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This album is one of the 2 or 3 most accessible, commerical Kiss efforts in the 1970's. I would put Destroyer and Love Gun in perhaps the same category. You can listen to Rock And Roll Over and be a pop or rock music fan, not necessarily a diehard Kiss fan or a heavy metal devotee. Some of their other projects require the listener to bring that added interest to the table, if you expect to enjoy the recording. This one sounds like hard rock of the 1970's...a bit of an edge on it, but not just all noise. There's even a rock ballad. I wanted to hear it again because my stepfather had this album on an 8-track tape all those years ago (remember??). I was sure I'd hear something in it via CD that I hadn't heard as an adolescent and teenager. Sonically, that was definitely true, especially of course the fact that there were no abrupt interruptions in the middle of songs, waiting for the progam to change on the player...but it also showed me that I apparently wasn't a very savvy kid. Listening as an adult, I finally understood what all the lyrics meant, and I certainly don't remember knowing that 25 years ago. Each and every song is pretty much about sex, not romance or love or affection, but just the act. Where we gonna meet to do it, how wonderful the ladies tell me I am at doing it, how quick are we gonna get to doing it, how quick am I outta here after we do it, etc. Short of literally getting into the actual mechanics of how are we gonna do it, everything else that is discussed (bragged about) in the typical men's locker room or corner bar is presented here and set to music. If that's ok with you, this is great fare. Clearly it should be kept out of reach of children (unless you really intend to raise them up from very young as sexual predators, complete with their own soundtrack). I mean, I don't think I'm a prude, but come on...there is more to a full life than purely recreational, hedonistic copulation. It does sound better on the CD than it did on the 8-track, all the ridiculous ramblings in some circles about "analog warmth" notwithstanding. I'm convinced that most of the "warmth" of analog comes from having tube electronics in the signal chain if there are any, not from tape. I'd rather have less hiss and more music. This is a good remaster, and I'm still intrigued, as I was so long ago, with the sound of it...the jangly guitar on Hard Luck Woman; the tight, compressed drum kit on Makin' Love, especially at the fadeout, where the drums pan left to right. The riffs are very entertaining--Mr. Speed is particularly good. The delay effects on Take Me are fun, judiciously employed, not overdone. Nice, wide stereo soundstage; mixed well. Musically, it's interesting; technically, it's well-recorded and professionally mastered; lyrically, it's simply raging, teenage testosterone. It was good to study it once more, but it's not a must-hear, must-have album that I will return to again and again for the sheer enjoyment of it. It is definitely a product of its time...Montrose and Mom's Apple Pie were two of its contemporaries that dealt with similar subject matter. Maybe I've just grown up. For mid-'70's 'hard rock', I'll probably reach for Styx, Kansas, Boston, or Emerson, Lake and Palmer instead, but you should hear this album...once. For fun, imagine being in a '73 Nova, no AC, with Pioneer 8-track deck, Jensen Triaxial speakers and a Kraco 40-watt power booster, summer, windows down. Then put it away.Read full review
This is a great album, can't think of anything I don't like on it and I don't notice a huge difference between the original cd and the remaster. I would recommend this as the first album for any future KISS fan.
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No cover art in jewel case, seriously. Dont advertise a picture of it with the cover and then send product without one. Very disappointed. Robert Mahan. Not happy!!!!!!
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Timeless classic great music
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