| Dressed to Kill |  | Artist: Kiss
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music
Buy Used: $5.98
Rating:  91 reviews
Sales Rank: 629990
Media: Vinyl
UPC: 042282414816
EAN: 0042282414816
ASIN: B00008FJYG
Release Date: October 17, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Room Service | | • | Two Timer | | • | Ladies in Waiting | | • | Getaway | | • | Rock Bottom | | • | C'mon and Love Me | | • | Anything for My Baby | | • | She | | • | Love Her All I Can | | • | Rock and Roll All Nite |
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After the misstep of Hotter Than Hell, Kiss recaptures the energy of their first album and go one better with Dressed to Kill. Obviously the most well-known song off this album is "Rock and Roll All Nite," but there's a lot of other good material here as well, including the upbeat "Room Service," the groove-heavy "C'mon and Love Me," and the sensual "She." Though Kiss would not become superstars until their next album (that would be Destroyer), Dressed to Kill shows them headed in the right direction, having hit on the elusive formula of heavy chords, strong rhythms, and a determination not to take themselves too seriously. --Genevieve Williams
Album Description
Digitally remastered Japanese reissue of the band's 1975& top 40 album in a miniaturized LP sleeve limited to theinitial pressing only. 10 tracks, including 'Rock And RollAll Nite', 'Rock Bottom' and 'She'. 1998 Mercury release.
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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 An Underappreciated Masterpiece From A Truly Timeless Band March 11, 2000
Taxl Rose (Anarica)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
All the people who say Kiss was not talented, that they were for 9-14 year old boys, who dismissed them as a joke, I wonder if they've noticed that Kiss is still selling millions of albums after over 25 years of the best. This album is really a great piece of music. Paul Stanley shines throughout, but especially on Room Service, Rock Bottom, C'mon and Love Me and Anything FOr My Baby. Gene is his usual outstanding self on Two Timer, Ladies In Waiting, and She, possibly the heaviest song the band ever recorded. Peter Criss' drumming is good as always and his lead vocal on "Getaway" is really cool. Ace's guitar playing is what makes the album, though. He is the greatest guitarist ever born and he gets so little respect. But the crown jewel is "Rock And Roll All Night", an ageless anthem that will play on throughout the next millenium. And now that Kiss has decided to call it quits, their music and impact on the world will stand undiminished and live on through the ages at truly the greatest and most influental band ever.
A Different Sound January 23, 2006
D. Haralson (Jackson, MS USA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
"Dressed To Kill," Kiss' third album in a little over a year, was quite a bit different than the two that preceeded it. Neil Bogart, the owner of the label, was upset that his only act had not yet produced a "hit single." He decided to produce this album in hopes of changing that. Since the group was lacking in the songs department, they locked themselves up until they wrote enough songs to make an album. The result is some of Kiss's best songs and some very mediocre ones.
1. Room Service-4/5. This song from Paul is very upbeat and bouncy. His vocals are great here, but the song is a little too happy-sounding to be perfect.
2. Two Timer-4/5. A typically dark and heavy Gene song. The lyrics aren't very good, but the music is fantastic and Gene's vocals are great.
3. Ladies In Waiting-4/5. Great music and vocals from Gene. The lyrics are a little lacking on this song too. A good rocker.
4. Getaway-4/5. An odd sounding Ace song. His songs are usually the heaviest ones. This one is to lightweight and bouncy. Peter's vocals make up for the mediocre music.
5. Rock Bottom-5/5. A beautiful acoustic intro from Ace moves right into an excellent rocker from Paul. This is one of those overlooked Kiss Klassics. This one of Paul's heaviest. Excellent.
6. Come On and Love Me-5/5. A great song from Paul feauturing him playing the lead guitar solos. He handles them very well. The vocals and lyrics are excellent.
7. Anything For My Baby-3/5. This is where things begin to go wrong. This is a very weak song from Kiss. It doesn't have any energy and the band sounds bored performing it. Probably just a filler song.
8. She-5/5. One of Gene's old Wicked Lester songs. Musically, it sounds like Blue Oyster Cult. It is very heavy with a slow beat. The lyrics don't make much sense, but Gene sings them perfectly. One of the best of all Kiss songs.
9. Love Her All I Can-4/5. Not too bad. The music is cool and Ace's solos are perfect. The lyrics are cool, but the verses are sung by Gene and Paul together in an odd key and it doesn't work real well.
10. Rock and Roll All Nite-5/5. Unless you have been living under a rock for the past thirty years, you know this song. Great party anthem. It is WAY overplayed though. Otherwise a good song.
This album is a little too happy and bouncy for me to consider a Kiss Klassic. However, it does have a few songs that no fan should be without. Overall, recommended for hardcore fans, but for casual fans, stick with a collection.
1975: A Pivital Year For KISS May 2, 2000
R. Gorham
4 out of 4 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 3/19/75. Recorded at Electric Lady Studios (NYC). 10 songs clocking in at approximately 32 minutes (amazingly short in this day and age... 8 of the 10 songs were under the 3 minute mark). A classic black and white photo of the band in their face paint and leisure suits standing on a NYC corner is simply classic (not to mention Peter's buck saddle shoes and Gene's clogs). 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 2 page fold out with song titles, writing credits and times. 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: "Dressed To Kill" was the band's 3rd album in 13 months. Where I have a hard time listening to Kiss' 1973 debut and "Hotter Than Hell" (due to a very slow/labored feel to the songs and extremely poor sound production), I have absolutely no problem sitting down and listening to "Dressed To Kill" for repeated spins. Neil Bogart was at the helm for "Dressed To Kill" (Kiss' first 2 albums were produced by Ken Kerner and Richard Wise)... maybe that's the main difference. The band's first big hit is here - "Rock & Roll All Nite" - and it's a worthy anthem for our youth (even 30 years later). The song symbolized the inimitable relationship between Kiss and their hardcore fans. But, the deeper tracks on "Dressed" are totally captivating. The fast paced "Room Service", "Getaway", and "Love Her All I Can" simply don't let up. The slower songs like the now classic "She", "Two Timer" and "Ladies In Waiting" are all Gene Simmons penned songs about the opposite sex (surprised?). Still, their beats are unforgettable. And perhaps the most daring song, "Rock Bottom" with it's delicate acoustic intro, mixes the soft and hard side of Kiss. 4 songs from this album made it to the infamous "Alive!" album released in the same year. 1975 was a pivital year for Kiss - their unique brand of music entertainment was in high demand, but Kiss was shut out of major concert tours because they routinely performed better than the top-billed acts. Greater things were to come in the same year with "Alive!" being released - catapulting them into rock stardom. I love "Dressed To Kill" and it is easily my favorite "early" Kiss.
Over 30 years and it still rocks and roll all nite!!! March 3, 2006
Tommy.M (Canada,New Brunswick)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Situation;KISS is an unknown band that made is appearance 2 years earlier,after two respectable album sales KISS`s 3rd album,the last from the pre-Alive!sequence their record breaking album Alive that would follow up months latter.Dressed to kill is the record that came out after hotter than hell,and as you can expect it has better sound.Many good tracks here rarities like classics.
Songs;The most known song on the album is `rock n roll all nite`the original version this song would become big after they performed it on Alive.Many songs are about love like;c mon and love me,love her all i can,anything for my baby,she,ladies in waiting.As i said earlier it has way better sound than hotter than hell but its less heavy.
They took some stuff from the wicked lester era and putted it here `She`,`love her all i can`were co-wrote by Gene with Steve Coronel and it fits very well here.They took these songs because the record company wanted another album and a that time KISS were running out of songs.
So they came out with `she`and `love her all i can` and they fit well on dressed to kill.Its a pre alive album so definetly a must have for fans.They didnt rush anything they did a simple album with short time little more than 30 minutes but the result is awesome.
Dressed to kill was also the band`s first album to reach the top 40 and it went gold like the other begening albums and it has 10 tracks that are KISS classics.While hotter than hell was more about their basic rock n roll they got fancy on this one,short running time and tracks under 3 minutes but the result is the same ,a great kiss album.The band was worried with its airtime because it was so short but in the end it was great.
The list of songs is;
1.Room service
2.Two timer
3.Ladies in waiting
4.Get away
5.Rock bottom
6.C mon and love me
7.Anything for my baby
8.She
9.Love her all i can
10.Rock n roll all nite
Some of the songs here would be on Alive in a few months this is the last album until they get famous as Alive would get quadruple platinum and destroyer triple platinum.An album fans shoudnt be without ,really good, awesome you will love it!
 Dressed To Kill (1975) February 22, 2005
Mr. S. St Thomas (UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I give this album 5 stars for its recording, which is certainly one of the best sounding KISS albums ever released. Clean and tight, the whole album is a mini-studio masterpiece, and worthy of any remastering that can be done to it. But it doesn't really need it, it's a superb sounding album.
I give it 3 stars for its material though.
If the preceding album Hotter Than Hell(1974) had sounded like Dressed To Kill, you would have a benchmark of a great KISS album that all others could be compared to. There's 10 songs on Hotter Than Hell, and there are 10 songs that are great, let down by engineering and recording. There aren't as many to choose from on Dressed To Kill, but it does sound great regardless.
I'm not all that brushed up on Kiss History to know. I know enough that by 1976, people listed as KISS members weren't always on that album, but if there was a problem before this, maybe it shows up on Dressed To Kill. One thing that's very noticeable is that Simmons and Frehley take a backseat to Paul Stanley on this album, and I think it remained that way until the original group became defunct. I say this because I don't hear Simmons and Frehley coming up with as great material as they did on the first two albums, and Stanley supplies some good, but filler material in this absence. And they never were the same.
Despite Simmons 'sleazy tongue-in-cheek side', what he had provided KISS on their first two albums were some of their best riffs, and to my ears, he's the better singer of the Stanley & Simmons partnership. What he lacks lyrically, and what his persona provided as possible subject matter, is truly made up for with some of the meanest, and riff heavy material KISS has had. On Dressed To Kill, 'Two Timer', and 'Ladies In Waiting' are Simmons writing by the numbers, and this is where he heads for the next few years of KISS's rise. He comes up with some great tracks later on in their catalogue (Destroyer through Unmasked), but the majority tend to be Simmons working at 50%.
With Frehley is a similar situation. On the first and second albums, he wrote KISS 'standards', like 'Cold Gin' and 'Parasite'. By 1976, he seems to disappear almost entirely from writing for KISS at all, only to come back in 1977 with 'Shock Me' (singing his own songs for the first time), and in 1978 with 'Rocket Ride', and the must have 1978 solo album he did. But when it comes to Dressed To Kill, 'Getaway' is probably one of Frehley's most obscure songs. Sung by Peter Criss, it's probably Frehley's least known KISS track, his most ''unsuccessful'' (whatever that means), but it sounds like he put his all into the guitar solo. It sounds different than every other solo on this album. It's not a bad song by any means, and surrounded by better material it wouldn't sound as 'filler' as it sounds on DTK compared to his earlier material. Both Simmons and Frehley are a bit of a let down on this album, apart from 'She' (by Simmons and Coronel) which gets 5 stars, and is worth the purchase of this album, along with the 'classic' 'Rock and Roll All Nite' of course.
Another highlight is 'Rock Bottom' by Frehley and Stanley. Frehley's acoustic intro is much like what he would do on his own solo album with 'Fractured Mirror', and you have to wonder if whatever happened between 1975 and 1976, maybe indicated Frehley should have gone solo much earlier than 1978, because he had a lot going for him talent-wise. Stanley's contribution is one of the best songs on the album, and would sit just as well on the first two albums.
But then you get his other material, which just isn't as strong. 'Love Her All I Can' and 'Rock Bottom' are his two strongest songs on here, but the other material used to fill up the album just don't measure up to those two, and it's exactly where you need a Simmons or Frehley song equal to Staney's best to make something as good as Hotter Than Hell. Whatever happened I don't know, maybe they were just tired from slogging it out on the road. But whatever happened, it shows up on this album, and Stanley's dominance of the KISS writing chores begins to surface here. And Frehley's disappearance only to emerge about 10x times better than his band, and Simmons colouring by numbers, with the occasional 'Calling Dr.Love', 'Sweet Pain', or 'Christine Sixteen' making an appearance.
Buy it for 'She', Ace Frehley's guitar solos, and the songs mentioned in this review. And the sheer recording excellence of this album, which I dare say might be their best sounding album.
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