Kiss found themselves stranded in the mannequin graveyard...
Oh hey, another Kiss compilation!
This time we get two new songs: Let's Put the X in Sex is everything you expect from an 80s Kiss track where Paul Stanley is strutting around singing about making sweet love to some young woman, while (You Make Me) Rock Hard is... pretty much exactly the same.
Def Slam Poetry right here.
Then it's on to the 'hits'. Except most are remixed. Easily the worst version of Love Gun on the planet; like, it's Love Gun so it is still better than anything you or I will ever write (unless you are Ryan Adams or Brian May. In which case, "Hi!" and "ZOMG why are you reading this?!?!") but this remix makes it sound stupid. Almost as much as the remix of I Love It Loud makes it sound gutless and pathetic. I would really like to know what they were thinking with that one. Perhaps you can find out for me, Brian May?
Then comes the Deuce remix, which is even more bizarre. The 80s songs haven't been remixed at all, so Lick It Up and Heaven's on Fire sound just the same. They should have remixed those as well just for the fun of it; maybe add some phaser to the vocals, bit distortion and delay on the drums and then just add in some funk guitar. Because that wouldn't have been worse than what they are doing to the classic 70s tracks here. Oh, and then Eric Carr finally gets to do some vocals by making the most boring version of Beth possible. I'm not blaming him at all, but bah gawd what was the point of this album? Did people think this sounded cool in 1988? I've watched every episode of Miami Vice and I can safely answer that with a no.
I'm totally deleting these tracks out of my iTunes when I get home.
Highlights:
The songs that are awesome still being awesome
Lowlights:
Listening to awesome songs get ruined by stupid remixing
Verdict = 4 Smoking Les Paul Guitars
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