![]() ![]() “Spit” - Sleazy Simmons pulls off some real cool Spinal Tapisms lyrically in this tune. Stanley! A way better tune lyrically than “Take It Off.” I love the sleazy heaviness of the guitars, kinda gurney, but not overcooked to the point of the “sound” at the time! Love the beginning of this track where the band and especially Singer take control! The verses are real good, chorus is real good and Kulick is rocking the crap outta his guitar! Like I said, great music, cool use of percussion and good solo but dumbo corny lyrics that shoulda stayed in the ’80s! Blah blah!” I mean, yeah OK, even back when Revenge came out, I was 24, KISS were just all turning 40! This song lyrically bores the tar out of me. Uh huh! Shake your hips yada yada toss your panties. “Take It Off” - You didn’t think you were gonna get two Gene tracks off the bat did ya? Nope! Here’s Paulie Stanley with a real good song musically but lyrically its a throwback to 1988! You know the lyrics - they go something like this “mind is getting dirty around 11:30. The KISS sonics here and on this album are produced so good. say what? Gene Simmons begins the album with his own song and it’s not a Stanley track as well it’s heavvvvy devvvvvvy! Gene sings like he has gone overboard and is about to be committed to the looney tank and man I’m digging it and I still do all these years later. Eric Singer‘s bass drums sound huge like cannons peeling off and could it be…. “Unholy” - Holy heck! KISS in 1992 sound leaner, meaner and with the guitars doing some weird kinda backward maskimg thingy for a few seconds comes some big power chords courtesy of Paul Stanley and Bruce Kulick. God gave rock n’ roll to you… I gave tons of cash to KISS! I guess I just viewed it as another new KISS album as there were already like 100 or so studio, live, greatest hits comps out there… I was certainly surprised when KISS along with producer Bob Ezrin stepped up and slammed one out of the ballpark! So Starchild, the Demon, Kulick and Singer create what I would have to say is close to one of there best studio outputs ever. Plus give props to the cover, a slick looking were taking no shit kinda cover! Metallic silver menacing wall slapped with a big bad ass looking bolts with a KISS painted black logo over it. Who know’s what I was thinking when KISS unleashed Revenge. Nope! Now, for the duds in the ’80s, there were some real awesome albums ( Creatures Of The Night), not bad ( Animalize) and some that have gotten better over time ( Lick It Up). ![]() May 1992, KISS come storming back with Revenge. And for myself, storming would be the word as even though I was still buying all their releases, their studio output in the ’80s was questionable! Now, don’t think for a second I’m a scorned ex-jilted KISS fan. ![]()
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