Kiss - Lick It Up (1983) (Japan SHM-CD Remastered Limited Edition 2008)

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Kiss - Lick It Up (1983) (Japan SHM-CD Remastered Limited Edition 2008)

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Kiss - Lick It Up (1983) (Japan SHM-CD Remastered Limited Edition 2008)

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Year : 1983 (Japan SHM-CD Remastered Limited Edition 2008)
Style : Hard Rock , Heavy Metal
Country : USA
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 120 mb


Bio:

Kiss was formed in New York in '72 by guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley (Stanley Eisen) and Gene Simmons (Gene Klein). The line-up was rounded out by drummer Peter Criss (Crisscoula), located through a Rolling Stone ad, and lead guitarist Ace Frehley (Paul Frehley), who answered an ad in the Village Voice. The band's cartoon image, kabuki makeup and 4th-of-July stageshow concept was in place from the start, and they began promoting their own hall shows in NYC. TV director Bill Aucoin saw them, became their manager, and secured a deal for them with Neil Bogart's Casablanca Records within two weeks. Three LPs were released in a year's time, but the live fourth LP, Alive! (1975) contained their first huge hit, "Rock And Roll All Nite." Until the early '80, Kiss was unstoppable, with two huge-selling Marvel Comics, a network TV movie and four simultaneously-released solo albums under their studded belts. In '80, Criss left for a solo career and since then, the drum and lead positions have been ever-changing. In '83, the band stripped away the makeup and celebrated renewed interest."You wanted the best, you got it! The hottest band in the land: KISS!" So went the rally cry at the beginning of a Kiss concert, an event of exploding pyrotechnics, vomited blood and louder-than-God hard rock. Their fan club--The Kiss Army--swelled to six-figures strong during the band's '70s heyday, and between 1974 and today they've sold in excess of 70 million albums.In '96, the original band reformed (made up?), and took their full costume-makeup-pyro 1976 show on the road--for a year-long stint--resulting in one of the most successful rock tours ever. Conjecture that the band wanted to quit on a high note has remained unproven; anything could happen in Kiss' future.

Album:

Lick It Up is the 11th studio album by American rock band Kiss. Prior to its 1983 release, the band members appeared on MTV without their trademark makeup. It was the first public appearance without make-up by the band since their very early days, and their first for Mercury Records, where they had been signed following their departure from Casablanca Records.More KISS was requested in a remastered, Japanese releases on SHM-CD, so here’s “Lick It Up“, the first unmasked album from the band, and one of my favorites from the legendary band.You gotta listen to the sound quality of this remastered release, fuller, pretty much in the late Nineties style, but works great for the production job on “Lick It Up”. This Limited, mini-LP replica numbered SHM-CD is a collector’s piece right now, very hard to find even used.After original drummer Peter Criss left, the band’s attempt in the early 80s to return to its roots somehow got derailed and turned into the 1981 concept album Music From the Elder: despite of being a very good album, fans didn’t understand it.Lead guitarist Ace Frehley checked out somewhere in the middle of making the record, and it seemed like remaining founding members Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons had hit bottom.Amazingly, they recovered – at least creatively – with 1982’s Creatures of the Night, a defiant, backs-to-the-wall masterpiece that added new levels of grit, drama and shading to their repertoire.It should have returned Kiss to the top of the mountain. Instead, it went largely ignored by an audience that had either moved on or grown tired of the band’s recent stylistic wanderings.It was now clear that a big change was needed. So on Sept. 18, 1983, Stanley, Simmons, drummer Eric Carr and new guitarist Vinnie Vincent appeared on MTV to reveal their real faces.The album that the stunt was designed to promote, ‘Lick It Up’, was released the same day. And for the first time in five years, things worked out exactly as Kiss had planned.“I’ve always believed that Lick It Up was proof that people listen with their eyes,” Stanley said in the book Kiss: Behind the Mask. “The response to Lick It Up was four times the response to Creatures, and I think that’s purely because people were tired of the image of the band and couldn’t hear past what they saw. It’s a really good album, but it’s not in the same league as Creatures of the Night.While ‘Lick It Up’ does trade the glorious dynamics and slightly outside-the-lines coloring of its predecessor for a much sleeker, polished and slightly pop-metal sound, Paul Stanley is a bit too harsh.The songwriting chemistry among Simmons, Vincent and himself didn’t last long due to personal and contractual differences, but it did result in one of the band’s most cohesive and appealing albums.The insanely catchy title track broke the dam at radio and MTV, despite a somewhat strange post-apocalyptic video that spends its first 30 seconds showing the band’s crotches walking down the street and the rest of the time demonstrating that Gene Simmons has no idea what to do with himself in front of a camera without his fire breathing, fake blood and demon makeup.Other highlights include Stanley and Carr’s half-rapped, half-sung “All Hell’s Breaking Loose,” and three stomping numbers in which Simmons reclaims his crown as rock’s most unrepentant naughty and unsubtle lyricist: “Not for the Innocent,” “Fits Like a Glove” and the charmingly titled “Dance All Over Your Face.”Kiss’ new image and second strong album in a row were enough to return them to some degree of their former glory, as ‘Lick It Up’ cracked the Top 30 on the Billboard 200 while more and more fans once again turned up at their concerts.The following year brought another new album and the massive “Heaven’s on Fire” single, confirming that Kiss had successfully escaped its turn-of-the-decade troubles and entered a second era of success.

Line Up:

Paul Stanley (aka Starchild, aka Paul Stanley Eisen) - Vocals, Guitar [since 1972], ex-Wicked Lester, ex-Uncle Joe, ex-Rainbow, ex-The Paul Stanley Band
Gene Simmons (aka The Demon, aka Chaim Witz, aka Gene Klein) - Vocals, Bass [since 1972], ex-Wicked Lester, ex-Lynx, ex-The Missing Links, ex-The Long Island Sounds, ex-Bullfrog Bheer
Eric Carr – Drums, percussion, backing vocals
Vinnie Vincent – lead guitar, backing vocals, additional vocals

guest:

Rick Derringer – lead guitar on “Exciter”

Tracklist:

01. Exciter 4:10
02. Not for the Innocent 4:22
03. Lick it Up 3:56
04. Young and Wasted 4:05
05. Gimme More 3:43
06. All Hell's Breakin' Loose 4:32
07. A Million to One 4:10
08. Fits Like a Glove 4:04
09. Dance All Over Your Face 4:16
10. And on the 8th Day 4:02

+ Video "Lick it Up" (Official Video)


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