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KISS is in my top 5 favorite all time bands – but only up to 1979/80 and Creatures..
Solo albums – love Ace's and like Paul's only.
1. Detroit Rock City
2. She – esp the Alive version but love studio track too
3. Strutter
4. Parasite
5. Got to Choose
6. Makin' Love
7. Black Diamond
8. Love Her All I Can
9. Flaming Youth
10. Rock Bottom
Honorable mentions – Shock Me, Getaway, All the Way, Watchin You, Firehouse, Room Service, Deuce, 1,000,00 Years, Strange Ways, I Want You, Rock n Roll All Night (Alive version only)
Favorite band all-time. Including ALL eras.
1. Rock and Roll All Nite (yeah, overplayed, but the song that got me into them back in 76)
2. Detroit Rock City
3. Unholy
4. War Machine
5. Rocket Ride
6. Black Diamond
7. Parasite
8. Fits Like A Glove
9. Come On And Love Me
10. Love Gun
I'm not a big Kiss fan so I'll just throw in a bunch of popular ones from the early years of their catalogue:
1) Strutter
2) Cold Gin
3) Deuce
4) Got to Choose
5) Parasite
6) Rock Bottom
7) Detroit Rock City
8) God of Thunder
9) Flaming Youth
10) Shock Me
Mr. Speed..Sure Know Something..Parasite..God of Thunder..Love Gun…I Was Made For Loving You..Strutter..Flaming Youth..Deuce..Hard Luck Woman.
I'm throwing in 15
"All American Man"
"All Hell's Breakin' Loose"
"Black Diamond"
"C'mon & Love Me"
"Creatures of the Night"
"Deuce"
"Domino"
"Do You Love Me"
"I Love It Loud"
"Lick It Up"
"Nowhere to Run"
"Parasite"
"Rock Bottom"
"She"
"Strutter"
1. I Stole Your Love
2. Christine 16
3. Shout it Out Loud
4. Do You Love Me
5. Detroit Rock City
6. Flaming Youth
7. King of the Night Time World
8. Beth
9. Rock'n'Roll All Nite
10. Hotter Than Hell
Deuce
Strutter
Parasite
Making Love
Rocket Ride
Magic Touch
The Oath
Creatures of the Night
Tears Are Falling
Unholy
HM
War Machine
Plaster Caster
Black Diamond
Jungle
Into The Void
1. Almost Human
2.Hotter Than Hell
3. Deuce (Both Alive and 1st album)
4.War Machine
5.Tears Are Falling
6. God Of Thunder (Alive 2)
7.100 000 Years (Alive)
8. Parasite
9. She
10. Dirty Livin'
But this can all change. Top 5 will always be in top 10 though.
1 Deuce
2. Black Diamond
3. Strutter
4. Detroit Rock City
5. Shout It Out Loud
6. Into The Void
7. Domino
8. Unholy
9. Russian Roulette
10. Yes I Know
In no particular order
1. Mr Speed
2. Strange Ways
3. Watching You
4. Deuce live version
5. Parasite
6. Goin Blind
7. Got Love for Sale
8. Nowhere To Run
9. Rocket Ride
10. All American Man
Peter should have sang lead on "Tomorrow and Tonight." Would have made Love Gun an even better album…My second favorite next to Rock n Roll Over.
For me in no order:
1. Tears are Falling
2. The Oath
3. A Million to One
4. 100,000 Years
5. Sure Know Something
6. You Love Me to Hate You
7. Goin Blind
8. Thrills in the Night
9. Shock Me
10. Black Diamond
1. 100,000 Years
2. Parasite
3. Watchin' You
4. She
5. Hotter Than Hell
6. Black Diamond
7. Take Me
8. I Want You
9. Makin' Love
10. Got To Choose
1-Deuce (I definitely like the Alive version best)
2-Unholy
3-Take Me
4-I Stole Your Love
5-Strange Ways
6-Larger Than Life
7-All Hell's Breaking Loose
8-God of Thunder
9-Psycho Circus
10-I Just Wanna
My Top 20:
1. I Was Made for Lovin' You
2. Strutter
3. Sure Know Something
4. Magic Touch
5. Thrills in the Night
6. Beth
7. I've Had Enough (into the Fire)
8. Forever
9. Naked City
10. Black Diamond
11. Hard Luck Woman
12. Domino
13. Easy as It Seems
14. Good Girl Gone Bad
15. War Machine
16. God of Thunder
17. A Million to One
18. Tough Love
19. The Oath
20. Ladies Room
Only top 10? KISS have 20+ albums while killer tracks on all of them!
OK, here goes (in no particular order):
Hell Or Hallelujah
Back To The Stone Age
Modern Day Delilah
Psycho Circus
King Of The Mountain
Young And Wasted
Sure Know Something
Got Love For Sale
All American Man
Rock Bottom
What Makes The World Go ‘Round
Jungle
In no particular order:
Save Your Love
Almost Human
Sure Know Something
King Of The Night Time World
Rocket Ride
Naked City
Makin' Love (Alive II version)
I Stole Your Love
Love Her All I Can
Parasite
10.Deuce
9.Rock and Roll All Nite
8.Shout It Out Loud
7.Rock Bottom (Unplugged)
6.Strutter
5.Sure Know Something
4.I Was Made For Lovin' You
3.Heaven's On Fire
2.Lick It Up
1.I Love It Loud
100,000 Years
Creatures of the Night
Easy As It Seems
I Stole Your Love
Love Gun
Nowhere to Run
Rock Bottom
Shandi
Sure Know Something
Watchin' You
I do NOT get the love for Love Gun. It's basically a rip off of The Hunter and so boring.
From oldest to newest:
Black Diamond
Deuce
Shock me
Tomorrow
Only you
Creatures of the night
War machine
Heavens on fire
King of the mountain
Unholy
1. Strutter
2. Detroit Rock City
3. She
4. Do you Love me
5. Rock and Roll all Nite
6. Creatures of the Night
7. Got to Choose
8. Cold Gin
9. Parasite
10. Love Gun
Love gun
Deuce
Detroit Rock City
I love it loud
Lick It up
Cold gin
War machine
Unholy
Black diamond
Firehouse
1. Mr. Speed 2. Let Me Know 3. Nothin' To Lose 4. All The Way 5. Exciter 6. Journey Of A 1000 Years 7. Odyssey 8. The Oath 9. Two-Timer 10. Who Wants To Be Lonely?
This is my top10:
10. Unholy
9. Naked City
8. Strange Ways
7. Ladies Room
6. God of Thunder
5. Black Diamond
4. Shock Me
3. I was made for lovin’ you
2. Detroit Rock City
1. Watchin You
If you ever do an AC/DC of Thin Lizzy show about this subject and you are looking for a participant, I am up for it 👍🏻
No order
1. Strutter
2. Deuce
3. Parasite
4. Watchin’ You
5. Black Diamond (Alive!)
6. Detroit Rock City
7. King of The Night Time World
8. Makin’ Love
9. Love Gun
10. War Machine
😝🤘🏻
Great show, lots of cool choices. This is tough, but here’s my top 10
10. Crazy Crazy Nights (I know, it’s a contrarian choice, but it was a big hit over hit here in the UK & I love it!)
9. I'm A Legend Tonight
8. Is That You?
7. Lick It Up
6. I Want You (Alive II)
5. Firehouse
4. Do You Love Me?
3. Love Gun
2. Creatures of The Night
1. Detroit Rock City (Alive II)
Under The Rose, I'm Alive, Almost Human, Burn Bitch Burn, Young and Wasted, War Machine, Mr. Blackwell , Sure Know Somethin', Unholy, Strange Ways.
I saw yjrm on the Farewell tour, they weren't great and Peter was half assin' it on the drums.
1. Unholy
2. Detroit Rock City
3. Deuce
4. Strange Ways
5. Love Gun
6. Heaven’s On Fire
7. I Love It Loud
8. Fits Like A Glove
9. Naked City
10. Parasite
This is hard for me. Kiss has always been a band, to me that have many good songs, but some pretty mediocre ones, and others downright awful. It's a large catalog, but most of the stuff I like is in the 70s.
Magic Touch
Unholy
Not For The Innocent
Nowhere To Run
Creatures Of The Night
Exciter
Under The Rose
Almost Human
Rock n Roll Hell
It Never Goes Away
01 Lick It Up
02 Hide Your Heart
03 Heaven's On Fire
04 Watchin' You
05 A Million To One
06 100,000 Years
07 Psycho Circus
08 God Gave Rock 'n' Roll To You II
09 Hard Luck Woman
10 Black Diamond
So glad to hear Take Me represented!
1. Heavens on fire 2. Lick it up. 3. Hard luck woman 4. Shock me 5. Love gun 6. Crazy nights 7. Deuce 8. Strutter 9. Then she kissed me 10. Detroit rock city
Great assortment of songs!! Not just bread and butter!! Mine are. Exciter, Not For the Innocent, Tears are Falling, I've Had Enough, Lick it Up, Hard Luck Woman, Psycho Circus, War Machine, Detroit Rock City, and Rocket Ride
Thank you guys for so many deep cuts – took me over three hours to watch this as I had to listen to the songs I wasn't familiar with
1 – Parasite
2 – Black Diamond
3 – I Stole Your Love
4 – Love Her All I can
5 – God Of Thunder
6 – Under The Rose
7 – Save Your Love
8 – Torpedo Girl
9 – Unholy
10 – Million To One
Kickass show guy's,this was a hard one,this list will totally be different tomorrow,as your list will be too. 🤘😛🎶
Baby Driver
Cmon and Love Me
Black Diamond
Parasite
Deuce
Strutter
I Stole Your Love
Rock n Roll Hell
Shout It Out Loud
I Want You
Great show. My top ten might look something like this:
1. A World Without Heroes
2. Magic Touch
3. I Love It Loud
4. Exciter
5. Love Gun
6. A Million To One
7. We Are One
8. Goin' Blind
9. Easy As It Seems
10. I'll Fight Hell To Hold You
If I were to include songs from the '78 solo records, I'd include Tonight You Belong To Me and Man Of 1000 Faces at the expense of my 9 & 10.
in no particular order,
1. Black Diamond
2. Detroit Rock City
3. Cold Gin
4. Love Gun
5. Parasite
6. Watchin You
7. Makin Love
8. She
9. Rock and Roll All Nite
10. Sure Know Something
The Dr. Love Enigma!!😮
One that I would include in a top ten if I were to do one: Betrayed
1. Detroit rock city
2. psycho circus
3. unholy
4. love gun
5. strutter
6. thrills in the night
7. who wants to be lonely
8. tears are falling
9. i love it loud
10. a million to one
Top 10 (no particular order):
Deuce
Black Diamond
Detroit Rock City
Love Her All I Can
Take Me
Creatures of the Night
I Stole Your Love
She
Sure Know Something
100,000 Years