The best Kiss albums, according to Paul Stanley

From the rather varied discography of the Kiss, consisting of 20 study works and 13 live, Paul Stanley has recently identified and classified his 5 favorite albums of the band. During a new interview granted to the podcast “Broken Record”, the 73 -year -old singer and guitarist chose his five favorite albums of the group of “I was made for Lovin ‘You”, putting them in order and explaining the reasons behind each choice. From the band’s repertoire, with the first eponymous album released in 1974 and the last “Monster” in 2012, two of the albums selected by Stanley are live projects.

Here you are Paul Stanley’s personal rankingin growing order of preference, with some comments transcribed and reported by “Loudwire”:

5. “Kiss Unplugged” (1996)

“The band at that moment was in a state of grace,” said Stanley, who positioned their performance for the well -known MTV format in the fifth place of his personal ranking of his favorite albums of the Kiss. He added: “No effects, no amplifiers, no run on stage – Only we with guitars and drums, to sing with everything we had. It was also an opportunity to highlight the songs, because I have always believed in the idea that a good song can only be played with a guitar”.

4. Rock and Roll Over (1976)

For fourth place, Paul Stanley chooses the fifth studio album of Kiss, published in November 1976, “Rock and Roll Over”, containing the individual “Calling Dr. Love” and “Hard Luck Woman”. “He didn’t play at all as we played live,” Stanley observed: “It was something that escaped us, perhaps because of the people we worked with. It really slipped from hand. But it was also the moment we did something with a real focus and clarity on what we wanted to do, and this is why I consider it really valid”.

3. Sonic Boom (2009)

“Sonic Boom” was the first twenty -first century Kiss album, after “Psycho Circus” of 1998, and in the end it proved to be their penultimate studio album. Speaking of the disc, which is positioned on the lowest step of the podium, Paul Stanley said: “‘Sonic Boom’ is a great album made by a band aware of his roots, who knows where he comes from and who collected the witness to go on. I love that album, and I love the spirit with which he was done: everyone knew what they wanted to do, and we were at the maximum of the form”.

2. Destroyer (1976)

The second position is reserved for 1976 “Destroyer”, the album that includes some of the band’s greatest successes, including “Detroit Rock City” and “Shout it out Loud”. “Even if ‘Destroyer’ did not play like previous records, working with Bob Ezrin was like going to school,” said Stanley: “It was a discipline lesson, improvement in writing. At least temporarily, we put aside all the songs that spoke of sleeping with this or that person or parties, and we raised the level. Many of those songs remained in our repertoire”.

1. Alive! (1975)

At the top is instead the first live album of the Kiss, “Alive!”, Published in 1975 and composed of recordings captured during several concerts of the year in Detroit, Cleveland, Wildwood and Davenport. “We wanted an album that completely immersed you in the experience, that made you feel surrounded by the crowd, who made you feel the deafening explosions, who also placed any errors or broken strings”, underlined the singer and guitarist: “The snobb or purists perhaps have turned on the nose in front of that idea, but the truth is that that album is still considered, if not the best, In many environments, the best live album ever.