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Destroyer | 
| Artist: Kiss
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  145 reviews
Sales Rank: 545731
Media: Audio Cassette
UPC: 042282414946
EAN: 0042282414946
ASIN: B000001FBN
Release Date: October 17, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Detroit Rock City | | • | King of the Night Time World | | • | God of Thunder | | • | Great Expectations | | • | Flaming Youth | | • | Sweet Pain | | • | Shout It out Loud | | • | Beth | | • | Do You Love Me |
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Amazon.com essential recording
With their 1976 album Destroyer, the band's fifth release in two years, Kiss began to expand their fan base by shedding a bit of their edge, taking on a more melodic sound and a less menacing image. The Peter Criss ballad "Beth," written for his wife, is the most sentimental love ballad the group ever recorded, and songs like "Detroit Rock City" and "Shout It Out Loud" had the kind of arena-rock punch that kept subscriptions to the Kiss Army at an all-time high. Despite, or because of, the blatantly commercial direction the band seemed to be heading in, 1976 was the most creatively rewarding period in its lengthy career. In addition to releasing Destroyer, the band pumped out the equally touted album Rock and Roll Over, which included the pounding "Take Me" and the groovin' "Calling Dr. Love." The only finer year was 1978, when the band starred in the classic B-grade flick Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park. --Jon Wiederhorn
Album Description
Digitally remastered Japanese reissue of the band's top 201976 album in a miniaturized LP sleeve limited to theinitial pressing only. Nine tracks, including the top 10smash 'Beth', plus the classics 'Do You Love Me', 'Shout ItOut Loud' and 'Detroit Rock C
Album Details
Due to demand, an encore pressing of the limited LP style sleeve edition from Japan are to be available for a very limited time. Don't miss out this go round.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 140 more reviews...
 Hard to top the success of "Alive!"...... but KISS found a way August 11, 2000
R. Gorham
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
THE BAND: Gene Simmons (Gene Klein), Paul Stanley (Stanley Eisen), Ace Frehley (Paul Frehley), Peter Criss (Peter Crisscoula).
THE DISC: Released 3/15/76. Recorded at The Record Plant, NYC. 9 songs clocking in at approximately 34 minutes. A classic album cover painted by Ken Kelly. Originally released on Casablanca Records in 1975; this remastered edition was released in 1997 on Mercury's label. Much improved sound in my book (deeper bass guitars and crisper highs). Liner notes are slim - a 3 page fold out with song titles, writing credits, song times, lyrics to one song ("Detroit Rock City"), and a KISS Army logo. Underneath the disc on the inside cover, there's an informative 5 paragraph history of what the band was going through at the time.
COMMENTS: A classic studio album from KISS, and easily one of their best efforts. Decades later, it still rocks like no other KISS album. How to keep the momentum going...? New songs, new costumes, new feel, new producer... enter Bob Ezrin. A KISS album with a choir, orchestra and lots of sound effects. This was Ezrin's doing. Along with Paul and Gene each co-writing 4 songs, and Peter with 1, Ezrin helped co-write 7 with the band. Ezrin gave the album depth and a very theatrical and polished feel. I truly believe 7 of the 9 songs here are some of the best the band has ever written... the exceptions being "Great Expectations" and "God Of Thunder" (always a better song in concert). Not many KISS albums (outside of "Alive!) can claim that. "Flaming Youth", "Sweet Pain", "Detroit Rock City", "King of the Night Time World" and "Do You Love Me" are all hard rock classics. The unexpected ballad "Beth" is Peter's best song (earning KISS a People's Choice Award in 1977). "Shout it out loud" was a tune created in the same vein as "Rock & Roll All Nite".... one of those anthems written for the youth. "Destroyer" is filled with great songs - a KISS studio classic.
THE BEST KISS ALBUM IN THE STUDIO? March 30, 2006
Kevin Dobbs "dragonboots" (Perth Western Australia)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
From the get go the big difference is the production. Thanks to the added magic of a proper producer in Bob Ezrin KISS finally evolved into a mythical beast rather than the raw beast they were up to this point. Money in the pocket I guess frees up artistic licence. Despite the foray into uncharted waters they swam back to shore quickly after this (despite the success) and cranked up again for subsequent releases. Shame really cause they really do have more to say musically than often they end up saying (apart from a few rare exceptions). Other than the orchestrations and effects, the major change is the lyrical content, being more around the trappings of fame and their kabuki characters being explored rather than sexual gratification. The evolution of KISS can really be heard in the cinematic "Detroit Rock City" and co headliner "King of The Night time World", "God of Thunder" in its eeriness and backwards masking and the gloriously vain "Do You Love Me" complete with chiming tubular bells and trash can drums. Nine tracks in all. All classics in KISS terms.
One of the must owns of this band, and something everyone else should hear!!!!!!!!!!!!! March 8, 2006
Rico (Indianapolis, IN)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Alright, I have recently gotten back involved and reclaimed my posistion in the kiss army after four years of absence. I have been a kiss fan my whole life but after the fairwell tour I lost my interest in the " Hottest band in the world", I am 19 to some that is young, but after a breakup with the women I loved for two years I had to find myself, it was a time for self exporation if you will!
I went searching for things in my life that had made me happy before I met her, and kiss among other things had popped up in my head, I had sold all of my albums and the only things i had left of kiss was all the posters magizines and movies that i had boxed away, I broke all of that stuff out and started really getting into it again, and I remember why they were my favorite band.
Ok, now that story has relevance i promise because once I was suited up to join the battle once again for the Kiss army, I went out and Destroyer was the first album I purchased again.
so how does this album rate, I gave it five stars becuase there are so many classics here, Beth, shout it out Loud, God of Thunder, Detroit Rock City, Flaming Youth, and King of the nighttime world, there are a few songs on here that I dont really like as much as others but they are still good, Do you love me, great expectations, sweet pain, these songs are good but they dont have the power that flaming youth or shout it out loud or god of thunder have,
so I will rate each song from 1-10
1.detroit rock city- kiss classic 10
2.King of the Night TIme world- nice song pretty hard 8
3.God Of Thunder- this song is probably one of the best songs kiss ever made, its hard pounding gene does a good job vocally and the solo is decent 10
4.Great Expectations- 5 this is where the album starts to go a little soft.
5.Flaming youth- 8 this is a great hard song, ace helped write this one and it kicks ass,
6.Sweet Pain- 6 soft but melodic I like it better then Great expectations.
7.Shout it out Loud- must I really say anything this is probably the third most known kiss song out there, its a rally song and it rocks and Ace destroys the competition with this solo.
8.Beth- Ok, so I have been bashing the soft songs it seems like but this is the exception this song is the most powerful kiss song, rankin with the likes of God gave rockn roll to you 2, and Rock n roll all night, it gets a 10 and its the only song peter sung on the whole album.
9. Do you love me- 8 a nice finish to the album soft but not bad its pretty slow but its ok, its a good song,
10. the bonus is pretty stupid I think bob ezrin just wanted to who knows what he was thinking, anyways, pick this up it your new to kiss or if you dont have it, its one of the best, most say its the best but thats false its one of the best, there is a special gun out there that is better then this one haha,
Ultimate Rock & Roll from my childhood November 3, 2005
Ice Chick (Baltimore, MD)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I remember sitting next to the stereo at 6 years old with the volume turned down listening to this LP because my Grandmother was convinced that Kiss were devil worshipers. This album has forever remained my favorite all-time rock & roll album. It represents everything cool about the late 70's...rebellion and just REAL rock. Gene Simmons seemed to have more vocals on this LP than the others, and perhaps even though he scared the hell out of me, I like him the most. Great Expectations will always remain my favorite Kiss song, as the lyrics are haunting. If you haven't had the chance to hear this in completion - you must!!
 Too bombastic and slick for Kiss, borders on parody April 29, 2005
Chet Fakir (DC)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As one reviewer in the seventies said, "The only album whose title tells you what to do with it." Now I think that's a bit harsh but... Kiss have always scorred a fairly high mark on the cheesometer but when they are raw and energetic such as on the Alive album they are a fun and rocking listen. Unfortunately for producer they chose Bob Ezrin of Alice Cooper fame, Blue Oyster Cult and later the producer/ruiner of Pink Floyds epic showtune monstrosity The Wall. Bob might have worked for Alice but not Floyd and his over the top production style is completely unsuited for Kiss. He proves his unworthyness by tarting Destroyer up with tons of reverb, choirs and strings?!?! Now on the plus side this was the best sounding guitar Kiss got in the studio to date. On the down side this is the album that brought us the goddawful ballad and hit "Beth." Oh what a stinking pile of non-rocking poop that song is. Come on Peter, Kiss were about partying every day, and screwing as many groupies as humanly possible. Nobody wants to hear a sentimental and cloying love song to your wife. What the hell does that have to do with Kiss or rock and roll?
At it's worst moments of over-produced hell Destroyer comes off as pretentious and silly. For example the ridiculous song Great Expectations has this huge chorus and strings while the lyrics are about what Gene Simmons is going to do to a female fan. It reminds me of the scene in Spinal Tap when Nigel Tufnel plays a beautiful piano piece and when asked the title says "Lick My Love Pump". Its like watching a Las Vegas porno version of Mozart's Don Giovanni. The cheesometer is pegging the red! Were Kiss that unselfconsciously pompous or were they masters of high camp? Sometimes it seems as though Bob Ezrin is poking fun at Kiss, their fans and rock and roll pretentions when he aggrandizes simple rock songs with layers of chorus, strings, etc. If Kiss ditched the stings and scraped off the other Ezrin provided gloop, told Peter to keep his "love" songs for his solo album and kept the good guitar sound, this would get a higher rating. As it is though it borders on seventies rock parody.
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