looked like, and seeing what they look like now, maybe the makeup was a good idea. Anyway, the album is their best one, and it's the only one you need in your CD collection.Music Review: 5 stars from Blackie Lawless too!
Rating: 5 Stars
I was reading a metal mag a long time ago and they interviewed Blackie Lawless of WASP for his (top 10? i think) live albums. I was shocked, suprised, and pleased to find KISS ALIVE in the top 5(although I don't remember the position ; ) ! I remember when KISS was the greatest thing since the wheel. In my neighborhood that was 1975-1980 a formidable span of time! And it started with this album. All you needed was a stereo, beer, and or a connected friend, and this record, and anything was possible. I remember this trailer court I lived in and these aged hippy partyholics next door were allways blasting Black Oak Arkansas. One day me and some friends put on ALIVE opened the windows and cranked 110 watts in thier face. They found the door, came out, and sat on the porch and listened to all four sides! A couple weeks later they moved! True. There are a lot of great songs from the first 3 albums that did'nt make the cut but the hardest hitting of the great are here in rawest and yet most envyable form. It's not just loud music with a roaring crowd, the crowd is part of the music and the quality of the music is there such that it haunts me today. The band is tight on time and wired and the music just rocks your world away! KISS ALIVE really does deserve recognition as one of the best and most deserving and delivering live albums ever! Thanx KISS!!!!Music Review: Original Kiss 1997
Rating: 3 Stars
After years of average Kiss through various personnel changes and a change of label, it is refreshing to hear the original four members unite for a live album. If the commercialism would ever cease for these four, this lineup has some potential to produce better studio music for their audience. All four are gifted in their craft but seem to get caught up in their own grandeour. Putting aside various solo projects, acting careers and egos, this lineup of KISS is probably the best rock and roll/ metal band that the human race will ever hear or see. It is a shame that the children of the audience which grew up with KISS will have nothing to compare them to except for some cheap punk bands, replica pop metal bands and whatever passes for metal today. What these four left to civilation will be marveled at for years to come. Their latest studio album "psycho-circus" demonstrates the potential of Gene, Paul, Peter and Ace has accomplished musicians and masters of their craft but once again the chemistry between the four is volatile as shown in the song, "within" with various vocal changes between Paul, Gene and Ace. It seems that each wants to be 'macho uno' which leaves each musician wondering, "I can do this myself." Aside from their personas and their greed, Kiss still remains an accomplished rock and roll band.Music Review: Best Live Album...no matter what!
Rating: 5 Stars
After spending years being acknowledged for their live shows, KISS signed with Casablanca records. Sales were slow. Their record company was on the verge of dropping them, when they decided that without any hit songs, airplay or exposure on TV, they'd release ALIVE! What it did, was capture the band as "live" as it could, and exposed the world to the songs they had ignored on the studio albums.
There is no stopping the force of ALIVE! Deuce, Strutter, C'mon And Love Me, Firehouse, Cold Gin, Rock Bottom, Rock n' Roll All Night...they're all there! All with flashpots and crowds going wild.
Considerable debate has gone on as to how "live" ALIVE! was. Truth be known, there were a lot of overdubs. But, the rumours that the ENTIRE album was recorded in studio are false. When Ed Kramer tried to capture KISS live with 1970's technology, he found that due to the nature of their show, it was impossible. The theatrical nature caused band members to miss cues, not hit notes, klunk chords. Paul Stanley had a habit of not getting close enough to the microphone. The crowd could hear him, but on the recording, you could hear ambient sound through the mic. So, they fixed it.
ALIVE! is 75% live and 25% studio. But it's still the best document of the excitement a band can produce live. Get it!