Kiss
Theatrics and basic hard rock have been a main calling card for Kiss, who were one of the biggest-selling acts of the Seventies and who inspired the Kiss Army, as fans refer to themselves. The quartet formed in the heyday of glitter and rock theater, and it set out to define, at first, evil cartoon-character personas, highlighted by Gene Simmons' bass-playing, fire-breathing, tongue-wagging ghoul.
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Hotter Than Hell
January 01, 1974
star ratingKiss' early albums are thin, cruddy-sounding hard rock recorded on the cheap, with only occasional lapses into catchiness: You'd be hard pressed to name another band that wrote all its own songs over such a long period of time without ever learning how.
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1974Kiss
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1975Alive!
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1975Dressed to Kill
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1976Destroyer
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1977Rock and Roll Over
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1977Love Gun
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1977Alive II
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1978Double Platinum
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1979Dynasty
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1996MTV Unplugged
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2009Sonic Boom
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