Kiss - Asylum
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Artist: KissEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-09-01
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
- King Of The Mountain
- Any Way You Slice It
- Who Wants To Be Lonely
- Trial By Fire
- I'm Alive
- Love's A Deadly Weapon
- Tears Are Falling
- Secretly Cruel
- Radar For Love
- Uh! All Night
Music reviews of Asylum
Music Review: Not "Lick It Up" or "Animalize",but still really good
Rating: 5 Stars
"Asylum"-KISS' thirteenth record(not counting any of the greatest hits albums or the two "Alive!" albums that came out before this)is a really good hair metal record and a really good KISS album also. It's not "Lick It Up" or "Animalize",but it still is really good. After Ace Frehley and Peter Criss had been fired from KISS and the whole band had taken off their make-up,Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley proved that KISS could still be good and still be popular even if they weren't wearing their make-up and even if Ace Frehley and Peter Criss were no longer with the group. So,how does their third non-makeup album measure up? Read on for my review of this and I'll give You a rundown of every track:
"King Of The Mountain"-A really strong way to open an album. The lyrics are strong and catchy,and the whole songs(music and lyrics)are both really fast paced.Also,Eric Carr's drumming here sounds excellent. 4.5/5
"Any Way You Slice It"-The first Gene Simmons tune on here,and it really kicks.It has the message "You May Get in Trouble,But Sometimes You Need To Bend The Law a Little Bit" written all over it. It is also really catchy. Two thumbs way,way up.5/5
"Who Wants To Be Lonely"-The first ballad off of this album,and a really good one also.Paul Stanley sings it from the point of view of a guy singing to his girlfriend about their problems in their relationship and how when she keeps waiting for the wrong thing(thinking she's waiting for the right thing),she'll wake up lonely and regret what she did. Paul Stanley has such a talent for writing ballads-Desmond Child,who co-wrote other KISS tracks in the 80's,some Aerosmith tunes,and is also producing the male winner off of "American Idol",Bo Rice(no,not the country music star)and Jean Beauvoir(the bass guitarist for The Plasmatics)helped Paul write this song,and Stanley,Child,and Beauvoir all did a really good job at it.5/5
"Trial By Fire"-I like this song a lot.It kind of uses a negative message against every snotty person out there(and believe me,I've seen plenty of those people)and it is like fun,good,and cool support to good,nice,and cool people who are not snotty.It is a very good feelgood song,and Gene Simmons sings it about believing in yourself,not listening to what anyone has to say to You or about You,and it is pretty much a song of freedom and independence. 5/5
"I'm Alive"-This song does kind of prove that woman and girls may be the only thing KISS thinks about,but hey,this is a good song,so who cares?4/5
"Love's a Deadly Weapon"-Ah.ANOTHER Gene Simmons song that has woman,sex,and ego written all over it. This track is probably the weakest song off of this whole album,but it's pretty good. 3.5/5
"Tears Are Falling"-In my opinion,this is the best ballad KISS did in the 80's when they didn't have Ace or Peter.It is a beautiful "hair" song,and Paul Stanley's lyrics and vocals are,once again,catchy. The bass on this track sounds really good also,and check out the music video for this song-it is awesome and is even better than the song itself.I can never get enough of this track.5/5
"Secretly Cruel"-This is hiilarious. It is about a rock star and a groupie who "have fun" and get in "trouble",and since it's a Gene Simmons song(of course,what else would we have expected!)here is an interesting,little unknown fact about it:Gene Simmons wrote this about a groupie he once hung out with,and he claimed that the lyrics of this song are really what happened between him and that groupie(for more info on that,get the KISS book "KISS:Behind The Mask:The Official Unauthorized Biography").I'll say it again:this song is hillarious,and it is a 4/5.
"Radar For Love"-There isn't much to be said about this track,but it's a cool song. 4/5
"Uh!All Night"-This is a great way to close an album. I must say,even though I enjoyed "Lick It Up" and "Animalize" more than I enjoyed this album,and even though I liked the way both of those albums ended,in my opinion,this album ended better than those two albums did.If you get home from work tired and sweating,and You find that you still hate your boss,then this is the song You MUST put on the minute You get home....whether You're a male or a female.
Overall,a really good CD. There isn't all that much more to be said here,except that it is awesome,and that even though this album came out twenty years ago and even though hair metal may be dead and over with,this album still kicks.
KISS THE RULES GOOD-BYE AND ENJOY THIS ENERGETIC,FAST PACED KISS
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2005 Japanese pressing of 1985 original release, comes packaged in a standard jewel case. Mercury.Classic Rock CDs
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