And really, get a load of Paul in the video – sporting the gloves of shame… The riff was heavy and dramatic, but in the vocal melody and the big chorus was a finely tuned AOR sensibility.
And one of his best from those years was Tears Are Falling, from the 1985 album Asylum. He wrote all the hits from that decade: Lick It Up, Heaven’s On Fire, Crazy Crazy Nights. It was Paul Stanley who carried Kiss in this time. But when the band performed on MTV Unplugged in 1995, they picked this song as the opening number, and in the acoustic format it sounded better than ever before.įor much of the 80s, Gene Simmons was on autopilot, too busy with other projects – acting, producing other bands, and launching his own record label – to bother writing any decent songs. It was just an album track, buried on side two. Comin’ Home was written by Paul Stanley in a hotel room when he was homesick for New York. The second Kiss album Hotter Than Hell is arguably their most influential record – its raw, garage-rock feel an inspiration to grunge bands, and its heaviest song, Parasite, covered by Anthrax. Written and sung by Ace, it’s heavy and trippy, like Kiss on drugs. Always a loose cannon, Ace Frehley appeared on only one of five studio tracks included on Alive II, but on that one track, Rocket Ride, he was smoking.
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