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The Very Best of Kiss |  | Artist: Kiss
Label: Island / Mercury
Category: Music
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Rating:  137 reviews
Sales Rank: 1733
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 063122
UPC: 004400631222
EAN: 0004400631222
ASIN: B00006GFAB
Release Date: August 27, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | Strutter | | • | Deuce | | • | Got To Choose | | • | Hotter Than Hell | | • | C'Mon And Love Me | | • | Rock And Roll All Nite (live) | | • | Detroit Rock City | | • | Shout It Out Loud | | • | Beth | | • | I Want You | | • | Calling Dr. Love | | • | Hard Luck Woman | | • | I Stole Your Love | | • | Christine Sixteen | | • | Love Gun | | • | New York Groove | | • | I Was Made For Loving You | | • | I Love It Loud | | • | Lick It Up | | • | Forever | | • | God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You II |
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Media Type: CD
Artist: KISS
Title: VERY BEST OF KISS
Street Release Date: 08/27/2002
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP
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Sure, Detroit had the MC5 and the Stooges, but Long Island's Kiss threw down their own gauntlet. Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss cleaved a spot between glam, punk, waning Woodstock rock, and adult-oriented pop and became a phenomenon in the process. Kiss kept their music simple and, of course, sexual, with the likes of "Hotter than Hell," "Love Gun," and "Calling Dr. Love," paving the way for the waves of pop-metal sexpot wannabes and winning fans in such quantities that they launched the so-called Kiss Army. Their magnetism permeates this 21-song set, with Criss sounding so lonesome he could cry on "Beth," and the fire-breathing, blood-spitting Simmons unfailingly serving up a comical mix of menace and lasciviousness. The version of "Rock & Roll All Nite" comes from 1975's crowd-noise drenched Alive!, cut at the time when live albums were de rigueur. This collection was made smartly enough that only four songs come from the band's post-Dynasty period, making The Very Best of Kiss an essential primer on 1970s rock grandeur. --Andrew Bartlett
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 Rock N ROLL all night February 5, 2010
Alexander M. Simon (Stamford, CT United States)
What can you say? Sometimes it takes part o your adult life to fully appreciate KISS. I do now.
great cd December 31, 2009
Cary Criss
CD was in great condition, as advertised. Delivery could have been quicker but it was worth waiting for!
the very best of kiss November 21, 2009
Steven W. Hopson
The CD was in perfect condition. It sounds great. The only problem I have is the amount of time it took to receive it.
The best to start with November 17, 2009
RockinRobin411
Yes, it is missing a bunch of tracks, and it isn't exactly the very best of KISS. However, it's a great album for someone who has never heard KISS before. It primarily focuses on the pre-solo album years, and then they use an Ace Frehley track, which is followed by a quick synopsis of KISS afterwards. It goes in chronological order, which is the most logical way to go when doing a compilation album. This album is missing a few classics, but again, the important ones are there. Also, it goes past Dynasty. "I Love it Loud," "Lick it Up," "Forever," and "God Gave Rock and Roll To You II" are definitely the best choices for post Dynasty tracks, and "I Was Made For Lovin' You" is the best choice to use if you're going to use just one track from Dynasty. I've only heard Ace Frehley's solo album of the four, but from what most people have said, his was by far the best. I feel that putting one of the solo album tracks is great in splitting the album into when the original line-up played, and when they had changed members around (even original members were credited). They also rejected the few tracks where they used other musicians instead of original members (I think "Flaming Youth" is the only time when that happened back then), not counting "Beth" obviously.
This is definitely my number one recommendation for a KISS compilation to get, if you get one, but the only other KISS compilation that I've heard is Greatest KISS. Most people would say Double Platinum or Gold, but from what I understand, Double Platinum uses an alternate version of "Strutter," changes the end of "Black Diamond," and uses the "Rock Bottom" introduction for "She," and Gold is a two-disc album that ends before Creatures of the Night, so this is probably the best single disc album to get if you want a single-disc KISS compilation.
 You wanted the best, You got the good. September 2, 2009
Michael F. Medina
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It is hard to knock a Kiss compilation and that is not my intention. But it is a disk heavily slanted toward the earliest KISS wit a few of the more recent charting songs. No real inspired picks here.
At this point in their career Kiss should have been more adventurous considering this is the 10th compilation disk (including Live stuff). Classics Like the Peter Criss voiced "Baby Driver", the under appreciated "Thrills in the Night". More adventurous Gene Simmons songs like "Naked City", "Charisma" or the classic metal thunder of "Young and Wasted" would be preferable to yet another pressing of Strutter.
In the end of it all, KISS will be remembered for the lavish stage shows, but this is a shallow dip into what was probably one of the most adventurous and variety filled rock bands of all time. The problem is that a lot of the songs don't fit into the mold of the visual representation of KISS. The Disco themed classic chart buster that was "I Was Made for Lovin' You". The trippy 70's psychedelic adventure of Ace Frehely's "Ozone". Peter Criss's soulful rendition of the classic "Tossin' and Turnin'" or the exquisitely dramatic piano ballad "I Can't Stop the Rain" which puts "Beth' to shame and exposes it as the simplistic predecessor that it is.
I may be nit picking as this is an appropriate intro for new listeners, but maybe the rest of us deserve more than a contract filler disk after almost 30 years.
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