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Rock and Roll Over

Kiss - Rock and Roll Over Audio CD

A fair review of the Kiss "Rock and Roll Over" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Kiss reviews here, or go back to the Kiss tabs.

Band: Kiss
Title: Rock and Roll Over
Rating:

Release Date: 1997-08-12
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Want You 2: Take Me 3: Calling Dr. Love 4: Ladies Room 5: Baby Driver 6: Love 'Em and Leave 'Em 7: Mr. Speed 8: See You in Your Dreams 9: Hard Luck Woman 10: Makin' Love

A Rockin' and Rollin' Rollercoaster!
No, not Hard Luck Woman, or See You in Your Dreams, which are great songs in their own right. Yes! KISS returns to it's roots with this amazing album doing what they do best, straight-forward, hard rockin' Rock N' Roll! The best thing about this album is it's two love songs. I'm talking about Calling Dr Love, and Makin' Love! But, let's not get ahead of ourselves here just yet. The rest of the album is just as good. It starts out fast and furious with the song titled I Want you, which is everything that you'd expect from a KISS Rock song, awesome guitar riffs, great singing, drumming. . . the works. Next is the hard Rocker, Take Me, which again features some great guitar playing by all, accompanied by Paul Stanley's masterful vocals. And then we come to the above mentioned and totally amazing, Calling Dr. Love, which opens with it's fantastic power chords, and very cool cowbells, while Gene Simmons sings, "You need my love, Baby, Oh so bad. . . !" Everything about this song is total awesome Rock perfection, down to it's drums, and the background vocals, and especially when we get to the stunning Ace Frehley guitar solo towards the end of the song. Following this scorcher comes, Ladies Room, which is another song Gene Simmons sings, and it features more great guitar riffs, and bangin' drumwork by Peter Criss (With even more cool cowbells, Baby!). Next up is Baby Driver which is sung by Peter Criss, and he does an excellent job on this Rocker, which also features a standout bass line by Gene, and of course great guitar work by Paul and Ace. Which then brings us to Love 'Em and Leave 'Em, which is a nice little ditty sung by Gene Simmons, but the best part is the sensational super sonic Ace Frehley guitar solo! Even more smoking guitars come flying at you in the next song, Mr. Speed, which will definitely have you air guitarists out there strumming away madly. Then comes See You in Your Dreams Tonight, another nice Rocker. After that, Peter Criss sings his heart out again in the acoustical Hard Luck Woman, which is not a bad little song at all. The last song on the album is titled Makin' Love, and it is another heavy guitar-driven hard Rocker featuring the great Paul Stanley on vocals, and the legendary Space Ace Frehley doing what we love most and what he does best. The song also features a nice little drum solo at the very end by Criss. When all is said and done, this album flat-out Rocks your socks off. Rock and Roll Over is absolutely at the very top of my all-time favorite KISS albums. Tied at the number 1 spot in a threeway with their debut album, KISS, and KISS Dressed To Kill. All I can say is, if you're considering buying this album, don't wait. Buy it now. You will be glad you did.

Rock And Roll Over
The band had just relesed the majorly sucessful Destroyer which in my opinion is one of the groups weakest and most over produced albums to date. The cartoonish antics were at an all time high here on Rock and Roll Over. This even feels like a cartoon title, but it doesn't matter when the group is releasing such killer rock n' roll as they are here on Rock and Roll Over.

Even the weak Criss track 'Hard Luck Woman' is decent here. Though it was originally written for Rod Stewart I think it stayed in the right hands. 'I Want You' starts things off proper, and keeps things rolling with 'Take Me' and the killer Kiss Klassic 'Calling Dr. Love' which is among their greatest rockers. 'Baby Driver' and 'Mr. Speed' round out the album nicely.

Musically Ace Frehley shines the most. His guitar riffs are most impressive. They are crisp and crunchy and among his best. 'Calling Dr. Love' is just fantastic. Hell, even Ace's solos have a little something extra here.

Over all this might be Kiss' second best album behind their awesome debut.

When work is oulawed only outlaws will work
Kiss is yeah yeah yeah with fuzzboxes. Lunchboxes, bubblegum cards, TV cartoon show, toy guitars, wigs ~ blame the Beatles, not Kiss. The makeup gimmick. Now they can hire better musicians to replace the deadbeats and, visually, no difference. But better yet, with the makeup, 60-year-olds still look like 20-year-olds. Show business is something to show. "Calling Doctor Love" 8 days a week. Punch the clock. Not many people know this, the LP cover is anamorphic but the record company didn't provide a conical mirror. Too phallic. When Paul McCartney died, Beatles put the same makeup on a different dude, too, so what.

The Doctor Is Still In After All These Years
"Destroyer" is obviously a prime candidate, but not too long after its release, KISS gave us "Rock And Roll Over. KISS fans could argue forever as to which of the band's many albums is the best. " While I do enjoy "Destoyer" and agree with many others that it is possibly KISS' best album, my heart always leans heavier to "Rock And Roll Over" as my personal favorite KISS offering.

Why? There are multiple reasons. Firstly, this album gave birth to one of the greatest rock tunes with a blatantly cheesy title in "Calling Dr. Love. " No matter where I am or what I'm doing, when that song hits the airwaves I have to sing along. It also gave the world KISS' second most popular ballad (and a personal favorite), "Hard Luck Woman. " On top of that, songs like "Take Me," "Ladies Room," "I Want You," "Love'em And Leave'em," and "Makin' Love" leave absolutely nothing to the imagination when it comes to what each song is about. The album cover was quite a bit different from previous KISS releases as well. This is pure, straightforward, rock and roll. It's one of the best party albums you can get your hands on.

If you do not own any of KISS' albums, I highly recommend that you purchase this album along with "Destroyer. " Rarely does a band put out two legendary albums. KISS did it twice in the same year with "Destroyer" and "Rock And Roll Over. "

Add this album to your "essentials" collection today.

KISS' second jolt of rock and roll from 1976 still sounds phenomenal

The album was the band's highly anticipated follow-up to their masterpiece Destroyer which was still riding high on the charts when Rock and Roll Over hit stores later in 1976. KISS' fifth studio album entitled Rock and Roll Over was released in November of 1976.
After the experimentations with choirs and strings with producer Bob Ezrin on Destroyer, KISS went back to basics on their next album. KISS decided to use producer/engineer Eddie Kramer, whom KISS worked with on their seminal live album Alive! (and on their original demos).
The band, along with Kramer and a mobile truck, went to The Star Theater in New York to produced the second in the the trio of classic studio Kiss albums (Destroyer and Love Gun being the other two). I first heard this album in September of 1988 when I got the cassette and then got the CD in January, 1993 and the remaster when released in August of 1997.
We open with singer/songwriter/rhythm guitarist Paul Stanley's "I Want You" which starts out like it were to be an acoustic number then it just all out rocks. We follow with another rocker from Mr Stanley (with songwriting help from Sean Delaney) called "Take Me". Next is a double dose of rockers from singer/bass player/songwriter Gene Simmons. First is "Calling Dr Love" which is one of his most famous tracks. We follow with another great rocker called "Ladies Room". The first half closes with drummer Peter Criss' rocker "Baby Driver". Those who thought he went soft after the success of "Beth" was proven wrong.
Side two starts with another Gene rocker "Love 'Em and Leave 'Em" which kicks *ss. Next is another Paul rocker out of "Mr. Speed" which was also co-written with Sean Delaney. Next is another rocker from Demon Gene called "See You In Your Dreams". Next is the Paul penned/Peter sung ballad "Hard Luck Woman" which reached the Top 20 and was lone detour on hard rock filled album. Paul closes things with the heavy rocker "Makin' Love" which he co-wrote with Delaney. What a rocker to close a killer rock album. Guitarist Ace Frehley had writer's block on the album and had no songs written for the album but his guitar work compensates for his lack of song input.
ROCK AND ROLL OVER is literally a hard rock feast from start to finish with barely enough time left to catch your breath. The album was another Top 20 Platinum smash.
Rock and Roll Over is hugely recommended! .

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