1975
If you can only have one Kiss album, this is the one.
Partly because it's a greatest hits album, (when none of the songs were hit's), but it's "live" these these recordings are just better than any of the versions that came on the previous albums.
You Know, at this point, as far as the legitimacy of this being a live recording. It's more or less safe to say, at the worst, this is live drums tracks that they worked with to re record the songs over again. Then this a better representation of the way the band sounded three albums in...really you could look at the first three albums as demos. Then boom here is there first album...with a different name, not claiming to be live. Bam! This is some Rock Out!...Really, If you like something like the Stooges, rudimentary, livin' on attitude and rock and roll party, Good times! Something stripped down to it's essence.Then presented in the most explosive over top way. These songs presented like this, connected with a lot of people. People who criticize, basically claim it not sophisticated enough, which is the exact opposite of what they're trying to do.
How much time realistically are the gonna spend trying to salvage something, when it would just be easier to start from scratch. There must be something of substance on the original tapes. If they're gonna polish them up to make them listenable, they did a good job of not over doing it. The performance seems authentic.
Partly because it's a greatest hits album, (when none of the songs were hit's), but it's "live" these these recordings are just better than any of the versions that came on the previous albums.
You Know, at this point, as far as the legitimacy of this being a live recording. It's more or less safe to say, at the worst, this is live drums tracks that they worked with to re record the songs over again. Then this a better representation of the way the band sounded three albums in...really you could look at the first three albums as demos. Then boom here is there first album...with a different name, not claiming to be live. Bam! This is some Rock Out!...Really, If you like something like the Stooges, rudimentary, livin' on attitude and rock and roll party, Good times! Something stripped down to it's essence.Then presented in the most explosive over top way. These songs presented like this, connected with a lot of people. People who criticize, basically claim it not sophisticated enough, which is the exact opposite of what they're trying to do.
How much time realistically are the gonna spend trying to salvage something, when it would just be easier to start from scratch. There must be something of substance on the original tapes. If they're gonna polish them up to make them listenable, they did a good job of not over doing it. The performance seems authentic.
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