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KISS CREATURES OF THE NIGHT ALBUM REVIEW / WORSHIP TRACK BY TRACK - MUSIC OF KISS - I LOVE IT LOUD !
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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2024
- The 3rd installment in our Music Of KISS series.
This time around it's all about the epic and awesome CREATURES OF THE NIGHT.
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Great Lp. . . Well, I had the cassette.
This was great. I loved sitting in on your conversation about one of my favorite KISS albums with a few of my favorite songs on it. Album worship is right.
Thanks Brant!
Absolutely best album my kiss and then rock and roll over
So Awsome love all the backgrounds and new information I’m learning from both of you. I’m probably that Guy who never heard this Album from beginning to end but you can bet I will give it a listen
You will love it....and thank you my man!
I don't think I've ever heard such an in depth album review before, well researched gentlemen!
Thanks man! That's a very early episode of ours! I'd like to think we've gotten much better. Appreciate it tho!
JF
Once again, another excellent Track-by-Track Review of a KISS album. I like how you take the songs apart and discuss the instruments, songwriting, studio sessions, and set lists. Also like hearing about all the stuff going on during these periods. Going back to the fall of 1982, I remember when KISW did a "Smash or Trash" feature of the song "Creatures of the Night". DJ Steve Slayton tried to promote it in a positive way, stating on-air, that this was a whole different KISS than what listeners were used to. I also find it interesting that Vincent Cusano became Vinnie Vincent (The Ankh), Ace Frehley's replacement in KISS, and that eventually lead to "Lick It Up", the Vinnie Vincent Invasion, and, ultimately, the creation of Slaughter. Thank you. Looking forward to more videos...
Steve Slayton....talk about a Seattle radio legend! Glad he tried, but KISW never did fully embrace Kiss, which is too bad really.
Oddly enough they did at least initially embrace the Vinnie Vincent Invasion. I remember Do You Wanna Make Love all over Metalshop in 86 with a special promo Vinnie recorded for KISW as well.
Thanks for the kind words. Hope you dig our Unmasked epi which should drop soon!
I saw Kiss on the Creatures tour at the Worcester Centrum (MA), a small-ish arena, probably only at about 2/3rds capacity. I was bummed that Ace had quit, but I was stoked to see them with Eric Carr on drums, and man...Kiss kicked ass! It really felt like they were fighting to regain their Hard Rock Street Cred and ditch the whole "family entertainment" vibe that began around the Dynasty tour (which I also saw...I'm old!). I gotta hand it to them: they may have been dispirited by low album/ticket sales, but they didn't half-ass it once they hit the stage!
The opening act was Night Ranger, supporting their debut album. They impressed me as well, Jack Blades was a little dynamo on stage!
I'm enjoying your videos, and I appreciate the casual, off-the-cuff rapport you guys have! Keep up the good work, dudes.
Thanks so much!
Consider yourself a lucky man. The Creatures tour never touched the NW here. By all accounts, they were indeed out for blood that tour!
On a side note, I used to get my Kiss bootleg cassettes from a guy in Somerset,MA who used to see them in Worcester. If memory serves me correct that's where they filmed the Turn On The Night video. I think that's what he said.
You guys Are Amazing Apreate your wisdom
Interesting discussion. Going from Unmasked to (Music from) The Elder to Creatures. Talk about a schizophrenic band at the time. But the musical variety is one of the appeals of the KISS soap opera.
Btw, a well-known song that has a similar fade-out, then fade back in long before I Love it Loud was the Beatles' Helter Skelter. Speaking of I Love it Loud, the guttural chant is a direct rip-off melodically of the Waitresses single I Know What Boys Like, which also came out in 1982.
Love the reviews guys. Just recently got hooked.
That's the kind of insight we love! Helter Skelter...yep. good one!
Thanks for watching, we truly appreciate it!
Creatures Of The Night is rounded out very well by Steve Farris' lead guitar work which was fire, like his frets was on fire! The beat, the picking, Paul's soaring vocals and even the horror movie backing vocals transported KISS into the 1980'S, finally.
Saint And Sinner came in rough, picking hard on an axe, someone is punishing that guitar and then the drums by Carr come bashing in like John Bonham was sitting in the session. Hard & Heavy, it's not a single. Gene screams it out, his voice cracks a few time when he gets to the "I ain't got the time..." lyric, he's cracking a little bit. Gene tells us he's getting off of the Pop music carousel, he tells us "we" (executives maybe or critics) can go to Hell. Simmons also having fun ripping the bass here too.
Stanley's Keep Me Comin' is a vocal workout for him. One thing is they were still in half step down tuning for some of this record, a couple songs are in standard tuning, they would be plain standard tuning for the next 4 albums. Reaching new heights. Another Led Zeppelin feeling rhythm thru out this song has Hard and Heavy beats and gets a thumbs up all around! Some great rhythm guitar work and some wild solo licks as well by Vincent.
Creatures Of The Night is the golden nugget of side one, but it's Rock And Roll Hell that gets the silver star. It's heavy pounding beats, it's great use of just bass in the first verse, Simmons invites you to sing with him, this is an anthem for the arenas! Lead guitar by Robben Ford. Showing he has Metal chops and can choke a string and give it that Frehley feel, love the solo in this song, he steals the song being a Blue/Jazz guy, showing off just a bit and I bet he didn't even sweat. Simmons provides another good driving song for the album, with the help of writers Bryan Adams & Jim Vallance.
A couple of real pounders finish up the album, Killers comes on fades in and we're off into this guy riffing up his axe as Simmons breaks out some lyrics. The tempo is set by the intro, it's gonna move, drums come in and Carr has no hesitations, a few fills here and there and he's blowing out your speakers. Another haunting tune from Simmons & Vincent. Song is based in the key of E and it's use of Bb is Metal!!!! When you mix E chords with Bb chords you get that Sabbath feel, darkness a Simmons growl and some Vinnie Vincent lead guitar and those background vocals that just screech like little demon children, NICE!!! This song don't let up, don't drive with this one on, you might get pulled over for speeding.
Gene's final contribution to the album is one co-written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, these guys could write anthem songs all day if they had to. War Machine is a marching song, coming to your town and stomping all of it to the ground, like Godzilla raging across Tokyo. Heavy deep guitar intro leading us into the drums and rest of the band coming in, but it's not a speed song, it's played at times too damn fast in the live shows in the 80'S, that could have been Carr, he played fast live.
The basic riff itself isn't hard to learn, I picked it up very quick, the chords for the verses and chorus' were easy to get, this Hard Heavy song was make my buddies heads turn when I ripped it out for them at practice. The trickiest part of this song is the chord structure at the and of the solo, it's jumps into this chord changing thing that had me moving back the needle lots of times, getting close, but never got it perfect till a year or so of trying.. Speaking of lead guitar...
Vinnie again wammy bars down, up and out into the night sky with is solo here, it sounds like the background for a war movie sometimes. Too many notes for Gene?? Maybe, Vinnie plays a lot of notes and he plays fast. He wasn't Frehley. I believe he didn't try to be. Having met him some years later at a KISS convention before 1995, I did get to talk to him for about 10 minutes, one on one which was very rare. He was cool and autographed some pics for me and we talked guitars and tours and songs.
I told him how sad I thought it was that he and the band couldn't work out their differences, cuz they write great songs when they're writing. I told him for all the things he did with his Invasion I bet it's still the work he did in the early 80'S with KISS he's still making money from and he should be grateful to have had that once in a lifetime chance, twice as it turned out. Maybe someday they'd forgive and forget and work on new material again. He stood there and just looked at me and asked me if I worked for Simmons, LOL!!! We laughed and shook hands. I gave him my phone number, told him I play bass better than Dana Strum, plus I write as well and he should call me if he ever puts another band together., LOL!!!
Vinnie was ok in my book, he's gone off the deep end lately, he never did call me, but his legacy, for what ever it was or is, it can't be denied they needed him as much as he needed them at this point. For all the headaches he would give them, he was worth keeping around.
Creatures will endeavor, a very high point in the bands catalog. The tour skipped the midwest for the most part, no chicago, no milwaukee and only one night in detroit. Look who they had open for them, Night Ranger, they're great back then, but not right for a KISS show??? Maybe. The Plasmatics???? Molly Hatchet??? Motley Crue by the end of the tour on the west coast. Plus for some reason, bible thumpers from the south followed them around everywhere. This album didn't set or sit well with the south. They didn't play in the deep south that tour.
Not sure why all of a sudden this album really triggered something in all those bible thumpers to tour with the group. The cover? The lyrics?? The beats?? I think it was the title and the cover, I never played it backwards, I don't know of any hidden messages. The whole K.I.S.S. ya know the ...Satan's Service thing was going on, but that was old news. In 1983 there was a rumor of a movie had it's theme song written by KISS, which they never did and I remember in the late 80'S magazines still asking about it and Gene & Paul would tell the no, we never did that.
Something Wicked This Way Comes, was a movie, it's a song title for a song not from that soundtrack. Whatever it was all about it's been off the books for a long time now. The 10th anniversary tour was a drag, they had no audience here still except for the few of us who actually had the new album, radio didn't help here much. No one played ILIL or Killers.
To compete with the young bands and try to look normal, well that was it, time to look normal, but when you're KISS what does that mean? Music wise, they were on their way to producing some Hard Heavy albums and keep up with the times, look wise, well that needed some work. :)
Awesome show, Peter & Jason!🤘👍🤘👍 Creatures of the night is a great hard rocking album.🤘🤘
If an album in this style had been recorded and released earlier, instead of "The elder", Ace Frehley would most likely not have left Kiss (Ace said this in numerous interviews).
I’m not a fan of the style how Vinie Vincent plays lead guitar….
BUT one thing needs to be said:
Vinie was an excellent songwriter for Kiss and in this way he saved Kiss, so to speak. His influence in songwriting made Creatures of the night and Lick it up (later some songs on Revange) very good rock/ metal albums.
My list for Creatures:
War machine
Rock N Roll hell
Creatures of the night
I love it loud
Saint and sinner
Killer
Keep me coming
Danger
I still love you
Keep on rocking and greetings from Germany 🇩🇪🤘👍🎸🌎🇺🇸
I Still love you would make a great James Bond song
Tommy Lee of Motley Crue said Eric Carr's drums on CON blew him away and couldn't figure out how they got to sound so huge.
the drums on Dr feelgood album are inspired by that sound
Paul & Adam Mitchell bring Danger to the table as the next Metal offering. Booming, double kicked, good driving, bass bopping & guitar riffing tune! Paul's vocals again going to new heights, and sounding top notch. Vinnie playing some soaring notes, ripping out some scales and a touch of harmony leads too. There was something about this record though, it was bright and it used a lot of reverb and it echoed in the speakers after the songs were done.
When the CD, (first pressing) came out, it lacked a bit, it was when the 1997 remasters finally came out it had the power. But what about this recording, it was mostly the same band, the subjects were dark and the music was Heavy. The drums were loud and proud and the guitars were louder, the vocals were forceful and bringing it! Was it the amps they were using? 24 track recordings, not just 8 anymore and still analog at the time.
Mic placement by engineers and production by Jackson, took this album in directions this band hadn't gone before. Imagine what Jackson could have done with KISS back in 1974 for the first two albums, OH WOW!!!! Paul's use of a B.C. Rich Leopard guitar and Vincent's Jackson guitars were also a factor in sound. Hard to say if Stanley used the Rich guitar for everything, but it did have a different sound that the Ibanez and Gibsons.
Side two kicked off, literally kicked of with the overly reverbed drums banged out by Carr into Simmons anthemlike screams of Oh Yeah followed by the band coming in with another so simple song to play, how wasn't it ever done before??? No ever seeing this on MTV, I'm not sure I ever saw the video for this until KISS Exposed came out. It was he first song I learned on this record and I was amazed at how easy it was to do.
From it's B chord to A chord verses to it's 1,4,5 chords in the chorus and throw in a drop down of G-D D-A and stop for the next verse, NICE! Fun song, slow, but fun. Heavy no doubt, a single, I guess it was! I might have gone with Title song as the first single, even Killers was a single, not really a dance song, LOL!!! And not trying to be I'm sure.
Also when this album came out, no one knew Frehley never played a single note on it. So when I'm listening to it, in my headphones and wondering what's the new stage gonna look like, How great Frehley sounds on this and all the kind of things a young guitar guy would dream up about the new tour, it's that Robben Ford on lead guitar for one of the best Power Ballads on the 80'S. I Still Love You brought to you by Stanley & Vincent. Sky tearing vocals by Stanley, super heavy guitar riffs just in the rhythm alone, much less the fret destroying lead work by Ford.
I've owned so many copies Creatures is #1
Yep certainly my favorite 80s Kiss album! JF
Eric Carr brought the power to the song with his drumming and his bass guitar work as well. It may not seem like it, but this is a very Bluesy jam in E minor, it's not 1,4,5 chords, but it's taking a very surreal turn into dreamworld. Paul sings softly at first, but as the music builds and the distortion gains and his pain can be felt as the speakers belt out his frustration and guilt and disorientation, cuz he's not sure what he should do either, we hear this poor guy screaming his guts out over some broad and ya can close your eyes and see he's standing on a street corner, at night in the rain and it just pours on him as he looks up to the moon and yells I Still Love You!!!! This song should have been on broadway!!! A full blown musical built up around it, LOL!!!
A very Led Zeppelin thing going on here too. The soft and delicateness of the beginning, very Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You. That was acoustic, but live it was electric and when the drums come in they're not easy or soft, the drums come pounding in like a 400 pound drunk guy tumbling down the stairs after too many beers. That alone tells you, you are in for a treat you have never heard before. At least, not from KISS. This again, was new territory, not just this song, but the whole album, that's why I give it a Sgt. Pepper status, they never hit this plateau again for a long time. Sales or not, not meaning sales, gold or platinum, a great album is a great album, those of us who bought it and heard it, we knew what we had. I told everyone who I knew and even these days, if ya don't have Creatures... in your Metal collection, then you're missing out, bigly. LOL!!! :)
The Black Album always had an amazing drum sound imo I noticed it on this too really big n crisp throughout plus great songs totally right about the opener and how the drums kick in really like Danger thanks for opening my ears fellas!
Great review guys!
So much to say about this great album, so here I go...
I love Eric Carr's drumming and his time with KISS, but I have to give Gene the MVP for his awesome vocals and bass playing. SAS and Killer were switched for the '85 re-release, but it doesn't matter cuz they're both... killer songs. My fav though is Danger and probably #6 for their entire career. Most list it or KMC as the worst or least favs on COTN, but I think fast Paul is the best Paul. KMC is also great. I'm not a musician and don't have the ear for music like most others, like you guys, which is why I don't hear the LZ influence everyone always mentions about KMC and Radar For Love (or GAYCT on Animalize), but if LZ influenced Paul, what's the harm?
I Love the ILIL video, still their best.
I've often wondered if releasing Killers in the USA would have helped propel sales for COTN, like how Animalize Live Unc. helped with Animalize sales (I think it went double platinum)???
It's odd to see Gene have 5 vs. Paul's 4 song writing credits... until you realize Paul has 8 writing credits in '82 when you include Killers.
I bought the '85 BK cover album first, so I actually like that one better, plus it gives Eric and Bruce and extra spotlight.
Finally, a tie-in for you, since you always come up with one... Bryan Adams co-wrote 3 Kiss songs released in '82. The lyrics of his '84 smash ballad hit "Heaven" features three early '80s Kiss song titles... "Only You", ""Keep Me Comin'", and "You're All That I Want".
Also, "Danger" features "Under The Gun" and "My Way"... and the lyrics for those other two songs also feature all three song titles in them. I guess Paul is a recycler!
Alright, that's about it for this comment.
Keep up the great work and thanks!
Great insight! Had no clue about those Bryan Adam's songs. What a connection! Now I'll have to listen to them!
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Bryan Adams Link - he plays acoustic guitar on war machine
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You see Bryan Adams face at the end of the video.
Cheers 🍻👍🤘
From the first glance you take at this album's cover, you know it's gonna be different. When you look into the eyes of the guys and say, oooo, that's cool. When ya flip it over and check out the song titles, those don't sound like Pop songs. The jacket was black with silver writing on it. The cover had a very evil approach to it, all it needed was some werewolves in the background, drooling over some big breasted skank about to be devoured, like the ones in the Hammer films with Christopher Lee, that would have been great on the back. The title says it all, this wasn't a normal KISS album. It was a message, to everyone who liked them and the people who didn't like them, "We're not DONE!"
This album IS a Sgt. Pepper album, it's not lacking in anything and there's not a single keyboard on it. This is right up there with Black Sabbath's Heaven And Hell album from 1980. There were Metal bands that were Pop Metal, Van Halen, they were Hard and they had their share of Pop hits on the radio. KISS must have gotten it in their heads, stop trying to be a Pop band, somehow Bob Kulick's message got thru to Gene and Paul. They came in with a handful of Hard Rock compositions that when mixed with Carr's uptempo double kicks, made KISS sound different. Now, they weren't Progressive anymore. They weren't Pop, they dove in head first into METAL!!!!
It was the new phase in Hard Rock that of course got over looked by all the peers of hippy free love dope smoking san francisco tree hugging Rolling Stone magazine reading elites from New York were. They never got it, those are the same people who gave Jethro Tull a Grammy for Best Heavy Metal Album in the early 90'S. Those nimrods were on top of it. I LUV TULL!!!!
When you combine Paul's perked up vocals, he's really bringing it here on every track, Gene is too, not singing, screaming and in full phased growl in a few places. We could go on for a few hours about the sound of the drums, pounded to precision by Carr, from the opening full onslaught of fills coming down the kit into Creatures Of The Night, the obvious booming of I Love It Loud, how did they do that and why didn't they ever do it again??? This album needed a sequel, it did sort of get one eventually. The guitar chores shared by a lots of peoples here, Vinnie Vincent, Paul, Gene and bunch of other studio guys brought in, I wonder why Bob Kulick wasn't on this list? Imagine what he would have done with some of these songs.
When I put the needle down the first time on side one, just as Paul started to sing the first lyric, I picked it up and had to play over and over the intro by Carr. Almost wore out a CD backing it up and playing it over and over with my headphones on, LOL!!! Never hears a song, a KISS song start like that, the power coming from my stereo must have moved my father as well as me cuz he came into my room and gave me a "What the hell are you listening to so god damn loud looks" cuz he was watching the news, OY! You ever try being a KISS fan living with an Army Ranger father who owned his own sheet metal shop?? I worked with metal, I still do, I'm a welder/fabricator by day job. So Metal wasn't so far fetched for me, I grew up with Metal in my hands.
Paul's double picking on his rhythm is great, it was new for them, they usually hit full bar chords and let them ring or strummed or ripped a riff a little bit, here it was full blown double picking, very Metal. Rush never did that, but Priest did, so did the Scorpions. What was to become Metallica's bread and butter over the next 15 years or so was being done here and the melody, was, haunting. The subject was great, who's hiding in the shadows, of all the songs on this album this is the one that needed a god damn video made for it!!!! Could you imagine????
You guys could have people come on and hear it for the first time
Isn’t Jerry Cantrell from Spanaway?
He sure is!
Can you guys please do a album review on Psycho circus & when you do if you do ? Can you please send me a direct link to it please ? Thank You Sir
Yes we're doing that one in a couple weeks actually! As long as you're subscribed it should pop up in your feed. I'll try to comment here to letcha know though
@@anywayyousliceitreviews AWESOME ! So on a scale 1-10 What do you give it ? I give it a 8 I feel it has some good KISS STYLE 70'S Songs IMHO ! 1. PSYCHO CIRCUS , 2. WITHIN , 3. DREAMIN, 4. INTO THE VOID , 5. JOURNEY OF
Heck that's nearly half the album & I don't have it here in front of me !
Honestly I'd give it a 4. Although there are a couple of great tunes, it's certainly not one of my favorites. More on that in our episode!
16:30 that would be me 😅
Didnt Porcaro play on Peg or am I trippin?
Rick Moratta, pretty sure 🥁
@@anywayyousliceitreviews oh ya your right just watched the Aja doc