KISS — Killers

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2.93 | 14 ratings | 2 reviews
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Boxset / Compilation · 1982

Filed under Hard Rock
By KISS

Tracklist

1. I'm A Legend Tonight (new song) (3:55)
2. Down On Your Knees (new song) (3:27)
3. Cold Gin (4:19)
4. Love Gun (3:17)
5. Shout It Out Loud (2:37)
6. Sure Know Something (3:59)
7. Nowhere To Run (new song) (4:31)
8. Partners In Crime (new song) (3:45)
9. Detroit Rock City (3:57)
10. God Of Thunder (4:12)
11. I Was Made For Lovin' You (4:19)
12. Rock And Roll All Nite (live) (3:58)

Total Time 46:16

Line-up/Musicians

- Paul Stanley / rhythm guitar, lead vocals
- Gene Simmons / bass guitar, lead vocals
- Ace Frehley / lead guitar, backing vocals
- Eric Carr / drums
- Peter Criss / drums

- Bob Kulick / lead guitar (track 1, 2, 7, 8)
- Anton Fig / drums (track 6, 11)

About this release

June 15, 1982
Phonogram

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Lynx33
The album Killers was released in June, 1982. Since then it has become an album that most people see as a useless compilation album by a band that wants to balance the commercial disappointments by their previous albums, trying to bring glory days back. However, I don't see it like that. This album is very special to me, always has been and will always be. I remember those days in the late eighties when I listened to it all the time, I fell asleep to it, I woke up to it, listening to it before and after school. I especially recall those days when I was very sick lying at home reading Alan Dean Foster's adapted book Aliens, listening to Killers meanwhile all the time on cassette, having it taken out and put back if one side was over, playing it again and again non-stop. Very sadly, I have lost the cassette copy I had since then, but the memories the album gave me can never be forgotten. I especially liked the new songs with the unique guitar sound provided by Bob Kulick, brother of the band's future guitarist Bruce Kulick, and the guitarist on Paul Stanley's club tour along with Eric Singer. I liked the old songs too, Love Gun, Cold Gin, Sure Know Something for instance, although I have always much preferred Stanley-Simmons-Carr-Kulick Kiss, I was a big fan of this line up Kiss back in the eighties and nineties. I have never understood why the band didn't release an official live album in the eighties, because they were so good live, as you can see and hear on the lot of bootleg videos and concerts. Eric Carr and Bruce Kulick (though, Bruce is not on this album), in my opinion, were much better musicians than the ones in the classic line up, though in the last fifteen years, it has been so popular to say the old line up is the bestest because they're the originals. The band was very much lucky that they were able to find a superb drummer, Eric Singer, to replace Eric Carr. The album Killers itself in structure and atmosphere has a lot in common with the band's other compilation called Smashes, Thrashes and Hits, which I also had on cassette back in those days liking it too. My favourite song on Killers is I'm Legend Tonight, into which I remember I deleted a two second break accidentally having pushed the record button once. Everytime I hear the album ever since I know where the break was in the song on my old cassette. It's so strange. The other fantastic song is Sure Know Something, of course. So, not to make it too long, this album to me is not a useless compilation at all, though musically much time has passed, but something very special in my memory book, deserving to be given 3.5 stars.
Warthur
A rush-released compilation intended to try and scrape back some commercial success after Music From the Elder bombed, Killers is notable for including four songs recorded especially to it - but alas, none of them are particularly diverting. I'm a Legend Tonight is a decent idea weighed down by dated production and a lack of spark, as well as the band's inability to pull off the really over the top Meat Loaf operatic rendition the album really demanded. Down On Your Knees is yet another juvenile Kiss song about sex, Nowhere to Run is an utterly pedestrian "my woman done me wrong" rock lament, and Partners In Crime threatens to break out into the sort of disco beat that marred Dynasty. As for the old classics, as always they're better heard in the context of the Alive! albums. In short, Killers is utterly needless.

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