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“Kiss doing Frank Zappa doing Kiss” New Music Express Rock And Roll Over Review from 1977

23 december 2024 | 57 min

Episode 602.

NME January 15, 1977

KISS Rock And Roll Over

(Casablanca Import)

MUCH, MUCH against my better nature I must admit to having had quite a laugh listening to this one. Kiss however are pushing themselves into amusingly ghastly quarters in the numbered vault.

Once considered the very crust of hopeful predictions of outlasted hasty demise, partook company with Alice Cooper, Bob Ezrin and even Kim Fowley, our kultur shock heroes just refuse to go away and die. The recipe for their continuing success would be obvious: just keep pumping out those records.

This fanciful little offering produced by Record Plant wonders Eddie Kramer (he of Zeppelin fame) and cut his vinyl teeth on Ted Nugent) surely throws a few hot slices into the oafish oven, that sound they got on back to their original motifs of exploitation heavy metal and preserved their commercial balance by dispensing with their most hideously obnoxious singles as a whole, left to rot by everyone and no one. Who’s fooling who? Soon it will be time for Kiss to fall into the so-bad-it’s-nearly-good category and most of the ditties herein fully deserve that compliment. Take Mr Speed and Calling Dr. Love f’rinstance. Admirable pastiches of Kiss doing Frank Zappa doing Kiss.

The riffs are choice, stolen from the Stones, The Faces, a couple of obligatory originals, it will pass. You get a sticker, a disgustingly contrived, transparent questionnaire so as Gene, Paul, Ace and the cat geezer can give ya more of what ya want next time. Kiss wants to know about you? How old are you? How did you find out about this album?

Next stop, Kiss get elected to Jimmy Carter’s House of Un-American Activities — under 12 division.

They aren’t that stoopid either!

After they take off the make-up and don the sneakers Kiss like to get smashed. Last time over here Ace (good name) Frehley was so far removed from his natural box he could hardly stand up.

Best rip-off is a piss-take on Rod Stewart, “Hard Luck Woman,” which is superb.

This is the nastiest album Kiss have ever made and if it’s cool to like Thin Lizzy, I’m keeping one step ahead with this. Good to see the true spirit of unashamed idiocy lives on. Don’t just stand there, rock and roll over or something.

Max Bell

(There are no plans to release this album in the UK at the moment, since Casablanca have severed their UK distribution deal with EMI.)

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