Kiss
Dynasty
[Mercury Remasters Series]
Rating: 2.0
We've come to the part in their career when Kiss are now starting to
suck. Aside from becoming the most over marketed band of the 1970s, the
costumed champs of the mainstream lose their toehold on good old
fashioned rock and roll. It can all be summed up in the first track and
their last major hit single, "I Was Made for Loving You." This song hasn't
aged well at all, but it's interesting because it sounds like both
1979 and 1983, and that's 1983 as in ZZ Top's Eliminator. I
don't know about you, but this song reminds me of "Legs," which at least
sported a cool video. Alas, the only other tricks up Kiss' sleeves were
to roll out a Rolling Stones cover (yawn) and dump the "I don't care
anymore" guy Peter Criss. His replacement? Anton Fig from the
Letterman Show. Still, Criss appears on the cover and Fig's name is
nowhere to be found on the product. At least he got out of the mess
okay. For Kiss, this was the beginning of a 17 year downslide (1992's
Domino aside.)
-Jason Josephes