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The Library => Haley Center Basement => Topic started by: CCTAU on August 17, 2009, 02:56:12 PM
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For the first time in 11 years, KISS!
Kiss to release new album at Wal-Mart, Sam's Club
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Mon Aug 17, 7:37 am ET
NEW YORK – Wal-Mart is being embraced with a Kiss. The veteran heavy metal group, Kiss, is joining a growing list of classic acts putting out new music through the world's largest retailer.
"Sonic Boom" is due to be released only at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club on Oct. 6. It will include a CD of the band's first new music in 11 years, re-recorded versions of famous Kiss hits and a live DVD.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090817/ap_on_en_mu/us_music_kiss_walmart_11 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090817/ap_on_en_mu/us_music_kiss_walmart_11)
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Sellouts.
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Sellouts??? Now??? Dude, they already wore make-up and sang cheezy ass "rock" songs as there schtick to start out with...I would say this is about par for the course...
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"Rock", then disco, from make up to no make up, shitty movies, shitty cartoons, and now whoring Cherry Coke or whatever the fuck it is.
Too much schtik applied over 35ish years to cover up for an incredible lack of talent.
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KISS was the Insane Clown Posse of the seventies, they just liked the cock more.
I think this should sufficiently cause Kaos' head to explode.
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"Rock", then disco, from make up to no make up, shitty movies, shitty cartoons, and now whoring Cherry Coke or whatever the fuck it is.
Too much schtik applied over 35ish years to cover up for an incredible lack of talent.
It's like you plucked the thought from my brain and posted it here, on the internet.
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Gene could buy you. And your little woman too.
And then he would rock your face off.
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Sellouts.
Please apply this same brush to The Eagles, Springsteen and AC/DC. All inked similar deals with Wal Mart.
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It hasn't been the basis of their existence sine the bands were formed. Kiss invented the business model for selling out.
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Speaking of the Eagles. Saw them in Atlanta last fall. Great concert. No big stage show. Just seasoned performers playing hit after hit after hit. Bad, expensive beer...but good show.
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Speaking of the Eagles. Saw them in Atlanta last fall. Great concert. No big stage show. Just seasoned performers playing hit after hit after hit. Bad, expensive beer...but good show.
Speaking of sellouts. I love the Eagles, but when they threw Don Felder out, I knew the sellout was complete.
BTW. Gene Simmons on the celebrity apprentice was hilarious. He could buy Trump over twice and has never had to claim bankruptcy. He has created one of the best business models ever in the entertainment industry.
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I would love to hear some new Kiss material, I liked Pycho Circus so I'm ready for the show. Has anyone listned to the ChickenFoot Cd?
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Has anyone listned to the ChickenFoot Cd?
Pretty stock, uninspired rock.
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They're still shitty
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Not going to spend a lot of time defending KISS. You either like it or you don't. Not much middle ground. You either get it or you don't. If you get it, it makes sense. If you don't you say ignorant things.
On to the new CD.
There was much hyperbole about the cover and the fact that they got the artist who did RARO to work on this one.
RARO (here) was an iconic cover and captured the essence of the band at that moment in time.
(http://consequenceofsound.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/2cntncg.jpg)
The cover for the new CD titled Sonic Boom (here) seems forced and out of place. It doesn't fit in this era.
(http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/reviewpics/kiss_sonicboom.jpg)
I've only heard a snippet of one song, the first off the tracklist, but if it is indicative of the remainder? Ugh. The band had shown maturity and range with the almost ignored Carnival of Souls and even, to a degree, on Revenge.
The minute-long clip I heard from this CD, however, is a big step backward. It's like they mashed All Hell's Breaking Loose with Hide Your Heart.
I'll buy the CD with hopes that there is at least one song that endures, but I expect there won't be. (Get the proper usage of hope and expect, Prowler?). Pity. I was hoping for one last good album from the band. maybe one final kick to grow their legend.
While well intentioned, I don't think this will be it. When i heard that Paul was producing it, I had my concerns. His recent solo CD was pretty weak. I get the same sense here. Paul was always the last person to grasp what was going to work. He, after all, got pissed that he wasn't singing God of Thunder and bucked that for a while. Yeah, Paul, that would have woked so much better with YOU spitting blood and flying to the rafters.
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God of Thunder without Gene singing? That would have sucked major assnuts.
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God of Thunder without Gene singing? That would have sucked major assnuts.
The entire song Modern Day Delilah is now "out there." You can hear the whole thing at www.kissonline.com.
It supposedly "dropped as a single" from the new CD Sonic Boom. Single? I love my boys and all, but I'll be damned if I can think of a single radio station either on satellite or broadcast that's going to pick that song up.
It fits no genres. Feels like somebody popped open the time capsule and jammed us back to about 1978. And even then radio wouldn't play it.
I guess Wal Mart knows what it's doing, but if this song is typical of the entire effort nobody's going to be in line for this one.