7. "Sweet Pain" From Destroyer, 1976
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2iSwareM4c Choosing a hidden gem from this album is a bit of a difficult task it was after all the breakthrough that the band needed to capitalize on the success of Alive and much of its contents are familiar to even casual fans. This track was the b-side of the hugely successful single Shout it Out Loud and is a Simmons penned tune with S&M overtones, proof yet again that Kiss was once R rated. The track Flaming Youth deserves an honourable mention but its release as a (relatively unsuccessful) single disqualifies it from being considered a deep track please feel free to disagree if you feel so inclined. 6. "Take Me" From Rock N Roll Over, 1976
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I41PujJ6pV0 After what some viewed as the strange marriage between producer Bob Ezrin and Kiss on Destroyer (with all of its oddities), the band returned to a stripped down hard rock sound for this next release. Take Me sounds like what might have naturally progressed from the Dressed to Kill sessions, the studio album preceding Destroyer. Penned by Stanely with help from an outside writer, this is penultimate 70s Kiss, high energy, hard rockin and highly memorable The songs opening lyric is classic: Put your hand in my pocket and grab onto my rocket is there a cheesier line in all of rock history? It's hard not to love it.
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Ross Ingall is a 52 year old ordained Canadian baptist minister who has been listening to hard rock and metal quite literally since each was invented. A second career pastor who attended seminary in his 40's, the Rev hosts Too Metal For Church on Metal Nation Radio. Writing both under his own name as well as the psuedonym/nickname Reverend Rock, Ross has been writing music articles on the web since 1999.
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