Anything for Shout It Out Loud
I think it is well known that Dressed to Kill was written and recorded in no time at all. That this is true for better part of the first six studio albums is not hard to imagine, but it is especially true for Dressed to Kill, and you can hear it. And yet there are still good songs and ideas on it, which have remained a landmark for the band's classic Kiss sound for decades. Crazy Nights, Carnival of Souls or Sonic Boom spontaneously come to mind as albums worth mentioning, just to spread it out colorfully over the decades. And somehow also Destroyer.
Well, sort of.
And since Sweet Pain and Love Her All I Can are a completely different story, let's just talk about Shout It Out Loud and Anything For My Baby today. And that concerns the first verse line of both songs, sung by Paul. The one of Shout It Out Loud is, of course, not at all dissimilar by chance, right up to the point where it takes the first exit and moves into direction super anthem. This is clearly less of a rip-off and more of something that is due to the over-accelerated songwriting and the resulting immaturity of the songs on Dressed to Kill.
Whether this one line must have been particularly close to his heart and he felt obliged to himself to make more of it, or whether it simply flowed out of his mouth spontaneously while composing with Gene and Bob Ezrin at the piano without much thought, is a matter of pure speculation. One thing, however, is quite certain, namely that they impressively managed to make a lot more out of it.
The magic of the early phase. You just have to love it.
Simply click on the highlighted links and dive in:
Anything For My Baby (1975)
Shout It Out Loud (1976)
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KISS
Crazy Nights
1987 Mercury
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Tracks:
01. Crazy Crazy Nights
02. I’ll Fight Hell to Hold You
03. Bang Bang You
04. No, No, No
05. Hell or High Water
06. My Way
07. When Your Walls Come Down
08. Reason to Live
09. Good Girl Gone Bad
10. Turn on the Night
11. Thief in the Night
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Eric Carr
Bruce Kulick
Gene Simmons
Paul Stanley
* Long Live Rock Archive
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#1009: These are Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, Crazy Nights
#1009: These are Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, Crazy Nights
RECORD STORE TALES #1009: These are Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, Crazy Nights
I got my first Kiss albums in September of 1985, the first few weeks of school that year. The band’s newest album Asylum was released September 16. I was just learning about Kiss and spent the next year collecting all their albums. All of them from the debut to the new one were in my collection in some way within two…
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April 16th 1988
36 years ago April 16, 1988, KISS returned to Japan after a 10-year absence with the Crazy Nights tour
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