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Kiss - Kiss Audio CD

A fair review of the Kiss "Kiss" 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: Kiss
Rating:

Release Date: 2001-11-20
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Strutter (demo) 2: Deuce (demo) 3: Keep Me Waiting - Wicked Lester 4: She - Wicked Lester 5: Love Her All I Can - Wicked Lester 6: Let Me Know (Bell Sound Studios demo) 7: 100,000 Years (Bell Sound Studios demo) 8: Stop, Look To Listen (Paul Stanley demo) 9: Leeta (Gene Simmons demo) 10: Let Me go, Rock 'N' Roll (Bell Sound Studios demo) 11: Acrobat (Live at The Daisy) 12: Firehouse (Bell Sound Studios demo) 13: Nothin' to Lose 14: Black Diamond 15: Hotter Than Hell 16: Strange Ways 17: Parasite 18: Goin' Blind 19: Anything For My Baby 20: Ladies In Waiting 21: Rock and Roll All Nite 22: C'mon And Love Me (Live) 23: Rock Bottom (Live) 24: Cold Gin (Live) 25: Watchin' You (Live) 26: Doncha Hesitate (demo) 27: Mad Dog (demo) 28: God of Thunder (demo) 29: Great Expectations 30: Beth 31: Do You Love Me 32: Bad, Bad Lovin' (demo) 33: Calling Dr. Love 34: Mr. Speed (demo) 35: Christine Sixteen 36: Hard Luck Woman 37: Shock Me 38: I Stole Your Love 39: I Want You (Soundcheck recording) 40: Love Gun (demo) 41: Love Is Blind (demo) 42: Detroit Rock City 43: King of the Night Time World (Live) 44: Larger Than Life 45: Rocket Ride 46: Tonight You Belong To Me 47: New York Groove 48: Radioactive (demo) 49: Don't You Let Me Down 50: I Was Made For Lovin' You 51: Sure Know Something 52: Shandi 53: You're All That I Want, You're All That I Need (demo) 54: Talk To Me (Live) 55: A World Without Heroes 56: The Oath 57: Nowhere To Run 58: Creatures Of The Night 59: War Machine 60: I Love It Loud 61: Lick It Up 62: All Hell's Breaking Loose 63: Heaven's On Fire 64: Get All You Can Take 65: Thrills In The Night 66: Tears Are Falling 67: Uh! All Night 68: Time Traveller (demo) 69: Hell Or High Water 70: Crazy, Crazy Nights 71: Reason To Live 72: Let's Put The X In Sex 73: Hide Your Heart 74: Ain't That Peculiar (demo) 75: Silver Spoon 76: Forever (single version) 77: God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You II 78: Unholy 79: Domino (demo) 80: Every Time I Look At You 81: Comin' Home (live unplugged) 82: Got To Choose (live unplugged) 83: I Still Love You (live unplugged) 84: Nothin' To Lose (live unplugged) 85: Childhood's End (with coda) 86: I Will Be There 87: Psycho Circus 88: Into The Void 89: Within 90: I Pledge Allegiance To The State of Rock & Roll 91: Nothing Can Keep Me From You 92: It's My Life (original version) 93: Shout It Out Loud (live) 94: Rock And Roll All Night (Kiss Alive IV)

"Like The Unreleased Stuff But Not Enough Of It"
They were initially supposed to stop after the farewell tour of 2000-2001 but then in 2002 they announced it wouldn't happen as planned and the band would continue. KISS have been around for quite a long time, it's been a while since they came out in the early seventies which seem far away now and they continued since then and it doesn't seem like they're going to stop. In fact they are still active as of now. After the farewell tour in late 2001 the KISS Box Set was released. Fans were excited to hear that there would be demos and previously unreleased songs on it. It's expensive alright but is it really worth it? Is the unreleased material good? Let's see.

At the cost of this set you would expect something of excellent quality. And that's what you get here the set is very well done, it looks great, the shiny KISS logo, it has five discs and an incredibly detailed booklet of 120 pages. It looks great but out of the 94 songs here there are about 30 songs that have not been released before when fans expect something that's entirely new, that's never been heard before. It's sort of a disappointment on that end, but let's focus on what is here and what is not okay?

The first disc is the best of the lot it has things every fan wants to hear for instance the demo to "Strutter"(with the amazing alternate solo) and some of the Wicked Lester stuff like "Keep Me Waiting(Wicked Lester),"She(Wicked Lester),""and the live "Acrobat" song which became "Love Theme Song From KISS". Disc 2 has more unreleased songs like "Mad Dog"(one of favourite of the whole set),"Doncha Hesitate", "Love Is Blind". It found the demos of "Love Gun" and "God Of Thunder" interesting, it also has the soundcheck of "I Want You". Disc 3 is where it gets worst: only the demo for "Radioactive", "Talk To Me" live and the demo "You're All That I Want, All That I Need". Disc 4 has the unreleased "Time Traveller" which is complete and wasn't released in the 80s, the single version of "Forever" and "Ain't That Peculiar". Disc 5 has "Got To Choose" unreleased from Unplugged, "Chilhood's End" unreleased coda, the demo for "Domino"," Nothing Can Keep Me From You" from the Detroit Rock City soundtrack, "It's My Life" unreleased song, "Shout It Out Loud" live from Greatest KISS and "Rock And Roll All Nite" live from what was the original Alive 4.

The booklet that comes with the KISS box set is amazing. It has detailed comments on EACH song here even the unreleased stuff and the demos which is great, mostly done by Gene and Paul but still. There are some really great pictures with many I had never seen before, the Creatures Of The Night ones were pretty cool and the Elder one too but I liked them all. The introduction by Jeff Kittis is pretty good too. The best this set has to offer is the early demos, Wicked Lester stuff. There aren't enough unreleased songs, "Time Traveller" and "It's My Life" are pretty good but I mean it's been said often here that KISS has said they had TONS of unreleased stuff but why didn't they put them on this box set or make a box set with all of those, fans would fully have gotten their money's worth. In the end is it really worth spending this much money for this box set? Probably not but the demos and unreleased stuff is really good and great to hear. It has a lot of stuff that fans mostly have, I for instance own every single albums and therefore did not need all this even if I thought the setlist was pretty good and did justice to KISS covering every album and eras of the hottest band in the world. But what's the point of having all this ONCE MORE? It's for fans who don't own much but I don't see much those fans buying this pricey set the way I would see completists and hardcore fans buying a fully unreleased set of songs demos and all that. 3 stars.

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It's just amazing
If you belong to kissarmy you have to got it. Essencial. Simple as: You wanted the best, you got the best.

Kiss Addict
MY girlfriend love this product very well shipped got it earlier than expected thanks so much it made her day.

More stuff please
I wonder why they just didn't put everything in one set. I just read an interview with Gene saying that Kiss would release another box set of rarities. This set is a waste for the most part. It does have some really interesting live cuts, demos, and alternate takes. But for the most part it is a best of collection. The problem is that the people that would buy this are Kiss fans and already have all the hits from the albums and multiple greatest hits packages over the years. This box set should have just been the rare bits and pieces.

Kiss Box Set
This box set is great has demos, previously unreleased songs, live versions and of course the normal songs all on 5 disks.

You can see a complete list of all Kiss discography, or go back to the Kiss tabs. There is also a good guide on how to read guitar tabs here.