Paul Gets It Off His Chest
Paul Stanley of Kiss, as one wag puts it, "sounds less like the frontman for an internationally known rock megaband than a shrill Christopher Street queen stuck outside a club at three in the morning, frantically searching on the wet pavement for the last few poppers that accidentally flew out of his hand onto the ground."
If that sounds pretty harsh, listening to a couple of tracks off this massive compilation entitled, People, Let Me Get This Off My Chest, that contains 70 of Mr. Stanley's more egregious snippets of dopey onstage banter, just might change your mind. If you're not sure it's worth downloading 86MB of MP3s to hear him screech some of the lamest rock cliches imaginable, listen to a single track first, then decide if you want the rest of it.
Oh, and on unrelated note, Paul appears to have been the recent recipient of some terrifyingly awful plastic surgery.
via Sound Scavengers
Comments
The death rattle of a dying skwerl had more musical value than anything KISS ever produced. They are absolute twaddle.
You surprise my your "Hai-ness" for allowing them to grace the pages of your blog?
Posted by: Fritz | January 13, 2006 1:13 AM
HIGHHHHHH...!!!!
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A nearly empty stadium?
LOL x 1000
Posted by: Gary | January 13, 2006 1:33 AM
My god, that before and after picture is frightening!
I never cared for KISS.
Posted by: Kimberly | January 13, 2006 2:07 AM
Fritz: this stuff is comedy gold, and I've never been above posting dumb crap here if it makes me laugh.
Gary: I think they turned the audience way down in the mix so we could better hear Starchild's fabulous bon mots.
Kim: I was one of those people who never 'got' KISS either. I can see why loaded teenagers would like the stage show with the fake blood and big explosions, but their records are utter crap. I bought Kiss Alive! When I was 16, and 3 hours later, took it right back to the record shop for a refund.
HIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...!!!!!!
Posted by: MrBaliHai | January 13, 2006 8:18 AM
You are back in my goood graces Mr Bali Hai
Viewed through a Dark Comic filter I can see
your point
Posted by: Fritz | January 13, 2006 10:02 AM
I'm grateful I can say that I never popped for any KISS product, even when they first emerged and I was right in their demographic. My anglophilia probably helped out there. But really... great hard rock bands have great riffs. Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple -- they all served up great hooky riffs that have had teenage miscreants "duhn-duhn-duhn"-ing for decades. Riff-wise, KISS has nothing. Nobody home. A hollow man.
Posted by: M.Ace | January 14, 2006 8:01 PM
Good point about the lack of riffs. My favorite band at the time was The Who, and I didn't know any kid who could resist windmilling to Won't Get Fooled Again, but I never saw anyone playing air-guitar to Kiss.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | January 14, 2006 11:36 PM
Pete Townsend is gay, whether you play air guitar to kiss or not.
Posted by: jw | January 16, 2006 3:28 PM
Townsend's responsible for some of the greatest rock and roll songs of all time. I could care less who he sleeps with.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | January 16, 2006 6:06 PM