You wanted the best, you got the best, the hottest band in the world: KISS!!!!!!!! I Love It Loud, one of their best songs in my opinion, right up there with God of Thunder, Shout it Out Loud, Love Gun, Detroit Rock City. When I was 5, I had a KISS poster over my bed when my peers were playing with Barbies. Their concerts with the makeup and the blood and the pyrotechnics back when no one did that kind of thing set a high bar for what I would come to perceive as a good show later on in life—-I don’t want to see any bored frat boys in tshirts and baseball caps onstage noodling around for 18 minutes on the same song…I want intensity, sweat, leather, fire!!
Much as I love this band, when KISS removed their makeup in the 80s, yikes, I wanted them to put it back on quickly! If you have some time to kill, head on out to YouTube and look for some 1980something KISS videos…I will say I know all the words to these songs and enjoy them in my car, but to watch the videos, ewwwwwwwwww, not so much.
Let’s Put the X in Sex: catch Paul Stanley making the most heinous porn face when he’s behind the chick, they show that a couple times in the video. Dude, I don’t care if you are a rock star; if I looked over my shoulder and you were making that porn face, it’s over, done. It makes me cringe! And Paul Stanley reminds me a lot of Cher in the If I Could Turn Back Time video in this one.
Heaven’s On Fire: go see Gene Simmon’s hair. He obviously shared the same hairstylist as the rockin’ ladies in Heart.
Lick It Up: the premise of this video is that in a post-apocalyptic world, only the members of Kiss and scantily clad big haired vixeny women will survive. It’s sort of like Love is A Battlefield or something but instead of hookers, it’s a rock band, I dunno. What the hell is that crotch string thing on Paul Stanley’s right thigh and errr crotch? Why is he wearing a woman’s crop top and is it from Pat Benatar or one of her video hookers?
Tears Are Falling: Paul Stanley’s stylist beat up Cyndi Lauper, stole her clothes and put them on Paul.