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Post by Orange on Mar 29, 2010 14:39:11 GMT -5
Alright we keep this thing rolling as we exit the 80's (and sadly exit the Eric Carr era of KISS) and roll into the 90's. This round is between the hard rocking "Revenge" and the Grunge laced "Carnival of Souls: The Finals Sessions" Revenge  1. Unholy 2. Take It Off 3. Tough Love 4. Spit 5. God Gave Rock N' Roll To You II 6. Domino 7. Heart Of Chrome 8. Thou Shalt Not 9. Every Time I Look At You 10. Paralyzed 11. I Just Wanna 12. Carr Jam 1981 (A bit of my Eric Carr bias here, but this drum solo is just incredible. Anybody who hasn't heard it search for it on Youtube, it's nothing short of amazing.) Carnival Of Souls: The Final Sessions  About This Album - According to their biography, Paul Stanley was deadset against doing this album, and this was Gene Simmon's brainchild. 1. Hate 2. Rain 3. Master And Slave 4. Childhood's End 5. I Will Be There 6. Jungle 7. In My Head 8. It Never Goes Away 9. Seduction Of The Innocent 10. I Confess 11. In The Mirror 12. I Walk Alone So which of these 90' KISS albums is superior? VOTE NOW!  |
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Mar 29, 2010 18:06:55 GMT -5
Revenge is my favorite KISS album, but Carnival of Souls is pretty damn good too.
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Post by Orange on Mar 29, 2010 18:08:33 GMT -5
Revenge is my favorite KISS album, but Carnival of Souls is pretty damn good too. Yeah I also like Carnival Of Souls, it's a departure from their usual sound but it is highly underrated IMO. Thanks for voting Bob! |
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Post by shiranui on Mar 29, 2010 19:26:02 GMT -5
Both are great, but I like Revenge just a bit more. I think "Domino" is the best song Gene Simmons has ever written.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Mar 29, 2010 20:10:37 GMT -5
 Their favorite KISS album is Alive III, since they're both on it.  |
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Post by Space Ace on Mar 29, 2010 23:11:44 GMT -5
Their favorite KISS album is Alive III, since they're both on it. awesome! i am having a really hard time deciding here. both are, to me, very un-kiss, but as has been said, both are in my opinion very underrated and very good. i am gonna go with revenge, and my tiebreaker is "everytime i look at you". great love song. |
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Post by Orange on Mar 30, 2010 22:22:08 GMT -5
Their favorite KISS album is Alive III, since they're both on it. awesome! i am having a really hard time deciding here. both are, to me, very un-kiss, but as has been said, both are in my opinion very underrated and very good. i am gonna go with revenge, and my tiebreaker is "everytime i look at you". great love song. Yeah I'll agree that both are underrated and two of my favorite KISS albums actually. Everytime I Look At You is one of my favorites on that disk, as is Paralyzed just for that riff, only Kulick could lay that down. |
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Post by Vampiro138 on Mar 31, 2010 0:25:59 GMT -5
i voted revenge, but it took me a long time to vote, i went back and listened to both albums a few times...Revenge won but by slightly and more so with how it kinda brought kiss into the 90's with its heavier sound. and the song writing was great on that album. and everytime i look at you is one of my favorite ballads of all time (i still love you coming in first)
i will say on carnival of souls, that album is a great great album, and is my favorite guitar album by KISS...the guitar work on it is just awe inspiring, and Bruce Kulick should have won a damn MVP award for his work on it. it continues the heavy sound of Revenge. only thing i felt it always lacked was good vocals on it from start to finish. i think if they spent more time on it by just a month it would have sounded better vocally. i dont know if its just the mix or what...but the vocals just sounds kinda off to me on alot of songs. however musically the album is the best thing KISS has ever done.
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Post by Orange on Mar 31, 2010 0:52:56 GMT -5
i voted revenge, but it took me a long time to vote, i went back and listened to both albums a few times...Revenge won but by slightly and more so with how it kinda brought kiss into the 90's with its heavier sound. and the song writing was great on that album. and everytime i look at you is one of my favorite ballads of all time (i still love you coming in first) i will say on carnival of souls, that album is a great great album, and is my favorite guitar album by KISS...the guitar work on it is just awe inspiring, and Bruce Kulick should have won a damn MVP award for his work on it. it continues the heavy sound of Revenge. only thing i felt it always lacked was good vocals on it from start to finish. i think if they spent more time on it by just a month it would have sounded better vocally. i dont know if its just the mix or what...but the vocals just sounds kinda off to me on alot of songs. however musically the album is the best thing KISS has ever done. Yeah I totally get what you mean about the vocals, I love the album but the vocals sound too, I don't know condensed or something. I'd love to hear some of that stuff live, but with Paul not liking the album that'll probably never happen; and it'd be weird to see KISS in makeup and costume blaring out Jungle (or it'd be incredibly awesome, one of those two ;D). Thanks for voting and replying so far everybody! |
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Post by Vampiro138 on Mar 31, 2010 21:09:48 GMT -5
i would love to hear them play Jungle live sometime...i know a KISS show these days dont really play ballads...but i would mark out if they played childhoods end...but only if its the version from the box set with the great bruce solo in it. alot of the vocals *looks at paul stanley* just seems mailed in...and some songs it sounds like hes singing through a plastic cup. either way, the guitar work on both the albums are really superior to anything else kiss has done musically. that 90's KISS line up will always be my favorite, Eric Singer has all the elements that peter and eric carr had and is the best drummer kiss has had, and bruce in my opinion is the best lead guitarist kiss ever had. right out of the gates on revenge with unholy you know this isnt the same kiss with the 3 chords and d scale solo's, and i thought that kiss was going in a great direction then the reunion happened which was great dont get me wrong...but i felt once that happened they stopped trying to make there sound harder.
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Post by Orange on Mar 31, 2010 21:45:53 GMT -5
i would love to hear them play Jungle live sometime...i know a KISS show these days dont really play ballads...but i would mark out if they played childhoods end...but only if its the version from the box set with the great bruce solo in it. alot of the vocals *looks at paul stanley* just seems mailed in...and some songs it sounds like hes singing through a plastic cup. either way, the guitar work on both the albums are really superior to anything else kiss has done musically. that 90's KISS line up will always be my favorite, Eric Singer has all the elements that peter and eric carr had and is the best drummer kiss has had, and bruce in my opinion is the best lead guitarist kiss ever had. right out of the gates on revenge with unholy you know this isnt the same kiss with the 3 chords and d scale solo's, and i thought that kiss was going in a great direction then the reunion happened which was great dont get me wrong...but i felt once that happened they stopped trying to make there sound harder. Yeah their sound did stop getting harder, but I think it's largely in part to what Paul wanted/wants. I dont' mind their return to old KISS sound though, I like that 70's straight-forward rock n' roll, so it's all good by me  Revenge makes Carnival Of Souls look pathetic, beating it 6-1! Thanks to everyone who voted and replied, next match up soon! |
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