Dude what the HELL where they thinking?
None of them are even remotely attractive
>NOOOOO YOU CAN’T CHANGE WITH THE TIMES YOU HAVE TO STAY ARTISTICALLY GENERIC AND STALE
>>123664589it was kinohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWOYT3n06x0
WHORES
>>123664589this song has the lamest guitar solo ever
>>123664589Paul Stanley is incredibly gay
>>123664589Them doing more pop friendly songs and fucking Disco style ones led to them start playing to literal kids. Like kids in the single digits. They used to be a hard rock band but then seemingly sold out and the makeup gimmick was getting tiring. It was an attempt to prove they were "serious".
>>123664589Their agents lied to them and told they were "sexy". Gene Simmons even awkwardly shakes his ass in that music video.
>>123664589>our music is truly ass, we better take off the makeup to grab people's attention
>>123664589It's crazy how these guys lasted so long. A handful of decent songs and a nice gimmick took them so far. It's a bit admirable.
>>123664589Looks like some obscure South American band
>>123665888They were big in Japan before US
>>123665241https://youtu.be/t1-cH1voT8w?si=Ct7N8YN2vPTqKkFM
>>123665944las criaturas de la noche
>>123664589>Dude what the HELL where they thinking?"this is it boys we either make it big, or we're the subject of ridicule working in the warehouse....so lets make it big"
>>123666240Holy shit
>>123666240https://youtu.be/kUU4FlOP004
>>123664589Lick It Up is actually a pretty solid, and fairly heavy album. It's one of the most metal KISS albums there is from the 80s.The title track is retarded, yet somehow the only popular song from it despite being the worst. And yeah they were too ugly for glam but so were Twisted Sister and Quit Riot.>>123665975Not totally true, they were big in Japan but the first markets they really cracked were the American Midwest, they had an especially big following in Detroit in their early days which is why they wrote "Detroit Rock City"
You gotta be a complete faggot not to love Kiss
>>123670046>not to love KissWhy? their music sucked.
>>123670046Shut up, jude
>>123670104People on this board love music where guys can't even play guitar like Nirvana and MCR so I don't take the opinions on rock music here very seriously. I've gotten to the point where I rarely even take rock opinions seriously from anyone with short hair or facial peircings, cause it just reeks of "millennial-zoomer taste"NTA btw
>>123664589Gene the least convincing tranny ever but whom is she on the right?
>>123671088Vinnie Vincent, who might actually be a real trans these days, nobody knows....
>>123671332She’s like an uglier Pat Benatar. Maybe he is her
>>123671332W O U L D
>>123664602they weren't trying to be, faggot.
>>123664589lmao the intro with them walking into scene has to be the basis of that spinal tap cucumber-in-the-pants joke
>>123664589Kiss is the most embarrassing band of all time
>>123664589They all look like Kirk Hammett
>>123664589Gene Simmons looks weird here. big and fat with tan skin and an afro
>>123671353I would too back then, but not now
>>123671660He didn't find a decent no makeup look till the late 80s/early 90s
>>123671731Why did he become a sad fat lady?
>>123672640There are rumors he began living as a woman years ago and may have started taking hormones but there's no proof of that, his whole life post music career is really weird and mysterious
>>123671332>Vincent was married to AnnMarie Peters, and has twin daughters with her. AnnMarie was murdered in 1998, after she and Vincent had divorced.>In 1996, Vincent married his second wife: Diane Kero, a former girlfriend of Ace Frehley; The two resided in Smyrna, Tennessee, until her death from alcohol-related complications on January 13, 2014.based multi-wife murderer.
>>123664589This appears to be some sort of homosexual department?
>>123674245Apparently the cops were called to his place because he had 7 or 8 dead dogs stored in tubs all around his property, very weird guy
>>123676489he was probably eating them
for me, it's Rise To Ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YGhPZ26Cgw
>>123664589>already got a ton of pussy in the 70’s>takes the makeup off >writes a hit song literally about sucking pussy>gets EVEN MORE pussy Gene and Paul sure do know how to maximize profits in all conceivable areas.
>>123679286i get the feeling that this song might be about paul's dick
>>123665975It's amusing to me how Japan has this perception of KISS being some kind of death metal power rangers.
Actually a lot of no makeup KISS is pretty good.
never forget that pitchfork gave Dressed to Kill 9.5/10
>>123664589FEEEEEL MY HEAT
>>123664589gay sexbut seriously Kiss unmasked is best era KissLick It Up is their best jam
>>123679627Super Kiss was kinda like Power Rangers in a way, IIRC the og comic book had them as like hapless "youths" who get magical medallions and transform into....well, Kiss, then fight Dr. Doom
>>123665241Paul Stanley raped Jani Lane
>>123664589The pre-thrash metal / hard rock scene was incredibly gay.
>>123684293Actually, the punk scene was gay, the rock scene was straight.
>>123684293>>123685553punk fans just jerk off thrash cause they can say they had a hand in influencing it anyway. you really rarely see a more punk oriented person into thrash beyond the "big four" because the music is still too complex for their liking. you meet way more dedicated thrash fans who are also into pre thrash metal/rock than punks super into thrash.
>>123683252>Kiss unmasked is best era KissI disagree, it has some okay songs but is too poppy. Naked City is prob the best on it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnBh7Z8fm-k
>>123664589They were trying to prove they were more than the makeup gimmick...yeah
>>123664619Is there a single interesting kiss song? Like something actually good for any reason other than you used to listen to it in the minivan with your dad on the way to school?
>>123686376No, but they did inspire Chuck Schuldiner, so that's something.
>>123686376if youre into that 70s glam thing they do a decent job of it
>>123686376Black Diamond and Detroit Rock City are cool... but I wouldn't say interesting. They just rock.
>>123686376I'm going to assume by "interesting" you mean "experimental" and I can tell you I like KISS because they're not that. No real man does, you've never seen a wrestler walk out to a fuckin Genesis or noise rock song.
>>123686520lol thatd be funny as fuck some wwe guy walking out to phil collins
>>123686614>>123686520Phil collins could make for a brutal heel moment.
>>123686399>>123686409>>123686434>>123686520I just listened to the Lick it Up album since an anon at the top of the thread mentioned it. It was pretty good! I usually think they rock way less hard than I was expecting but that album actually had the goods imo
>>123686520>he doesn't like prog KISShttps://youtu.be/niEHsY3EiFw
>>123679521it's in their blood
>>12368692170s KISS is very 70s, 80s KISS is very 80s. They do good at both but I think for a lot of people the "80s sound" is more dated and "cheesey" hence it having a less good rep, that and it not being their peak of fame, they were more like a 70s band who stayed afloat in the 80s and that's probably because a lot of the 80s rock was influenced by them anyway so they managed better that other acts who just kinda went away at the timeIf you like Lick It Up, I also rec Creatures of the Night which has the same lineup despite Ace being on the cover due to contractual shit (Vinnie was on the album, not him). Those to me are probably their best 80s albums but others have cool songs too if you dig that 80s sound. And yeah the drummer Eric Carr definitely gave the band a more hard hitting sound, Peter Criss in the 70s had an odd style for a hard rock band, was more influenced by RnB and stuff like that.
>>123686921Some might hate that I say this, but I think you need to jam a little KISS to understand the beginnings of NYC punk too. They're like from the same environment. Younger glam inspired rockers in the 70s. Kiss just happened to have a really good guitarist and mainstream hits.It's like they both belong to the "real" soundtrack of the Warriors movie. Just different parts of the city.
>>123687044Ramones and early KISS are like two sides of a coin desu. Then there's also NY Dolls who kinda fall in line more with The Stooges, but KISS appealed a lot to those Detroit crowds who liked Stooges and Alice Cooper, and blah blah. Just an interesting time for music, genres jizzing all over.
