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Illustration by Scott Blair
Photography by Bryan Adams
(Neither Bryan Adams nor Pamela Anderson are associated with SuperCool-Guy, supercool-guy.com or have given their permission for their photograph to be used in this composition. SuperCool-Guy finds the (entirely coincidental) symmetry pretty cool and amusing but is prepared to remove the image at the request of its copyright holders.)
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What is left to write about KISS that hasn’t been written before?... I have grouped the KISS discography (minus some of the later-day compilations) into the 6 “musical phases of KISS” – as I see them, this is an entirely subjective and personal grouping – and for each album, listed and rated my personal favorite tracks:
I finish off with my recommendations for newbies and a video playlist from the KISS VEVO channel…
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I’ve loved KISS since before I was a teenager. I was first attracted by their outrageous look and soon became a fan of the music.
The cool, tough kids at school would draw the KISS logo on their denims, wear the t-shirts and buttons... I would soon draw the logo and the four distinctive make up designs everywhere and on every page of my school exercise books; every wall in my room was covered with posters of Love Gun/Alive II-era Gene, Paul, Ace and Peter. The inside cover of Alive II was the pinnacle of wow! They were the coolest band and I was hooked on the image and mythology even before I became a fan of the music…
KISS Alive II inside cover