Kiss - Destroyer

1.  Detroit Rock City -  Everything works.  Love the Bass line.  song has high energy.  the extended beginning and stupid sound effects need to go.  I want to hear music...if i wanted a story with sound effects i'd watch a movie.  Cool use of piano with this track.  Iron Maiden/Judas priest style dual leads.  A+

2.  King of the Night Time world -  starts off like it's going to be good but it sucks.  I'm starting to feel like Charlie Brown kicking the football...I think the songs are going to be good and then Kiss ruins them with shitty choruses and poor songwriting.  Kiss is the Lucy of rock n' roll.  Stop fucking with us you bastards.  Like the two face girlfriend in Seinfeld...sometimes she looks pretty and then the light changes...you want her to be pretty but then you see her from a different angle and ugh, limp.  D-

3.  God of thunder -  Great drudging riff....should be heavier, more distortion, more bass, down tuned...something other than Gene's ugly delivery to give it actual thunder.  Dump the stupid sound effects.  Just because Kiss starting learning their way around the studio after 5 albums doesn't mean they need to play around...B  (easily could've been an A+)

4.  Great Expectations -  I would rather eat an uncooked goat cock than to have to listen to that again.  F

5.  Flaming Youth -  another showtune. Something's flaming...but it's not this song.  F

6.  Sweet Pain -  verse is ok.  Chorus needs more help than Stephen Hawking with walking.  Some cool interplay between the bass and guitars. ...but that's the only thing saving this from another F.  D

7.  Shout it out loud-  I know it's a hit but it's shit.  Repetitive.  Coolest part is the use of the piano (might be the bass strings).  C

8.  Beth - again, peter's voice is solid.  the flutes and shit have got to go.  Just throw in a few sparse strings with the piano.  sound like the sound track to a touching family drama from the 70s.  Far over produced.  C

9.  do you love me-  more shtick.  crap.  simple.  dull.  D

10.  Rock and Roll Party - what the fuck?  If i was in a record store in 1978 i'd be all like wow, 10 new songs from kiss let me buy this but then i'd get home and hear it and get to the last song hoping for some redemption after suffering through the last 5 songs and then i'd be all like wow...i'm disappointed.  I would like to interview these tool bags to see what the exact intent and artistic vision was on this jizzbomb.   this doesn't even get a letter...totally undeserving of any label.  If this was a face it would be rocky dennis.  if this were a president it would be gw bush.  if this were a piece of candy it would be necco wafers. 

Overall grade : D