#Rock and Roll Over

[rock-and-roll-hell]

November 27, 1976

Rock And Roll Over Tour

North Carolina Fairgrounds - Raleigh, North Carolina

📸 Richard Aaron

[animalb0y]

Kiss, 1983.

[we-will-swallow-your-soul]

[starpunchsteria]

This cover is making me giggle everyone else has some kind of ability meanwhile Paul Stanley’s power is serving cunt or something

[rolandrockover]

Beth's Inferno

In order to fulfill my quota for daring hypotheses, I have chosen I'll Fight Hell to Hold You from Crazy Nights (1987) and Beth from Destroyer (1976) as my heart subject of the day. But not to be a scaredy-cat and just let the it out of the bag:

I think Paul used Beth's verses as a blueprint for the verses of I'll Fight Hell to Hold You. Now you know it.

And of course, one is a cuddly little song that you could play in the background when you're expecting your great aunt for tea and butter cake on a Sunday afternoon, and the other is an over-aestheticized brisk 80s synthie pop-hard rock, but I'll tell you anyway that Paul the cunning dog in all probability did just that. I mean, why wouldn't he?

Once you become aware of it, I think it's hard to ignore, and if you consider that it even borrows directly from Beth twice in terms of lyrical content, apart from the minor detail that preferably hanging out with the boys in the rehearsal room bites a little with the concept of even fighting hell just to hold your sweetheart in your arms, of course.

In fact, I'll Fight Hell to Hold You epic kitsch melodrama of Dante-esque proportions would be the perfect direct counterpart to Beth's little personal snuggle drama, which, according to my logic, would actually support my thesis, because Paul and Gene have not exactly rarely been able to use one or other of these opposites to great effect.

So let's not kid ourselves, after all, they even recycled Shandi's (1980) Bridge as the bridge for I'll Fight Hell For You. Gene also did the same with Good Girl Gone Bad and a certain song from Rock and Roll Over (1976). And the list is even longer. Too long to list.

But what I mean is, what would you do if you were aiming for a hit album? Gene and especially Paul clearly wanted to play it very safe, and Beth was their biggest hit in the US. And the song in question wasn't even a single. Would it have been a single if the record had been a huge success and taken off like a rocket? Possibly, who knows?

This and a whole lot more makes Crazy Nights a lot more sophisticated to my ears than some fans generally may want to admit (1). But maybe it's the exact opposite, it just depends on your perspective.

Anyway. Beth. Shandi. The only thing missing is that they've smuggled in a reference to Hard Luck Woman on Crazy Nights.

Or, wait a minute, they did actually try. Ron Nevison only rejected it.

Side Note:

(1) Except for the Brits, of course.

You don't have to fight hell to listen to the highlighted links:

I'll Fight Hell to Hold You (1987)

Beth (1976)

[eyelinertestosterone]

KISS-I WANT YOU

[heavypedia]

Lançado em 6 de outubro de 2009, Sonic Boom é o 19° álbum de estúdio do Kiss, sendo o primeiro com o guitarrista Tommy Thayer e marcando o retorno do baterista Eric Singer à banda. O álbum traz faixas como "Stand", "Say Yeah" e "Modern Day Delilah" em seu tracklist. Alcançando a 2ª posição na parada Billboard 200, sua capa foi criada por Michael Doret, que já havia trabalhado anteriormente na capa de Rock and Roll Over (1976).

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[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Kiss – Ladies Room

[mikeladano]

REVIEW: Gene Simmons - The Vault - Disk 4 (2018)

Previous Reading:  Record Store Tales #600:  The Vault Disk 1 Review Disk 2 Review Disk 3 Review           For those keeping score at home, this CD contains tracks 46-60 in the Vault box set. GENE SIMMONS – The Vault – Disk 4 (2018 Rhino) “Plaster Caster” is one of the most memorable songs from Love Gun.  This Simmons demo features the Demon on all instruments, including drums!  Since he’s not…

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𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐥 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rock-and-roll-hell]

February 18, 1977

Rock And Roll Over Tour

Madison Square Garden - New York City

 "Stumbling in the darkness into a KIϟϟ concert, as this well-meaning observer did Friday at Madison Square Garden, might lead on directly to dire meditations on the decline of Western civilization. How else, after all, are we to interpret an entertainment that highlights a bass player spitting ‘blood’ atop a tower, surrounded by swirls of smoke and bathed in bilios green light, all the while dressed in a black leather and silver costume that makes him look like a diabolical armadillo? And the sight of this apparition evoking a dull, throaty roar of appreciation from the sold-out house, the cries of the multitude overlaid with the treble piping of a large pre-pubescent minority“ (New York Times, 2/20/77).

Ace was drunk at sound check, so Bobby McAdams filled in. The concert was billed as a 'Triumphant Return of the Conquering Heroes’. An after party was held at the Parc Swim & Health Club on 56th Street. The band showed up sans makeup and numerous guests were tossed into the pool, including Ace, who lost his shoes.

[glitterybaconpumpkin26277118333]

Rock And Roll Over

[90363462]

I would love for act iii to be a rock album. I love rock and roll music in fact I love alternative and metal music (not the death or black metal kind)

Oh and btw to all those who are up in arms about black folks being popular in rock music black folks created music and that includes rock and roll

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a 44 time signature using a verse–chorus form, but the genre has become extremely diverse. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political.

Rock was the most popular genre of music in the U.S. and much of the Western world from the 1950s to the 2010s.

Rock musicians in the mid-1960s began to advance the album ahead of the single as the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption, with the Beatles at the forefront of this development. Their contributions lent the genre a cultural legitimacy in the mainstream and initiated a rock-informed album era in the music industry for the next several decades.

By the late 1960s "classic rock" period, a number of distinct rock music subgenres had emerged, including hybrids like blues rock, folk rock, country rock, southern rock, raga rock, and jazz rock, which contributed to the development of psychedelic rock, influenced by the countercultural psychedelic and hippie scene.

New genres that emerged included progressive rock with extended artistic elements, glam rock, highlighting showmanship and visual style. In the second half of the 1970s, punk rock reacted by producing stripped-down, energetic social and political critiques.

Punk was an influence in the 1980s on new wave, post-punk and eventually alternative rock.

From the 1990s, alternative rock began to dominate rock music and break into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop, and indie rock. Further fusion subgenres have since emerged, including pop-punk, electronic rock, rap rock, and rap metal. Some movements were conscious attempts to revisit rock's history, including the garage rock/post-punk revival in the 2000s. Since the 2010s, rock has lost its position as the pre-eminent popular music genre in world culture, but remains commercially successful.

Btw there’s plenty of examples of black artists from the past and present who are successful in rock and roll genre some of them you might have known about some you might have not know about

[duranduratulsa]

Here's Wednesday's CD 💿 Playlist...

Dreamboat Annie by Heart (1975)

Disco Nights Vol. I: Divas Of Dance (1994)

Rock And Roll Over by KISS (1976)

Break The Spell by Daughtry (2011)

Come Fly With Me by Michael Bublé (2004)

Winger (1988)

#heart #dreamboatannie #disconightsvol1 #divasofdance #kiss #rockandrollover #daughtry #BreakTheSpell #michaelbuble #comeflywithme #winger #cd #70s #80s #90s #2000s #2010s

Here's Wednesday's CD 💿 Playlist...

Dreamboat Annie by Heart (1975)

Disco Nights Vol. I: Divas Of Dance (1994)

Rock And Roll Over by KISS (1976)

Break The Spell by Daughtry (2011)

Come Fly With Me by Michael Bublé (2004)

Winger (1988)

#heart #dreamboatannie #disconightsvol1 #divasofdance #kiss #rockandrollover #daughtry #BreakTheSpell #michaelbuble #comeflywithme #winger #cd #70s #80s #90s #2000s #2010s

[rolandrockover]

Dynalum

I think I've already taken an opportunity or two to point out some of the striking similarities between Asylum (1985) and a number of Kiss albums like Creatures of the Night (1982) or Rock and Roll Over (1976), although there's a not exactly insignificant little thingy about it that I've managed to disregard.

Namely this small but defining impression that spread through me like Gene Simmons in a ladies' room the very first time I heard Asylum more than three decades ago. This Hmm- that kinda sounds like late 70s SuperKISS-effect, you know what I mean? And with that we've already halfway openend the door for good old Dynasty (1979), but one thing at a time.

When I listen to I'm Alive's refrain, I always see this pink fluffy blur rushing past me at breakneck speed, on which Paul poses not unlike Monkey Magic on his cloud, while Eric Carr and Bruce Kulick rage full throttle beneath it, igniting and keeping the fireworks going in the midst of this beautifully thundering lightning storm.

My main concern in this colorful affair, however, would be Paul's thereby warped in length cotton candy flavored vocals ("Living Life For Love. I'm Alive, I'm Ali-ive!") and of course why they feel so familiar to me. So please clear the stage for Sure Know Something, whose airy vocal chorus middle part already provided a proper and intimate klassik goosebump moment for the devoted fan kommunity during MTV's Unplugged in 1995.

And not without reason, because even back in the days of Asylum, Paul will certainly have acknowledged Sure Know Something's refrain as katchy klassic elements that helped shape his band's identity (1) to the world outside, and integrated their feel accordingly into the sound repertoire of this in every aspect koncentric Kiss album that almost every Kiss nutcase und the face of this planet seems to love.

But now it's getting rough, because I could also claim the second line of the vocal verse melody from Magic Touch and the vocal chorus from Unmasked's (1980) Is That You? both merged perfectly and formed that vocal chorus of I'm Alive I am talking about. The same feel again.

And if that's still not enough, I'm Alive's vocal bridge bears a not-uncertain resemblance to Is That You?'s vocal verses, using its first line with its jellybean-pop sleaze as a blueprint and expanding this very atitude over the entire bridge. Admittedly, I'm really starting to let myself get carried away. There you have it.

Anyway, no matter how you look at it, the comparison to Dynasty-Paul remains valid, apart from those hints of Unmasked, maybe.

But who really cares, it's only a small step from there anyway.

Side Notes:

(1) And, ahem, Sure Know Somethings main (bass) riff comes from such immortal Kiss klassiks as Firehouse (1974), Detroit Rock City (1976), Tonight You Belong to Me (1978), or even Unholy (1992) anyway. This only in passing, because it's Dynasty's production and vocal harmonies that make the difference to me here.

Too many highlightet links and so little time. Just keep on tryin':

I'm Alive (1985)

Sure Know Something (1979)

Magic Touch (1979)

Is That You? (1980)

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